The world is changing fast, from artificial intelligence to the economy to the way cities are run. We rethink, we rebuild, and we come back together as one town, because our best days should still be ahead of us. I believe they are, but I can't build it alone.
Rethink. Rebuild. Reunite. Here's what each one asks of us.
The old playbook was written for an Albany that doesn't exist anymore from a time that is now Netflix nostalgia. We must reexamine the way the city operates and how it views non-Albany resident revenue generation and establishing long-term private-public partnerships to vastly increase investment in the city and region.
Rebuilding is a whole of community effort. We start with the Why and What behind each service, function, policy, every physical building and piece of equipment to hold it against the City we owe it to ourselves to and all future generations to build. Then we examine the How and determine whether what we have is a solution or a bandaid. Finally, when plans are finished, funding is secured, you build at a rapid pace because the world is not slowing.
It starts with remembering each of us is valuable just for being. Each person deserves respect, dignity and compassion. That goes for you as well. You deserve respect, dignity and compassion. If we demand from ourselves the behavior we wish to see in others, we should start each interaction with respect. We must also learn how to let go of trivial transgressions. We need to relearn to how to ask for forgiveness and relearn how to practice grace. The battles ahead will require all of us to win. The problems will require us to see with clear eyes and full hearts. These problems will not arrive with a political opinion. They will not arrive with talking points. But their arrival is, nonetheless, inevitable. If we allow the lobbyists and traditional politicians to divide the problem into political positions, then true, lasting solutions will evade us for another generation.
The future is a marathon. It starts now.
Roads, water, and power. The systems everything else depends on, and the ones a city is most tempted to ignore because they fail slowly. I will put Albany's infrastructure on a fifty-year path instead of patching it one deferred-maintenance cycle at a time.
Read it →I want Albany's police, fire, and medical services to be among the best in the country. This begins with identifying what is going to be needed in the next decade to develop to stay ahead of the evolving criminal ecosystem.
Read it →We have gotten good at sorting ourselves by party and bad at being one town. I want Albany to invest in the things that put people back in the same room, and a City Hall that treats every resident the same.
Read it →“A better America starts in Albany.”
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