From a reader:
Thought one of the goals of journalism was to be fair, balanced, & hopefully impartial.
Are you a journalist, David?
I'll explain this again. This is my BLOG. It's not the front page of the newspaper. It's equivalent to a running column and my opinions/views are part of it, as are everybody elses.
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You are right about that, this is your blog. As long you can seperate your personal views from your editorial (newspaper) views, I think you can pretty say whatever your want...
It is when you start putting personal views into the editing of the local paper that would make me wonder, especially if you purposely skewed it one way or the other. (I haven't said that you have though. What I have seen, you have been fairly balanced in your reporting). You can see what happened to the ones over at MSNBC.
Although it is the editor's blog and his opinion....I do believe he is able to use this board to push his own political beliefs on others. No doubt he is VERY slanted. I haven't seen too many links to a more conservative view point.
Not to say either fair and or balanced is easy to obtain because for two or more people to agree on one specific sugject id modtly impossible.
Just think if you can of one family or two co-workers who all agree on anything politcal or even moral. I think the best or only way to have a good conversation about what Dave is saying is to put on the front of your mind that the only thing is WE CAN AGREE THAT OYU MAY DISAGREE and continue to have an open civil conversation, so that we can know our neighbors
This reminds me of Oprah getting slammed by the media for not having Palin on her show. She said it once and she shouldn't have to say it again, she is not having any canidates on her show. Just like this blog is not part of the newspaper, her show is not a news station.
David,I have a question:
I was listening to the radio and heard about the Illinois record on teaching sex education to 5-8 year olds. (I believe they state is as level 1 sex education) I was taken aback slightly. (aprroved by Senator Obama)
I pray that Kansas does not have the same requirements. As, I feel that it's a 'little too much'.
What do you all think?
Thank you so much for your blog as it helps me get understanding of different insights.
I really do wanna know...
What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;
Cincinnati, OH (3rd)...since 1984;
Cleveland, OH (4th)...since 1989;
Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;
St. Louis, MO (6th)....since 1949;
El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;
Milwaukee, WI (8th)...since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA (9th)...since 1952;
Newark, NJ(10th)...since 1907.
Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'
It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats --- yet are still disadvantaged.
What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?...
Good Info. Thank you.
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What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
And you think that is soley about partisanship and is totally indefferent to the collapse of the auto industry?
So, it is not the marketplace but Democratic mayors who caused the Big Three to plummet in their posture in teh American economical profile.
Interesting! Very Intersting take on things. For informational purposes only, was NYC under democratic leadership during the era when they received federal funds to bail them out of insolvency? I guess I could check that out myself but just thought I would ask. I think there were maybe three or four metros that all required loans from the federal gubmit to make payroll and pay their bills.
Another data point is that a D mayor in Atlanta aggressively went after an opportunity to host the Olympic Summer games and transformed Atlanta Ga from an abysmal economic failure to one the havens of economic vitality today. (unedited for sp and grammar errors)
Actually, this is a good topic and I would love to explore it more.
"What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?"
There is an interesting study done by a professor of urban studies entitled "White Flight" (BTW: author is caucasian)
He discusses the impact that suburban development has had on the major metros in the US.
Interstingly, we learn that while Detroit may post an inordinately high poverty rate, Auburn Hills, a suburb of Detroit is one of the wealthiest. St Louis has had its share of economic woes (not sure how east St. Louis skipped hte list as its City Hall was awarded to a litigant in a law suit aginst the city) But Kirkwood and a host of other suburban settlements just outside St. Louis but, yet in the county, also boast of the most vibrant per capita profiles.
The study doucments what happens when people seek to escape forced ethnic and cultural diversification by creating smaller - and oft times pirvate - colonies outside hte metro.
They initially commute into the city adn continue their employ. in most instances, corporations build campuses that house both their pounds making facilities as well as the executive offices.
NYC is an illustration of where, after several concentric circles of suburban communties have developed - each one occuring as the undesirables attained enough wealth to move to the existing suuburban development - the metro became a vacuum where wealthy folks moved back within the incorporated metro buying real estate cheap.
CAse in point, the Clintons bought propoerty in Harlem - a once vacuous and diversified crime haven. Now it is almost impossible to won property in Harlem as Real propoerty values have soared.
Clumsy pass at the topic but there is a systematic explanation as to why Minneapolis struggles fiscally and Minnetonka, (a suburb about twenty minutes outside the metro is glistening and economically vibrant) hails a series of Republican mayors.
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