First of all, not all LGBT people shove it down the throats of others. LOGO is a station for LGBT people and encompasses many of our various characteristics and interests. For someone who claims to have gay acquaintances, you apparently aren't very tolerant at all. I wonder, Tomcat, if you speak this way to your LGBT "friends." You apparently don't respect anyone unless they share your close-minded belief system.
As for Univeral Unitarians, way to go! Perhaps I'll stop by sometime. And also good work with Treez Please in the community, it's wonderful community institustions like you that have always invested in our urban communities and have continued to increase the quality of life within them.
Have any of you actually read the JEDD agreement proposed by ytown? The Brookings Institute is referenced several times and it is obvious that the Mahoning Valley is ONE region economically, yet has several political boundaries that WASTE time and resources competing over taxes (through jobs/property tax/whatever). The only entitiy that succeeds is the county with sales tax (which Austintown and Boardman currently have the luxury of getting most of the revenue from).
At any rate, I would love to see the naysayers actually look at Youngstown not as a leach or a problem, but as the reason for the valley's existence. If you are all so smart then come up with a solution for Youngstown instead of bashing it left and right.
Yes, people fled ytown for the burbs years ago and never looked back. Boardman and Austintown are not sustainable, either, though. They are suburbs that require a car to get around and a lot of businesses locate there because building on farmland/forest is cheaper than in the city. Boardman and Austintown workers currently don't have to pay income tax either, so it's cheaper overall than ytown.
Trust me, as a Boardman High School grad of 01, I have much pride in my community but can see that everyone in the burbs of ytown has a "not in my back yard" mentality that has left our region's problems concentrated in our beloved city. Suburbanites, I ask you to reconsider your obviously "better than thou" mentality and look to the beauty and culture and POTENTIAL that Youngstown has. Blabbing about murders and economic decay is the easy way out. Why not talk about solutions, as youngstown is trying to do, and the valley overall will be much stronger economically and socially as opposed to a socioeconomically segregated mess.
Grocery store robber strikes again in Poland Township
They are refering to Beaver township police dogs.
June 26, 2008 at 3:52 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Youngstown church welcomes gay, bisexual, lesbians to its congregation
First of all, not all LGBT people shove it down the throats of others. LOGO is a station for LGBT people and encompasses many of our various characteristics and interests. For someone who claims to have gay acquaintances, you apparently aren't very tolerant at all. I wonder, Tomcat, if you speak this way to your LGBT "friends." You apparently don't respect anyone unless they share your close-minded belief system.
As for Univeral Unitarians, way to go! Perhaps I'll stop by sometime. And also good work with Treez Please in the community, it's wonderful community institustions like you that have always invested in our urban communities and have continued to increase the quality of life within them.
June 20, 2008 at 3:11 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Boardman, Austintown join forces for water war
Have any of you actually read the JEDD agreement proposed by ytown? The Brookings Institute is referenced several times and it is obvious that the Mahoning Valley is ONE region economically, yet has several political boundaries that WASTE time and resources competing over taxes (through jobs/property tax/whatever). The only entitiy that succeeds is the county with sales tax (which Austintown and Boardman currently have the luxury of getting most of the revenue from).
At any rate, I would love to see the naysayers actually look at Youngstown not as a leach or a problem, but as the reason for the valley's existence. If you are all so smart then come up with a solution for Youngstown instead of bashing it left and right.
Yes, people fled ytown for the burbs years ago and never looked back. Boardman and Austintown are not sustainable, either, though. They are suburbs that require a car to get around and a lot of businesses locate there because building on farmland/forest is cheaper than in the city. Boardman and Austintown workers currently don't have to pay income tax either, so it's cheaper overall than ytown.
Trust me, as a Boardman High School grad of 01, I have much pride in my community but can see that everyone in the burbs of ytown has a "not in my back yard" mentality that has left our region's problems concentrated in our beloved city. Suburbanites, I ask you to reconsider your obviously "better than thou" mentality and look to the beauty and culture and POTENTIAL that Youngstown has. Blabbing about murders and economic decay is the easy way out. Why not talk about solutions, as youngstown is trying to do, and the valley overall will be much stronger economically and socially as opposed to a socioeconomically segregated mess.
June 11, 2008 at 3:45 p.m. permalink suggest removal