We downtowners are dumb and/or lazy.

We must be.  Why else would the majority of White Plains residents living in downtown apartments let the minority living in the suburban houses set policy for our style of living?

The essence of White Plains is its downtown.  The suburbs could easily be part of adjacent municipalities.  Downtown could not.  Part of the problem is the aberrant form of government that is White Plains: the evil at large system of selecting Common Council members.  If White Plains had district based voting, you know, like the county, state and good old USA, most of the current CC members could not be members because they would be in the same districts.

However, the majority could still take over and elect its own to set policy and run White Plains.  Why don't we?  Some of us don't get it.  The rest are too lazy.  Shame on us.

That's why downtown White Plains looks like it is run by people who don't live here.  They don't.