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Subject: Been concerned... Author: Ned Depew [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:31:19 02/21/06 Tue In reply to: pete r 's message, "Its was a Beautiful day in the Neighborhood..." on 16:22:01 02/20/06 Mon ...about the City paying that price since I first ran for Alderperson back in 1999 - maybe since before you knew what the word "gentrification" meant? If you had saved my New Broom Party campaign literature as a souvenir (and a hot e-bay item it will be, in about another hundred years!) you could look at my statements then on gentirification and afordable housing. I'm happy with the restoration of housing stock some of which had been allowed to deteriorate to the point that it was condemned and about to be torn down. I'm unhappy that the restoration hasn't been managed on the City's part to afford the greatest long-term benefit to the City and its people. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> Subject: To late to be concerned... Author: pete r [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 21:26:41 02/23/06 Thu Stand back and watch as your dream city falls apart. The next few month will prove very interesting, where do we go from here? your friend pete [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Never too late... Author: Ned Depew [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:31:38 02/24/06 Fri ...while the heart beats. We live in interesting times. Quite frankly, I think the citizens of Hudson made a good choice in the last election - as shown by Danny's melt-down and subsequent skedaddle. It's hard to believe he'd give up without a fight if he weren't worried about the revelations of a public investigation and court case. Certainly it gives even more credence to the idea that the Youth Commissioner job was part of an at least unethical and possibly even illegal tit-for-tat deal with the Scalera Administration. That kind of politics is on its way out. That can only be good for Hudson. From what I've seen and read about the functioning of the new Administration, things seem to be going largely in the way I had hoped they would go when I got involved in City politics almost a decade ago. The recent Administration had ten years to set themselves and their friends up, to make many long-term, crony-based, back-room deals that have damaged the City. That will change now, but it will take time. You don't dismantle an edifice that took a decade to build in two months. But I'm very hopeful. There's a great new energy in Hudson. The mix of long-time residents like Joe Finn, Ed and Quintin Cross and Dick Tracy with more recent transplants like the indefatigable Ellen Thurston and the insightful Sarah Sterling can only be good for the City. Hudson continues to have problems - it will always have problems, as we all do. But now the City has the energy and the will to meet those challenges in ways that take a longer, more public, more thoughtful perspective on them than the short-term, selfish, and self-aggrandising policies of recent years. Things are looking up. But I guess peeping out from under that rock of yours, "looking up" seems like the same-old same-old. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: one way to go Author: pete r [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:18:04 02/25/06 Sat When your under a rock there is only one way to go and that is UP. I will be waving to you when you are on your way down. Which will soon be coming by the looks of things in the old town. Your Friend pete. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: one way to go Author: Ned Depew [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:15:30 02/27/06 Mon Pete - Exactly! That must be one of the comforts of your situation. I don't anticipate being "on my way down" in the near future - but if I ever am I'm sure a friendly wave from you will make it all better. As far as Hudson is concerned, I am much more optimistic than you seem to be. With a new Administration and a new way of conducting the City's business, I am looking for many of the boondoggles of the recent years to be reversed and/or eliminated. I agree that the current situation is far from ideal. But this is a situation inherited from ten years of Scalera and his cronies wheeling and dealing in the back-room. It will take a while to set it right. It was the Scaleranetti Faction's strongest supporter, Eric Galloway, for instance, who evicted scores of tenants city-wide, and continues to keep many of his properties - that represented between fifty and one hundred housing units - vacant. The Tracy Administration and the Common Council have already shown that they have the will and the courage to stand up for what is right, for the law and for the people of Hudson. That's got to be a positive change. They are creating an open, responsive format of government for dealing with the City's problems and citizen concerns. That's a step in the right direction. I look at Hudson and see a city on the way up - in spite of many long-term problems that need to be addressed some of which - like the increasing property-tax buden - can't really be solved at the local level alone. But I hope that you and all the citizens will work together with the new administration to make the changes that will help lift Hudson to achieve its full potential. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]