Item: City by the Break: Fractured council reflects its constituent camps/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press

More Info: (Councilman Woody McEvers, pictured) said later he regretted the back and forth. "I'm sorry I went there; it was probably idiotic of me," he said. "That was just one of those irritated moments I guess ... It's just the same stuff over and over again, you know? Maybe I need to learn from him. Maybe I need to repeat the same stuff over and over again." But Adams said the disagreements are discourse, and after the split votes the members get along well. He likened it to friends who fight and make up, and also said that the McEuen Field issue very likely won't come up at City Council for a while. "I don't see there's much more we can do," he said of the minority fighting the park's current plan. "We thought maybe one of them would make a concession, but obviously they're not going to."

Question: Is the current divisiveness on the City Council healthy or unhealthy?