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The Democratic Party's nominating committee announced who it's supporting for City Council Friday: Greg Landsman, who heads the Strive Partnership and worked for former Gov. Ted Strickland; Shawn Butler, Mayor Mark Mallory's director of community affairs; Michelle Dillingham, a community activist; and the six incumbents, which include Laure Quinlivan, Chris Seelbach, Yvette Simpson, P.G. Sittenfeld, Pam Thomas and Wendell Young. The nominations still have to be approved by the Cincinnati Democratic Committee.
Petitioners against the city's parking plan are supposed to get their final tally on referendum today, but a new video shows at least some of the petitions may have been signed without a legitimate witness, which are needed to validate a signature. The Hamilton County Board of Elections announced Thursday that petitioners had met the necessary threshold of 8,522 signatures, but the video casts doubts on whether those signatures were legitimately gathered. The city wants to lease its parking assets to help balance the deficit for the next two years and fund development programs around the city ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27), but opponents worry higher parking rates and extended hours will harm the local economy. Here is the embedded video:
The Ohio Senate could restore Gov. John Kasich's tax, school funding and Medicaid plans when it votes on the biennium budget for 2014 and 2015. Kasich's tax and education funding plans were criticized by Democrats and progressive groups for favoring the wealthy, but the Medicaid expansion, which the Health Policy Institute of Ohio says would expand Medicaid coverage to 456,000 low-income Ohioans and save the state money, was mostly opposed by state Republicans. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget in further detail here.
New polling from Quinnipiac University found a plurality of Ohio voters now support same-sex marriage rights — granting promising prospects to Freedom Ohio's ballot initiative to legalize same-sex marriage in the state this year.
An audit on JobsOhio could take months, according to State Auditor Dave Yost's office. Gov. John Kasich was initially resistant to a full audit, but Yost eventually won out, getting full access to JobsOhio's financial records. JobsOhio is a privatized development agency that is meant to eventually replace the Ohio Department of Development.
In response to not getting a Democratic endorsement for his City Council campaign, Mike Moroski, who was fired from his job at Purcell Marian High School for supporting gay marriage, launched the Human Party.
Cincinnati received an "F" for business friendliness in the 2013 Thumbtack.com U.S. Small Business Friendliness Survey from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Embattled attorney Stan Chesley will no longer practice law in Ohio. Chesley, who has been criticized for alleged misconduct, was recently disbarred in Kentucky. He recently resigned from the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees after being asked to in a letter from fellow board members.
Ohio gas prices are shooting back up.
PopSci has an infographic showing sharks should be much more scared of humans than humans should be afraid of sharks.
In a 5-4 vote today, City Council approved a plan to lease Cincinnati's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to help balance deficits for the next two fiscal years and fund development projects in Downtown, but the plan is now being held up by a Hamilton County judge's temporary restraining order (TRO).
The plan was approved with an emergency clause, which means it is not subject to referendum, according to City Solicitor John Curp. Councilman Chris Seelbach joined the parking plan's five supporters in approving the emergency clause, which is meant to expedite the plan's implementation by removing a 30-day waiting period.
Shortly after the parking plan was approved by City Council, Judge Robert Winkler signed a TRO that will halt its implementation for at least one week. The judge's action will provide enough time to process a lawsuit filed by Curt Hartman, an attorney who represents the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), on behalf of local activists who oppose the plan and argue it should be subject to referendum.
Mayor Mark Mallory says the emergency clause was passed to speed up the plan's implementation in time for the budget that will begin July 1, not to suppress voters: "I don't think that any member of council has ever voted for an emergency clause in an effort to keep voters from being able to reverse the decision that the council is making, so I take exception with that characterization."
The parking plan got its required fifth vote, up from a 4-3 vote in the Budget and Finance Committee Monday, from Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan, who abstained from voting in the committee meeting because she said she was concerned about the city's long-term fiscal outlook. She says her concerns were eased after she read the leasing agreement and listened to a presentation from City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. that gave City Council a few options for fixing the city's structural deficits.
The parking plan's other supporters were council members Roxanne Qualls, Yvette Simpson, Cecil Thomas and Wendell Young. Council members Seelbach, P.G. Sittenfeld, Chris Smitherman and Charlie Winburn voted against the plan.
The plan, which CityBeat previously covered ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27), will lease the city's parking assets to fund development projects, including a 30-story tower and a downtown grocery store, and help balance the deficit for the next two fiscal years. The deal will produce a $92 million upfront payment, and the city projects that additional annual installments will generate more than $263 million throughout the lease's duration.
Opponents say they are concerned the plan will give up too much control of the city's parking meters and garages, which they say could lead to spikes in parking rates.
Under the initial plan, downtown rates will remain at $2 an hour and neighborhood rates will be hiked to 75 cents. Afterward, parking meter rates will be set to increase annually by 3 percent or the rate of inflation on a compounded basis, with actual increases coming in at 25-cents-an-hour increments. That should translate to 25-cent increases every three years for downtown and every six years for neighborhoods, according to Meg Olberding, city spokesperson.
The city will be able to bypass the so-called "cap" on parking meter rate increases through a unanimous vote from a five-person advisory committee, approval from the city manager and a final nod from the Port Authority. The process, which begins with an advisory committee that will include four members appointed by the Port Authority and one selected by the city manager, will allow the city to raise and lower rates to adjust for changing economic needs, says Olberding.
Opponents also say the money from the parking plan is being used too quickly, which does little to alleviate the city's structural deficits.
Dohoney previously argued the plan will help reduce the deficit by generating recurring revenues through long-term economic growth and development.
"The situation that we're in requires that we accelerate growth right now, not later," he said Monday. "If we do not do that, then we're going to have further negative ramifications to deal with."
With the lease agreement approved, it is now up to the Port Authority to develop and publicize the bond documents that will further detail the framework of the parking plan.
in the same meeting, City Council unanimously passed a resolution
asking the federal government to take up comprehensive immigration
Update: This story was updated to reflect Judge Robert Winkler's actions.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the Cincinnati streetcar is being delayed until 2016. The streetcar has been delayed time and time again, much to the cheer of opponents. Some opponents have taken the delay as yet another chance to take shots at the streetcar, but the city says a lot of the delays have been due to factors out of the city's control, including ballot initiatives, the state pulling out a massive $52 million in funding and a dispute with Duke Energy.The U.S. unemployment rate remained at 7.8 percent in December, with November's rate being revised upward to 7.8 percent as well. Employers reported adding about 155,000 jobs last month, but about 192,000 entered the labor force, meaning the amount of people joining the labor force outmatched the newly employed. The unemployment rate looks at the amount of unemployed people in the civilian labor force, which includes anyone working or looking for work.
U.S. Speaker John Boehner was re-elected U.S. House speaker. Just moments after securing the top House seat, Boehner said he will make the U.S. debt a top priority. But continuing to make the debt and deficit top issues could hurt the economy, as the fiscal cliff and recent developments in Europe have shown.
Uncle Sam is helping out Cincinnati firefighters. The Cincinnati Fire Department will be getting $6 million in federal grant money to hire 40 additional firefighters. The money will be enough to fund salaries for two years.
Cincinnati's biggest cable provider dropped Current TV after it was sold to Qatar-based Al Jazeera. The Pan-Arab news network has had a difficult time establishing a foothold in American markets, largely because of the perception that it's anti-American. But Al Jazeera has put out some great news stories, and some of the stories won awards in 2012.
If anyone is planning a trip through New York City's LaGuardia Airport, Dayton International Airport now has that covered.
A small town in Ohio is being accused of covering up an alleged gang rape to protect a local football team. But KnightSec, a hacking group affiliated with the organization Anonymous, is fighting back by releasing evidence related to the case.
Despite a solved fiscal cliff deal extending emergency unemployment benefits, Ohio's unemployed will soon be getting less aid. The decrease was automatically triggered by the state's declining unemployment rate.
Ohio's universities are adopting more uniform standards for remedial classes.
The newest Congress is a little more diverse.
In what might be the worst news of the century, the Blue Wisp Jazz Club could close down. The club, which has the greatest spinach-and-artichoke dip in the universe, is facing financial problems.
People who recently obtained gift cards for Rave Motion Pictures may want to get a move on. The theater is being sold to AMC Theatres.
A new theory suggest Earth should have been a snowball in its early days, but it wasn't due to greenhouse gases.
Cincinnati Public Schools seems to be playing a big role in reforming Ohio's school funding formula. Superintendent Mary Ronan got a call from Gov. John Kasich's office about the per-pupil funding formula CPS uses to distribute funds to its schools. It seems the state might adopt a similar method, but Ronan is cautious: "I do think it's one of the ways you could do it, a per-pupil funding, but I have to say, we were always tweaking every year ... because sometimes those formulas can be a bit off and any time we saw one school getting a lot more than another ... we tried to refine it every year over probably the 15 years we have used it." She also notes schools are getting "bare minimum" funding right now. CityBeat covered budget problems at CPS here.
In general, state budget cuts have led to fewer teachers in Ohio schools. Gov. Kasich previously urged schools to focus on classroom instruction, but it seems the words aren't being followed up with proper funding.
Southwestern Ohio judges are clashing over double-dipping. The practice involves government workers retiring and getting rehired so they can collect pensions and a paycheck at the same time. At a meeting, Hamilton County Judge Melba Marsh said she wants to allow Magistrate Michael Bachman to retire and then be rehired so he doesn't lose a 3-percent increase to his retirement, which is otherwise being eliminated by the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System after 2012. But the move has been met with resistance from other judges.
For Cincinnati hospitals, Medicare changes mean some loss and some gain.
The online campaign urging Macy's to dump Donald Trump circled a "Dump Trump" billboard around Macy's headquarters. The anti-Trump movement has gained about 680,000 signatures since it started.
On Christmas Eve, some spent time with family, while Butler County Deputy David Runnells helped deliver a baby in the back of a car during an emergency call.
Ohio will use $20 million out of $200 million in casino funds to train incumbent workers. Gov. Kasich says the program could help avoid layoffs.
It seems Mitt Romney's presidential campaign really thought they were going to win. In campaign memos leading up to the election, campaign staff said the race was "unmistakably moving in Mitt Romney's direction," and the campaign ridiculed the possibility of losing Ohio due to the Romney campaign's "better ground game." But President Barack Obama had a much larger ground game for one-on-one interaction, which is one of the factors former Romney staff now say led to their demise. But whatever. Romney didn't want to be president, anyway, says son Tagg Romney: "He wanted to be president less than anyone I've met in my life. He had no desire to ... run."
Fiscal cliff talks aren't going well. President Obama cut his vacation early to work out negotiations. If Republicans and Democrats can't work out their problems, a series of spending cuts and tax hikes dubbed the "fiscal cliff" will kick in throughout 2013. But it's looking more and more likely the nation will head off the cliff, considering U.S. Speaker John Boehner can't even pass tax hikes on people making more than $1 million a year.
Ever wonder what dinosaur meat would taste like? Well, Popular Science has that covered.
The streetcar project remains on track following today's votes by City Council's Budget and Finance Committee, which approved increased capital funding and accountability measures that aim to keep the public informed on the project's progress.
The increased funding was previously proposed by City Manager Milton Dohoney to fix a $17.4 million budget gap. The money will come from more issued debt and pulled funding from various capital projects, including infrastructure improvements around the Horseshoe Casino. Under state law, none of the capital funding could be used for operating budget expenses, such as police and fire.
The accountability measures also require the city administration to report to City Council on the streetcar's progress with a timeline of key milestones, performance measures, an operating plan, staffing assessments and monthly progress reports.
"The progress reports should be easy-to-understand and made available online to ensure transparency and accountability to City Council and to citizens," the motion reads.
Council members Roxanne Qualls, Laure Quinlivan, Chris Seelbach, Yvette Simpson and Wendell Young voted for the measures. Council members P.G. Sittenfeld, Chris Smitherman and Charlie Winburn voted against both. Councilwoman Pam Thomas voted against the funding ordinance, but she abstained from voting on the motion imposing accountability measures.
Qualls, who revealed the accountability measures in a press conference prior to today's committee meeting, said the measures will move the streetcar forward and help keep the public informed.
"I will vote today to continue the streetcar project because we need to continue moving Cincinnati forward," she said. "At the same time, while I remain a supporter, it is with the recognition that it is time for a reboot on the project to instill public confidence in its management."
Smitherman did not seem convinced.
"I believe the administration will be back asking for more money on the streetcar," he claimed, pointing to pending litigation with Duke Energy over who is legally obligated to pay for moving utility lines to accommodate the project.
Smitherman and Sittenfeld also criticized their colleagues for not bringing the accountability measures to a vote earlier in the process.
"You would think seven years ago there would have been a motion like this in front of us," Smitherman said, referencing when City Council first approved the streetcar project.
Among the accountability motion's items is an operating plan, which streetcar critics have long demanded.
The city administration estimates operating the streetcar will cost about $3.5 million a year, indicating in the past that casino tax revenue would be used to pay for the costs.
Supporters say those costs will be outweighed by the city's estimated three-to-one return on investment for the streetcar project — an estimate backed by studies from advising company HDR and the University of Cincinnati.
Simpson in particular argued the costs will be made up through increased revenue as the streetcar brings in more businesses and residents to Cincinnati.
Still, Simpson says those estimates don't matter to streetcar opponents.
"If it was $5, there would be individuals who don't support this project," she said.
Winburn responded by saying he supports the streetcar as a concept, which roused laughter from streetcar supporters in the audience. Throughout the project's many hearings, opponents of the streetcar have often said they support streetcars as a concept — at least until they have to put their support to a vote or commit funding.
Still, Winburn added, "Even if you all are wrong, I want to commend you for fighting for what you believe in."
The streetcar project's $17.4 million budget gap is a result of construction bids coming in $26 million to $43 million over budget — a result of "errors in bid documents," according to Qualls.
Besides increasing funding, the city is also hiring John Deatrick, project manager of The Banks, to head the streetcar project. Multiple city officials, including Qualls and Quinlivan, have praised Deatrick for his ability to bring down project costs and put large projects on track.
The funding currently set for the streetcar will only go to the first phase of the project. The final plan calls for tracks stretching from The Banks to the Cincinnati Zoo.
"If the intent of the streetcar would only be to go from The Banks to just north of Findlay Market, then I never would have said it's a project worth doing," Dohoney previously told City Council. "The intention has always been to connect the two major employment centers of the city and go beyond that."
But Smitherman says talk of another phase is financially irresponsible: "I want to indicate to the public that they (the city administration) don't have a budget for the second leg."
The funding ordinance and accountability motion must now be approved by a full session of City Council, which has the same voting make-up as the Budget and Finance Committee.
If it's approved, the federal government has committed another $5 million to the streetcar that will help restore certain aspects of the project previously cut because of budget concerns.
The latest batch of bad streetcar news provoked a harsh memo to the city manager's office from Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, a Democrat who has long supported the $125 million transit project. In the memo, Qualls wrote about "serious concerns" regarding the project's costs and timetable.
"Whether people support or oppose the streetcar project, everyone has a vested interest in getting the most for our public dollars and in having the highest confidence in the management of the project," Qualls wrote. "While a council majority has continued to support the project, council has not given the administration a 'blank check.'"
The memo suggested putting the streetcar project through "intensive value engineering" to bring the project's budget and timetable back in line — preferably in time for the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
The memo is in response to streetcar construction bids coming in $26 million to $43 million over
budget. Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, says the bids leave the city with
two options: The city could take up the current bids, which could have their costs brought down upon further review, or the city could reject the
bids and rebid the project, which would cause delays. But Olberding also cautions that the administration is still working on fully reviewing the bids — a process that could take weeks or longer.
Qualls is running for mayor against John Cranley, a former Democratic council member. Cranley has been a vocal opponent of the streetcar project — creating a strong contrast between the two candidates that has placed the streetcar in the center of the 2013 mayoral race.
Earlier today, Cranley held a press conference asking the city to halt the streetcar project. In a statement, he argued it is "irresponsible" to continue work on the streetcar in light of the higher costs.
CityBeat previously covered the streetcar and how it relates to the race between Qualls and Cranley ("Back on the Ballot," issue of Jan. 23).
As Ohio debates the Medicaid expansion, a new study from Harvard researchers revealed access to Medicaid in Oregon led to better mental health outcomes and reduced financial strain, but no short-term gains were found in physical health outcomes.
The study, which was released Wednesday by The New England Journal of Medicine, had its most positive findings in mental health outcomes, with Medicaid recipients showing 30 percent lower rates of depression in comparison to people without health coverage. Medicaid recipients had a rate of depression of 21 percent, while those without coverage had a rate of 30 percent.
But the gains did not apply to physical health outcomes. When looking at cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels, there was no significant difference between Medicaid recipients and people without coverage. The three measures were chosen because they typically reveal better health results within two years and they're easy to obtain.
Still, the study doesn't rule out the possibility of long-term gains. The study found increased rates of diabetes detection and management, which could lead to better physical health outcomes in the future.
Medicaid enrollment also reduced financial strain, allowed patients to use more preventive services and nearly eliminated catastrophic out-of-pocket medical expenses, according to the study.
The study was conducted by looking at Medicaid recipients in Oregon, which enrolled 10,000 people into Medicaid out of nearly 90,000 applicants through a lottery approximately two years ago, giving researchers the first major randomized pool of Medicaid recipients to study.
A previous study from Harvard researchers, including the lead author of the Oregon study, found that Medicaid expansions improved mortality rates, coverage, access to care and self-reported health. That study looked at three states that expanded Medicaid and compared them to neighboring states that did not.
The Oregon study comes at a time when legislators are debating whether Ohio should use federal funds to expand its Medicaid program. Even though Republican Gov. John Kasich supports the expansion, Republican legislators say they're concerned the federal funds will eventually dry up, leaving the state to find a solution for hundreds of thousands of new Medicaid enrollees. Democrats are joining Kasich in supporting the expansion, with Ohio Senate Minority Leader Eric Kearney recently calling it a "no-brainer."
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio found the Medicaid expansion would insure nearly half a million Ohioans and save the state money in the next decade.
The budget bill that recently passed the Republican-controlled Ohio House would forgo the Medicaid expansion while leaving room to consider further Medicaid reforms down the line ("The Chastity Bunch," issue of April 24).
City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. released a memo yesterday detailing how the streetcar project's $17.4 million budget gap could be fixed by pulling funds from various capital projects and issuing more debt, upholding a promise he made at a contentious City Council meeting Monday.
The five-page memo says none of the proposed capital funding sources can be used to balance the city's $35 million operating budget deficit because of limits established in state law, which means the streetcar project is not being saved at the expense of cops, firefighters and other city employees being laid off to balance the operating budget.
"Neither Capital nor TIF funds can be used to help with the operating budget deficit that the City is facing," the memo reads. "They are separate sources of funds and by State Law, cannot be used for operating expenses like police and fire personnel."
At least $5.4 million would be temporarily pulled from the $10.6 million planned for the Music Hall renovation project, but the redirected Music Hall funds would eventually come back in capital budgets for fiscal years 2017, 2018 and 2019. City spokesperson Meg Olberding explained in an email that moving funds around would not hinder the Music Hall project.
"The use of $5.4 million of Funds set aside for Music Hall this year is money currently sitting in a fund for this year that will not be needed this year," she wrote. "Funds for Music Hall will not be needed until 2016, the agreed upon deadline for fundraising for the Music Hall renovation with the Music Hall Revitalization Company. Therefore, the City is still keeping its commitment to Music Hall, while also advancing the streetcar project."
About $6.5 million would be taken from infrastructure projects surrounding the Horseshoe Casino, including funds that would otherwise go to lighting the trees along Reading Road and a study that would look at adding a turn lane from Reading Road. The memo acknowledges the trade-off, but it also justifies the redirected spending: "However, since the Streetcar passes within two blocks of the Casino Site, it is a project within the Casino Area that both benefits the TIF District and the Casino."
The memo also recommends pulling $400,000 that was originally set for traffic signal replacement, which would be used for the traffic replacement component of the streetcar project.
Another $500,000 would come from funding currently set for water main relocation and replacement. The memo says the water main funding is simply Water Works' share: "Of the $21.7 million cost overrun for the Streetcar project, approximately $1 million was for water main relocation (and) replacement work. Water Works' share of this is $0.5 million."
The remaining $4.6 million would come from the city issuing general capital debt, which would be paid back through a small portion of the income tax that is established in the City Charter for permanent improvement purposes. The memo acknowledges this would cost other economic development and housing projects $340,000 a year over the next 20 years, but it claims the funding is justified because the streetcar project is a permanent improvement project.
The memo outlines other vague capital funding options that could be used to balance the budget, but Dohoney does not explicitly recommend them.
The memo also leaves open the possibility of future sources of funding, including $15 million that could be opened up if the city prevails in court against Duke Energy over who has to pay for moving utility lines to accommodate streetcar tracks — but this was money that was originally supposed to go to neighborhood development projects — and the sale of remaining city-owned land at the Blue Ash Airport.
City Council still has to consider and approve the memo's recommendations for them to become law.
Policy Matters Ohio is now pushing an earned income tax credit (EITC) that would benefit the state's poor and middle class, including more than 822,000 working families. The plan could be a progressive replacement for Republican Gov. John Kasich's proposed tax plan, which some reports claim disproportionately benefits the wealthy.
The EITC is a tax credit targeted at working people who have low to moderate income, particularly those with children. It is currently used by the federal government, 24 states and Washington, D.C.
The report from Policy Matters, a left-leaning policy research group, found a 10-percent EITC would cost about $184 million per year, producing an estimated $224 million in economic benefits, and a 20-percent EITC would cost about $367 million per year, producing an estimated $446 million in economic benefits.
If state legislators set aside Gov. John Kasich's tax proposals, the state would be left with about $280.4 million in general revenue available for fiscal year 2014 and about $690.2 million available in fiscal year 2015, according to an analysis of Kasich's budget bluebook. That would be more than enough money in fiscal year 2014 to pay for a 10-percent EITC, and even a 20-percent EITC would only eat up about half of available funds in fiscal year 2015.
Using a model from the nonpartisan Institute for Tax and Economic Policy, the Policy Matters report found a state EITC would benefit Ohioans making less than $51,000 per year. Under a 10-percent credit, qualifying families making less than $18,000 would get $190 on average, qualifying families making between $18,000 and $33,000 would get $323 on average and qualifying families making between $33,000 and $51,000 would get $149 on average, according to the report.
Under a 20-percent credit, benefits would be bumped up to $381 on average for qualifying families making less than $18,000 per year, $646 on average for qualifying families making between $18,000 and $33,000 and $298 for qualifying families making between $33,000 and $51,000, according to the report.
These benefits would then be spent in a way that helps families, local communities and small businesses, according to the Policy Matters report: "Families that claim the EITC use the refunds to pay for basic needs like housing, food, transportation and child care. These purchases stimulate local economies. A number of studies focusing on the economic impacts of the EITC find that small businesses and other taxes benefit from a cash infusion into the local economy."
The report claims a state EITC would also result in a fairer tax system that better helps the state's low- and middle-income earners, stronger incentives to work and better social and economic results for EITC recipients.
The Policy Matters report touts the federal EITC, which was created by former President Gerald Ford in 1975 and has been expanded by every presidential administration since, to support adopting a similar policy in the state: "The federal Earned Income Tax Credit does more than any other program to keep working families out of poverty. … (It) is lauded for its direct impact in keeping families with children above the poverty line, making work pay, and sending federal dollars to local communities."
Anyone making $50,270 a year or less qualifies for the federal EITC. The tax credit is built so it particularly benefits families with children, and it "encourages families making at or near minimum wage to work more hours since the credit has a longer, more gradual phase-out range compared to other programs," according to the Policy Matters report.
The report says the federal EITC has already benefited more than 950,000 Ohio families with an average refund of $2,238.
In previous analyses, Policy Matters found Kasich's tax proposals disproportionately benefit the wealthy and actually raise taxes on the state's poor and middle class ("Smoke and Mirrors," issue of Feb. 20). But Kasich says his tax plan will cut taxes for "job creators," particularly the state's small businesses.
The governor's tax proposals are facing bipartisan resistance, and the Republican-controlled Ohio House is currently considering setting the proposals aside while the rest of the budget is worked out, according to Gongwer.
In a press conference on March 14, local officials around the state, including Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, suggested dropping income tax cuts and instead using the revenue to restore local government funding cuts, which have totaled $1.4 billion since Kasich took office.
Plan Cincinnati is expected to be approved by City Council Wednesday, according to Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls. The plan was unanimously approved by the Livable Communities committee last night. Plan Cincinnati, which is Cincinnati's first comprehensive plan in 30 years, emphasizes the city's urban center through new infrastructure, transportation options and goals to make downtown residents stay in the area. CityBeat previously covered the plan in greater detail here.
At the request of the sole Democrat on the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners, a vote on the 2013 budget is being delayed by one week. Commissioner Todd Portune asked Commission President Greg Hartmann, a Republican, for the vote delay to address funding to juvenile courts and plans for future financial stability. Hartmann agreed to the delay, noting consensus is important for budget issues. The budget won't raise taxes, but it could put 150 Hamilton County employees out of jobs.
Wastewater injection wells, which are used to dispose of fluids used during the fracking process, will soon be popping up around Ohio again. The wells are the first to get state approval since earthquakes around Youngstown in December were blamed on nearby wastewater injection wells. It's clear little — not even earthquakes — will stop Ohio's fracking boom, but at what cost? It is generally accepted switching from coal to natural gas would bring down pollution that causes global warming, but some findings from Australia suggest problems still lay ahead. One study found an abnormal amount of greenhouse gases around an Australian fracking site. Methane leakage in particular is a problem at natural gas sites because over 100 years methane is 25 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Cincinnati home sales shot up in October, according to the Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors. The report paints a great picture for the city's housing economy. Housing was one of the biggest sectors hit by the financial crisis of 2007-2008, so a recovery in housing is a sign the economic downturn could soon be a thing of the past.
University of Cincinnati researchers want to know if testing emergency-room patients for HIV makes sense. ER doctors worry about longer wait times, disrupted operations and possible interference with emergency services, but the health benefits could outweigh the negatives.
FirstGroup America is looking into moving from its Cincinnati headquarters. The company originally got a million-dollar tax incentive from the city for moving to downtown.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich hopes his rejection of Obamacare's health exchanges will ignite some re-election fundraising. Kasich is up for re-election in 2014. Exchanges are subsidized, heavily regulated insurance markets that will go into effect in 2014 as part of Obamacare. They are supposed to bring down costs by offering more transparent, open competition through a fair, regulated marketplace. With Kasich's rejection, the federal government will manage Ohio's exchange.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted finally had a good day in court on Saturday. In a reversal from the lower court's ruling, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said ballots without proper identification should not be counted. It's estimated that, at most, the ruling will affect about 2,000 votes.
A Dayton man allegedly robbed the same bank twice.
Behold, the greatest thing the internet has ever created: The Spice Kittens livestream.
With a nose cell transplant, paralyzed dogs are walking again.


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Titus Bramble denied Danny Graham an injury-time winner as Sunderland and Swansea City played out a goalless stalemate.
Defender Bramble blocked a shot from Graham, who was introduced as a 74th-minute replacement for Leon Britton, in the third minute of stoppage time to rescue a point.
In a classic game of two halves, the visitors failed to make the most of their dominance during the opening 45 minutes while Sunderland were equally unable to capitalise on a much-improved display after the break.
Midfielder Nathan Dyer passed up a glorious opportunity to win it for the visitors nine minutes from time when he fired wide and both sides ultimately had to settle for a point at the Stadium of Light.
Swansea's passing and movement was on show in the opening period and they created much of what was to be admired in the first half, although without troubling goalkeeper Simon Mignolet unduly.
His one save of note came with 17 minutes played when he had to get down smartly at the foot of his near post to turn away a snapshot from central defender Chico.
Striker Itay Shechter had already had appeals for a fifth-minute penalty waved away by referee Andre Marriner when Michu saw a shot deflected wide by Craig Gardner.
That was to become something of a theme with Dyer, who had earlier curled an effort high and wide, seeing a 15th-minute strike deflected out for a corner and, in the closing minutes of the half, O'Shea threw himself into the path of another Michu strike to protect his keeper.
Sunderland offered little in response, although goalkeeper Gerhard Tremmel had to be on his toes to beat away Sebastian Larsson's 21st-minute free-kick as it sped across his penalty area.
Gardner had a chance to test the German with a free-kick 25 yards out five minutes before the break but he uncharacteristically hit it high and wide.
Sunderland resumed after the break in determined mood and Chico had to hack away Larsson's cross as Sessegnon, who had been moved from a wide position in behind Fletcher before the break, prepared to pull the trigger.
Martin O'Neill's men had a far greater urgency about them with Gardner in particular causing problems down the right.
Jonathan de Guzman landed a curling free-kick on the roof of Mignolet's net with an hour gone but it took a timely interception by Ashley Williams to prevent David Vaughan picking out Fletcher in front of goal three minutes later.
But as substitute Ki Sung-yeung started to get to grips in the middle of the field, Swansea started to restore a measure of order and Mignolet had to field the midfielder's well-struck 69th-minute shot from distance.
Dyer could have snatched victory at the death, only to sidefoot wide after running onto Michu's intelligent pass.
Full-back Dwight Tiendalli whistled a shot across the face of goal in the final minute of normal time but Bramble had to get in a priceless block to deny Graham from point-blank range after Michu had headed down for him deep into injury time.
Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill: "We didn't play very well at all, the point was about as much as we deserved. We had no game at the weekend and I thought that would help us immensely, we rested up and got ourselves prepared.
"I thought Alfred [N'Diaye] was a little bit lost, overall we were second to the ball and allowed Swansea to dictate the pattern to the game and at home that wasn't good enough."
Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup: "In the first half we dominated completely, the only but was that we did not score. Second half was a little more 50/50 but without being dangerous.
"We had two huge chances with Nathan Dyer and in the last minute with Danny Graham, so maybe we should have won the game but my players' performance was a great reaction after the second leg against Chelsea.
"We play away against a good side and I didn't see one clear goal chance from Sunderland. [Danny Graham] did what he could [tonight] and that's all we can ask for. What is going to happen, I don't know."
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Designed with progress in mind, the T5 has always been the best board for improving your riding skills. Easy to ride and extremely versatile, it has been created especially for intermediate riders. The all new 2012 T5 has undergone careful analysis of what's necessary to help you progress and the totally redesigned construction has helped develop a board tailored exactly to your needs. Nobile's unique Pre-Stress technology not only greatly improves the board's pop, but also increases the stability and edge grip. The soft flex pattern provides the ultimate in comfortable landings while the deeper rocker line completely eliminates the water spray. Whether you ride flat or choppy water, the new T5 is the best tool for the job - in a class of its own among the wide selection of boards now available.
It's always interesting when a board turns up for test, all fresh and brand new, wrapped in plastic with just a hint of what's inside shining through. Unwrapping the T5 it's definitely a standout in looks and character. It also doesn't have a particularly laid back freeride outline, definitely leaning more towards a wider freestyle looking shape; with more width in the tips and through the middle of the board. What we were particularly impressed with, which we'd seen in September on demo at the Surf Expo trade show in Florida, was the footstrap and pad KISS screw in system that is also implemented on the fins. The screws for both the fin bolts and pad/strap bolts have a tab on top that's very easy to hand-tighten and then flips down to lock the system in place. Super easy to use, no need for a screw driver and takes seconds. There are other brands with similar systems on the market that you don't need a screwdriver for, which is a really good idea for a beach sport, and we were impressed with the strength and ease-of-use of this system from Nobile. The pads and straps themselves are big, comfortable and reassuringly firm. We were more than happy with them ? there's a good toe-grip, plenty of fairly firm foam that doesn't detract from your feeling underfoot, and with average sized feet that board isn't easily coming off mid-trick. They aren't the most snug and cosy, but are still above average in terms of comfort and grip.
The fins are good quality epoxy designs and quite big for a freestyle board at 5.5cm, which is where the hints start to appear as to the T5s cross-over into the freeride territory. On first look at the board we thought it had classic freestyle tendencies, but in fact the T5 is incredibly easy to ride. Remember that on our tests in Cape Town, most of the time we were riding off the main beach in fairly demanding and choppy/wavy conditions, which is why a board like the T5 shone so well. What we needed was a board that is really easy to use, doesn't hook itself up, doesn't kick up loads of spray off chop, is responsive to being loaded up in an instant when a flat section appears and can handle itself landing jumps in and around waves and throwing the odd carve down a wave face. Fast, although not the fastest, the T5 has good speed and a solid amount of stiffness through the centre and gives you loads of energy and propulsion back through the board. Loading and popping is rewarding ? although not as rock solid as more freestyle oriented shapes, it's easy to get good height and to soak up the landings without trashing your knees. There's a mild concave in the bottom and quite a lot of rocker and not once did we catch the tip in the rolling conditions. This is a good size too and when the wind drops there's plenty there to keep you planing through the lulls and on downwinders it just handles beautifully carving at full tilt.
The T5 has a really nice combination of comfort and performance without making it too technical to ride. We are really pleased to see more manufacturers putting more development into their intermediate range of boards; after all it's the level most people ride at and the T5 has bags and bags of room for you to progress with it. Early intermediates and advanced riders alike will love how easy it makes performing in really average conditions.
Size-wise this is just bang on for riders 75 ? 85 kilos and we really liked the comfort mixed with its freestyle integrity.
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We need to celebrate a Lincoln Chanukah this year.
It's not because of the new Spielberg movie — that gives us something to do on Christmas Day — but because of the 150th anniversary of a little-known event in American history that threatened to expel a portion of the Civil War-era Jewish population from their homes on the Festival of Lights.
On Dec. 17, 1862, during the heighth of the war, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant issued General Orders 11 expelling "Jews as a class" from a war zone that included areas of Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky within a 24-hour period. It was the first day of Chanukah.
The B'nai B'rith sent a petition to Washington calling upon President Lincoln to "annul" the order. Other Jewish leaders moved to organize delegations to meet with Lincoln. A Jewish merchant from Paducah named Cesar Kaskel traveled to Washington on a mission to have the order overturned. Upon arrival he was able to arrange through an Ohio congressman a meeting with the president.
Ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton grossly misrepresented the situation in Gaza in his Nov. 25 piece "Outrage over a front-page photo."
He writes that the hundreds of Hamas rockets fired into Israel from Gaza "are like bee stings on the Israeli bear's behind." Really? So apparently it's a mere nuisance for the half-a-million residents of such Israeli cities as Sderot, Ashkelon and Beersheva who, on a daily basis, live in bomb shelters to escape the terrorist rocket fire. For those who venture out, they may be lucky to have a 15 second warning before these "bee stings" crash down into their cities. But that's just a slight inconvenience to Mr. Pexton. That would be like Silver Spring firing rockets at the D.C. metro area every day. Could he live like that?
The possibility that many of the Hamas rockets are erratic and unguided does not make them any less deadly, or scary, since they are fired indiscriminately at the civilian population.
Mr. Pexton discounts how this latest conflagration began. In his revision of the facts, he writes how Hamas "began firing more accurate and deadly missiles in response to the Israeli offensive that had begun the day before." In fact, more than 700 rockets had been fired from Gaza into Israel this year--before this crisis began. Mr. Pexton fails to acknowledge both the rocket fire from Gaza that preceded the crisis and the remarkable Israeli restraint in the face of such an onslaught. He overlooks the fact that Israel was responding to Hamas rockets fired into Israel from Gaza. Israel's operation was a reaction to relentless terror attacks.
"In addition to the [Hamas] rockets being weak, Israel's defenses are strong," Mr. Pexton writes. Here, he is offering an outrageous justification for the Hamas terror attacks. Israel's defenses are so strong because it is surrounded by enemies out to destroy it. Because Israel has had to develop strong defenses, its death and casualty toll isn't higher.
Mr. Pexton seems to follow the Post's basic canard: Israel started this situation.
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Gilad Shalit has made his first visit to Britain since spending five years as a prisoner at the hands of Hamas.
The former Israeli soldier thanked British Jews for their efforts to campaign for his release, took part in a conference and watched a Premier League football match during his four-night trip which ended earlier this week.
The visit came just days after the Israeli strike which killed Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari, who masterminded Mr Shalit's capture in June 2006.
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The idea of a clock that freezes time for everyone except the user is an old one and certainly did not originate on \"The CBS Radio Mystery Theater.\" However, this specific instance of this idea is very similar to the much later episode of \"Friday the 13th: The Series\" entitled \"13 O\'Clock:\" both clocks need blood to run and time freezes for an hour. The \"Friday the 13th.\" clock has the 13 in place of the 1 rather than the 12, however. What was interesting with \"Time And Again\" is that the protagonist can\'t think of anything to do with that frozen hour than enjoy a bit of solitude. Normally, you would use the time to commit incredible crimes while enjoying an airtight alibi. Supernatural thriller.
Andy, 2011-08-01 13:33:08
Excellent and probably my favorite episode of all. I must disagree with the previous post on one point. Ethan Vigil did have something very important to do during that "2 special hours" every 24 hours; he worked on his lifelong goal of a purpetual motion device. He also benefitted by losing weight, looking and feeling younger, stronger, and healthier. The key to this protaganist is he was not evil and had no bad intentions. This is an excellent episode. BTW Friday the 13th the Series was an excellent show, I call it the precourser to the X files, and that being said, The Night Stalker would be the precourser to Friday the 13 the Series.
James, 2012-01-27 10:04:59
This episode is also known as The Hourglass Clock which in my opinion is a more befitting title.
James, 2012-01-27 10:31:20
What an interesting episode! My favorite, by far, since I started at the beginning on Jan. 6. You can really feel for the clockmaker. Talk about up against it! And a clock that bites the hand that reaches inside of it? Priceless! I was waiting for this genuinely nice guy to step out of character and do something evil or dirty during his "free" hours, but it never happened. I wonder how many of us would be the same way? Still, with the lack of action, it was far from boring. Reasonable ending, too.
Tony, 2012-01-27 20:12:38
John Beal starred in several episodes of CBSRMT, and has always been one of my favorites. His voice translates tragedy and woe in a way that few can equal. This episode is yet another example of Beal's fine performances that added so much to the CBSRMT.
chewiesshop, 2012-07-08 15:24:12
Because the clock maker is not to blame for any of the deaths (he doesn't know the blood that he uses to keep the clock "alive" actually results in the people dying), this is actually a story without a villain, and he is an empathetic main character. His suicide in the end is a way of also redeeming himself and ending the clock's evil. The sister-in-law in this episode is a real piece of work--from beginning to end--and we are glad that she finally gets her comeuppance. Lots of great sound effects in this episode (hundreds of clocks ticking and chiming) and a beating heart (which gives it a Poe-esque "Tell Tale Heart" feel).
Thomas, 2012-09-19 16:25:23
Great episode, really atmospheric and fine acting all round.
Boaby, 2012-10-28 16:28:24
Am I the only one who was reminded of the 1960 movie "The Little Shop of Horrors". There it was a plant, and the shop owner eventually knew what he was doing, killing people to get blood to keep the plant growing, thereby increasing his fame, and get closer to his girlfriend. But still...clock / plant, blood, close enough for me.
Don Malzahn, 2012-11-08 12:34:19
A man comes upon a clock with a 13th hour. The clock provides it's owner with a small gift of time every 12 hours but at a great price. An excellent listen.
Fred Zaccharias, 2012-12-12 19:18:23
Great atmosphere, characters and an evil "thing". A favorite.
Dino from the Mountains, 2012-12-12 19:19:04
Ethan Vigil, a clockmaker who owns and operates a shop (with little help from his hypochondriac wife and her complaining sister), buys a strange clock that has a number 13 where the 12 should. Ethan soon discovers that the clock has an amazing ability to stop time for two hours a day...but to keep the clock running, Ethan must pay a terrible price. This is cool episode with great performances and an interesting Twilight Zone-ish plot. Genre: FANTASY
Leslie Margaux, 2012-12-16 10:41:04
To me, this Ian Martin play was always a study and of and allegory to addiction. Although someone else paid a higher price, look how Beal's character had to steal to support his peculiar, deadly "habit" much like someone addicted to drugs, and how he reached a point where he couldn't live with what he was doing. Two sections of this play that are the RMT at its finest: A) when he's describing the clock's workings and appearance, talking about "wooden pinions, wooden gears" with that eerie soundtrack behind him, and; B) Beal's voice, (and the soundtrack behind it) as he starts the clock up again saying "It's heart was beating!". Brilliance in dramatic, albeit fatalistic, radio production.
A clock repairman finds a clock that grants its owner an extra hour in a day. The price is just a small amount of blood. . .
H. Tanner, 2013-01-17 09:20:56
One of the very best! Martin's finest work. Highly Recommended.
Job Matthews, 2013-01-17 09:23:49
A clock maker / repairman buys a strange looking clock that will not run and becomes obsessed with getting it to work. When his hypochondriac, nagging wife tries to examine it she pricks her finger inside of it, saying ("something BIT me.") The clock starts up, and its beat is the sound of a human heart. It also has a mysterious 13th number on it, and when the clock's strange chime rings on that number, everything freezes except for the clock maker. He becomes addicted to the 13th hour of extra time he's given and is finally crestfallen when the clock stops. (He doesn't put two and two together that the clock stopped at the very second his wife died.) Remembering how the clock started before, he sneaks into his doctor friends office, steals a vial of blood and pours it into the top of the clock (the "brain or whatever it was" he calls it), and the clock restarts. There's just one problem...people whose blood he uses mysterious die eventually... (As I said, this episode is really an interesting study in addiction when you listen to it...)
Lamis Manzanero, 2013-01-17 09:25:59
A clockmaker acquires a strange clock that gives to the owner an extra two hours per day. But nothing comes for free. I can't say any more without spoiling the story. This is a fantastic episode with an amazing premise. Brilliant script Written at a time when Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is called "Chronic Inadequate" hehe
A. Clooney, 2013-01-17 09:37:26
A clockmaker comes into possession of a strange clock which has the ability to stop time for one hour out of every twelve, as long as it's increasingly voracious taste for human blood is satisfied.
Bessie, 2013-01-17 09:41:58
I was 13 or 14 when I stumbled across the CBSRMT late at night, in bed, with my transistor radio and one of those stupid, chintzy, white earpieces they used to have. This was the first episode I ever heard and I was enthralled. I'm so excited that this web site exists and I will definatly make a donation to keep it up and running.
D Peterson, 2013-02-08 15:02:41
IMO, one of my favorite, FAVORITE all-time RMT shows. And it is, indeed, beneath the eerie clock stuff, a well-done chronicle of the affects of addiction.
Mr. Weller, 2013-02-13 11:30:56
Is it only a coincidence that I'm bidding on an old clock on Ebay this week? Not to even attempt a deconstruction, but here we have a plot device that is often used on RMT. What starts as a smaller crime or sin excalates into larger and larger ones. As an addict needs more and more of his/her drug to achieve the same high. It's the Dr. Jekyl-Mr. Hyde progression. CBSRMT does something similar setting forth the moral of the story in its demon-haunted tales. A blackmailer slowly increases the payments demanded on the victim, and in this story, the clock demands more blood at more frequent intervals. To put it in hypothetical terms, say that one week I break into an old-time radio theatre fan's house and steal all his/her money. The next week I might feel the need to break into 3 or 4 houses owned by radio mystery theatre fans. This escalation continues, the violence increases, perhaps by logrithetic proportions, and all too soon nukes are raining down around the planet. As I've said before, I hate it when that happens.
John Byron C., 2013-02-13 11:31:03
I think Bryna is the "Lego" of CBSRMT. They just hand her a script and whatever story it is, weird, scary, stupid or good like this one, she just take's in to stride and performs great.
A. Nolasc, 2013-02-13 11:31:08
I enjoyed the weird idea behind this one- a vampire clock- cool!
Kiel, 2013-02-13 11:31:12
The main character in the story was well crafted; he seemed amiable enough but turned out to be something of a villain. A top notch RMT.
Larry Peeps, 2013-02-13 11:31:26
It must have been early hits like this one, along with "The Chinaman Button", "Lost Dog", and "Out of Sight" (Next week's selection) that attracted an early fan base. I love the haunted timepiece stories. I always wondered if the clock in this one might have been made by the same clockmaker as the clock in "Hickory, Dickory, Doom". The music is great in this one. I should more carefully analyze music in my reviews since it does a great deal to establish mood. An excellent selection. I really enjoyed hearing this one again.
Nate Panambers, 2013-03-14 09:34:32
Looks like we have two shows of the week... this morning listened to both and the subject is Vampyres. This one would be a clock that kills via what I would call blood proxy. Changing blood to water or something else either way sucking the life out of the blood from a distance eventually killing the donor. Of course what would one do with that extra thirteenth hour alone, I think we all strive for that extra hour in the day to do an almost forgotten project or I guess alone time is good. I give this one a strong 3. I am always a sucker for a good clock story, dang where did I put my copy of A Clockwork Orange.
Chuck, 2013-03-14 09:34:37
The show was good but not one of my favorites. I guess I had a hard time with this story because of the protagonists relationships. The protagonists clearly has a bad relationship with his mother-in-law as demonstrated by their outward hatred of one another. He also doesn't seem to have much of a relationship with his wife who is emotionally distant at best. When his wife dies under mysterious circumstances he doesn't seem very distraught. In fact he is so obsessed with the clock that the passing of his wife doesn't seem very important at all. Yet when his mother-in-law succumbs and he finds out about the other victims, he comes to the conclusion that the clock must be silenced. Given his obsession with the clock and his lack of feeling toward the victims (particularly his wife and mother-in-law) I had a hard time identifying with his decision at the end. I think this story could have been made a lot stronger if the mother-in-law had been "bitten" by the clock first. An escalation of his concern over what was happening would also have made the ending more plausible. Finally, if he had a strong loving relationship with his wife we might have better understood his decision at the end and would have felt more compassion for his predicament. Having said that, I always enjoy the special effects and found them to be very compelling in this episode. On to the second episode...
Frankie, 2013-03-14 09:34:42
I reviewed this in my listening log and gave it a perfect score - one of my favourite episodes. What I found compelling about this episode was the exploration of ones own moral limits. What would you do to be able to have those extra hours every day? Very similar notion to The Chinaman Button (Episode 15, January 20, 1974) which aired exactly a week earlier - would you cause the death of an unknown person to achieve your own goals? How will we be affected once we have made that decision. good pick!
Miles, 2013-03-14 09:34:45
Took me a while but I have caught on to the double-show... In this one the clock-maker Ethan actually refers to "the mechanical vampire." Didn't entirely grasp the significance of the "perpetual motion machine" he keeps referring to, but it does fit into the overall concept. Of the two shows this week I preferred this one slightly over the other. At the beginning the idea of finding the testament at a curio shop reminded me of Hickory Dickory Doom. I haven't heard too many of the really early shows, they definitely have a different "look" to them (more polished maybe, and the music tends to be more prominent, not just as emphasis). And EG Marshall sounds more like Raymond (the "horror host" of Inner Sanctum in the 40's from which his narrator was derived, along with the squeaking door) than in later seasons, especially the way he says "pleasant ... dreams?". I will definitely check out some more of the 1974 shows.
Johann, 2013-03-14 09:34:49
This is one of those episodes that I can listen to over and over. I like the use of the narration to tell the story and to give us a sense of how the main character is reacting internally to all that is going on. The one thing in the episode I find a little lame is the idea that the main character is obsessed with developing a perpetual motion machine and so he loves having an extra hour a day to work on it. WHY he is so set on developing such a thing is never explained. It just seems like a weird plot detail that never goes anywhere (other than it fits with the "time" theme of the episode.) I like the sound effect that is used when the clock is activated. It's perfect. This episode has always reminded me of "Little Shop of Horrors" since it too tells a story of a shopkeeper who keeps around a seemingly harmless object (a plant) that feeds on the blood of others and in return gives the shopkeeper what he has always dreamed of.
Alex, 2013-03-14 09:34:52
i enjoyed this one and was glued to it til the end. i've seen several shows lately where the main character tells his story in a confession. i don't think i'd be tempted by the extra 2 hours a day even if nobody had to die for them. the clock maker had no redeeming qualities. he was selfish. at first i thought his mother-in-law was the bad guy ,even the doctor didn't like her. later i realized the guy was a jerk. the twilight zone version of this was funnier but this show was anything but funny. i gave it a 5.
Grace, 2013-03-14 09:34:58
A classic episode. One of my true favs of the mystery theater. I remember listening to this one at work and I just loved the ending. "Once around is enough for all of us".
Leslie, 2013-03-14 18:06:25
The clock in this episode is certainly sinister and our main character sure seems to enjoy the extra time he gains each day. Everything comes at a price and the clock exacts a rather hefty fee.
Wences, 2013-03-14 18:09:50
I'll quote a previous post because the experience was so like my own--with edits: "I was 10 or 11 when I stumbled across the CBSRMT late at night, in bed, with my transistor radio and one of those stupid, chintzy, white earpieces they used to have...I was enthralled. I'm so excited that this web site exists and I will definatly make a donation to keep it up and running."
Mike, 2013-03-15 20:21:31
Gang, This is probably the last time I'll request a "double header". However, these are two of my all time favorite shows on the RMT, and when I listened to them again I had to request these two because: - They're both written by Ian Martin. - He plays, in both episodes, a kindly but slightly befuddled doctor. - There are vampires in both, but they're not the "Count Dracula" stereotype. - In fact, one could say the concept of "applied vampirism" is in play. Someone is either intentionally or untentionally getting something of benefit besides just staying alive. - The "protagonist" has bad things happen to his family. - In both episodes, the one we come to view as the protagonist decides he has to...well, I'll let you listen. Two notes: - John Beal, the "Time and again" lead, was once thought to be the next Jimmy Stewart. I've yet to hear him turn in a bad performance on the RMT, even when he's saddled with a not ideal script. - I always compliment the RMT music. Listen to the music sequence immediately after his wife has died, when he's getting ready to leave his doctor's office. That segment there (to E.G.'s outro of the segment) was, IMO, an example of the RMT at its finest.
Sharon, 2013-03-24 18:43:38
Only behind "The Hand" as the best I've heard so far. Creepy. Suspenseful....and a nice tough of revenge on the sister.
Patti, 2013-03-24 18:43:39
I guess I never understood why at the end he didn't take an axe to the clock or set it on fire to get rid of it for sure. Just because it's at the bottom of a river or lake doesn't mean that it's destroyed. In addition, he could've tried it right after his sister-in-law got "caught" by it since he felt so bad about all the other people.
Alec, 2014-01-21 07:04:15
I listen to these stories when I go to bed. This one gave me the creeps! I had nightmares last night after falling asleep to this story. I'm 50 so it proves that you're never too old for a scary story to get to you!
John, 2014-02-20 11:58:17
I was one of those many children who stayed awake at might listening to Radio Mystery Theater on an AM radio hidden under my pillow. Listening to a broadcast out of Reading PA in 850 WEEU, I couldn't wait to get to bed by 9pm and catch the next episode. They were all so exciting and frightening. When this episode was broadcast in early 1974 I was 6, about to turn 7 years old. For some reason this episode, Time and Again, stands out in my mind as especially interesting and exciting. One of my all-time favorites! Thank you Radio Mystery Theater for providing these online for all to enjoy again!
Ralph Hassel, 2014-02-23 10:40:48
Perhaps someone reading this can help me! the Mystery Theater came on AM radio when I was in high school. I seem to remember one episode, of which so far I cannot find any info about. I was about a very intelligent man named something like "Johnny Clock?" You must remember, I was 13=14 years old at the time. All I remember from the opening is someone wanted to see Johnny, and a group of men came in, one being dressed in a suit and the other as a janitor. The man thought the guy in the suit was Johnny Clock, but it was the janitor--They did this for the safety of this highly intelligent man! I could have the character names wrong, but I do remember that plot. I have been wondering for years if this was a story on the CBS Mystery Theater or not! My email is below, email anytime if anyone can help! Thank You--Mike Antonaccio
Mike Antonaccio, 2014-08-04 18:16:19
I loved this episode. I am finding that I really like episodes with John Beal in them. He is very good in this episode! Russell does such a good job of reviews! He has covered the mechanics of the episode very well. The episode was predictable on some levels but there was enough mystery that I was not disappointed at the ending!
Chris, 2014-09-22 12:13:47
For Halloween listening for young schoolkids, "Time and Again" has little gore, but plenty of creepiness
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George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot usKanye West
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.John Dryden
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Much of junk culture has a core of crisis shoot-outs, conflagrations, bodies weltering in blood, naked embracers or rapist-stranglers. The sounds of junk culture are heard over a ground bass of extremism. Our entertainments swarm with specters of world crisis. Nothing moderate can have any claim to our attention.Saul Bellow
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In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: "For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana."Karen von Blixen-Finecke
They tryna shoot down my flight before it lands.Drake
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Theyd have me out and shoot me the first day they took charge. Anyone like me is intolerably subversive to an authoritarian rgime, because Im not interested in imposing my ideas by force on other people.John Kilian Houston Brunner
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Home > News > Publications > The Journal > 2012 > September > The Biggest Winner: Crozer-Keystone's Employees Lose to Gain
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For the second straight year, Wellness Works sponsored the "Biggest Winner" weight- loss challenge to help members lose unwanted extra pounds and focus on improving their overall health by using a supportive, group mentality to tackle the often difficult personal struggles of weight loss. Teams comprised of up to 10 co-workers or spouses again worked as a unit to reach goals, including the biggest decrease in the percentage of the group's collective body weight.
Wellness Works provided the information and strategy needed for participants to develop an eight-week weight-loss and fitness plan that effectively incorporated a healthy, low-calorie diet, increased activity time and heightened activity intensity that worked best for each participant's own unique needs. Additionally, Wellness Works gave participants ample incentives to push their limits as athletes, co-workers, and friends. Prizes were awarded to all members of the top two teams, as well as the overall top 10 participants who lost the most weight individually but were not on a winning team.
Over 370 Crozer-Keystone employees and spouses came together on 68 teams to participate in the year's eight-week competition, achieving an astounding overall loss of 2,500 pounds. Winning contestants received prizes such as American Express gift cheques as well as gift cards that can be used for lessons and services at the Healthplex Sports Club.
Each team was led by a team captain, giving employees who might usually take a back seat the opportunity to gain valuable experience as a group leader. Teams were encouraged to find a common source of inspiration and motivation to help them to achieve their weight-loss goals. Throughout "Biggest Winner," members received a weekly educational e-mail, were able to view a wide range of online educational seminars about healthy living, and were eligible to enroll in a complimentary eight-week trial membership to the Healthplex Sports Club.
This year's first place team, "Franklin Fillies #2," was comprised of employees from the CKHS Patient Services Center and led by team captain Dawn O'Neill. The team had a total weight loss of 12.7 percent of the team's overall body weight.
O'Neill says, "The Biggest Winner competition was a great opportunity for everyone to work as a team toward a healthier lifestyle. I think the e-mail tips from the Wellness Works program were a good source of information. Also, getting weighed every two weeks really helped motivate us to aim for our goal weights. We worked together as a unit to incorporate healthy foods and exercise into our everyday lives so that we could sustain a better lifestyle for a long time."
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"Our main goal was for every individual employee to reach his or her goal. Everyone on our team lost at least five pounds, showing how much pride we took in our overall goal of improving our general health," Holloway says. "Also, we shared recipes and traded ideas on how to get moving and have fun doing it. I attend Zumba classes and invited some of my co-workers to come along so that we could try new lifestyle changes together. What is most helpful about this program is the network of friends we had to encourage and keep us motivated at work. I am so grateful to my friends at work for nominating me as captain and making the job so easy – I could not have done it without them."
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Rebecca Lieb at ClickZ says that AdSense is acting like Gator because of AdSense showing up on merchant sites attempting to pull away customers from buying on that particular site. However, the example she gives doesn't make any sense. While shopping for cordless phone batteries, this was her experience:
The first result I click (a paid search advertiser), had obviously drunk the Google Kool-Aid, given AdSense ads occupied the bulk of his site's real estate. And what are those ads touting? Why, batteries, of course — the only product this particular merchant sells.
This did occur with the old Gator/Claria, except this was not controlled by the actual merchant. Spyware, toolbars and other sneaky ad platforms being installed caused the Gator ads to display. This is just an example of an idiotic merchant who doesn't know how to filter ads and who didn't think too much about why they were putting ads on their site in the first place. Conversion specialists would have a meltdown with this kind of thing. The only thing this type of site is trying to do is sell merchandise. Giving potential customers the option of going elsewhere to look is obviously not the best idea.
Maybe when AdSense starts popping up everywhere from having the Google Toolbar installed, then we can start talking about the Gator/Claria comparison.