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The Battle of Newark, Starring Cory Booker
The battle for America's soul isn't in Baghdad. It's right here at home, in a place forsaken long ago and ruled by depravity and despair. Then Cory Booker came to raise a city from the dead.
By Scott Raab
Kevin Cooley
To read Cory Booker's rebuttal to this story, please read "Cory Booker's Angry Letter to Esquire".
Nearly 275,000 souls live in Newark, New Jersey -- twelve miles from New York City -- served by a grand total of one movie theater, where Cory Booker, Newark's mayor, sits on a Sunday night, hand-holding with a leggy Jersey City beauty and surrounded by various City Hall colleagues watching Will Smith in I Am Legend trying to save Manhattan from zombie hordes by devising a cure for the plague that has zombified them and wiped out most of the human race. Goddamn zombies. Smith's hero is ideal for his task -- a medical doctor and a lieutenant colonel, a man of bold action and great learning, a brilliant scientist and a deadly shot, a warrior and a healer and a paragon of muscular virtue, virile, brave, selfless. Early in the movie, he's seen on a Time magazine cover headlined "Savior?" -- exactly what he becomes, naturally, though he's self-martyred at the end, via hand grenade, in his basement laboratory, mobbed by peevish, famished zombies. Goddamn zombies.
And Cory Booker, who's just a regular Joe -- well, apart from once being an All-American tight end, plus his degrees from Stanford, Yale Law, and Oxford, the last as a Rhodes Scholar, where he also was copresident of the L'Chaim Society, a Jewish student group, although he himself is an African-American and a devout Baptist -- hey, you know what? Cory Booker's no regular Joe -- not even close. He is Will fucking Smith, right down to the eight-year-old real-life issue of Time that, years before he became its mayor, asked, "The Savior of Newark?" and his starring role in Street Fight, an Oscar-nominated film documenting Newark's 2002 ugly mayoral beat-down, when Booker's idealistic young hide was scorched by an old-school ghetto despot named Sharpe James, who bled the city dry for thirty-odd years -- Sharpe drove a Rolls, sailed a yacht, and, in the hallowed tradition of New Jersey politics, will be sentenced in late July for fraudulent land deals involving one of his concubine harem -- and buried Booker by campaigning on a platform of calling him a white, gay, Jewish Republican funded by the KKK.
None of which Booker is, mind you, although he is guilty of wearing lousy suits, and he's prone to dropping names like Cincinnatus, Maimonides, and Gandhi as if everybody at the North Ward Three Kings festival or the winter-coat giveaway down at the Seth Boyden projects were gathered in the parlor at Queen's College for a pinkies-out bull session.
Anyhow, that 2002 butt-kicking discouraged Booker no more than the goddamn zombies did Will Smith; he took 72 percent of the vote in 2006 -- Sharpe James knew what was coming and quit the race -- and all Booker has to do now is save a city racked by decades of ruin, a town known only for murder, blight, and feckless negritude. To Cory Booker, this is possible -- "To be America's leading urban city in safety, prosperity, and nurturing of family life" is emblazoned on so many City Hall brochures and posters that he might have had it inked on his tawny skin -- for at age thirty-nine, raised in a plush white north-Jersey suburb by two civil-rights foot soldiers on a diet of Thelonius Monk's piano, Richard Pryor's stand-up, and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Booker's not unused to dreaming big, nor blind to the path of righteousness a wannabe savior must walk.
"Before they came after me in 2002," he says, "they offered me every job imaginable. McGreevey" -- that'd be disgraced former New Jersey governor and self-described "gay American" Jim McGreevey, a Sharpe James ally -- "offered me Secretary of State, Secretary of Commerce, or Secretary of Labor. They said, 'The county bosses will give you the line for the Essex County Executive -- you'll be the first black county executive' -- all that kind of stuff."
His voice goes from matter-of-fact to plummy with passion in a heartbeat.
"These people don't understand what this is about. This is not about a position -- it's about a mission, and a city that should be so much further along than it is."
As the movie credits roll, Booker mounts the slope of theater carpet with a jock's whooshing stride -- six foot three, he's packing 250 or so pounds, " 'Twofitty,' as they say," Booker says, making him one of the world's bulkiest vegetarians -- and as he stops in the near-empty lobby, his green eyes are shining bright, his smile a mile wide.
"I'd gladly take a grenade," says Cory Booker, beaming, "if it meant saving Newark."
Goddamn hero.
The grenade thing? He means it. As a law student at Yale, Booker commuted from Newark to New Haven -- a three- or four-hour haul, depending on I-95 traffic -- and moved into Brick Towers, one of Newark's nastiest human warehouses. If it was a publicity stunt, as political enemies have claimed, it was bizarre unto insane: He moved to town two years before he ran for any office -- Booker won a Newark City Council seat in 1998, ousting a sixteen-year incumbent -- and he stayed for eight years, leaving only after the drug- and crime-infested place was condemned. Like Will Smith, Booker was the last human resident to go.
"There was a small point in my life in law school," he says, "right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost. I said, Well, where I want to be is Newark -- let me move to the worst street I can find and just be there, a young lawyer. Be there. For people."
Where I want to be is Newark. I'll tell you what: I've lived in a leafy north-Jersey borough about five miles from Newark for more than ten years, and I've never heard anyone else anywhere in the world express that wish in any form. I have dined well in Newark -- world-class Portuguese -- shopped and visited the museums there, and never had an uneasy moment. But Newark is also the front line of a war America can't or won't find the will to fight -- against poverty and crime, drugs and disease, all-encompassing despair and early death. The zombies are everywhere you look.
Lousy housing? Check. Rampant unemployment? You bet. Shitty schools? Bingo. Gang warfare? My, yes. Newark may have only one movie house -- and zero new-car dealerships and big-box stores -- but it has what might be the world's only Toys "R" Us knockoff Ebonically named Wee Bee Kids, close to City Hall. Everybody with the means to flee fled long ago -- and by "everybody" I mean the white folk and nearly all the middle-class blacks -- and what was surrendered on the way out of town was any sense that the people left behind truly matter. I leave Newark and feel nothing except happy that I don't live there -- a state of spiritual and moral zombiehood that belies all lip service, however heartfelt.
But Cory Booker is right where he wants to be -- in the second-row seat of an unmarked police SUV, an Eddie Bauer Expedition with tinted rear windows and a Kevlar vest of his own hung on a hook behind him. These days, he rents the top half of a Bayonne Box -- Jerseyese for the crap two-family cages that crowd the sidewalks here -- in a sector of the lawless South Ward that leads Newark in shootings, and he spends a few late hours nearly every night rolling with a pair of NPD plainclothes detectives from his security detail, rousting the zombies and hugging Brick City to his nurturing bosom.
"Where will we know there's drug-dealing tonight?" he asks. He's wearing his cheap dark-blue suit, which he rotates with his cheap black suit, and he sounds as eager and earnest as an Eagle Scout on a hiking trip.
"Right now?" says Santiago, hunkered behind the wheel.
"Yeah," Booker says. "Pick a place in the city where we know there's drug-dealing. South Orange Avenue?"
Up front next to Santiago, Lewis grunts. "I'd say Stratford Place."
"Yeah," says Santiago, apparently the chatty one. "You wanna go to Stratford, boss? You'll see it from the Chinese restaurant right around the corner -- Stratford and Clinton."
And there, sure enough, in the yellow glow of the only lit window in a row of decrepit storefronts, stands a man with his hands hidden inside his hoodie -- just passing the time of night, under a frigid late-December half-moon.
"Maybe a lookout here," says Santiago.
"Keep goin' down." Booker says. "Just drive through it. What sector are we in, guys? Let's find out the boss." He means the police supervisor on duty tonight, and when he finds him -- Lewis radios to arrange a side-street rendezvous -- Booker and Lewis jump out of the Expedition. With Lewis standing by, Booker ducks into the other unit for a heart-to-heart. You can see the supervisor's face when Booker opens his passenger door and the dome light comes on. Gloomy at best.
"Look at this kid," Santiago says. "A young Hispanic sergeant. We're out doin' volunteer work, tryin' to clear these corners. We picked up five homicides in a seven-day stretch -- he said, 'We gotta start doin' this, keep it under a hundred.' "
Booker's specific mission this week is ending Newark's 2007 with no more than ninety-nine homicides -- eight fewer than the year before -- because while Newark needs every goddamn thing, what it needs more than anything else is to believe that it can survive as something more than a killing floor.
Booker swore -- and was elected -- to stop the slaughter. But even though 2007 did end with a mere ninety-nine cold-blooded killings, 80 percent of them drug related, numbering the corpses was no salve. Early last August, four young friends -- all Delaware State University students, all Newark kids home for the summer -- hanging out on a Saturday night in a grade-school parking lot in one of Newark's nicer neighborhoods, were set upon by six of the living dead.
Even by Newark's macabre standards, it was a horror show, and it made headlines around the globe. Led by a twenty-eight-year-old day laborer prowling the streets on bail after being charged with raping a five-year-old girl, armed with a gun and machetes, they killed three of the college kids. They hacked up the fourth -- before shooting her in the face.
She somehow survived. But most of the hope Newark had for its young superhero of a mayor bled out on the asphalt with those kids. And Cory Booker knows that his only chance to get it back is to put his cops on notice and his own Rhodes-scholar ass out on the street.
Santiago and Lewis rotate with four other two-man teams on Booker's crew, each pair working sixteen-hour shifts for two days, with five days off, an around-the-clock arrangement dating to the days before his inauguration, in response to a plot hatched by an imprisoned Bloods chief to have Booker killed before taking office.
"New guy comin' into town," Santiago says. "The one before" -- he means Sharpe James -- "was here for twenty years, and they loved it. And they loved him. This is change, so they don't want it."
When Booker hops back into the SUV, I mention that the young sergeant looked shook.
"We're not drivin' our guys," he says, "and we gotta drive our guys. Look, everybody in Newark who knows the streets can tell you the five top drug-dealing and violent streets -- and if you have no calls coming across, then your job is to confront the conditions that create the violence. The guys standing out there so brazenly -- unless you keep them off-balance, they think they own the streets. Well, it's time for the community to own the streets.
"For me, it's a leadership issue -- and if I have to stay out on the streets till four o'clock every morning, I'll do it. I know we can do this. The city as a whole, I know we can solve our problems -- they're not bigger than we are. I believe in my heart -- and I have no right to believe otherwise, because human history is a testimony to it -- that we can change things. The question is, can we muster the collective will? King said it more eloquently: The problems today are not the vitriolic words and the evil actions of the bad people, but the appalling silence and inaction of the good people."
It's one hell of a speech -- perfectly paced, each phrase framed and fraught with a passion that feels absolutely authentic -- ending just as Booker spots another citizen huddled in the middle of a block not far from Stratford.
"Pull over on the side a little bit," he tells Santiago. "Stop, stop, stop, stop."
Booker powers down his window, and the man -- small, red-eyed, ageless, shriveled with cold -- squints at him and says, "CoryBooker," a single word, like Tinkerbell, with gravel and wonder in his voice.
"How ya doin', man?" Booker says. "Why are you out here in the freezin' cold in the middle of the night?"
"You don't remember me -- I got dreads now. But my name is same as yours. An' my cousin Samantha used to work for you."
Drunk. Or high. Or crazy.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Booker says. "What the hell you doin' out -- it's freezin' out here."
"I'm gon' see my old lady now."
"Where's she live?"
"Dayton Street. Senior-citizens' buildin'. I come to see ya. I just came back -- I need a job, man."
"Go to 990 Broad Street tomorrow," Booker says. "Ask to speak to Rod -- oh, you just came back."
"Just came home, man."
From prison. Which hardly makes him unique: Almost 15 percent of Newark's population carries a rap sheet.
Booker asks Lewis for a business card and a pen, scribbles something on the card, and hands it to the guy. "I want you to call this woman tomorrow," he says. "She has a program especially for guys who just came home."
The guy takes the card and says, " 'Cuz I don't wanna go back to my old."
Booker nods. "I want you to get the hell off the streets so you don't get hurt, man."
"Samantha's doin' good, man. The one with the green eyes, Mexican . . ."
"I know who you're talkin' about," says Booker. "So you gonna promise me you gonna call this woman tomorrow?"
"Hell, yeah. I need a job."
"And you're gonna say you talked to me tonight, and that I sent you -- and then whatcha gonna do is, you're gonna go down there. Don't pooh-pooh it, man. The first job you get might be just makin' seven, eight dollars an hour, but it's a start -- you gotta start somewhere."
"I don't care what it is. I need a job."
"And you have my card, so that you can reach out to me. And, man, get off these streets. Your hands are freezing. Get indoors, okay? Promise me, man."
"Cory and Cory."
"All right, man," Booker says. "Be well, Cory."
Up goes the window, and on through the night rolls Newark's savior. And this goes on for hours -- down goes the window, and voilà! CoryBooker reveals himself. The bad guys see the SUV creep by, and vanish into doorways, while the others, clutching every last shred of manly pride, share their shame despite themselves.
"You'll get my vote."
"Thank you, brother."
"My name is Leslie Reginald Richardson."
"You know what I'd rather get, Leslie? Get you a job. Where you workin' right now?"
"They keepin' me down because of epilepsy."
"How serious are you?"
"I'm serious."
"So you wanna make a bet? I'll make you a twenty-dollar bet."
"Whaja-hoo? Twenty dollars ain't gonna make me or break me -- what's the bet?"
"I'll bet you don't show up at my apartment tomorrow for information about a job."
"I'll be there. My word is my bond. You give me a job if I show up?"
"No, I won't promise you that, man. Because I don't know what your thing is. I sent thirty guys to a job -- thirty guys . . ."
"Tell me where. Just tell me where."
"Hold up for a second. Only fifteen showed up. And only three could pass the piss test."
"I could pass the test right now."
"Let's be honest. C'mon -- you smoke some weed."
"No, I don't."
"C'mon."
"No. I don't."
"My brother, when's the last time you smoked weed?"
"Earlier."
"Earlier tonight?"
"Yeah. I wouldn't lie to you."
"I respect your honesty. I gotta give you a hug."
And Booker steps out of the Expedition and pulls Leslie to his chest for a long embrace.
When he gets back in, I ask if he ever felt called to preach.
"Yeah. I debated between law school and divinity."
How long was the debate?
"It was long in the sense that I think I've always wanted to be a part of a spiritual revolution. You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. But my views of religion are very expansive, so I still feel like I'm -- hopefully -- living a life of spirit."
Preachers wear better suits.
"I've ripped a lot of suits recently," he laughs. "And in ignominious ways. I caught one on a door and ripped the pocket. This one, the crotch wore out, so we had to send it out to put a patch on. The truth of this is, it's just not high on my priority list."
You think Leslie will show up at your place?
"I'll say that to a hundred guys," Booker says. "Maybe 10 percent will follow through."
After Santiago and Lewis drop the mayor at home, they give me a lift back to where I left my car, not far from the looming hulks of Brick Towers, ready for the wreckers.
"See that group to the left with the red colors?" says Santiago. "They know they're not gonna be challenged by the guys that's workin' -- this is what needs to be instilled in them. Before he moved in, this was all narcotics. He lived here eight years."
The guy seems fearless.
"He is fearless," Santiago says. "That's why we gotta be with him. He opens the window, I'm always watching. Hands. I don't like people with their hands in their pockets."
Most people's lives -- even politicians' lives -- are not the stuff of legend. Will Smith doesn't truck to Trenton to beg for a few more Urban Enterprise Zone dollars and a ticket tax to help Newark pay for extra cops at the new hockey arena -- and if it seems bizarre to build a $350 million puck palace in the middle of a city stuffed with brown and black people, with a jobless rate twice the national average and a public-school system so hapless that the state has been running it for much of the decade, you just need to imagine Newark as a small Third World nation newly freed from the iron grip of a Mugabe manqué; a city that fails to graduate half of its high schoolers also sports the Sharpe James Aquatic Center. And what Cory Booker spends a goodly chunk of his time doing -- even from the second seat of the Expedition -- is cadging money, goods, and services for a long-neglected citizenry.
Between his final bear hug and his drop-off -- after a brief stop at an all-night Dunkin' Donuts, where he slides behind the counter to help wait on customers -- Booker calls one of his advisors to chat about prying a few million in end-of-the-year charity deductions out of the wampum warriors over at Goldman Sachs to help spruce up the dung heaps passing for parks in Newark.
"We have the State of the City address," he tells her. "And to say something that Goldman Sachs did would be great. I think that a million is easy. I think two million would be the big ask. If Goldman did one of the marquee parks -- Jesse Allen or Hank Aaron -- in the heart of the Central Ward, that gets us a lot in terms of cachet."
After hanging up, Booker's still crusading, stormy with passion.
"Once you set a goal for yourself, if you focus on nothing else, you're always going to find a way to get it done. The things we call city parks are an embarrassment. You'll see kids playing football on a field that does not reflect their beauty, their genius, their greatness. Couches, car seats -- this is where kids play football. We are going to find a way to transform parks in the city. We're going to find a way to do it.
"So we start reaching out to people. I sat in a Goldman Sachs conference room with these amazing guys, all my age, all probably pulling in $10 or $20 million a year. It's a different world -- I can't imagine getting a bonus for $10 or $15 million, but here are all these great guys, very market-oriented thinkers -- and it's flattering, because one of 'em was saying, 'I heard you were coming, I had to talk to you.'
"I think the point most of them left with is that there's no place more fertile to demonstrate that change can be made than Newark, because it's got so much going for it. They were like, 'Getting involved with you is a way to make a tremendous difference in our lifetimes -- we could actually see a city transformed in ten years.' "
Preach on, Brother Booker. Not that he needs any urging.
"Of the top ten most important American fights, this is it. People don't realize that the soul of our nation is in jeopardy unless we come to grips with what's happening in our cities. And of all the cities -- I don't think America understands how much it needs Newark."
You can almost envision the collection plate passed from hand to manicured hand, right there in the Goldman Sachs conference room. It's more than slightly harder to imagine Newark transformed.
In fact, it's impossible -- except as a leap of faith. And Cory Booker -- a very smart, very savvy guy -- knows this. He knows where the money is -- and I imagine that he has imagined how much a young African-American gifted with his gifts and pedigree might be hauling down in the gilt towers just across the Hudson River -- and because he grew up among those bonus babies and is in most ways precisely like them, he knows how to light them up and how to inspire a belief so strong that they'll grab his meaty hand and take that leap.
Booker's mojo travels. It works at Goldman Sachs, and it works at Seth Boyden, a Newark housing project infamous for the scope and ferocity of its criminal behavior, including the 2007 rape of a pit-bull puppy. See the many hundreds of residents -- family and friends in tow -- in line on a wind-raked sidewalk on a bitter-cold afternoon. And witness Cory Booker behind a long table in an overheated basement room handing over winter jackets to screeching, laughing, clawing clumps of Newarkers being let in, three or four at a time, by a cop at the door.
His mojo has everything to do with the joyful greed of the masses, especially when they discover that their new free coats are not rummage-sale shmattas, that they are -- no other word will do -- fabulous. Each appears to be unique in color and pattern, and each is subtly, hiply emblazoned with an "Ecko Unltd" logo.
And this isn't the sole miracle wrought at Seth Boyden by the Booker magic, because here is the small, bewhiskered fashion guru himself, Marc Ecko, né Milecofsky, squeezed against a wall amid the chaos. Ecko, a Rutgers dropout who started selling T-shirts when he was a teenager, has reached a realm of affluence so stratospheric that he laid out three quarters of a million dollars for Barry Bonds's 756th home-run ball and then ran an online poll asking fans to decide whether the ball should be defaced with a large asterisk or fired into deep space. The asterisk won.
You ever do anything like this before, Marc?
"Uh, no. But Cory is a very unique, special person -- I solicited him. I'm a Jersey guy, from Lakewood, about forty-five minutes south of here, and I followed what he went through during Street Fight, that whole thing. Cory's the real deal -- when I met him, I said, 'Lemme be purposeful for you, in any way.' I believe in him -- I have a real kind of kismet, electric connection with him. It's so authentic, inside and out, with him.
"I'm around a lot of really smart people, but this guy? He could be a Fortune 500 CEO, could be runnin' a billion-dollar corporation right now. It has to happen here -- he needs to prove the model here. I know there's a lot of cynicism in politics, particularly in Newark. And people's expectations of wanting it done tomorrow? It took thirty years to fuck it up -- it's gonna take a minute to fix it. Give this guy a minute."
You don't need much time with Booker to feel what Ecko feels -- that bond of brotherhood and inspiration -- although it surely helps to be Caucasian. I heard the same romantic sentiment from a grizzled pol-turned-lobbyist in Trenton who called himself a Booker "disciple," from über-rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who befriended Booker at Oxford, and from a young Booker aide, a skinny white boy who not only took a job at City Hall but also rented a house on one of Newark's meanest streets. I felt it myself.
Like Barack Obama, Booker embodies a promise kept, a deferred dream finally come true, living proof that the stain of slavery, our original national sin, might yet be lifted from our collective soul. Booker knows this, too -- he has shown up in Ohio, Texas, North Carolina, and elsewhere as Obama's surrogate during primary season -- and he is fully capable of embroidering the cloth of Dr. King's soaring rhetoric with his own echoic stitch.
In truth, Cory Booker is eager to do so. And when he proclaims, "We need a prophetic leader -- somebody who can raise us above our baser angels and show that truly we are all tied in a common garment of destiny," he's speaking not only of Obama but also of himself, of King, of Gandhi -- Booker's a huge Gandhi fan.
But unlike Obama, whose knitted brow, faraway eyes, and dry, bony passivity rub thinner day by day, Booker fairly bursts with adolescent energy, fueled by his athlete's physique and streams of caffeine and testosterone. To a Goldman Sachs guy, and to Marc Ecko, he's not merely the longed-for fruit of the seeds of racial equality, he also is the captain of the varsity team, Henry V leading the charge, and Will fucking Smith, all formed into one hearty, brainy, humble stud. To many Newarkers, however, Booker is none of the above -- he's a creature they've never seen before, and they can't quite believe he's real.
This is understandable. For while Marc Ecko makes a sweet winter coat, his parsing of Newark's history is a trifle off -- it took much longer than thirty years to well and truly fuck the city up. Urban rot -- in Newark and other once-proud towns -- grew roots in post-World War II highway, housing, and mortgage-loan policies, all of which made it both easy and socially and financially attractive for the average Joe -- and his job -- to move out of town. Destiny and disease did not loot Newark -- or Cleveland or Baltimore or Detroit -- of its critical mass of solid citizens with steady jobs, and if the consequences of dicing the inner city with interstates while simultaneously selling suburbs as a healthier, happier place to live and work were unintended, they were no less nasty for that.
The Newark myth, promulgated by nostalgic expats like Philip Roth and cemented forever into place by -- pardon the redundancy -- lazy journalists, is that the city was some kind of strivers' paradise until July 12, 1967, when a pair of white cops pounded the living shit out of a black taxi driver, whereupon the angry Zulus erupted in a five-day paroxysm of murder and mayhem, turning Newark's milk and honey to blood, followed immediately by the departure of everybody and everything that once had made the place great.
Goddamn Zulus.
Never mind that the myth glibly reverses cause and effect, that the '67 riot was the result of Newark's slow slide toward abandonment and decay rather than its source, and that much of the mayhem -- and almost all the homicide -- was the work of city cops, New Jersey national guardsmen, and state police. Of the twenty-three people killed in those five days, twenty were blacks gunned down by cops, and fewer than a handful of them were doing anything illegal at the time of their demise. Folks were strafed on their front stoops and sidewalks; one fifty-three-year-old woman was killed by a bullet as she sat in her second-floor apartment. Officials blamed most of the killing on unknown "snipers," not one of whom ever was identified, let alone arrested, owing mainly to the fact that they were imaginary. But the special grand jury empaneled to investigate the slaughter came to the same conclusion in every case: no cause for indictment.
What remained of Newark after the riots -- after the last loyal holdouts, too, left town, and after the political clout shifted from the Italians to the blacks, and after the blacks now running the city proved to be as uncaring, incompetent, and corrupt as the Italians; each Newark mayor over the last forty years has ended his public career as a convicted criminal -- was a toxic brew of hopeless rage, rancid pride, and bitter need. Little wonder, then, that when Sharpe James taunted Booker during the 2002 race by saying, "You have to learn to be an African-American, and we don't have time to train you," the crowds roared and Newark voters returned James to office for a fifth four-year term.
God knows what would've happened had James run for a sixth term -- Sharpe rode his bicycle to the elections office on deadline day to deliver his petitions, which turned out to be stacks of thousands of photocopies of a single page -- but Booker raised more than $6 million for the 2006 race, outspending his opponent twenty-five to one. And sure enough, that $6 million became a campaign issue, with Booker painted again as not black enough, a light-skinned sweet-talker flush with white folks' money -- their frontman and silver-tongued tool.
It didn't work this time: Booker waltzed into office, nailed photos of King and Gandhi to the wall, and vowed that his first priority was to tackle the zombies. He hired a hotshot police director, one of New York City's top cops -- a white man, no less, upending Newark's carefully crafted custom of balancing an incompetent black police director with an inept Latino police chief, or vice versa. But the August school-yard slaughter brought out the wolves howling for Booker's blood. The local newspaper -- The Star-Ledger, which had erased "Newark" from its title long ago and snoozed through the Sharpe James decades while the city was plundered -- suddenly was quoting folks who found Booker guilty of being willing "to allow bodies to keep falling on the streets of Newark."
"I'm taking personal responsibility," was Booker's response. "This breaks the heart of our city -- but I know that my city will heal, and that it will be stronger in the future."
Bullshit. If Booker has a fatal flaw as a politician -- and I don't claim to know what happens in his bedroom when the lights go down, although he clearly is a man with a powerful charisma and appetites to match -- it's the chasm between word and deed. In a place that long ago lost faith in miracles, is Cory Booker a visionary, or a bullshit artist?
Then there was that uglier, parallel question: Is Booker black enough -- is he sufficiently real -- to free a city yoked for forty brutal years to a self-devouring paradigm of racist thought and cannibal violence?
God, again, knows -- and what passeth for God in this city, in terms of his omniscience, anyway, is Clement Price, a history prof at Rutgers-Newark, where he joined the faculty in 1968.
"I was told when I came here, the blacks destroyed the city," Price says. "Part of me said, 'I didn't know we were that efficient,' " -- and, launching into an Amos 'n' Andy dialect, he adds, "It's sho' fun bein' black -- tear down an entire city and it only took five days."
Price's office features no photos of Gandhi or King; he has Coltrane and Willie Wells -- a Negro League shortstop who played with the Newark Eagles -- on the wall. A massive plaque commemorating the takeover of this very building in 1969 -- one of the students' demands was to desegregate the faculty -- is leaning against a file cabinet. Price grew up in Washington, D. C., but his love for this city -- "Pick a fight with Newark, my dukes go up," he warns -- is strong and deep. He knows the mayor well, and he knows the questions that dog Booker even better.
"He rattles what might be called the cage of authenticity," is how Clement Price phrases it.
Nicely put, sir.
"Oh, I've been working on Cory, the phenomenon," he chuckles. "What is a black guy at the end of the day? We haven't seen a lot of people like Booker in the post-civil-rights era; we actually saw more of them in the segregated era, when black people created an extraordinary hierarchy of well-educated, well-spoken, and noble men and women.
"In the post-civil-rights-movement era, we see them and they suddenly don't strike us as being authentically black -- because they can move very, very easily within the white world. One of the things that I think gets Cory into trouble is the extent to which he's beloved in the white community. I saw him speak at Newark's last synagogue. When he spoke Hebrew, the Jewish women on the first two pews, I thought they were having an orgasm. He's good. He's good.
"What happens in American society -- the more whites lavish their affection on blacks, the more skeptical blacks are of such blacks. And since race so deeply defined Newark, the affection for Cory is to some extent off-putting. Blacks held in high esteem by whites will historically face the distrust of an element of the black community."
Price doesn't challenge Booker's sincerity or authenticity. "He's genuine," says Price, "and I'll tell you why I take that notion to the bank: I've spent some time with his dad, and his dad is almost incapable of raising a bullshit artist."
But Price does have a bone to pick with Booker's heroics -- the apartment in Brick Towers; pitching a tent to conduct a ten-day fast in 1999 to shame Sharpe James into providing more police and better city services to his ward; his 2000 move into a battered motor home that Booker drove to the city's darker corners for campouts -- and with the Heart of Newark Darkness tales Booker tells and retells.
Like Booker's T-Bone story, about the zombified Brick Towers drug pusher who once threatened to kill Booker but who, many moons later, wound up sitting in Booker's car, pouring forth his pain, weeping as Booker let him cry it out before going off to prison.
T-Bone's actual earthly existence has been fodder for public debate, leading Booker to admit that although T-Bone's corporeal being is "1,000 percent real," he's an "archetype" of an aspect of Newark's woe whose actual nom de crack may not actually be T-Bone. Which pisses off a historian like Clement Price.
"Black men, almost by their very nature, have to perform. And Cory -- to some extent, the blackest part of him is that performance ethos. This guy he talked about in some of his speeches -- was it T-Bone or Tyrone? -- was not a real guy. T-Bone the drug dealer. T-Bone the guy on High Street. As a black man, I say, 'Of all the creations you're gonna come up with to depict Newark, why this guy? Why contribute to that mythology?' I never spoke to the mayor about this -- I just said to myself, I wonder if Cory's youth and upbringing are so privileged that, not unlike whites, he has an imagined view of blacks which is shot through with contradictions.
"I thought he was crazy when he would pull these civic stunts -- living in Brick Towers, living in a crack-infested neighborhood, living in a tent. I saw that -- I come from a wholesome black family life; I went to church, never got in trouble -- and I said to myself, Why is he doing this? Is he out of his fucking mind?"
Yep. It takes a lunatic -- or a prophet, or both -- to honestly believe that Newark can be saved.
Booker's father is voting lunatic. I met him in the mayor's office one day, a lanky drink of water with a puckered wit and the wry smile of a man who didn't go to Stanford, Oxford, or Yale, but who has lived in -- and lived through -- a history his son has only heard and read about.
"Stupid," he rasps when I ask how he feels about Cory's wee-hour tours of duty.
At least he's with a couple of detectives.
"A bullet don't know that."
Still, it's very inspiring.
"To who? That's what's so inspiring: It'll show you how crazy he is."
Mr. Booker's joshing, I think, and there's surely more pride than irony in the laugh that follows. And I'm not joshing -- there is something inspiring about Cory Booker's courage, about him rolling down his window to chat about piss tests and tell a pie-eyed ex-con, whose life plan is to get his ass home before he wets his pants, not to say pooh-pooh to a minimum-wage gig.
You think Will Smith ever had balls brassy enough to say "pooh-pooh" to a goddamn zombie? No way.
You think anybody ever asked Will Smith if he was black enough to save a city?
"I am a black American," Booker says. "Pure and simple. Who has come from a very black-American experience -- if you look at the black northern migration, that's my family. It's an American story, it's a black-American story. It's who I am. Being black isn't about the music you listen to. It's not about the food you eat. To me, it's 'Are you continuing the legacy of struggle for justice?' Not black justice: the justice that this country is still in pursuit of.
"People say white people have difficulty speaking about race? America has difficulty speaking about race. People -- black and white -- who can't fit me into their comfortable paradigm for how I should be get uncomfortable. I'm going to continue being me. I'm going to be as authentically and unapologetically me as possible. I love this world that we're living in now, that I live in a city that's very soon going to become a place where nobody has a majority -- blacks still are 54 percent, but soon it'll be a city where we have a plurality of people."
You think anyone ever mistook Will Smith's bravery for insanity?
"Look," says Booker, "I just want to live my life as best I can, in consistency with the values that are at my core. I just want to be able to say that I lived a life of integrity -- but also that I was audacious, that I took risks, that I was never willing to be satisfied with what I had but was willing to put it all on the table again to gamble in order to win the big fight.
"I'm willing to put myself in danger. If I took a bullet tomorrow -- I don't mean to be dramatic about it -- I'm not afraid of death. I'm done. But I've had a great life. God has used me in a wonderful way."
Not every lunatic is a prophet, of course. But lunacy in the service of prophethood? Hell, that's an Old Testament requirement.
"All my life I've fantasized about fighting the good fight," Booker tells me during my second or third ridearound -- it's a cool way to spend a few hours, frankly -- when I tease him about urging zombies to remake themselves. "I am a raging idealist, and I think that's a good thing. It's all about energy, and the more you throw positive energy and unconditional love in the world, the more it's gonna hit and stick."
And then Booker launches another homily, this one about visiting a funeral home and getting hugged by a grateful ex-junkie who told him, " 'I was hooked on dope and you talked to me. It stuck with me, man -- I cleaned up my act.' "
Me, I wonder if Cory Booker ever ran across Mencken's line about how "a good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." Or Aristotle's ancient tip about creating believable drama -- "Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities." Because Booker has had more epiphanies than I've had bowel movements, and he won't stop the I-am-legendizing.
It doesn't matter if T-Bone is real. It doesn't matter that back at Stanford Booker talked a suicidal student off of a roof and felt God's grip as he clasped the man's hand and led him to safety. It doesn't matter that Booker's big arms cradled a bullet-riddled teenager in front of Brick Towers as he died. It doesn't matter that during the brief time before he began his Newark mission, when he felt lost, his mother told him the Bible story about the talents, and then Booker went to visit a girlfriend living on an island off the Carolina coast and went hiking with her and found a long-abandoned church whose lectern still held a dusty crumbling Bible open to -- go ahead, guess. Correct: the story of the talents.
Goddamn prophetic leader.
Finally, when Booker tells me the story -- for the second time -- about being seated alone in a row on an otherwise full airplane when, just before takeoff, a woman boarded with her two screaming children, and Booker recalled how Viktor Frankl, recounting what he learned as a prisoner at Auschwitz and Turkheim, wrote about the crucial freedom of choosing one's attitude toward one's circumstances, however grim, in his brilliant Man's Search for Meaning -- goddammit, I've heard enough.
You do realize, Mr. Mayor, that you're invoking Frankl's death-camp experience to describe a crowded flight?
Booker roars with laughter.
"Have you ever been on a cramped airplane? With the airplane food? They're not tryin' to put you to death?"
Then he turns serious.
"Look, these stories, which I tell often -- these are anchors to me. I look for things that prove my theories of life -- and these are all stories that prove my theory of life."
Fine by me. But what matters -- the only thing that truly matters, because Booker isn't Will Smith, and Newark is no soundstage -- is what he does as mayor. Story hour is over, but Booker, for all his bounteous gifts, often sounds as if he may not yet grasp the simple truth that rhetoric can't put a patch on reality.
Clement Price certainly does.
"If he doesn't do great things in Newark, he ain't goin' nowhere. No. Where. That's American Urban Politics 101."
And then a most profound and amazing thing happened. Or, rather, didn't happen.
It happened, and it didn't, while Cory Booker made a speech. And a great speech it was -- in February, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. I sat up in the balcony with my little tape recorder, and before it started, a Booker aide -- a thirty-two-year-old guy raised in East Orange, New Jersey, and Brooklyn -- asked me if Obama was like Bobby Kennedy, and I started talking about 1968, before Booker was even born, and what it felt like then to have hope and to feel inspired, and how it felt in America when Martin was martyred in April and Bobby was killed in June and what it feels like now, which is -- not to put too fine a point on it -- lousy.
Goddamn 1968.
And maybe that softens me up for Booker's speech, which isn't really all that great until he gets to his windup and starts in with the revival preaching, and folks whoop and cheer along as he shouts, over and over, "I believe in Newark" -- not just as himself, Cory Booker, but in the name of the Puritans who founded the place in 1666, and the immigrants pouring in still, and the migrating waves of southern blacks, all those who came, and are coming, here -- here, to godforsaken Newark, New Jersey, full of belief.
"We must honor those who came before us," he pleads now, "by unceasingly, unyieldingly, stubbornly believing in our city."
Then, a cry in his voice, he says, "There is a boy in Newark who went to school today who needs to hear all of us say, 'I believe in your dreams.' "
And it hits me then: He's right. This is no soundstage. He isn't Will Smith. And while I may not have to live in Newark -- thank God -- I surely don't want to live with more faith in the zombies than in that boy.
Booker's voice is booming now, his cadence taut, his muscled arms curled in at his sides. There is a grandmother kneeling in prayer. There is a man in a prison cell about to come back home. And at last -- "There is a victim of crime frustrated and angry in our city right now -- she needs to hear us say, I believe in your cries for justice."
The whole place goes nuts, and not just because everyone in the hall knows that Booker means the Delaware State student who survived last August's slaughter -- Natasha Aeriel, who lay in a hospital bed under police guard when she identified the animal who murdered her classmates.
They also know that there are nearly 275,000 people in Newark -- and all of them are victims, too.
Booker hears them roar and lifts himself behind the podium, one fist pumping the air, filled with the fury of his faith.
"There is a city in New Jersey," he roars back, "larger than them all, with the eyes of the nation now upon it. We must let the world know that we -- as a city -- believe. We believe. We are Newark, New Jersey, Brick City -- believers in life, love, and liberty."
Goddamn right.
And then my throat starts to ache, and a tear rolls down my cheek. Which is neither profound nor amazing, though it certainly shocks the shit out of me. This guy is good.
But the amazing and profound thing -- the thing that happened and didn't -- was this: For the first time since 1961, six years before the riots, Cory Booker's city went forty-three days without a murder. Through the first week of May, there have been a total of twenty-two homicides in Newark, a drop of more than 30 percent.
And -- all due respect to Will Smith, and to Yahweh, too -- that's a goddamn miracle.
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Wednesday, July 03, 2019 baseball, Daily Update, Rochester Red Wings, Sports
The Rochester Red Wings rallied to beat the Syracuse Mets 6-3 Wednesday night. Nick Gordon's clutch two-run triple in the seventh inning, and an impressive outiing by Preston Guilmet, were keys to the win. Frontier Field hosted its largest crowd since August 10, 2017 with a paid crowd of 12,483 fans Wednesday.
The Wings return home on July 11 to host the Lehigh Valley ironPigs in a 5:35 p.m. doubleheader.
Chase De Jong started on the mound for Rochester but quickly got himself into trouble in the top half of the first inning. Syracuse loaded the bases with no outs, but only scored one run on a double play groundball.
Center fielder Jake Cave helped De Jong to a perfect second inning, making a spectacular diving catch with two outs in taking away a hit from Gavin Cecchini.
Smart baserunning by Rajai Davis led to another Mets run and a 2-0 lead in the third inning, with Davis scoring from second base on a single.
Jordany Valdespin responded for Rochester and cut the lead in half 2-1, blasting Drew Gagnon's first pitch of the third inning over the wall in right field. It was Valdespin's seventh home run of the season and first of the month.
A fourth-inning sacrifice groundout pushed Syracuse's lead to 3-1.
Recent call-up Jaylin Davis crushed a 430-foot home run to center field, bringing the Wings to within a run at 3-2 in the fifth inning. Davis has six home runs and 18 RBI since joining the Wings on June 19th.
Preston Guilmet came on in relief of De Jong with one out remaining in the top of the sixth inning. De Jong exited with a line of 5.2 innings, seven hits, three runs, two walks, and four strikeouts on 88 pitches, 62 for strikes. It was the longest start of the season for De Jong, who made his ninth start Wednesday.
Sewald was also replaced in the sixth inning having thrown 5.2 innings, allowing seven hits, three runs, two walks, and four strikeouts. Sewald threw 88 pitches, 62 for strikes.
The Wings pulled ahead in the bottom of the seventh inning. A pair of singles by Davis and Wynston Sawyer brought lead-off man Nick Gordon to the plate with one out in the seventh. Gordon capitalized with a hard-hit two-RBI triple into the gap in right-center field. Ronald Torreyesfollowed with a single to score Gordon. The Wings continued to pour it on, pulling a double steal with Torreyes scoring on the throw down to second base. The four-run rally gave the Wings their first lead of the day with a 6-3 score.
Guilmet added 2.1 scoreless innings, striking out five and throwing extremely efficiently.
Ian Krol put away three of the four batters he faced in the ninth to finish off the game for the Wings.
Guilmet commented after the big win on his mindset when he entered the game: "....coming in and getting ahead of hitters, try to pound the zone and get people out." He praised his teammates saying, "Everybody is stepping up when they need to. It was a good team win tonight all-around."
With tonight's win, manager Joel Skinner has a total of 1,000 career wins between the major and minor leagues.
7th inning rally gives Wings the win Reviewed by All WNY on Wednesday, July 03, 2019 Rating: 5


Yes, I generally recommend my newborns come to see me at 7-10 days old, but there are exceptions to every rule. I warn parents of "older" newborns they they may not be as squishy or sleepy but this guy was a dream! We pulled off more than a full gallery and his adorable big brother was just as co-operative.
PS...shout out to Thorne's mom for coming in looking this amazing. That hair and makeup was all her doing!


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Thursday, May 9, 2019 / 1:26 pm
The Heigl's Poshmark Closet Sale Fundraiser
Katherine Heigl and her mom Nancy have been cleaning out their closets! The duo are putting some of their favorite designer items up for sale with social shopping platform Poshmark to host a Posh Closet for Charity, listing 85 items to benefit their non-profit animal welfare organization, the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation.
Monday, September 18, 2017 / 12:13 pm
Remember Me Thursday 2017
Join Katherine Heigl in supporting Remember Me Thursday on September 28, 2017. Remember Me Thursday®, the global awareness campaign that shines a light on pets abandoned to shelters and rescues, by uniting both individuals and pet adoption organizations as a single integrated voice, is now entering its fifth year.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 / 5:12 pm
Rescue Mission: Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey continues to cause catastrophic flooding in southeastern Texas and has moved inland unleashing further deluges over Eastern Texas and Louisiana. The floods have displaced tens of thousands of people and inundated hundreds of thousands of homes, leaving countless families, service animals and household pets without anywhere to live.
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 / 5:24 am
Free The Shelters – No Fee Adoption Event
Katherine Heigl and her animal welfare organization the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation are raising awareness of LA Animal Services "Free The Shelters" event, a no-fee adoption campaign that will run from Friday August 4th through Sunday August 6th, and will feature over 1000 homeless animals from four city shelters.
Friday, April 28, 2017 / 1:59 pm
Catching Up With Rachael
Rachael Ray caught up with Katherine Heigl on the Monday, April 24, episode of The Rachael Ray Show, when she dropped by the studio to talk about her new thriller Unforgettable.
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Kagem Mining welcoms Zambian Government's decision to suspend the 15% export tax on gemstones
by Editor December 21, 2019 December 23, 2019 0422
Kagem Mining Limited has welcomed the Zambian Government's decision to suspend the 15% export tax on gemstones in order to support capital investment and the growth experienced by the sector over the last decade, thereby boosting export earnings.
This move will create a business environment which is conducive to further investment and growth in Zambia's gemstone sector, levelling the playing field vis-a-vis competing countries such as Colombia and Brazil.
Zambia, which saw its attractiveness as an investment destination for gemstone miners marred by the 15% export duty, will therefore now retain its position as the most formidable player in the world of emerald mining.
Kagem chairman Dr Sixtus Mulenga, commending the Government's proactive decision and its support for the gemstone industry said: "The decision to suspend export tax will have a significant impact on the growth of the sector, in turn contributing to employment and the economic multiplier effects that this brings, along with the overall enhanced tax revenue that will be derived for years to come."
Dr Mulenga also thanked the management of Grizzly Mining for their collaborative effort during discussions with the Government.
Kagem is confident that the suspension of the export duty is a positive step for the industry, which is still in its infancy and requires significant further investment to unlock its full production potential.
"Thanks to this positive action by the Government, Zambia's gemstone sector will regain its competitive edge in the international market, helping to stimulate investment and growth, thereby supporting exports and generating more foreign exchange earnings for the country" said CV Suresh, Managing Director for Zambia at Gemfields, which owns 75% of the Kagem emerald mine in Lufwanyama in partnership with the Zambian Government through the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), which owns 25%.
"An increase in demand for emeralds, coupled with a well-established marketing programme and a reliable source of supply from Zambia, will result in increased revenue that will attract more foreign earnings and tax for the country," he added. "Kagem, as the most successful and transparent emerald mining company in Zambia's history, will now be sustainable and enabled to pay further dividends to its shareholders, which include IDC of Zambia, thereby contributing to the country's growth and prosperity".
Mr Suresh further noted that the Government's open and collaborative policy on dialogue relating to the challenges currently affecting the mining sector bodes well for the growth of the industry.
Kagem is 75% owned by Gemfields and 25% by the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia. Proceeds from its regularly held auctions, which are held locally and abroad, are fully repatriated to Zambia, with all royalties due to the Government being paid on the full sales price achieved at an auction.
Gemfields' 34 auctions of emeralds and beryl mined at Kagem since July 2009 have generated USD 635 million in total revenues. To date, Kagem has contributed approximately USD 120 million to the Zambian government in cumulative corporation taxes, mineral royalties and dividends.
This means that, without taking into account indirect taxes such as tax on employee salaries, almost 20 percent of Kagem's revenues have flowed to the Zambian government in the last decade.
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Jointprin Review – Is This Product Safe To Use?
Jointprin is a dietary supplement that is made to address joint related symptoms. According to the manufacturer, the supplement is based on natural ingredients that have been proven to be safe and effective in tackling most common joint problems.
Jointprin is a dietary supplement that has been made using natural ingredients and it is touted too help address all the symptoms associated with aging joints. The product is touted to help reduce joint inflammation, restore damaged and worn out cartilage, and lubricate the joints as well as equip the joints with the necessary nutrients.
What is the Company Behind Jointprin?
The company behind this product is JP products. This is a company that has specialized in the creation of powerful joint products, muscle products as well as general health supplements.
What are the Ingredients Used to Make Jointprin?
Glucosamine – This is an ingredient used in joint care since it promotes the formation of cartilage and aides in the repair of the same. It is extracted from shellfish and thus might not be good for people who are allergic.
White Willow Bark Extract – This is a natural supplement that is used to calm even the worst case of joint inflammation there is. It has been used in joint care for years and has been termed as effective by both users and experts.
CMO (cetyl myristoleate) – This is classified as a fatty acid ester that is made up of cetyl alcohol and myristoleic acid molecules. It is found naturally in some rodents and is used in joint care to promote lubrication and boost joint nourishment.
Boswellia serrata – This is a tree with Indian origin that has been used common in India as a food additive. When it comes to health matters, this plant extract has been used to treat all kind of inflammations and perhaps this is the reason why it is a household name in joint care.
Jointprin Review – Does It Actually Work?
Jointprin is a dietary supplement that is made to support healthy joints and promote healthy muscle growth. It has not been known to treat any ailments or heal any condition. When used as a dietary supplement, Jointprin works magic and can therefore be relied upon to support the inbuilt mechanisms.
What are the Advantages of Jointprin?
It can be bought over the counter without a prescription.
What are the Disadvantages of Jointprin?
What are the Possible Side Effects of Jointprin?
Jointprin is a product made from natural ingredients and thus we don't expect it to be harmful. All the same, some of the ingredients used are known to cause allergic reactions and thus users should be very careful when taking the product.
Jointprin is a great product on paper with some of the most sort after ingredients in the industry. we love the fact that it addresses both inflammation and lubrication exhaustively. All the same, we are cognisant of the fact that it is not fortified with minerals and vitamins.


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U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) conducts a bilateral exercise with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) guided-missile destroyer JS Kongo (DDG-173) March 29, 2021 in the East China Sea. These types of operations provide an opportunity for each partner nation to share their unique capabilities in shipboard maneuvering procedures, maritime skills and interoperability. Blue Ridge is the oldest operational ship in the Navy and, as 7th Fleet command ship, actively works to foster relationships with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) along with embarked MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 12, conduct a bilateral exercise with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) guided-missile destroyer JS Kongo (DDG-173) March 29, 2021 in the East China Sea. These types of operations provide an opportunity for each partner nation to share their unique capabilities in shipboard maneuvering procedures, maritime skills and interoperability. Blue Ridge is the oldest operational ship in the Navy and, as 7th Fleet command ship, actively works to foster relationships with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) conducts a bilateral exercise with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) guided-missile destroyer JS Kongo (DDG-173) March 29, 2021 in the East China Sea These types of operations provide an opportunity for each partner nation to share their unique capabilities in shipboard maneuvering procedures, maritime skills and interoperability. Blue Ridge is the oldest operational ship in the Navy and, as 7th Fleet command ship, actively works to foster relationships with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) guided-missile destroyer JS Kongo (DDG-173) conducts a bilateral exercise with U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) March 29, 2021 in the East China Sea. These types of operations provide an opportunity for each partner nation to share their unique capabilities in shipboard maneuvering procedures, maritime skills and interoperability. Blue Ridge is the oldest operational ship in the Navy and, as 7th Fleet command ship, actively works to foster relationships with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
NEWS | March 30, 2021
USS Blue Ridge Operates with Japan Maritime Self Defense Force
By Chief Mass Communication Specialist Charles White, USS Blue Ridge Public Affairs
EAST CHINA SEA –
U.S. 7th Fleet flagship, USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) operated with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) JS Kongo (DDG 173), March 29, 2021 as a test of the partner nation's combined maritime skills and intercommunication capabilities.
"This bilateral exercise was an excellent display of solidarity with our host nation and the JMSDF," said Blue Ridge Commanding Officer, Capt. Tim Waits. "It provided important training and experience that enables both crews to operate and communicate safely and effectively while working closely together."
The exercise consisted of multiple ships sailing in formation while practicing communications and maneuvering procedures, with an aim toward increasing and improving cooperation and interoperability with naval counterparts in the region. Unique to this exercise was the participation of aircraft embarked aboard Blue Ridge, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 12, which flew in formation with the ships and transferred Capt. Waits from Blue Ridge to Kongo during maneuvers to engage with leadership and visit the ship's crew.
"In addition to improving the JMSDF's tactical capabilities, we have deepened interoperability with the U.S. Navy." said Capt. Fujisaki Masaru, commanding officer of JS Kongo, "I am convinced that we can improve deterrence and interoperability in response to possible contingencies through regular bilateral exercises such as the one we conducted."
Blue Ridge has been forward-deployed and operating in the Area of Responsibility (AOR) for more than 40 years, continuing her primary mission of supporting Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet while conducting sustained operations at sea. Blue Ridge is the oldest operational ship in the Navy, and as U.S.7th Fleet command ship, is responsible for patrolling and fostering relationships within the Indo-Asia Pacific Region.
"This combined exercise consisted of two forces from different nations working together toward a single end, which to me, represents strengthening alliances at the fleet level, and is something our Sailors, their families back home and our country can be proud of," said Waits.
As the U.S. Navy's largest forward deployed fleet, U.S. 7th Fleet routinely operates between 50-70 ships and submarines and 140 aircraft with approximately 20,000 Sailors. 7th Fleet's area of operation spans more than 124 million square kilometers, stretching from the International Date Line to the India/Pakistan border; and from the Kuril Islands in the North to the Antarctic in the South Pacific, providing security and stability to the region. 7th Fleet interacts with 35 other maritime nations to build partnerships that foster maritime security while conducting a wide-range of missions to support humanitarian efforts and uphold international laws and freedoms of the sea.
For more news from USS Blue Ridge, visit http://www.navy.mil/local/lcc19/.


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using System;
using ArcGIS.Desktop.Framework.Controls;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows;
using CoordinateConversionLibrary.Helpers;

namespace ProAppCoordConversionModule.UI
{
    /// <summary>
    /// ViewModel for the embeddable control.
    /// </summary>
    internal class FlashEmbeddedControlViewModel : EmbeddableControl
    {
        public FlashEmbeddedControlViewModel(XElement options, bool canChangeOptions)
            : base(options, canChangeOptions)
        {
            FlashAnimationCompletedCommand = new RelayCommand(OnFlashAnimationCompletedCommand);
        }

        public RelayCommand FlashAnimationCompletedCommand { get; set; }

        private double _mapWidth = 1920.0;
        public double MapWidth
        {
            get
            {
                return _mapWidth;
            }

            set
            {
                SetProperty(ref _mapWidth, value, () => MapWidth);
            }
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        private double _mapHeight = 1080.0;
        public double MapHeight
        {
            get
            {
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            set
            {
                SetProperty(ref _mapHeight, value, () => MapHeight);
            }
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        private bool _flash = false;
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        {
            get
            {
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            set
            {
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        {
            get { return _clientPoint; }
            set
            {
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        {
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            set
            {
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        private void OnFlashAnimationCompletedCommand(object obj)
        {
            Mediator.NotifyColleagues("FLASH_COMPLETED", null);
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        public void RunFlashAnimation()
        {
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        public object Convert(object[] values, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
        {
            if ((values == null) || (values.Length < 2))
                return 0;

            var screenPoint = (System.Windows.Point)values[0];
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            return 0.0;
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        public object[] ConvertBack(object value, Type[] targetTypes, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
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    {
        public object Convert(object[] values, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
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            var c = values[1] as System.Windows.Controls.Canvas;
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            if (source == null)
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            c.Height = (double)values[3] * 2.0;

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            var halfHeight = c.ActualHeight / 2.0;

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            double y = point.Y * 2.0;

            if (point.Y > halfHeight)
                y -= (point.Y - halfHeight) + 6;

            if (point.X > halfWidth)
                x -= (point.X - halfWidth) + 6;

            return new Thickness(x, y, 0, 0);
        }

        public object[] ConvertBack(object value, Type[] targetTypes, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }
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}

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To an intimate gathering to meet and honor the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner for Islands and Island Nations. The Prize winner (who will be announced on April 29th) is being honored for leadership in catalyzing protection and conservation of a vast area of the Pacific Ocean.
Note: The Goldman Environmental Prize Winner for Africa will be honored during an event will be hosted on May 2nd, 2019. More details here.
The Goldman Environmental Prize honors grassroots environmental heroes around the world. The Prize recognizes individuals for efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk. The Prize honors grassroots leaders who are involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation in the issues that affect them. Through recognizing these individual leaders, the Prize seeks to inspire other ordinary people to take extraordinary actions to protect the natural world. The Prize recipients focus on protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, promoting sustainability, influencing environmental policies, and striving for environmental justice.
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What is in the support package for general practice?
The headline announcement is that funding for general practice willincrease by 14% in real terms, with investment increasing by £2.4bn a year. This is equivalent to 10% of the NHS budget going into primary care according to NHS England.
This will be supplemented with a Sustainability and Transformation package of one-off investments which will add up to over half a billion pounds, which will be used for the other measures in the Forward View.
£16m is going into mental health support to enable GPs to access 'free, confidential local support and treatment for mental health issues', to tackle stress and burnout. The scheme is expected to start from December 2016 with procurement starting from June this year.
As well as pushes to recruit more doctors (including recruiting more than 500 overseas GPs and improving the returner and retainer schemes), NHS England plans to invest in 3,000 mental health workers for general practice by 2020 and 1,000 more physician associates. There are also plans to provide £112m for 1,500 pharmacists with the aim that every practice in England will have access to a clinical pharmacist.
There will also be £15m for practice nurse development, £45m over five years for practices to help reception and clerical staff and £6m for practice manager development. There will also be pilots to explore the role of physiotherapists in general practice and a 'medical assistant' role.
It rules out crown indemnity but NHS England says it will consult on ways to reduce the burden of indemnity, putting forward proposals by July 2016.
The CQC will be moving to a 'risk-based' approach with practices that are 'good' our 'outstanding' being inspected every five years.
Hospitals will be banned from adopting policies meaning that patients who fail to attend outpatient appointments are automatically discharged and have to be re-referred by their GP as a contractual change from this month. Hospitals will also have to show evidence that they've taken into account GP feedback when considering service redesign, send discharge summaries electronically for inpatient, day case or A&E care within 24 hours and supply patients with medication after discharge from inpatient or day case care.
New rules will allow NHS England to fully fund costs for premises developments from September 2016.
The package includes an 18% funding increase for CCGs for general practice IT services and a £45m programme to increase the uptake of online consultations in every practice. The e-referrals system will be upgraded and there will also be funding for free WiFi in practices.
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US rail strike asks questions about business model
The US President is moving to avoid a rail strike.
The US President is moving to avoid a rail strike. Fearful of the effects on an already vulnerable American economy, Joe Biden has appointed a so called "Presidential Emergency Board" which will investigate the dispute and then make recommendations for the settlement of the dispute. There will be a thirty-day period for the investigation followed by a further thirty days for implementation of the deal.
The strike is being led by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen but it also appears to have the support of other Unions and groups of workers. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen assert that the voting over the strike had "99.5% of the participating members" voting "to authorize a strike". The Union is demanding a new contract around an increase pay but there also seems to be anger around working conditions in the rail companies, with the leader of the Union stating that rail workers also want "a contract with meaningful wage increases and good benefits. They want jobs that give them the ability to have a life outside of work."
The rail companies are being accused to pushing their workforces too hard but also running an "employee and shipper be damned" business model" with the "rest of the Nation's economy" struggling "due to a supply chain crisis created in large part by the carriers' business model".
There seems to be a strong understanding among the rail unions that the politicians cannot afford a rail strike. Rather they will lean on the rail companies to come to a deal. This appears to be what is happening. However, there is a wide point around the operating model of the railways. Over the past ten years or more they have seen a revival of their fortunes, with strong demand in part from growing container and inter-modal volumes. Yet there may be a question over whether they have become complacent, failing to invest in new capacity and productivity, leading to not just unhappy workforce but also dissatisfied customers.
Source: Transport Intelligence, 19th July 2022
Author: Thomas Cullen


In the world of presidential politics, nothing much is happening in Panora, Iowa, these days, or Lansing, Mich., for that matter. And that is big news. After more than a decade of complaints that the American process for selecting its presidents had become too long, too grueling and too expensive, it can be announced here today that the 1992 race for President will be shorter.
In fact, it already is shorter. But it may be even more expensive.
Go back for a moment to four years ago today, Aug. 12, 1986.
Bruce E. Babbitt had finished a seven-day bicycle trip across Iowa. George Bush, Pat Robertson and Jack F. Kemp were arguing over who had done best in the Republican precinct elections in Michigan, the first step in that state's seemingly endless process for selecting convention delegates. Gary Hart had laid out his vision of American foreign policy in a series of speeches.
Now return to presidential politics, 1990. ''It's pretty dead,'' said David Yepsen, political correspondent for The Des Moines Register. Mr. Yepsen reports that not a single national political figure was seen pedaling the state recently in The Register's annual cross-Iowa bike ride (Mr. Babbitt instead got his exercise this summer walking in the mountains of Brazil studying environmental problems).
The absence of presidential activity in the Republican Party is, of course, easy enough to explain. The Republicans, despite some grumbling from the right, already know who their 1992 nominee will be. But what about the Democrats? Wounded or Wiser? Some Democrats worry that the dearth of clear presidential contenders reflects a loss of will, a delayed shock from the concussion of the 1988 defeat or an unwillingess to challenge George Bush, whose public approval ratings soared to 72 percent in a New York Times Poll taken after Iraqis invaded Kuwait.
But intimidation, always a potent political force, cannot by itself explain this. After all, Walter F. Mondale, Gary Hart, John Glenn, Ernest F. Hollings and Alan Cranston, to name a few, were all publicly maneuvering in 1982 for the 1984 Democratic nomination. It is unlikely that any of them thought President Reagan, the 1982 recession notwith-standing, would be a pushover.
That theory may be an ego boost to political reporters, but if Mr. Gore's assesment is correct, then why has the press not had the same influence on politicians when it comes to, say, eliminating the Federal deficit?
''That's a good question; I'd prefer to revise and extend my remarks,'' replied Mr. Gore, invoking the senatorial privilege of keeping the record open until he figures out just what to say.
In a different way, though, Senator Gore is an illustration of one reality that has slowed down the presidential race. He is among several potential Democratic contenders who are up for re-election this fall. Among the others are Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York and Senators Bill Bradley, Paul Simon and Sam Nunn, to say nothing of the House majority leader, Richard A. Gephardt, whose promise to his colleagues not to run in 1992 is viewed as easily revised.
These elections may be keeping anxious contenders off the presidential trail. But they also provide cover for those who do not want to get out in the lead too fast. Under the guise of his Senate campaign, for example, Mr. Bradley is raising millions of dollars more than he needs for re-election in his New Jersey campaign.
These potential candidates all keep a close eye on each other. But as long as no one gets out front there is less pressure for any of them to start running.
The slow start also reflects a rethinking of the importance of Iowa, which, after all, is where much of that early time was invested, in visits to pig farms and church breakfasts.
''The Iowa star has begun to crash,'' said Mr. Babbitt. His legwork in the state got him nowhere, but even those who won in Iowa, Mr. Gephardt and Senator Bob Dole, fizzled soon after. The winners of the nomination, George Bush and Michael S. Dukakis, each finished third in Iowa.
Moreover, the Democrats seem serious in their desire to move up the California primary to just after the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. That, said Mr. Babbitt, would overshadow Iowa and change the whole nature of the contest. Early organizing and county-by-county campaigning, of the sort that helped Jimmy Carter win the nomination, would fade, said Mr. Babbitt, and be replaced by a search for money to buy television time in California.
Does that mean the campaign is already under way, just not in the way we are used to?
Considered that way, there are these other whistlestops. Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas will give a series of Senate speeches in September on how Republican economic policies, in his view, have hurt the country. Senator Nunn, an opponent of abortion, says he is rethinking his position. And, of course, Jesse Jackson is not running for mayor of Washington.
There are also still those who believe the best way, or at least the cheapest way, to get attention in California is to win in Iowa. No one is yet out organizing in the state like in the old days. In any case, Iowans are pretty preoccupied with state races.
But a visit to campaign for one of those state candidates is still a good way to build goodwill - and set up some national speculation. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia was out a few weeks ago. Senator Bradley is going next weekend.
Mr. Jackson has alread visited Iowa twice this year, and his chief delegate counter in 1988, Steve Cobble, has moved to Grinnell. That has all the look of the old get-to-Iowa-early style of campaign. But Mr. Cobble insists the move was personal, although he volunteers that Iowa might not be a bad place to be when 1992 rolls around.
The Democratic national chairman, Ronald H. Brown, says he is happy with the current situation. ''There are national Democrats giving serious consideration to mounting a presidential campaign and beginning to put the pieces in place to do that,'' Mr. Brown said.
By this time next year there will be plenty of Democratic candidates out running for President. There will be so many, Mr. Brown said, that he will probably wish there were fewer.


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Air Force deployments just keep getting shorter: B1 bombers that flew to Saudi Arabia last week are already back home
The Air Force said nothing about the al-Baghdadi raid with which the deployment coincided
By Rapid City Journal, South Dakota | Published Oct 29, 2019 9:41 PM
Multiple B-1B Lancers took off Thursday from Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City and flew to Saudi Arabia, according to the Air Force.
The B-1s have since returned home. The deployment was intended to demonstrate an ability to rapidly deploy anywhere and anytime in the world, and to demonstrate lethal strike options for military commanders, according to a news release.
"This is what we train for, and is what sets us apart," said Col. David A. Doss, 28th Bomb Wing commander at Ellsworth, in the release. "Let there be no doubt, our team and our B-1s always stand ready to answer our nation's call at a moment's notice."
Support from KC-10 Extender and KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft assigned to Air Mobility Command and U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Africa was on hand to refuel the B-1s mid-flight.
The B-1s flew to Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. The Air Force did not disclose how many B-1s made the trip.
The timing of the B-1 deployment coincided with the U.S. government's development of crucial intelligence Thursday and subsequent lethal raid Saturday against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group. The Air Force's news release about the B-1 deployment said nothing about the al-Baghdadi raid, and an Air Force spokesman did not immediately respond to a Journal question about whether the two events were connected.
In July, U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, said only six of the nation's B-1 bombers were fully mission capable. He made the statement during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for Gen. John Hyten, who had been nominated for vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
According to information published by Boeing at the time, B-1s had flown more than 12,000 sorties since 2001 over Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq. The entire B-1 fleet was temporarily grounded in June 2018 and again in March of this year because of ejection-seat problems.
The nation's B-1 fleet is based at Ellsworth and at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas. The bombers, which date to the 1980s, can reach speeds beyond 900 mph, carry a payload of 75,000 pounds and tote 24 cruise missiles.
Rounds' office told the Journal in August that there were 62 B-1s in the U.S. fleet, including six that were fully mission-capable among the 45 split between Ellsworth and Dyess (21 at Ellsworth, and 24 at Dyess), plus 15 that were in depot at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma and two test B-1s that were at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The Air Force plans to eventually phase out B-1s with B-21 bombers, which are under development by Northrop Grumman and are planned to be sent first to Ellsworth, beginning sometime in the 2020s.
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It is the General Data Protection Regulation whose purpose is to protect personal data collected by businesses and organizations. Because personal data protection laws vary by country, the European Union decided to get all their member countries on the same page and thus, the GDPR was born. It should be noted that the law will also have merit with non-member countries, such as members of the European Economic Area (EEA)…the UK, for example.
The GDPR is intended to provide the foundation for the methods by which organizations around the world must protect personally-identifiable information of those living in the EU. The law also imposes limitations on what data can be used and how it is processed by a company.
But if this is an European law, why should I care?
Here's the thing about the web: it doesn't have borders. Citizens of the EU may very well visit your website, sign up for your newsletters or even purchase your products through your online store. And then you're on the hook for making sure their personal data is secure. Don't want to bother with compliance? You could face fines of up to 24 million dollars. Yowsers.
OK, you've got my attention. What do I need to know?
Protection is the name of the game. Protect the individual's personal data. What counts as personal data you ask? Good question. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual— any info that could be used either on its own or in conjunction with other data, to identify someone. In this day and age, that goes beyond the obvious social security numbers, names, addresses, email addresses, etc. and extends to data like IP addresses, behavioral data, location data, biometric data, financial information, and then some. For this reason, Google (as an example) sent out an email to clients using Google Analytics, informing them that they have new GDPR guidelines in place to keep in compliance with the new law.
Individuals will also have a broader scope of rights under the new regulation. Individuals have the right to be forgotten, meaning they can request that a company erases their personal data; the right to object which says an individual can prohibit certain data uses; the right to rectification allows individuals to request that incomplete data be completed or that incorrect data be corrected; the right of access gives individuals the right to know what personal data is being used and how it is processed; the right of portability states that individuals may request that their personal data held by one organization be transported to another.
The GDPR also stipulates clear consent. Think of this as an opt-in, instead of opt-out, approach. As an example, you aren't supposed to add someone to your mailing list just because they made a purchase within your store, unless you specifically state that they will be added to the aforementioned list by making a purchase. Good practice would be to have them check a box, giving consent to be on the mailing list, prior to clicking that purchase button. All opt-in notices have to be clear and in language most everyone can understand, i.e., no "legalese" please.
Additionally, organizations and companies must disclose data breaches within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach. It starts to get a bit murky here, with some jargon about data controllers and processors. Essentially, a controller is the entity (in many cases you, as the business or organization) who dictates how and why personal data is processed. A data processor is a company who collects the data. In some cases, they may be one and the same, but in some instances, they are separate. For example, say you use an email marketing platform and collect email addresses in a database on their servers. You both must be GDPR compliant. Data controllers will be liable for the actions of their selected data processors. This is why Google sent out that email to its users. They are the processor and you are the controller.
Wow. I need a glass of wine.
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Why is it important to make a good first impression?
When applying for that dream job you want to stand out from the crowd because hiring managers often will be receiving many applications. If you get invited and shortlisted for an interview, you really want to make a great first and lasting impression!
Admin/reception are not the ones making the decision but the chances are, the impression you leave with them, will rub off onto others and build a great reputation for yourself as a candidate. This is from a recruiters view point but it's not different if you are going direct.
We share information internally, then externally with our clients. You want a positive image to be associated with you.
What are the most important things to rememeber if you want to make a good first impression?
There are different ways of making a great first impression: through the phone, resume, email and face-to-face meetings.
Very good opportunity to capture the attention of the hiring manager or the consultant. There are a lot of emails coming every day – sell yourself well!
Arrive on time – take a breath before you come in. It's your responsibility to get there on time. Don't come too early either!
Be prepared – portfolio, copy of resume, hard drive, laptop etc.
Remember to smile, your body language can have a first and lasting impression!
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Downtown Las Vegas has been in a state of exponential growth over the last few years, thanks in large part to The Downtown Project. Currently, the city is working on a master plan to guide the development of Downtown Las Vegas over the next 20 years and the best part is they're seeking input about what direction to take development. Local residents can go to www.visionlv.com and take part in deciding what the new Downtown Las Vegas should look like.
There are three main ideas being tossed around currently, each with a slightly different feel to it.
The Legend, Revisited will focus on Las Vegas' storied history of casinos, cabaret and character and its place as a destination city.
The Diverse City will focus on the urban core of Las Vegas, celebrating the community and its goal of being America's most livable city.
A Co-Created City, highlighting the idea of a downtown for people building and inspiring a diverse future.
The plans will involve the types of housing, architecture, street design, open space, transportation and more.
The constant development of Downtown Las Vegas is a good sign for the neighborhood as a whole. If you want to take a tour of the best bars through downtown Las Vegas as it currently stands, be sure to book your pub crawl with Vegas Pub Crawler. We're the local experts on what's hot and happening around Downtown Las Vegas and would love to show you what it's all about. Go online today and book your own unique Vegas Pub Crawler experience for you and your friends.