On July 31, 2007, as part of Cities for Peace, I joined locally elected officials from around the country to present our resolutions against the war in Iraq to the Whitehouse and to speak before the Progressive Caucus in Congress. No money from the City of Ann Arbor was used for this trip.
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I’m seeking help from citizens who are concerned about how the City spends money and how we communicate about it. I have previously said that if there were bad people trying to hide information, the City couldn’t be doing a better job of obfuscating information. I don’t really believe there is anyone evil trying to [...]

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I’m hoping to both find out more myself and encourage others to join me in helping with Ann Arbor’s reaction to Pfizer leaving.
Please visit the Wiki. Anyone can comment, but only invited members can edit the pages. I’m also trying to find out more details about the various SWAT teams that Spark has created and [...]

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Here is one example of choices I’d like the city to consider. The City may have needs which cannot be met by Google’s offering, but I hope to investigate this in the next few weeks.
Commentary from CNET: Google’s low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office
By Forrester Research, Special to CNET News.com, February 22, 2007, 11:56AM PT, By [...]

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How do you think Ann Arbor should respond to the Pfizer plans to leave Ann Arbor? How will we keep talented people from leaving? How will we help business grow? What would you like to see in the physical location Pfizer will leave behind? How would tax revenue changes affect budgets? Michigan Technology News reports [...]

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On Tuesday, Nov 22, 2006 the Ann Arbor News published a headline: “Suarez against library site“, which my daughter said looked like I am opposed to books. In a 2 minute interview with Tom Gantert during a Council meeting break, I told him that the handful of constituents I had heard from were all opposed [...]

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