{"id":19392,"date":"2016-01-25T21:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T05:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19392"},"modified":"2016-01-25T21:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T05:09:17","slug":"three-not-so-terse-tuesday-tidbits-january-26-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/three-not-so-terse-tuesday-tidbits-january-26-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Not So Terse Tuesday Tidbits January 26, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t usually provide any commentary with my Tuesday series, yet feel I must with this set focused on some of the most vulnerable among us.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The first is on an issue I’ve followed for decades. CA has not used leaded fuel for decades yet in the early 2000’s research showed very high levels of lead in the soils of properties near freeways. Lead paint has been illegal to sell for decades, too. When freeways went in, many cities used them to partition off minority neighborhoods (not just in CA)—the homes are primarily of poor and minorities thus affected by lead where children play. Please read the details of what we apparently did to the children.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The third article includes a description of one such home—which I know myself is better than many other homes in that part of Los Angeles. Hope this helps to picture how bad it is for some in urban areas…the rest of it is also well worth reading to better understand some of how this election is viewed by others from different walks of life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The middle one illuminates how bad a job our shredded safety is doing these days even with churches and other charitable groups doing all they can.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

America's Real Criminal Element: Lead <\/strong>[the longer piece well worth reading to the end of its second page]<\/span>
\n\t"New research finds lead is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing."<\/strong><\/em>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/01\/lead-crime-link-gasoline<\/a><\/p>\n

Fact of the Week: Roughly 25 Percent of Demand for Emergency Food Assistance and Shelter Went Unmet in U.S. Cities<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.chn.org\/2016\/01\/21\/fact-of-the-week-roughly-25-percent-of-demand-for-emergency-food-assistance-and-shelter-went-unmet-in-u-s-cities\/#.VqJnIyorKUk<\/a><\/p>\n

Powerful and Moving Endorsement of Bernie from NV Politician Lucy Flores (D) <\/strong>(hanky alert)<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/01\/24\/1474547\/-Powerful-and-Moving-Endorsement-of-Bernie-from-NV-Politician-Lucy-Flores-D<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t usually provide any commentary with my Tuesday series, yet feel I must with this set focused on some of the most vulnerable among us. The first is on an issue I’ve followed for decades. CA has not used leaded fuel for decades yet in the early 2000’s research showed very high levels of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}