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VISION

Mark State, Toronto's New Mayor? Leadership & vision
Reply to Eric Mang's "Toronto Mayor Must Offer Vision" in Rabble Commentary by Mark State


ECONOMY

How Toronto Might Improve Its Economic Prospects During This Downturn...And How It's Being Frustrated From Pursuing A Turnaround Undoing the damage of a runaway Toronto economy, creating jobs

REPAIRING TORONTO'S BUDGET Restructuring decision-making at city hall

Toronto Budget...What The Mayoral Candidates Say Reply to National Post Article underlining budget reform at city hall.


SELLING OFF PUBLIC ASSETS

SCHOOL PROPERTIES SELL-OFFS: A PREVENTATIVE SOLUTION Closing And Selling Off Toronto’s School Properties. what can be done? Keep the properties, make the schools work again

SELLING OFF HYDRO & OTHER OF THE CITY’S FIXED AND LIQUID ASSETS Selling hydro is a bad idea: commentary by Mark State in National Post Feb 20 2010 7:34 AM

What Are The Facts About Selling Off Hydro? Hydro Unions Tell you why Toronto loses if Hydro is sold. FYI only

The Billboard Tax--Guess Who Pays It? Hidden ”third party” taxation schemes: “billboard tax”, “development tax”, …invent your own hidden taxation scheme


TTC

TTC Fare Smart Card Replacing MetroPasses with one smart card and geared-to-expense ridership cost

MULTIPLE SUBWAY EXTENSIONS Commentary to Globe and Mail article: (at 2008 subway-building prices, and 55 million toll payers per year, it would take generations of road tolls at $5.00 a ‘pop’ to pay for Thomson’s proposed subway system)
IS THIS THE LEGACY THAT DAVID MILLER WANTS TO LEAVE TORONTO? critical discussion of the ‘Transit City’ concept
(See Also: Other Websites at bottom of this page.)

TOLL ROADS

TOLL ROADS Response to Wellington Fund against toll roads


WATERFRONT PLAN

Toronto's Current Waterfront Plan How and why our undeveloped waterfront is being populated by condos instead of a waterfront park

Commentary re Waterfront Development Board sent to National Post


FIGHTING CRIME

Crime Prevention A three-pronged approach to ridding the city of its criminal youth problem


ICE TIME

ICE TIME FOR THE LITTLE LEAGUES Solving the prevailing lack of ice time for all rink users at minimal cost

Commentary sent to National Post re the problem of ice time,


STRIKES

Visibility In The Public/Union Bargaining Process Enabling quick resolutions to short strikes by applying both public and rank-and-file pressure at the bargaining table


BICYCLE ROUTES

The "SHARROW" Rant (For Dave Meslin) Solving the bicycle route problem


PANHANDLERS

PANHANDLERS: A Very Positive Solution To The Problem [This article has currently being viewed ten times by interested parties all over the world]…an innovative idea for ‘making a (pervasive) lemon into lemonade’



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT Mark State

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Who is Mark State?

TORONTO LIFE: MAYORALTY CANDIDATES RECAST AS FOOD What food would Mark State be? Commentary in Toronto Life.


OTHER WEBSITES BY MARK STATE:
http://feedbacktomark.wordpress.com Commentaries about remedying the TTC's problems
http://ecofriendlypower.wetpaint.com Solving the world's electrical energy supply problems

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