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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We are cutting money from programs for kids, while inefficient systems are wasting our taxpayer dollars. As the State of Michigan faces a deepening economic crisis we have tough decisions to make about cutting budgets and whether to raise taxes to cover the shortfall. In the business community, I’ve been pushing the message that what [...]

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With a number of constituents emailing me about various issues I thought it was important that the conversation be able to go in all directions, not just up the hierarchy and back down with a decision, but laterally among citizens as well. Thus, a blog like this helps to serve such a purpose. However, while [...]

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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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I will soon be participating in the Cable Commission and I have a couple of serious concerns that span from the local to the national agenda. The newly passed Michigan Cable Bill takes away State funding for our Community Access and also did nothing to support Net Neutrality. Beware of astroturf groups (pretending to be [...]

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I have created multiple web sites to help empower grassroots people to make their voice heard. If elected to City Council, I will make every effort to use the web to promote transparency in government. This year I started the Democracy for Washtenaw Show podcast to provide audio from candidate forums we at Democracy for [...]

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