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Now that several days have passed — and the usual suspects have piped in with their disaster tourism, media opportunism, and inevitable bombast – do I feel comfortable writing publicly about the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy.
Sadly, even with important-sounding calls for change, I'm not sure much will change, even after another disaffected young man, with easy access to weapons of war, left a trail of human carnage in a desperate last-ditch attempt for recognition and ideation. Yes, nonstop news coverage, incessant hand-wringing, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) reintroduction of the exception-riddled 1994 Federal Assault Weapons ban, plus President Obama's moving call for "change" at Sunday night's interfaith vigil for Sandy Hook victims suggest this might be a "turning point."
However, a turning point in red state America? In rural America? The "unprecedented" spike in gun sales since the Sandy Hook tragedy — including at ArmsX, which sits a short 20 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary — suggests that not much has changed in gun-owning circles. In most non-urban counties in this country – which vote overwhelmingly along NRA lines in state, local, and national elections — citizens seem to unconsciously accept that horrific mass killings are the price we pay for unbridled gun ownership.
To understand the genesis of that POV, one needs to grasp how guns are woven into our republic's founding. Our second amendment was largely created to enable citizens to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. Not symbolically defend, but literally defend. As the nation's law enforcement has expanded its weapons capabilities, so too, by virtue of the "natural rights" enshrined in the second amendment, should the weapons capabilities of citizens.
However, tyranny's definition has been distorted far beyond what the founding fathers intended. They did not intend for U.S. citizens to take up arms against their government because they disagreed with, say, high taxes, quotas, wealth redistribution, or amnesty for illegal immigrants. As onerous as those positions may be to some, they do not justify armed revolt. The founders intended civilians to protect themselves against a government that was literally waging violent war on them.
Even as I consider taking up hunting — out of a desire to procure my own food, not for sport or security — I am struck by the absurdity of owning a semi-automatic weapon. It serves no sport or hunting function. It is not necessary in most cases of self-defense. One owns a semi-automatic weapon almost exclusively to protect oneself should the U.S. government wage war on its citizens. Alternatively, one requires a semi-automatic weapon should another nation invade the U.S. and our security forces are unable to repel the intruder. Neither event is remotely probable in 2012 America. Nevertheless, American citizens can purchase unabashed weapons of war — such as the Bushmaster .223 rifle used to mow down 20 Sandy Hook first-graders — purely as a bulwark against these imagined tyrannical threats.
As we try to forge a new way after the Newtown tragedy, those who believe in hunting's import need to stand up against the extremism on both sides of the gun issue. Bans on automatic or semi-automatic weapons will not in any way affect the sport of hunting. Mandating gun show background checks (however small the purchase), or requiring that one keeps one's guns under lock and key in a place impenetrable to outsiders and one's own children, are not too burdensome to those of us who merely seek to hunt for sport, sustenance, habitat protection, or all three.
Yes, as John Lott argues in More Guns Less Crime, mass murderers pick schools, in part, because they are largely defenseless targets. However, arming teachers and principals, as former Education Secretary Bill Bennett recommended Sunday on "Meet the Press," will turn our schools into mini-prisons. In many parts of the country – as documentary filmmaker Cevin Soling notes in "The War On Kids" — they already are. In my next post, I will explore ways to effectively protect schools without turning them into fortresses.
For now, we are going to have to forego this illusion that U.S. citizens should be free to arm themselves with military-style rifles, high-capacity magazines, explosives, and more. A fulsomely armed citizenry might be what the founding fathers had in mind in the context of a low-tech colonial war with the British back in 1776, but not in the world of today's high-tech killing machines and droves of lost and systemically emasculated young men with access to such weaponry.
Just as we've had to accept limitations on state rights in order to enable civil rights for African-Americans, women, and now gays, so too we need to pass laws that unequivocally preserve the second amendment's right to bear arms, but circumscribe its purview when it comes to self-defense.
As New York City has empirically shown – much to the consternation of faddish economists like Steven D. Levitt (he of "Freaknomics" fame) — gun regulation, when combined with smart, robust policing and James Q. Wilson's Broken Windows approach to law enforcement, works. New York City has routinely had the lowest per capita murder rate in the nation for several decades. We need to replicate New York City's practices in full across the nation and give up this outdated canard that dramatically arming citizens is going to solve crime in places like DC, Chicago or Newtown, Connecticut. It can't. It hasn't. It won't.
Nor is it feasible or ethical to keep whole swaths of the population deemed "mentally ill" from owning guns. After all, a healthy plurality of American gun owners likely suffers from some mental impairment: depression, anxiety, PTSD from serving in military conflict, ADD, drug, alcohol, and/or gambling addiction, and, of course, sundry types of oppositional or anti-social behavior. In addition, I am sure many gun owners have expressed viewpoints online that might be deemed "inappropriate" or "dangerous" by one quarter or another. Nevertheless, the MacArthur Foundation found that those who were diagnosed mentally ill were no more violent than those who were not diagnosed mentally ill.
In our quest to keep guns away from the so-called "mentally ill," are we going to ferret out the medical records – in direct violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule — of the millions of Americans on psychiatric meds or the millions more who had to spend time in a mental health facility because their own caregivers were drunks, drug addicts, abusers or all three?
Such draconian personal invasions under the guise of "mental health" are positively Soviet (the U.S.S.R. made a habit of locking up citizens in psychiatric wards for opposing its totalitarian policies). Absent a clear and reasonable bright line that miraculously demarcates which mental conditions lead to gun violence – Asperger's Syndrome is typically not one — such psychiatric litmus tests absurdly infringe upon the basic freedoms of all Americans, including the freedom of speech. We must strongly resist this post-Sandy-Hook mental health detection drumbeat precisely because it will ensnare millions of innocent young Americans in its altruistic trap.
Instead, we must strike a healthy balance between rights and responsibilities without demonizing a large swath of the citizenry in the process. It will require give and take from all of us. In addition, it will require sensible sportsmen to stand up and differentiate themselves from the Prepper fringe – the Sandy Hook shooter's mother was a member — who are animating the unreasonable resistance to balanced gun regulation.
Yes, cars kill more people every year in America than do guns. However, the primary purpose of cars is transport. The primary purpose of guns is killing. A wise society should be able to navigate that distinction.
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I think you're taking the rights thing a little too liberally (and I'm not even American, I'm Canadian).
Those 20 kids and 6 adults (7 if you count his mother) have rights too. They have the right to live in a country where the threat and chances of getting gunned down by anyone should be absolutely zero. They have the right to live in a peaceful society where guns don't do the talking or problem-solving, people do it with their intelligence, understanding and common reasoning. They have the right to live the rest of their lives to educate themselves, live productive lives in society, to give back to others, to have kids of their own and to grow old knowing they've done everything they can to live a full and rich life.
I've used the term "have" and not "had" on purpose. Why? These people are gone now but they shouldn't be. They should be getting ready for Christmas, for celebrating the best time in a child's life and looking forward to what the new year will bring them. I didn't know any of these victims, nor have I ever even been to Connecticut but that doesn't matter. This loss of life is a loss for everyone who just wants to live a peaceful, free life without the threat of violence.
So when you say you'll never give up your rights, you may be correct. However, in both your ranting posts, you never once mentioned these victims of this horrible tragedy, just only about how you'd be affected. No offense but your definition of rights are much different than most people have… and that's not a good thing.
James, not that it will matter, but I am writing a letter to your editor. Your gross generalizations and the way you marginalize people who don't share you beliefs is comical. You don't want to have a real debate, you want to prove how right you are. That isn't journalism. These people writing comments have real concerns and you just write them off. It's a shame. But go ahead and use big words to tell me how wrong I am, and how balanced and calm you are.
Manhattan is an outlier. It is the most densly populated city in the country. It has the largest municiple police force. Probaly has the most CCTV as well. It is 100% an urban enviornment. What I am getting at is NY, NY is VERY diffrent than Anytown, USA. What works or makes sense in NY, might not necessarly make sense for the rest of the country. Sorry for my spelling, I'm dyslexic.
And you are so-o-o-o-o enlightened. Arrogant and condescending again. You libs take the cake.
"diehard automatic and semi-automatic weapons owners get their panties all balled up over their fear that big bad Uncle Sam " this is exactly why i wrote a letter to the editor. You are an accomplished author, you shouldn't stoop to this level.


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On December 10, 2007 the Supreme Court decided Kimbrough v. United States and Gall v. United States, two important cases dealing with the sentencing guidelines. In this episode of SCOTUScast, Stephanos Bibas, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, discusses the case. In a later episode of SCOTUScast, William Mercer discusses these same two cases.


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Randolph-Macon College is a private institution that was founded in 1830. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,312, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 116 acres. It utilizes a 4-1-4-based academic calendar. Randolph-Macon College's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 134. Its tuition and fees are $34,850 (2013-14).
Randolph-Macon College operates on a 4-1-4 academic calendar, meaning students can spend each January taking a monthlong course, traveling abroad, performing research or completing a short internship. Some students are able to complete research projects during the summer, too, through the Schapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), which is awarded annually.
Outside of school work, students have more than 75 clubs and organizations to consider joining. Student athletes compete as the Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets, NCAA Division III teams that are members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. All students are required to live on the college's campus in Ashland, Virginia. For road trips, Richmond is about 15 miles from campus and Washington is 90 miles away. Notable alumni of R-MC include U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes and John Frazee Jr., former president and chief operating officer of Sprint.
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Founded in 1830, Randolph-Macon is a selective, co-educational liberal arts college ideally located in scenic Ashland, Virginia, just minutes north of Richmond, and 90 miles south of Washington D.C. The college is easily accessible off of Interstate 95, has an Amtrak station across from campus and is in close proximity to Richmond International Airport. With an enrollment of approximately 1300 students, the college achieves its mission of "developing the minds and character of its students" with a student-faculty ratio of 12:1 and an average class size of 16. The college's rigorous academic program prepares students for graduate school and a lifetime of changing careers and success in the real world. The college offers a vast choice of majors and minors, including new Asian Studies and Communication Studies majors, and a new Equestrian program. Qualified students can take advantage of a BS/MD joint degree program and early selection partnerships with three premier medical schools. A Four-Year Degree Guarantee program also promises freshmen, who meet basic requirements, that they will graduate within four calendar years or the college will wave tuition needed to complete their degree. R-MC's exceptional faculty are nationally recognized for their teaching excellence and highly regarded as experts in their field. The personal interaction between faculty and students create "unique moments of connection" that challenge students to maximize their potential and foster lifelong relationships. R-MC's wealth of national and international internships provides students with meaningful, real-world experiences. The has an active, engaged alumni body that offers students valuable networking opportunities, both while at R-MC and after graduation. Randolph-Macon's extensive international education program prepares students to study abroad for a semester or immerse themselves in another culture for one month during the college's unique January term (J-term) program. Each year, students travel to other countries with faculty members to each continent. Many track their adventures by submitting J-Term blogs that allow the reader to follow their month-long journeys and new areas of discovery. During J-term, students can also participate in an internship or other area of study. The Schapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program supports more than 30 students each summer to conduct research with faculty on projects in the sciences and humanities. Students then share their findings with their peers and at national and international conferences with their faculty advisor. In April 2011, the college launched a $100 million capital campaign, Building Extraordinary, to support new academic, residential and athletic facilities, provide additional scholarships and endowed professorships. Andrews Hall, a 104-bed, suite style freshmen facility will be opened for the 2011 entering class. A Randolph-Macon education is also affordable. The college offers a competitive financial aid program to include scholarships and grants; a significant percentage of applicants are eligible to receive some form of financial assistance. Randolph-Macon is a proud member of NCAA Division III, the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and sponsors 17 intercollegiate sports. Many of its teams and students are nationally-ranked and have won national championships. The college also offers a healthy Greek Life system and provides dozens of student organizations from which to choose. A majority of students are actively engaged and participate in community service and outreach programs and have raised thousands of dollars for community organizations. Randolph-Macon College's Phi Beta Kappa Chapter received the organization's Triennial award for the most outstanding chapter at a liberal arts college in the United States. Randolph-Macon is also the oldest United Methodist Church-affiliated college in the nation.
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When applying to Randolph-Macon College, it's important to note the application deadline is March 1, and the early action deadline is November 15. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due March 1. The application fee at Randolph-Macon College is $30. It is selective, with an acceptance rate of 54 percent.
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The student-faculty ratio at Randolph-Macon College is 12:1, and the school has 65.8 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Randolph-Macon College include: Psychology, General; Business/Managerial Economics; English Language and Literature, General; Accounting; and Biology/Biological Sciences, General. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 77.8 percent.
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Randolph-Macon College has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,312, with a gender distribution of 47.6 percent male students and 52.4 percent female students. At this school, 78 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 22 percent of students live off campus. Randolph-Macon College is part of the NCAA III athletic conference.
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Randolph-Macon College offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, and health service. Randolph-Macon College also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Of the students at Randolph-Macon College, 69 percent have cars on campus. Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Randolph-Macon College.
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At Randolph-Macon College, 74.2 percent of full-time undergraduates receive some kind of need-based financial aid and the average need-based scholarship or grant award is $20,935.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — As thousands of the world's leading tech companies gather in Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show, Research In Motion Ltd. is among the more notable absentees.
The Canadian smartphone maker has no booth on the show floor, and hasn't set any press events or announcements for its flagship BlackBerry business. Instead, the company is quietly preparing for its own event in New York City later this month to launch its new operating system and two new handsets.
"Coming into the launch, we've been looking closely at how to best engage with our own customers," said RIM spokesman Nick Manning, who added that the company still has several executives attending the show and taking meetings with business partners and other parties.
RIM shares closed trading Wednesday down 3.5% at $11.49. The stock has surged nearly 75% since late September ahead of the launch.
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But with RIM, the timing is notable. CES takes place less than a month before its official launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, designed to be several leaps ahead of its current BB7 platform. The company has scheduled an event in New York City for Jan. 30 to showcase the platform and unveil two new smartphones expected to hit the market over the following weeks.
That launch is considered a make-or-break event for RIM, which has watched its once pioneering BlackBerry smartphone family lose market share to the iPhone and Android devices, such as the Galaxy line from Samsung.
While most analysts are skeptical that RIM can recover its smartphone business with BB10, Mike Walkley of Canaccord said avoiding the crush of CES is a better strategy for the company, "as it's easy to get lost out here," referring to the hoards of companies angling for attention from the media at the Vegas confab.
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The Black squad defeated the White squad 112-106 in overtime.
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But the most significant number originating from Terre Haute South High School's gym Friday night was 10,000.
Near the end of the "Mike Saylor Benefit Night" basketball game consisting of former South standouts, South principal Chris Mauk announced to the large crowd of supporters that $10,000 had been raised to help the Saylor family during his ongoing battle with cancer.
Not surprisingly, a standing ovation followed.
Earlier Friday, Saylor — a former South boys basketball assistant and head coach who has been receiving medical treatments in Houston in recent weeks — provided an update on Facebook about his condition and his thoughts on Friday's benefit, which he was able to attend.
"I am very happy to be finished with my second round of treatments," he said. "I am also very happy to be home in Terre Haute where I am with family and friends. I feel much better than I did after the first round of treatments.
"I want to thank everyone at South Vigo High School for putting together the chilli supper, silent auction and basketball game that all goes on this evening.
"I have been blessed to know so many wonderful people. I am very humbled and thankful for all of the prayerful support that I have received."
Among those who came to Saylor's aid was longtime friend and former South head coach Pat Rady, who now coaches at Cloverdale High School and guided the Black squad Friday.
"Mike has been a very loyal friend," the 72-year-old Rady told the Tribune-Star at halftime of Friday's game. "He was probably an assistant coach next to me longer than any other assistant I've had. We went through a lot of strategies of trying to win ballgames. … So many great memories."
South's all-time leading scorer Maynard Lewis, a 1998 graduate, also did his part by tying Steve Hart for high-point honors on Rady's Black squad with 22 Friday.
"Coach Saylor was very instrumental in my basketball career, teaching me the fundamentals," Lewis said. "I hate that we have to get together for this reason, but it's certainly nice to see everyone."
Before the game, the 39-year-old Hart promised no dunks like the kind he routinely produced in the early 1990s, even though he still plays basketball about once a week in St. Michael, Minn.
"I'm old," he said with a chuckle. "I don't want to break anything … and I don't mean rims."
Former Indiana University standout and NBA player Brian Evans, a 1991 South grad and also 39 now, said he was unable to play Friday but still attended the pregame festivities.
"We love coach Saylor," said Evans, who currently resides in Indianapolis. "He's such a gracious guy. He's thanking us for being here. … He's had such a huge impact on so many people from this community."
Leading the White squad in scoring were Anthony McNeal (2005 grad) with 27 points, Ian McIntyre (2009) with 21 and John Michael Jarvis (2010) with 19.
Other double-figure scorers for the triumphant Black squad were Lucas Steward (2012) with 15 points and Christian Barnett (2008) with 14.
Early in the five-minute OT, the White squad actually led 101-94 after Jarvis' sixth 3-pointer of the night. But the Black squad used an 18-5 run in the final minutes to pull out the victory.
"It's been a lot of fun seeing the players and reminiscing about times here at South," Rady mentioned. "It brings back fond memories."
But Rady also knew what really mattered Friday.
"As I told the players, whoever wins this ballgame tonight, that's not important," he said. "What's important is we want to win for coach Saylor and his battle against cancer. He looks good. I'm very pleased. … If anybody can beat it, I know Mike will because he's a fighter. He's a competitor and he always has been."
Besides the former South athletes who played in the contest and Evans, several others showed up to be part of the festivities. Among them were current Indiana State guard Jake Odum, Jim Bogle (a longtime friend of Saylor's who also has cancer), Jeff Hutz, Steve Richardson (who coached the White squad Friday) and Mike Stoffers (who volunteered to be one of the three game officials Friday).
South assistant athletic director Shane Abrell organized Friday's benefit.
BLACK (112) — Chris Cassell 5, Seth Dunlap 7, Steve Hart 22, Anthony McGill 6, Lucas Steward 15, Christian Barnett 14, Maynard Lewis 22, Greg Luken 5, Toby Stephens 8, Cole Vicars 8. Total 112.
WHITE (106) — John Michael Jarvis 19, Anthony McNeal 27, Spencer Harlan 3, Chuckie Hawkins 0, Zach Odum 6, Jon Bradbury 7, Brian Cottee 7, Ian McIntyre 21, Barry Minnett 10, Kyle Toney 2, Robert Davis 4. Total 106.
Black 21 17 26 28 20 — 112
White 16 30 28 18 14 — 106
3-point goals — Black: Lewis 4, Steward 4, Barnett 3, Stephens 2, Cassell, Dunlap, Luken. White: Jarvis 6, McIntyre 5, McNeal 4, Minnett 2, Bradbury, Cottee.


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Interstate 22
|Route information
|213 mi[1] (343 km)
|Major junctions
|West end:
|I‑269 near Memphis, TN
|East end:
|I‑65 / US-31 in Birmingham, AL
|Highway system
Interstate 22 (I-22) is an Interstate highway that, upon completion, will follow the U.S. Route 78 (US 78) corridor on a 213-mile-long (343 km) route from Memphis, Tennessee, to Birmingham, Alabama.[2] I-22 will connect I-240, I-40, and I-55 (indirectly) in the northwest with I-65 and (indirectly) I-20/I-59 in the southeast. Hence, I-22 will help form a freeway to connect downtown Atlanta with Birmingham, Memphis, Little Rock, Fort Smith, and Oklahoma City.
Along its way through the two states, I-22 will also serve the towns of Jasper, Winfield, and Hamilton, Alabama and Fulton, Tupelo, New Albany, and Holly Springs, Mississippi. Major portions of this highway have either been built new or converted to Interstate Highway standards as of early 2011. However, according to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), a connection to another Interstate highway must be completed before this highway is officially designated as part of the Interstate Highway System.[3][4] To be completed but under construction is an interchange with I-65 near Birmingham. An interchange to be constructed near Byhalia designated as I-269 would be the western terminus of I-22. The portion of I-269 just north of this area was completed by early 2013.
The part of I-22 just east of Fulton, Mississippi, was approved by Congress as "Corridor X" in 1978, as a part of the Appalachian Development Highway System, and parts of I-22 have been under construction ever since.[5] Corridor X was also designated as "High Priority Corridor 10" in the Federal National Highway System Designation Act of 1995, and as "High Priority Corridor 45" in later legislation.[1]
Two small but costly portions of I-22 remain to be completed, and these are under construction as of early 2011. The one missing part in Alabama is only 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long and it is in Jefferson County, and this is from Coalburg Road near Fultondale to U.S. Highway 31 (US 31) on the northern edge of Birmingham.[6] This short section consists mostly of the major highway interchange with I-65 and US 31.[6] The other missing part is the short stretch from the state line between Mississippi and Tennessee to its final interchange with an Interstate Highway just southeast of Memphis. The exact location of this western terminus has not yet been decided on as of early 2011, but I-269 (when completed)[7] and I-240 are two possibilities. It is also possible that I-22 may follow I-269 west to end at the I-55/I-69/I-269 interchange near Hernando.
Future I-22 now covers nearly the full distance between Birmingham and suburban Memphis, stopping short of its lone major interchange in Alabama at I-65.[6] In Mississippi, I-22 runs from the Alabama state line across the state, and past the location of its prospective interchange with I-269 to the Tennessee state line at the Memphis city limits. This is about four miles (6.4 km) short of an interchange with I-240 in Shelby County, Tennessee. However, whether a highway all the way to I-240 is ever constructed is still an open question because such a highway would need to go through a heavily-industrialized area of Memphis. This includes a large intermodal railroad and highway facility adjacent to the current US 78. Government funding for the two remaining sections of I-22 has been a priority for Senator Richard Shelby, who served as the Chairman of the Senate's Transportation Subcommittee.[5]
In 2004, Corridor X was designated as Future I-22 by Public Law Number 108-199,[8] and the designation was made official on April 18, 2005.[9] In Alabama and Mississippi, blue signs reading "FUTURE/I-22/CORRIDOR" at left and an I-22 shield with "FUTURE" instead of "INTERSTATE" at the right were unveiled on April 18, 2005.[9]
U.S. Highway 78[edit]
Future I-22 is also called US 78. Nearly all of US 78 today has been moved from its original roadway from Graysville, Alabama, through to Memphis. The fate of US 78 once Corridor X officially becomes I-22 is still undecided. Its original highway between Graysville and Memphis now bears several different state highway designations. From Graysville to Jasper, it is called State Route 5 (SR-5). For a short stretch in western Jasper, it is designated as SR-69, but once it turns south in western Jasper, the highway becomes SR-118. This remains its designation as until it reaches Winfield, where it becomes US 43, and at Guin, US 278 joins the highway. This continues through the town of Hamilton. In Hamilton, the former route of US 78 becomes SR-74 westward to its intersection with I-22 at exit 7. From that exit though the Mississippi state line, the current US 78 and Future I-22 are the same highway. (Here, the new I-22 has been built on top of the old US 78.)
At the Mississippi state line, travelers can look to the north to see the old US 78. This is still used today as a local road, but it is not accessible from Corridor X. At exit 113 on Corridor X, the old highway is accessible via Mississippi Highway 23 (MS 23) just north of Corridor X, and westbound from there it is MS 178.
MS 178 continues into Fulton, Miss. At Fulton, due to the existence of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, the original highway no longer exists just west of downtown Fulton. Then it can be entered again via I-22 at exit 101 as MS 178 again. The old highway (as MS 178) continues to run parallel with and south of I-22 into and past the town of Tupelo where it crosses Corridor X again at exit 81. The original routing remains parallel to and north of Corridor X through Sherman, Blue Springs, New Albany, Myrtle, and Hickory Flat before crossing Corridor X again at exit 48. It now runs parallel to and south of Corridor X through Potts Camp before crossing Corridor X the last time between Potts Camp and Lake Center and then it continues into Holly Springs, Red Banks, Victoria, Byhalia, and finally through Olive Branch before reconnecting with I-22 at an at-grade intersection just inside Tennessee near the present end of the controlled access highway. The decision to be made by the three departments of transportation is to whether to decommission US 78 from Birmingham all the way to downtown Memphis; or to redesignate the former US 78 routing once again as US 78; or to have I-22 also designated as US 78 on its entire distance between Birmingham and Memphis. There has been no indication as of January 2011 as to when such a decision might be made.
Approximately 93 miles (150 km) of Future I-22 is open to traffic in Alabama. The completed section of the route between the Mississippi state line and Jasper was opened to traffic on November 22, 2005.[10] Exits on the Jasper Bypass portion of I-22 were originally numbered using a kilometer-based sequence because at the time this stretch was opened it appeared that all highways in the U.S. were going to be measured using the metric system. The final decision was made to remain using miles, and they have been renumbered according to the highway's mileposts. A six-mile (9.7 km) segment between Graysville and Brookside was opened in June 2007,[11] and another 20-mile (32 km) section of Future I-22 between Jasper and Graysville was opened in November 2007.[12] A 1.8-mile (2.9 km) segment between Cherry Avenue in Forestdale to a point about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) short of I-65 near Fultondale, including an interchange with Coalburg Road, which was opened in December 2009.[6] This has been the last segment of I-22 in Alabama to open for traffic so far. Next comes the connection of I-22 with I-65 and US 31.[6] The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) also plans to widen Coalburg Road from its interchange with I-22 southward to Daniel Payne Drive (which leads to I-65) in order to allow heavy trucks to use it.[13] However, no timetable for this project has been announced by ALDOT.[13] Signs are now in place on Daniel Payne Drive (westbound) informing truckers that access to I-22 is not allowed from Daniel Payne Drive.
Plans call for I-22 to be completed to I-65 in October 2014, with the 14-bridge stack interchange in Birmingham.[14] Construction to widen I-65 to four lanes in both directions has begun from just south of the upcoming highway interchange southward to the 16th Street interchange in Birmingham. Under the present design, I-22 will terminate at I-65, but the highway will continue a short distance beyond I-65 as a long pair of ramps to US 31.[15] Another associated project is a widening of I-65 from its interchange with I-22 northward to the Walker Chapel Road exit. This work (as of early 2011) is underway.[16] The expansion of I-65 south of the I-22 interchange to the interchange with I-65 and I-20/I-59 has been completed south of exit 264.
ALDOT had announced that the awarding of contracts for the construction of the final segment of I-22, including its large interchange with I-65 and US 31, would have been carried out in August 2009—with the construction to begin shortly afterwards. However funding delays postponed these into 2010. On March 19, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the HIRE (Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment) Act into law, which included an extension of federal highway funding through the end of 2010. This extension gave the ALDOT the opportunity to proceed with its plans for the construction of final segment of I-22 in Alabama. The opening of the bids for this project began on May 21, 2010. ALDOT announced on June 16, 2010, that the project has been awarded to the company Archer Western Contractors for $168,600,000.[17]
The construction work began in October 2010, and it has a projected completion date of October 15, 2014.[14] This project is the most expensive highway project ever undertaken in Jefferson County, and it is the highest-priced contract that the Alabama Department of Transportation has ever awarded.[14]
Various lighting projects have been completed along I-22 since 2008. These include lighting at exits 85, 30, and 14. I-22 is a six-lane highway between exit 63, at Jasper, and the current terminus of the highway at exit 93, at Coalburg Road. A stretch of I-22 between exits 57 and 52 is also six-lane freeway. ALDOT, as of July 2010, has no plans to construct an Alabama Welcome Center for eastbound travelers from Mississippi into Alabama.
Exit 53 is currently an unnamed exit. ALDOT stated that the original intent was for this interchange to serve as SR-102 and connect to the existing SR-102 at Townley. The mileage signs on the interchange bridge facings indicate the route as SR-102 but ALDOT has stated that funds are not currently available to extend SR-102 from I-22 to the intersection of SR-124 and SR-102 at Townley. This unbuilt roadway is approximately five miles (8.0 km) long. As of summer 2011, this exit serves only as a connection to SR-118 (the old US 78) on the northside of I-22 and as a local road serving a few residences on the southside of I-22.
In April 2013 the first actual Interstate 22 shields were deployed in Marion County, Alabama, immediately east of the Mississippi state line. It is noted that such signage will extend east at least through Walker County into the outskirts of Birmingham.[18]
Portions of the highway in Mississippi must be upgraded to current Interstate standards. The main areas involved are an approximately two-mile (3.2 km) portion through New Albany where both an insufficient median and substandard bridges exist.[19] Another area is scattered along the entire Mississippi portion where work to improve the shoulders to Interstate standards is yet to be done as well as repaving some of the oldest portions of the existing freeway between Holly Springs and Olive Branch which will probably occur once construction of the I-269/I-22 interchange near Byhalia commences.[7] Portions of the freeway between New Albany and Tupelo have been repaved and the shoulders brought up to Interstate standards including a revamped interchange at Blue Springs to accommodate a Toyota manufacturing facility there.
At the western end of the route, the connection between I-22 and the other interstates in the vicinity of Memphis is most likely to make use of the I-269 Outer Memphis Beltway, which is currently in various stages of planning and construction.[7] One possible routing takes I-22 westward along I-269 to the existing I-55/I-69 interchange near Hernando, Mississippi. Another possibility is that I-22 would terminate at the interchange with I-269 or that it would eventually continue westward into Memphis and eventually connect with I-240 in suburban Memphis.
Roadway lighting is now in place at the following Mississippi exits: 2 (Olive Branch), 26 and 30 (Holly Springs), 61 (New Albany), 86 (Tupelo), and 104 (Fulton). Roadway lighting is also installed as of August 2010 at exits 73 and 76 (Blue Springs and Sherman) which provide access to the Toyota automotive facility.
Mississippi also has currently one welcome center for westbound travelers approximately two miles (3.2 km) from the Alabama state line.[20] There are also truck weigh stations near Fulton and Olive Branch.
Due to the commercial heavy industrial commerce areas along US 78 between the Mississippi–Tennessee state line and the junction with I-240 in Memphis, a distinct possibility exists that I-22 will not be routed north and west of the new I-22/I-269 interchange to be built near Byhalia, Mississippi. I-22 would either terminate at that interchange or be routed westward and co-signed with I-269 to the existing I-55/I-69 interchange just north of Hernando where both I-269 and I-22 would terminate. As of early 2012, neither MDOT nor TDOT have announced any decision regarding how the routing will ultimately be done.
I-269 will run north from the new I-22 and I-269 interchange near Byhalia and cross the state line near Collierville, and then northward to I-40 northeast of Memphis. From there, I-269 will continue northwest and west to a new interchange with I-69 northeast of Millington. Most of the portion of this highway in Tennessee has been completed except for a half mile (0.8 km) stretch of it south of Collierville to the Mississippi state line.[7] The unfinished Tennessee portion was opened for traffic in 2013. The segment from Tennessee State Route 385 (SR-385) at Collierville southward into Mississippi to an interchange was constructed at MS 302.
Interstate 422[edit]
U.S. Congressman Spencer Bachus announced in The Birmingham News in May 2009 that the proposed Northern Beltline had been numbered as I-422.[21] This Interstate Highway should intersect with I-22 near Graysville, and then continue southwest to connect with Interstate 20/Interstate 59, and also from I-22 eastward to connect with I-59 near Argo.[21]
The plans for this highway call for a short spur from I-22, near mile marker 86, northward to connect with I-422. I-422 would pass over I-22 just west of Graysville without an interchange there. Drivers on I-22 would need to use the spur to transit from I-22 to I-422 under this current plan.
Exit list[edit]
|This section contains a table that is missing mileposts for one or more junctions. Please help by adding the missing mileposts.
|Lamar Avenue
|Begin/end limited access; signed only as US-78
|Tennessee–Mississippi state line
|Olive Branch
|Craft Road
|Serves Olive Branch
|MS 302 – Olive Branch, Southaven
|Also known as Goodman Road
|MS 305 – Olive Branch, Independence
|Serves Olive Branch city center
|Bethel Road, Hacks Cross Road
|Access northbound to SR-385 and eastern Memphis suburbs
|Ingrams Mill, West Byhalia
|MS 309 – Byhalia
|Future I-269 interchange will be built near here
|Victoria, East Byhalia
|Red Banks
|Holly Springs
|MS 4 / MS 7 – Holly Springs
|Access to Mount Pleasant via MS 311 north, MS 4 and MS 7 now bypass the downtown area of Holly Springs
|MS 4 / MS 7 – Holly Springs, Oxford
|Access to Senatobia via MS 7
|Lake Center
|Potts Camp
|To MS 349 – Potts Camp
|Hickory Flat
|MS 178 – Hickory Flat
|Access to MS 2 and MS 5
|New Albany
|Connector to MS 30 and to a Wal-Mart distribution center
|MS 30 west – West New Albany, Oxford
|West end of MS 30 overlap
|Downtown New Albany
|MS 15 / MS 30 east – Pontotoc, Ripley
|East end of MS 30 overlap
|MS 9 north – Blue Springs
|West end of MS 9 overlap and service to a new Toyota plant
|MS 9 south (MS 178) – Sherman, Pontotoc
|East end of MS 9 overlap and accesses the new Toyota plant
|MS 178 (McCullough Boulevard) – West Tupelo
|Natchez Trace Parkway
|US 45 (Corridor V west) – Tupelo, Corinth
|West end of Corridor V overlap; signed as exits 86A (south) and 86B (north)
|Veterans Boulevard
|Access to Elvis Presley birthplace
|Auburn Road
|MS 371 – Mantachie, Mooreville
|Fawn Grove Road – Dorsey
|MS 178 / MS 363 – Peppertown, Mantachie
|Due to the Tenn-Tom waterway, MS 178 ends on the west bank of the waterway opposite Fulton
|MS 25 south – Fulton, Amory
|West end of MS 25 overlap, MS 178 resumes eastbound in downtown Fulton
|MS 25 north (Corridor V east) – Belmont, Iuka
|East end of MS 25/Corridor V overlap; west end of Corridor X overlap
|MS 23 – Tremont, Smithville
|MS 178 terminates eastbound at intersection with MS 23 just north of Corridor X
|Mississippi–Alabama state line
|Weston, Hamilton (SR-74)
|Provides access to US-278 east and to SR-19 Red Bay
|SR-17 – Hamilton, Sulligent
|Also connects to SR-19
|Hamilton (CR-35)
|US-43 / US-278 (SR-171) – Hamilton, Guin
|SR-44 – Brilliant, Guin
|Also serves the community of Twin
|SR-129 – Brilliant, Winfield
|SR-233 – Glen Allen, Natural Bridge
|SR-13 – Natural Bridge, Eldridge
|Also access to Fayette and Tuscaloosa via SR-13 south
|Carbon Hill
|CR-11 – Carbon Hill, Nauvoo
|SR-118 – Carbon Hill
|(no name)
|Future SR-102
|SR-118 east – Jasper
|SR-69 – Jasper, Tuscaloosa
|SR-269 – Jasper, Parrish
|Old exit 101
|Industrial Parkway Road – Jasper
|Old exit 104
|CR-22 – Cordova, Parrish
|CR-61 – Cordova
|CR-81 – Dora, Sumiton
|CR-45 – West Jefferson
|Alabama Power Miller Steam Plant access (coal fired electric power plant)
|US-78 – Birmingham, Adamsville, Graysville
|SR-5 – Sumiton, Dora
|CR-112 – Graysville
|CR-65 – Adamsville, Graysville
|Hillcrest Road/Minor Parkway
|CR-105 – Brookside
|Cherry Avenue and Forestdale
|CR-77 – Coalburg
|Directional signs on exit ramp notate north to Coalburg and south to Birmingham
|Construction began on this exit in October 2010, completion is scheduled for October 2014
|1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Future I-22". Interstate-guide.com (self-published). Retrieved February 15, 2008.[unreliable source?]
- ^ Google Inc. "Tentative Map of Future I-22". Google Maps (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=1392346378167661835,34.992250,-89.877210%3B13767070516756336538,33.642320,-86.974850&saddr=US-78+E+%4034.992250,+-89.877210&daddr=33.593459,-86.940308&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=11&sll=33.665497,-86.973953&sspn=0.258312,0.462799&ie=UTF8&ll=34.3389,-88.560791&spn=2.050119,3.702393&z=8. Retrieved 2008-02-15.
- ^ MacDonald, Ginny (February 21, 2010). "Next step toward I-22 up in the air". The Birmingham News.
- ^ Rutherford, Joe (July 27, 2010). "Largest of I-22 corridor project nears start in Alabama". Northeast Mississippi News.
- ^ a b McMurray, Jeffery (December 22, 2003). "Shelby's clout has helped put Corridor X on the brink of completion". The Associated Press State & Local Wire.
- ^ a b c d e "Corridor X opens new section; interchange lags". The Birmingham News. December 10, 2009. p. 2A.
- ^ a b c d "Interstate 69, Section of Independent Utility #9, Final Environmental Impact Statement" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Transportation. June 28, 2006. p. 32. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
- ^ MacDonald, Ginny (January 28, 2004). "Corridor X gets official seal as I-22". The Birmingham News.
- ^ a b MacDonald, Ginny (April 15, 2005). "Corridor X becomes I-22: Signs bearing name to be unveiled Monday in Jasper by officials". The Birmingham News. p. 1C.
- ^ Faulk, Kent (November 23, 2005). "Corridor X section opens in west Alabama". The Birmingham News. p. 4C.
- ^ MacDonald, Ginny (June 2, 2007). "13 miles of Corridor X to open: End of long road in sight for I-22". The Birmingham News. p. 1A.
- ^ MacDonald, Ginny (October 31, 2007). "26 miles of Corridor X to open Nov. 14: Stretch offers straight shot from Forestdale to Memphis". The Birmingham News. p. 1A.
- ^ a b "Alabama's highway system keeps improving". The Birmingham News. December 21, 2009. p. 1B.
- ^ a b c Gray, Jeremy (July 26, 2010). "Birmingham I-65/Corridor X project set to launch August 1". The Birmingham News. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
- ^ MacDonald, Ginny (November 26, 2006). "Roads chief wants I-22 done by 2010: Corridor X connection and I-65 widening to begin next year". The Birmingham News. p. 1A.
- ^ Gray, Jeremy (May 21, 2010). "Alabama Department of Transportation opens bids on Corridor X link to Interstate 65". The Birmingham News. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ Gray, Jeremy (June 16, 2010). "Construction contract awarded for final link of Corridor X". The Birmingham News. Retrieved June 21, 2010.
- ^ "Interstate 22 signs going up". Daily Mountain Eagle (Jasper, AL), April 4, 2013.
- ^ "Proposed US 78 Split Diamond Interchange, New Albany, MS" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Transportation. July 19, 2007. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
- ^ "Rest Areas and Welcome Centers". Mississippi Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
- ^ a b MacDonald, Ginny (May 26, 2009). "Corridor X/ I-65 interchange construction could begin this year". The Birmingham News. Retrieved May 26, 2009.
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The Minnesota DFL is responsible for alerting a local news outlet about a dismissed 2006 temporary restraining order against 5th District GOP challenger Chris Fields.
Documents provided to Patch by Fields show that Washington, DC-based New Partners Consulting uncovered the information. New Partners confirmed it collected the information on behalf of the Minnesota DFL. The DFL mentioned the information to a blogger, said Executive Director Corey Day, who declined to name the blogger.
"We do opposition research on all of our opponents," he said. "It's pretty standard during election season."
The information was first published on the City Pages' politics blog.
Fields has called digging up the incident "the politics of personal destruction," and the order was eventually dismissed. Both he and his ex-wife deny that there was ever abuse.
But Day said bringing up the order was valid because Fields had raised questions about Ellison's character on Twitter, at events and at house parties.
"This piece of information calls into question Chris Fields' character," he said.
When asked how the order's dismissal affects the context, he noted that the DFL didn't do a press release on the subject and said it was just a piece of information mentioned to someone. He added that it's up to Fields to explain the background.
Fields alleged Thursday that New Partners provided the information at the behest of Rep. Keith Ellison's campaign.
Ellison's campaign denied any involvement and expressed regret that it happened in the following statement sent to Patch:
I did not have anything to do with the release of information about a restraining order filed against Chris Fields. Contrary to Mr. Fields' allegations, my re-election campaign did not pay News Partners, a political consulting firm, to uncover this information. I personally called Mr. Fields to let him know that my campaign was not involved. I also let him know that I was sorry this happened to him.
Day also denied that the DFL coordinated this with Ellison's campaign.
Fields said the distinction is splitting hairs. He noted that Ellison gives money to the DFL and has, itself, paid thousands to New Partners.
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Finance records from OpenSecrets.org show that the Minnesota DFL was the sixth biggest beneficiary of Ellison's campaign, accounting for $41,556 of the candidate's expenditures in the 2012 campaign cycle.
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Will Hailer, campaign manager for Keith Ellison for Congress, told Patch via e-mail that the campaign paid New Partners for "fundraising consulting, website design, and new media consulting" between 2011 and March 2012. Since that time, it has only paid the company for fundraising consulting.
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