Loose Ends: Debate goes round

The recent flap over the roundabout is a reminder of all the issues that spin round and round in the public forum with no end in sight. No matter what the issue, roundabouts, justice centers or schoolchildren listening to the president on television, sides are drawn quickly. Each year, as local and national brushfires threaten to keep the dialogue dicey, there appears to be no amount of letter writing or meeting attending that doesn’t get…