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We get it. It's been a long couple of years. We're all getting pretty tired of wearing masks while lifting weights at the gym or wondering when our favorite event gets to take place inside again. We understand that, in a society designed to let the people operate their own functional government, protest and petitioning the government for redress of grievance is 2022 Jordan Release  an important tool—and one we wholly support. Where we draw the line in that support, however, is when protests are used for things that don't actually require redress—for things that haven't happened, aren't happening now and aren't expected to happen at some point in the near future. It denigrates the process. Case in point: the "shoes on the steps" demonstration that happened Dec. 1 on the steps of the Bend...

Ralph Rotella likes to say that when he started his annual drive to collect shoes for the needy in Syracuse, back in 2010, he had jet black hair. Today, his hair is fully white. “It’s all those shoes that did it,” he said. The more important change from Rotella’s first shoe drive 11 years ago is this: That first year, Rotella collected, cleaned and repaired fewer than 100 pairs of donated shoes at his Discount Shoe Repair shop, 116 E. Washington St. Last year, in the midst of the Covid pandemic, Nike Outlet ,the tally for Ralphy’s Rescue Mission Shoe Drive was 23,187 pairs of shoes, boots, sneakers, sandals, slippers and any other type of footwear you can imagine. That was a new record, eclipsing the 18,000 pairs of the year before. This year, the number could reach 25,000 or maybe eve...