Thursday, December 8, 2016

Talk Tonight on "A Changing America"

If there's any one thing that defines Plainfield, it's diversity. Many people choose to live here specifically because of the city's embrace of diversity in heritage, relationships, abilities and beliefs. Now with a president-elect and impending administration that appear to favor particular groups over others and even attacks or threatens others, Plainfielders may be wondering what will happen in 2017 and beyond to change their lives.

Mayor Adrian O. Mapp is offering a public forum to discuss concerns of residents. "A Critical Conversation - Questions for a changing America" will take place tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Senior Center, 400 East Front Street. All are welcome.

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My family is largely gone now, all the elders are deceased and I have no grandchildren. I feel a special concern for young families in these uncertain times. When I saw a Time magazine with Hitler as man of the year in 1938, my birth year, I wondered what my parents thought about bringing children into that world. My son arrived just before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and my young daughter was puzzled by our speechless sadness. We got all got through the chilling events, but not without a lingering wariness. Now it seems we may be in for an attenuated span of worry over the unpredictable. Getting together and talking about it is a good first step.

8 comments:

  1. It is a critical time right here in Plainfield and the Mayor and his administration is not doing a d*@ thing about it. Why not address the issues here first.

    Renee

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    1. If you heard Councilwoman Rebecca Williams' Public Safety Report Monday, you might have learned what is being done. She is the liaison to the Police and Fire Divisions.

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    2. Why does talk of having legal immigration upset so many? Plainfield's illegal immigrants are a drain on the tax dollars. The middle class is tired of paying for freeloaders. When we move who will pay the taxes for more giveaways?

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    3. When you speak of freeloaders, don’t exclude those that sit around all day partying collecting a welfare check and food stamps that never seem to benefit their children.

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  2. I am a soldier in the community and a dog and pony show report is not what is healing our community. Listen Ms. Paglia I support what's right I always have and I always will, and there is nothing here that is going on in Plainfield is right when you have young men and women dying in the streets. Now you can post this or not but it a shame and people have to stand up now. I don't have time for a rehearsed public safety report highlighting what this administration think he or she is doing. What I can tell you they are doing nothing and they are not reaching the people.

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  3. Bernice why are you always defending this weak administration? Renee is right we have problems in Plainfield that need to be addressed,how many homicides can one small city tolerate. Rebecca report is all fluff, walk to the forth ward, any ward, and tell me what the residents think of Rebecca's report who by the way is only at large because of obvious cheating at the polls, and Rev. Brown being to nice or ignorant to do a recount .Anyway getting back to our safe city, Riley is doing an average job, the city is very dangerous. Shootings are now taking place all over town, all wards. What does Mapp know about what Trump is going to do, he does not know, therefore how can he answer concerns of residents. He is just going there to campaign indirectly for his re-election. HE NEEDS TO GO, we have enough apartments.

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    1. the apartments are the reason for the shootings. won't it make more sense to knock down those buildings in all of 4th wars and then them into luxury apartments. Bring in people that actually belive in earning an income and drug dealers.

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  4. Plainfield needs to reach out to their neighbors to the north, south, east and west. Look at the demographics of the surrounding communities.

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