I must be coming down with something, because I was nodding and muttering "Yes, yes" under my breath while reading Marcos Breton's Sunday column in The Bee:

Breton hits the nail directly on the head when describing why Sacramentans are so angry about this whole disaster. We were not kept in the loop. And if you want people to willingly tax themselves, they should damn well be in the loop, especially such a politically-savvy population.Eighty percent of Sacramento does not hate the idea of public funding for an arena. Far from it. But 80 percent of Sacramento did feel highly uncomfortable or downright opposed to a plan they were told little to nothing about.

How do you counteract these problems?

It's not complicated. Hopefully, the Maloofs can decide they can wait until 2008 and try it again, eliminating the infinite mistakes they made this time.