Democracy for America (DFA–the national political advocacy group founded by Howard Dean) has just announced that it is accepting recommendations of candidates running in local office for official DFA endorsement. They are looking for people who are socially progressive, fiscally responsible, and have strong grassroots support. Yes, you can take this opportunity to recommend that [...]

We love the Ward 6 Weekly; a propaganda email from Fred to his constituents, funded by taxpayers, where we can try to understand what Fred really means behind the happy-friendly-vague words he types. This week’s edition has a few good examples of Fred-speak that I’ll proceed to deconstruct for your reading pleasure.
Fred is [...]

to put a serious crimp into your campaign style! Yep, my appendix went and blew up last Thursday, so that explains why you haven’t seen me around town in recent days–I’ve been busy re-learning how to eat solid food and hunting for veins for an IV drip. (The silver lining was that it was a [...]

It was quite a show at the Ward 6 council office last night (3/16) for the Houghton Area Master Plan (HAMP) open house, and Fred managed to make everyone from mountain bikers to central city residents furious while trying to take four or five contrary positions at the same time.
There’s a lot to explain, [...]

This just in: Fred Ronstadt is back from a week in DC (on whose dime?) and claims in his “Ward 6 Weekly” email that he’s personally responsible for bringing home the Federal transportation bacon.
He is specifically claiming credit for a federal earmark of $75 million to be used as a match with local funds to [...]

Chek out this website for the San Francisco League of Conservation Voters sprawl cost calculator.
You punch in the households per acre in your neck of the woods and find out how much less you will pay for gas, how much less pollution you will produce, and how much less water you will use [...]

A perfect example of how the current Ward 6 councilmember disrepects citizen input happened in early February.
Fred has been flipping & flopping back and forth on how to choose a City Manager, every since Jim Keene announced his January departure way back last fall. Should there be a caretaker Manager? Should the search be [...]