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Among my heroes is the late Bob Fitzer. He was a titan in Youngstown politics and was never afraid to speak his mind and call out corruption where he saw it. He taught me to believe in each individual's power to effect change in our society, and he demonstrated with his life our responsibility to try to make that change come about. Politics can be a sensitive issue, and there are many that eschew discussing it because of its passions and potency, not to mention its complexities.

I sensed that Bobbo wasn't afraid to confront political topics head-on, because he took the time to do his homework, know his facts, and reason his way through the debate, deftly dismissing the non sequiturs as he pursued his point. Inspired by his example, this blog aims to contribute to the local-to-global political discourse, unafraid to speak uncomfortable truths to powerful people of any stripe.

Archived Reason entries
  • About Reason
    By Tyler S. Clark | February 2, 2008
  • Abortion and Fascism
    By Tyler S. Clark | February 4, 2008
  • Conglose has created no-win for city
    By Tyler S. Clark | February 6, 2008
  • Voting for Change
    By Tyler S. Clark | February 12, 2008
  • Why Obama over Clinton
    By Tyler S. Clark | February 29, 2008
  • There Will Be Blood?
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 5, 2008
  • Sticks and Stones
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 14, 2008
  • Obama's Audacious Race Speech
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 20, 2008
  • The Conglose Fiasco
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 27, 2008
  • Think Again on Federal St Plans
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 31, 2008
  • Out of Iraq
    By Tyler S. Clark | April 10, 2008
  • Guns or Religion or Antipathy
    By Tyler S. Clark | April 18, 2008
  • Green is Good, Coal is Black
    By Tyler S. Clark | April 25, 2008
  • Our Christian Army
    By Tyler S. Clark | April 30, 2008
  • Hawaiian Pizza and Sex Toys
    By Tyler S. Clark | May 10, 2008
  • Community Investment Award: The JCC
    By Tyler S. Clark | May 15, 2008
  • Old North Church Blames America
    By Tyler S. Clark | May 30, 2008
  • Call Me A Liberal, I Don't Mind
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 6, 2008
  • Blight Comes to Central Square
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 10, 2008
  • Vindy Editorial Silence is Deafening
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 13, 2008
  • A Profile Emerges
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 14, 2008
  • Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 24, 2008
  • So it is about oil
    By Tyler S. Clark | July 1, 2008
  • Dear neighbor, enough already with the fireworks
    By Tyler S. Clark | July 8, 2008
  • The lie of personal responsibility
    By Tyler S. Clark | July 13, 2008
  • The End of the Hanni Machine
    By Tyler S. Clark | July 21, 2008
  • Burying and praising Hanni
    By Tyler S. Clark | July 21, 2008
  • Youngstown's Finest Falter
    By Tyler S. Clark | July 28, 2008
  • Too many wars
    By Tyler S. Clark | August 4, 2008
  • China's Opening Ceremony
    By Tyler S. Clark | August 11, 2008
  • Consistency
    By Tyler S. Clark | August 18, 2008
  • Sprawl is Unsustainable
    By Tyler S. Clark | August 25, 2008
  • A New Face, A New Race
    By Tyler S. Clark | September 1, 2008
  • Palin Comparison
    By Tyler S. Clark | September 8, 2008
  • The sound of fundamentals
    By Tyler S. Clark | September 15, 2008
  • Politics is a game
    By Tyler S. Clark | September 22, 2008
  • Palin should step aside
    By Tyler S. Clark | September 29, 2008
  • Policy not personality
    By Tyler S. Clark | October 6, 2008
  • McCain Meltdown
    By Tyler S. Clark | October 13, 2008
  • We are all Americans
    By Tyler S. Clark | October 21, 2008
  • What's on the ballot
    By Tyler S. Clark | October 29, 2008
  • Just Vote!
    By Tyler S. Clark | November 3, 2008
  • A new era
    By Tyler S. Clark | November 10, 2008
  • Whither Detroit?
    By Tyler S. Clark | November 18, 2008
  • Left of Center
    By Tyler S. Clark | November 25, 2008
  • Catching up
    By Tyler S. Clark | December 10, 2008
  • The Negativists
    By Tyler S. Clark | December 15, 2008
  • September ends
    By Tyler S. Clark | December 23, 2008
  • There's a war on war (on Christmas)
    By Tyler S. Clark | December 29, 2008
  • Will Youngstown get its share?
    By Tyler S. Clark | January 5, 2009
  • Traficant t-shirts discredit us
    By Tyler S. Clark | January 11, 2009
  • Youngstown's Day of Service
    By Tyler S. Clark | January 19, 2009
  • 62,000 Jobs cut and counting
    By Tyler S. Clark | January 26, 2009
  • Who cares that Phelps smoked pot?
    By Tyler S. Clark | February 2, 2009
  • YSU must delay Pilgrim Church demolition
    By Tyler S. Clark | February 9, 2009
  • Shared workspace at YBI
    By Tyler S. Clark | February 16, 2009
  • Your Pilgrim ideas needed
    By Tyler S. Clark | February 24, 2009
  • 10 good things about Obama's budget
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 2, 2009
  • Open arms for Traficant?!
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 10, 2009
  • What's next for City Planning Dept?
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 17, 2009
  • A tale of two bailouts
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 23, 2009
  • Vindy reins in talk
    By Tyler S. Clark | March 31, 2009
  • Ryan in Columbus would help Youngstown
    By Tyler S. Clark | April 7, 2009
  • Painful shrinkage
    By Tyler S. Clark | April 14, 2009
  • Texas-sized hypocrisy
    By Tyler S. Clark | April 21, 2009
  • I heard gunshots last night
    By Tyler S. Clark | April 27, 2009
  • Supreme Vulgarities
    By Tyler S. Clark | May 4, 2009
  • Be civil, brief and relevant
    By Tyler S. Clark | May 12, 2009
  • What was this election for, anyway?
    By Tyler S. Clark | May 19, 2009
  • Who are you tapping for Youngstown's future?
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 1, 2009
  • Downsize Congress
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 8, 2009
  • Starting at the center
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 16, 2009
  • True courage in Iran
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 22, 2009
  • About that library funding
    By Tyler S. Clark | June 30, 2009
  • Better off without unions?
    By Tyler S. Clark | July 6, 2009
  • CVS layout suggests weak City design standards
    By Tyler S. Clark | July 21, 2009
  • Change the lights
    By Tyler S. Clark | August 3, 2009
  • Denounce Criminal Jim Traficant
    By Tyler S. Clark | August 11, 2009
  • V&M Deal Needs Cooperation
    By Tyler S. Clark | August 18, 2009
  • Leadership Award: Regional Chamber
    By Tyler S. Clark | August 29, 2009
  • Saturday's Grey to Green points to future
    By Tyler S. Clark | September 10, 2009
  • Help keep the library lights on
    By Tyler S. Clark | September 21, 2009
  • Tough Times Ahead
    By Tyler S. Clark | September 29, 2009
  • FirstEnergy abuses its monopoly with CFL scheme
    By Tyler S. Clark | October 7, 2009
  • What's on the 2009 ballot?
    By Tyler S. Clark | October 20, 2009
  • The Angle of Deconstruction
    By Tyler S. Clark | November 11, 2009
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