Category: A political memoir

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The Politics of Hope

  By A political memoir, About me, My 2007 Campaign

By AC Missias from A Smoke Filled Room January 19, 2007 As long as we’re coming clean with early picks, let me say I strongly support Marc Stier for City Council At Large. It’s not just because I’ve enjoyed his lengthy chewy blog posts, but because I’ve been able to see him in action on the Neighborhood Networks Steering Committee (and on several critical early subcommittees), and he’s one of the most impressive folks working in the political and activist realms right now, and extremely dedicated to the principles he propounds. He seems to work 36 hours in a day, and yet still bring a sense of humor to difficult discussions, and all of those things mean that causes in which he is involved simply make progress faster than they would without him. Marc seems always to be incredibly well informed on every issue facing the city (he picks the brains of the experts… Continue reading

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I'm in

  By A political memoir, About me, My 2007 Campaign, Philadelphia

My absence from the blogosphere has been noticed far and wide—my mother called me the other day to ask if I’m feeling well. Actually I’ve been surprised by how many people have asked me about what happened to my blog in the last few weeks. The explanation is quite simple. After I got back from a brief vacation at the end of August, and got my classes rolling at Temple, I was first distracted from the blog by the effort to get Neighborhood Defense.org off the ground. And then, I did some speaking on public transit issues both in general, and as they affect the proposed casinos. I’ll be blogging about this very soon. But the main distraction is my nascent campaign for City Council. Continue reading