Comments on: Fairfield mayor credits Maharishi University with expanding economy http://iowaindependent.com/10181/fairfield-mayor-credits-peace-group-with-expanding-economy Iowa politics, news, and commentary Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:46:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: joeyahoo http://iowaindependent.com/10181/fairfield-mayor-credits-peace-group-with-expanding-economy/comment-page-1#comment-19995 joeyahoo Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:33:02 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=10181#comment-19995 I love the slant given to this article by only interviewing Mayor Malloy. What article doesn't tell you is that Ed Malloy is a practicing mediator himself and affiliated with the Maharishi movement. The ethnic companies that he sites as having been started and maintained in Fairfield have not added to the economy, but stifled it. These businesses take out huge loans for projects that benefit, not the community of Fairfield, but the community of Maharishi.<br><br>Malloy told the West Virginia press that the twice-a-day meditation practices of those attending the university has “created a softening influence in the areas of crime and well being” in the area. What he left out was the murder that occurred right on the campus itself, by a student who had not "de-stressed" after meditation. He also left out the rampant drug use and alcohol abuse of Maharishi students.<br><br>Please do not believe everything you read from an article that interviews only one biased person. I love the slant given to this article by only interviewing Mayor Malloy. What article doesn't tell you is that Ed Malloy is a practicing mediator himself and affiliated with the Maharishi movement. The ethnic companies that he sites as having been started and maintained in Fairfield have not added to the economy, but stifled it. These businesses take out huge loans for projects that benefit, not the community of Fairfield, but the community of Maharishi.

Malloy told the West Virginia press that the twice-a-day meditation practices of those attending the university has “created a softening influence in the areas of crime and well being” in the area. What he left out was the murder that occurred right on the campus itself, by a student who had not “de-stressed” after meditation. He also left out the rampant drug use and alcohol abuse of Maharishi students.

Please do not believe everything you read from an article that interviews only one biased person.

]]> By: joeyahoo http://iowaindependent.com/10181/fairfield-mayor-credits-peace-group-with-expanding-economy/comment-page-1#comment-16010 joeyahoo Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:33:02 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=10181#comment-16010 I love the slant given to this article by only interviewing Mayor Malloy. What article doesn't tell you is that Ed Malloy is a practicing mediator himself and affiliated with the Maharishi movement. The ethnic companies that he sites as having been started and maintained in Fairfield have not added to the economy, but stifled it. These businesses take out huge loans for projects that benefit, not the community of Fairfield, but the community of Maharishi.<br><br>Malloy told the West Virginia press that the twice-a-day meditation practices of those attending the university has “created a softening influence in the areas of crime and well being” in the area. What he left out was the murder that occurred right on the campus itself, by a student who had not "de-stressed" after meditation. He also left out the rampant drug use and alcohol abuse of Maharishi students.<br><br>Please do not believe everything you read from an article that interviews only one biased person. I love the slant given to this article by only interviewing Mayor Malloy. What article doesn't tell you is that Ed Malloy is a practicing mediator himself and affiliated with the Maharishi movement. The ethnic companies that he sites as having been started and maintained in Fairfield have not added to the economy, but stifled it. These businesses take out huge loans for projects that benefit, not the community of Fairfield, but the community of Maharishi.

Malloy told the West Virginia press that the twice-a-day meditation practices of those attending the university has “created a softening influence in the areas of crime and well being” in the area. What he left out was the murder that occurred right on the campus itself, by a student who had not “de-stressed” after meditation. He also left out the rampant drug use and alcohol abuse of Maharishi students.

Please do not believe everything you read from an article that interviews only one biased person.

]]> By: Newswatch http://iowaindependent.com/10181/fairfield-mayor-credits-peace-group-with-expanding-economy/comment-page-1#comment-15053 Newswatch Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:24:37 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=10181#comment-15053 First, it's refreshing to see a blog about Fairfield without the obligatory cheap shot.<br><br>Fairfield is the most culturally interesting community in Iowa, certainly, and perhaps in the Midwest. It's taken some time for Fairfield to embrace diversity of cultures and thought and view its pluralism as an asset, but it has matured into a community that should make Iowa proud. Fairfield is a good microcosm for other communities in Iowa and the Midwest to study in embracing immigrants and other new Iowans. First, it's refreshing to see a blog about Fairfield without the obligatory cheap shot.

Fairfield is the most culturally interesting community in Iowa, certainly, and perhaps in the Midwest. It's taken some time for Fairfield to embrace diversity of cultures and thought and view its pluralism as an asset, but it has matured into a community that should make Iowa proud. Fairfield is a good microcosm for other communities in Iowa and the Midwest to study in embracing immigrants and other new Iowans.

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