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COUNCIL COMMENTARY #4 ‘Punishing Poor People’

This was a poll public given after it was revealed what a high level of income requirement the city had set to qualify for the Whitehall Home Reinvestment Program. Poor people are hit hardest by City Hall’s codes and ordinances, … Continue reading

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A TREACHEROUS SUBVERSION IN WHITEHALL POLITICS

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington Since my return to my hometown over seven years ago, I have noted the alarming practice in … Continue reading

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COUNCIL COMMENTARY #3 Moratorium on Code Enforcement

This is a ‘poll public’ I gave before Council after catching code enforcement officers stepping onto property they weren’t supposed to be on and which they’d not received permission to enter or have a warrant signed by a judge to … Continue reading

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COUNCIL COMMENTARY #2 Council’s Moral Responsibility

This speech before Council was given nearly 4 years ago. I reminded them what their civic, professional and moral responsibility as your elected voices and legislators was. There was too much silence on their part (politically or otherwise motivated) and … Continue reading

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COUNCIL COMMENTARY #1 ‘Bad Legislation’

Over the years I have spoken out many times at Whitehall Council Meetings (which they call ‘Poll Public’) on various topics, all to communicate with my elected representative body. I have taken a few of them and filmed them to … Continue reading

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Why Ethics in Public Office Matter

                 After several years of driving home to some Whitehall Officials that ethics matter (to the chagrin of some and the outrage of others), I wanted to share my thoughts and feelings here so as to be crystal clear on … Continue reading

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The Outspoken Defender

My taking issue with problems surrounding me go way back. As a child I saw the effects of racism around me which included the race riots in Columbus in 1968 to Martin Luther King’s assassination to everything since, including the … Continue reading

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I Believe…

This is a photo of myself with my coworkers and friends, Mustafa and Azam. Here we stand in front of Prometheus at the Rockefeller Center Garden/Ice Rink in May of 1994. I’d worked at that complex as a waiter for … Continue reading

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Author’s Bio

My name is Gerald Dixon, I was born and raised in Whitehall. Graduated from WYHS in 1980. Lived in New York City a total of eleven years and six in Los Angeles in pursuit of an acting career. My avocations … Continue reading

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Welcome Whitehall citizens and friends

This blogpost is designed to inform the Whitehall citizens of what is going on at City Hall, with their government and the people elected as stewards of their government. Its main intent is to expose wrongdoing of those elected leaders … Continue reading

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