Tag: Democrat
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Building On A Foundation – Maintain A Continuous Form Of Governance
Town councils make promises, break promises and renege on deals all of the time. The population at large tends to have a wait and see attitude because, they have had their hopes dash so many times. Sounds like a bad book or a worse movie but it points out a fact. That fact is most…
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A Different Way To Fund Streets.
One of the most vocal complaints, not the most but certainly on e of the top ten is streets and their maintenance. People reason, not incorrectly, that since they are paying taxes the roads should be passable, without chuckholes, and swept clean of debris. If you tell people that there isn’t money for their…
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The Natural Cycle – Depression on a budget
It is a little known fact, in the United States of America, that a money crisis happens at regular intervals. Every eight years a major downturn forces governments to wring their hands and howl. Howling about how they do not have enough money and need to raise taxes. As a participant in the process of…
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Governance, Politics, And Public Confidence
Part of making decisions in the public arena is the perception that the people of you. That you have not a clue to what you are doing. Politics, the art of making deals to get what you want, is often perceived by the public as an evil and the reason they think so is: the…
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Proving Where The Money Goes
Most of the people in your community would love to know “where the money goes”. This is the function of budgets but it is sometimes hard to find out just what is being bought. On this blog I have placed links to various governments and quasi governments and with the exception of the Town Of…
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Why conservation is a bad idea
Going green is the thing to do these days and there are a Varity of reasons for doing so. There is a cost that no one is addressing and as policies are made there are the forgotten things. The cost of most of the services on a municipally are, in point of fact, driven by…
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Employment, Industry and Governance
In your community your first concern should be about employment because with out employment the local economy will suffer. A community made up of a population in which all persons are impoverished is generally not a good idea. While a community made of up a cross section of all income brackets is generally a good…
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Blue Ribbon Committees – Mistakes To Avoid
Every now and again elected office holders have no clue about what to do about something. They want to fix a problem, but don’t know how, or supply a solution to a problem that will get them reelected. You know that they haven’t even the remotest idea about whatever issue needs solved because they form…
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Studies – Money Down A Rat Hole
A week before I left my elected position on the Town Council at Friday Harbor in Washington State. I placed all of the studies we had commissioned in the previous eight years, and I do not know how many there were, into two large paper grocery bags. All together I possessed the equivalent of fouhundred…
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Public Transit – What It Needs To Be
What “Public Transit” needs to be is what, in broad general terms it is not. “Public Transit” needs to meet the following criteria: Connivance Affordability Safety Speed Let me explain the rational behind each one. Connivance – if people have to walk twelve blocks to catch a bus, subway, cab or train then they will…
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