On a Sunday morning while trying to avoid a pile of leftover work tasks from the week, Alex stumbled upon an argument on Facebook. The argument more or less divided people into two camps: personal responsibility and communal responsibility. On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Alex and Meg talk about a third approach, one that integrates the other to and creates plans for actual change. 

On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex share some of their thoughts on whose responsibility it is for some of the injustices happening in their neighborhood.  

A lot of crazy things happen in the inner city. On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex share some of the recent oddities they have come across in their neighborhood. 

Meg and Alex are back talking about a couple of quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and some of the parallels from the early 1960's and life in a poor almost all black neighborhood today. While a lot has changed in the last almost 60 years, there are still steps needed to put things back to how they should be.  

Meg and Alex sit down and share a big announcement on this episode of the 53206 Cast. Plus the duo talk through an interesting multi-generational drug deal and how the cycle of poverty is many times perpetuated through educational structures. 

On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex talk about a couple of observations from the recent holiday gift drive at the community garden. 

Meg and Alex spend some time talking about one of the unintended consequences of living in the inner city, anxiety. A low grade anxiety tends to hover around the their neighborhood and the two try to put some words around what they and a lot of other residents of their neighborhood regularly feel.

Meg and Alex are back in the sitting room talking about the flow of money in and out of a neighborhood and how small business investment, both by business owners and patrons from outside of the immediate area can make tangible positive changes in a community. 

On this episode of the 53206 Cast Meg and Alex continue talking through Reddit comments around the question - what is the public perception around 53206 or inner cities in general? The duo tackles the concept of avoiding certain areas and the cyclically detrimental effects that can have on a neighborhood. 

Meg and Alex continue their series around public perceptions of their neighborhood. On this episode, they respond to the idea that drug houses exist and the struggle around getting help removing them.