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Where are the grocers?
Chicago Sun Times ^ | November 9, 2007 | Sandra Guy

Posted on 11/12/2007 8:52:24 PM PST by Lorianne

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To: Mjaye
why does low income have to equate destruction?

It's the other way around.

21 posted on 11/12/2007 11:37:26 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ("The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day," -Karl Marx)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” ... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” - Bobby Kennedy


22 posted on 11/13/2007 1:35:56 AM PST by dr_lew
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To: Lorianne

Are we to believe that businesses avoid neighborhoods where there is not profit?

I wonder if the Chicago Sun Times spends a lot of money trying to sell newspapers in these same neighborhoods. Do they put out a newspaper box on each corner? Why not?


23 posted on 11/13/2007 1:50:21 AM PST by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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To: kcvl

“Andy Fisher has been the executive director for the Community Food Security Coalition for 10 years...”

Yeah, and I bet he pulls down a good six-figure salary, too.


24 posted on 11/13/2007 3:12:45 AM PST by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: kcvl

“...organic farm”

Clinton was only off by a couple letters.


25 posted on 11/13/2007 3:14:19 AM PST by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: Mohito Loe

I am seeing right here where I am today!! a major food chain will go out of business in the next 12 months, why? because it is being stolen blind. Happens all the time were you over populate with people that have low job skills and the lack of jobs to begin with yet they keep on coming


27 posted on 11/13/2007 4:40:03 AM PST by Mojohemi
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To: Pining_4_TX

Exactly! And how many times a week will the stores be hit by armed crackheads. Let them all get together and fund their own little businesses in the area. Asians have been doing that forever. Oh wait, if you do that you might lose your welfare check. Bottom line...they have exactly the sort of services in blighted areas that they deserve. We do not owe them anything on this.


28 posted on 11/13/2007 8:50:39 AM PST by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: kcvl

“Community Food Security Coalition and Environmental Justice: “

When I read the posting and came to the part about “government grants” I realized it was a means to give handouts and expect little or nothing from recipiants. Why not just open a store let em push and fill a cart, and never pay. The words “Social Justice” are always a dead giveaway. Still, such organizations do provide work for idealistic people with degrees in social work and/or grantwriting.


29 posted on 11/13/2007 8:57:49 AM PST by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: goodnesswins
Only someone who wanted a losing investment or was insane would open a business in a high crime neighborhood. Responsible businesses shun that prospect like Typhoid Mary.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

30 posted on 11/13/2007 9:00:31 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: kcvl

So he’s the one that laid that egg - interesting...


31 posted on 11/13/2007 9:01:35 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Lorianne
Jewel-Osco is opening new stores in the suburbs and ex-urbs, but recently closed a store at 3033 S. Halsted in the Bridgeport neighborhood, eroding grocery shopping options for people in the "food desert" just east of Bridgeport.

Where but in Chicago would a politician talk about how, analogous to the what economists call a "food dessert" there's also a "health care dessert, er, uh, desert". Do politicians even bother reading speeches before delivering them?

32 posted on 11/17/2007 11:01:40 PM PST by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: Lorianne

There’s a shortage, nationwide, in our foodbanks.

There are much fewer independent grocers than there used to be.

These two facts wouldn’t be related now would they...?


33 posted on 11/20/2007 9:37:53 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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