Nothing like a powerful hurricane to jack up the price of gasoline

and response set a national example forf how to manage a large and sometimes contentious crowd.

Now I read that the city manager and mayor want to hire an outside California police-review firm to investigate the police response.

This is what you do if if you want to undermine police morale at the expense of taxpayers.

The city manager and mayor conveniently say this review will provide transparency. Please! What it will do is provide a metaphorical shield for city management and the elected City Council to hide behind.

Sal DiCicco seems to be the only councilman with the backbone and courage to publicly show disgust for this CYA proposal.

Hopefully there will be others to vote no. Shame. — Dave Thomas, Tempe

A devastating hurricane hits Texas. Before they can even begin to recover or even assess the damage, gas prices are already going up. Obviously this is long before a shortage can be felt ... yet the gas companies capitalize on this tragedy to stuff more dollars in their already overstuffed coffers.

How can this happen? How can this be allowed? Where are the regulatory agencies who theoretically look out for our interests?

Gas companies record billions of dollars of profit every year under normal circumstances ... but with every imaginable type of incident, they are quick to boost gas prices, allowing them to record even greater obscene profits ... and we are powerless to oppose them. Capitalism at work. — Bill Johnson, Chandler