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The latest Forbes 400 is out, the list of the richest Americans, and a record number (according to my annual record-keeping) now live in San Francisco. This is a city with 18 people on the top-billionaires list -- and since the list cuts off at $1.1 billion, there are a lot of really, really rich San Franciscans who didn't quite make it this year. School Board candidate Sam Rodriguez told us his research shows that there are 80,000 millionaires in the city, meaning one in ten San Franciscans is worth a cool mil, and while some of that is just homeowners who bought 20 years ago and now have property worth $1 million -- and I haven't verified his data anyway -- it's hard to argue that this is anything but a very wealthy city.
(It also has, according to Forbes, the second-hippest neighborhood in the nation, and that would be the Mission, which is reaching that fully-gentrified stage where nobody young can afford to live there anymore so it won't be hip much longer.)
The list comes out at the same time that figures show nearly 7 million Californians are living in poverty, and household income for most people has been stagnant -- at best -- for more than a decade.
It was a great year for the top 400, though -- their median income was up rather dramatically. It seems that, whatever Mitt Romney may say in public or in private, the Obama administration hasn't been bad at all for the 1 percent.
I keep asking, and I know it's tiresome, but: Why, in a city with 18 billionaires, do we still have to clear out homeless encampments?
Why are the public schools holding (literally) bake sales to buy paper and pencils? Why have we cut the number of acute psychiatric care beds at SF General from 40 to 10? If San Francisco can't even talk about taxing the billionaires, is there any hope for the rest of the country?
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Riley Bechtel
Chairman and CEO, Bechtel Corp.
Stephen Bechtel, Jr.
Former Chairman, Bechtel Corp.
Doris Fisher
Cofounder, Gap
Dustin Moskovitz
CEO, Asana
Ray Dolby
Founder and director emeritus, Dolby Laboratories
John Fisher
President, Pisces, Inc.
William Randolph Hearst, III
Source of Wealth: Hearst Corp
Marc Benioff
Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com
James Coulter
Source of Wealth: Leveraged buyouts, Self-made
Gordon Getty
President and Chairman, Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation
Phoebe Hearst Cooke
Source of Wealth: Hearst Corp
Michael Moritz
Partner, Sequoia Capital
John Pritzker
Source of Wealth: Hotels, investments
Robert Fisher
Director, Gap
William Fisher
Director, Gap
Peter Thiel
Partner, Founders Fund
Thomas Steyer
Founder & Co-Senior Managing Partner, Farallon Capital Management
Jack Dorsey
CEO, Square, Inc.
Your idea that it's unaffordable is off the mark, and in fact even the article you cite (2nd hippest neighborhood in America" states that rents are lower in the Mission than other parts of the city.
The Mission is really several neighborhoods. The "media gulch" stretch along Bryant, the "barrio" either side of 24th St., the "hip" boulevard that is Valencia St. and a fairly anonymous quasi-industrial stretch in the middle (NEMIZ).
You could even throw in Mission Dolores and Liberty Hill to see even more how heterogeneous it is.
As for there being "too many" rich people in SF, so what? You'd have a lot more to worry about than mere envy if they all left and took their wealth with them. We'd be "Detroit on the Bay" and most of your precious welfare programs would have to close.
I bet you read that in San Francisco Board of Realtors' guide to the Mission.
Rents in The Mission are barely affordable by tech workers and not affordable by anyone with a median income.
people like many hispanics minimum wage workers and starving artists.
There's lots of rent-controlled housing in the Mission, and anyone who walks a few blocks there beyond the tinsel of Valencia St. quickly comes to realise it's a low rent neighborhood.
You answered your own question. The only affordably housing left in the Mission is the rent-controlled housing that residents have occupied for many years. There is NO current rental housing available in the Mission for anything other than an astronomical price.
San Francisco will never be Detroit. Ask me, we'd be better off with fewer rich people and cheaper housing
Rents and home prices in SF simply reflect the success of our economy. Or, more accurately, the success of the economy in San Mateo and Santa Clara and Marin counties.
You're free to move to Detroit, Tim, is low-rent naighborhoods are preferable to you. I'm sure they'd welcome your economic ideas there.
Facile self-congratulatory soft-core Ayn Randian pablum is quite revelatory of the facile
The high rents don't reflect a successful economy any better than a huge cancerous growth represents good health.
So while the Bay Area's economic uptick turns it into a magnet for a whole new generation of highly productive youngsters without a product -- who neccessarily bid-up the pricing of housing otherwise used, sometimes in higher density by the more ordinary kind of working folks
They do have a product. You're using it right now to make and read these posts.
Maybe if you stopped and thought about it for a second instead of just coming up with some pompous insults.
I am using a linux laptop to browse the web using firefox. The SFBG is serving their content via the apache webserver.
The tech economy is using those products as well that were gifted to them to produce time sponges that they are trying to monetize via massive infusions of speculative venture capital.
It is this infusion of venture capital, not firefox, linux or apache that are driving up rents.
Congratulations. But the page you are reading is still supported by ads from Google.com, perhaps administered by the same people that Tim derides as they ride in their big white bus. And the page asks for additional exposure through Facebook and Twitter shares.
Also, it probably would not exist if everyone had to run Linux to access it. I bet a lot of people read it on their phones.
I'm responding to lillipublican's original statement that these rich silicon valley kids don't have a product, when in fact it is a product that most of us use every day and it has had a dramatic impact on our world.
I use an advertising blocker, contributed to the commons by a benevolent engineer, so count me out of that. Yes, the burden of running linux is so onerous, just like the burden of running apache on linux to serve this all up, it is all such confusing rocket science, get off of my lawn!
find, based on your falsification by omission.
No. The high rents aren't explainable solely by facile Ayn Randian pablum.
The high rents are no more a sign of a successful economy than a huge cancerous growth is a sign of good health.
The new generation of highly-productive-people-without-products bidding-up the prices for housing will -- just like the last wave -- leave behind greater economic ill-health when, ultimately, they excised by the scalpel of market correction.
Also, the relative attractiveness of the Bay Area over Detroit stems not solely from their relative geographical and cultural characteristics, but from the imbalance resultant from an economic malaise which is a wider manifestation of the economic mismanagement perpetrated on the American people by short-sighted and shallow-thinking greed heads.
And -- of course! -- while a rising tide might hypothetically lift all boats, this economic wave is only helping a narrow sector, having decidedly mixed effect on other players. The local economic imbalance is driving the destruction of affordable housing on material, and not just conceptual basis.
claim that they are "wrong" or "cheap" or "expensive"
They simply are what they are.
There are cheaper rents elsewhere. Nobody moves to Aspen to get cheap rent.
that seems above question based on its constant repetition, but it doesn't factor in market anomalies such as speculation -- exactly what is driving the wildly imbalanced housing market in the Bay Area right now.
There have been booms and busts throughout history and some of those have resulted in displacements of existing communities.
BUT what we are seeing now is completely unconstrained capital beefed up on steriods able to flow across borders concentrating on a few desirable areas.
Perhaps there is such a thing as creative destruction, but I'd do everything possible to erect as many barriers between unrestrained capital flows and communities that generations of residents have built.
they are now just happens to be optimal. SF has been changing forever and that is a part of what it is. If you want nothing to ever change, you should probably move to some small village in Europe where literally nothing does change for centuries.
Taking the Mission as an example, it used to be home to Italians and Irish. Is it somehow "wrong" that they left and Hispanics moved in? Why?
And if Hispanics are now being replaced with annoying hipsters with rimmed glasses and stupid goatees, is that wrong too?
You want to make time stand still out of some misguided sense of NIMBY'ism. It's parochial.
The irony is that you can live just a few miles away, in Oakland, where rents are a half or two thirds lower than SF, and yet be in SF in 10 minutes. Try living that close to Geneva or Aspen or St. Moritz or Monaco on that kind of rent - can't be done.
Nobody is talking about freezing anything, that is reductio ad absurdum.
People should not have to up and move and see their established communities rent asunder just because speculative capital has designs on their communities.
lately and backed up my assertions with URLs ending in .edu. I hope you will research the *huge* distinction between RAA and "straw man" -- the latter to which I *know* you meant to refer.
Reductio is a completely valid logical tool.
We must let capital run free otherwise we'd freeze San Francisco in time like a museum.
I know that's anathema to the rigid pedants of the left.
have to move then you're like King Canute order the tide to go back.
Neighborhoods have always changed and always will. Some get better and some get worse, but people go where they think they will most be happy.
Nobody has a right to live in the nicest, most expensive places on the planet.
The straight white male Republicans of mid 20th century California allowed for zoning and planning to promote the orderly development of communities.
It is not like the two choices are stasis and capital rampaging over our communities irrespective of impacts on existing residents.
There are plenty of policy choices at hand to balance the interests of existing residents and capital, protestations of the neolibertarians notwithstanding.
make SF more "affordable" except at the margins. The City doesn't have the money to build much "affordable" housing and has to rely on setasides and development fees to build most of that. Rent control, by it's very nature, applies to several thousand less buildings each year. And the RE market is simply too big for any entity to control - even the Feds are struggling to have much impact there.
The left always think they can control everything. It's a myth. In the end, you have to go out and get a job to pay to buy stuff, and you cannot make that go away.
Government can quit throwing fire on the conflagration that is consuming our communities.
Government can adopt countercyclical policies that flex as the economic cycles go through their motions.
None of this is rocket science, policy choices have been made to the contrary, but that does not mean that policies that have worked all of a sudden will not work just because those who benefit from their absence say so.
Dream on... billionaires are dumping their stocks. All that "quantitative easing" (really, another bailout for the banks) means we're headed for yet another economic meltdown.
The economy has not felt the ongoing meltdown because the supply side has been on about $16,000,000,000,000 of crack courtesy of the Federal Reserve expanding its "balance sheet." Once the supply side crack stops working...
Socialism -- Yes! SOCIALISM! Hahahaha! -- many of our troubles stem from the separation and opposition of capital to labor.
And I believe it was Karl Marx -- that's right! Mathematician Marx! -- who established that unregulated capitalism was destined to suffer endless destructive boom-bust cycles.
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I was hoping that you could let me know what constitutes "rich" here in S.F. so that I can determine whether you think the City would be better off without me.
thanks in advance
kinda leaving yourself open there. Just thought I'd alert you...
I really don't give a hoot what Tim or any anonymous people on some comments section thinks of me
But in general, I'd like to know what "rich" is, according to SF standards. $100K? $250K?
But lets say I make enough dough to quality as rich in Tim's book. I've lived here for 20 years. I give blood. I donate time and $ to causes I believe in. I don't hurt anyone, I live and let live, generally vote pretty progressive/liberal, don't give a crap about naked dudes in the Castro, didn't have anyone evicted to move into my apartment, etc etc. The City is better off without me if my apartment could instead be used for some low income family? Really? How so?
It just seems fucking ridiculous for Tim to consistantly say who merits living in SF based on their paycheck. I guess unlike him, it isn't all about the Benjamin's in my world.
than answer your "point" is that your point was a non-sequitur.
The article doesn't say that rich have no place in San Francisco.
The article doesn't indicate that $100,000 or $250,000/yr incomes make you rich.
The article points out that with 18 billionaires in San Francisco and a 10% population of millionaires, that San Francisco shouldn't need to be so cruel to homeless people as to roust them whenever they find themselves the barest degree of shelter.
Your claim that Tim is constantly saying who merits living in San Francisco based on their paycheck is a lie which calls into question your other claims with regard to being liberal/progressive, giving blood, etc.
If there are more rich folks then, by definition, there are going to be less poor people. Tim starts from the premise that poor people are somehow better and more desirable than rich people. That's an appalling piece of discriminatory thinking and yet he wears it like a badge of pride.
I don't judge people by their bank balance anyway but I do know that poor people are generally a drain on the city resources whereas rich succeesful people give more than they take. So we need more rich people to stop taxes rising on the rest of us, and there's plenty of room in the east bay for those whose budget doesn't stretch to one of the most expensive places on the planet.
Rich people are rich because poor people are poor. Of course, liberals prefer analyses that exclude the exploitation of labor. The biggest "drain on the city resources" is the business community and the cops who protect them.
off in most countries. Wealth isn't a fixed commodity that gets shared out. It gets built and everyone can have more if you bake a bigger cake.
Working people, that's who. The rich skim the profits from other people's labor and by exploiting natural resources. Let them eat cake.
Marx' labor theory if value is as bogus as his historical imperative.
also proof that 'historical imperative" is Marx's.
not a neutral observation.
The poor and middle class are made poorer by an influx of those with greater wealth and disposable income as the prices for commodities become inflated.
This happens across the board; not just with respect to housing. Outlets that lower income people patronize for necessities such as food and clothing are displace by those catering to frou-frou rich peoples' nonsense making those commodities less available and more expensive to buy for those who are on the society's precipice or being pushed closer to it every day.
The rich getting richer *makes* the poor poorer.
Too bad there isn't a shred of evidence that it's true.
but even Thomas Jefferson believed that too great a division between the rich and the poor would be incompatible with democracy -- a premise whose validity is as self evident as my statement concerning the effects of increased concentrations of wealth on poor people; notwithstanding your ossified beliefs to the contrary.
White privilege, I guess.
in Tim's comment to another poster in this thread he wrote:
"Ask me, we'd be better off with fewer rich people and cheaper housing"
so yes, he is judging rich people and his desireability of having them live here. My point is that the amount of money someone has is a bizarre factor upon which to decide whether somebody is worthwhile living in SF.
I never said the article claimed that $100K or $250K were rich, so please don't put words in my mouth to try to make a point. I was asking him if he thought that those amounts qualified as rich. I didn't lie about anything
And you can question my claims about giving blood, being liberal, etc. I don't need to prove myself to anyone, and to some anonymous guy who makes a hobby of starting shit with people on a comments thread in particular. And please feel free to not respond to anything I write. I wasn't talking to you, and frankly, I find your posts to be regularly abusive to anyone who doesn't toe your line. There's an art to debating, to be able to disagree without being disagreeable, and that is something about which you clearly have no concept. You're never going to change somebody's mind, or at least give them food for thought, when your points are wrapped around calling them a rat or vile or whatever 50 cent word you happen to pull out of your thesaurus on any given day.
So go ahead and pull out your thesaurus to find some big-time worlds to hurl at me. Am I
point that the rich should be getting taxed back into the realm of common people like they used to be: such would serve the larger interests of society and democracy.
That does not imply that those of a certain economic class are undesireable per se; only that the algae bloom of wealth is damaging the cultural ecosystem.
Thanks for the implied compliment on my writing based on your mention of a thesaurus. I do like words, and know and use as many as I see fit.
As for the abusive qualities in some of my posts, I do try to avoid such and highly respect the overtly polite habits of such commenters as jccourt, but note well that I view the straw man argumentation technique of falsely imputing statements and habits to others is abuusive in itself and I will either riducule such behavior or answer in kind according to my whim... and your performance in this regard is a perfect example.
you're the biggest, most pompous, self-aggrandizing, blowhard, faux intellectual, boring dick on this forum.
Just sayin'
I think that the issue is not so much that folks who came here decades ago and worked hard did well, rather that the city that brought us all here decades ago is being overrun with the fruits of speculative venture capital, yet another gold rush.
At least the gold rush produced something of lasting value--gold. This tech rush is most likely another case of a frothy economic bubble that will leave a handful of winners and a broad base of losers.
Is it worth sacrificing the city that brought us here and that we've breathed life into on the altar of free market unregulate capital flows and speculation? I don't think so.
That's arguably the spaciest thing you've ever said here.
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Hello Everyone,
I have a 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe - Z71 package.
I've never had any problems with the truck at all.
However, after going through the car wash recently (hand wash, NOT the one that beats your vehicle to death) I noticed several "specks" on the painted front bumber.
On closer examination, the specks turned out to be "rust spots".
I don't know if the "missing paint" that led to the rust forming was from rock chips or what. There aren't any dents in the bumper. Right now there are only six or eight of these very small "specks". I don't want the whole bumber to rust off!!!!
Has anyone else run into a similar issue? How should I go about getting it repaired?
Is there still a paint warranty for the paint on my 2004 SUV?
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C'mon Steve. I am from CT originally, now in AZ. You have rust on the bimper. Sand it off in the least noticeable location (or get the Dremel out to do the job) and see what you have going on. I am assuming you can not see the backside of the bumper without removing a lot of parts. You should check the bumper from the backsdie but really I hope the bumper is not thin enough to rust through in 3 years.Paul M.
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Availability: Ascot Apartments
Central Copenhagen aparthotel with Internet access
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Near Tivoli Gardens
Situated in Copenhagen's city centre, this six-floor aparthhotel is 400 metres from Tivoli Garden and City Hall Square. It is also in close proximity to the shopping and business districts.
Wireless Internet
A Scandinavian-style buffet breakfast is offered each morning (surcharge) and the property has wireless Internet access in common areas.
Satellite television
Ascot Apartments have contemporary Scandinavian decor and furnishings; all have well-equipped kitchens, telephones and satellite television with pay movies.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Ascot Apartments Amenities
- General
A traditional Scandinavian buffet breakfast (surcharge) is served each morning and Ascot Apartments has a bar; guests can choose from four other onsite dining options. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can exchange currency and store valuables in the safe-deposit box. There is a fitness center and solarium. Common areas have high-speed wireless Internet (surcharge), and there are complimentary newspapers and coffee in the lobby.This is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 60
- Babysitting or childcare
- Number of floors - 6
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Full-service spa
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Luggage storage
- Room service (24 hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 4
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Hair salon
- Health club
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Year Built 1940
- Spa services on site
- Television in lobby
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access ( £25.00 DKK / per 24-hour period )
Available in some public areas: Wireless Internet access - ( £25.00 DKK / per 24-hour period )
- Parking
Self parking (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Separate sitting area
- Microwave
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Kitchen
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Satellite TV service
- Desk
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Dining
A Scandinavian buffet breakfast is offered each morning (surcharge).
The hotel has four restaurants. Il Peccato serves lunch and dinner with city views. Ascot Bar has a wide range of drinks in a traditional-style setting.
The Biscaya Tapas Restaurant is known for its traditional paella and Evita Peron is another dining option.
- Recreation
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Sailing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Spa
Spa and Wellness facilities are available (Surcharge) at the hotel's parnter property Ascot Hotel, next to Ascot Apartments.
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Spa tub in spa
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Body treatments
- Massages
- Facial treatments
Ascot Apartments Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
- Check-out
Check-out time is 11 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Breakfast fee: DKK 155 for adults and DKK 80 for children (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: DKK 25 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: DKK 25 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: DKK 195 per day
- Crib (infant bed) fee: DKK 310 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: DKK 310 per night
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
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April 26, 2008 6:19 PM
In big trouble
It goes without saying that the Avalanche needs to win both home games next week against the Red Wings -- as impossible as that seems right now -- for any chance to pull an upset in this series.
I knew this would be a difficult series for the Avalanche under the best of circumstances, which is why I picked the Red Wings to win in six games.
That sure looks optimistic at this point ... for the Avalanche, that is.
Jose Theodore, sick or whatever, has looked terrible, the Avalanche never seems to be able to control the puck for any significant amount of time, and Red Wings forward Johan Franzen has been unstoppable.
Maybe Peter Forsberg will play in Game 3. Maybe Scott Hannan will play in Game 3. Maybe the Avalanche will get "blanked off" -- coach Joel Quenneville's words -- about its plight and do something about it.
But unless things change drastically, this series has sweep written all over it.
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Mayor Richard J. Berry and the Talent ABQ program is highlighted on a White House website promoting programs aimed at increasing employment.
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Gov. Rick Perry, a vocal critic of the White House's response to the surge of children and families entering the U.S. illegally, plans to deploy as many as 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border, a local lawmaker confirmed Monday.
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A visiting archaeologist will explore new theories on Chimney Rock in southern Colorado during a free lecture at Aztec Ruins on Friday.
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JOPLIN, Mo. —
Members of the American Legion Band of Greater Kansas City have had a Joplin concert circled on their calendars for a while.
"Usually we are a part of patriotic events," said Mark Drake, president of the band. "We're the featured act, the headliner, and that's exciting for the band. This is one of the standout events on our schedule."
The band will play a program of popular, patriotic favorites during the Joplin Pops concert today at the oval on the campus of Missouri Southern State University. The annual outdoor concert is presented by Pro Musica Joplin.
Regular director Heather Pickett will miss the concert because of an illness. Bill Turley will conduct the band instead, Drake said.
The Joplin Pops is a different kind of concert, said Bonnie Yetter, interim director for Pro Musica Joplin.
"Usually, our season has formal, classical music with small ensembles," Yetter said. "This is a large group that will play a few light classics and some more popular things that people like to hear."
That includes a healthy helping of Sousa marches, Claude T. Smith, an armed forces salute and Dvorak's "New World Symphony."
Wait, Dvorak? It's the most difficult piece in the band's repertoire, Drake said.
"That individual piece will be a feature for the band," Drake said. "It will be a competition piece for when we go to a national band competition in August."
Though Dvorak's symphony may not fit a patriotic theme, it is one of the more recognizeable pieces of music for orchestra. Adaptations for military bands such as this one are considered standard, traditional pieces.
Introducing new music to listeners is important to the band, Drake said. Though the program features the well known Sousa classics "Stars and Stripes Forever," the band will also play "El Capitan."
"Sousa wrote a lot of other things; vignettes that were musicals. Some weren't even marches," Drake said. "That's one of the unwritten missions of our band, to bring that forward and draw the audience in."
Bands in this style were popularized by Sousa, Drake said.
Military bands were common and popular in the early 1900s Ñ virtually every town had a band. The instrumentation features brass, woodwinds and percussion, leaving out members of the string family.
The American Legion Band of Greater Kansas City is one of those bands.
Formed more than 80 years ago, it has a history of performing at public and patriotic events throughout Missouri and Kansas.
The 67-member band features players as young as 17 and as old as 80, Drake said. Drake plays tuba in the band, and his daughter plays saxophone.
"I've been in for 20 years myself," Drake said. "My daughter is a music student at KU. When the opportunity arose and she was at the right stage in her musical development, we had her come in. She's been with the band for about four years now."
Members rehearse weekly in the spring and ramp up practices until a national competition, where the band competes against other similar bands.
Since 1951 the band hasn't missed playing in the annual American Legion Senior Band Competition. Drake said the band won in 2005 and has placed in the top three each year since.
The band is a featured part of commemorations and ceremonies in the K.C. area, including Memorial Day, Veterans Day and Independence Day celebrations.
Yetter said the concert is an open-air, casual concert, which listeners can bring their own lawn chairs, blankets and picnic meals. The annual Joplin Pops concert closes the Pro Musica Joplin season each year, and is a family friendly event.
"My granddaughters love it, because they can run and do cartwheels," Yetter said. "it's more relaxed and informal."
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Pro Musica Joplin's annual Joplin Pops concert will be held at 8 p.m. today at the oval on the campus of MSSU.
Attendees are encouraged to bring seating and picnic meals. Because warm weather is expected, attendees should also bring plenty of liquids, said Bonnie Yetter, interim director of Pro Musica Joplin.
Golf carts will be available to transport listeners from the parking lots to the oval. T-shirts will be for sale and lollipops will be available.
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One thing we see too often that irritates us is the sight of an American flag that is soiled, faded, even torn and need of an honorable retirement — particularly when it is being flown at one of our government installations.
Old Glory is a symbol that reminds us of our nation's greatness and the spirit of our people, and we should treat it that way. We should display it with respect, devotion and care, and we set aside each June 14 in its honor — Flag Day.
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The team and their fans celebrated with a pep rally and viewing party on Thursday night . Players said the documentary captured the good and bad of "Hell Week."
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The Board of Education members are exploring the possibility of securing their own bond issue for a proposed $8 million project to upgrade the Spring Sports Complex, high school football stadium, the construction of a new outdoor track, and the possible refinancing of the board's part of a 2006 bond issued through the city.
A 2011 legislative act allows school boards to secure bonds for capital projects like other county and city entities or governments using multiple funding sources.
School board members met with four investment banking firms during a special called work session Tuesday.
Investment bankers told members of the board that if the school system is seeking to secure its own bond issue, it must first secure a credit rating from a credit agency.
Officials said the higher the credit rating, the lower the interest rates the school board could secure on bond issues.
For more than a decade the school system has secured funds through city bond issues. The city currently enjoys an AA- rating.
Larry Ward, who has acted as a financial advisor for the city and who is an investment banker with Raymond James|Morgan Keegan, said it is a gamble for the Board of Education to secure its own rating, because it could actually be lower than the city.
"It's like rolling the dice," Ward told board members.
Matt Adams, another investment banker for Raymond James|Morgan Keegan, said the rating would remain with the board for the life of the debt, but the rating is reviewed every 1-2 years.
Adams said if the school board received a lower or even the same rating as the city, it could still see a loss in interest rate savings.
He said the BOE could only save on interest rates if school system received an AA rating, one step above the city. He pointed out there are only three school systems in the state that have secured an AA rating or better in the past three years.
Adams said the Hoover and Homewood Boards of Education have an AA rating, and the Mountain Brook school system secured an AA+ rate.
Adams said if the school system received an A+ rating, one step below the city, it is estimated to cost the board an additional interest expense of $279,000.
He said if the board chose to seek its own financing, it would incur additional expenses that were normally split between the board and the city. Other expenses, like the annual trustee fee, were assumed by the city.
Adams said expenses shared or incurred by the city include the cost of legal counsel, which ranged from $25,000-$50,000; rating fee for an $8-$20 million bond issue would cost $14,000-$20,000; annual trustee fee totals for a 25-year issue is approximately $50,000; and smaller miscellaneous costs.
If the board decided to secure its own bond issue, it would incur all expenses.
"Between those three major costs, you're incurring an additional $100,000 in expenses, if not more," Adams said.
Pell City Manager Patrick Draper said the city continues to explore funding options for possible city projects, but nothing is set in stone at this time.
Draper said the city will continue using Raymond James|Morgan Keegan as its investment banking firm for assistance in funding future capital projects for the city.
He also said it is less costly, not only for the Board of Education, but also for the city, by jointly securing one large bond issue for both entities.
"It will save both of us money, mostly in legal fees," Draper said.
Raymond James|Morgan Keegan was one of four investment banking firms that addressed the board Tuesday night.
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Raymond James|Morgan Keegan was the only investment firm that did not provide a set underwriter's fee or cost to the board.
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Damn - listening to Rampage go on about people not wanting to stand with him; not wanting to be taken down; hating on the ground game part of MMA. Maybe he should be looking the K1 type route where everyone stands up the entire fight. Then again, he'd have to deal with leg kicks. At least he'd have something to complain about.
Its hard to be a fan of his anymore, but also hard to just completely disregard his career. I hate all this talk where fighters claim their fights will be exciting or whatever, like the Johnson/Hardy fight. Just go out there and do what you gotta do to win.
I have this fight 60-65/35-40 in favor of Glover just due to his hunger. Rampage still has some skills and shouldn't be taken lightly, even tho he's clearly not the same fighter he used to be.
Originally Posted by KevoOnTheRadio
Seems kinda douchey
I agree except we could take out the "kinda".
Seems Douchey.
Originally Posted by p1jrod
I've always hated rampage, i think its cause he was an arrogant prick after he beat chuck... hell Rampage was hanging out at a Kottonmouth Kings show here in san diego after he won the belt, i was flipping him off and everything... they brought him out on stage at one point he walks right over to where i am on the barricade and kisses his fist and points it at me as i was still giving him the finger and telling him to go fuck himself. I was hoping hed come down and lay one into me, so i could get him stripped of his title... so yea, i have no problem saying i hate that guy
Seems kinda douchey
Originally Posted by Sakara=Excitement
I like how Rampage gets to have a "character" but Chael doesn't. Hmmm
I like how Rampage gets to have a "character" but Chael doesn't. Hmmm
Originally Posted by NAL987
Remember when we used to like Rampage?
I still do. Not so much as a person; but as a fighter and as a character.
Remember when we used to like Rampage?
Originally Posted by Fedorlei Gomipierre
I'm still not 100% convinced we're going to see Rampage walk into the octagon to face Glover.
Now, I'm not saying that Rampage would explicitly look to duck Glover or anything, but I can't think of a bigger way to fuck ZUFFA over than by pulling a Ken Shamrock on the co-main of a FOX card. Is there anybody else entertaining that this might happen?
I can certainly see Rampage doing something like and I'm sure if he could get away with it he would.
The question is what all his contract entails. Zuffa contracts usually are highly favorable to themselves when it comes down to fighters leaving. It would not be in his best interest to do anything but fight the least of which they could drag out the rescheduling of his last fight til the maximum amount of time.
Rampage's biggest weakness is his stupidity and his lack of motivation against most fighters.
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June 13, 2013
Recycling on the rise in Pulaski County
By BILL MARDIS, Editor Emeritus
Commonwealth Journal
Somerset —
Some 4,200 curbside recycling containers in Pulaski County have increased by 18 percent the amount of materials recycled by Pulaski County Recycling Center since the curbside program got under way in February.
Gerald Hines, solid waste coordinator for Pulaski County, said about 35 percent of residences in the county are participating in the recycling effort. Distribution of the containers began the second week of January and it took about six weeks to deliver one to every home.
"Most counties have recycling participation in the low 20s percentagewise, so we are way ahead of that," Hines noted.
The Pulaski County Recycling Center recycled 3,727,627 pounds in 2010, 4,575,977 pounds in 2011 and 4,756,441 pounds in 2012.
The 18 percent increase due to curbside containers will push 2013 recycling to more than 5 million pounds, a record. Some 87 tons of recyclable materials come in each month from the curbside containers. Residential collections from the containers are made on a monthly schedule.
Hines said he worked on the curbside collection idea for more than two years. It ended up with Waste Connections of Kentucky, as part of its bid to continue garbage collection, supplied the curbside containers at a cost of more than $1 million, Hines said. The latest contract also decreased the residential garbage collection fee by 17 cents, Hines added.
"I understand if a person buys one of the large green containers it would cost about $70," said Hines. "I am told Waste Connections bought the containers in bulk for about $40 each."
"We wanted everyone to have one," said Hines. Eventually, containers not used will be picked up, he noted.
Items for recycling include cardboard boxes, plastics, cans and papers. Styrofoam, food, trash, glass, liquids and plastic bags are not supposed to be put in the containers.
Recyclable materials from curbside containers and various satellite drop containers come in loose form to Pulaski County Recycling Center. An assembly line of employees separates the materials and the various types are weighed, baled and shipped to different locations, including Birmingham and Knoxville.
Increased amounts of recyclable materials coming into the center has upped the number of employees.
"We had seven employees at the start. Now we have 18, and we also use 12-14 inmates," said Hines.
Recyclable materials create a lot of things," said Hines. For example, plastic milk jugs turn back into milk jugs and clothing ... a red baseball cap and several pens were among recycled items on his desk.


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I would like to commend Home Depot in Danvers for their response to the tornado warning on Monday, July 1. While shopping, I was approached by a salesperson that due to tornado warnings in the area, I could either exit the store immediately or go to either of the two back rooms to join the salespersons for safety. What impressed me the most was that the people in charge cared more for the shoppers and their workforce than making more sales. In the hour that we were there, the salespersons offered frozen treats, cookies, potato chips and bottled water. They even provided coloring books and crayons for the children. All of us mixed in together as one caring community. Congratulations to all those who work as a team at our Danvers Home Depot.
Maureen McDevitt


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PITTSBURG — Stringtown sophomore pitcher Alyssa Coffman didn't strike out a single Pittsburg Lady Panther.
On a night when the Lady Tigers defense made every play, a lack of strikeouts didn't matter one bit.
Coffman pitched a three-hit shutout, and the Lady Tigers played almost error-free defense to beat the Lady Panthers, 3-0, on Tuesday at Pittsburg.
Stringtown evened its record at 3-3 with the win. Pittsburg fell to 0-2 with the loss.
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Feature Story — Winston Justice: Rescued From Justice
Protecting Peyton Manning, one of the greatest NFL quarterbacks in history, doesn't come without bumps in the road.
For Winston Justice, those bumps have been numerous. His storybook ascension started in high school, when Winston Justice started making his own decisions.
Raised a Jehovah's Witness, Justice defied his denomination's edict to avoid organized athletics because it would expose children to "unwholesome associations" and started playing football when he was 16… Continue reading


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Change our habits
Fracking and tar sand mining are disastrous. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water are used, and that poisoned water will never be recovered. It also leads us down the path to more carbon emissions.
Unless we change our consumptive habits, within three decades the world could reach a runaway melting process of permafrost that will release methane 25 times more caustic to our atmosphere than carbon dioxide. (See "Permafrost Melting Rate Could Be Faster And Worse Than We Thought, New Study Finds" Feb. 22 Huffington Post.)
A cycle will start from which there is no turning back. Our environment will be changed with a temperature increase of over six degrees, which will dramatically alter civilization. Drought, massively destructive storms, sea levels rising, loss of tens of thousands of species in the ocean and earth, the displacement of millions of people and the crash of the world economies is imminent. This is an economic, moral, humanitarian and survival issue.
World leaders, the fuel/carbon industries, and consumers must make dramatic changes, including voting, immediately. Business can no longer pursue growth, short-term profit and blind greed; consumers cannot expect cheap and abundant fossil fuels and always wanting more things. We must recognize we're a part of this world, and act accordingly.
John E. McDonald
Traverse City
Multiplying enemies
The Authorization for Use of Military Forces (AUMF) was passed by the U.S. Congress after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to provide for U.S. "War on Terror." It allows our U.S. government to wage war anytime, anyplace, on anyone deemed a threat to U.S. national security … with remarkably little evidence.
Hence, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, attacks on Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Mali and the new drone bases in Niger and Djibouti. It emboldens hawks on their warpath to Syria, Iran and North Korea.


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August 1, 2014
The Lawrence Journal World reports that Kansas University women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson has agreed to an extension of her contract, KU athletics director Lew Perkins said at Thursday's basketball postseason awards banquet.
Henrickson would have a new deal encompassing five years, he said. There will be a raise in pay, details to come out in the near future.