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Constance Beutel: Kari Birdseye for Benicia City Council

July 17, 2022 Roger Straw

Kari Birdseye for Benicia City Council

Background, Experience and Commitment

By Constance Beutel, Benicia resident, July 17, 2022

I strongly support Kari Birdseye for Benicia City Council. Ms. Birdseye has exceptional professional qualifications and civic service that are essential to our community.

She is a working professional with wide corporate and nonprofit experience.
She has served as Matthew Turner elementary school PTA President.
She has served on Benicia’s Planning Commission since 2015 and currently is the Chair of the Commission.

With her background and experience she has demonstrated a commitment to invite community participation, respectfully listen and deeply research community issues. Further, she is unafraid to put community interests over outside influence.

Her commitment to Benicia’s economic vibrancy, historic character, and clear focus on our health and safety relating to air and water quality make her an ideal and steadfast City Council candidate.

I’m voting for Benicia’s future and Kari Birdseye; I hope you will too.

Constance Beutel, EdD
Benicia

More letters, news & links about Kari here on the BenIndy

And best of all – Kari’s website!

Kari Birdseye For Benicia City Council 2022 — https://karibirdseyeforbenicia.com

Gun Violence Archive

At least one mass shooting every day so far in July

July 11, 2022 Roger Straw

Yesterday: Four more mass shootings in US, four dead, sixteen injured

Gun Violence Archive, mass shootings on Sunday, July 10, 2022

Date	State	City Or County	Address	# Killed	# Injured
10-Jul-22	California	Downey	8100 block of Leeds St	3	2
10-Jul-22	Missouri	Kansas City	4128 Broadway Blvd	1	5
10-Jul-22	Illinois	Chicago	448 N State St	0	4
10-Jul-22	New York	Brooklyn	Boardwalk and W 21st St	0	5

Sunday in Downey, California – 3 dead, 2 injured

[BenIndy editor: apologies for the 15-second commercial…]

Gun Violence Archive definition of “mass shootings”

Mass Shooting Methodology and Reasoning

Mass Shootings are, for the most part an American phenomenon. While they are generally grouped together as one type of incident they are several with the foundation definition being that they have a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.

News

Grim news makes people feel ‘powerless.’ Here’s how to change that

July 11, 2022 Roger Straw

**Click here** for CNNs Reliable Sources, with guest Melissa Bell, publisher and co-founder of VOX.

Roger’s two takeaways…

News providers need to tell the stories in context, giving the public ways to respond constructively. (VOX News has been on this subject – see the video above, and for more, see below.)
Incredible: 42% of people under 35 years old “sometimes or often actively avoid the news” (Reuters Digital News Report). Note that for the first time in MY life, I will admit to having avoided the daily news on a few occasions. This after 6 years of vigilance in stomaching the daily Trump show.