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Detroit City Council Introducing Skype at Meetings

Fri, 03/18/2011 - 10:26 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

The City of Detroit has announced plans to allow citizens to speak at city council meetings via Skype.
According to the Detroit Free Press, "in a city of 750,000 people, fewer than a dozen residents typically speak out during the comment period." This is such a tiny fraction, and the new Skype solution could hopefully increase the number of citizens speaking at City Council meetings.

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Are Manufacturing Jobs Returning?

Fri, 08/13/2010 - 11:04 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

Lou Glazer at Michigan Future, Inc. just released a post summing up his series of the past few weeks covering manufacturing in the United States. In this post, Glazer examines a USA Today article wherein some companies are bringing factory work back into the United States. . .

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Components of CRSI Moving Through Congress

Tue, 08/10/2010 - 13:21 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

Attendees of our 2010 Urban Labs Conference in Cleveland will be excited to know that the Community Regeneration, Sustainability, and Innovation Act (CRSI) we discussed was passed by Senate committee last week. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Tim Ryan (OH-17) introduced the bill in 2009. . .

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SMART Renewed in Southeastern Michigan

Mon, 08/09/2010 - 16:44 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

Lost in all the news of other elections and other transit-related steps forward, Southeast Michigan voters approved a millage renewal of SMART buses. . .

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I Will Shout Youngstown Shares a New Perspective

Mon, 08/09/2010 - 13:58 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

I Will Shout Youngstown has a great new post up with a potential advertising strategy for Youngstown (and many other Rust Belt cities). Youngstown: A Great Place to Fail articulates an old philosophy in a new way. . .

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Cleveland Judge Takes Action Against Flippers

Sat, 08/07/2010 - 10:48 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

RustWire recently put up a story about Raymond Pianka, a judge in Cleveland who has become widely known for taking bold stands against abandoned properties in his city. This time, he

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City Cores Need Skilled Workers

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 20:41 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

In another post from Burgh Diaspora, Jim Russell wonders about the relationship between living, working and geography. Russell analyzes why it

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Chicago-Area Residents Want More Transit

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 18:41 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

Via The Political Environment, residents of Chicago

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Detroit Further Investigating Light Rail

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 15:04 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

As many of you (at least in Michigan) have probably heard, major steps were taken earlier this week towards a light rail line in Detroit. Over the course of the next year, the federal government will be conducting an environmental impact survey in order to judge the viability of a rail line from Hart Plaza (on the riverfront in downtown Detroit) to 8 Mile (the border between Detroit and the suburbs), a 9.3-mile long track. . .

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Pittsburgh Airport Switches to LEDs

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 15:00 by Bill Gallagher View Profile

We at GLUE are big promoters of sustainability in cities. (And everywhere else.) We believe that sustainability is, in itself, an important goal, and that to be sustainable is to be successful. Still, it doesn't hurt when being sustainable provides a bit of good PR for your city, either. . .

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