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  The ‘Other’ Candidates’ Take on Cities

  Mike Muller | Wed, Apr 23rd, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: mike muller, president, presidential campaign, presidential candidates, urban issues, presidential urban agenda, urban agenda, urban platform | 0

  From truck drivers and Mensa members, to Satanists and Druids, the “other" candidates for president list in the hundreds. Other, more prominent names flesh out these lists as well, such as Ralph Nader and Alan Keyes. And a number of smaller party activists from the likes of the Green and Libertarian Parties also fill its ranks. So, do any of these American citizens making use of their freedom to run for president have anything to say about the nation’s cities? 

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  ‘Green Collar Jobs” and the Democratic Candidates Bickering Over Them

  Mike Muller | Tue, Apr 8th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: mike muller, hillary clinton, obama, barack obama, election 2008, president, democrats, hillary, presidential campaign, presidential candidates, presidential urban agenda, democratic hopefuls, pittsburgh, green collar jobs, green jobs, green collar, democratic candidates, good jobs, green jobs conference | 0

  With the next Democratic primary being held in Pennsylvania on Earth day, we turn our attention today to “green collar jobs.” While there is certainly no one-size-fits-all panacea for the nation’s struggling industrial cities, proponents of the movement see wide ranging benefits from creating a new economy around environmental awareness.

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  The Phantom Urban Debate

  Scott Gabriel Knowles | Thu, Nov 22nd, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: obama, new orleans, katrina, scott gabriel knowles, presidential campaign, times picayunne, edwards, phantom urban debate, urban debate | 0

  This week the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the locations for the three candidate match-ups next fall: Oxford, Mississippi, Nashville, and Hempstead, New York.  Louisiana elected officials and New Orleanians immediately decried the Crescent City’s absence from the list of three.  Senator Mary Landrieu noted in a Times-Picayune article that New Orleans was the only city of the sixteen applicants to have bipartisan support among the candidates, including Democratic Senators…

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