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Lastman factor: the taxi debate at city council make one thing clear: if you really want to get your way, make an appointment with Mel.
THIRTEEN MONTHS after amalgamation, city councillors, lobbyists and other plugged-in supplicants have come to understand that there are two ways of getting anything accomplished in the megacity.
Method One--call it the official-channels approach--is to identify your issue and hurl yourself into the maw of the system, which means extracting commitments from the bureaucrats, stickhandling the policy item through assorted standing committees, and then generating some simpatico press coverage to provide momentum. If there's so much as a cent of new public expenditure required, you'll have to brave the shark-infested waters of Tom Jakobek's budget committee. Barring ...
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