If I had enough time in the day, I'd write a local editorial every day on topics that concern the community. Unfortunately, we have a daily newspaper and a weekly newspaper to put out with only 10 people in our newsroom, and two websites to run. The time for writing is limited.

However, we as a staff feel strongly about the police chief situation after meeting with several of the key players. So in case you haven't already seen it, here's our editorial for today on the topic:

Stop playing politics with top cop spot

Citing a flawed selection process and a failure to meet residency requirements, the Middletown Common Council on Monday rejected the city mayor’s nomination for police chief.

The rejection is ironic and somewhat hypocritical since Democrats have complained that the flaw in the selection process was that the mayor wasted everyone’s time with his community and assessment panels when he had already made up his mind that Acting Chief Patrick McMahon was his candidate.

At Monday’s council meeting, however, it was clear that the seven Democrats on the council had already made up their minds long before the meeting, where they spent hours questioning the candidate and listening to 20 people from the community speak on the acting chief’s behalf.

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