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• Require Crisis training on a par with shooting training!
• Recognizing the Original Inhabitants of This Area
• "Examining the total impact of any product involves a deep look into all of the resources used in production, transportation, use, and disposal"
• Councilman Reynolds requests a Community Engagement Plan outline from the City
• Just out: the fall "Sustainable Lehigh Valley"
• Let's do the responsible thing
• Residents chatter about the December 1 City Council meeting around Gadfly's water cooler
• Budget briefs
• Lots for Council to think about
• Residents who support modifying the police budget
• Drum roll! Draft Climate Action Plan debuts December 9
• Reprinted from October 17: "What are the alternatives to calling the police?"
• Residents support police, reject defunding
• What Allentown did with police budgeting
• "We might need to get back to the basics of what the City's core mission is"
• Gotta be a better way
• Fourth budget meeting Thursday 6PM
• "I will continue . . . speaking out against a system that is not applied equally to all"
• Labeling all people willing to speak out for transparency and discussion "Marxists" is shameful
• President Waldron: no will on Council to defund or eliminate the police department
• Lehigh Valley Good Neighbors Alliance at full throttle for the Council meeting tonight!
• Gadfly models quality conversation
• "Where is the willingness to discuss, rather than to name-call and inflame?"
• "I know jail is likely the worst place for a person like him to be"
• The need for quality public conversation