Re: bike path news

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:56:02 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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Youngstown is one of the most dangerous cities in America so you don't have to look thousands of miles away.

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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).
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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.
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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."
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<https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-youngstown-oh/>
Looks like the downtown Youngstown area has a crime problem, while the
suburbs are better.
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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". 
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So you retain peace of mind simply by not reading ther paper.

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Peace of mind is not obtained by being ignorant.
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"  From "1984"
by George Orwell.