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Celebrating 2 Years of 1819 News , Featuring Editor-in-Chief Jeff Poor bryan dawson
“ I always ask them , ‘ What do you do now ? What are you doing now ? Do you work in your community ? Do you serve in your church ?’ … Don ’ t ever say you have nothing to offer . You can always offer prayer .”
Going to church and joining in that community of prayer does something to you , Flynn says . “ What happens is all of a sudden people start to feel strength . They start to feel like ‘ I ’ m not alone .’ And when you get that feeling that you ’ re not alone , that ’ s an empowering sense of strength , and it provides perseverance . It provides a resiliency that you might not have had .”
Flynn challenges us to keep pressing forward , particularly at the local level , seeking to win this battle . He especially applauds 1819 News for its efforts to wage that war on the Alabama home front .
“ You just keep fighting and keep getting out there .”
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Celebrating 2 Years of 1819 News , Featuring Editor-in- Chief Jeff Poor
In October 2023 , 1819 News celebrated its second anniversary ! To mark the milestone , editor-in-chief Jeff Poor joined CEO Bryan Dawson to look back and reflect on all that ’ s happened in the past two years .
As Dawson and Poor observe , the extensive number of stories told and the battles waged in the last two years make it hard to believe that such a short time has elapsed since the organization ’ s founding . Indeed , some of the most prominent stories broken by 1819 News are the ones changing the landscape of Alabama for the better .
Take the fight over kiddie porn in our state ’ s libraries . Alabama has “ a polite country club setting ,” Poor says , where such topics are generally hush-hush . Yet discussing these problems and building awareness about them is essential to maintaining a healthy culture in Alabama , he explains .
Such discussions are also necessary to show the ruling elites that they can ’ t push average citizens around forever .
“ This to me is where the real problem lies ,” Poor notes . “ It ’ s this unaccountable bureaucracy telling you ‘ No , I have the library science degree . This is not important . I know better than you rubes out there . I did this . I got my library science degree … you ’ re not gonna tell me what goes in a library !’”
Unfortunately , such political elitism isn ’ t only present in our libraries . 1819 News has uncovered it in the schools , in ALDOT , and even in the people we elect to make our laws and represent us at the state level .
According to Poor :
“ You have these people who work at government who couldn ’ t care less about what those crazy people in Alabama want , think , vote , or whatever . ‘ We ’ re doing it . Our way ,’ [ they say ].’ And that ’ s not a government for the people , by the people — that ’ s not the consent of the governed . We should not have this kind of problem in Alabama . … I think the people in California get the government that they want . I think the people in Connecticut or wherever [ in ] these blue states get the government they want . Why can ’ t we have the government we want in Alabama ?”
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