Tonight will be an important meeting to attend. A number of us will be in attendance to speak out on the homeless issue and I will personally be speaking on the same and on Safety Director Baum’s remarks from two weeks ago. More updates to come soon! Here are this week’s documents: To see Council Minutes and Agendas: http://www.newarkohio.net/government/city-council/minutes-materials To see School Board Documents: http://www.newarkcityschools.org/BoardofEducation.aspx This We

This past Monday, at the City Council meeting, an inappropriate line was crossed. As you’ve likely seen from the story in the Newark Advocate, a citizen named Jen Kanagy (a close friend of mine) spoke about the issue of homelessness. Mrs. Kanagy is a co-founder of a local charity organization called the Newark Homeless Outreach. She and our mutual friend Patricia Perry established this effort about a year ago because they saw a growing need for help to provide warm food and c

Even as the weather is still not our ally at the moment, I have made it a point to try and knock on as many doors as I can when I am off work and there is daylight. Needless to say, I am anxious for spring’s arrival (but I am speaking to the proverbial choir, I’m sure). In the next few days I will begin a video series which I will entitle the “Tyranny of Poverty”. These videos will focus on a single subject related to local poverty and will attempt to prescribe a way forward