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The Toughest Job In America Is Running Gary, Indiana
25Nov By adminNo Comments
Politics

The Toughest Job In America Is Running Gary, Indiana

You’ve probably never heard of Indiana state Sen. Eddie Melton. But you may be familiar with Gary, Indiana, the small Rust Belt city once known as the birthplace of Michael Jackson, but it’s better known nowadays for its shocking degree of blight due to the contraction of the U.S. steel industry.And you may have even come across a YouTube video of Gary with a sensational title designed to get you to click to see some of the worst scenes of the city: “America’s Most ‘Miserable’ City,” “America’s Gangster Ghost Town,” “Gary: The USA’s Most Dangerous City? What I Actually Saw.”Melton is the guy who wants to make these videos go away.“We’re not going to allow YouTubers to come to our city and run through a couple of abandoned buildings and let the algorithm dictate our future,” Melton said no...
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What Kind of Trouble Is Eric Adams In?
14Nov By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

What Kind of Trouble Is Eric Adams In?

Because public attention is a finite resource, political crises have a way of obscuring and supplanting one another. On the morning of November 2nd, New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, flew to Washington, D.C., for a full day of meetings about New York’s migrant crisis. “We are headed to D.C. to meet with our congressional delegation and the White House to address this real issue,” Adams said in a video posted on his X account at 7:41 A.M. “We’ll keep you updated as the day goes on.”For more than a year, without much success, Adams had been calling on the federal government to defray the astronomical costs of housing tens of thousands of immigrants in city-run shelters. He had gone as far as suggesting that without federal help the migrant crisis would “destroy” New York. Though the disput...
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London Breed’s Cynical Swing to the Right
2Oct By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

London Breed’s Cynical Swing to the Right

Is California headed for a right-wing backlash? This question has hovered over the state’s politics for years now, as the public’s frustration with homelessness and property crime has escalated. To date, the evidence has been decidedly mixed. The most recent mayoral election in Los Angeles was supposed to be a referendum on this matter, but much to the chagrin of those declaring a new purple wave in Southern California, Karen Bass, an establishment progressive, defeated Rick Caruso, a real-estate billionaire and former Republican who promised to “clean up” the city. Up north, the recall of Chesa Boudin in San Francisco was supposed to be proof that voters in a famously liberal city had had enough, but soon after Boudin was recalled, Pamela Price, a fellow-progressive, was elected as the d...
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