{"id":2818,"date":"2026-05-14T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:01:36","slug":"hamilton-the-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/hamilton-the-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton the Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Well, well, isn&#8217;t this disgraceful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.20.19-PM-1024x786.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.20.19-PM-1024x786.png 1024w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.20.19-PM-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.20.19-PM-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.20.19-PM-1536x1179.png 1536w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.20.19-PM.png 2020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hamilton has been falling into an abyss for a very long time, and their local government and public sector workers have proven to be&#8230;not suited for the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Both those parasitic institutions whinge and whine for more money as they sashay on the Sunshine List.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The city will browbeat you if you want extra garbage tags, but when it comes to actually cleaning up the city, well, let&#8217;s just say they turn the other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A homelessness crisis, a drug crisis, an economic meltdown&#8230;and crime is also out of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I was born and raised in Hamilton. As a teen, I would go shopping, dine, and get my hair done at Jackson Square. I went to the Farmer&#8217;s Market and went to the library to do research: first as a student, and then as an author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I don&#8217;t even drive by anymore. It&#8217;s not about the safety. I used to walk in downtown Chicago and New York City in the middle of the night, and people there thought I was a plainclothes police officer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s about watching a city rot and knowing its keepers are incapable of doing a thing about it, nor do they even want to try: no one is holding them accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I sold my house in Hamilton a decade ago. I did the math and knew this was a doomed city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I didn&#8217;t always feel this way. I went to university in Hamilton. I worked for local media outlets. I had an art studio there. I taught at the local college as a Language Studies professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Then I divested. Physically, and emotionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And apparently, so has everybody else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, isn&#8217;t this disgraceful? Hamilton has been falling into an abyss for a very long time, and their local government and public sector workers have proven to be&#8230;not suited for the job. Both those parasitic institutions whinge and whine for more money as they sashay on the Sunshine List. The city will browbeat you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,460],"tags":[7,49,656,483,657],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","category-the-damage-report","tag-alexandra-kitty","tag-canada","tag-hamilton-spectator","tag-ontario","tag-sebastian-bron"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}