Ahead of primary, let's ride this symbolic bus around Chilltown

As it's one giant foot forward for the free market, two giant steps backward in general

Chilltown Blues Photo

“As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning.” - President Jimmy Carter, 1979

By D. Menzies

Chartered course, rising tide?

In 2010, then Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave the Newark, N.J. school system $100 million — a donation matched by others which made for a sum total of $200 million. Newark was then and is still the largest city in the state, and as of 2024, according to Money, Inc., had the third poorest neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods fit a textbook countrywide model of redlined inner-city sections left to rot economically with the one-two punch of white flight and Reaganism; Chilltown (or JC, if you will) was number eight on Money, Inc.’s list, with its two particular neighborhoods that follow suit.