And I almost forgot

In a flurry of posts for the past week or so I breezed by our two year anniversary here. The first post was on November 7, 2007. The blog was started with one main idea in mind to showcase what I would consider a unique part of our fair city, that is predominantly black and middle-class.

It seems that we're doing more than that. We have following the subjects of politics, development, crime, education, or policy to name a few issues. In recent months we tackled a subject I would refer to as "neighborhood building". Especially with our focus on the well-known Chatham neighborhood and do what we can to keep it a thriving community.

I hope we will continue and in addition being able to pay a visit to neighborhood events such as the re-opening of 75th Street after infrastructure work and the recent townhall meeting on Wal-Mart. Hopefully there will be a few others covered in the future of this blog. And I'm really look forward to next year's state elections.

BTW, I did note that Kari K. Steele is running for the Water Reclamation District. Short of an endorsement I wish her the best of luck and in spite of a recent comment blasting her for her family ties, at the very least she appears to be qualified for the task that she seeks. As stated earlier she was amongst the first in the community to reach out to this blog.

Finally, I want to note the reach of this blog. We're being read by important media organizations (hello Trib), and of course but local elected officials as well, such as Ald. Lyle who we should thank for her continued support.In addition our blog is seen in the blog feed over at The Capitol Fax blog and sometimes we get comments from around our state.

Hopefully the reach will be more localized as we continue to seek a critical mass of participation from community residents. We always like to see comments or even e-mails from the neighbors, but I also hope that you may connect with other neighbors and let them know that we're here. ;)

BTW, I also want to note our newest blogger, Worlee. His posts have been seen here for a while and not long before that he was merely a regular commenter, but he's definitely a valued blogger here. I hope we may have more from the community as well. Worlee also is responsible for the Facebook page Concerned Citizens of Chatham. I hope that if you're a member of Facebook already that you may join his page and consider the exchange occurring there already. You can join currently if you refer to our recently installed Wibiya toolbar.

Finally I want you to consider joining this blog's Facebook page. It's linked to the blog's Twitter account, and there have been some interesting exchanges there as well. If you're on Twitter or Facebook I hope you will consider joining those as well

And as always thanks for reading!