Creative &
Innovative
Ideas
for Junction City Council
After all, if you can survive your own life with humor intact, dealing with bureaucrats should be a pleasant afternoon stroll.
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Platforms
Community
Involvement
This town belongs to all of us.
We need young voices, older voices, working parents, recent grads. Basically, anyone who has a stake in the community, which is everyone. Create youth councils, senior advisory boards, and volunteer committees where showing up doesn’t feel like walking into a private club.
Safety
First
Not another highway rest stop (despite the name).
Both in the “don’t trip on that broken sidewalk” way and the “this is a town where people look out for each other” way.
Community policing, city beautification, conflict resolution, and development of all of those empty storefronts would be a good start.
Enrichment
for All
What is there to do around here, anyway?
People need “third spaces” where the only requirement for entry is being a human being (or possibly a very friendly dog). Libraries, plazas, shaded benches, co-ops, coffee shops that don’t mind if you nurse one cup of tea for an hour while reading a novel. And about that community center – is it a real building or just a mirage?
A Unique Advantage
Innovative strategies
The world responds to creativity and bold ideas, but it also appreciates someone who can deliver those ideas without causing a full-scale mutiny.
Problem solving isn’t just about the end product. It’s about community, creativity, and helping people find their own voice in a world that often demands conformity. It’s about celebrating human ingenuity while acknowledging its delightful absurdity.
Not Full of Shit
Integrity and Critical Thinking
Curiosity, resilience, and enthusiasm are more valuable than natural talent alone, and the willingness to dive into new experiences, even when you’re decades older (or younger) than everyone else, is a skill unto itself.
From Art to Science
Knowledge is Power
Over the years, I’ve amassed a veritable smorgasbord of abilities ranging from carpentry to cooking, gardening to graphic design, websites to audio/video production, martial arts, and even a “mastery” of roughly forty musical instruments. Don’t ask me to list them all.
Read more to learn how they translate to local government. ->
I like to make things. Check out some of my creations and get to know the 'real' Tweed.
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi
I’ve spent decades working with musicians, artists, authors, and other creatives. My accomplishments leading bands, teaching classes, and ‘mastering’ my own arts help define who I am. I like to say that the best way to “get to know” me is through my creations.
Visit my personal website to read my books and essays.
To listen to my music, check out my Youtube channel, or search ‘The Walls Instead’ on your favorite streaming service. I’ve played in many bands, but that is my project of original music (and some novelty covers).