VIDEO: Young Mayors on Making Innovation in City Government a Reality
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Three immature mayors, on phase at a Citizen event last month, made clear why innovation in city government is no longer a thing to scoff at. It'due south real.
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Gamechangers in Chief
Three young mayors, on stage at a Citizen effect final month, made articulate why innovation in city authorities is no longer a matter to scoff at. Information technology's real.
Aug. 29, 2016
On the night that Hillary Clinton accustomed the nomination to be the Democratic candidate for president—with balloons and flashing lights and the world's attending on her—it took three young Mayors across town to embody what existent politics is (or should be) nigh: Thinking, innovating, and reinventing communities to brand every resident successful.
At The Citizen's DNC issue at The Barnes Foundation, "Oxymoron No Longer: Innovation in Metropolis Authorities," Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren; Braddock Mayor John Fetterman; and former South Orangish Mayor Alex Torpey held along on what information technology takes to not only win over voters, only also take on entrenched city councils, and reluctant school boards, and moribund business cultures.
Warren described opening co-operative businesses in neighborhoods to bring services and jobs; Fetterman talked about using a nonprofit to bring much-needed services to residents; and Torpey talked well-nigh community-led development that benefits both builders and residents. They talked about making a difference in the lives of real people, in towns where politics hardly seems to matter—until someone steps upward to alter politics as usual.
In the shadow of the DNC, in the wake of the RNC a week earlier, with the (frankly) worst of American politics on display every 24-hour interval this election season, these three young mayors were more than simply smart and innovative. They were a sign that it is possible to fight against the fear, stagnation and stubbornness that seems and so integral to politics in America.
As Mayor Warren said, when talking about creating more business and opportunity for Rochester's poorest residents, real change ways taking existent risk, despite the chance of political failure.
"Don't be afraid to fail," she said. "We've gotten so concerned that if it doesn't work out, you'll take the political hit. But what if it does? What if it is successful? What if this is the game changer for our community?"
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Source: https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/mayors-lovely-warren-john-fetterman-alex-torpey/
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