LA council can’t face the need for reforms

Los Angeles City Council leaders say they’re short-handed, and so need to reinstate disgraced council members who won’t resign to their council committee positions in order to get some work done.

Well, if they’re so short-handed, why in the world did they postpone indefinitely any movement toward expanding the council itself by pushing the proposal out for “study” to another ad hoc council committee, which then recommended yet more study by a citizen commission?

The citizenry might...