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I usually stick to updates on City capital projects when it's my turn to provide a column for the Beacon.

As stimulating as I'm sure it would be for you if I recounted our recent progress in water, sewer, and drainage pipe installations, I thought I might go a different direction this time and provide some comments on the important topic of climate change.

These are (spoiler alert) my personal thoughts and are not official City policy.

I don't think most Americans were very focused on climate change until sometime after the publishing of "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore in 2006. Although...