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The Northwest Chatter FB group of a couple thousand has been helpful in the CT tri-corner area (MA/NY CT). Such forums spur more conversation than one might have otherwise. Any town or region likely could benefit from such a forum. Good luck getting yours up and running with volunteers. The unsung heroes as Ralph Nader quipped of bloggers and community activists and concerned citizens need to keep their spirits and efforts up for without an involved citizenry we're up a creek and paddlin' in circles or worse...

I feel we need a tribal gathering of sorts to allow people to post concerns and

Sadly I learned of one of the rare cases of a mother having the life of the father of their child ended on a Forensic Files show on TV. The 38-year-old was desribed at an excellent pediatrician and one of the possible motivations was for the mother to have sole custody as well as a $500 thousand life insurance policy (which she was using $200 thousand for to pay off two hit men.) Thankfully the forensic information linking the two hit men to the scene was available ( a sneaker print on tile, some blood and hair samples on a sweat shirt that was left in a hotel room along with the sneakers.

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"If you have a dog and a cat in the same house, in a single house, and the dog kills the cat, that's not good." While one young person (in earth years) can observe some real life dog and cat interactions and see that a dog who nips and chases a small cat about could theoretically if not actually end the cat's life (of "kill the cat"), many people would want to let that be a simple fact of nature or in civilized countries trust that if the dog were trained basically that would not happen.

What might this indicate for your average two people in a home, sharing a space as friends, housemates or