Northwood Hears from City Council Hopefuls

By Tom Waring
Northeast Times Staff Writer

• Marc Stier, a community activist from West Mount Airy, is running as a Democratic for an at-large Council seat. He’s a transit advocate who has fought for a higher minimum wage and ethics reform and brought economic development to his neighborhood. He believes that residents have the right to appeal zoning decisions to the courts.

Pointing out that Philadelphia leads New York in murders despite having five times fewer people, he favors stronger handgun control legislation. He thinks that, if police arrest people for relatively minor crimes, they will find illegal guns on many of them.
In office, he wants to redevelop commercial corridors and recruit and retain public school teachers.

"I want to bring innovative ideas that are working in other cities to this city," he said.