An exchange of Letters to the Editor between Lorene Farney and Kari Mills in The Mountain Mail has highlighted an incident of last December where the Salida Mayor, Jim LiVecchi, walked out of a mediation session in the NRCDC/City/TABOR lawsuit that was pending in District Court. The incident, reported in the Mountain Mail, helps settle the issue raised in the LTEs. Follow the links for information on the controversy. We covered the background of the lawsuit elsewhere.