We got a scoop -- sort of

This is not the place to look if you are seeking breaking news [or much other news for that matter]. I really don’t spend time looking for scoops. However, it seems that Capitol City Musings did beat MSM last night in mentioning the parade/protest from Smith [Mears] Park on September 2^nd. [Actually, I am not sure since the alleged online posting time of the StarJournal entry is so close to the actual posting time of my post. ]

This parade, organized by a group called the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will travel what seems like a strange route from the park in Lowertown to a place near the convention site, going up East Seventh to Lafayette to University by the Capitol and, after a short leg on Robert Street on Martin Luther King Boulevard. The route then uses Cedar Street to get to Seventh. If a taxi driver took you that route, he/she would be endangering his/her license.

When one remembers what Dr. King was doing when he was murdered, there does seem something strangely appropriate about the parade using the street named after him.

And it seems that this parade is only for fairly able-bodied poor people since it does require quite a lot of walking.