"We knew you were coming here guns blazing,” said I-49 Connector public relations consultant Cathi Pavy to seething community members, up in arms at a community design meeting held March 29. All attempts to mollify agitated members of the Community Working Group, one of the project’s community-oriented design committees, seemed to confirm the members’ suspicions — DOTD partners were trying to firewall public outrage at a shakeup of the public planning process by separating the committee into small groups. Read more here.