Sage Lewis – The Shadow

Category: Akron Politics

  • Akron evictions delayed by mail service, COVID-19 orders, moratorium

    Akron evictions delayed by mail service, COVID-19 orders, moratorium

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    “And tenants who’ve lost jobs and wages to the pandemic can continue to file for eviction protection until Jan. 31 under a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order that would have expired Dec. 31.” I know this is difficult for landlords. I’m one myself. But there is REAL desperate need out here. We cannot…

  • Another Akron Murder

    Another Akron Murder

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    Man shot to death Saturday in home invasion I don’t know what to do other than report this shit. The despair in Akron and Ohio in general is brutal and severe and tragic. It all comes back to jobs. And that is a crushing failure of both Democrats and Republicans because they want the money…

  • Nothing Changes

    Nothing Changes

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    This quote from “Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century” by John Loughery, Blythe Randolph resonated with me in this morning’s readings: “Yet, to Dorothy’s dismay, no matter how outspoken her journalism, nothing seemed to change. The articles that the paper printed in 1949, such as David Mason’s “Jesus Christ or Jim Crow?,” could…

  • The System Is Killing Us. UNITE!

    The System Is Killing Us. UNITE!

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    Cops killing people for fun. Governments letting men, women and children die alone on our streets and the ever increasing murders we are committing on ourselves. IT ALL COMES FROM THE SAME PLACE. A system so diseased, so broken, so failing of the people it swore to protect is crumbling at the hands of selfish,…

  • Akron’s Racist Housing Project

    Akron’s Racist Housing Project

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    This development project tells the ENTIRE story of what City of Akron, Ohio – Mayor’s Office wants to see happen in Akron. He wants rich white people to move into Akron without having to pay taxes on their luxury properties for 15 years. Gives no fucks how schools are supposed to educate these kids for…

  • WHAT IF

    WHAT IF

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    The Battered Women’s Shelter in Akron has an ENTIRE floor in their spiffy new building that has never been opened to shelter people. They own an entire apartment building that sits empty. They tore down a house designated as a shelter (no easy feat to get “shelter” status.) I wish I could say they are…

  • Akron Movement

    Akron Movement

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    I quicky put some ideas together for something I’m calling the Akron Movement. I am SO into the idea of getting people to engage with politics and realize that they have the power to make the world what they want it to be. Additionally, there is a deep level of hopelessness in rust belt cities…

  • Akron: the most progressive city in the world

    Akron: the most progressive city in the world

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    One of the things I hate about our mayor, more than anything, is how visionless he is. His biggest goal is the get the population to 250,000 people. We’re in the 190s now and I’ll take a bet that our population decreases in the 2020 census. Letting people build houses tax free for 15 years…

  • I’m Ashamed Of You

    I’m Ashamed Of You

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    Have you seen Dave Chappelle on David Letterman’s “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction”? Dave Chappelle is one of the most socially aware people in America. I recommend watching anything of his you can get your hands on. He could be the greatest comedian to ever live. At one point Letterman asks if he wanted…

  • My Position On Violent Activism – October 2020.

    My Position On Violent Activism – October 2020.

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    I watched a really powerful interview on Fox News with the president of Black Lives Matter in New York, Hawk Newsome: This interview was incredibly interesting to me because he is our modern day MLK or Malcolm X. He is responding to the police and government tactics of 2020. Many things are similar to the…

  • This Is Why You Don’t Rat Out A Shooter, Chief Ball

    This Is Why You Don’t Rat Out A Shooter, Chief Ball

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    I’ve been thinking about getting a gun. I’ve been thinking about the Ruger AR-556 MPR As I was fantasizing about my new purchase, my obsession turned to murdering a particular drug dealer in my neighborhood. I thought about how, when, where… I was getting so into the idea that I had to just stop thinking…

  • Copy from John Brown Page That Was Taken Down | The Summit County Historical Society of Akron

    Copy from John Brown Page That Was Taken Down | The Summit County Historical Society of Akron

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    This page once was online here: https://www.summithistory.org/john-brown It now redirects to this page: https://www.summithistory.org/perkins-brown-partnership This is how the redirect looks on a server lookup: #1 Requesting: https://www.summithistory.org/john-brown Request > GET /john-brown HTTP/1.1 > Host: www.summithistory.org > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246 Response < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved…

  • Focusing on the May 2023 Akron Mayoral Primary Election

    Focusing on the May 2023 Akron Mayoral Primary Election

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    I just want to write this down so we don’t forget. In May 2019 these were the numbers: Akron mayor (Democratic): Incumbent Daniel Horrigan claims victory with 10,839 votes; Greg Harrison has 2,955. In 2015 these were the primary numbers: Daniel Horrigan . . . . . . . . 10,647 Michael D. Williams .…

  • What Akron’s Extreme Evictions Actually Mean To Us All

    What Akron’s Extreme Evictions Actually Mean To Us All

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    I was driving a man across town to a friend’s house. He had stayed at our tent village for a time. But I didn’t recall him very clearly. He is deep in the throws of a hard core Fentanyl addiction. Fentanyl is 50 times more addictive than heroin and 100 times more addictive than morphine.…

  • Defining Akron: Poor. Hard Working. Addicted.

    Defining Akron: Poor. Hard Working. Addicted.

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    Knight Foundation gave Akron $104,000 to create new Office of Integrated Development. I’m pretty sure what we mostly got for that money was this shiny 61 page full color brochure. I have a copy of the printed version. It’s fancy. From this article, our mayor, Dan Horrigan writes: Vision-driven, community-focused development is not just the…

  • Protected: So you think I’m slandering Dan Horrigan

    Protected: So you think I’m slandering Dan Horrigan

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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • Dan Horrigan is losing jobs for Akron

    Dan Horrigan is losing jobs for Akron

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    Did you catch the Crain’s Cleveland Business article that came out yesterday? OuterBox Solutions Inc., a digital marketing agency and web design company, is set to move from downtown Akron to a new location in Copley Township on Dec. 1, founder and CEO Justin Smith told Crain’s on Wednesday, Oct. 30. OuterBox currently employs 40…

  • It’s OK Jeff Fusco Got A DUI Driving a City Car

    It’s OK Jeff Fusco Got A DUI Driving a City Car

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    Since 1986 Jeff Fusco has worked for the city of Akron. That’s 33 years he has made a GREAT living off of Akron tax payers. eight years as ward 10 council representative three-and-a-half years as at-large council representative Deputy Service Director for 10 years And now 9 years again as at-large council representative He also…

  • My “Big Heart”

    My “Big Heart”

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    I always cringe a little when people tell me I have a “big heart.” It’s something I hear fairly regularly. But it’s definitely not how I see myself. When they say it I imagine Forest Gump. A well meaning mentally challenged individual. It is also always followed by advice on how I need to counteract…

  • Standing Up To Bullies

    Standing Up To Bullies

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    I went to bed with this message ringing in my head last night: I suspect this person didn’t care for my piece on where I stood with drug dealers. This message amuses me because it was a rather big deal for me to take the public stand I did in that post. I told these…