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Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Testament, & Huntress @ Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland.
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Broner on a Mayweather undercard, the question is, who would he fight in such a quick turn over? I say the winner of Garcia and Judah or maybe Broner and Maidana, better yet why not Broner and Gamboa, make it happen. Just think of it, the whole 50 cent thing with Floyd as a background story and the fact Gamboa and Mayweather were actually cool and Adrien stepping in as Floyd's next protege. It has a million story lines. At the weigh ins Ray J and 50 can get in a scuffle. 1.5 million buys instantly.
The interesting thing about the youtube video of May and Broner was Adrian was actually quiet. As Floyd was giving backhand compliments Broner sat there as if he was a seven year old kid on Santa's lap. The funny part of that entire video: Floyd saying he doesn't do bands he does straps. Of course at the end of the video the hanger ons had to get their shout outs. Broner maybe apart of the money team sooner rather than later. May 4th just got even more interesting.
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November Activity with December Checkpoint
Date of News Release: 12/01/2011
(Morehead, Ky.) -- Kentucky State Police at Post 8 Morehead announce the final traffic and criminal activity report for November 2011. During November Post 8 personnel issued 1935 total citations. Of those citations, 30 were for DUI, 397 were for Speeding, 115 for No Seat Belt, and 8 for Child Restraint. In addition, there were 1,997 Vehicle Inspections and 362 Courtesy Notices issued. Post 8 also investigated 90 Traffic Collisions. Of those collisions, two were fatal. Post 8 personnel also investigated 1,388 Complaints. A total of 99 Criminal Cases were opened and a total of 260 Criminal Arrests were made for the month of November 2011. A total of 77 Programs were conducted.
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Why are you so loyal to UMaine – what does the university mean to you?
Despite its large size and number of employees, UMaine is really a small, close-knit community, and I don't feel that would be the case at another organization of this size. I've been lucky to be able to continue my education here and have always had the support of my co-workers and supervisors in whatever goals I choose to pursue, both educationally and professionally.
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Everything we give to the university, no matter the size or in what form, comes back to us and our friends, family and neighbors in one form or another.
How did you end up at UMaine?
I began working here in 1979. Before that I was in the customer service office in a shoe factory that was about to close, as so many of them were doing at the time. I had a young daughter to support and I felt I was very lucky to be hired by UMaine.
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They are hoping to raise $100,000 by June 30, 2014.
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-to provide college/technical school opportunities for those who would not be able to otherwise attend post secondary education.
-to provide scholarship dollars that fill the gap for many of Lynchburg city school students, making post secondary education a cultural norm in Lynchburg.
"We just realized it could have a strong impact on the community in general and particularly of course our young people," said Rosel Schewel.
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BELLAIRE (Jan. 26, 2011) – Girl Scout Ambassador Andrea O. created a locally-aired video on women's safety to earn the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can achieve. Less than five percent of girls who join Girl Scouts earn this recognition.
"Aside from learning numerous safety tips, I found that there is great satisfaction in working through a meaningful project and watching it go to completion," says Andrea, a junior at Bellaire High School.
Earning the Gold Award is a significant honor that requires recipients to demonstrate outstanding leadership skills, career planning, community involvement and personal development. It takes more than 100 service hours and two to three years of intensive work to complete the award requirements, which include planning and completing a project that is a service to the community.
"I hoped to empower others with information presented in a fun, interesting way that would let them feel safe on a daily basis," explains Andrea.
For her project, Andrea led more than 20 volunteers, actors and editors in creating a 40-minute video about women's safety with dramatization, graphics and interviews from the Bellaire Police Station, the Houston Area Women's Center, and assault and harassment victims. The video had several prime time showings on Houston Media Source and an hour showing at the Bellaire Library with about 30 attendees.
"I can see that this was an incredibly challenging yet rewarding experience," says Lori Owen, Andrea's mother. "I was pleased to see how Andrea worked wither mentors and volunteers to produce a quality project that can impact the community in a positive way."
At Bellaire High School, Andrea is involved in National Honor Society, the swim team and the Quidditch Club.
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GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - The Diocese of Gallup says it will petition for Chapter 11 reorganization in federal bankruptcy court because of mounting clergy sex abuse legal claims.
The Gallup Independent reported that Bishop James Wall made the announcement in a letter that was read in parishes during Mass over the Labor Day weekend.
The diocese includes parishes in six counties in New Mexico, three counties in Arizona and seven American Indian reservations.
The Gallup Diocese will become the ninth U.S. Roman Catholic diocese or archdiocese to seek bankruptcy protection since the clergy abuse scandal erupted in 2002. Two Catholic religious orders have also done so.
The other diocese or archdiocese to file for Chapter 11 are in Milwaukee; San Diego, Davenport, Iowa; Fairbanks, Alaska; Portland, Ore.; Spokane, Wash.; Tucson, Ariz.; and Wilmington, Del.
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With the 60-day cooling off period ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown coming to an end on Thursday, raising the specter of another Bay Area Rapid Transit shutdown, BART's two main unions announced yesterday that they were holding off on calling a strike for now. [UPDATE 10/11: BART unions today issued a 72-hour strike notice, meaning they could strike on Monday].
"We've listened to the public and we share their concern about a disruption in service at the end of the cooling-off period. We do not want to strike. That is why we're not giving a 72-hour notice at this time, because we want to leave every opportunity open to try to get this deal done. Of course we are keeping all options on the table," Service Employee International Union Local 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 said in a joint statement.
Some media reports indicate that there has finally been some progress in the long-stalled negotiations, with a framework on pensions being agreed to, although the two sides still seem far apart on wages, benefits, and the length of the contract.
The unions cast it this way: "To this point of doing everything possible to avoid a strike: over the past 10 days, the unions have moved publicly three times, to BART's zero times. If this were a score in the baseball playoffs – we, the Oakland A's would be three and they, the Detroit Tigers would be zero.
"At this point, if there is a disruption in service at the end of the cooling-off period, it will be for one reason and for one reason alone: our elected BART leadership has not shown leadership."
BART Board President Tom Radulovich disputed that the concessions have been one-sided, but he said that, "They continue to want to negotiate in the media and we're not really down with that."
Asked to characterized where things stand and the prospects for resolving the impasse without another strike, Radulovich said, "We're still cranking away and trying to get it done...It's really not up to us whether there's a strike or not. We just have to get this done."
Meanwhile, while conservatives clamor to use the situation to get the Democrat-controlled Legislature to ban unions from striking (good luck with that one), Sup. John Avalos held a hearing yesterday at City Hall to examine some of the larger issues at play in the impasse, such as retirement security, that the Guardian covered in our July 9 issue.
Asked how the hearing went, Avalos told the Guardian, "We talked a lot about how BART has been villifying workers in the court of public opinion in an effort to weaken workers' bargaining power."
realized that they have little to no public sympathy for their position. It simply isn't realistic to expect taxpayers and farepayers to subsidize their free pensions and healthcare while they also have to pay for their own benefits.
Even the BART workers are starting to wake up and smell the coffee. Good.
Don't be an idiot get informed and stop hating on workers that have benefits!
Just benefits that are more affordable and more in line with what the rest of us get.
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The unions now pay 0% into their defined-benefit plans that guarantee 8% annual returns no matter what the stock market does , plans that only the 1-%ers have today.
They pay $92 a month for full healthcare coverage for themselves and all dependents. They retire at age 58 on average with pensions equivalent to 70% of their salaries (with those guaranteed 8% annual compounded returns) for life.
The public is asking itself: why do I have to pay for this?
Fortunately, I believe many BART union members now know that their juicy plans are unsustainable and will lead to bankruptcy eventually, a la Stockton and San Bernardino, in which the union members have lost their pensions entirely.
Union members are starting to face reality.
In fairness, those benefits are nothing compared to the benefits enjoyed by BART's management.
problem here is that everyone at BART is overpaid in terms of both pay and benefits. Why is the average package at BART 117K a year?
"Package" and "salary" are quite different, and BART median salaries are right around the area median wage. Bash them if you want, but these are working class people just like most of us.
"Package" and "salary" are quite different, and BART median salaries are right around the area median wage. Bash them if you want, but these are working class people just like most of us.
That said, the fact that their salaries are at the median may not be a reason to assess them as fair. If their skill level is below the emdian then so should their pay be. And remember, these trains drive themselves - the operators do very little.
And they also get OT pay, which many Bay Area workers on the same salary do not get.
Bottom line, BART workers are overpaid, the public know that, and do not support them.
As a train operator I can assure you there is a heck of a lot more to driving these 30 year old trains than pushing door close buttons and making announcements. Not long ago I had to put out a fire on the trackway outside Hayward station. I've had to manually crank routes on the mainline when Central couldn't do it electrically. We all have to know how to do this, as well as troubleshoot train control problems, brakes that lock when the train is moving and by the way, that is a very dangerous situation, which could lead to a fire on the train. Your ignorance is astounding. We as train operstors are not asking for anything unreasonable. A fair contract and negotiations done in good faith.We are trained in emergency procedures, so that God forbid, you come into a station that has had a bomb go off, or there is any kind of chemical or biological warfare, the train operator is trained to respond. People's lives are in our hands when they are on our trains. The compensation we are asking for is justified.
The system was designed from the start for the trains to be automated, and they can do exactly what they are doing now without any operators.
Operators were deployed only because of union pressure under the guise of "safety". The skill level of the drivers is modest at best, and the simple fact is that they (you) are overpaid.
Sorry if the truth hurts but you'll get no sympathy here. You've had easy street - now welcome to reality.
Your asking compensation is not justified. With BART workers getting paid 60k (or higher) a year with benefits, there is no justification for this strike. This Job requires no college degree. I appreciate the fact that trains do no drive themselves but you are making it out to be that you have a very difficult job that requires years of training. It does not. Wake up and realize that the Bay Area public does not care for your selfish pleas.
Where do you feel the compensation should come from? Tax payers? Higher Fares?
I know I am RIGHT when I BART workers deserve NO more compensation for what they do. It would not be right.
On a side note..
If BART workers continue to strike, Please let college grads like myself know. I will gladly take their current position without holding the public hostage.
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your anger at those that convinced you that a college degree (perhaps paid for with debt) would unlock your pot of gold.
Organize your workplace if you want a better deal.
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The American way.
where people who work the hardest and have the most dangerous jobs earn the least.
Unless you define working hard as being a yes man for your boss, or in your case, your mother.
spine or stomach to put your life or health on the line, then there are still many ways to make a buck, and especially in the Bay Area, where opportunities are unlimited if you can apply yourself.
But if you cannot or will not, then you should whine instead.
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that most Bay Area workers are underpaid, especially low to mid-level salaried employees. A wise person once told me that "working for a salary means working for free."
How far we have fallen. A $20 to $25 per hour job with benefits and retirement is becoming so rare that other working class people or professional class wannabes resent those that have held on to a decent wage for their labor.
A generation ago, no striver would have envied a bus driver, a train operator, a teacher, or a public sector functionary. Now, either you are one of the small percentage that hit it rich (and those that are will pit us against each other) or you get stuck in a low paying job with poor benefits and no retirement.
Yippee for the American Dream where train operators have become pariahs and thieves are celebrated.
Mr. Train Operator,
Good on you that you get a decent wage/salary.
The problem is your benefits, You have a defined-benefit pension plan that has built-in 7% guaranteed compounded annual return built into it. And because this unsustainable return must be met, General Funds (tax coffers) have to be dipped into to meet your retirement costs, thus taking money away from schools, from hospitals, from road-building etc. Your pension deal was crafted in the 1990s, when it was assumed that the stock market would keep rising indefinitely. But the market rose 0% in 2000-2010. And hence you are bleeding the tax coffers dry.
Eventually BART will go bankrupt as a result and you will loose your retirement benefits entirely unless you start covering some of your pension costs (you pay 0% now) and more of your healthcare costs (you pay $92 a month for yourself and all dependents now). The taxpayers are paying about $400 a month to cover you alone.
I suggest you read about Stockton. Read about San Bernardino. Read about Detroit.
There, the workers refused any give-backs. And now they have nothing.
I wish your defined-benefit pension plan (promising guaranteed returns no matter what the stock market does) were sustainable. But at this point I, and many others, are concerned because your pension needs are taking money away from the poor and needy.
Please do not strike on Friday. The public does not have your back.
What's this "compounded annual return"? Aren't pensions annuities? Based on salary rate and years of service?
purchase an annuity.
That's true of defined contribution plans, but that shouldn't be the case in the context of a defined benefit plan. Individual accounts are maintained, but that's mostly so an employee who leaves before retirement age can withdraw their contributions. And I'm pretty sure those wouldn't guarantee 7% compounded annually.
Which i don't care about only as long as the workers are responsible for any shortfall and not the taxpayers and farepayers.
We should probably have more correct information floating around, though.
And highly undesirable.
Well, oversimplifications are easy to understand. :P
It's not like I disagree, but people should know exactly what they're getting into, no more, no less. It's actually slightly less bad than you think, anyway.
shall we?
If there is someone willing to do your job for elss money than you are getting, then you are overpaid by definition.
for the plutocrats. Ayn Rand is dead. If she were alive, she wouldn't fuck you, but she would fuck you over.
because you believe that you shouldn't get the best value?
Wage slavery is a drag and so is your neoliberal philosophy.
One barber charges $15 and another charges $20. They give you an identical haircut. You choose the more expensive one?
What is the point? You think their benefits are free and have no value?
Their benefits cost a fortune - why would that ever NOT be a consideration in evaluating compensation? Makes no sense...
60k 60k 60k
That's the problem.
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The same thing you always do, and changing your handle from Racer doesn't mask the same lame tactic.
I'm just proving how and why it doesn't work.
second page, it becomes clear that you are wrong
3rd or 4th or 5th page, which there often is. Not everyone suffers from this difficulty you appear to have with multi-page comments.
Of course, with Disqus, there is only one page, so what will you do then?
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You are welcome. I don't go into that area. I would be going for the
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Not a problem! I am the Grandson of Edith Ramsin's Son, so it was very great to see all the photos/Markers you had posted. My grandfather remembers the Burds and mentioned how he use to see them at family get-togethers. He mentioned a Lester, Clarence, and I think Peggy Burd if any of those names ring a bell; i should ask him a little more to see what he knows.
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A Cincinnati woman has been sentenced in federal court to a year in prison and ordered to pay $202,806
in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and the lender she defrauded in
a mortgage fraud scam, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Regina Shields, 41, pleaded guilty last June to one count of filing a
false income tax return and one count of wire fraud.
Shields formed a non-profit corporation called Free Truth
Enterprises and has served as the president and CEO since 2000, according to court documents. From 2007-2010, Shields filed federal income tax returns with the IRS claiming
$61,315 in false claims for income tax refunds.
"The mortgage loan offense involves a brazen scheme whereby
she bid for and won a sheriff's auction for a property that was in
foreclosure," Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Mangan told the court.
"She then
purported to pay for the property using a check that had insufficient funds. To
make matters worse, the defendant then used this temporary appearance of title
to apply for a sizable loan from Quicken Loans in excess of $140,000. She then
used the proceeds to purchase a luxury car."
Shields' sentence includes restitution to the IRS in the
amount of $61,315, and restitution in the amount of $141,491 to Title Source
Inc. (related to Quicken Loans).
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By Zach Osowski
The Herald Bulletin
---- — ANDERSON — Neither driver was cited in Monday's accident involving two Anderson Community Schools buses that sent four students to the hospital.
ACS Interim Superintendent Tim Edsell said all four high school students were treated at the local hospitals and released Monday. None of them had to spend the night at the hospital.
"We're very relieved that everyone is OK," Edsell said.
Anderson Police Department spokesman Joel Sandefur released the names of the bus drivers Tuesday. He said neither Claudene Waller, 50, the driver of bus No. 311, or Jack White, 71, driver of bus No. 318, received citations for the accident.
White's bus crashed into the back of Waller's bus after White failed to notice Waller's bus had come to a stop due to a ambulance driving in the area.
The impact caused most of the students to hit their heads or necks on the bus seat in front of them, leading to some of them complaining of pain.
Those who complained were checked out and taken to the hospital as a precaution. Joe Cronk, head of transportation at ACS, said Monday he didn't think any of the injuries were serious.
Edsell said he didn't think any further action against the bus drivers would be coming from the school system.
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Here in Mountain View, people have lived side-by-side with industry for centuries, ever since the only businesses were farms irrigated by hand-dug acequias. The modern invasion began in the 1970s, when the Bernalillo County government zoned much of the neighborhood for heavy industry and started handing out variances to let businesses occupy farmland as well. After the sick baby incident set off a burst of anti-industry activism, SWOP and SNEEJ shifted their focus to other needy neighborhoods and statewide and national advocacy. A new assortment of individuals became dedicated to pursuing environmental justice here.
Silva, a New Mexico native, studied chemistry and biology in college along with getting a law degree, and spent decades organizing against the nuclear and coal industries. In 1992, he hiked from northern New Mexico to Mexico City to celebrate his heritage. He moved to Mountain View in 1998 because, he says, "I like living close to the river, having my own garden, growing my own food -- this is the kind of community I wanted to live in. I didn't know how contaminated it was when I moved here. Now I can't afford to move." It's a common dynamic: Most people here own their homes, rather than rent. "They're poor homes, they need repair, but they're owner-occupied," Silva says.
Silva helped kick-start a project called the South Valley Partners for Environmental Justice, run on federal grants totaling about $900,000 since 2001. The project included training for 18 residents to be "promotores" -- promoters of community. They learned environmental terminology and translated for Spanish-speaking residents.
Julio Dominguez became a promotore when he was 18. He bicycled around Mountain View, using a Polaroid camera to document problems. He noticed "amazing tiny little spills all over, big trucks spilling chemicals on the ground." With others in the project, he studied how businesses disposed of harmful chemicals. Some business owners are locals running small operations, and some are big out-of-state corporations. Dominguez found that many of the smaller businesses couldn't afford to pay for proper disposal of chemicals and other wastes. Junkyards were especially bad, draining fluids from cars and storing barrels of oil and Freon, mercury, batteries and tires. One junkyard had 35 barrels sitting on the dirt and leaking. "I saw that all over," Dominguez says.
Marla Painter and Patty Grice ramped up another vehicle for change, the Mountain View Neighborhood Association. Painter has lived in an old adobe on one acre near the river since 1997. Her resume includes a stint organizing ranchers and Native Americans against nuclear missile projects, as director of the Rural Alliance for Military Accountability, based in Nevada and Washington, D.C. She's served on the neighborhood association's board since 2000, and her husband, Mark Rudd -- a famous Vietnam War protester who lived as a fugitive during the 1970s -- has served as the association's secretary. By moving to Mountain View, Painter says, she became a member of a disadvantaged community for the first time. "I became outraged (and) went back to organizing."
Grice, who's been president of the neighborhood association for several years, is a white working-class Republican who keeps two tiny dogs and a lot of birds in her doublewide. She moved to Mountain View in 1997 so her husband, a mortician, could take a job at a funeral home. Grice lacks a college degree but is a fast typist who makes a living by transcribing doctors' dictated records. She notes that the couple hundred kids who live here have no swimming pool and only one significant park -- about 20 acres -- with a basketball court and a few swings and slides. "That's our total for the neighborhood," she says. "It's ridiculous, OK?"
The association has fewer than a hundred dues-paying members, but its newsletter goes out to 1,400 homes. Silva and Dominguez have also served on the association's board. Working together, these four leaders and a few others have helped the association and South Valley Partners for Environmental Justice achieve some victories in Mountain View since 2000.
They pressured the county to apply a nuisance ordinance to shut down an extremely loud racetrack that spewed dust. They got agencies to do "sweeps" to find spills and other violations and then facilitated cleanups. They stopped auto recyclers from melting metal in a roofless shed.
They also gathered socioeconomic data showing that Mountain View has more than 90 percent of the metro area's heavy industry and presented it to local and state policymakers. They found a few allies in local government, including the county environmental health office, run by George Schroeder, who says, "Mountain View is a classic example of environmental injustice."
Trying to document health effects, Silva's project recruited people in several dozen homes to wear "badges" that detected benzene and other "volatile organic compounds" in concentrations that weren't illegal but were comparable to those of "major industrial cities like Detroit," Silva says. And with SNEEJ's help, they set up a "bucket brigade" -- training residents to use buckets of water and vacuum pumps to measure air pollution. And they found experts to document the elevated rates of asthma and other illnesses.
They discovered that the only official air-quality monitor in the neighborhood was ruined by dust and windblown debris, so they got the county to fix that. It became clear that the whole system for regulating air quality was inadequate: The Albuquerque air quality division, which gives businesses permits to emit pollution, is run by the city and protects city neighborhoods instead of Mountain View.
Several cement companies have applied for air-pollution permits in recent years, hoping to build new "batch plants" in Mountain View to supply developments around the metro area. The neighborhood didn't need more cement plants, or the heavy truck traffic, noise and dust that accompany them. So the environmental justice campaigners documented the potential pollution and health impacts, packed hearings and persuaded one cement company to back off. Then Alabama-based Vulcan Materials -- the nation's largest manufacturer of "construction aggregates" -- proposed a new 24-hour plant on the worst possible site: 10 acres across the street from the Mountain View community center and playground.
More than 130 residents testified against Vulcan's proposal in public hearings, arguing that the Air Quality Division should recognize cumulative impacts from all the other local cement plants and industries. But in December 2005, the city agency granted Vulcan a permit. The campaigners appealed to the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board -- seven volunteers appointed by the mayor and county commission, with the city holding a majority -- and lost at that level, too.
So the neighborhood association and some residents, including Dominguez, launched an appeal in state court. Painter says she had to raise $15,000 to pay a lawyer. They hoped that a court victory would set a statewide precedent, the way the Rhino decision had done for landfill siting. But instead, Vulcan abruptly withdrew its permit application, thanks in part to the housing and construction crash. "It was a relief," Painter says, "and a disappointment," because no precedent was set.
The campaigners continue to be frustrated with the Air Quality Control Board, charging that it's made only token gestures toward environmental justice -- a task force, workshops and so on. Citing the lack of progress, two board members representing the county areas quit in December 2008. The board majority is "just maintaining the status quo" and representing the city's interests, says Deborah Potter, one of those who quit. Potter, who has a Ph.D. in biology and decades of experience working for the federal and state government, believes the board has "discretionary authority" to take more aggressive action on environmental justice.
Even as they battled the cement companies, the campaigners tried to wrest control of the neighborhood away from all the industries by imposing new zoning in what's called a sector development plan. That battle stretched out for five years, dozens of meetings and several drafts of the plan. The final draft required any new businesses to be at least 1,000 feet from residences, the community center and school. It also called for some landowners to shift to cleaner industry over time. "We wanted to stop the heavy industry, the concrete plants, from coming in, OK?" Grice says.
The plan aroused tremendous opposition. Existing businesses, commercial landowners and real estate agents saw it as a "takings" -- an unconstitutional grab of their right to develop property as they wish. They formed the Mountain View Commercial Property Association with a budget of more than $100,000. They also backed a candidate, Art De La Cruz, who challenged an incumbent county commissioner, Teresa Cordova, a university planning professor who supported the plan. De La Cruz, a longtime local bureaucrat, received heavy financial support from concrete, real estate, construction and other businesses. He beat Cordova in the Democratic primary, won the commission seat in the November 2008 general election, and killed the plan, calling it a "fundamentally unfair" takings.
Dominguez points out that industries depress residential property values, a worse form of takings: "No one will buy a house next to a concrete plant," he says. "Who compensates the community for the impact on people's property values?"
The businesses want all residential use and the community center moved to the west half of the neighborhood to give them a clear playing field, and they oppose tougher zoning or environmental regulations. They also made a move within the neighborhood association, packing an annual meeting in October 2008 with pro-business people and electing their candidates for open board seats. Painter kept her seat, but the realigned board voted her out as president in January 2009 and made Patty Grice president again, because she is somewhat more willing to compromise. "The businesses out-organized us," Painter says.


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By Martin Gehlen
A boy waits with his mother in the hallway of a welfare office in Berlin.
Photo by Katharina Eglau.
Ideas travel. Historically, political entrepreneurs on both sides of the Atlantic have pointed to the effectiveness of practices that were developed on the other side as evidence of the feasibility of their favored policies.
In the 19th Century, Friedrich List, long-time German advocate for national tariffs, went to the United States, became actively involved in the American tariff debate, and on his return campaigned for the adoption of a national economic strategy on the basis of the American success. At the turn of the century, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wanted to import the German apprenticeship system, so officials came to see and report on how it worked.
In the 1920's, German Social Democrats and union leaders were fascinated by Henry Ford's production philosophy, prompting the radical labor intellectual Jakob Walcher to write a book entitled "Ford or Marx: The Practical Solution of the Social Question." Ford's memoirs appeared in German translation in 1923 and ran through more than 30 reprints. Under the Nazis, Ferdinand Porsche toured Detroit's automobile factories in search of ideas for his Volkswagen project. After the Second World War, Germans considered almost anything American a model for imitation. By the 1970's, the so-called "Wirtschaftswunder" and the competitive edge enjoyed by German companies convinced American business leaders to look at the "Modell Deutschland."
Now, America's low unemployment and economic strength of the 1990's have ignited a broad discussion in Europe on the merits of the U.S. model.
As the first political waves of Clinton's vague '92 campaign slogan "to end welfare as we know it" reached European shores, U.S. unemployment figures dropped below German figures for the first time since the early 1960's. Led by its young, dynamic president, the United States seemed willing to become fit for the global competition of the next century by rethinking the traditional balance between the welfare state and its citizens, between public and private responsibility. The political and journalistic response was swift and comprehensive. Mainstream coverage in the German press focused on several features of the U.S. system that—if transferred to this country—could bring about a change of course in its economic and social policies.
Welfare reform measures—such as state-sponsored workfare projects—were examined with an eye toward their applicability in Germany. Along with looking at specific welfare policy changes that were taking place in states like Wisconsin, other economic and social issues were being covered as well. These included the sudden surge in U.S. jobs, wage restraint and social deregulation, the entrepreneurial spirit in the United States and the abolishment of the alleged welfare hammock for the poor.
Now, two years later, the situation has changed. The U.S. job situation appeared to lose its attraction when reporting about the dark side, the undesirable side effects of the American success story, started to show up in newspaper editorials and magazine stories. One reason for this change was that leading publications describe and treat the American welfare situation as an issue that is closely interrelated with other features of social policy like, for example, health care and the minimum wage. It is unthinkable in most European states that so many people would be without health insurance and work for such low wages without receiving government benefits.
Other topics that surfaced in reporting about American social policy included high crime and poverty rates (especially among children), large wage disparities, the working poor, dismal employment protections, and low levels of unemployment benefits. And there was also coverage about the subsidies companies receive from the government through the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which enables low-wage workers to inch out of poverty.
The leading motto for European journalists became "The devil is in the details." Reporters didn't pick out isolated elements to portray as models of social policy but instead scrutinized the whole picture of American social policy, and this became the focus of comparative coverage. And this was set against the backdrop of recognizing that societies whose perspectives arise out of very different cultural backgrounds have great difficulty in adopting other countries' models.
For these reasons and more, the once-popular recommendation of adopting the American approach to transforming the welfare system has been pushed to the side among politicians and business leaders. In turn, mainstream press coverage has evolved a skeptical distance, quite different than during the early Clinton years.
The short-lived enthusiasm for the U.S. model has not vanished completely, however. Certain traces of it remain. While the question of a direct transfer of U.S. welfare or employment policy has dropped from the agenda of European leaders, two subtle trends of American political thinking are taking hold in most European countries, and reporters are starting to cover them.
First, Europeans appear to be drawn to the "behavioral approach" of this new generation of U.S. social policies that are the centerpiece of Clinton's welfare initiative. President Clinton stressed the view that welfare policy is a contract between society and the individual, with the citizen doing his or her part to end dependency on public funds. This led to a politics that played on society's desire to see that people change their personal behavior, go to work, do whatever they can, before they put their hand out to the public. This attitude made possible the bipartisan passage of legislation such as EITC, but it also led to the wide-scale introduction of sanctions imposed on those who do not get a job.
Imposing financial sanctions on people who depend on public help has almost always been a taboo in European welfare policy and thus has been portrayed that way in much of the past coverage. But this is no longer the case as reporters are taking their cues for story angles from the dramatic changes in the political environment since "New Left" governments have come into power in Britain, France and Germany. As a case in point, in March the head of the powerful German Metal Trade Union asked, together with several leading politicians, for strict welfare sanctions against youth who refuse to participate in the federal "100,000 jobs" program. While party officials proposed and debated a 25 percent welfare cut, the union, the most powerful of its kind in Europe, demanded a total cutoff, something that would never have been heard at other times in German political discussion. This debate quickly became front-page news.
The second influence on American social policy thinking pertains to the traditional social security mentality of European welfare systems. The use of "means testing" (assistance provided based on the financial situation of the person or family in need) as a way of determining the point at which public support is merited seems to be gaining in popularity. In the United States, many benefits such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), food stamps, housing subsidies and health insurance are means tested.
In most of the European countries, social benefits like unemployment insurance, child credits, pension payments or health insurance have the characteristics of a public social security payment to which all are entitled regardless of their financial situation. Facing considerable budget deficits and strict financial limits set by the new European Central Bank, a shift to a predominantly means testing system is on the public agenda of many European states as political resistance subsides. Once again, the topics and tone of media coverage reflect this new and significant shift that has occurred in thinking about this aspect of social policy.
Right now, the United States's impact on all of this is less and less openly acknowledged in media coverage and public debate about European policies on welfare. This is caused, in part, by European's current self-absorption that has resulted from the introduction of the Euro currency and the concurrent need to harmonize the main features of each nation's economic, tax and welfare systems. This situation has triggered much more intensive coverage of the social policy agendas of European neighbors at the expense of reporting on the superpower across the Atlantic. Larger European countries, in particular, now look primarily to smaller ones for new ideas and reform approaches; Germany, for example, looks to the Netherlands and Denmark.
One of the more intriguing topics that has captured media interest is the new, flexible culture of cooperation and roundtable politics between companies and trade unions that these countries are experiencing. This kind of story would be unlikely to emerge if the focus had remained on the United States because relations between labor and management are traditionally more hostile there. And in these smaller European countries there are plenty of other stories to be found, such as ones about their remarkable success in job creation, reduction of welfare dependency, and empowerment of weaker segments of the population. At least for now, these are the stories European journalists appear eager to report, and when they do, the viewers and readers aren't confronted by the kind of distressing news that seems to accompany stories about America's transformation to a new social contract.
Martin Gehlen, a 1992 Nieman Fellow, is editor and writer for domestic issues at Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin. His 1997 book, "Upheaval in the American Social Safety Net: The 1996 Welfare Reform From a European Perspective," was released in Germany.
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A crop of American cockroaches brings in serious cash.
Critical and repeat violations are usually a good benchmark for judging a restaurant's cleanliness. Preparing food may need to take a back seat to spring cleaning for several area eateries.
IHOP along Airport Highway in south Toledo racked up four violations, with the majority of them cleaning-related. Management was told the entire cook line is in need of attention because grease and dust are easy to see on vents and kitchen appliances. The restaurant is also in need of a new microwave because its current one is peeling. McDonald's on Cherry Street in north Toledo earned three violations. Cleaning needs to be a top priority, especially when grease is stuck on cooking grills. Inspectors noted fryer baskets of french fries were sitting entirely uncovered in the walk-in freezer. Cups were also found sitting on the floor in storage. Pizza boxes set up shop on the floor at Little Caesar's on Monroe Street in Sylvania. Inspectors found five violations, including no time marked on the Hot and Ready Pizza rack, leaving employees to guess how long the pizza has been sitting there. Inspectors also found holes in the wall. Seven violations were found at Andrea's Sports Pub on Alexis Road in west Toledo. Grease and food debris cover the inside of the oven, while dust and grease are on the hood filters under the grill. Sink faucets are leaking and employees were reminded to dump dirty mop water down the sink, as opposed to outside.
Renovations are key to keeping inspectors happy. Applebee's on Dussel Drive in Maumee had three violations. A plumber needs to be called to fix a deteriorating sink and the tiles in the walk-in freezer need to be replaced because they are also deteriorating. On a positive note, Wendy's on Dussel Drive is in the lead this week with no violations.
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