Mayor Daniel Lurie and Sup. Rafael Mandelman want to update and reform the City Charter, which is a fine idea: Under the current charter, the mayor has too much power and elected officials are able to refuse or duck sunshine requests with impunity. The city desperately needs to address economic inequality. Among other problems.

Yes, it’s big—in part because progressives have pushed for changes over and over since the last full revamp in 1995, and many have been efforts to increase community participation and limit executive power.

There are, of course, problems with contracting and bureaucratic procedures, some designed to prevent the kind of corruption and fraud that we’ve seen under the last administration.

But Lurie and Mandelman apparently have a very different idea of what the Char

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