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Welcome - (Click City Images to read the latest headlines) Our news, public affairs, and information blog reports on cities and their residents. There are at least 10K Cities on Planet Earth. Our job at #ImaginusMedia, #DoseOfNews, and #CityImages is to make sense of the big picture shaping our world—also, audio features and fast updates on the day’s most important news. We’re rolling out a more streamlined reading experience on the biggest stories shaping our world. These improvements are shaped by the communication we’ve had with many of you over the past few years. Your feedback has guided so much of our thinking. Please keep it coming. We are best when in conversation with you, the people we serve. city.imags3@gmail.com

RIP WILLIE COLON

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He was a community activist for the Latinos and ran for public office.

RIP GEN XYZ

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If you feel muddled by this alphabet soup of names, it is easy to see why there is so much confusion about generational cohorts.
While some individuals are special and do not follow the trend, many appear hyper-individualistic or resistant to responsibility beyond themselves and some in their inner circle, while others are deeply collective and cause-driven. The bottom line is most don’t shive-a-git.

A FIRE HORSE YEAR

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The 1966 Fire Horse year had a strong cultural impact in places like Japan, where superstition suggested girls born that year would be strong-willed and bring hardship to husbands. Birth rates noticeably declined that year.

VALENTINES DAY

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Today the world not only celebrates St. Valentine, with candy hearts and roses, but courageous, sacrificial love. ❤️ 

CUBAN PETE & BAD BUNNY

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Why was a 3:20 broadcast performance on national television during the 1950s and a 2020s 13-minute halftime show produced by another one of the most famous performers, the cause of American interest and division? This is our America.

THE PRAYER

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We pray that Americans embrace and cultivate multilingual and multicultural assets. There are personal, social, academic, economic, and political benefits to achieving bilingualism from linguistically diverse children’s earliest years.
Children who speak a non-English language at home and can fully develop their emerging bilingualism can maintain stronger connections with their families and heritage, and have stronger cross-cultural connections that expand their social networks.

THE KISS

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A kiss is the touching or pressing of one's lips against another person, animal, or object.

ROCK COLLEGE

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Ahhh yes, light that lava lamps and put your headphones on. Do you remember when music first felt like a journey into the mind?

In this video, we dive deep into 10 psychedelic songs that defined the 1960s tracks that didn’t just change rock music, but transformed how it was experienced. From hypnotic riffs to mind-bending lyrics, these timeless songs captured the spirit of the hippie counterculture and ushered in an era of fearless musical experimentation.

Think you recognize them all? Try more incense, less algorithm:

WORSE TIMES

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Over the years, US politicians have been particularly skilled at opportunistic adaptation, without being cruel. Specifically, they've successfully courted immigrant communities for electoral gain. However, traditional "mom and pop" businesses continue to struggle with demographic and cultural changes, while the rich continue to gain wealth, and the middle class disappears.
I was offered a GOP Chief job because I was qualified, and not an unqualified yes man.

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