community, quote, where the houses are larger and farther apart but schools stores and restaurants are several miles away. that s a pretty spot on description of a rural community or an outer suburb. among drk democrats 61%, quote, smaller houses, closer together, walkable to schools, restaurants. that s a pretty apt description of a big city or close in suburb. these aren t just cosmetic differences. where you live plays a big role in who your neighbors are. stores and strunrestaurants tha shop at and how you see the world you live in. it s increasingly about identity and how people live their everyday lives. when we come back, the motion picture academy expelled harvey weinstein yesterday and said, quote, the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory
he said, i noticed people were referring to you as the mayor. i m new. i said, my name is bill euille. never thought of it. after a couple days, he said you ve been here a long time, you re the mayor, i m sure you know good places to eat, what s a good place for breakfast, lunch? i would tell him places. he said, i m looking for something close by that s walkable. by him saying that, i concluded maybe he doesn t have a car. i said, okay, go out, mt. vernon avenue, del ray, there s nice places, coffee shops and restaurants there. then a couple days later we d chat and so forth. he would say, hey, you know, i m looking for employment. do you know anybody hiring? i say, well, what kind of work are you looking for? he said i m in construction. i said, oh, i m in construction as well. and then i said, what kind of work? he said, well, i said are you a carpenter, electrician? he said, no, i work for home builders, i m a home inspector. i said, oh, well, you know, i know home builders but i d
little rock has a lot to recommend in it. but little rock is not done. what they want to do is they want to create a little rock technology park. they want to capitalize on the fact that they ve got not just a state capital, but also the university of arkansas at little rock, good intellectual capital there. but they want to make the city into more of a tech hub. at the little rock technology park website, they explain that plan. and they specifically explain how the issue of caffeine is an important part of that plan. proximity is everything. workers want to be in urban places that are walkable. bikeable. hyper caffeinated, so they can bump into other workers and share ideas. innovation districts are this century s productive geography. they are both competitive places and cool spaces. that is what little rock is looking for. they want to become a cool space. they want a slice of that sweet, sweet tech economy. that means they need to attract
be me, there s very fundamental things we must do in government. public safety and welfare predominantly has to happen. detroit has to be no longer part of the national dialogue when it comes to violent crime and the discussion of the city being a violent city. we have to first and foremost make it a safe community, livable, walkable, sustainable neighborhoods where the people live. we also have to do important thing, create jobs, jobs, jobs. we have to have a new economy in the city of detroit. we also have to do something with our education system, although the mayor does not run the school system, the mayor needs to be the strongest advocate of education this city has ever seen. we re failing miserably at educating our children. my grandfather was a share cropper with a third grade education. he stressed to all of us how important education was and how it can lift you up out of the circumstance you re in. that s why we have to educate the children of detroit. we had some issues with
we negotiated tens of millions of dollars in savings for you all in our leases of our buildings. we had a structurally balanced budget, and we joined in a five-year labor agreement which for the first time gives us an ability to help our employees and without further vilification of them for those who run our city. as you know, i ran on a platform of neighborhoods, of making them livable, walkable, bikable. we ve hired world-class people to help in that, our planning director bill fulton, the incubator that we have established now on the fourth floor with world-class urban thinkers will help prepare the way for really exciting neighborhood adventures. with many of you we put the stress back on public safety. we ve had a terrible, terrible downward spiral in the ability