You’re a citizen, an advocate for democracy with this first step, paying attention.
Democracy isn't free. We're all paying the price of turning a blind eye to the goings on around us in our government. So much has been trashed, so much done in our names that neither benefit us or our communities or the resources all around. Locally this has cost us representation of growing majority of voters as the city council is made up of a super majority serving primarily commercial, developer, wealthy investors over the majority of residents or the common good. Even if these four council people believe they are doing the work of the people, they have consistently marginalized and silenced Teresa Barth as well as any dissent, minority views and transparent government practices in general. And that is not democracy, even if they wrote a code or ordinance saying it is.
Citizen Tip = Know How to Find Information, Blog Edition
It has been fifteen weeks since this feature has been posted each Tuesday, with the first one on Our Mayor blog. Every once in awhile it pays to stop and take a look at what dues you've paid along the way. If you have been reading this blog you are now aware of these things in our local government in Encinitas.
This post is to make it easy for you to catch up if you came in later. Any time you need a refresher, just look at the list of labels in the right hand column of the blog and find Tuesday is Dues-day and click. All of the posts to date will appear from the most recent back to the first. Also, for activists and voters unfamiliar with blog conventions . . . the label or tag list shows the number of posts carrying this label or tag. Some posts have a bunch of tags because the ways to label them overlap. All of the Tuesday is Dues-day also have labels related to specific subjects they cover.
Here is a list to date, again working backwards for review.
May 8, 2012- Engage: Citizen Tip = Find Your Own Way to Engage
May 1, 2012 -Fiscal Limits: Citizen Tip = Financing the Hall property park
April 24, 2012 - Tail Wags Dog Planning: Citizen Tip = Face value is rarely enough information to compare and contrast
April 17, 2012 - Campaign Rules: Citizen Tip = Start with this exposure of what went on in 2010
April 10, 2012 - GPU Foundation: Citizen Tip = Watch last year council clips
April 3, 2012 - Spreaker Protocol: Citizen Tip = Guest activist recommendations
March 27, 2012 - Get Up, Stand Up: Citizen Tip = Action
March 20, 2012 - Trees: Citizen Tip = Trees
March 13, 2012 - Sunshine Ordinance: Citizen Tip = GPU, ERAC & other antics
March 6, 2012 - General Plan Update: Citizen Tip = Watch what has been erased (ERAC'd) in the past six months
February 28, 2012 - Developer's Agreement: Citizen Tip = Searching 2007 Clips
February 21, 2012 - SANDAG Growth Forecast 2050: Citizen Tip = 2009 Video
February 14, 2012 - Mayoral Rotation: Citizen Tip = Shutting our Dissent with Barth passed over for 3 years.
