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Honesty Agenda: First Case Study

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Time to deploy the Honesty Agenda against a recent series of articles from KUT
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Project Connect Phase 1 Lie Number 1

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Lie #1 during Phase 1 of Project Connect was the justification of the collapsing of the West Campus and UT “subcorridors” (zones) into the Core…
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No sir, I don’t buy it.

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My work situation is going to prevent me from making much effort on this today so please assume I endorse this product and/or service 100%.…
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Why shouldn’t we just say we’ll play along if they come clean about Rapid Bus?

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This meme has been floating around the tworterverse. The words below were sent by me over Thanksgiving in response to an email from a CCAG…
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A quick thought for tonight’s exercise

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to which I do not know how much energy I shall devote as it appears to be oriented towards an effort to get buy-in from…
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Summary of yesterday

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Update: The video’s already up; you can see my speech here (click on Citizens Communications to jump to me). I spoke in citizens’ communication yesterday…
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West Campus, UT, and “The Core”

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At one point later on, a very good pal of mine who is working on the program answered John Lawler (UT student government)’s question about…
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Project Connect and Capital Metro need to answer some serious questions, right now

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In the last several weeks, many people, most notably Central Austin CDC, have pointed out a series of errors in the “Map Book” presented as…
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Sign the petition

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Folks, the deck is being stacked against rail on Lamar/Guadalupe – as I alluded to yesterday – the data-driven process is being co-opted by the…
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It’s time to talk about Rapid Bus again.

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So the PR machine is out in force trying to make Rapid Bus sound great so people are distracted from the fact that the densest,…
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