Councillor Stuart Bruce has moved to www.stuartssoapbox.com
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Grand opening of Middy tip!
This is my second post on 20six, remember if you want to look at my earlier entries you need to visit the old blog.
It's a glamorous life being a local councillor. Tomorrow I'm off to the official opening of the Middleton tip, or to use its proper name the Household Waste Sorting Site. Actually it's a serious business. The government has set really tough new recycling targets and it is local councils that have to deliver them. That's why we need to invest millions in improving the way we collect and sort waste. I might try to post a photograph live from the opening ceremony, failing that I'll do when I get back in.
I'm all for it. I already try to do my bit by at least recycling the tons of paperwork that you get as a councillor. It really does have to be seen to be believed. What's worse is that a lot of it is pointless and could just as easily be accessed on the council intranet or sent by email. One of the problems is that some of our members are luddites and refuse to get to grips with the technology. I say refuse rather than can't because councillors are lucky position of having lots of free IT training and support available, so there really is no excuse other than laziness and ignorance. Just think of all the paper we could save.
Even when you go to meetings you don't always need to take papers. When I can I try to download documents on to my Palm 505. A big advantage of this is that I can use 'Find' to quickly hunt out important parts of the document rather than frantically flicking through.
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(9.7.03 12:00)
As you've probably seen already from the comments on your first blog, there's a community of 20sixers who are interested in the political and economic (I don't mean commercial) potential of blogging. I've lifted one of your favourite blogs and will post it into my Bloglog page - thanks!
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(9.7.03 12:13)
Ah, but you're not able to do the "looking busy" bit running through the corridors without several sheets of paper....
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(9.7.03 15:37)
Excellent... 
I'm a Palm freak too - I've saved literally thousands of pages of words from ever being printed, just by using AvantGo's service (For those who don't know, you syncronize your Palm Device with the internet, and it downloads internet pages (Up to 2mb at a time) that you have earmarked. There are other programs too, what else have you found useful?
On the other side of things - good on you for keeping a 'blog - Its important in this information age, that the government keep up with today's society, by accepting feedback in this manner.
Keith (While Leeds blinking might be a good idea, Manchester will have to be the place, as several people have Ok'ed it already, but you are more than welcome to our little soirre!)
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(9.7.03 17:38)
Stuart - bit of a plug for your blog(s) on the front/homepage. Please do tell all your politicial colleagues about our service - we are very keen to get some active and meaningful political debates going at 20six, as well as to promote the idea of constituents having a more direct way of contacting their councillor/MP via weblog. If you can help at all we would be extremely grateful. Cheers, JoJo.
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(9.7.03 19:56)
hi stuart, just thought I'd say hello - I'm a student in Leeds, not there at the moment since it's vacation time, but it's nice to see some more Leeds people on here by the way - couldn't help but notice the BBC leeds webpage is on your favourites list - just so happens i'm one of their student diarists (i'm Kate, by the way). shameless self promotion there but there you go. welcome to 20six!
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