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Letter to City Council – What does love look like? It has the hands to help others

September 6, 2011August 10, 2015 332 Views 1 Comment Bob Buckhorn, Charles Darwin, City Council, Colin Powell, Mayor, Pan Handling, poor, Poverty, Richard Cizik, Saint Augustine

The unfortunate reality is that we simply don’t want to have see this kind of poverty in our own neighborhood. We don’t want to be reminded of how many people are hurting, and how badly they hurt. We are simply afraid to look in the eyes of these people. It makes us uncomfortable, and we want to banish them so we no longer have to see what we have wrought.

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Joel Burns-Fort Worth City Councilman-It Gets Better

October 25, 2010September 29, 2018 217 Views 0 Comments City Council, Fort Worth, It Gets Better, Joel Burns

It’s rare when a city council member from Fort Worth, Texas makes national news, but that’s exactly what happened when Joel Burns recently gave a powerful speech imploring gay teenagers to stand strong in the face of bullying. At a Fort Worth council meeting on Tuesday, Joel Burns, who is openly gay, talked about a number of recent suicides of gay teens due to bullying. Burns had a simple message for them: “it gets better.”

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But For a Front Porch

July 20, 2006August 10, 2015 210 Views City Council, Dingfelder, front porches, zoning codes

Front porches, I am convinced, represent such a solid contribution to a reclaiming of community spirit that our government should provide whatever incentives are at its disposal to foster the construction of real front porches.