I really want to hear about the economic underpinnings of a Mittelpolitan. This week's post on my Sub is going to cover Mayor Wu's developer ties, the 'scandals' she has overseen, and the actual policies and projects that are creating changes in the city and Wichita government while the masses clamor over proclamations. I also will cover my own attempt at getting a proclamation pushed through city hall. 😅
Onward! Just subscribed. Thanks for your comment on my FPR piece, much appreciated thoughts. If you subscribe to my stack I'll be eventually doing updates about my own book project about mid 20th century Philadelphia. Was very happy to land a book deal, which certainly gets the rear end in gear to finish. Looking forward to reading what you're writing.
I should talk to you sometime about how you landed that book deal--I count several published authors among my friends, but none of them are writing the sort of thing I am, whereas your project sounds vaguely similar to mine, so maybe your advice would be actually helpful!
Oh yeah, it' san interesting story, happy to relate. Will.caverly@gmail.com if you want to chat. Once the book is published I'll likely post the story on my stack too, but happy to give some pointers.
I don't know why it would have shown up now; I put it up ages ago. Did you only just subscribe? Anyway, it's dated four years in the future because it was the easiest way to keep it at the top of the page. (I presume, if I still have this substack in 2029, I will have figured out by then a better way to order things on the front page!)
I disagree that our City is weak. We should be proud that we use professional management. I'm disappointed you're teaching your students that we are weak.
"Weak mayor" is a specific term to describe a system where the mayor doesn't have independent executive power but rather is just a member of the city council which both gives assignments to and responds to the reports of the city manager, Lonny. It doesn't describe the city itself at all.
No secret code there, I'm afraid; dating it then was just the easiest way, when I first set up this substack, to keep that post at the top. There maybe a more direct way to pin it, but I still haven't, after all these months, found and read the substack instruction manual.
I really want to hear about the economic underpinnings of a Mittelpolitan. This week's post on my Sub is going to cover Mayor Wu's developer ties, the 'scandals' she has overseen, and the actual policies and projects that are creating changes in the city and Wichita government while the masses clamor over proclamations. I also will cover my own attempt at getting a proclamation pushed through city hall. 😅
I hope you will give it a read.
Onward! Just subscribed. Thanks for your comment on my FPR piece, much appreciated thoughts. If you subscribe to my stack I'll be eventually doing updates about my own book project about mid 20th century Philadelphia. Was very happy to land a book deal, which certainly gets the rear end in gear to finish. Looking forward to reading what you're writing.
I should talk to you sometime about how you landed that book deal--I count several published authors among my friends, but none of them are writing the sort of thing I am, whereas your project sounds vaguely similar to mine, so maybe your advice would be actually helpful!
Oh yeah, it' san interesting story, happy to relate. Will.caverly@gmail.com if you want to chat. Once the book is published I'll likely post the story on my stack too, but happy to give some pointers.
I linked to this article in my latest work!
The Lily Wu piece? I'll be looking for that tomorrow!
Very confused about why this apparently old piece showed up new in my feed with a date ... in the future! (It's listed as 2029.)
I don't know why it would have shown up now; I put it up ages ago. Did you only just subscribe? Anyway, it's dated four years in the future because it was the easiest way to keep it at the top of the page. (I presume, if I still have this substack in 2029, I will have figured out by then a better way to order things on the front page!)
I've been subscribed for awhile. Guess will mark this down to the algorithm.
I disagree that our City is weak. We should be proud that we use professional management. I'm disappointed you're teaching your students that we are weak.
"Weak mayor" is a specific term to describe a system where the mayor doesn't have independent executive power but rather is just a member of the city council which both gives assignments to and responds to the reports of the city manager, Lonny. It doesn't describe the city itself at all.
It's your preference to call our City 'weak' when we actually have a 'Strong' city from professional management.
I'm sure there is an interesting point to the fact that the date reads "Jan 30, 2029", but I'm not sure how to decode it.
No secret code there, I'm afraid; dating it then was just the easiest way, when I first set up this substack, to keep that post at the top. There maybe a more direct way to pin it, but I still haven't, after all these months, found and read the substack instruction manual.