GLUE's "I Will Stay If..." expands to Pittsburgh.
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"Abby and I decided that the people I was meeting in Detroit should meet the people she was meeting in Pittsburgh."
The first GLUE conference was this spring in Milwaukee, where the "I Will Stay If ..." campaign was born.
The Detroit party was "a qualified success," said Ms. Szurpicki. "We
had around 100 people and collected over 80 good photos" of
participants holding a white board with the phrase "I Will Stay If ..."
completed.
"The photos show that people want better regional cooperation,
public transit, bike lanes, curbside recycling, things like that. And
what has come out of this is people saying 'I am staying to be a part
of something,' 'I am staying because I want to help build that curbside
recycling program.'
"This is about place-building."
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