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(near ) near & OSM Zoom in, scroll, and more at Open Street Map .org View the location of this business using Open Street Map .org Explore the location of this special event using Open Street Map .org View the location of this news event using Open Street Map .org WWW Go to website for this business Go to website for this event Location of website for this business is unknown Add special-event news to this intersection Add news source at this city or district Edit or delete this news item Zoom in, scroll, and more using Apple or Google satellite view View the location of this business using Apple or Google satellite view Explore the location of this special event using Apple or Google satellite view View the location of this news event using Apple or Google satellite view Yes, move this news item to this intersection. Yes, move this news item to this intersection. No, not this intersection. Let's try again. If you want to change your location using this map, simply point to (or click on) the new location. Changing to location clicked A more detailed map will become available within 20 minutes. Your browser does not support the canvas tag. Map tile images are © Open Street Map contributors. The Open Street Map button (above) takes you to the Open Street Map (.org) website, centered at this location. Anyone — including you — can add missing information to the Open Street Map data. Searches that involve postal codes use data from www.GeoNames.org. Some governments (such as Canada) do not allow public use of all characters in their postal codes, and in those cases only the first few characters are used.

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Neighborhood Businesses Here To get more information about a business, click its button. No qualifying neighborhood businesses were found in this neighborhood WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW WWW Non-chain restaurants, delicatessens, bakeries, cafes, tea shops, bookstores, and hardware stores are listed here for free. The other businesses listed here are NewsHereNow sponsors. Eating places are color-coded by distance (from orange to pink); all other businesses are colored green. Most business names and locations are from Open Street Map (.org). If a business name, or location, or website, is not correct in the Open Street Map data, please correct it there. If a qualifying neighborhood business does not show up on the Open Street Map (.org) website, please add it there.

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Your neighborhood newspaper News Here Now is a free newspaper that delivers neighborhood-specific news about any neighborhood in the world. Our goal is to bring economic prosperity to your neighborhood. Neighborhood businesses The businesses listed on the BUSINESSES page are the nearest neighborhood restaurants, bakeries, delicatessens, tea shops, and cafés. Also included are independent bookstores and family-owned hardware stores. These non-chain neighborhood businesses appear here for free, at no cost to them (or to you). Why do they deserve free advertising here? They struggle to compete against MacDonalds, Starbucks, Amazon, Home Depot, and other big chain businesses that buy lots of advertising on search engines and “recommendation” websites. But when you walk into one of those chain businesses you are choosing to take money out of your wallet and send it to their corporate headquarters, in a city far away. If you usually trust Yelp ratings when you look for a place to eat, then you should know that Yelp hides and shows “suspicious” reviews differently depending on whether the business is paying for it's “extra services.” To avoid that unethical bias, here at News Here Now you can judge a restaurant by clicking to view its menu (and prices) on its website — if the “www” icon appears on that restaurant's button. If that icon is missing from a favorite restaurant, you (or anyone) can add their website link to Open Street Map (.org), which is where we get most of our business information. Where does our financial support come from? A few other types of neighborhood businesses, such as dental offices and auto-repair shops, pay to appear here. (They are clearly indicated.) They deserve your attention not only as our sponsors, but as neighborhood businesses that compete against money-extracting chain businesses. It's an app If you're reading this newspaper in your browser, please consider using your browser's Add bookmark to Home screen button. Magically this website will become an app. That's because News Here Now is both a website and a webapp. Help others find us Please help your neighbors and relatives and co-workers find this valuable webapp. How? Please use your browser's Share or Copy link button and tell them something like: “News Here Now dot com shows you the nearest non-chain restaurants, and brings economic prosperity to your neighborhood.” Why do we need your help promoting this webapp? Because webapps do not appear in app stores, so we can't ask you for a five-star rating. And because Google will not send anyone to this webapp (even if they search for “news here now”) because we don't show Google ads. And because ads on Facebook are only affordable when they are targeted to a small specific group of people, but we need to reach nearly everyone in every big city. So please tell your co-workers, and your friends and relatives who live in big cities, about News Here Now. Getting neighborhood news shouldn't have to involve taking money out of your wallet. We want to help you keep your money, and your neighbors' money, in your neighborhood. Digital town square Want to learn more? As explained in “The story behind this website,” this webapp/website was created by a software developer who wanted a modern replacement for the sharing of neighborhood news that used to occur in town squares, at community gathering places such as churches and grange halls, and in printed newspapers. It's free because, in addition to not needing ink and paper, it uses a new programming language that dramatically reduces the cost of running this newspaper. And the story behind this newspaper reveals yet other ways you can increase your neighborhood's economic prosperity. Thank you for helping us bring economic prosperity to your neighborhood. Frequently asked questions (with answers) The story behind this website Privacy policy, and other legal stuff Credits & thanks Contact us

The story behind the News Here Now website (The content on this page might contain translation errors.) A loud explosion in our quiet neighborhood triggered the idea for this website. About two weeks later we learned what caused the explosion. The news arrived in a printed neighborhood-based newspaper that is published just once a month. That's crazy! It shouldn't take weeks for news to travel just seven blocks. Loading more words for this page ... Richard Fobes

Author of The Creative Problem Solver's Toolbox (published around the world in 10 languages) and Ending The Hidden Unfairness In U.S. Elections

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Answers to your FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) (The content on this page might contain translation errors.) Is this website really free to use? And will it stay that way? Yes, this website is free to use, and it will always stay free. Loading more words for this page ...

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Edit or delete this news item (described below) Note: This part of the website might still have a few bugs because the code here has not yet been rigorously tested and debugged. Type of special event Yard Sale Estate Sale Block Party Lost or found pet Special event Sample special events: farmers market, artists market, community theatre production, book signing, etc. A special event must be open to the public for the hours specified. If the cost of attending the event is excessive, the event may be deleted as being of limited interest. Change the intersection (or neighborhood name) at which this news item is located Change the date of this news item Delete this news item No, locate by neighborhood name No, locate by intersection No, this was an unscheduled (unexpected) event No, this is a scheduled (future) event Link (URL) to special-event news announcementLink (URL) to law-enforcement (police, fire, sheriff, etc.) news source Domain name within URL: Invalid URL Address number on Invalid address number No, the address is on the other street First day of special eventDate of eventFirst day of event ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Duration of special eventDuration of scheduled event 1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days Street name Invalid street name Cross-street name Invalid street name Neighborhood name Invalid neighborhood name Add special-event news to this intersection Add news source at this city or district Change the date of this news item Change the date and duration of this news item Move this news item to this intersection Move this news item to this neighborhood Why should this news item be deleted? Event does not have a specific location Event information is incorrect, or event was cancelled Event is of limited interest, or this is an advertisement (“spam”) Scheduled event involves unethical or illegal behavior My reason is personal To confirm that you are not a software robot, please type the following characters: 7932 Yes, my reason is personal. And I know that if one person acts at a level of ethics that is significantly higher than the other person's level of ethics, then other people will be attracted to the person who has stopped behaving childishly. And I know that when two people do not get along with each other, both people are behaving in ways that are childish. Yet I still want to delete this news item! Yes, really, completely, delete this news item Cancel words-current-location & Event date:

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Election Polls Local polls cannot be displayed until a location has been specified. Currently there are no local polls at this location. Which electoral district is yours? Please click on its button. The election polls here allow you to communicate with your neighbors in a very useful way. Knowing which political candidates are most popular — and least popular — in your congressional district (for U.S. residents) or parlimentary riding (for Canadian residents) allows you to know whether you can mark your ballot according to your first choice. Or whether you must mark your ballot for a lessor of evils in order to defeat the popular-with-your-neighbors candidate you strongly dislike. To ask questions about better ballots and better vote-counting methods, join the discussion on Reddit in the r/EndFPTP subreddit.

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Credits & Thanks Carole Bassett — website design assistance, and first fan of this site while it was still just an idea Cynthia Stone — feedback, testing, and encouragement Niral P. — stylesheet design assistance Richard Fobes — everything else, including solo software development (wrote every line of code), user-experience design, and all writing tasks George Fobes and Don Fobes — their hard work earned the money that (posthumously) made this website possible. This website is dedicated to them, my father and brother. Open-source software and open-data credits — Linux, Apache, Perl, Dashrep, OpenStreetMap

Terms of Use and Other Legal Details (The content on this page might contain translation errors.) Terms of use For legal reasons this website makes no promises of any kind, and this website has no obligation to you regarding accuracy, dependability, privacy, correctness, completeness, up-to-date-ness, or usefulness. Your use of this website indicates you agree to all the legal “terms” (limitations) written here (above and below). If not, you must exit this website now. Regarding dependability, a loss of news information is likely when a news source changes the way in which its news is coded. (Currently there is no standard way to code police reports.) When this situation happens, please again supply the news source location (its URL), and after “manual” (programming) adjustments are made, then the revised news source will replace the previous news source. 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Additionally, if law-enforcement officials have reasonable suspicion that a user of this website might have committed a specific violent crime, then the operator of this website reserves the right to assist law-enforcement officials by providing what little information is collected here, which consists of Internet IP addresses and specific locations viewed using those IP addresses. That information is ignored for all other users. And of course, if you request the removal of news items for invalid reasons, or if you intentionally change the location or date of a news event to the wrong location or the wrong date, then the operator of this website reserves the right to use the information collected here, for the purpose of preventing future such activities, possibly including the use of legal actions. Accidental mistakes and unintentional mistakes will be excused. This website uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to help protect your privacy each time information flows between your computer and our servers. However, if you are using a computer that is shared with other people, the SSL encryption does not protect your privacy from the other people who use that computer. Use of web storage This website uses “web storage” to store in your browser the most recent locations you requested. The stored location names appear in the buttons that are near the “Go Here” button. If your browser is well-behaved, it will not allow other websites to view the stored location information. This use of web storage is for your convenience, so you do not need to re-enter the same location repeatedly. If you want more privacy, we recommend that you use the Firefox browser and use its private-browsing mode. No cookies This website does not put cookies into your computer. If you find a cookie with our name on it, it didn't come from our kitchen. No accounts Unlike other websites that store user-specific information in an account that is linked to you or your computer, each time you use this website, no information from your previous uses is available at the website server while you use this website. Use of GPS coordinates This website offers a button for using your GPS coordinates as your location of interest. If you regard knowlege of your GPS location to be an invasion of privacy, please do not use the GPS button. We really, really, do not want to know where you are, we just want to offer convenience to people who appreciate convenience. European Union's General Data Protection Regulation This website fully complies with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) because we do not collect any personal information. Specifically, we have no way to contact you, we cannot distinguish you from any other person, and we supply exactly the same news to you as to anyone else who requests news at the same location. Copyright policy This website avoids copyright infringement. This is why content from Facebook event pages, Craigslist pages, and news from some city law-enforcement agencies are not displayed here. If a copyright owner informs us about a valid case of copyright infringement, we will remove the copyrighted material. If a news source, such as a police department, includes your copyrighted material within their news, please contact that news source directly. If you own a trademark and you are bothered because the trademark symbol does not appear next to your trademark, please ask yourself whether your goal in life is to build a great résumé, or to inspire a great eulogy. Policy about third-party website content This website includes buttons that link to content on other (third-party) websites. 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