Trips around the city revealed it has changed for the better since I was here three years ago.

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Some of you remember I was here a couple of years ago, right?

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When I was here a couple of years ago, I went to a company called McKintry -- McKinstry, which is doing unbelievable work.

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Some of you remember I stood right here with you two years ago when I was still a candidate for this office. (Applause.) And during that campaign, we talked about how, for years, the values of hard work and responsibility that had built this country had been given short shrift, and how it was slowly hollowing out our middle class.

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Mr. DICKSON: When I moved here eight years ago, it was hard to be a Democrat.

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Mr. RALPH WHITE (Resident, Marysville, Michigan): Well, it was a small town when I moved here 55 years ago.

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And when I came here four years ago, one thing I found striking was all the greenery that had begun to come back.

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That was almost four years ago, and today, as I sit here (in my underwear) at my desk in my bedroom, I am officially a full-time freelance writer.

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The concept of a minimum income standard (MIS) was introduced by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) four years ago - I wrote about it here.

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