A personal notebook
Thoughts, notes, and ideas.
Writing about whatever I’m trying to understand.
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Downtown construction to restart on Akron’s Main Street
What I might hate about Corporate Democrats most of all is how they aren’t actually for business. They are just for their corporate friends’ businesses. Dan Horrigan is killing businesses on Main Street in…
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Akron City Go Home Owner’s Taxes Just Went WAY Up
If you aren’t aware of this, you should be. I was just reading this Letters to editor: Property taxes rising amid pandemic, thanks to Summit County office The property value of my home went…
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Get on the spectrum of voluntary poverty
We in America have been so indoctrinated into the cult of Capitalism that an alternative economic philosophy seems like pure and total madness. I am not a Communist. Not that I have anything against…
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[The Washington Post] The stock market is ending 2020 at record highs, even as the virus surges and millions go hungry
The stock market is ending 2020 at record highs, even as the virus surges and millions go hungry By Hamza Shaban and Heather Long https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/31/stock-market-record-2020/ “The recovery has been incredibly lopsided. High-income workers have…
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An Update To Demass Learning
Back in 2012 I created something called “Demass Learning“. I then got pulled really hard into the homeless humanitarian disaster in America. But I’ve recently come back to exploring Demass Learning a bit more.…
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More Murders In Akron Than Ever Before
I woke up to this headline: Man, 19, killed in West Akron shooting, adding to record year for killings And then the article is mostly spent trying to unwind how Akron defines a murder…
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The Church Has Always Abandoned The Poor
“If religion has so neglected the needs of the poor and of the great mass of workers and permitted them to live in the most horrible destitution while comforting them with the solace of…
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Tacoma Housing Now Has Occupied A Hotel To Save Homeless People
STAND STRONG @TacHousing! We all must stand with our homeless brothers and sisters in this brutal and cruel and torturous homeless system in America. Tacoma Housing Now Has Occupied A Hotel To Save Homeless…
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Lost to COVID-19: Akron native Rev. Tom Weller died of COVID-19
Doug Livingston of the Akron Beacon Journal did a very nice piece on Tom Weller here: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2020/12/28/lost-covid-19-akron-native-rev-tom-weller-died-covid-19/3910018001/ My ears always perk up when I read a story of a person committed to “the least…
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132 Homeless Kids in Ardmore, Oklahoma
Ardmore, Oklahoma population is 24,795. The racial makeup of the city is 73.02% White, 11.27% African American, 8.78% Native American. About 13.6% of families and 18.3% of the population were below the poverty line,…
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Boston shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives
Shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives Estimates of the size of the state’s homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Department of…
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Denver Opens Its First Safe Open Space
Given the state and structure of the United States of America, Safe Open Spaces, aka sanctioned tent villages, are inevitable and absolutely critically needed NOW. Denver’s first legal homeless encampments only a first step,…