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2018 Local Election Series featuring County Commission District 3 candidate Greg Martin.

Our local election series introduces you to candidates running for local offices of Hamilton County Mayor, County Commission, and Hamilton County School Board.

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2018 Local Election Series featuring County Commission District 2 candidate Chip Baker.

Our local election series introduces you to candidates running for local offices of Hamilton County Mayor, County Commission, and Hamilton County School Board.

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2018 Local Election Series featuring County Commission District 2 candidate Elizabeth Baker.

Our local election series introduces you to candidates running for local offices of Hamilton County Mayor, County Commission, and Hamilton County School Board.

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This summer we have an ambitious series to interview all local candidates for the office of County Mayor, County Commission, & Hamilton County School Board before the August 2nd election!

Hamilton County Election Website: http://elect.hamiltontn.gov/

Bike To Work Day 2018 was on May 18th and GreenTrips Chattanooga hosted a panel discussion that our host, Matt Busby, had the pleasure to moderate. Our panelists include Mayor Andy Berke, Councilman Erskine Oglesby, Director of Community Development Donna Williams, and MLK Neighborhood Association Board Member Chris Lykins. Our discussion explores the impact of multi-modal transportation, and specifically bike lanes, on the growth and equity within our community.

Check out the GreenTrips Chattanooga website to learn more: http://www.greentripscha.org/

Back in March, the Enterprise Center unveiled the next phase of Chattanooga's Innovation District with a Framework Plan. The plan is more than just a framework for development, it also reveals the values of the district and the strategies to take the ID to the next level. We are joined by the Enterprise Center's Mary Stargel, Director of Programs, and Toyin Lanade, Marketing & Communications Director.

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We continue our conversation with Eric Myers, Sally Morrow, & Lindsey Willke of the Chattanooga Design Study. In this episode we explore the recently released South Broad District Study.

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Special episode re-broadcasting Mayor Andy Berke's 2018 State of the City address delivered on April 19, 2018

The Chattanooga Design Studio believes that we can make Chattanooga a great place to live for everyone through excellent urban design. In this conversation I am joined by the Studio's Eric Myers, Lindsey Willke, and Sally Morrow. In the first half of our conversation we discuss what urban design is and its importance for creating thriving communities. We also discuss a range of their work, both past and present. The second episode, to be released next week, focuses on their recently released framework plan for the South Broad District.

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Sam Wolfe is the Homeless Program Coordinator for the city of Chattanooga. In this episode Sam discuss the state of homelessness in Chattanooga by recounting the recent Point-In-Time Count as well as broadening our imagination of the type of neighbors in our city who may be dealing with homelessness. We also talk about the recent successes of the recent initiative to house homeless veterans and how that could provide a model for bringing together a coalition of partners to create a new initiative that can serve most vulnerable in our community.

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