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| Eleanor Egan |
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| Tom Egan |
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PSSST, DAILY PILOT, KIM PEDERSON IS A MAN
"Parks Commissioner Kim Pederson, whose term expires Feb. 1, has applied to keep her seat."
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WHAT WOULD THE CM PRESS DO?
At their regularly scheduled City Council meeting on January 15, the Council is expected to approve spending $ 226,076.00 to repair alleys in the Fillmore-Coolidge slum. LINK
If the CM PRESS were on the City Council, we would take that money and use it as part of the purchase money to buy one of the slum buildings in that slum, tear it down, and put in much needed parking or a pocket park.
Why would we take this action?
Fixing the alleys, which are still in usable condition, is a waste of our tax money.
That's because the problem with the Fillmore-Coolidge slum is not the alleys.
The problem is that the buildings are functionally obsolete. They are cheaply built, slab-sided barracks style buildings that can never attract upwardly mobile people.
They are a habitat for gangs and illegal aliens. The street in front of these buildings is constantly full of trash as the people who live in the buildings just don't care. It's a tiny bit of the Third World right in the middle of Mesa North and is a cancer on our neighborhood. It's time to start removing buildings to cut down on the density, improve the parking problems, and head off more crime.
Oh, by the way, there have been several shootings in this slum. We know of at least one murder in one of the alleys that the City wants to "fix."
Look, folks, fixing the alleys in this slum would be a little like having engine problems with your car so you go out and buy new seat covers. It's just plain stupid.
To fix problems, you first have to correctly identify them.
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REPORT: AMERICANS DIE YOUNGER, CONTRACT MORE STDs THAN ANY OTHER HIGH-INCOME COUNTRY WORLDWIDE
Be sure to read the incredibly stupid column linked to above. The headline and the column are just more PC crap.
You can't lump all races/ethnicities together as "Americans" to come up with any statistics that are meaningful, and that's what the above linked really moronic column does.
The truth is that White American death rates and STD rates are about the same as they are for our fellow Whites worldwide.
And, the Black American death rates and STD rates are about the same as they are in Black nations.
You have to know the race/ethnicity of humans when you try to come up with statistical analyses.
Genes are us.
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the picture you have of Egan makes him look sort of like a crow. see the resemblance?
ReplyDeleteas far as the slums: a lot are on leased land and that is a major problem.