Julian Raven's Elmira Says Yes Podcast

Elmira Says Yes Podcast is a weekly civic conversation hosted by Julian Raven from 714 Baldwin St. Studio and online by Zoom. The podcast brings citizens together to talk honestly about Elmira’s challenges, leadership, neighborhoods, public safety, faith, culture, opportunity, and renewal. Elmira is not finished. Elmira says yes.

Julian Raven's Elmira Says Yes Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Julian Raven, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Julian Raven hosts Julian Raven's Elmira Says Yes Podcast, a arts show with 11 episodes published.

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  History Repeating Itself - Doing the same thing over and expecting different results..insanity!

  Oct 2, 20268 min

  ELMIRA SAYS YES | History Repeating Itself: Elmira's City Manager In 1972, Elmira promoted its City Chamberlain to City Manager just before Hurricane Agnes devastated the city. Fifty-four years later, amid another fiscal crisis, history repeats itself. Following Michael Collins's retirement, City Chamberlain Charmain Cattan takes over as Interim City Manager. Julian Raven examines the troubling parallels, Elmira's failure to recover economically, and whether the city's 94-year-old system of government has become part of the problem. Are we learning from history or repeating it?

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  Is Rural King Good for Elmira, Good for Rural King, or Good for Both?

  Sep 27, 202628 min

  This week, Rural King opened in Elmira to packed parking lots, ribbon cuttings and a lot of excitement. I am a free-market capitalist and an entrepreneur. I have no objection to large retailers, and I hope Rural King succeeds. But Elmira has been struggling economically for decades, and that means every major development decision deserves serious scrutiny. So this podcast asks a simple question: Is Rural King good for Elmira, Good for Rural King, or good for Both? We are going to look past the opening-day crowds and examine the harder issues: net job creation, pressure on local hardware and farm stores, money leaving the region, big-box retail concentration, downtown development, location, and what happens if a large chain eventually leaves after smaller competitors have disappeared. This is not an argument against Rural King. It is an argument for asking the questions that should have been asked before the ribbon was cut.

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  Elmira's Greatest Catastrophe...Was it Really the Flood?

  Sep 11, 202645 min

  An investigation into Agnes, the devastating flood of 1972 that impacted Elmira, New York.

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  ELMIRA INVESTIGATION: The 794 Votes That Changed Elmira

  Aug 20, 202615 minS0

  <p>What happened to executive government in Elmira—and why?</p><p>In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression and amid serious municipal financial difficulties, Elmira began questioning the very structure of its government. Through the pages of the Elmira Star-Gazette, citizens debated taxes, efficiency, political machines, patronage, party influence, executive power and whether an elected mayor or professional City Manager should run the administration.</p><p>Plan C won—but by only 794 votes. The result was 5,074 to 4,280, with nearly 46 percent voting against the change. The decision transferred the city's principal executive and administrative function away from the elected mayo...

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  ELMIRA INVESTIGATION: The 794 Votes That Changed Elmira

  Aug 20, 202615 min

  What happened to executive government in Elmira—and why? In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression and amid serious municipal financial difficulties, Elmira began questioning the very structure of its government. Through the pages of the Elmira Star-Gazette , citizens debated taxes, efficiency, political machines, patronage, party influence, executive power and whether an elected mayor or professional City Manager should run the administration. Plan C won—but by only 794 votes . The result was 5,074 to 4,280, with nearly 46 percent voting against the change. The decision transferred the city's principal executive and administrative function away from the elected mayor and into the City Manager system that would shape Elmira government for generations. But the original newspaper record reveals something remarkable. Opponents warned that Plan C might not eliminate political influence at all. If political parties controlled the council, they argued, those politicians would ultimately control the body responsible for hiring and retaining the City Manager. Evidence from Binghamton was presented to Elmira voters warning that political influence over appointments had persisted even after manager government was adopted. In this three-part Raven for Mayor Elmira Investigation , Julian Raven returns to the original 1932 record and asks whether Elmira attempted to solve a political problem by redesigning government instead of confronting partisan control itself. The investigation culminates in Raven's alternative for Elmira: restore a full-time elected executive mayor, elect six independent councilmembers, reduce formal party control of municipal government, preserve professional administration and checks and balances, and return direct responsibility for executive performance to an official elected by the people. Ninety-four years ago, Elmira was willing to reconsider its government because circumstances demanded it. The question now is whether this generation is willing to do the same.

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