Will the Recession Kill Web 2.0?

The last fast few years have seen resurgence in Internet companies not seen since the bubble years of the late 90s. The growth of these advertising-supported "Web 2.0" companies has propelled online advertising sales to $21 billion from $6 billion between 2002 and 2007. But the last recession pricked the bubble in 2001. What will happen to this crop of Internet companies?

The broader economic recession has not spared the Internet sector. Online display advertising is projected to be flat to down by RBC Capital in 2009. It is hard enough for internet startups at the best of times. Which companies will come out of this recession the best?

Jeremy Liew is a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and an active blogger on the consumer internet industry.

I predict that media buyers will focus on both a flight to quality and a flight to surety. This will benefit three types of startups: companies with large audiences, companies that sell direct-response advertising, and companies that offer valuable niche content.

In a period of uncertainty, media buyers will look to trim lower quality sites from their ad buys and focus on a smaller number of higher quality placements. Quality will likely be measured by both familiarity and scale. Sites with well known brands and meaningful traffic will remain in the ad plan. Just as no one ever got fired for buying computers from IBM in the 80s, so too no one will get fired for buying advertising from Google and Yahoo! today.

But big companies at scale and monetizing well, like Yahoo! and Google, are feeling the bite of the recession. Both companies have guided expectations downward recently. This is because they are already at full monetization scale, so there is no escaping the economy.

However, many smaller companies have built huge audiences that are just starting to be monetized. These are the companies that will see the most growth through the recession. Today they are not fulfilling all the potential demand for their inventory because they don't have enough sales people to respond to all the possible advertises. The simple act of adding more salespeople will benefit them. Examples of such companies include social networking site, Facebook, news aggregator Digg and widget-maker Rockyou. (Full disclosure: I am an investor, and a believer in Rockyou).

In an uncertain environment, advertisers will also want to shift more of their advertising budgets to direct response (the online equivalent of 1-800-number advertisements) and away from brand advertising. Much of the direct response advertising is ultimately sold on a CPC (cost per click) or CPA (cost per action) model, rather than the CPM model based solely on the number of ad impressions shown. This makes direct response more of a "sure thing" for advertisers.

Media companies who can apply behavioral targeting and other forms of targeting will be able to improve click through rates and conversion rates. Companies like Revenue Science, Azoogle and Tatto can better identify which customer to show each ad, and will benefit disproportionately.

In a similar vein, ad buyers will want to stick with the surety of their established methods for targeting brand advertising. This is and has always been to buy content adjacencies. The demographic and behavioral targeting that may work for direct response will be harder to sell to brand advertisers in the recession. It will be very hard to prove that these forms of targeting are more effective and justify a premium price. As a result, vertically focused content sites will have an advantage. Examples include the Health Central Network, Flixster and Like.com, all companies that have aggregated large audiences with a singular content focus attractive to endemic advertisers. (Full disclosure: I am an investor and a believer in Flixster).

So there is a silver lining to even the dark clouds of this recession. Certainly there will be many companies that suffer over the next few quarters, and some that will fail. But Web 2.0 companies with large audiences and the right advertising model will benefit from a flight to quality and a flight to surety. They may exit the recession even stronger than today. However, since many of these companies are not yet profitable, they will only benefit if – and this is a big if – they have enough funding to ride out the storm.

Federal Disaster Assistance Available In Pike County

People in Pike County, Ky ., are now eligible to apply for federal disaster assistance from the Commonwealth and the Federal Emergency Management Agency as they recover from severe storms, flooding, and mudslides that struck Kentucky beginning July 17. President Obama issued a major disaster declaration on July 23 that made Pike County eligible for federal disaster assistance.

Anyone who has uninsured or under-insured losses in Pike County may complete an online application at www.disasterassistance.gov or apply by phone by calling 800-621-FEMA (3362) or TTY 800-462-7585 for people with hearing and speech disabilities. The toll-free numbers are available seven days a week, 7 AM to 10 PM, until further notice.

"Filing damage reports with Commonwealth or county emergency managers or voluntary agencies will not start the federal disaster-assistance process,” said Kentucky Division of Emergency Management Director John Heltzel. “You must register with FEMA to start the process.”

FEMA’s Individual Assistance program can help eligible applicants with temporary housing assistance, uninsured personal property losses and medical, dental, and funeral expenses caused by the disaster, along with other disaster-related expenses and serious needs. Low-interest disaster loans from the United States Small Business Administration also will be available to cover residential and business losses not covered by insurance.

"Flood survivors don’t have to wait for an insurance inspection to begin the registration process; they should apply as soon as possible,” said Federal Coordinating Officer Doug Mayne. "We will begin working with people who have losses immediately and we will continue to coordinate with the Commonwealth to speed recovery efforts."

When applying for help, be sure to have the following information available: Your current telephone number. Your address at the time of the disaster and the address where you now are staying. Your Social Security number, if available. A general list of damages and losses you suffered. If insured, the name of your company or agent and your policy number. Bank account coding if you wish to speed up your assistance by using direct deposit.

FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

Reported by: FEMA

Governor Doyle to Push for Federal Help Ahead of FEMA Arrival

The state will move Tuesday morning to seek a major disaster declaration and federal help for residents living where floods washed away appliances, mementos, cars, homes and businesses last week, Gov. Jim Doyle announced late Monday.

A new estimate for Milwaukee County put the cost of the destruction at $37.5 million, and state officials received word that a Federal Emergency Management Agency team would soon start an assessment of what last week's deluge wrought. The team from FEMA's Chicago office is expected to tour the damaged areas, including Milwaukee, Grant and possibly other counties, starting Monday.

Accused of delaying action earlier in the day, Doyle announced hours later that he would pursue the disaster declaration ahead of the FEMA inspections.

The federal assessment, though, remains a necessary step in determining whether the flooding qualifies as a major disaster and residents are eligible to receive help for damage to their homes and other property losses not covered by insurance.

Residents and local officials have no doubt.

Three days after the rain abated, crews in Milwaukee had picked up 580 tons of debris - the furniture, photo albums, carpeting and housewares destroyed when flood waters and backed up sewage flowed into thousands of basements. Nearly 3,000 residents in Milwaukee have called to have their ruined property carted away.

In one neighborhood near Lincoln Creek, 10 homes have been placarded as unsafe and three already have been designated to be razed.

Nearly 1,000 homes and businesses in two North Shore suburbs, Whitefish Bay and Shorewood, sustained similar basement and foundation damage because of the flooding.

Damage to private homes and businesses totaled $9.75 million in Whitefish Bay, $6.3 million in Milwaukee and $1.5 million in Shorewood, according to figures released by the Milwaukee County Emergency Management Bureau.

Across the county, the damage estimate to homes and businesses reached nearly $27.1 million and the damage to public properties was estimated to be $10.3 million.

Calls to the 211 hotline to report flood damage continued steadily on Monday, as did the now ubiquitous greeting: "How's your basement?"

The backlog of calls to the hotline remained about 120 to 150, despite assistance from a half-dozen agencies called in to answer phones and provide information to water-logged residents.

"What I'm picking up on is people didn't realize how bad it was right away," said Bob Waite, program director of the 211@IMPACT hotline. "They're finding they picked everything up, and then they're finding mold and structural issues and other things going on."

More than half of the nearly 4,000 flood-related calls placed to 211 so far originated from three zip codes, 53209, 53216 and 53218, an area where observers measured more than 7 inches of rain in roughly six hours. The zip codes cover a large area around Lincoln Park on the northeast side of Milwaukee.

In 2008, when major flooding spread across 30 counties in southern Wisconsin in early June, the damage estimates continued to climb into October. FEMA then provided $97 million in federal disaster assistance to individuals and businesses and another $12 million to government entities that incurred damage. Much of the damage was caused by the severe storms that started on June 5, and the state received a federal major disaster declaration nine days later.

On Monday, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett urged Doyle to speed up the effort to help the thousands of residents now suffering because of the storms that hit on Thursday night and Friday morning. Barrett told reporters Monday afternoon that he has been calling Doyle and U.S. Rep Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) to pound home the message that "it is imperative that FEMA get here . . . sooner rather than later."

Doyle spokesman Adam Collins said the state can't make the request to FEMA until Milwaukee County and other counties in the region finish estimating the damage - something that no county has done so far.

"It's a big job and people have been working around the clock on it," Collins said. "FEMA is ready to be here early next week to validate the damage assessments, but at this point the damage assessments have not been submitted."

Sheriff David Clarke Jr. called that misinformation.

The County Emergency Management Bureau, which is a division of the sheriff's office, sent a damage report to the state on Friday, detailing a preliminary $28.5 million tally of lost property and washed out foundations.

"We sent a follow-up letter asking them to expedite this thing and get FEMA out here now so we can go about the business of getting people their disaster relief so they can get their lives back together," Clarke said.

"Our numbers are in," he said. "We are not the holdup on this."

Clarke said the revised figures reached Monday would be sent to state emergency management officials immediately.

Wisconsin Division of Emergency Management spokeswoman Lori Getter said the time being taken to seek the disaster declaration in Milwaukee is typical of such cases. The state is working with several counties hit by the floods.

FEMA Continues To Monitor Tropical Storm Bonnie, Encourages Americans To Be Prepared

The head of the United States Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Craig Fugate announced today that federal disaster aid has been made available to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to supplement commonwealth and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, and mudslides beginning on July 17, 2010, and continuing.
The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Pike County.
Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.

Federal funding also is available to Commonwealth and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms, flooding, and mudslides in Pike County.

Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures Commonwealth-wide.

Douglas G. Mayne was named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area. Mayne said that damage surveys are continuing in other areas, and additional counties may be designated for assistance after the assessments are fully completed.
Residents and business owners who sustained losses in the designated counties can begin applying for assistance tomorrow by registering online at /www.DisasterAssistance.gov or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA(3362) or 1-800-462-7585 (TTY) for the hearing and speech impaired. The toll-free telephone numbers will operate from 7 AM to 10 PM (local time).

Stay informed of FEMA's activities online: videos and podcasts available at www.fema.gov/medialibrary and www.youtube.com/fema ; follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fema and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fema.

FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

Reported by: FEMA



Published on: 2010-07-24

FEMA Continues To Monitor Tropical Storm Bonnie, Encourages Americans To Be Prepared

This evening, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced that the tropical depression has been upgraded to Tropical Storm Bonnie with sustained winds of 40 mph, to become the second named storm of the Atlantic Hurricane season. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) continues to monitor the storm and stands ready to support state, territory and local officials in the region and the Gulf Coast to ensure they have the resources to respond should a storm strike. FEMA also is urging everyone in the region to take steps now to ensure they are prepared for possible severe weather.

The NHC has issued a tropical storm warning for the east coast of Florida from Golden Beach Southward, including the entire Florida Keys and Florida Bay and along the west coast of Florida, northward to Bonita Beach. The NHC has also issued a tropical storm watch for the entire east coast of Florida north of Golden Beach to Jupiter inlet, including Lake Okeechobee. A warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area within 36 hours. A watch means that the conditions are possible within the watch area, generally within 48 hours.

"We continue to monitor the storm and FEMA personnel continue to work closely with state, territory, and local officials to ensure they have the support they need," said FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. "The most important thing for people living in the area to do right now is to ensure their family is prepared and to follow the instructions of local officials. For more information and helpful tips, anyone can visit www.Ready.gov."

FEMA has life-saving and life-sustaining commodities and supplies strategically located across the country to support states in their response. These supplies, including water, meals, tarps, blankets, generators and other essential items, can be replenished through the national logistics supply chain.

In Florida and locations around the Gulf Coast alone, more than one million liters of water, 1.8 million meals, 70,000 rolls of plastic sheeting, 260,000 tarps, 250,000 blankets, 60,000 cots and 300 generators are available for use as needed. FEMA has conducted resource support planning and preparations with all hurricane-prone states and territories for the current hurricane season to ensure a coordinated disaster response, if needed.

The storm's tract is currently moving west-northwestward toward the Gulf of Mexico. FEMA also remains in close contact with our federal partners at the National Hurricane Center and the United States Coast Guard. If the tract continues in that direction, the Unified Area Command will make any decisions regarding the movement of assets and workers involved with the BP Deepwater Horizon Operations.

The National Weather Service remains the source of official severe weather watches and warnings, including flash flooding which can take only a few minutes to develop in the case of heavy rains. Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and surrounding areas have already been receiving heavy rainfall. FEMA encourages all individuals in the region to listen to NOAA Weather Radio and their local news to monitor for severe weather updates, and to follow the directions provided by their local officials.

FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

Reported by: FEMA

Feds let BP keep oil cap closed for another day

The federal government's point man for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says he's authorized BP to keep the cap on its busted well for another 24 hours after the company pledged to closely monitor the seafloor for signs of a new leak.

In a statement issued Monday, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says a federal science team held a conference call with BP representatives Sunday night. He says the scientists got answers they wanted about how BP is monitoring the seabed in case any new leaks erupt from the capped well.

Allen had written BP the day before to say a seep had been detected a distance from the well and demanded BP step up monitoring of the seabed.

Allen says in his Monday statement he'll only allow the cap to stay on if BP continues meeting its obligations to watch for signs that it could possibly worsen the situation.

Source: AP News

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What if Freedom is no longer a spectator sport?


We at BigTimesNews.com want to pose a few "what ifs" to the readers, and the nation at large to see, if confronted with a bit of circumstancial evidence, would you the readers come to the same conclusions we have?

What if the Elite had a list of goals they wanted to accomplish this year? Goals which consisted of war with Iran and the ability to fuel that war, reck the US economy, establish the ground work for a NAFTA Superport in the Gulf of Mexico, feeding the NAFTA Superhighway, which will feed North America, pass Cap and Trade, Fill the FEMA camps which have been built, have coastal areas free and clear of people for some UN agenda, and confiscate guns without really having to do it.

What if on April 11, some members of the military industrial complex set off a chain of nukes in a deep part of the Gulf to cause a fracture, and fill up the bottom with enough oil and gas to fuel an invasion against Iran? What if this explosion was felt by every seismograph online at the time? Who cares about the Straight of Hormuz, and who cares about our lack of refinement, especially if we could mix that oil and gas with corexit, and keep 99% of it at the bottom of the Gulf, so we can simply place refinement ships above the black pool, suck it up, and distribute it to the world right on the spot. What if you had to explain the 1% that had escaped by sinking a oil rig in the Gulf, then blame can be placed on a 24 hour newsfeed of a 21" pipe, that no one can do anything about.... watch my left hand while I get you with my right. What if they blew up the oil rig, and waited to announce it on the day of the birthdays of Queen Elizabeth and Hitler, and Earth Day, in addition to it being the day set to announce Cap and Trade. What if they said they stopped the oil leaking after 88 days? Is it just a coincidence that everyone is talking about revelations 8:8, read it for yourself? Or maybe it's just to toy with us a little more.

Would you worry about political or legal reprecussions, if you knew the people who would either not evacuate the Gulf Coast, or sue you in the future would be killed by the toxic fumes, so who cares. Not to mention the cancellation of the November elections due to the chaos of the evacuation of 20+ million people.

What if a spill so vast, and unreported could somehow stop the loop current in the Gulf Stream, warm the waters, and the climate, and warm the hearts of all the Global Warming non-believers. Would this help you pass Cap and Trade? Or free up vast coastal areas for the UN agenda mentioned above. Would this cause a deep freeze of the Northern half of the United States?

How would 20+ million Americans headed North take their guns with them? Would the loss of property value, jobs, industry, and lives of so many people wreck the already weak US economy?

What if you knew the 20+ million Americans couldn't head to the South West, because you had created such a problem with border drug violence and illegal immigration in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California? Opps, can't go there.

What if the Government tried to stir up racial tensions between white and black America just before 20+ million evacuating Southerners have to head North of the Mason-Dixon, with nowhere to go? Where are most of the FEMA Camps anyway? And food is scarce, because one of the world's most incredible fishing industries has just been destroyed. Not to mention all the crops from the Gulf to North Dakota are being covered in toxic rain thanks to BP, the corexit, and the radio-active petroleum oozing from the bottom of the ocean floor.

Which brings us to our last, most sobering point... What if by distributing radio-active gasoline around the world, in every car tank that is unlucky enough to use it makes it easy for these pyschopaths to have cart blanche distribution of their wonderful, new, high-tech nuclear weapons? What if freedom is no longer a spectator sport?

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ENERGETIC BURSTS OF OIL FROM SEA FLOOR SEE WEB CAM
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ericroded
We're clearly not getting an accurate nor complete story on this shit.

Why on Earth would anybody deny BP keeping it's cap that is working ON?

Might as well just make up the news my Goddamn self.
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cessnadriver
There is an old saying: The more you stomp on the burning bag of dog crap on your porch, the bigger the problem becomes.

If the backpressure from the capped well further damages the well bore and/or the oil is finding another path of least resistance, as any pressurized fluid will do, it might be better to open the well head and recover as much oil as possible rather than risk opening up 1, 000 oil channels and passages through that sedimentary rock.
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ericroded
I thought the only solution was going to be the relief well.

Oh well, different day, different story.

That's how it goes.

Every shitty day, another shitty story.

I used to think the USA could do anything it set its mind to.

Now I'm pretty sure everything we touch turns to shit.

You know what Liberty would be?

a.) paying your taxes and not whining about it.

and

b.) voting on election day.

and

c.) spending the rest of your time living your life.

I kicked booze, I can kick reading nooze.

Catchy right?

"I kicked booze, I can kick the nooze!

Hey!

I kicked booze, I can kick the nooze!

What?

'He said he kicked booze he can kick the nooze!

Wooooo!

He kicked booze he can kick the nooze!'

Huh huh huh!"
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The reason BP is at odds with common sense is because they are classic Capitalists infected with the fear of losing their grip on greed and the influence they have in perpetuating the status of greed....
The Capitalism they adore does two things…it legalizes and rewards greed.
Greed (excessive desire to acquire or possess more, especially more material wealth, than one needs or deserves) has been with human beings forever.
We have a number of things in our species that you would call the dark side, and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.
Capitalism does the opposite of that. It not only doesn't really put any structure or restriction on greed. It both encourages and rewards it.
BP is also very much like Anarchists who want no control or government over their rampant desires, yet want to have unrestrained control over everything they do.
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If BP could have gotten away with it, they would have thrown $75 million at the feds and said, "You deal with it."

That's what they tried to do via the efforts of their flying monkeys in Congress.

The parable of the Titanic should be taught to all executives. The series of executive blunders-16 lifeboats when they could have had 64, one pair of binoculars, one box of the wrong-colored flares, believing their own "unsinkable" nonsense, steaming at full speed through the Greenland Ice Field in April in a ship that doesn't turn when it's going at 1/2 speed, and many others-doomed that ship, as it doomed the Deepwater Horizion well.
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british petroleum DEMANDED it stay closed

How much damage is being done?
Who is giving who the orders?

Newark NJ is getting ready for martial law

July 1,2010
Mayor Cory A. Booker
Inaugural Address
Thank you everyone. My deepest gratitude to my family and friends for their
unconditional love and support and my profound thanks to the people of our city for
again putting their faith in my leadership and for giving me the greatest privilege of my
life, to serve as Mayor of the greatest city in America.
I believe that especially in Newark, we must hold on to our knowledge of history. Our
city, the third founded in our Nation, has proven through the prowess of our people that
we not only embody the spirit of America but we have expanded the very conception of
it.
America has always been a daring dream. And in our city, we have worked to make real
on this dream, this promise, and this hope of America.
Newark's sacred soil has given rise to heroes of hope who have, under difficult
circumstances, achieved stirring success and awesome achievement.
In the more than 300 years of our existence, let it not be fast forgotten that our soldiers
who stood in Washington's army, on beaches in Normandy, and in our current conflicts
have watered our Nation's way with their sweat and blood.
Let it not be forgotten that our laborers, inventors and entrepreneurs built this nation,
fueled its economic dominance and expanded the quality of life for millions.
Let it not be forgotten that our poets have touched our nation's heart, our songwriters and
musicians have helped pen and play our nation's scores, our authors have written some of
our nation's greatest works and our activists have made our democracy more inclusive of
diversity and even more daring in its dreams for itself.
This is Newark, New Jersey.
And even in our last 50 years, perhaps during some of Newark's most challenging times,
when others sought to write Newark's epitaph we have best evidenced those values our
nation particular! y needs now.
Newark today is more hopeful, has more promise, possibilities and potential because this
is a city where its people did not give up on their American dreams when others
abandoned their faith in them; stood their ground when others cut and ran.
This is Newark, a place where faith is stubborn, hope is intractable, and the will to fight
and win towers over cynical surrender, resignation and retreat.
The American spirit needs the Newark spirit. The values that have helped our city survive
and thrive, endure and overcome are the solid bedrock that is needed during these
shifting, uncertain times.
It is self-evident as we 10 swear an oath before our city, before our common history, and
before ancestors looking down from above, that we assume roles of leadership and
service during the worst economy in 70 years.
The foundation of government is being shaken all across our globe from Europe to Asia
and we cannot turn on the news or read the newspaper and not see that governments
across our country and state face dire realities.
Newark will not be spared this economic upheaval. Our most sacred institutions in all
corners of our city, from museums and libraries, schools and hospitals, institutions of
public safety and historic nonprofits which serve the public good will be forced to choose
amongst limited options that all involve wrenching, painful outcomes.
Understand this, the decisions that are before the elected officials on this stage and other
leaders throughout our community will not be popular. This is a time for leadership not
popUlarity. I am so grateful for the municipal council: they have come to the table,
especially in the past weeks and months, with a real sense of cooperation and shared
responsibility. They have brought ideas, innovations, as well as deep compassion and a
sense of profound empathy.
But there is also the realization that while we will do everything possible to lessen the
pain - and we will succeed in doing so - there will however still be pain. The challenges
before us demand that we reinvent or even revolutionize government as we know it
today. As we are seeing in cities all across New Jersey, we will be forced to do more with
less and in the process services will be cut, jobs will be lost, and families will be affected.
But despite these painful circumstances and the financial realities that are out of our
control, I tell you that we in Newark still have the power to choose our own destiny.
This is Newark. We will counter pain with perseverance, we will answer this crisis with
courage and creativity; and we will match budget blues with our own unique song of
strength and a new anthem of achievement.
Our city WILL set the national standard of urban transformation in the four years ahead.
We will year after year continue to drive down crime.
We will build even more new parks in our city from our water front to our wards - green
will more and more become Newark's new color.
In the last 4 years in a down housing market, we built 1000 units of public and affordable
housing; we will continue with this ambitious pace, fighting to make Newark a livable
city for Newarkers of all incomes.
We will build new schools and expand excellent educational options for our children and
parents. Education will be a central part of my agenda for the next four years - we will
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0, let America be America again-The
land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME-Who
made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
0, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath-America
will be!
Fellow Newarkers, I swear this oath today - with council and community - that Newark
will be - and America will be. Let us swear an oath, every citizen of our city, that despite
these dark and difficult days, we will be our Nation's hope and her light. We will be like
days before, a city of innovation, of art and artistry, of education and industry. This is
Newark New Jersey; let the spirit of America ring true and live abundantly in our great
city.
May God Bless Newark, New Jersey.
May God Bless America.