A1: "Chino Valley approves pipeline"

There's something funny about this story. I have it on pretty good authority that Chino Valley has been working public process on building this pipeline for some time, although perhaps not the part involving the contract to actually build it, an area that is normally handled confidentially. A whisker-thin margin on the agenda for the vote, that's another matter, but it seems very odd that Mayor Simmons is saying this blindsided him. Perhaps someone at City Hall is not doing his homework. In any case we're given the impression that Chino Valley is pushing something through underhandedly, and that seems to be more in the editing than the facts.