The city's new website includes a long-overdue feature for city aldermen: blogs.
City officials rolled out their new look at www.cityofracine.org earlier this month. The new website gives a nice facelift to Racine's online home while retaining connections to useful services like legistar, which tracks all agendas and minutes for city meetings.
One new feature added is a blogging system for City Council members. Each alderman has a page that shows their picture, a map of the district and a blog they can add stories and comments to.
New alderman Eric Marcus, who was just sworn into office Tuesday, is the first (and so far only) to make use of the new blogging system. He's posted three stories and a poll on the Second District page, which you can see at: www.cityofracine.org/2nd
It's a nice tool for the aldermen, and hopefully they'll use it as an opportunity to share their views, float ideas and clue constituents in on important issues.
puffery, chickens, 10 year plans, gas stations, CAR25, racism.....can't wait for these blogs
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the intelligence level of our political discourse will sky rocket
It will only be good if they actually use it. Politicians don't like saying what they think. If people actually knew where they stood on every issue, they would never get re-elected. I just don't see it being used all that much except for their pet projects.
ReplyDeleteMoreover DRG, they don't take a stand with anyone around either. The only contradiction to that is "Spanky and the Floating Assessment" project.
ReplyDeleteI have sent several e-mails to my alderman and NEVER have received a responce. Why would he use this now ?? PIO has to do something to fill his time at city hall !!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 10:25 - Eric Marcus was JUST elected and sworn in last week you fool.
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ReplyDeleteI have sent several e-mails to my alderman and NEVER have received a responce. Why would he use this now ?? PIO has to do something to fill his time at city hall !!
4/24/2010 10:25 AM
So, WHO is your alderman? You should tell us so we can admonish him for not communicating with you!