5. Commissioner Smith's closing expression of "frustration" with repeatedly hearing economic arguments came across as arrogant and condescending. Seemed to me that if we were all wasting the Commission's time, he could have pointed that out sooner, as opposed to waiting for the closing remarks. Fortunately, he didn't seem to get a lot of atta boys from his colleagues for his assertion that economic considerations would be out of the picture. I suppose he was right to say the Commission doesn't set budgets, but I imagine the people who put him in his seat are interested in how the Commission's decisions affect them economically.... Oh, well. I digress. It was only a first impression; there's plenty of time for redemption (as if anyone should care what I think).