REINVENTING COMMONWEAL LOCAL COMMUNITIES; VIRTUAL DIMENSION
On Sunday, November 17 of last year, I received an e-mail message that I had not seen in more than three years "New Member for your Commonweal Local Community." When I googled the person's name, I found an association with John Carroll University. Instantly the idea formed. This November is the Centennial Issue of Commonweal. Perhaps now is the time, and perhaps John Carroll may be the place, to begin reinventing Commonweal Local Communities. By November 24, I had posted on this website the first draft of: Models for Reinventing Commonweal Local Communities Analyzing the data from the 29 meetings that occurred between September 13, 2017 until we shut down after February 24, 2020, a total of 36 names appeared at one time or another on the membership list. Almost all of these were Commonweal subscribers. In 2018 there were about 165 Commonweal subscribers with an email address within thirty miles of the center of Cleveland. Therefore, about one out of five subscribers wit...