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Eleanor Roosevelt once said that “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” Policymakers should also ask for the same gift.

Anyone who has ever sat on council or worked in local government knows that it is impossible for any one person to be well-informed, let alone an expert, on the incredibly wide range of issues