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Archive for December, 2009

Finish Ahead: Move Your Money

It's a wonderful townThe best ideas are always the simplest.

About a year ago, I wrote a post that used George Bailey as a metaphor for the community. I suggested that the citizens of Muncie could all pull together, make relatively small changes and investments in their community, and our city would be a better place.

Well, it turns out that I haven’t been the only one thinking along those lines. Lots of people have been working to come up with effective and sustainable ways to improve their communities, and do so with minimal impact  to the already-strained finances of its members.

As it happens, though, the simpler the idea, the better it is; and a group has come up with one of the simplest of all: Move your money.

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Reindeer Games

Reindeer GamesThe holiday season is upon us; and with it, come the reindeer games.

That’s the only way to really describe the December 7th City Council meeting, as the Mayor and City Council butted heads and locked horns over one issue after another. Council members Marshall, Barton and Murphy trotted and strutted before the audience, still smug about their recent veto override victory and ready to dish out more punishment for the Mayor. Read the rest of this entry »