Aug 20: Community Forum Meeting on Affordable Care Act

On July 20th, about 65 community residents gathered at the Charles Martin Center to share ideas and information and to develop plans to save the LaSalle Branch Library.  A decline in revenues for the St. Joseph County Public Libraries has led to a proposal by Library Director Napoli to close the LaSalle Branch Library so…

NEXT MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY FORUM FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT A public forum: WHAT'S BEING PLANNED FOR DOWN TOWN SOUTH BEND? Speaker – Jeff Gibney, Executive Director of South Bend's Department of Community and Economic Development When: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7 p.m. Where: Temple Beth-El — Enter from the Temple Beth-El parking lot at…

      EDUCATION, NOT INCARCERATION! BREAK THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE   A COMMUNITY FORUM WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, SEPT. 12th,  9 am to 4 pm,  AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY, SOUTH BEND, IN WIEKAMP HALL, Room 1001.   The School to Prison Pipeline results from practices based on zero tolerance and other school discipline policies that remove students from the classroom….

  SBCSC STUDENTS: WHERE HAVE THEY GONE?WHY ARE THEY LEAVING?  South Bend schools’ enrollment is down nearly 700 students this year, and it’s predicted that an additional 500 will leave by the Fall of 2020. The questions of where these students have gone and why they’re leaving the South Bend Community School Corporation are the topic…

The Great Land RobberyThe shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farmshttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/ How Southern Farmers were Forced from their Land, and their Heritagehttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-southern-black-farmers-were-forced-from-their-land-and-their-heritage  

NEXT MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY FORUM FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT  Tuesday March 20, 2012, 7 pm             LaSalle Branch Library (3232 West Ardmore Trail, South Bend)       Our special guest at this meeting will be Jim Kelly, the Notre Dame law professor who co-chairs, with Mayor Buttigieg, the newly created Vacant and Abandoned Properties Task Force….