Re: bike path news

On 3/11/2025 1:10 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:56:02 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

Youngstown is one of the most dangerous cities in America so you don't have to look thousands of miles away.

 Now that we've renamed the gulf of Mexico, does "America" now include
Mexico, Canada, Central America and South America?  (Just curious
which cities you included in your amazing fact).
 Reading the paper?  All of our local newspapers (which actually print
the news) are down a few pages of tiny print.  I suspect you haven't
seen a printed newspaper in the last few years.  Also, the prices are
quite high.  For example:
<https://newsrates.com/product/the-mercury-news/>
Would you believe a 70% discount?  The only reason I know this is
because I asked a news junkie friend to save for me some old
newspapers for starting the fire in my wood burner.  I get my news
online.
 I went through various lists of crime statistics in the US.  None of
them list Youngstown, Ohio.  This is the best I could find:
<https://realestate.usnews.com/places/ohio/youngstown/crime>
"The metropolitan area's violent crime rate was higher than the
national rate in 2022. Its rate of property crime was higher than the
national rate."
 <https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-youngstown-oh/>
Looks like the downtown Youngstown area has a crime problem, while the
suburbs are better.
 In other words, the Youngstown crime rate is below the USA average (or
median) but not even close to being "one of the most dangerous cities
in America".
 

So you retain peace of mind simply by not reading ther paper.

 Peace of mind is not obtained by being ignorant.

For many, it is. Just look at how comfortable the two most willfully ignorant trollsters in this forum are wit their woefully misinformed opinions.

 "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"  From "1984"
by George Orwell.
 

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