By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  Most people don’t have the time or inclination to attend lots of public meetings where elected officials make decisions that impact their lives.  Most people have got better things to do, including not being bored (much of the time) out of their skulls in meeting rooms.

But every community has faces familiar to elected officials.  These are the squeaky wheels, the people who show up and make their cases, time after time.  And more often than you’d think, they get the grease in the public policy process because they advocate for their positions.  But just because these folks are squeaking doesn’t mean that what they want is what most people want.