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On the article Viewfinder: Congregation Bet Haverim's Menorah Lighting
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On the article What Should Go Here?
david
3:27 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Reply1 of those cute & new mini-WalMarts so I don't have to leave my neighborhood to shop.
a military recruiters' office
a smoke shop / head shop
an anarchist or OWS or Acorn office
an abortion clinic
OR Just Tear the empty space down --- replace with:
a green space
a community vegetable patch
a campsite for the local homeless
a dog park
an outdoor stageoh wait a minute, Toco Hill Shopping Center is not in Decatur or in Little 5 Points
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On the article Walmart: Do You Love Them or Hate Them?
david
12:38 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012
ReplySurprise: New Walmart Stores Boost Nearby Home Values!
A new study refutes the commonly held view that opening a Walmart store lowers property value — instead, it actually raises home values.
Research by Devin G. Pope of the University of Chicago and Jaren C. Pope of Brigham Young University, state: “Walmart often faces strong local opposition when trying to build a new store. Opponents often claim that Walmart lowers nearby housing prices.
“In this study we use over one million housing transactions located near 159 Walmarts that opened between 2000 and 2006 to test if the opening of a Walmart does indeed lower housing prices.”
The researchers found that a new Walmart store increases housing prices by between 2 and 3 percent for homes located within half a mile of the store and values of houses located between half a mile and one mile from the store rise 1 to 2 percent.
The increase in values was even more pronounced for those 86 cases in which the new store was a Walmart Supercenter. the opening of the Walmart store directly led to the rise in housing values.
Walmart employs almost 1.4 million people; 84 percent of American households shop at Walmart in a given year, 42 percent report they are regular Walmart shoppers.
“The benefits to easy access to the lower retail prices offered by Walmart” and to the stores that “naturally agglomerate nearby,” the authors conclude, “appear to matter more to households than other negative externalities.
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On the article Walmart: Do You Love Them or Hate Them?
david
12:35 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012
Surprise: New Walmart Stores Boost Nearby Home Values!
A new study refutes the commonly held view that opening a Walmart store lowers property value — instead, it actually raises home values.
Research by Devin G. Pope of the University of Chicago and Jaren C. Pope of Brigham Young University, state: “Walmart often faces strong local opposition when trying to build a new store. Opponents often claim that Walmart lowers nearby housing prices.
“In this study we use over one million housing transactions located near 159 Walmarts that opened between 2000 and 2006 to test if the opening of a Walmart does indeed lower housing prices.”
The researchers found that a new Walmart store increases housing prices by between 2 and 3 percent for homes located within half a mile of the store and values of houses located between half a mile and one mile from the store rise 1 to 2 percent.
The increase in values was even more pronounced for those 86 cases in which the new store was a Walmart Supercenter. the opening of the Walmart store directly led to the rise in housing values.
Walmart employs almost 1.4 million people; 84 percent of American households shop at Walmart in a given year, 42 percent report they are regular Walmart shoppers.
“The benefits to easy access to the lower retail prices offered by Walmart” and to the stores that “naturally agglomerate nearby,” the authors conclude, “appear to matter more to households than other negative externalities.
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On the article Walmart: Do You Love Them or Hate Them?
david
12:34 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012
Surprise: New Walmart Stores Boost Nearby Home Values!
A new study refutes the commonly held view that opening a Walmart store lowers property value — instead, it actually raises home values.
Research by Devin G. Pope of the University of Chicago and Jaren C. Pope of Brigham Young University, state: “Walmart often faces strong local opposition when trying to build a new store. Opponents often claim that Walmart lowers nearby housing prices.
“In this study we use over one million housing transactions located near 159 Walmarts that opened between 2000 and 2006 to test if the opening of a Walmart does indeed lower housing prices.”
The researchers found that a new Walmart store increases housing prices by between 2 and 3 percent for homes located within half a mile of the store and values of houses located between half a mile and one mile from the store rise 1 to 2 percent.
The increase in values was even more pronounced for those 86 cases in which the new store was a Walmart Supercenter. the opening of the Walmart store directly led to the rise in housing values.
Walmart employs almost 1.4 million people; 84 percent of American households shop at Walmart in a given year, 42 percent report they are regular Walmart shoppers.
“The benefits to easy access to the lower retail prices offered by Walmart” and to the stores that “naturally agglomerate nearby,” the authors conclude, “appear to matter more to households than other negative externalities.
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On the article Walmart: Do You Love Them or Hate Them?
david
12:20 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
ReplyThis location is fantastic for us to have a WalMart! Currently this 'Plaza' is a blight.
The amount of commuters passing by pay nothing to Dekalb county. However, many would stop to shop at a WalMart, thus the County gets the taxes. This location is a revenue making machine.
It offers many jobs to our uneducated and unemployed, getting them off SSI or public assistance.
We get good deals on many items without having to drive far (wasting our expensive foreign petrol).
It seems to me that the negatives are only politically motivated against some imagined evil monster. The real monster is an out of control government that steals our money that we've worked very hard to earn. -
On the article Juvenile Shot Outside Montclair Elementary
david
12:04 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
ReplyHere is AlfonZo Rachel's website:
http://www.machosauceproductions.com/Enjoy!
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On the article Juvenile Shot Outside Montclair Elementary
david
11:41 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
ReplyIt seems that Bill Cosby, Congressman Col. West, and comic AlfonZo Rachel are leading and speaking the truth for the Black community and Senator Marco Rubio is leading and speaking the truth for the Latino community. But where are the others?
see comic : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQluy7nymw&feature=relmfu
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On the article Juvenile Shot Outside Montclair Elementary
david
12:06 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Replyghetto/gang culture --- where are the reverends Jesse Jackson and AL Sharfton? Where are the Latino Leaders? Why are they and other Black leaders not leading the way to fix the ills in their fatherless gangsta communities instead of blaming other communities?
Where is President BHO's leadership in condemning crimes perpetrated by Blacks kids. If he had a son, he just may look like these kids.
and if it turns out that these kids belong to illegal immigrants --- yet another clear reason to stop anchor babies, and deport.
did the guns 'owners' have licenses to carry? did their parent(s) or siblings?
really what do you do with 12 year old criminals? have we come to that? how do we rehabilitate them to care about other human beings if the society does not believe or value the sanctity of life that our Creator has given us?
our society is at the precipice and is being pushed from behind by ever growing illiterate, immoral, uncivilized, barbaric amoral groups meant on taking and destroying than giving and creating. -
On the article Juvenile Shot Outside Montclair Elementary
david
11:12 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Replyghetto/gang culture --- where are the reverends Jesse Jackson and AL Sharfton? Where are the Latino Leaders? Why are they and other Black leaders not leading the way to fix the ills in their fatherless gangsta communities instead of blaming other communities?
Where is President BHO's leadership in condemning crimes perpetrated by Blacks kids. If he had a son, he just may look like these kids.
and if it turns out that these kids belong to illegal immigrants --- yet another clear reason to stop anchor babies, and deport.
did the guns 'owners' have licenses to carry? did their parent(s) or siblings?
really what do you do with 12 year old criminals? have we come to that? how do we rehabilitate them to care about other human beings if the society does not believe or value the sanctity of life that our Creator has given us?
our society is at the precipice and is being pushed from behind by ever growing illiterate, immoral, uncivilized, barbaric amoral groups meant on taking and destroying than giving and creating.
david
1:06 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
According to the article, the menorahs were lit following dinner NOT before. I hope that this was not true. Otherwise, the lighting of the menorahs occurred once the Holy Sabbath had begun.
Celebration of Hanuka was a creation of the Rabbis (Pharisees) to celebrate once the Jews, who had been living peacefully in their homeland (Palestine), repelled the mighty Greek army. But to guard/keep/honor the Holy Sabbath is the 4th of the Ten Commandments uttered by the Al-Mighty, a thousand years earlier.
Throughout the ages, the Jewish People never lit menorah candles after sundown on Friday evenings and never lit them on Saturday nights before at least 3 stars appeared in the darkened skies. And for that matter, the Sabbath candles are always lit prior to sundown on Friday afternoon, never afterward.
Thus there is no fulfilling a Rabbinical mitzvah while desecrating G-d's mitzvah. Those little colorful candles are weekday Hanuka candles - that burn the required 30 minutes into night. However, the desired Flame, is from Olive Oil. Thus, Friday nights of Hanuka, Jews use olive oil that burns for several hours or larger/longer candles that burn for hours. These kosher-for-Sabbath-Hanuka-'candles' are readily available at Jewish book stores such as Judacia Corner or in Krogers or Publix.
Some Jewish communities attempt to express their 'jewishness' but miss the depth and meaning of the holiness the Jewish way of life. Hanuka is service to G-d's Word, not to man's.