I'm not sure what prompted Mayor Dixon to want to do a public event on school safety at a school that had a stabbing last week. But her appearance at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts yesterday did not go particularly well. The lights in the auditorium weren't working, so she was speaking in the dark. And the students -- maybe defensive that they were being singled out for what happened after a week where violence hit multiple city schools? -- were not on their best behavior. Still, it sounds like there was some meaningful dialogue. Peter Hermann was there. See his column and his blog today.