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Lobbying my rep about the Move to Amend project

Librarian.net

“I’m an elected official in my town, Randolph Vermont, and I work all the local elections. I want to live in a country where every person gets a vote and every non-person gets no votes.” I prepared remarks because otherwise I tend to go on. It has to stop. And it’s a Vermont issue.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. I think it is the job of an office of planning to name-identify these kinds of issues, for citizens and elected officials, and to help us work through them and come to as much of a consensus understanding as is possible.

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Washington Post editorializes about Purple Line cockups, inadequately attributes them to Larry Hogan

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Post is acting like the Takoma Park resident who wrote a letter to the editor stating he'd be voting against all the politicians in office because of the failures in building the Purple Line, even though all the failures are basically the fault of the former Governor, not local elected officials, not state legislators. -- " Takoma Park resident (..)