State and Local Politics Blog

I am deeply grateful to Future 901 for encouraging my candidacy and then supporting me when I chose to run.  I started the race hoping to bring a physician’s perspective to our council; i.e., listening, thinking and then making a diagnosis and plan.  I promised to be flexible and willing to change course as new facts and conditions arose.  That was the gist of my candidacy. Early in the race I heard a compelling interview with a professor from Harvard who had studied how communities can lower violent crime rates, especially murder rates.