Now we know: Kineavy was deleting e-mails that relate to the public's business.

In the way we communicate today, this is the contemporary equivalent of shredding mounds of memos and letters. It is not a trivial matter, and even many of us who use e-mail as a lifeline to the world have underestimated what this says about the Menino Administration's lack of commitment to open government.

What this reveals, er, confirms, about the Menino Administration is its arrogance, insularity, and sense of entitlement to a public office. There's no sense of having done something wrong (at this juncture, it would be appropriate for Kineavy to step down), no sense of mea culpa (as in an apology for having made government less accountable). Instead, we get only a petulant 'tude of having been put upon...