http://david.pedregon.com Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:19:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Texas Hill Country was listed as the #1 destination in the United States for summer travelers this summer and Fredericksburg was the only town listed in the story. It's old news by now, but I still find myself talking about it...mostly with friends from out of state and visitors ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/06/24/frededericksburg-in-the-ny-times/ ...since my last post.  I've been very busy getting ramped up to the duties of being on Council, but as they say, "excuses are for other people."  So let's just take it from there and move on. As I said in the campaign, affordable housing is my #1 priority, therefore on ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/06/23/its-been-waaaay-too-long/ The City Council results are in.  I won with 784 of the votes cast and Jeff Jeffers came in second with 744 votes.  Kevin MacWithey came in third with 653 votes and Randy Thompson received 508 votes.  I want to thank the other candidates for their participation in this election.  Without ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/05/11/the-results-are-in/ Today is election day in Fredericksburg...time to get out the vote!  Voters will be choosing their City Councilmen and School Board Members.  They'll also be voting on the proposed tax exemption for Citizens over 65 and an FISD capital improvement bond.  Truly we are blessed people to live in a ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/05/10/get-out-to-vote/ If you are in business of any kind, work for a cause of any sort or are involved (at anytime) with promoting something for business or charity, you need to know about Seth's Blog: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ I first came across Seth when I read his book, Permission Marketing. If you email groups ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/05/09/charitable-auctions-seth-godins-blog/ This was a big week for the City Council: noise ordinance, C.A.R.E.S. research results presentation, flood plain discussion, sign ordinance. Yesterday we got our newspaper and I was reading the recap of the Council meeting when I came across a quote I'd remembered hearing there. Toward the ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/05/08/disagreeing-the-right-way/ This past Friday, NBC Nightly News aired it's piece on the Rockets '08 event. They also did a great interview with Brett Williams and a profile on the Principals of Technology program at Fredericksburg High School.Main Story with Brian Williams (click here)Additional Footage (click here)I thought the blog was ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/05/05/nbc-nightly-news-it-is-rocket-science/ Our local paper asked all the Candidates to submit profile pieces for last week's paper.  We were asked to keep it to 300 words or less...and they meant it (I initially got mine returned for fudging the limit).  Here's mine, but make sure you also read the others since it's ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/05/01/profile-piece-for-the-fredericksburg-standard/ I had the distinct privilege of attending the Ignite Education pre-launch dinner at the Nimitz on Thursday to celebrate the Fredericksburg High School Principles of Technology Program (nicknamed the "Rocket Program").  We were also there to celebrate the fact that 10 other partner high schools, ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/04/25/excellence-at-fhsmy-letter-to-the-editor/ Thanks for stopping by my new blog!  You know, people have asked me, “Why are you launching a website?  What are you going to talk about?  Is this just for the campaign?”  Actually, these are all great questions and there are answers to all of them but the primary answer ... http://david.pedregon.com/2008/03/16/hows-this-for-whitespace/