Through a scanner darkly

Reporters of the news strive to avoid being news makers, but occasionally the simple act of asking a question -- thus transmitting information -- can impact events.

On Tuesday morning I expected to embrace the pain of Measure D one more time and write another story after receiving an invitation from City Hall to meet and discuss "misinformation" about the utility user tax vote.So I made the obligatory call to Measure-D-hatin' Martin Truitt and asked if either he or Wayne Lusvardi either knew about it, were invited to debate points of fact or planned to attend.

They were not. But decided to do so -- precipitating an incident at City Hall as reported in this 'Weak.

Funny thing was, I never made it to the meeting as management asked me around noon to take lead on the Monrovia/No Man's Land violence.

UPDATED: Of course, it's entirely possible Andrë picked up the phone and did the same!