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Letter to WPC: We are sorry to hear that Michael Ennis has left the WPC as Transportation Director. As donors and supporters of WPC, or, those who read Ennis' blog regularly, the undersigned requests that WPC does not delete Ennis' blog, or, any of his transportation reports, from the Washington Policy Center.
Michael Ennis' blog and reports are extensively researched. There is nobody in Seattle who comes close in terms of the amount of research that Ennis has done on state transportation issues. There are 37 pages on Mike's WPC blog, linking to thousands of blog entries, thousands of additional references, and dozens if not hundreds of WPC Transportation reports written by Mike Ennis.
Mike Ennis is one of only a few bloggers in the United States who have produced this tremendous volume of material on transportation issues. Others include Randall O'Toole of Oregon, and Dr. Peter Gordon of USC. Therefore, the potential loss of Mike Ennnis' blog and reports from the WPC Server is a tremendous loss to not only Washington State, but also the nation.
This is an urgent matter, since I don't know if the WPC server could be programmed to delete his blog, and technical reports, by Monday. One WPC staffer, members of the Eastside Transportation Association, and associates of Mike Ennis at his two employers, declined to answer my question as to whether the blog would be saved.
At the very least, WPC Officials, could you please provide a date when his blog will be deleted, so that we can print out all of Mike's entries, reports, and references? Indeed, I am interested in graduate school at colleges where several professors agree with the views of Mike Ennis.
Therefore, I hope you can save all of the entries, or, provide a deadline so I can print them. And, I certainly know many others who know Mike Ennis and his work at WPC, and find his blog among the very best. Thanks for your consideration. Best regards, Tom Lane http://smartgrowthusa.wordpress.com [email protected]
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March 15, 2013
I am still waiting for an actual person at the office to pick up the phone so I can get a straight answer about the server backups. It blows my mind that so much historical data and analysis is just sitting there in limbo while we wait for an email reply that might never come.
March 15, 2013
I really thought this might just disappear into the digital void but seeing all of you step up like this is honestly surreal and kind of overwhelming. That archive is way too important to lose to a server purge because Mike put in so much work that someone actually needs to keep track of. It feels like we are actually hitting a nerve here and I am scrambling to figure out the next step before they pull the plug.
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Mike did the work nobody else wanted to do. Dont delete this info it is literally the only place to find honest data on our roads.
I used these reports for years. DONT ERASE IT.
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Final supporters
Letter to WPC: We are sorry to hear that Michael Ennis has left the WPC as Transportation Director. As donors and supporters of WPC, or, those who read Ennis' blog regularly, the undersigned requests that WPC does not delete Ennis' blog, or, any of his transportation reports, from the Washington Policy Center.
Michael Ennis' blog and reports are extensively researched. There is nobody in Seattle who comes close in terms of the amount of research that Ennis has done on state transportation issues. There are 37 pages on Mike's WPC blog, linking to thousands of blog entries, thousands of additional references, and dozens if not hundreds of WPC Transportation reports written by Mike Ennis.
Mike Ennis is one of only a few bloggers in the United States who have produced this tremendous volume of material on transportation issues. Others include Randall O'Toole of Oregon, and Dr. Peter Gordon of USC. Therefore, the potential loss of Mike Ennnis' blog and reports from the WPC Server is a tremendous loss to not only Washington State, but also the nation.
This is an urgent matter, since I don't know if the WPC server could be programmed to delete his blog, and technical reports, by Monday. One WPC staffer, members of the Eastside Transportation Association, and associates of Mike Ennis at his two employers, declined to answer my question as to whether the blog would be saved.
At the very least, WPC Officials, could you please provide a date when his blog will be deleted, so that we can print out all of Mike's entries, reports, and references? Indeed, I am interested in graduate school at colleges where several professors agree with the views of Mike Ennis.
Therefore, I hope you can save all of the entries, or, provide a deadline so I can print them. And, I certainly know many others who know Mike Ennis and his work at WPC, and find his blog among the very best. Thanks for your consideration. Best regards, Tom Lane http://smartgrowthusa.wordpress.com [email protected]
Updates
March 15, 2013
I am still waiting for an actual person at the office to pick up the phone so I can get a straight answer about the server backups. It blows my mind that so much historical data and analysis is just sitting there in limbo while we wait for an email reply that might never come.
March 15, 2013
I really thought this might just disappear into the digital void but seeing all of you step up like this is honestly surreal and kind of overwhelming. That archive is way too important to lose to a server purge because Mike put in so much work that someone actually needs to keep track of. It feels like we are actually hitting a nerve here and I am scrambling to figure out the next step before they pull the plug.
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Ridiculous to think about scrubbing all that hard work. Keep the archives online please!
Mike did the work nobody else wanted to do. Dont delete this info it is literally the only place to find honest data on our roads.
I used these reports for years. DONT ERASE IT.
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Ridiculous to think about scrubbing all that hard work. Keep the archives online please!