- For the past year, much of the talk in San Bernardino has centered around its financial troubles and restoring the city to solvency. There's a lot more to talk about in this 200-year-old town, however, and on the anniversary of the city's Chapter 9 filing it seemed fitting to begin focusing on life after bankruptcy.
Editorial: Let's talk San Bernardino, beyond bankruptcySan Bernardino County Sun Posted: 07/17/2013 08:55:06 PM PDT There's so much more to San Bernardino than its messy finances and its Chapt...- On Aug. 1, more than 120 community members accepted The Sun News Lounge's invitation to a town hall meeting meant to get people thinking and talking about practical ways they can help move the city forward. The meeting is one in a series The Sun has produced as part of its community engagement strategy, meant to help facilitate community-wide discourse that makes San Bernardino a better place to live and work.
Community members/leaders young & old have come to @sbsun's News Lounge:Beyond Bankruptcy event. It's great turnout! pic.twitter.com/qUQMoN1Rt51Rt5
Full house at the @sbsun #newslounge. Looking forward to conversation on #SanBernardino beyond #Bankruptcy
Artists, youth, students are here today with a role to play in #san Bernardino's future. #sbbankruptcy pic.twitter.com/fEc2KJ087h087h
"Beyond Bankruptcy" community engagement event minutes away from beginning in San ...Tout - Capture Short 15 Second Video Status Updates that are shared instantly with friends, family or the whole world through Twitter and...- It was a standing-room only crowd by the time the program began shortly after 10 a.m. To get things rolling, Frank Pine, editor of The Sun, explained why the newsroom had gathered everyone.
Editor @fpine says everyone here has 1 thing in common: "(Everyone) wants to see a better, healtheir strong san bernardino in coming years."
Frank Pine on why The Sun is doing this#sbbankruptcyTout - Capture Short 15 Second Video Status Updates that are shared instantly with friends, family or the whole world through Twitter and...- Michael Anastasi, executive editor of Los Angeles News Group, which owns The Sun, told the crowd it's time to start talking about San Bernardino's future.
- Our company's executive editor @ma_anastasi: "We have a role to play, but it's you guys who are going to do the work."
- Rabbi Hillel Cohn then spoke about the difference between financial bankruptcy and spiritual bankruptcy, the latter of which he says is much worse for the city, and encouraged residents to think about can be done without a lot of extra money.
Rabbi Cohn speaks at #sbbankruptcy event. pic.twitter.com/0cycDoI4SnI4Sn
Rabbi Cohn discusses what the city CAN do.Tout - Capture Short 15 Second Video Status Updates that are shared instantly with friends, family or the whole world through Twitter and...- A quick break followed, and the crowd broke into smaller groups to begin talking about supporting public safety, partnering with schools, improving the quality of life in San Bernardino's neighborhoods, and spearheading community engagement.
We are getting ready to breakout into smaller discussions. #sbbankruptcy pic.twitter.com/VD4s62LFVBLFVB- Frank Guzman, president of the Block Captains Association and a member of the city's Police Commission, talking with community members about taking charge of public safety. Improving public safety, he told the crowd, starts with cleaning up blight in your own neighborhood.
- Police Chief Robert Handy, meanwhile, addressed the real challenges the Police Department faces in terms of curbing crime.
- Handy: "we have over 1000 people in this city who would otherwise be in jail were it not for prison #realignment."
San Bernardino police chief talks about the challenges of realignment. #sbbankruptcyTout - Capture Short 15 Second Video Status Updates that are shared instantly with friends, family or the whole world through Twitter and...- San Bernardino schools Superintendent Dale Marsden chatted with community members about the district's own community engagement efforts, and the need for partnerships between high schools and those that feed into them, as well as improved training in sciences and math.
@SB_CitySchools Supt. Marsden leading education sub-group discussion @sbsun #sbbankruptcy pic.twitter.com/lLTNbGWt0BWt0B
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San Bernardino: "Beyond Bankruptcy"
On the first anniversary of San Bernardino's Chapter 9 filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, The Sun News Lounge opened its doors to bring civic leaders, community members and others together to talk about life "Beyond Bankruptcy."
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