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| Entering a new decade. The year of 2019 and decade of 2010s leaves. Onward. |
We're entering another decade folks!
I will say that I am closing out another decade where I had some ups and downs. But having downs won't stop me from looking forward. I am looking forward to a better year, decade and opportunity.
Once again, we end the year with a very special thank you to all the good readers, supporters and yes, the trolls who came to Journal de la Reyna. We are grateful that you had an opportunity to visit our blog and hope you're going to continue to do so in 2020.
This is Journal de la Reyna. This is your blog.
Anyway, I am not going to give you a long list of things that happened in the year. Instead, we'll do unscientific polls and the usual closeout.
I know a lot of things happened this year. I want to at least give you the most important issues that happened.
The year in review.
What do you expect for 2020?
Cause I know cops have a thankless job. Bad cops have made it harder for good cops to do their jobs.
Just like them, I want to go home tonight and see my family.
_______ Passed Away!
Those who died, we've covered here on the blog. If we forgotten any famous names, our apologies.
Every year a celebrity or person in the news dies. We mourn. We celebrate and we continue on.
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| 2020 is going to be interesting. The Democrats may have already squandered the ability to defeat Trump. |
He gears up for reelection with the electoral map in his favor.
The current outlook if the election was held today, despite the controversies, the lies, the hypocrisy and idiocy, Trump is likely to win in 2020.
The Democratic candidates are not prepared and there is no clear frontrunner. Former vice president Joe Biden is the only candidate who is capable of beating Trump, but he's a weak frontrunner. He let Trump and Republicans dictate the narrative. Cause of that, he will be bothered by the allegations of his son Hunter being a liability to his campaign.
Nonetheless, we'll see how this play out. Maybe someone else could emerge as the top-tier candidate or someone like Michael Bloomberg could bring a spark to a field that many are writing off.
Not even Bernie Sanders can excite a base that felt he was the reason to why Hillary Clinton lost. Sanders can appeal to the young voters and strongly progressive base, but he will find it difficult when the moderates and disgruntled former Clinton supporters start dogging his campaign with allegations.
Warren is also problematic as well. Her brash comments about punishing billionaires (even the ones who support progressive causes) could harm her.
She and Pete Buttigieg won't win over Black and Latino voters. They have to work hard to obtain that vote and its almost impossible for them to achieve that if they're too busy gutter sniping. Especially over "wine cellar donor events."
Dayton suffered some of its worst this year. This community had a mass shooting in the Oregon District. The Dayton Police had to deal with the mass shooting, the loss of a DEA detective who worked for the department, two little girls killed by a ex-con who drove a stolen police vehicle into a minivan, a cop who shot a man at a mental hospital talking shit about a murder victim and the city being sued because of them traffic cameras.
Dayton city leaders had to deal with their former council member, a former state representative and city worker being indicted on federal corruption charges.
Premier Health Partners demolishes the 86-year old Good Samaritan Hospital despite the outcry from citizens in the Northwest quarter of the city. It's impact was felt. A handful of restaurants, businesses and resources closed up shortly after. The company said they will work to fill that space to skeptical residents.
The mass shooting was tragic. One white terrorist massacred nine people in a 30-second shooting. He managed to waste nine people. The terrorist killed his transgender brother (who was misidentified as his sister). The terrorist didn't leave a manifesto but he had signs of anger towards women and African Americans. About six of the victims were Blacks. Some were mothers, fathers, grandparents and people who were doing good for the community. He didn't care who he shot. He wanted to created as much chaos in the area. Six police officers managed to stop the terrorist. They were lucky.
Had there been no police presence, more lives would have been taken away. Still in 30 seconds, a mass shooting. Anyway, Trump invited the Dayton Police and El Paso Police officers to the White House and thanked them for outstanding service. He trashed the mayor, Nan Whaley and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). He choose to visit the Miami Valley Hospital to meet shooting victim and medical officials instead of going to the site of the shooting. He faced strong protest in the area.
He also managed to get the name of the city wrong in a press conference. He said "God Bless the people of El Paso and Toledo." Trump's flub was funny. The city wasn't laughing. Toledo and Dayton leaders mocked Trump for the flub.
The city had a massive tornado hit the area. From Brookville to Beavercreek, at least four destructive tornadoes ripped through the area. Two of the tornadoes were called Ef-4. The other two were Ef-3 and Ef-2.
Nonetheless, the community suffered one of the worst disasters since the 1913 floods and 1978 blizzard.
Dayton lost the Grocerylane store in Old North Dayton leaving that area without a grocery store.
Kroger closed its Northridge location this year forcing residents to travel five miles to the nearest locations in Fort McKinley and Vandalia.
The North Dayton Plaza was wasted and it was recently razed. The old Ramada Inn hotel is being razed as of now. The new Keowee Street bridge was opened shortly after. Now folks traveling up North Dixie Drive will see a former shell of the Northridge community.
Around Trotwood, the city suffered unimaginable losses. The Foodtown location closed leaving that community without groceries. It forces the citizens to travel to Kroger in Fort McKinley four miles away and Walmart which is six miles away.
Burlington Coat Factory closed its doors this year. The city of Trotwood is a ghost town. With only Big Lots, Gordon's Food Services, Home Depot and Lowes left in the area, the community has a 75% vacancy rate.
Greyhound bus line was going to completely leave Dayton, Ohio. Last minute talks has succeed. The bus company move its location from the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority station to a former title and loan company about 1/4 mile from its old facility. The original facility was located on Fifth Street in downtown Dayton.
Dayton is still struggling despite the promises of Trump. We don't know how Dayton will vote this coming election but I can assure you that Ohio is likely a Trump grab because we elected Mike DeWine as the governor.
Expect Donald J. Trump and Congress to clash. Now that he's impeached, the U.S. Senate will conduct a trial. We will cover it. We will cover the Democratic primaries and find out who will be the sacrificial lamb. We will hold Trump, the House Democrats and Senate Republicans accountable.
Expect Democrats blow an opportunity to oust Trump from the White House.
More celebrities that passed away.
More success and failures from our leaders, entertainers and community.
More mass shootings will make the news.
More stories about our community of Dayton, Ohio.
More activism.
