West Side Alumni Chris Hunter signs with the New York Knicks

West Side Alumni Chris Hunter was signed by the Knicks after having a stellar season in the NBA D-League with Fort Wayne.  He is the first player from Northwest Indiana to play in the NBA since Glenn Robinson. There’s no coincidence that both hail from G.I.. Though that area (or region as they call it) [...]

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My Hometown Gary, Indiana

This blog represents the first in a series of blogs that will attempt to chronicle “what’s wrong & right with the City of Gary, Indiana”. The blog is written with the sole purpose of creating forward thinking dialogue on how to improve, not lambaste, the City that I grew up in. No, I no longer [...]

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Gary Indiana Basketball News

This post kicks off the 2008/2009 Gary Indiana Boys and Girls Basketball season. If you’ve found this post and you either live in Gary or are formerly from G.I., please leave a message on your feelings/thoughts on this upcoming basketball season, as well as those types of thoughts on past seasons. I just find there [...]

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Upsouth. My Home State Indiana.

Martin Luther King used the term “UpSouth” to characterize his thoughts of the State of Indiana whenever he traveled to it.  Essentially, he was inferring that unlike other non-southern states north of the Mason-Dixon line, the fervor of the racist climate was as negative in Indiana as it was in, say,  Alabama. Having grown up [...]

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Bowman Academy?

I recall reading about John Boyd (Coach of West Side) sounding bitter about the circumstances of a charter school (I think Bowman) affecting where the ever thinning basketball talent pool goes to high school in Gary. Having been born and raised in Gary in an era where charter schools were not a problem, I can [...]

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Unintended Consequences

So Obama might just be the next president of the U.S.. While I applaud his position, I also have to signal the need for his black supporters to “wake up and smell what’s brewing”. I mentioned in previous post how a Barack win will bring about a new type of perspective on blacks in the [...]

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G.I.

The Milk Depot. The Lure. Screamin Wheels. Rays Shrimp House. Tri-Tri City. Westbrook Apartments. Chase School. The Dairy Queen on 15th Ave. Jackson Rib House. Archie B’s. Martin Gas Station. Jewel Food Store. The Village. Vienna Red Hot stand. Custom Tops. Montgomery Wards. Gilmore Stadium. Methodist Hospital. Mercy Hospital. Arts Bakery. Horseman. WEST SIDE COUGARS. [...]

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Don’t piss me off Barack. Brotha or no Brotha

Don’t mess things up. You pandering to Illegal Immigrant supporters is a little unnerving. While I don’t have any worries of illegal immigrants taking my job because of their willingness to be exploited, I do have a problem with what I’ve seen the past 7 years. Today, I was just in Wal-mart and noticed a [...]

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Limbaugh’s semi-pro (ductive) crossover is wicked………….

Pasty Rush Limbaugh’s Ditto Heads are the “white working class” that has been “crossing over ” and voting for Hillary in large numbers. I’m convinced after noticing right after the completion of several primaries, theres always a statement in the press that talks about how heavy the voter turn out was in normally Republican Red [...]

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Hoosier Tarheel Vote for?

Having been born and raised in Gary, Indiana (1st 18years), I’ve lived in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area since June 2001. The similarities between Indiana and North Carolina are in most instances subtle, and in some instances striking. Indiana, Northwest Indiana in particular, has suffered greatly due to the global economy, primarily through the loss of [...]

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