This blog has been a huge success, by any measure, but I have been wondering lately if Santa Ana needs a new blog to call its own. The Orange Juice serves the entire County of Orange – so why not build a new blog that will serve Santa Ana specifically?
I have already bought the URLs – but I am going to take this new blog in an entirely new direction. We are calling this new blog “New Santa Ana,” and it is NOT going to be a political blog. It is going to be a place where everyone who has a stake in Santa Ana can come together to talk about POSITIVE changes and hope and making our city better for everyone.
New Santa Ana will be a place where local residents, businesspeople and non-profit organizations can talk about what is going on in town and about what we can do to take our city in a NEW direction.
This will take a few weeks to launch. In the meantime I want to invite those of you who are Santa Ana stakeholders to think about what YOU are going to do to help build a New Santa Ana.
We will have a very simple ground rule. NO attacks. NO politics. NO negativity. New Santa Ana will be a place to come together and inspire each other. It will be a blog where we can share our thoughts and our ideas. It will NOT be anything like the Orange Juice blog.
Interested? Click here and let me know. New Santa Ana will be open to ANYONE with a stake in Santa Ana. There will be name-calling and no fighting. I will make this blog available to anyone who cares enough to want to change Santa Ana – even those of you I battle here at the Orange Juice.
Do you want to see a New Santa Ana? This is your chance to make it happen.
Now I realize that some of you will question whether I am the right person to launch this new blog. Well, that is a fair question. I intend for this to be a collaborative effort – but launching a new blog is not for the faint of heart. You need experience, vision and guts. I have taken the Orange Juice blog to the top and I know I can do the same for New Santa Ana – but not without making this a community project.
I will be reaching out to Santa Ana’s stakeholders over the next few weeks and we will make this happen. Are you ready for a New Santa Ana? Ready or not, here it comes…
“We will have a very simple ground rule. NO attacks. NO politics. NO negativity.”
I applaud the sentiment, Art, but there is no way you will be able to run a blog along those lines. It’s not in your nature.
#1,
We can and we will. Remember, the Orange Juice shall continue – and if I need to make a political point that is where I will do it.
The New Santa Ana blog is going to go in an entirely new direction.
Will it work? I don’t know. We will find out if people really DO want a positive, upbeat blog.
Once again, what I think is needed is a forum, not a blog. A forum can more easily be guided by some general rules and with a topic as wide as the entire city of Santa Ana, you need specific areas of interest for people to become involved in. That way you can have true moderators who can keep people in line.
Art you have hit on a winner. After all the years of negative blogging by the Usual White Suspects it’s about time we have a POSITIVE to escape the negativity of those people. I welcome this change and applaud you for being an instument of positive change. Count me in as a loyal reader.
tmare,
Perhaps, but what makes blogs powerful is that Google LOVES them. This month we had over 18,000 referrals from Google and another 5,000 visits from other search engines.
Blogs are easy to use – and are now considered to be part of the media.
We will invite any stakeholders in town to write on this blog. If anyone gets out of line, they will be deleted and banned.
This is going to be a new blog for a New Santa Ana!
#4,
Thank you for the support! I think we will have some naysayers, but most folks in town are looking for something positive.
This will be a grand social experiment – and everyone in town will benefit from this new blog.
“most folks in town are looking for something positive.” And folks out of town do not much care about the battles and intrigue of Santa Ana. I’ve said this before – Santa Ana is NOT the center of the universe. Besides, Mike Metzler pretty well covers the town in his newsletter, doesn’t he? (Just kidding on that one) Too limiting – Count me out.
the Usual White Suspects it’s about time we have a POSITIVE to escape the negativity of those people.
White being the ultimate insult to most Activist Santa Ana latino’s.
Why don’t you just call it “Santa Ana brown blog”, then you will get lots of positive imput about Santa Ana. And yes the Non-proftis will be all of over your blog with postive things to say about Santa Ana, since they make a huge profit serving the poor brown people of Santa ana, using Tax money of mostly the white working class.
I love the way the hispanics like “postive by nature”, ( brown stick around, white get it right), really want no “whites”, making polices in Santa Ana unless they have money to share with the residents!.
really its like the idiots in N.Ireland who hated the English, but were the first in line for English money!.
What you need is a blog that will allow the truth written, so positve changes might ocurr instead of the same old bull crap of “latino Pride”.
Its important for Santa Ana, to become part of the OC, instead of a segregated area of a sub-culture.
I really have no hope for Santa Ana, if all the polices makers of Santa Ana, are latino, its un-American and a recipe for disaster!.
OK Art – “all positive” – don’t make me laugh.
How about when the BS is being spread like manure?
Who is going to be allowed to call “bull s**t?
Art, this is an interesting concept, but I wonder how you’re going to attract and hold readers. The Orange Juice has, as long as I’ve been reading it in it’s various permutations, been a “SantAnaCentric” venue. Sure, recently Tony writes about Fullerton and Larry has been writing about Mission Viejo, but most of the entries that generate controversy – and revenue-producing hits – have been about Santa Ana. I wonder how you’re going to make a “positive” Santa Ana blog pay off, both in revenue and reader interest?
I assume you would have to edit the negative comments out of the various comment threads, right? How does that accomplish developing a dialogue? And, without opposing viewpoints – and the resultant negative comments – how do things “improve” in Santa Ana as a result of the blog’s existence? Heck, give it a shot and see what happens…
“We can and we will.”
Art, you’ve made those kinds of promises here before. Many times. And you always revert to form and let the venom flow. I don’t think you can help yourself.
Unless your plan is to be venomous on OJ, and Mr. Sunshine on your new blog.
#11,
I don’t plan to write much on the new blog. I am going to let the community do the talking.
I am providing the seed – it will be up to the people to grow a New Santa Ana!
Michelle…your comments are so tired…so stale…always exactly the same…why don’t you just copy and paste one comment and insert it into all of Art’s posts? You’d save yourself some time. I hope your comments never appear on the New Santa Ana blog!! I guess they can’t since they are always negative!! And since you have no hope for Santa Ana..please leave us alone and don’t visit the new blog. There are plenty of us with lots and lots of hope who don’t need your negativity. Can’t you find some blog for Irish folks who can’t spell worth a crap?!?!?
Art, thank you, thank you, thank you!! I’ve often thought about how wonderful a true Santa Ana blog would be…especially one that focuses on the good things of our most beautiful city!!! That’s right…Santa Ana is beautiful. A positive blog could go a long way in righting the perception of our city. I still think a number of your posts are a bit ridiculous…but i do trust that you care about this city. Kudos.
And who cares whether it’s white, black, brown or any other color people using the new blog!! Santa Ana is a diverse community with people who love this city of every color!
Michelle…your comments are so tired…so stale…always exactly the same…why don’t you just copy and paste one comment and insert it into all of Art’s posts?
If its so tired and stale, it seams to raise your hairs enough to make you comment back!.
What is tired and stale is the constant pity feast of the “latino Pride”. It is nice to beable to comment back to latino’s in Santa Ana since it’s a city with a population that likes to segregate it self from the rest of the county, therefore avoiding the obvious truth of failing schools, gangs, and under age pregancies and massive welfare users.
I hope your comments never appear on the New Santa Ana blog!! I guess they can’t since they are always negative!!
It seams the latino’s with the chance to make a difference avoid discussing hugh social problems in Santa Ana that will lead to many kids becoming not only ward’s of the state, but fall into the lure of gangs and violence.
” Since most don’t give a crap about kids in peril, maybe this Irish Girl does”.
Go to the Orange wood home for Children and tell me that we don’t need to focus on hispanic social problems in this county. I have been to Orange wood and it is heart breaking and so is Juv hall, Its mostly hispanic kids in peril, not white kids. But you would rather be politically correct, than open your mouth and voice the truth, so that something might be done to improve the lives and the chance’s of Santa Ana’s kids. My kids will do fine, why should i worry about someone elses kids??. Because i know they can do great in this country, and have a chance that they would not have had, if born in a country with less opportunities.
Art, thank you, thank you, thank you!! I’ve often thought about how wonderful a true Santa Ana blog would be…especially one that focuses on the good things of our most beautiful city!!!
Yeah focus on the good food and the Cultural diversity and not the reason for kids having kids and 13yr old kids being shot in the head.
Yeah a bright and glorious future for you in Santa Ana, but a future of gangs and violence of too many!
I could not careless about colour as you seam to do curious, what i care about, is the sucess of the kids in Santa Ana. i want them to have the same sense of pride for their past and their future as my kids will. “No more, or no less!”.
I want them to have a love of their country and their country men as i have for mine. I want them to have every opportunity that this country has to offer.
You might not understand this, BUT I CARE, ENOUGH TO MAKE MYSELF A TARGET OF PERSONAL ATTACKS.
My life, and my kids lives are good, i don’t need to care, but i do.
The brutal truth may be nagative talk to you, but it might mean the differnce between choosing the right path or the wrong path to a kid!.
I don’t think your curious at all!.
Thankyou for posting the above Art, i did not think you would:)
Art,
Love the idea, but those of us at sausd really need this blog because it’s a lifeline for accurate and timely information that doesn’t seem to be available elsewhere. I know we are sometimes negative, but are just trying to help our students and other teachers who are not always the primary focus of sausd decisions. Will there still be room for us?
i guess i got your attention : )
by the way…you make a lot of assumptions about people’s color and/or ethnicity. You seem to think that anyone that loves this city is Latino. You might be surprised. and of course we have problems here in Santa Ana…i would never claim that we don’t. We actually have huge problems!! But those of us who love this city have hope. We see better days ahead for our community. We see beautiful people and culture(s) that are already in place in Santa Ana. I find it strange that you attack me for focusing on the positive in Santa Ana. I’m proud to focus on the positive. The rest of the county focuses plenty on the negative. All OC Register readers and folks like you are all too familiar with gang killings, failing schools, etc. Believe me, there is plenty of focus on the negative here in Santa Ana. There are many of us who know a city much different than that. But of course I’m sure you understand Santa Ana from your reading of the paper and that one time that you had to venture downtown to appear at jury duty.
A lot of folks like you claim to care. You care deeply about Santa Ana kids as you live safely in Irvine or wherever it is you call home. And you once visited Orangewood and Juvenile Hall. You don’t actually care for these kids…you pity them. Two very different things!
you state, “what i care about, is the sucess of the kids in Santa Ana. i want them to have the same sense of pride for their past and their future as my kids will. “No more, or no less!”.”
of course you care…unless those kids’ parents brought them to the US when they were two years old and they don’t have papers. you care so much about those kids that you’d like to deport them back to a country that they don’t even know!!!
“I want them to have every opportunity that this country has to offer.” again, only if they have papers, right. If not, you want to ensure that it becomes impossible for them to even enjoy one of the opportunities this country has to offer.
Michele…again, what you have is patronizing pity!! what you lack is compassion.
And I am always very curious… : )
Art, I think is a good idea, that everyone participate with the positive spirit, is time to be united and stop the bad ideas from many people that are taking advantange from the merchants and residents.
Santa Ana could be another OLVERA STREET, we have the potencial but we don have the right input.
Thanks for this great idea and stop been so negative ” no one is perfect”
#16 graduate grade 18,
The SAUSD thread is not going anywhere. It stays.
Negativity is a must, sometimes, and we understand that on this thread.
You much not have read many of my posts. i have no pity for anyone!! Unless they have had a bullet put in thier head!.
So Moral of the story, i dont pity the kids or their parents, i want them to be strong of character and suceed. If they don’t, then that just means i will be paying for a lot of prisoners and welfare mothers.
Pity i don’t think so!
I have compassion for the families who have lost their children to gang members and childern who are born to losers, that care more about thier drugs and drink, than they do their kids education. Losers come in all colours and from all culture’s.
by the way…you make a lot of assumptions about people’s color and/or ethnicity. You seem to think that anyone that loves this city is Latino.
Did i make an Assumption about your race or culture?? Like i said i care not for race! If it was a bunch of Irish Catholics in Santa Ana with the same social problems, they would be getting the same treatment.
The meaning of compassion is to show “PITY”.
And if the Parents are not Citizen’s and have children that are not Citizen’s, then i have only distain for a Government of a country that would force a whole family out of their Country, because of their Corruption. I dont think even my prod government in N.Ireland whould have handed me a map and a bottle of water to leave my country! ITS PATHETIC!.
You always have my attention, i respect people who share their views.
And i have a friend from India that has waited 5 years for her husband to get a green card to come to the US. She has a 3 year old girl that was born in this country.
Alot of immigrants are waiting to get into this country, maybe someone should show them “COMPASSION”.
spirited debate…a good thing.
Lastly, compassion does not mean showing pity. Compassion is doing every thing in your power to stop another’s pain and suffering.
Michele…i appreciate your convictions and will choose to believe you have good intentions…although I couldn’t disagree with you more!
by the way i love the positive!
But Serial killers can be very positive people, except they have a bit of a negative side.
So yes positive can be good, but the negative might out weigh the positive.
And this is the problem with Santa Ana!.
This isn’t positive, but it is about Santa Ana or rather a business located here; the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the OC Register is going to declare bankruptcy this week.
Compassion: webster dic:
“I should know”, because i am trying to improve my spelling:) Always striving for perfection!.
Compassion deep sympathy; pity!.
Disagree with me, its ok, i can’t win them all!.
Good idea!
I saw this earlier today and there were ZERO responses now there ar 25.
Those whose interest are outside the ity will fall off and remain OJ readers and contributors.
This is the Ultimate spinoff: think Laverne and Shirley, Melrose Place Mork and Mindy.
The point is a new avenue is EXACTLY what is needed for the people of Santa Ana.
Maybe, and this is a big maybe, it becomes a vehicle for change.
Sorry for the typo,
I am in DF watching th planes go by while mine sits…………….Keyboard SUCKS!
This is a great idea Art, for those of us who dearly care about moving Santa Ana forward! I mean I’m huge fan of your blog but sometimes we get too carried away with the negativity that we don’t attempt to move forward! Good luck, it’s going to be tough to be under these rules:
“We will have a very simple ground rule. NO attacks. NO politics. NO negativity.”
I support you all the way!!!
HS Student,
Thank you for your support!
I do realize that the ground rule will be tough for folks to live by – which is why we will continue to provide the Orange Juice as a revenue to hash things out as we do so well.
Conflict sells – and it is a big part of our success. But I think there is a place for hope and change in the social equation too.
We’ll find out together if this is going to work…
I hope lots of Latinos will visit the new site and show what we can do! If you are white please don’t take this wrong but….I also wish that our older Gringo friends would stick to what they do best in Santa Ana and that is give money!( I think it helps you feel a little less guilty for all the things you did to us all those years and your racist feelings) I have no problem with Los Norteamericanos giving money through Kiwanis, Roatary, or the Boys and Girls club but please let us decide how to run our city and spend that money. Gracias!
So instead of writting that Santa Ana is a breeding ground for gang members, that kill, rape and committ all sort’s of violent and criminal act’s.
we could write:
Santa Ana has a titch of a problem with misguilded young people looking for fun and excitment in all the wrong places, and doing misguided and socially unexcepted acts in the process. But on the positive side those little devils, “God bless their little soul’s”, sure can Salsa!.
Better!:)
Take a deep breath Michelle, deep breath!.
….I also wish that our older Gringo friends would stick to what they do best in Santa Ana and that is give money!( I think it helps you feel a little less guilty for all the things you did to us all those years and your racist feelings)
I don’t think racist’s would give their money to the people they hate. That does not make sense right???
So i hope you don’t take offense, but get a job and pay for your own crap.
And the only thing Americans have done is give “Chicmoan bags”, a country to come to, to be educated, fed and sheltered. O and yeah a job, that is something the Latino’s don’t get much of in their own countries, especially Mexico!.
Its more than the Mexican Government has given its people.
Really get out of friggin Santa Ana, is warping your minds and your reason!.
hope lots of Latinos will visit the new site and show what we can do!
I would rather you get A’s in school. Action speaks louder than words!.
Michelle Quinn,
Stop neglecting your children, your home, and your own persona… Start by jumping in a cold shower,
stinky— careful karma— you spend so much time on this blog that your children are missing out on the guidance you are not providing while you are out ranting and spreading venom.
I won’t attack your culture because you have none.
There are a lot of Irish in Mexico–yet they consider themselves MEXICAN AND PROUD TO BE MEXICAN— another thing,
you are nothing like Ted Kennedy and too bad you cannot claim him as your own and be proud of what your heritage (Irish) can produce, because your hatred makes you unworthy of even pronouncing his name! Teddy defended immigrants especially Mexican Immigrants-
its no secret that the night RFK was assassinated in Los Angeles (Ambassador Hotel) a mexican busboy jumped in front of RFK on impulse yet failed to block the bullet–the media has retold the story as best as they could- yet the ppl closest to RFK know the truth- the special love and compassion that the Kennedys felt for people of color is what has guaranteed a virtuous rebirth for them in the afterlife. Michelle you have a lot of spiritual growth to accomplish.
addendum
the special love and compassion that the Kennedys felt for people of color, the less fortunate, and those need, is what has guaranteed a virtuous rebirth for them in the afterlife.
Michele Quim stated:
: “I don’t think racist’s would give their money to the people they hate. That does not make sense right???”
Wrong Ms. Quim…People payoff people they hate all the time. Do you think the U.S. loves Kadafi? No..we killed his son and then payed him large sums of $$$ to shut his trap. Same goes for Mexicans in Santa Ana. Do you think the rich white people in the Kiwanis/Rotary/St. Joseph’s Balet/Boys and Girls and other white clubs really give a rats ass what happens to our little ninos? These same racists vote for prop 187 and support the Minute Men and vote for people like Rosie Avila and and Alan Monseur. Giving to some non-profit is a tax write off and makes them feel just a wee bit less guilty about the feelings they have not to deep below the surface. They also hope it keeps us from breaking into the fancy homes in Floral Park, Villa Park, Tustin and Newport Beach. Anyway, we will keep jumping to attention and keep saying “mande” when they yell for us..Keep cutting thier grass and washing thier dirty plates and wiping the backsides of their precious little white babies. And we will hold out our hands and take the scholarships and other donations they want to give to us. It’s a beautiful relationship don’t ya think Ms. Quim?
Quinn –
Bernie Madoff got plenty of A’s while he was in school and he turned out to be nothing more than a grada e A CROOK! Keating and Miliken too.
Are you really that stupid?
Art-
Yes, I am ready for the New Santa Ana blog. Bring it on.
First let me respond to my friend, “just in time for crap”:)
Stop neglecting your children, your home, and your own persona… Start by jumping in a cold shower.
Thanks for the touching concern, my kids are as happy as flys round shite!
My house, you could not swing a cat in, so it is spotless.
And my persona is everything you see: cheeky, love politics, hate political correctness, and i don’t like spungers or greedy hacks!.
So its me all the way:)
There are a lot of Irish in Mexico–yet they consider themselves MEXICAN AND PROUD TO BE MEXICAN— another thing
Yeah, thats nice, i am Irish always have been always will be. they country i call home now is America and i consider myself Irish Ameican. Maybe they consider themselves Irish-Mexican??.
But for me i am loyal to the core for both countries and people!.
I won’t attack your culture because you have none.
I am a product of my environment. I am my culture, if you met me you would think i just got off the boat. I am what i am, and that is N.Irish. We are very nice people, but a bit brutal with words and slaggin!.
The kennedy’s are a bunch of rich folk, that have maids and servents up the ying yang. off course you would love them, they hire the people for work that American’s won’t do!. I would rather dig a trench all day than look after some rich shite or some rich shite kid!. Please give me a break, the rich love the poor, because they can go to all those fancy charity dinner’s. Please open your bloody eyes! “no offense rich people”.
I dont think God, opens the gates for people who focused on helping “people of Colour”. I think you get to go to heaven if you lived by the bible. I don’t think he mentioned anything about race??. And i tend to think that people of colour are no less capable than myself. But thankyou for the ego trip!.
Mano Mano,
why would people pay off the poor??. I think your thinking is a bit twisted. Your right people are getting paid off all the time. Take the Mexican Govenment. why would a Government of a country encourage its own citizens to leave?? Well i think it has alot to do with the money they send back to Mexico. Its a win win situation, a country that does not need to educate,or encourage economic growth. Why should they, its easier to get paid off!.
O i agree that the rich use the poor, to wash the butts of their kids, then they go to work at Caloptima, teaching jobs and CEO jobs that take money from the American Working class with babies of all coloured bums, and use their tax dollars to make them rich, and serve the people who wash their kids butts!.
Its is a very nice relationship “you wash my kids butt and i will take care of you and your kids”.
So the rich have spotless kids and the poor have services up the ying yang and the working class people work to pay to both!.
are all Michelle’s whacked out? or is this blog fortunate to have the only 2 in the OC?
the michelle who cites she just jumped off the boat appears to be all wet.
Only one Michelle Like me!
God makes us all very unique!
Wacky yes i would agree!. I think that is what Mr. Art needs in his Santa Ana a flare of different people, views and cultures. very exciting dont you think???
Maybe we can have Irish street, with all the bars
Italian street with all the food
and latino street with all the social services!
Ahhhhhhhhh relax just a wee joke!.
FROM WIKIPEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA
[edit] Taxes and social services:
Illegal workers are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security.[102]
A paper in the peer reviewed Tax Lawyer journal from the American Bar Association asserts that illegal immigrants contribute more in taxes than they cost in social services.[103] The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reviewed 29 reports published over 15 years to evaluate the impact of unauthorized immigrants on the budgets of state and local governments, and found that the tax revenues that unauthorized immigrants generate for state and local governments do not offset the total cost of services provided to those immigrants, but that the amount that state and local governments spend on services for unauthorized immigrants represents a small percentage of the total amount spent by those governments to provide such services to residents in their jurisdictions.[104]
Using the U.S. INS statistics on how many illegal immigrants are residing in each country and the U.S. Dept of Education’s current expenditure per pupil by state, the estimated cost of educating illegal alien students and U.S. citizen children of illegal aliens in 2004 was $28.6 billion.[105][106]
Crime
Empirical studies on links between immigration and crime are mixed. Certain studies have suggested that immigrants are underrepresented in criminal statistics.[105] An Op-Ed in The New York Times by Harvard University Professor in Sociology Robert J. Sampson says that immigration of Hispanics may in fact be associated with decreased crime.[106] A 1999 paper by John Hagan and Alberto Palloni estimated that the involvement in crime by Hispanic immigrants are less than that of other citizens.[107]
Immigrants, both legal and illegal do not raise the rate of crime in the United States and native born Americans are five times more likely to be incarcerated than immigrants.[108] In a study released by the non-partisan research group The Public Policy Institute of California immigrants (legal and illegal) were ten times less likely to be incarcerated than native born Americans[109].
In his 1999 book Crime and Immigrant Youth, sociologist Tony Waters writes that immigrants themselves are less likely to be arrested and incarcerated. He also noted, however, that the children of some immigrant groups are more likely to be arrested and incarcerated. This is a by-product of the strains that emerge between immigrant parents living in poor inner city neighborhoods, and their sons.[110] According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, for example, as of 2001, 4% of Hispanic males in their twenties and thirties were in prison or jail, compared with 1.8% of white males. Hispanic men are almost four times as likely to go to prison at some point in their lives as white males, although less likely than African American males.[111]
There were an estimated 30,000 street gangs and more than 800,000 gang members active across the U.S. in 2007, up from 731,500 in 2002. New immigrants are susceptible to gang influences and activities because of language barriers, employment difficulties, support, protection, and fear.[112][113][114][115]
Michelle may sound wacky, and the reason you all like to throw the “racist” card at her is because there is a very real thread of truth in what she says.
Art: Your good idea is going in a different direction, again politic and blame, please stop atacking each other,I may sound terrible, but is time to move forward, we are in a bad situation on 4th Street, where is Michelle? where are the other politician that always talk how beautiful is Santa Ana? what are they doing to keep us alive? your idea is good, please keep the rule: no attacking, no politic and be positive. no matter where you come from, we have hispanic, arabs, and oriental on 4th street, and all this people are suffering and we are attacking each other went we have talents onboard. lets put our ideas together and help each other,
thanks.
Thank you, i think:)
Dr. l, we are not going to get into one of our hot debates here!. Get my email from Art and we can go back and forth on this issue. I would be more than glad to do so!.
lizette,
Don’t worry – the new blog is a NEW blog. You can preview it right now at http://newsantaana.com/.
I am working on setting up an editorial board to ensure that quality people will be helping me to moderate the new blog.
This is going to be a lot of fun! And we ARE going to make a difference…
Lizette,
what is happing on 4th street?. It is very hard to get information about Santa Ana. Especially if it is Negative. But you can not change things if people don’t tell the truth about what is going on. And voice their concern as you have!.
I so agree with you, that we come together as a communtiy from all races, Cultures and Creeds to figure out how to make Santa Ana safe. The politican’s and Activist with an agenda will do nothing to help you. So forget that one. No politican cares crap about 4th street unless it mean votes and cash!.
But share any stories that you have, that may put some real light about what the people are really going through. I think Arts, Idea is great too!.
Though you can not have positive, if negative is all around you.
People are a product of their environment.
Ok, unlike me i am going to be serious!
Art, you can not have a blog with all positive, if people are suffering in silence.
Have a blog that encourages people from Santa Ana to tell their stories of why they are suffering and encourage kids to voice their views as well.
Call it: The real voice of Santa Ana!.
ok a bit cheesey, but something like it!.
Michelle,
I have no intentions in arguing with you. My post was not addressed to you.I simply posted some research for reader consumption. The research is very well documented with references, not just personal opinion.
Michelle Quinn,
We can and we will have a blog that promotes positive change in our community. We are all too aware of the problems, now we want to hear solutions and ideas.
We are extending an offer to anyone that wants to take it, an offer that allows them to express what they want to see happen in our community.
We can sit here and play the blame day until we are blue in the face and that won’t get us anywhere.
The people of Santa Ana have waited for the solutions to come from the top down, thanks to this new website we can begin to offer solutions from the bottom up. This will give the community a chance to promote its own direction instead of having it dictated by others, many of whom do not even live here.
#42,
Facts and conclusions can contradict based on ignorance.
For example: An observed fact, the sun rises and sets. A conclusion based on ignorance of this fact – the sun revolves around the Earth.