However you stand on the issue of the what, where, when, and IF of a new city hall, this gaggle of comments contain some significant insights into local policy making that are not at all unique to Eugene - lack of good candidates for office; low voter turnout; cost analyses that omit key factors (e.g., rent the city pays for its currently scattered workforce); frustrating absence of  transparency; blog patterns that defy easy interpretation; unqualified used of misleading buzz words like "majority". No wonder out system produces such confusion and, often, apparently dysfunctional results.  That said, let's admit that this is the imperfect world in which we live and try, nonetheless,  to reach marginally better conclusions (some of which will eventually lead to "concrete" facts-on-the ground, such as a new building - or a vacant space awaiting a future less than logical or fully satisfying use).