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What do right-to-work laws actually do?
The controversy over new legislation in Michigan is drawing new attention to these statutes and their impact on unions and businesses.
It's been a momentous week in the history of U.S. labor relations. On Tuesday, Michigan lawmakers voted to ban compulsory union fees in a state known for its strong labor unions, especially within the auto industry.
As a result, Michigan will soon become the 24th state with right-to-work laws -- which
BusinessDictionary.com defines as "legislation that allows a person to work at any place of employment without being forced to join a union as a condition of employment."
And while no one seems to disagree with that definition, there's widespread debate on both sides of the political spectrum about what right-to-work laws actually do.
Supporters of right-to-work laws say they are fighting against "forced unionism," which can hurt big and small businesses, while at the same time making states more attractive to potential employers.
Right-to-work laws "have a proven track record of encouraging economic growth," says blogger Will Collins on the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation website.
But right-to-work statutes, according to the Washington Post's WonkBlog, "are broadly understood to erode the influence and power of organized labor -- if unions have harder time collecting money for the services they offer, they'll have fewer resources to work with."
The Roanoke-based law firm of Frith & Ellerman, which specializes in business litigation, says the term "right-to-work" has led many workers in Virginia to believe those laws protect employees' jobs. But according to the firm's web site, the opposite is true.
"You have very little protection when it comes to your job," they note. "Unless you have an employment contract that defines how you can be fired, under Virginia law, you can be fired for any reason other than your race, age, gender or religious beliefs."
President Obama waded into the controversy on Monday during a visit to Michigan -- saying the right-to-work laws "don't have to do with economics; they have everything to do with politics."
And there certainly is a political divide on the issue -- pitting traditionally pro-union Democrats against Big Business-supporting Republicans on a state and national level.
But the reality is that, as in American politics, there is now a nearly-even split between U.S. states with and without right-to-work laws.
The unions, meanwhile, are looking for ways to fight back."Symbolically, it's a huge setback," United Auto Workers President Bob King told the Wall Street Journal, following the legislative vote in Michigan. "Maybe it will awaken a sleeping giant."
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55 years old and never belonged to a union, i have had great paying jobs and always been able to work my way up.
no union, work hard more pay and they keep you. work sucks they let you go
union, work hard they keep you, work sucks they still keep you.
why would you want a union when all you have to do is work hard
I worked at Electric Boat Co. (EB) of General Dynamics Corp fo over 32 years. The union representation was the UAW, most commonly referred to as United Against Work. Our Union president at the time was EB hater, regardless of what the company offered , he was out to get the and make them pay/ Some time in 1980, the negotiations faltered and it seemed like a stroke was immanent. Well, on a Friday', when some of the union members returned from lunch, many of then already knew there was going to be a strike as they returned to work with Airline tickets ready to fly wherever they were going "JOB SHOPPING;. People in the industry knew what this terminology is, and a beg of UAW men and woman ere off and running to the Midwest and South to Newport News,,Va.. and Biloxi , Miss.
When the strike was finally settled some nine or more months, workers were required to pay union dues in order to keep their jobs. I and
many of us were not too happy with this edict as we felt it was discrimination. But discretion being the better part of valor and stayed till I retired.
I was very glad to see that the Union had been defeated not only in Michigan but also in Wisconsin. When people start to realize that they are not waxing fat from belonging to the union and see that the union upper echelon are the ones who are reaping the benefits of their unon dues, they perhaps will think more than twice before advocating joining a union.
Wages go in the toilet with "RIGHT TO WORK".You get what you pay for.Pay people
minimum wage and you get the minimum.I gave all my employees A $1000
Christmas bonus.My employees are like family and I want to keep them.Paye crap
and you get crap and high turnover.It`s amazing that some businesses never learn.
Just remember, these laws do not concern only union people!
Right to work, and terminate without cause can and does create a workplace
that allows bosses to threaten YOUR job if you do not do what they want.
And what they want may be for YOU to do something illegal, or unethical.
(Remember Enron and all those other companies? It was not just the high levels that cooked the books, lower level employees had to go along with the fraud of the higher ups.)
Expect a lot more fraud, as these laws get passed.
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New Report Reveals Inhumane and Unsafe Conditions at Maryland's Roadside Zoos
"Maryland's Fatal Attractions," a report detailing inhumane and unsafe conditions at Maryland's roadside zoos, uncovered an extreme lack of basic care and filthy conditions at facilities housing dangerous animals such as big cats, bears and primates. The Humane Society of the United States commissioned two experts—Mel Richardson, DVM, and Richard Farinato—representing more than 80 years of collective experience with captive animals to visit and evaluate three roadside zoos in Maryland: Catoctin Zoo in Thurmont, Plumpton Park Zoo in Rising Sun and Tri-State Zoo in Cumberland.
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Animal protection organizations applaud introduction of the Captive Primate Safety Act which amends the Lacey Act to prohibit interstate commerce in monkeys, apes and other primates for the exotic pet trade
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USDA Revokes License of Mississippi Roadside Zoo
A roadside zoo in Mississippi has lost its exhibitor license after 43 years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture revoked the license following an undercover investigation and legal complaints to state and federal officials by The Humane Society of the United States.
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The Humane Society of the United States is asking Michigan legislators to reject Senate Bill 1236, a bill that puts public safety and animal welfare at risk by allowing the public to handle bear cubs up to approximately nine months of age.
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"We were getting down on ourselves," she said. "Coming into the third game, we needed a fresh attitude.
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The end result was a 25-21, 24-26, 25-17, 25-13 win over the Bulldogs. Valparaiso (30-3) faces Chesterton at 10 a.m. Saturday in the semifinals. The Trojans defeated Merrillville 25-20, 25-18, 30-28.
Valparaiso junior setter Tarrah Lasky appeared to get the most out of Lenard's talk. Lasky admittedly struggled in the first two games.
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It was canine crazy on the cobbles of Weatherfield today when the cast and crew of Coronation Street came together to show their support for Manchester Dogs Home.
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Led by cast members Samia Ghadie, Bev Callard and Georgia May Foote dozens of staff posed for pictures on the famous cobbles. Also showing their support were Corrie canine favourites Eccle and Ozzy.
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The Doobie Brothers have been entertaining audiences across the world for more than 40 years. In 2010 the band released World Gone Crazy, their first album in a decade. They continue to be an inspiration with their recordings and their rigorous tour schedule.
CityBeat caught up with guitarist and vocalist Tom Johnston by phone this week. Johnston discussed the changes the band has seen through 40 years of Rock n Roll and what guides the creative process of the band. They will be performing at Riverbend at the PNC Pavilion this Sunday alongside Chicago.
CityBeat: You guys have been touring on the road for over 30 years. Do you ever get tired of just being on the road?
Tom Johnston: You get tired of travelling. You don't ever get tired of playing. The playing part is what makes you come out here in the first place. I think Keith put it the best, Keith Knudsen, "You get paid for all the time it takes to get to the town and then you play for nothing."
CB: You have seen music change over the years in recordings from albums to 8-Tracks to tapes to CDs to MP3s and iPods. Do you think it sounds better or worse today, the classic analog vs. digital question?
TJ: If you have hearing like mine, it really doesn't make any difference. There is basically the school of thought that digital recordings aren't as warm as analog. I can't really tell you the difference when I am listening to it. Maybe if I did a mix there would maybe be a difference in analog that I could tell the difference. They have really come a long way with digital recording. They have ways of mixing digital recordings now so it sounds more like analog. Some people still buy albums if you can get them. People are still putting albums out. In fact, this last album we put out, World Gone Crazy, there was over 14,000 actual albums put out with the CDs, and by that I mean actual vinyl records for the people that want to hear it in analog.
CB: How many guitars do you have and what is your favorite to play?
TJ: Oh boy. I've got a lot of guitars. Basically, everything I use on the road is PRS and that is what I play live. I use two basic guitars live that I trade off and I have a Martin acoustic that I play as well live. It is pretty much all about Paul Reed Smith right now. At home I have a Stratocaster and I have some older guitars I have had for a long time, an old Les Paul, an old 335, a couple Strats and a Telecaster. But live and when I am out on the road, it is strictly Paul Reed Smith.
CB: When you began and wrote the early hits and songs for the band like "Rockin' Down the Highway", what were your early inspirations?
TJ: My inspirations at the time of writing a song like that had pretty much been put in place from playing since I was 12 on the guitar and picking up singing when I was 15. Most of my early stuff came from Blues and R&B and Rock & Roll by the guy I consider the King of Rock & Roll, that was Little Richard and people like Jerry Lee Lewis. Later on, that changed, I got into Hendrix and Cream and quite a few other people I am not going to be able to think of right now. David Mason albums, old Fleetwood Mac albums, you know from the '70s, just a lot of stuff going on then. As far as players, Albert, Freddie and B.B. King were huge in my guitar playing. I call them the Three Kings, that's basically how a lot of people refer to them. There are a lot of singers that influenced me. James Brown was definitely one of them.
CB: Have you had a single issue or incident that has ever changed the way you approach music?
TJ: If I ever did, I am not really sure when it was. I know the first time I ever watched, one of the few times I actually got to watch, James Brown live was 1962 in Fresno and that was pretty much a life altering event, musically. I had never seen anything like that. It just blew me out of the water. I couldn't believe someone could work that hard that consistently and put on just an incredible show. That was a big event in my life.
CB: Over the years, you have had some health ailments with your voice and other things. How do you stay healthy on the road now?
TJ: I take care of myself. Back in the old days it was the Rock & Roll lifestyle, that wasn't really healthy. But the biggest sideline I ever had was stomach ulcers which I developed in high school but it fully bloomed when I was out on the road in 1975 when I actually had to leave the tour. That is really the only health issue I ever had, but it was a bad one.
CB: Do you consider yourself or does the band consider themselves spiritual in any way and did it ever play a factor in your music or writing?
TJ: To be honest with you, no — at least not in the secular way of any specific religion. It's not that we are not a religious band, it is just everybody has their beliefs about the world and mankind and how we got here I suppose but it is certainly nothing we would talk about.
CB: After all these years, I assumed you guys would talk about everything.
TJ: We talk about a lot of stuff but that isn't one that pops up. Actually it popped up this morning. I was just giving my views on Buddhism and thinking it was a little more realistic since it is based on mankind's shallow man as opposed to strictly about a specific deity and things having to be done a certain way. But those are just opinions and I don't really follow it that closely; I don't think anybody in the band does, to be honest with you.
CB: Do you guys take on different leadership roles within the band?
TJ: Yeah, to a point. It is basically when we are recording. When we are playing, it kind of happens naturally. Recording it is pretty much whoever writes the tune will be leading if you will, but other people come up with ideas for the tune so it is pretty much always a group effort.
CB: Are there any current Rock bands or new Rock bands on the scene right now you would like to collaborate with or work with?
TJ: I think John Mayer is an incredible guitar player. I really enjoy his work. Another one is Bruno Mars — I think he is extremely prolific as a song writer and pretty amazing. There is a band called Mannish Boy, which is a Blues group. I really like those guys. They are new. Most people aren't going to know them. They aren't Pop or anything like that. They are simply a Blues band but they are really, really good. There are more, I just can't think of them right now. There are more people I think are really good out there that would be fun to get in the studio with. It would be fun to work with Christina Aguilera or Cee Lo Green. It would be fun to work with anyone from Maroon 5. We recently worked with Luke Bryan for that TV show on CMT called Crossroads and we had a ball doing that.
CB: I love Luke Bryan and his music. He has kind of blown up recently.
TJ: He is a good guy. He is a really good guy. We had a lot of fun doing that show. Everybody was just having a lot of fun.
CB: Do you have any creative outlets or hobbies outside of playing music?
TJ: It's outside of the band in a sense but I write music for a hobby. I love writing. I do it all the time. I have a little studio at home. A lot of the stuff I write would never be used by this band. I am starting to branch out and write with other people now too, which is something I haven't done as much. I have always kind of just written my own songs. I have started taking the steps to go out and write with some other writers who are very prolific and very much involved with the Pop scene or the Country scene or whatever else. I just really started doing that before we came out on this tour. When we finish this tour this year, I will go back to doing that some more. It was fun. It was a new place to go. It is exciting to get in and work with someone else because they help you find a lot of stuff you don't know you have and I think you do the same for that person. You come up with songs that you would never come up with if you were just sitting there by yourself.
CB: Do you use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to stay connected to your fans?
TJ: There is Facebook and Twitter and all that stuff on our website. I don't do any of that stuff. For whatever reason it hasn't called me. I don't have any need to be in touch with people or stay in the limelight or find out what is going on. I am kind of a private guy and I would like to keep it that way rather than blast it all over the universe. I don't belong to Facebook. I know tons of people who do it and that's great. From a business point of view, it is a really smart way to go. From a website point of view, it is a really good tool for getting your music out there, events out there, where you are going to be, maybe even staying in touch with other musicians, things like that but mostly I do that on the phone. Twitter, I have never even used Twitter. I know people do it all the time but I have never gotten involved with it.
CB: I still use a telephone because I prefer to talk to people.
TJ: It is alive and well in the younger generation. That's how they communicate.
CB: My last question is do you have any fond Cincinnati memories over the years?
TJ: Yeah, playing at Riverfront Stadium, playing at where we are going to be playing this Sunday which is right on the river, Riverbend. We have played there lots of times. I was just talking to a gentleman a little bit ago about playing in Blue Ash the last time and a tornado came through and shut the show down and we never got a chance to go out and finish it. We have been playing Cincinnati since we started so we are talking 40 years of playing Cincinnati.
CB: We look forward to seeing you on Sunday.
TJ: Thank you very much. We are looking forward to being there and it will be a gas as always. This show with Chicago has pretty much been sold out everywhere we have gone. The crowds have been great and it is a good combination. The two bands, we get together at the end and do an encore of everybody in both bands playing at the same time and it is pretty powerful.
This week's CityBeat features the announcement of the first several weeks' worth of headliners for PNC's MidPoint Indie Summer Series. The free, every-Friday concert series on Fountain Square again features an interesting array of out-of-town artists and Cincinnati music's finest. The concerts begin June 3 with local Electronica duo You, You're Awesome headlining a typically eclectic night of provocative sounds. It's good prep for 2011's MidPoint Music Festival this fall. The Indie Summer kick-off is your first chance to get MidPoint '11 tickets — MPMFers can buy three-day passes at a discounted rate while they last at the events this summer.
Below, take a look/listen to the performers announced so far.
Cintas Corp. sets unrealistic production quotas for laundry workers that cause dangerous conditions and it led to the death of one worker in March 2007, according to a motion filed in a lawsuit against the company.
The widow of Eleazar Torres-Gomez, an employee who died when he fell into a dryer at a Cintas facility near Tulsa, Okla., made the allegation in an application filed Tuesday that seeks to amend her lawsuit.
Anybody who's familiar with the Internet knows that it's a great place for looking at pictures of people without their clothes.
Apparently a lot of people want to do that to vice presidential candidates as well.
According to Google Politics & Elections, the No. 2 most-searched term connected to Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's name is "shirtless."
Ryan is known for a proposed budget that would offer massive tax cuts to the rich while attempting to reduce the deficit by gutting Medicare.
If one is to believe TMZ's absclusive titled "Paul Ryan: He's Hiding A Six Pack," then one could see why.
An intrepid CityBeat intern spent most of Monday morning searching for pictures of said abs, but was only able to turn up the vice presidential candidate waving ironically from his yacht.
According to TMZ's unnamed Hill source, Ryan hits the gym every morning at 6 a.m., and his routine is "fierce." The source, who talks like a stereotype, says Ryan is kind of on the skinny side, but "totally ripped and has a six pack."
Ryan's press camp responded to the news by challenging Joe Biden to a sit-up contest in lieu of a vice presidential debate.
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Mesmerizing local singer/songwriter Kim Taylor – who performed recently at the CMJ Music Festival in New York City — has a new five-song EP called The Greatest Story …, which is available now for about four bucks if you download it on her Web site. (In fact, all of Kim's music is only available digitally as of now; CDs are only being sold at shows, while a vinyl version of her I Feel Like a Fading Light is due out in December.) The set will hit the iTunes store in the near future.
Well, surprise. Most of the Americans who don't pay federal income taxes live in states that polls show are locked in for Mitt Romney. They are down South. Or out in the Southwest, according to Tax Foundation data.
Mississippi has the most filers with no income tax liability. It has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980. When Obama was on the ballot there in 2008, he only got 43 percent of the popular vote. Yet 45 percent of Mississippi tax filers pay nothing. That tidbit certainly rips a hole in Romney's contention that Obama voters don't pay income taxes — Republican voters appear to be skating as well, and obviously in far larger numbers than Romney suggests.
Our neighbors in Kentucky — who voted early 60 percent GOP over the past three presidential elections — are pretty good at not paying income taxes too. Fewer send checks to the IRS than in West Virginia. Alaska is the outlier — it votes Republican and just 21 percent of its filers don't pay income taxes to Uncle Sam. You betcha, the vast majority of Alaskans do send money to the IRS. Perhaps they write their checks while looking at Russia from their porches.
If you are wondering about Ohio, the state had 5.56 million tax filers. Of that number, some 68 percent paid federal income taxes. We're a swing state that backed Obama in 2008. Clearly, not all the payers were Republicans.
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The Tax Foundation, a group based in Washington, D.C. that calls itself a nonpartisan research group, produced its state-by-state ranking of non-filers in May 24, 2010. It has been available on the Internet for more than two years, which means it was available long before Romney said Obama's supporters don't pay taxes. This insight gets right to the heart of the matter:
"Nine of the 10 states with the largest percentage of non-payers are in the South and Southwest. In Mississippi, 45 percent of federal tax returns remit nothing or receive money with their federal tax returns; that is the highest percentage nationally. Georgia is next at 41 percent, followed by Arkansas at 41 percent, and Alabama, South Carolina and New Mexico at 40 percent. All of the top 10 ranking states have among the lowest median family incomes in the country."
Get your glue guns ready, ya'll, because the Crafty Supermarket's about to take over the Northside Tavern. That's right. Your local watering hole (generally full of tight-pantsed drunks at night) will be hosting an indie craft show on Saturday afternoon (noon-6 p.m.) with handmade fine art, recycled goods, home decor, jewelry, children's items, stationery and more.
The masterminds behind this DIY dream are local writer/editor/crafter Grace Dobush and recent DAAP grad/sustainable shoemaker Alisha Budkie. The duo will be bringing together over 20 craft vendors from Cincinnati and the Midwest for a fair inspired by the likes of Renegade Chicago. Along with shopping opportunities there will be "swag bags" for the first 50 shoppers, music from PROJECTMILL, food from Dojo Gelato and others, and a Make It! table where attendees can get crafty with the BYOProjectors (read about them here).
CityBeat recently had a little e-mail exchange with Dobush, whose book, Crafty Superstar: Make Crafts on the Side, Earn Extra Cash and Basically Have It All, is about to be released, about the Crafty Supermarket.
CityBeat: What is the Crafty Supermarket?
Grace Dobush: Crafty Supermarket is an indie craft show, or a Rock & Roll craft show, which is more appropriate since it's in Northside. This is not your standard high-school auditorium, church-basement craft show: We're having music by PROJECTMILL, rad food from local vendors and 20 hip crafters who will be selling the stuff they make. No packaged stuff, no commercial stuff, no lame stuff—just arts and crafts!
CB: Why are you having a craft show? What's the goal?
GD: My goal is to solidify the craft scene in Cincinnati a bit. There are a ton of really talented crafters and artists here, but none of us seem to know each other! My co-organizer, Alisha, and I had never met until we were in Washington D.C. at the Summit of Awesome (a craft summit organized by the ladies who put on Crafty Bastards, a humongous indie craft show). We really wished there was an indie craft event in Cincinnati, and eventually we realized that we should step up and do it ourselves! It's either the DIY mentality kicking in or a pretty solid sense of masochism, I'm not sure which.
CB: You seem to be an indie craft guru. What is your crafting experience? What inspires you to craft? What crafts do you make/specialize in?
GD: That's the first time I've heard that one! I've just been crafting a long-ass time. I've been printmaking since I was a teenager and then took a course on bookbinding my freshman year of college. It just kind of snowballed after that, and I sought out like-minds on the internet. Right around 2000 was a turning point for indie craft... it got a name, the indie craft shows started coming out, and all the movers and shakers were on these craft message boards and got to know each other. Some of the folks I know from those boards back in the day I ended up interviewing for my book, Crafty Superstar.
I'm not a full-time crafter (I'm a magazine editor and writer by trade) but I love connecting with people and talking to people. There are plenty of crafters who are much more successful than me at being a business, but I saw a lot of word-of-mouth information that hadn't been collected anywhere else. And my book was born!
CB: What role does crafting play in our modern world, so to speak? Why is it important?
GD: I think the popularity of craft is a direct backlash to the super-industrialized big-box shopping culture. People are starting to see the value in knowing exactly where the things they buy come from, and there's nothing better than finding an object you absolutely love and getting to talk to the person who made it. Of course, big-box stores recognize that this aesthetic is totally hot, so you see crafty-ish knockoffs for sale that are probably handmade... but by child laborers who may or may not be working against their will.
There are also a pretty big number of crafters who focus on using sustainable, local and/or recycled materials. And of course, when you support an indie artist, you are directly supporting your local economy. I can almost guarantee the $10 you spend at Crafty Supermarket will turn around and get spent on bus fare for the Metro, dinner at Melt or drinks at the Tavern later.
CB: What vendors will be on hand at the market?
GD: We've got a really wide range of crafters—selected from almost 70 applications, which just blew us away. The crafters make jewelry, paper goods, housewares, kid's stuff, clothing, art, knit things—all sorts of stuff. We also tried to get a balance of crafters in terms of wanting this to represent Cincinnati crafters—about three-quarters of the vendors are from the Cincinnati region. And although we have a lot of vendors who are old hands at the indie craft sale thing, we also wanted to make sure to bring in some folks who are doing a show for the first time, because once upon a time, we were the newbies.
CB: What sort of crafts will attendees be able to make at the Make It! Table?
GD: We've got a really random assortment of supplies and guest curation by the crafty people from BYOProject, which is a crafty collective that meets at Happen Inc. in Northside once a month. It's an anything-goes kind of craft situation, but specifically we've got paper to make your own album cover (12-inch, of course), and little paperboard albums that you can decorate to make your own storybook or draw a demented family album. Whatev!
CB: Will this become an annual event? Do you have any other events planned for the future?
GD: From the very beginning Alisha and I have kept saying stuff like "Next year, we are so doing X and Y," or "Next year, we are never doing Z again." It's just felt kind of natural that this would roll into being an annual event. Plus, since the response has been so huge (our Facebook event has 130 guests at this point) that it would be a shame to never do it again!
We don't have any more events planned immediately—we need some recovery time!—but at this point we're totally planning to do something even bigger for next fall. The late fall is primo craft sale time because people are much more willing to spend money to buy gifts for other people. It's pretty safe to say you'll see Crafty Supermarket again next fall.
Update (June 5, 11:20 p.m.): Libertarian mayoral candidate Jim Berns didn't hand out marijuana plants at a campaign event Wednesday, instead admitting to multiple media outlets that he was misleading the public to raise awareness of his campaign and marijuana legalization platform. Berns handed out tomato plants instead, which look similar to marijuana plants.
In perhaps an act of civil disobedience, Libertarian mayoral candidate Jim Berns is planning to hand out marijuana plants at a campaign event Wednesday.
But the event could run foul of state law for both Berns and attendees. Ohio law prohibits obtaining, possessing or using a controlled substance — a category that includes marijuana.
The event will take place at the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Clifton Avenue on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
"If you want one of the plants I suggest you get there early," Berns said in a statement.
In this year's mayoral race, Democratic candidates John Cranley and Roxanne Qualls are generally considered the top contenders, although neither candidate has received an official endorsement from the local Democratic Party.
Berns has differentiated himself from the frontrunners by pushing marijuana legalization in his platform.
Drug prohibition laws are generally dictated at state and federal levels, but city governments can legalize or decriminalize certain drugs and force police departments to give the issue lower priority.
Marijuana is already decriminalized in Ohio. Cincinnati re-criminalized the drug in 2006, but the drug was decriminalized through a city budget passed in 2010.
Some groups are attempting to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio. CityBeat covered those efforts in further detail here.
Last night, Fox 19's website reported that veteran local musician, talent booker and event promoter Johnny Schott passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday morning in his home in Tennessee.


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The complete listing of LMS3 Round One matches can be found here:
Deadline EXTENDED AGAIN: 11:59pm PST - Saturday, January 19th 2008
Topic: Underneath It All
The topic, as always, is completely open to interpretation, allowing for you to visualize your concept through any subject matter you deem fit. This is an illustration-based contest, and you will be expected to turn in a completed piece that stands on its own without the aid of a description. Both traditional and digital mediums can be used, but the majority of your piece must be painted/drawn with little use of photography and 3D modeling.
Round Breakdown (links to discussion threads):
- Round 1 - 360 competitors in 72 matches of 5 / 72 advance
Entry threads / Matches 1-24 / 25-48 / 49-72
- Round 2 - 72 competitors in 18 matches of 4 / 18 advance
Entry thread / Matches 1-18
- Round 3 - 18 competitors in 6 matches of 3 / 6 advance
- Final Round - 6 men enter, one man leaves...
Submitting your entry: All entries are expected to be saved at web resolution and at a reasonable size (try to keep the width under 1000px, less than 450k). If you send me a huge piece, I will Save for Web at a smaller resolution resulting in a finished product that may not appear as you intended. Do that yourself if you care!
Submit your entries to hello [a t] lastmanart [d o t] com, with the subject Round One Entry: Your Conceptart.org User Name. Name your file match#_yourusername_round1.jpg. If you can host it on your web space instead of attaching it to the email, I'd appreciate it. Don't post your entries until the final day! You can show a few people you trust for comments, obviously, but we want the final post to come as one big unveiling. Don't screw it up or I'll CUT you.
Judging: Every round will be judged by an incredibly talented group of judges... the list is still being finalized, but it will be a relatively static panel throughout the competition. Each piece will be judged based on technical execution, creativity in the interpretation of the topic, and overall impact. All judges decisions are final. No whining!
Judging Panel:
Aleksi Briclot
Rob Carney
Dan Dos Santos
Irene Gallo
Jon Foster
Gregory Manchess
JS Rossbach
Puss Outs: If you drop out of the competition without an extremely valid excuse and without plenty of time before the deadline for me to place in a substitute, you are officially a puss out. You will be black-listed from the next Last Man Standing competition and subject to ridicule. In short, tell me now if you plan on being a puss or face the consequences.
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- Rusty
- Chingwa
- manu is malin
- GreenTopaz
- Tamte
- Faxtar
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- Stokes
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- trevor
- bluefooted
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- mwillustration
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- MarkWinters
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- Mike Dutton
- HellTaxi
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- vyle
- Rambozo
- bumskee
- fvallejo
- Texahol
- Ethax
- Poshspice
- Ben Mauro
- Jason Chan
- Ryan DeMita
- steak-tron
- brat777
- kenji
- octopus_interphone
- Alex Tornberg
- Brun
- John_Bivens
- Jason Rainville
- yAdam
- Shamagim
- nicolas
- M.C.Barrett
- Cicinimo
- DavePalumbo
- prostate sunrise
- flaptraps
- strych9ine
- jmascho
- nacho
- Brendan N
- wassermelone
- thanos5
- Kirtz
- Paul_Harrison
- Idiot Apathy
- SprayNation
- thom
- Grendel Grack
- Shelly Wan
Let's get this bitch on the road! I'm looking forward to this being the best Last Man round yet, don't disappoint the masses!
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i am 5'11' 120 pds, been lifting for about 1 year. i was wondering if it would kill my gains if i took deadlift out? or should i just man up and do them like everything else thanks for all replys
i am 5'11' 120 pds, been lifting for about 1 year. i was wondering if it would kill my gains if i took deadlift out? or should i just man up and do them like everything else thanks for all replys
IMHO, removing them won't kill all your gains. It depends on your goals. If it's to be a powerlifter on the three big lifts, you might want to rethink, otherwise a break could be good. Removing them, might allow you focus on other exercises for awhile before you go back to them again. I've stopped before for a few months, however I always found my best back progress occurs when I did heavy deads.
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I usually dont have deads in a bodybuilding routine. Just make sure you dont neglect your erectors.
man up malone and do the deads.
you wont lose anything by not doing them but you wont gain as much as you possibly can, just man up, grab the straps if you need and pound out those few sets of deads and keep growing..
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What I don't understand is why you'd want to stop doing them.
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What are your goals Bro? I should think a guy your size woould be itchin to put on some mass. Deads will definately help in that dept. IMO deads are one of the top mass building exersices.Originally Posted by bigmalone
alrite i got the point lol
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The Editor:
Skallman Park not official? Skallman Park is an official park. It is as official as the airport is official. It was dedicated by mayor Amos Pine or Doc Bonilla as Saving a jewel for future generations when the east side builds up. The sign was put up by the city of Blaine and is to this day maintained by our taxes.
I hand cycle past the park at least three times a week. Despite being desecrated by the building on even more neighboring airport property, it is still a jewel. Take a ride there and see for yourself. Get out of the car and walk around the pond. It is still as peaceful as ever. I think it is the neatest city park we have.
If Skallman's park goes then I suggest the airport goes too. It just makes sense. The city council is using some type of Latin phrase to intimidate a fellow Borderite into cutting trees that have been around his home for generations; all for the sake of the airport. The citizens of Blaine are losing the last real secluded spot in east Blaine because of the airport.
The airport keeps getting smaller and smaller because more and more land is used for industrial building, but is costing more and more to run. So much so that we must sell or lease our little jewel all for the sake of 13 or 14 planes ... What are the people of Blaine getting back? A piece of ground across from the police department and possibly a huge new levy to build the new park. Im all for getting the ground, but not at the expense of Skallman Park. Put it up to the voters to see what stays. I suggest that the park would come out the clear winner. Of course, I would rather they both stay.
We keep talking about tourism, yet we really dont do anything to show we really do want tourism. One way would be to put in the bike lanes that we locals voted for. Odell Road is an excellent example. Correct me if Im wrong, but I dont remember any third lane in the plans. I knew there were to be bike lanes. Where are they and those that were to be put in as part of our other Blaine road improvements? Every time I hear the city is going to improve another road, do the whole ball of wax I cringe. It means that there is going to be one less road that I will be able to safely ride anymore.
I sat in front of the old Blaine post office as we gathered signatures to save the airport and was a fervent supporter of Blaines vision of the future. But you mess with Skallman Park and you will have changed this voter and others into fervent opponents of the airport and a skeptic on the word of the council. We all know of the many squeakers that made it by only a few votes. Its those votes that you are now alienating.
Finally, I am appalled that anyone would treat one of our more respected elders by asking him if they could tear down his park. I am surprised that you didnt ask Mr. Skallman for a chainsaw to run right down there and cut the sign down. Knowing Mr. Skallmans honor and character Im sure he would have lent you one. Well, if you do, please cut down the airport sign as well because I for one will not support it anymore. Maybe this is what the council wants. Make us vengeful by taking Skallman Park and then when the next airport levy comes up, we vote no. Hmmm, works for me except I may have the tendency to vote no for any other levy presented in the future.
writing this letter, I saw Mr. Skallman at the senior center.
I asked him about the park and his exact words were, I
told them they could cut the trees. It will still be a great
park. I then sheepishly told him that they didnt
consider it a park and were planning on putting metal buildings
on it. His words verbatim were, Well, city council
did approve the park, so its a park. Yes, Mr.
Skallman they did approve the park and they also dedicated
it to the people of Blaine. I trust that the people of Blaine
will stand up and be counted when it comes to our city treasures,
as we did when saving the airport years ago.
Patrick Madsen
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My name is Snowflake. I have a problem. Perhaps the city council can help. While I am always good and listen to mom and dad, my brother Happy and my sister Mitzy sometimes do foolish things, like running across the street without looking and going up to people they dont know and scaring them. Like it is for me, the concept of public restrooms is foreign to them so they soil private property and public walkways. I am lucky, mom and dad almost always pick up after me. I wish other moms and dads would do that.
thing. Happy and Mitzy would feel much safer if others were
also kept on a leash. We have been scared many times when
strangers, many very aggressive, have rushed up to us. As
I say, I am very nice and sweet but my brother and sister,
like many others, should be restrained.
George Tranberg
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The ultimate solution to Puget Sound transportation problems involves the use of motor coaches, rather than a $12 billion subsidized train.
For far too long, the motor coach industry has tacitly accepted the status handed to us by our federal regulators. While other nations view motor coaches as prominent players in their transportation systems, our existing government structures and institutions perpetuate the old view of motor coaches, effectively treating them like the tail of the commercial vehicle dog.
We need to look at the bigger picture. A July 2000 report by R.L. Banks & Associates, stated that U.S. and Canadian motor coach operators carry 860 million passengers yearly. U.S. operators carry 774 passengers compared with 558 million airline passengers and 377 million on intercity rail. Motor coaches are not only the busiest mode of transportation, they are historically, year after year, the safest.
A motor coach can operate for a fraction of the cost of a train. You could run a 47, or even a 55 passenger motor coach every half hour, 24 hours a day, between Bellingham and Seattle/Tacoma for the next 1,534 years for $12 billion. Why spend more and still get less? If people want the romance of a train and choose to spend more money than necessary for basic intercity transportation, let them pay for it out of their own pocket.
A motor coach can operate on any highway. It is flexible enough to use alternative routes if main highways are blocked. Can a train do that? It is easy to add extra motor coaches to any run. If people want safe, reliable, affordable transportation that gives them an option to driving their personal car, then use a motor coach. Will a train running two, four, six or even eight times a day really take that many people out of their cars? Can we afford it?
Not that I am against rail. In some cases it is a great alternative, but it should be considered and treated as just that, one of several alternatives. If we are going to use public funds we need to include all alternatives, not just the most expensive ones.
those on a recent Airport Ground Transportation Association
airport tour in Baltimore, there was a sense that once more,
rail connections were at the heart of the planning and funding
process, and passengers utilizing rubber-tire conveyances
such as taxi, van, limo and motor coach were not being given
due consideration for the volumes of passengers they move
from airport curbs each day. Do you suppose that rail planning
enthusiasts believe that if they make the alternatives much
more difficult to use, people in significant numbers will
use the rail service they think we should use?
Larry Wickkiser
the cruelest month
The Editor:
I hate this time of year. Of course, Im talking about tax time. This is the time of year that we can actually see tangible proof of how Uncle Sam is, pardon the expression, screwing us over.
I got my W2 form last week and started working up my 1040, filling out all the appropriate blocks and completing all the required schedules. When I finished I figured I will get a refund of $72 and change. In past years I would be jumping for joy that I would be getting a bonus from the IRS.
But as the years have gone by and as government has been getting bigger, I dont get that warm fuzzy feeling anymore. Its more like a bad case of indigestion. I took a good hard look at the withholding blocks on the W2. Taking into account federal income tax, social security tax, and the Medicare tax, the federal government was taking just shy of 20 percent of my total income, 20 percent. That is nearly one fifth of my total income for the year. Add to that property taxes, sales tax, various excise taxes, and licensing fees, I am paying at least 50 percent of my total income in various federal, state, and local taxes. I am working two and a half days a week just to pay taxes. This is insane.
What is being done with all this money? Feeding people? Some maybe, but there are still hungry and homeless people. Fixing the roads? Well some, but there are still plenty of potholes. Educating our children? Some of them, but a lot of them still graduate as functionally illiterate.
Then I got to thinking, did I give the government permission to take this money out of my check? Am I giving this money to the government voluntarily? The answer to both of those questions is no. The definition of stealing is someone or something taking money from me and I have no recourse. If someone entered your home armed with a gun and took 50 percent of all the money you made, you would be outraged. Youd want that person to spend a sizable amount of his life in the gray bar motel.
Why are we not as outraged when the government takes this amount of money from us each year? Just think of what you would do with that money if you didnt have to give it up. Would you send your kids to a private school? Would you take that dream vacation that youve always wanted to take? Would you give more money to your church or favorite charity? Would you use it to take care of your elderly parents? Dont you think you know whats best to do with your money that you worked hard for? Think of all the extra hours put in at work just to make ends meet. Dont you think you deserve to keep what you earn, or spend it, save it, or give it away as you think is right?
if governments only responsibility was to keep us
safe in our homes and a free market took care of the rest,
we would be able to keep most of what we worked hard for.
Its a pipe dream you say to yourself.
But what if there was an organization whos goal it
is to help ensure that the pipe dream comes
true someday. It does exist. It is the Libertarian Party.
Their goal is to limit government to its constitutional
function. If you would like to learn more about the Libertarian
Party, you can contact its website at www.lp.org or you
can call the Libertarian Party of Whatcom County at 360/733-6410.
Terry Pilant
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This recurring theme was evident at the recent American Water Summit in Atlanta, where various water industry executives, consultants, professors and public officials offered their views on the industry.
With municipalities owning roughly 85% of the nearly 55,000 water supply and wastewater systems in the U.S., private entities believe the opportunities are favorable as local and state tax revenues decline, and environmental regulations tighten.
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The other two, the Power Shares Global Water Portfolio (PIO) and the Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index ETF (CGW), have significant foreign holdings.
All these ETFs have experienced losses in 2011, with PIO down 20.6% for the year to date through November 17, PHI down 11.8%, CGW down 8.1%, and FIW falling 7.3%.
PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio is the oldest and largest of the four, listing in 2005 and holding about $837 million in assets. It owns mostly industrial companies, with water utilities making up just 12.7% of asset as of November 17.
Its three largest holdings were URS, a construction and engineering firm that builds water-related infrastructure, AECOM Technology which also builds water supply systems, filter maker Pall.
The First Trust ISE Water Index Fund also owns mostly industrial companies, with about 20% of assets in utilities.
Its top three holdings are Nalco (NLC), which sells wastewater treatment equipment, Watts Water Technology (WTS), which makes flow control equipment like valves, and American Water Works (AWK).
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