You know that feeling? When you get back from a vacation and immediately feel like you need another one to recover from the first? I'm so there. I know, I know... boo hoo...

Anyhow, I found myself wondering, while sitting in the agenda meeting for Tuesday's City Council meeting this morning, why Commissioner Franck and Commissioner Kim (and their respective posses) seem so intent on fighting with each other.

Today, in Franck's absence, it was Deputy Commissioner Michele Boxley who was giving Kim the fifth degree for apparently stepping outside of established policy on Requests for Proposals. Kim was uncharacteristically calm in his response, which was essentially just to say that he hadn't asked for any new proposals, or any changes to existing RFPs, merely an inquiry about whether or not several applicants were still interested in working on a comprehensive public safety facility/parking garage, after the proposals were killed back in 2007.

I'm not intimately acquainted with the city policy in this area, but I have to imagine that Boxley wouldn't have brought it up without a good reason. However, in this new era of cooperation that was breezing its way in to City Hall in the days leading up to my vacation, I thought we'd put all of that behind us. You'd think, that if there was a problem with city policy, it would be in the interests of the two Democrats on the City Council to handle it quietly, outside of the public eye, rather than continuing an open feud in public.

But, as we know, the city Democrats are more interested in fighting amongst themselves than in uniting to accomplish anything.