Perry: City council is not a spectator sport. Lawmakers must listen — in public

Aurora Sentinel: It’s open season on the City of Aurora’s open government meetings.

After months of being berated and barraged with accusations and insults from public commenters at bi-weekly city council meetings, lawmakers have moved to keep the public quiet, or at least some of them.

Aurora City Council meetings have frequently been anything but tame. Aurora city lawmakers and residents are a vocal and boisterous lot.

There were the 1970s and 1980s days of Aurora Mayor Dennis Champine, who was renowned for being loudly frank with the public and fellow city officials. He once took a swing at the city attorney in 1979.

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