Thinking Out Loud
Mitch Johnson has left the building
As Scoop reports, Mitchell Johnson has worked his last day as a city employee.
City work is all Johnson has known. He has worked for the city of Greensboro for 27-plus years of his professional career.
If you ask me, he was not a perfect city manager, but he was villified and villainized beyond reason over the Wray affair.
The City Council could have made him less miserable and less of a lightining rod by evaluating him objectively, against a set of clear goals and measures.
It chose not to, and threw him overboard when it was clear the Wray issue would not go away.
But Johnson today looks none the worse for the wear.
He appeared relaxed and tirmmer when I saw him at the Action Greensboro forum on the manager form of government in June.
He plans to stay in Greensboro, he says.
But without all that baggage he had to lug around in recent years.
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