DECEMBER 30, 2022 ON MY CORNER MEET YOUR VENDOR Facing the new year It can be hard coping with Brian Hargrove, vendor No. 158 In one sentence, who are you? I’m Brian Hargrove. Where do you usually sell Groundcover News? Around everywhere. When and why did you start selling Groundcover News? I restarted December and it's been good for me since I’ve been selling them. What is your favorite thing to do in Ann Arbor? Talk to people and have fun meeting people. If you could do anything for a day, what would it be? Eat some food and be around good friends. What motivates you to work hard selling Groundcover News? I’m motivated by the prospect of getting off the streets by making my situation better. If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? Pizza, ice cream and soul food! What words do you live by? Keep my focus on God. What is your superpower? I can lift a lot of things. What change would you like to see in Washtenaw County? More people helping homeless people get off the street. This would make it better for everyone in Ann Arbor. What are your hobbies? Reading a good book at the library. What is something someone on the street wouldn't know? I’m a happy person who likes to make everybody smile. What's the best or worst thing about selling Groundcover News? The worst thing is people who are rude. facing a new year. It can be hard because you never know what’s going to happen in a new year. It can be hard facing a new year because you never know what’s going to change; sometimes people and things change for the bad instead of for the good. You never know who or what you are going to lose that makes life happy and pleasant for you. Sometimes good things happen in the new year. Sometimes you gain new people and things that make life pleasant and happy. Music is always pleasant and DENISE SHEARER Groundcover vendor No. 485 Jesus always makes life more pleasant. Having a cup of iced tea or lemonade is a good way to cope with the day, anytime of year. Singing a spiritual song in your mind about God and Jesus is always a good way to cope any day of the year. Toys are also something pleasant to help cope anytime of the year and on any day. Things change for the good happy. Nice artwork is always pleasant and happy anytime of the year. Celebrating God and sometimes; things change for the bad sometimes. I like to love and celebrate God and Jesus when things change for both the good and the bad. GROUNDCOVER NEWS 3 The killing machine: mass incarceration Mass incarceration rips apart families and communities, disproportionately hurts people of color and costs taxpayers $260 billion a year. Michigan has an incarceration rate of 599 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than almost any democracy on Earth. There are two million people in the nation’s prisons and jails — a 500% increase over the last 40 years. Changes in sentencing law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase. What is the cause of mass NEWS WRITING BEST PRACTICES INTERVIEWING SOURCES AND IMPROVING YOUR ARTICLES TUESDAY, JAN 24, 2023 6:30PM YDL-WHITTAKER 5577 WHITTAKER ROAD WRITING A NEWS STORY TAKES A KEEN EYE AND A LOT OF LISTENING. GET GUIDED PRACTICE INTERVIEWING YOUR SOURCES AND TIPS ON INCORPORATING THEIR THOUGHTS INTO YOUR STORY. YOU'LL ALSO LEARN TO HIGHLIGHT THE MAIN HOOK OF YOUR ARTICLE AND HOW TO WRITE IN A WAY THAT KEEPS EVERYONE READING UNTIL THE LAST LINE. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YPSIWRITES AND GROUNDCOVER NEWS. MIKE JONES Groundcover vendor No. 113 incarceration? Drug offenses still account for the incarceration of almost 400,000 people, and drug convictions remain a defining feature of the federal prison system. Police still make over a million drug-possession arrests each year, many of which lead to prison sentences. I had a chance to interview a childhood friend, Brian, who has been incarcerated several times. Brian's first prison sentence was in 1996 and he was just released from his most recent stint in April 2022. Now homeless and staying at the Robert J. Delonis Center after getting kicked out of statefunded housing, Brian said, “It's not easy making it in society without housing, a place you can call your own.” Brian added, “Being homeless, staying at the warming center, is like prison because you are always in a toxic environment. Drugs, violence, etc.” Register online for Groundcover and Ypsilanti District Library's workshop by scanning the QR code!
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