How about working on the basics of running the city such as street repairs, park maintenance, police patrols, etc?

>Also getting added to the priority list is an ordinance restricting the sale of electronic cigarettes and vaping products >within city limits, which could come back to the council for a vote in June.

Authoritarian much?

Considering:
1. Cigarettes are still legal and sold literally everywhere, including throughout Mountain View
2. Cigarettes are responsible for around 400,000 American deaths each year
Therefore: Banning electronic cigarettes and other vaping products -- but not cigarettes themselves -- is illogical and self-evidently stupid if your goal is to prevent needless deaths above all other priorities.

Considering:
1. Adults in the U.S. are generally free to use tobacco in Mountain View and elsewhere
2 Cigarettes cause enormous suffering and death *even when used as directed*
Therefore: The City Council is acting in an authoritarian manner by moving to ban one particular, and much less dangerous -- delivery system for nicotine such that adults will have to travel out of the city to stock up.

Besides being authoritarian, this law would disproportionately target low-income adults and others who may lack a convenient way to drive to the next town over to get their vaping fix.

>A study last February found a reduction in tobacco use among youth and young adults in areas that adopted robust >compliance checks and enforcement programs to monitor illicit sales to minors.

Hilarious. This sentence literally undermines the previous one by citing a study about "robust compliance checks and enforcement programs," NOT a sales ban. Is this just very sloppy editing or is the Voice's bias showing?