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A call for technology driven Community Boards in NYC

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Jessica Lappin, currently a City Council member and Manhattan Boro President candidate, just released a paper on the future / reform of community boards. In this document, there is some juicy TECH DRIVEN POLICY tidbits.
Some take aways… 
1. Taking boards into the 21st Century 
  – Community Stat 
  – Live streaming 
  – Online surveys and crowd-sourcing maps 
2. Greater diversity on boards 
  – adding small business owners and engineers. 
4. Online training of responsibilities 
5. Digital tools for planning and development 
6. Onlineing the business application process
These are great TECHNOLOGY driven policies to bring our land use councils / aka Community Boards into the 21st Century. I will be adding this to the Open NY 2013 Goals and workshop reading list.
* This posting doesn’t not constitute an endorsement of this candidate.

In reality the pilot of the plane was trained by the U.S. Air Force and was a decorated veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where she flew aerial refueling missions for transport and reconnaissance aircraft. She has been flying for American Airlines for four years, and is one of that airline’s most experienced 737 pilots.

Ann Coulter Refuses to Board Airplane With Black Pilot | The Daily Currant

REPUBLICANS ACCUSE OBAMA OF USING POSITION AS PRESIDENT TO LEAD COUNTRY

WAHATHHAAT!?!?! 

Responding to reports that President Obama is considering signing as many as nineteen executive orders on gun control, Republicans in Congress unleashed a blistering attack on him today, accusing Mr. Obama of “cynically and systematically using his position as President to lead the country.”

Spearheading the offensive was Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), who charged the President with the “wanton exploitation of powers that are legally granted to him under the U.S. Constitution.“

Calling him the “Law Professor-in-Chief,” Rep. Stockman accused Mr. Obama of “manipulating a little-known section of the Constitution,” Article II, which outlines the power of the President.

“President Obama looks down the list of all of the powers that are legally his and he’s like a kid in a candy store,” Rep. Stockman said. “It’s nauseating.”

The Texas congressman said that if Mr. Obama persists in executing the office of the Presidency as defined by the Constitution, he could face “impeachment and/or deportation.”

Noting that the President has not yet signed the executive orders on gun control, Rep. Stockman said that he hoped his stern words would serve as a wake-up call to Mr. Obama: “Mr. President, there’s still time for you to get in line. But if you continue to fulfill the duties of President of the United States that are expressly permitted in the Constitution, you are playing with fire.”

“free at last, free at last. thank god almighty, we are free at last.” – Martin Luther King, Jr

It’s sick to think that we celebrated the birthday of one of the greatest civil rights leaders the United States of America has ever seen only to have it book ended with a monstrosity of a Supreme Court decision that allows non-human entities (ie corporations) to donate freely to political campaigns. I will not stand for this injustice and have added my name in support of Change Congress. We really need a fair and just  funding system for elections, it is the root of our democracy… And when that day happens, once again we will have the freedom to honor the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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