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This is not a social network or an exhaustive list of every resident in town. Instead, this is a limited scope and highly functional, hopefully utility-driven directory designed for both new and long-term residents to understand exactly who runs the municipality. We want to demystify local power structures by mapping the individuals who drive the conversation, lead charter reform, shape tax policy, and anchor our local commerce.
Our focus is strictly public: government employees and on the margin, nonprofit organizations that receive public funding or subsidies to influence outcomes for taxpayers. Privacy is a principle, not a courtesy.
We also believe in accuracy. If you find errors, wish to update an entry, or prefer a different image, we welcome your input at **[email protected].**
As part of our writing process, we make a good-faith effort to reach primary subjects of stories in advance to fact-check and give them a heads up. We call this “calling in, before calling out.” However, if subjects have been consistently non-responsive to prior outreach or have repeatedly ignored requests for comment, we may not reach out again in every instance. More on this topic in our post on ***The Threshold Test.***
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To request consideration for the Directory, please submit your credentials to [email protected], including the following:
✔️ Ward, Current title or position, relevant prior held positions
✔️A square headshot of yourself, with dimensions of at least 1024 x 1024 pixels
If you are not in public office, not a candidate for public office, not a major blog figure, but you still would like to be included in the Directory with your stylized headshot, we may expand the Directory later.
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Municipality: Hudson - 1st Ward Current Position: Director of Unfettered Optimism; Proprietor, SuperAwesome
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Municipality: Ghent Current Position: Ghent Town Supervisor; Chair of Columbia Taxpayers’ Union
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This is a work-in-progress feature of Hudson Common Sense to map Hudson’s public (elected or appointed) leadership and help our readers and residents at large understand the city's power structures during this once-in-a-generation Charter Reform evolution. If you hold public office or a publicly appointed position, or play an influential and public role in the media or community sphere, we invite you to apply for consideration by sending your preferred photo and title to **[email protected].**
A standardized, professional profile ensures constituents and neighbors can easily recognize the individuals shaping their city, at the Common Council meeting or at the Farmer’s Market.
We ensure that all inducted profiles accurately reflect the caliber and influence of the subjects. To maintain its utility and merit, the Directory is strictly capped at 100 profiles for now, reserved exclusively for elected officials, influential business operators, and principal figures in local media.
Read more below how we hope to protect resident privacy. While America guarantees free speech and plenty of public data, that does not mean that all public information ought to be shared proactively, at every junction.
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🔒 Privacy: We do not publish private information. We respect the privacy of all individuals, making exceptions only for public officials or private citizens who actively engage in the public realm to influence public funding and spaces.
👤 Names: A Directory should reflect how a community actually speaks, not just how a courthouse files paperwork.
📸 Photos: We don’t use "gotcha" shots; we take the preferred photo that YOU send us. Tanya Malott, who lives right here in Hudson, has photographed multiple Nobel Laureates and newsmakers across America and is available for portrait and headshots. She comes highly recommended. 😉
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We use a photo treatment that is inspired by the Economist Magazine’s “By Invitation” column.. We do this both to give residents a neutral to positive portrait, as a hat tip to the WSJ pixelated headshots, and to visually standardize our Directory, Editorials, and Guest Op-Eds. Read more here about the **WSJ’s famous headshot technology.**
Besides, how many times should Gossips have to “screenshot” the face of an important elected official or non-resident lobbyist from a low resolution Common Council meeting video.
Below is a representative example of individuals from Hudson’s Executive, Legislative, as well as the Department Heads and Media Figures.
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Step 1: Submit Your Real Portrait Photo →
Step 2: We generate an HCS Portrait
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✒️ **COMMON SENSE EDITORIALS**
🗣️ GUEST OP-EDS