Poverty Warning List
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6/26/2006
I felt a little guilty about my earlier posting, bashing my hometown like that. But I have to say I do agree with what has been said here. The past twenty years have not been kind to this area. I grew up in Rock Island and love the city it used to be. I actually worked for the city for a couple of years and worked with some of the greatest people I've ever worked with, ever known, for that matter...
I have lived in southern California and in eastern Texas. I used to have family here, that's what brought be back. But I can't wait to get back to California, anywhere... where there are jobs and where having intellectiual or artistic interests is not frowned upon. I don't think I'll get very homesick again since the area hardly resembles the place where I grew up.
I don't know what can be done to help the area, but I don't think that a new hog plant is the answer. It will only drive out other industry.
Rock Island County has recently been placed on the Poverty Warning List. That says it all.
Jewel | Moline, IL