如果我们仍然是一个伟大的国家，由移民建立，仍然是一个所有人自由的大熔炉，可能需要像庇护城市这样的东西。在当前的政治气候下，这是一个备受争议的问题，但除非我们希望任性地改变我们的一些开国元勋的基础，否则我们不能(毫无虚伪地)改变我们对移民是否可取的集体看法。这将等同于修正主义，而它本身几乎以任何标准衡量都是虚伪的。因此，对话和辩论将继续下去。我收到了一封来自一位州参议员的邮件(被我的过滤器标记为垃圾邮件)。他想知道我在想什么。所以，我告诉了他。我怀疑从现在到2020年11月，其他州的其他人也会收到这样的询问。我不知道是否需要庇护城市。我知道整个想法对我们的民主观念很重要。 Maybe someone will come up with a better idea?

Nothing more here since 2019. Now, a new and more divisive off year political season. The disinformation in ads is rampant...out-of-context lies, atrocious. One would-be wannabe legislator, now allegedly endorsed by someone he eschewed. vehemently? Have all these people lost their minds? Looks like it.

I choose, if paying property tax is a choice, to live in a town where a police action in Michigan causes a riot and dumpster fire on my street in Oregon.

Good friends and political rivals, they are the same in my city, protest outside ICE detainment facilities that house or housed under age immigrants away and sometimes separated intentionally from their parents.

My property tax is astronomical due to several iterations of public school rebuilding, brought on by a lack of responsible board management and facility set aside / depreciation. Still, the best site on my Covid walks are the seismicàlly sound schools these taxes have built.

我的城市仍然是我的避难所，教育仍然是我的希望。我的声音在我的社区里，在我的脚下，而不是在我的指尖，尽管我确实在网上找到了安慰。

When elections come I often have to change my registration to even speak to the issues of my ballot. Voting rights are too fragile even on local issues, yet focus is too often on national affairs. I wonder that education or city government can unwind the damage.

Greetings. I have been busy with other ideas and projects. Now that we are facing primary elections, it is instructive ( to me) that in my state, this subject has not garnered interest among candidates. Any and all personal attacks have been floated, ignored, refuted and re-thought---but sanctuary cities are a mute topic. That is, silent, not irrelevant. Must be our culturally remote geography.

I suggest you think about the phrase, contextual reality. My notion holds that truth and reality are inseparably connected by context. Not all truth, mind you, but that which we agree upon through some adhesive force, such as belief. Or ideology. Or even dogma. Opinion is equal to truth in the minds of those who hold it. But, as such, it is only contextual. In initial thinking on this, I was sure the two states, reality and truth, were indistinguishable. But that could not be right, or else they would cancel each other out, in some metaphysical 'black hole'. Not a likely prospect. Well. Vacation is over...
Best,
Neuman.