Amanda Fritz and our editorial board may disagree on our current slate of endorsements, but I agree with her on something else—the city overuses acronyms, which makes it hard for the average citizen to know what the hell the city’s talking about.

From Amanda, who rarely uses acronyms herself, despite being a massive policy wonk:

I watched the City Council on Cable Channel 30 yesterday morning, and was dismayed at the level of jargon used. Almost every sentence had some undefined acronym. Talking in Alphabet makes people who don’t speak it feel left out, stupid, not part of the In Crowd. And even those who understand it become dulled to the real words the letters stand for.

The other day, I got an update on the city’s “Community Connect” project. The project aims to do “extensive research on the topic of community engagement” in order to improve it. Now that they’ve gathered a bunch of data, it’s time for Community Connect to analyze it. First, they appointed a new committee (surprise, this project was Mayor Potter’s idea), then they gave that committee a horrible acronym for a name.

This will be completed by a selected group of individuals called the Data Analysis Working Group (DAWG). Community Connect will then use the work of DAWG and community dialogues to help create recommendations.