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Greg Hunter on August 19, 2007 - 2:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Alan,

I am in your fair city today and I am ensconced at Cafe Rose Nicaud on Frenchman Street. A lovely area and one unlike to those I find in the racist suburbs of my backward city Dayton, Ohio. I agree that people wanted to live in a semi farm setting with the amenities of the city but the Johnson administration's civil rights policies did not work for Dayton. It did not heal the rifts from the Civil War or Civil Rights movements. This one size fits all did not work for Dayton, with no geographical barriers to growth. Whites took their money and political power and drove infrastructure growth to the suburbs.

Of course Dayton is observing rapid population decline coupled with an astronomical foreclosure rate at the same time the local planning council is constructing a new sprawl inducing interchange south of the City. Dayton is going to reap the whirlwind, but in the next 5 years you may be able to get a free house in Downtown Dayton as long as you can pay the property Tax.

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AlanfromBigEasy on August 19, 2007 - 4:28pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

How long will you be in town ?

Perhaps we could meet. I have not tried Cafe Rose Nicaud.

Best Hopes,

Alan

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Greg Hunter on August 19, 2007 - 4:47pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Alan,

I am in town today (Sun) and then I drive to the Cane River NP to do some work and I will return to NO on Thursday the 23rd and I leave Saturday at 1200. Thursday Night or anytime on Friday the 24th. I would enjoy discussing relationships between our cities connected by electric trolleys and the river. The Great Miami flows through Dayton on the way to the Ohio.

I saw a nice local band at dba on Saturday.

Hope we can connect.

Greg
ghunter@mannus.com

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AlanfromBigEasy on August 19, 2007 - 5:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I recommend editing you remark and deleting eMail address. "bots can gather it for spam.

Sent you an eMail.

Alan

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super390 on August 19, 2007 - 4:32pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Print that offer in Spanish and you'll get more takers than the INS can catch.

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Mark B on August 19, 2007 - 7:58pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"My City Was Gone"
-The Pretenders

I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY CITY WAS GONE
THERE WAS NO TRAIN STATION
THERE WAS NO DOWNTOWN
SOUTH HOWARD HAD DISAPPEARED
ALL MY FAVORITE PLACES
MY CITY HAD BEEN PULLED DOWN
REDUCED TO PARKING SPACES
A, O, WAY TO GO OHIO

WELL I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY FAMILY WAS GONE
I STOOD ON THE BACK PORCH
THERE WAS NOBODY HOME
I WAS STUNNED AND AMAZED
MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
SLOWLY SWIRLED PAST
LIKE THE WIND THROUGH THE TREES
A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO

I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY PRETTY COUNTRYSIDE
HAD BEEN PAVED DOWN THE MIDDLE
BY A GOVERNMENT THAT HAD NO PRIDE
THE FARMS OF OHIO
HAD BEEN REPLACED BY SHOPPING MALLS
AND MUZAK FILLED THE AIR
FROM SENECA TO CUYAHOGA FALLS
SAID, A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO

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btu on August 19, 2007 - 8:06pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The Pretenders backed up The Who last fall in Minneapolis and this night they stole the show.

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JimK on August 19, 2007 - 10:48pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

special meaning for me, I grew up in Cuyahoga Falls.

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Donal on August 21, 2007 - 3:06pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Too bad Limbaugh uses that music on his show.

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