Aurora Sentinel: If the Aurora City Council were an elementary school student council, the gang would have been sent to detention or into group therapy long ago.

But this is one of Colorado’s most powerful governing bodies, responsible for the lives, safety and trust of nearly 400,000 residents and thousands of businesses. And yet the council continues to act more like a bickering juvenile student council or a movie maybe called Mean Girls and Boys than the elected stewards of this complex, diverse city.

City lawmakers at Monday night’s meeting set out to finalize a long-delayed decision on returning to in-person public meetings. The confab devolved once again into personal attacks, political posturing and open contempt among lawmakers. Accusations of lying, petty procedural games, and open hostility filled the livestream broadcast while residents waited for their representatives to discuss real issues.

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