If looming bankruptcy, social unrest and violent crime are part of Mamdani’s prescription for a more progressive New York, people will leave—not just the wealthy looking for safer tax havens, but everyone if they discover that the New York City of 2026 is as unlivable as it was in 1976.
Online Journalist of the Year! We Said Go Travel Summer News August 2020
Lisa Ellen Niver
Summer News 2020 with We Said Go Travel:
I am honored to be nominated for Online Journalist of the Year!
I am a finalist for FIVE Southern California Journalism Awards!
Thank you to everyone who has supported me and to all of the outlets who published my work. Please click here for my print, digital and broadcast content which is nominated. Thank you to the Los Angeles Press Club for this opportunity to be recognized!
Thank you to THRIVE GLOBAL for publishing my three articles about books:
During COVID-19, I have now been in Los Angeles since March 9, 2020. That is 172 days! I have been focused on what can I do and have been publishing new voices on my site! Learn about these projects here.
THANK YOU TO:::
Enjoy my new video of the waves at Santa Monica Beach. I filmed with my new LGV60ThinQ phone:
WHERE CAN YOU FIND MY TRAVEL VIDEOS?
Here is the link to my video channel on YouTube where I have over one million two hundred thousand views on YouTube! (Exact count: 1,240,000 views) Thank you for your support! Are you one of my 2,812 subscribers? I hope you will join me and subscribe!
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Find me on social media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and at LisaNiver.com. My social media following is now over 160,000 and I am verified on Twitter.
My fortune cookies said:
“Be patient. The Great Wall didn’t got built in one day.” (It really did say didn’t got built! We all have things to learn and work on!)
“Be not simply good; be good for something.”
Stay safe and healthy! We will travel again….Happy Summer!
Lisa
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