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Kemmis, Daniel Orra was born on December 5, 1945 in Fairview, Montana, United States. Son of Orra Raymond and Lilly Samantha (Shidler) Kemmis.
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Daniel Kemmis is a successful politician, former Montana state legislator, and current second-term mayor of Missoula, Montana. He is rare among elected officials as a thoughtful interpreter of and commentator on the nature of citizenship and political responsibility; even more rare, he is a fluent and engaging writer. The Good City and the Good Life is a wide-ranging discussion of democracy as a human enterprise. Kemmis uses personal experience and the experience of other cities and citizens in exploring key issues before the public. These issues include economic growth and development, education, health, and cultural life, from hometown Missoula to Baltimore, Dallas, and Seattle in the United States, to Germany and Japan in looking around the world. Though laced with references to literature, philosophy, history, and the work of important contemporary urbanologists, this is a down-to-earth and deeply felt work intended to reach out to all levels in a society concerned about its future
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This work proposes that the management of public lands by the federal government of the USA is no longer working in the eastern part of the country. The author believes that the West should manage its owm public lands, under various governmental structures. He argues that the West, by rights, should have control over the land in its region. It points to the efforts all over the West as evidence of the West's maturity and also as a model for how the West would govern its lands.
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Thomas Jefferson envisioned a nation of citizens deeply involved in public life. Today Americans are lamenting the erosion of his ideal. What happened in the intervening centuries? Daniel Kemmis argues that our loss of capacity for public life (which impedes our ability to resolve crucial issues) parallels our loss of a sense of place. A renewed sense of inhabitation, he maintains of community rooted in place and of people dwelling in that place in a practiced waycan shape politics into a more cooperative and more humanly satisfying enterprise, producing better people, better communities, and better places. The author emphasizes the importance of place by analyzing problems and possibilities of public life in a particular place those northern states whose settlement marked the end of the old frontier. National efforts to keep citizens apart” by encouraging them to develop open country and rely upon impersonal, procedural methods for public problems have bred stalemate, frustration, and alienation. As alternatives he suggests how western patterns of inhabitation might engender a more cooperative, face-to-face practice of public life. Community and the Politics of Place also examines our ambivalence about the relationship between cities and rural areas and about the role of corporations in public life. The book offers new insight into the relationship between politics and economics and addresses the question of whether the nation-state is an appropriate entity for the practice of either discipline. The author draws upon the growing literature of civic republicanism for both a language and a vantage point from which to address problems in American public life, but he criticizes that literature for its failure to consider place. Though its focus on a single region lends concreteness to its discussions, Community and the Politics of Place promotes a better understanding of the quality of public life today in all regions of the United States.
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Kemmis, Daniel Orra was born on December 5, 1945 in Fairview, Montana, United States. Son of Orra Raymond and Lilly Samantha (Shidler) Kemmis.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1968. Juris Doctor, University Montana, 1978.
State representative, Montana House of Representatives, Helena, 1975-1984; minority leader, Montana House of Representatives, Helena, 1981-1982; Speaker of House, Montana House of Representatives, Helena, 1983-1984; partner, Morrison, Jonkel, Kemmis & Rossbach, Missoula, 1978-1980; partner, Jonkel & Kemmis, 1981-1984; mayor, City of Missoula, Montana, 1990-1996; director center rocky mountain west, University Montana, Missoula, since 1996. Consultant Northern Lights Institute, Missoula, Montana, 1985-1989. Kennedy fellow Institute Politics Harvard University, 1998.
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Candidate for chief justice Montana Supreme Court. Member American Planning Association Growing Smart Initiative. Former member advisory board and board directors National Civic League, 1990-1993.
Member advisory board Pew Partnership for Civic Change, 1991-1997, Brookings Institution Center Urban and Metropolitan Policy. Chairman leadership training council National League Cities, 1992-1994. Board directors Redefining Progress, Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, Institute for Environmental and Natural Resources University Wyoming, Bolle Center for People and Forests, University Montana, Missoula Redevelopment Agency.
Fellow Dallas Institute.for Humanities and Culture 1991-1998. Presidential appointment American Heritage Rivers Commission, 1998.
Married Jeanne Marie Koester, June 9, 1978. Children: Abraham, Samuel. Children by previous marriage: Deva, John.