Article: Savage council candidates: where they stand; Challengers want to broadcast informal meetings.(NEWS)

Byline: DAVID PETERSON; STAFF WRITER

It's a surprisingly amicable campaign for a city with one of the stiffest property tax burdens in the metropolitan area. But the candidates for City Council in Savage this fall do sharply disagree on one thing:

The two challengers want to open things up by televising and Web-streaming the informal council meetings at which important issues get hashed out.

"People want to see the inner workings," Darin Coleman said. "How they come up with the decisions they end up making -- and why they didn't make some decisions." Melissa Gorman agrees.

The two incumbents like it just as it is.

"They are ...

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