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Hello- My name is Michele Cottrell, I am a Senior working on a BA Degree in Community Development. I live in Holdingford, MN with my husband and three children. I work part-time at the St. Cloud Area Planning Organization where staff focuses on Regional Transportation Planning for the St. Cloud Metro Area.

Enough about me... Does anyone have ideas for topics we can do this project on. There is not a lot of time for this project and we need to get started on it ASAP. I am sure I am not the only one that is extremely busy and could use all the time I can get for this project. The Prof. sent an email stating that progress had to be made or our group would automatically loose a letter grade on the project and I do not want to see that happen.

With my Community Development background my suggestion (the only one I can think of yet), would be to study how mass media has assisted in the Public Involvement Process in Government projects. Such as new roads, librarys and bridges; demolition of neighborhoods or community involvement/outreach within neighborhoods.

I realize most of you are not CD majors and this may not interest you at all, so please offer some ideas that would be interesting to you and we can all go from there.

Thanks for your time. //**MC**//