article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Change is coming to Ferguson.
article_snippet.sent: Now, after a half year of unrest, and with citizens on Tuesday electing two new black city council members, change is beginning to come to Ferguson.
article_snippet.sent: The question is, what kind of change?
article_snippet.sent: Without question, change is coming to the town's government.
article_snippet.sent: But does that mean that fundamental change will come to Ferguson?
article_snippet.sent: Not unless protest and activism during this critical period turns to influence the vitally important opportunities that lie ahead in the coming weeks.
article_snippet.sent: But there is an opportunity to begin thinking about even more ambitious structural change in Ferguson and throughout St. Louis County.
article_snippet.sent: Ferguson residents now have the opportunity to begin a movement for change in the other 89 jurisdictions in St. Louis County plagued by similar governance flaws, including those towns led by African-Americans.
article_snippet.sent: Change is coming to Ferguson.
article_snippet.sent: But the scope and breadth of that change will depend upon the ambition and discipline of activists and residents, whose passion and tenacity have already transformed the trajectory of leadership in a typical American town.