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	<title>Ron Suarez - Ann Arbor City Council</title>
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		<title>Campaign Financing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Ann Arbor Snooze is reporting on local campaign financing, I thought people might be interested in seeing what&#8217;s happening at the national level. The Change Congress movement was started by Lawrence Lessig, who went to school with Obama, and could become a candidate for the Supreme Court.

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		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2008/07/27/campaign-financing/</link>
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		<title>DON&#8217;T BICYCLE THROUGH RED LIGHTS!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning you could be fined $110!
When this issue was raised in our Council meeting on May 5, 2008, the mayor asked: if this is true (obviously questioning the veracity of the report), then I&#8217;d like to know about it. Well, I&#8217;d like to know more about it also.
I have asked our City Staff to answer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2008/05/08/dont-bicycle-through-red-lights/</link>
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		<title>City of Ann Arbor Awards Liquor License to Itself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night the Ann Arbor City Council sent a clear message to the business community: &#8220;If you, as a private business, ever consider competing for something connected with the City, make sure that no City entity is on the list competing with you.&#8221;
For about a year I have been a member of the Liquor Committee, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2008/02/05/city-of-ann-arbor-awards-liquor-license-to-itself/</link>
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		<title>Ann Arbor News Likes Sound Bites, Ignores Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 23, 2007, the Ann Arbor News printed an editorial about Ann Arbor City Council salaries. This is perhaps a lesson for me about quotable sound bites. I should stay away from them, as Big Media in general likes quotable sound bites regardless of the facts. At our last City Council meeting I said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2007/12/27/ann-arbor-news-likes-sound-bites-ignores-facts/</link>
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		<title>Do you care how the City spends your money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday,Â  City Council voted to approve the next phase to pay the architect to begin drawings for a new City Hall, Police, Courts Facility project, which I argued had not been sufficiently specified.
Arbor update paraphrases EASTHOPE: &#8220;nobody objected to costs of maintenance facility; courts and police are important; citizens rate them as more important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2007/10/24/do-you-care-how-the-city-spends-your-money/</link>
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		<title>SUN Sep 23 - Shakey Jake &#8217;second line&#8217; blues funeral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;New Orleans-style &#8220;second line&#8221; procession in honor of Shakey Jake Woods (the most popular person in Ann Arbor).
Meet at Muehlig&#8217;s Funeral Chapel (in Ann Arbor) after 1 pm Sunday (where the indoor memorial service is held). Bring your instrument (anything). Guitars welcome, strings and tuning optional. Wear your finest Jake tribute ensemble.
Route, destination, and step-off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2007/09/22/sun-sep-23-shakey-jake-second-line-blues-funeral/</link>
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		<title>Parking Questions: More? Underground?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should we be subsidizing more automobile transportation? How do we balance that with encouraging alternatives such as light rail and a downtown that requires less automobiles? These are tough questions to ask in a state that manufactures autos. The University is planning more parking structures around the hospital. I am afraid that just adding more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2007/08/28/parking-questions-more-underground/</link>
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		<title>Cities for Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. I&#8217;ll be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2007/08/04/cities-for-peace/</link>
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		<title>Communication, Budgets, and Construction Planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;t be doing a better job of obfuscating information. I don&#8217;t really believe there is anyone evil trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2007/07/22/communication-budgets-and-construction-planning/</link>
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		<title>Getting our priorities straight, funding kids and jails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ve been pushing the message that what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ronsuarez.com/2007/05/08/getting-our-priorities-straight-funding-kids-and-jails/</link>
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