I rattled those off to point out that Wimmer and the mayor have differing agendas from Williams (and the HPR, see first post disclaimer).
You should. GF spends a lot of time worrying about the future of GFAFB and just recently figured out they need to look at water (30 to 50 years out) like Fargo just started to under the former mayor. And you learn many cool pieces of information reading Alerus commission minutes. Bismarck city politics right now is not the main spotlight right now (as it seems to turn when everyone focuses on the Capital). The widening of Washington on the north side (from Main to Divide) is as contentious as ever and will come up again very soon as more folks build north. Some say that road needs to be widened all the way from Main north to Highway 1804. Bismarck versus townships/county land annexation conversations out there are warm, but not as warm as Fargo had with Horace and West Fargo. (Presets on my AM radio are KFYR 550, KFGO 790, and KNOX 1310, but you could probably guess that now.)
But none of that changes that John Q. Paulson and Dr. Joe Chapman were involved in another situation that smells of open meeting violation.