If you were out of town last week, you missed a lot.
The Legislature continues to look at ways to cut the budget, including how to cut state workers’ pay. It rained and rained and rained some more, causing Fay-like floods in isolated areas of the region.
And we were hit with another outbreak of violence. This one resulted in one man being shot to death and six others wounded when people started shooting each other in a crowded parking lot. The man who was killed, 26-year-old Curtis Brown, a father, was not involved in the dispute that resulted in the shooting.
Leon County Sheriff’s Office deputies called Brown “an innocent bystander” to the gang-related violence. You can see photos of the shooting scene here.
Well, we can’t do anything about how much it rains, and the Legislature, like the Divinity, moves in mysterious ways.
But can we think – and write – our way to creating a safer and better community?
We think it is time to give a democratic approach – one in which everyone has a voice – a try.
We’re experimenting with a new social-media tool on Tallahassee.com called MixedInk, a collaborative writing tool. The topic we’ve chosen to start with is community violence.
The question is: Can we figure out a way, working together, to curb violence?
While the approach is a fresh and novel way to seek community agreement on an approach to combating violent behavior in our community, the concept is not, and it can be used on a number of topics.
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