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Jack Goldsmith
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Jack Goldsmith | |
Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel | |
In office October 2003 – July 2004 |
President | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Jay S. Bybee |
Succeeded by | Daniel Levin (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | September 1962 (age 52) Memphis, Tennessee[citation needed] |
Nationality | United States |
Alma mater | Washington & Lee University (B.A.) Oxford University (B.A., M.A.) Yale Law School (J.D.) |
Occupation | Lawyer, Professor |
Religion | Episcopalian |
Jack Landman Goldsmith (born September 26, 1962) is a Harvard Law School professor who has written extensively in the field of international law, civil procedure, cyber law, and national security law.[1] He has been "widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament."[2]
He was a law professor at the University of Chicago when in 2002, he joined the Bush administration as legal adviser to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense. In October 2003 he was appointed as an United States Assistant Attorney General, leading the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice under Attorney General John Ashcroft and Deputy Attorney General James Comey. He resigned in July 2004.[3] He wrote a book about his experiences there called The Terror Presidency (2007).[4]
Education and career[edit]
Goldsmith graduated from Washington & Lee University with a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 1984. He earned a second B.A. with first class honours, from Oxford University, in 1986, a J.D. from Yale Law School, in 1989, an M.A. from Oxford, in 1991, and a diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law in 1992. He clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1989 to 1990, and for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1990 to 1991.
He was a professor at the University of Virginia Law School before going to the University of Chicago Law School. He was working there in 2002 when he first joined the administration of President George W. Bush as a political appointee.
Bush administration[edit]
In August 2002, the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, had issued three documents, which became known as the Torture Memos or the Bybee memo (referring to one in particular.) The Bybee memo was directed to the Acting General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency in relation to interrogation of a detainee, Abu Zubaydah. It authorized certain enhanced interrogation techniques (later characterized as torture) for use with detained enemy combatants at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and other locations.
In addition, on March 14, 2003, John Yoo wrote a legal opinion at the request of the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, five days before the US invasion of Iraq, concluding that federal laws did not prohibit torture by interrogators of foreign subjects overseas. (This memo was not revealed until 2008.)[5]
Office of General Counsel, DOD[edit]
By September 2002, Jack Goldsmith had been hired to work as a legal adviser to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, William J. Haynes II, in the Bush administration.[2]
He accompanied Haynes late that month as one of a large party of senior government appointees who traveled to military detention facilities at Guantanamo, Norfolk, Virginia; and Charleston, South Carolina to see detainees (including two United States citizens) and the conditions for enemy combatants.[6] He had participated in discussions related to treatment.[6]
Office of Legal Counsel, DOJ[edit]
In October 2003, Goldsmith was appointed to head the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal guidance to the president and all executive branch agencies, including those tasked with the interrogation of enemy combatants. This gave him the base for influencing debates within the Bush administration regarding the conduct of the War on Terror.
In April and May 2004, the Abu Ghraib prisoner torture and abuse scandal broke, and in June, the Bybee Torture Memo was leaked. Goldsmith considered it to be "tendentious, overly broad and legally flawed."[2] He worked to have them changed. Including his challenges of White House staff on issues related to domestic surveillance and trials of terrorists, he was successful in moderating some of what he considered to be the previous "constitutional excesses" embraced by the White House.[2]
In June 2004, Goldsmith withdrew as legally defective the Bybee Memo and the Torture Memos, and advised DOD not to rely on the March 2003 memo. At the same time, he submitted his resignation. Several years later he said this was to try to force the administration to accept his withdrawal of the memo.[2] OLC legal opinions written in August 2002 related to the government's use of enhanced interrogation techniques, or torture, on individuals detained as enemy combatants. Newsweek reported that the CIA had regarded the Bybee memo as a "golden shield" against potential prosecution of officials involved in the program.[7]
But, Goldsmith was unable to have his office complete what he intended as the replacement legal opinions before he resigned on 30 June 2004.[8] He said later that he had felt he had lost the confidence of the administration. By December 2004, the replacement counsel at OLC had reaffirmed the previous legal opinions.
Goldsmith later said that one consequence of OLC's "power to interpret the law is the power to bestow on government officials what is effectively an advance pardon for actions taken at the edges of vague criminal statutes."[9]
Warrantless wiretapping memos[edit]
During Goldsmith's tenure at the Office of Legal council, he wrote at least two legal memos authorizing a program known as Stellar Wind; his memos said that the president has inherent constitutional power to monitor Americans' communications without a warrant in a time of war.
In March 2004, the OLC concluded the e-mail program was not legal, and then-Acting Attorney General James Comey refused to reauthorize it.[10] On May 6, 2004 Goldsmith wrote in a 108-page memo:
"We conclude only that when the nation has been thrust into an armed conflict by a foreign attack on the United States and the president determines in his role as commander in chief . . . that it is essential for defense against a further foreign attack to use the [wiretapping] capabilities of the [National Security Agency] within the United States, he has inherent constitutional authority" to order warrantless wiretapping — "an authority that Congress cannot curtail."
The Terror Presidency[edit]
In 2007, Goldsmith published The Terror Presidency, a memoir about his work in the Bush administration and his thoughts on the legal opinions that were promulgated by the Department of Justice in the war on terror. His discussion covers the definition of torture, the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to the war on terror and the Iraq War, the detention and trials of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, and wiretapping laws. He is largely sympathetic to the concerns of the Bush administration's terrorism policies. He believed that fear of another attack drove the administration to its focus on the hard power of prerogative, rather than the soft power of persuasion. In the end, he believed the fear and concentration on hard power were counterproductive, both in the war on terror and in the extension of effective executive authority.
He wrote that David Addington, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, at one point said, "We're one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious court," referring to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court that rules on warrants for secret wiretapping by the United States government.[2]
Goldsmith claimed to have resigned in 2004 largely because he felt he had lost the confidence of administration leaders. He notes that the White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales asked him to remain, while Addington, an influential White House figure, asked which other OLC opinions he intended to overturn. Goldsmith wrote in his book, "Nobody had said no to them before."[11]
To discuss his book, Goldsmith appeared on the Bill Moyers show on September 7, 2007. Moyers asked about the notable incident of his being in the hospital room of Attorney General John Ashcroft after he had been suddenly taken ill the day before. That day Ashcroft had ruled that Bush's domestic intelligence program, Stellar Wind, was illegal. It included provisions for warrantless wiretaps. Gonzales and Andrew Card, White House Chief of Staff, had come to try to persuade Ashcroft to change his mind and withdraw his memo. Goldsmith was there to support Ashcroft. Goldsmith said that, as Gonzales and Card left the room, Mrs. Ashcroft stuck out her tongue at them behind their backs.[12] President Bush re-authorized the program over the formal objections of the Department of Justice.
Soon after, on NOW on PBS, Goldsmith continued to discuss the issues of how the government could deal with enemy combatants. In response to a suggestion that the regular criminal court system could be used to try them, he said, "Another reason you might not want to use the trial system is that the trial system, to be legitimate, has to have the possibility of acquitting someone of a crime." He thought it would be difficult for the government to conduct military trials while withholding evidence on the basis of national security, as it had done in the military commissions and tribunals.[13]
The Special Program, a screenplay exploring Goldsmith's experiences in the White House's Office of Legal Counsel, was sold to The Weinstein Company on December 16, 2013. According to the Spec Scout database, as of November 21, 2014, this project was "no longer set up with the Weinstein Company."[14]
- Power and Constraint. W. W. Norton & Company. March 2012. ISBN 978-0-393-33533-0.
- The Terror Presidency. W. W. Norton & Company. June 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-06550-3.
- The Limits of International Law (with Eric Posner). Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-19-516839-9.
See also[edit]
- ^ Goldsmith faculty homepage
- ^ a b c d e f JEFFREY ROSEN, "Conscience of a Conservative", New York Times magazine, 9 September 2007, accessed 16 January 2013
- ^ "Introduction to Excerpts from 'The Terror Presidency'", Slate
- ^ "Palace Revolt", MSNBC
- ^ "A Top Pentagon Lawyer Faces a Senate Grilling On Torture", Newsweek, 5 April 2008, accessed 18 January 2013
- ^ a b Mayer, Jane, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, 2008. p. 199
- ^ Klaidman, Daniel (8 September 2007). "'The Law Required It'". Newsweek.
- ^ "Press Release", Department of Justice, 30 June 2004, retrieved 15 December 2010
- ^ [1], Salon, 18 May 2009, Retrieved 18 May 2009
- ^ a b Nakashima, Ellen (6 September 2014). "Legal memos released on Bush-era justification for warrantless wiretapping". Washington Post.
- ^ Goldsmith, Jack (2007). The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgement Inside the Bush Administration. New York City, New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 149; 165–66. ISBN 978-0-393-06550-3.
- ^ Interview: Jack Goldsmith, Bill Moyers, 7 September 2007
- ^ NOW: "After Guantanamo" ~19:00, NOW on PBS
- ^ The Special Program, Spec Scout
External links[edit]
- Jack Goldsmith, OPED: "Why the U.S. shouldn't try Julian Assange", Washington Post, 10 February 2011
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- Harvard Law School faculty
- United States Assistant Attorneys General
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Economic Efficiency of Public Interest Litigations (PIL): Lessons from IndiaFrancis Xavier RathinamICRIER A. V. RajaUniversity of Hyderabad - School of Economics July 1, 2008 Abstract: Past interest in the phenomena of Public interest litigation has concentrated on a legal justification of PIL and on arguments based on access to Justice for the poor. There seems to be scant literature that looks at PIL from a Law and Economics perspective. This paper sets up a framework to analyze the economic efficiency of public Interest Litigation in the Indian context. We argue that PIL can be justified as an economically efficient choice of redressel if certain conditions are fulfilled. These are, insufficient incentive for private litigation, regulatory failures and the inability of class action to counter harm due to high transaction costs. Thus PIL is seen as an efficient method of bundling interests wherever there are failures of the kind mentioned. We delineate the kinds of economic activity that generate these specific conditions and analyze if PIL has been successful in such cases. We show that PILs filed in India do seem to stem from considerations of Economic efficiency, but there are instances where PIL may be used strategically to pull off private ends and open up a floodgate of litigation. Number of Pages in PDF File: 22 Keywords: Public Interest Litigations, Litigation Process, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law JEL Classification: K32, K41 Date posted: July 26, 2005 ; Last revised: April 22, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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The San Francisco 49ers defeated the New England Patriots 41-34 on Sunday night.
Rain poured from the sky on a cold December night in Foxboro Massachusetts. The Patriots, winners of 7 straight controlled their own destiny in the hunt for a first round bye. However, with wins by both Denver and Houston...
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Rob Gronkowski, along with 17 other Patriots, is surprisingly listed as questionable for the Sunday Night game against the San Francisco 49ers.
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Rob Gronkowski, Aaron Hernandez and Brandon Lloyd Sit Out Practice as Dane Fletcher Clears Waivers
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The New England Patriots were missing significant offensive weapons for Tuesday's practice, as tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez and wide receiver Brandon Lloyd sat on the sidelines.
Gronkowski has a knee injury that does not appear serious, but has missed three practices. He worked out on the side with...
Brady to Lloyd Connection Shines Once Again in Day 4 of Training Camp
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Brandon Lloyd is the newest addition the New England Patriots offense, but with the way things have been progressing during the opening days of training camp, you would never know it.
Lloyd and quarterback Tom Brady connected for a 45-yard touchdown pass in day 4 of training camp, absolutely torching safety...
Highlights from Day 3 of Training Camp
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Rob Gronkowski was cut on the third day of training camp for the New England Patriots.
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The Patriots' famous tight end left practice after taking a...
Marcellus Wiley of ESPN Picks the Patriots to Return to the Super Bowl
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Marcellus Wiley made a name for himself as a member of the Buffalo Bills. The defensive end often lined up as a rival to the New England Patriots prior to their ascent to greatness under the tutelage of Bill Belichick.
The former Pro Bowler now pays his bills working for ESPN...
Tom Brady No. 4 on the NFL Network's Top 100 List
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New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady was named the fourth-best NFL player by the NFL Network in its top 100 list.
Brady, who is considered the third-best quarterback on the list, took the top spot just last year. The NFL Network named Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the...
Analysis: Projecting a World Without Wes Welker
June 3rd, 2012 at 11:13 PM
Misunderstanding of the Mayan calendar has some believing the world will end in 2012. Those better-versed in their understanding of ancient civilizations believe that 2012 represents a reset of the clock and an ushering in of a new era on this world.
This may be true for the New England Patriots,...
Chad Ochocinco Will Be Paid Less to Play in 2012
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***PHOTO1*** Wide receiver Chad Ochocinco's paychecks will be considerably lighter. That's the word from ESPN Boston, which reported on Sunday that documents filed with the National Football League indicate that his restructured contract reduces his salary in 2012 from $3 million to $925,000.
After a 2011 season that saw his performance...
New England Patriots Sign Free Agents Hoyer and Stallworth
March 23rd, 2012 at 11:09 PM
The New England Patriots announced today the signing of two more free agents, and both should be familiar to fans.
Quarterback Brian Hoyer, who has backed up No. 1 QB Tom Brady for the last three seasons, will do so again in the 2012-13 season. The Michigan State product has appeared...
Busy Day in Free Agency for the New England Patriots
March 19th, 2012 at 4:30 PM
***PHOTO1***The New England Patriots added more weapons for Tom Brady and the offense on Monday (March 19) with the veteran free agent signings of tight end Daniel Fells, wide receiver Donte' Stallworth, and offensive lineman Robert Gallery.
Sources reported that Fells, who played for the Denver Broncos last year and was...
Analysis: Log Jam at Receiver Creates as Many Questions as It Does Answers
March 18th, 2012 at 10:08 PM
The New England Patriots made a big splash when they signed wide receivers Brandon Lloyd and Anthony Gonzalez this weekend. The moves add both the dynamic Lloyd and potential-filled Gonzalez to a roster of receivers that already includes Wes Welker, Julian Edelman, Matthew Slater, and the heretofore disappointing Chad Ochocinco.
New England Patriots Sign WR Brandon Lloyd [UPDATED]
March 17th, 2012 at 9:20 PM
After much ado and speculation, the New England Patriots have signed wide receiver Brandon Lloyd.
Since trading Randy Moss a quarter of the way into the season in 2010, the Patriots have been looking for a deep threat, someone to stretch the field. They tried Chad Ochocinco this year, but he...
Brandon Lloyd Brings Baggage into Free Agent Market
March 12th, 2012 at 9:35 PM
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Dinar Temirbulatov wrote: > I noticed that mmap is not working properly under n32, o32 abis in > MIPS64, for example if we want to map 0xb6000000 address to the > userland under those abis we call mmap and because the last argument > in old_mmap is off_t and this type is 64-bits wide for MIPS64, we end > up having for example 0xffffffffb6000000 address value. I am sure that > this is not a glibc issue. Following patch adds 32-bit version of mmap > and also it adds mmap64 support for n32 abi since mmap64 was > implemented correctly for n32 too. Well, neither with the o32 nor with the n32 ABI are 0xb6000000 or 0xffffffffb6000000 (which is the n32's equivalent of the former) valid user addresses, so your concern is? Maciej |
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Mary Coin, by Marisa Silver.
"Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange Shown is a famous photo by photographer and photo-journalist Dorothea Lange (spelling is cq) which became a symbol of poverty and the Depression years in the 1930s. "Migrant Mother" (Nipomo, California, 1936). MUST CREDIT Dorothea Lange. ORG XMIT: MIN2013031109092416
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Review: "Mary Coin,' by Marisa Silver
- Article by: BRIGITTE FRASE
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There can't be many Americans over age 30 who haven't seen a reproduction of the Dorothea Lange photograph called "Migrant Mother." It was taken in 1936 at a California pea farm. Florence Owen Thompson, one of the pickers, 32 and the widowed mother of seven children, allowed Lange to take six pictures, the last one a close-up portrait of her face, two of her children nestled into her neck, facing away. A severely cropped version is used as the cover illustration of "Mary Coin," Marisa Silver's imagined version of Thompson's life. The photo captures a tension between desperation and stoic endurance that the novel unpacks. A nervous hand at her chin, a bony, careworn but still handsome woman looks out sideways, her brow furrowed, her mouth set.
The photo is both a cheat and a ghostly, now mysterious alter-image to an aged Mary, looking at herself in a gallery of Depression-era pictures. It's a cheat because the woman in the photograph will never have to contend with the harsh future in store for Mary. Moving from farm to farm, never sure of work, living in shacks or tents, trying to keep her malnourished brood going, she never has solid ground beneath her feet. She learns early that "living was … [a] trick played on fate for as long as you could until fate got the better of you."
Interwoven with Mary's chapters are the accounts of two other people, one of them, Vera Dare, based on Lange. Starting as a society photographer, she grows dissatisfied with the work and turns to the documentation of farm workers and their back-breaking, underpaid labor. They endure conditions close to slavery. They are free to leave, but that might mean only the freedom to starve.
Except for her visionary portrait of Mary, Vera's life is the stuff of middle-class worry. She bears two sons to a philandering husband, finds a decent second spouse and eventually dies of cancer. In what seems a kind of commentary on Mary's take on her picture, Vera thinks, "A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture was taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again." The remark is pompous where Mary's is plain.
The third protagonist is Walker Dodge, a historian who eschews the Big Picture to burrow in attics in search of how daily life proceeded for ordinary working people. He is the grandson of Charles Dodge, the owner of a large orange ranch during the Depression. Cleaning out the family mansion after his father's death, Walker comes across a ledger from 1936, which lists the names and earnings of pickers that season.
Among them is Mary Coin, who, he notes, earned much more than the others, though it is unlikely she could outpick a taller, sturdier able-bodied man. She is a mystery he resigns himself to not solving, after a frustrating non-conversation with her only surviving son.
Mary is, of course, the center and most interesting of the three characters. But we can't get close to her until the last chapter, where something of her stubbornness, composure and sly intelligence comes out.
The author wisely doesn't try to probe her personality and inner life, if she even had time for one, during her hardscrabble years.
Brigitte Frase is a book critic in Minneapolis.
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FF need to do another UK tour there were amazing when they supported Devin Townsend.....But Gojira and Ghost on Saturday even though Ghost are the Headlining act and Gojira have only 45 min stage time , but I think this song is needed to be played....
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I saw Gojira with TDTP and freaking loved them. They are insanely good live........
Gojira>>This Emptiness Had to play some since you mentioned them!!! I see FF every time they are local. Absolutely love them!!!
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Nostalgia seems to be a disease, sometimes, not simply a slow stroll down leafy lanes of the mind not trodden and rutted, potholed, and yes, uneven - maybe even unreliable - tracks of memory not explored for a while, a year, a decade (or two)......
So, tonight, it is time to revisit an album I loved when I used to listen to it (a lot) in the decade known to (but neither lived nor experienced by) the youngsters who reside here as 'the Eighties'. The album in question actually predates that. It is from (cough) the decade we all prefer (sometimes) to forget: The Seventies..... Anyway, ageless, immortal, and timeless.......I give you the group named Genesis and their mind-blowing album (as it was to me when I first heard it as a teenager in Paris a long time ago - trust what were then teenaged French friends to introduce me to a super British album), named 'Selling England By The Pound'......anyway, as I write this, the wonderful track 'The Cinema Show' is fed into my ears, to be followed by the terrific ]'Dancing With The Moonlight Knight', the superb 'The Firth of Fifth' and 'I Know What I Like'..... Last edited by Scepticalscribe; Mar 21, 2013 at 05:11 PM. |
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KOA Announces New Las Vegas Location
September 29, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · Leave a Comment
Boyd Gaming Corporation and Kampgrounds of America, Inc. (KOA) today (Sept. 29) announced a long-term agreement that will make Sam's Town Hotel & Gambling Hall the new home of the Las Vegas KOA.
Under terms of the lease agreement, KOA will assume operations of Sam's Town RV Park, one of the largest and most well-known RV parks in the Las Vegas Valley. Effective Wednesday, the park will be renamed the Las Vegas KOA at Sam's Town, and become KOA's exclusive home in Las Vegas.
"We are thrilled to welcome KOA to Sam's Town, and look forward to a successful and mutually beneficial partnership," said Steve Thompson, senior vice president of operations for Boyd Gaming's Nevada region. "KOA is a highly trusted, globally-recognized hospitality brand, hosting nearly one million households each year. By teaming up with KOA, we will significantly increase our national exposure, introducing millions of new customers from around the world to the Sam's Town brand."
The agreement returns KOA to Boulder Highway, where the company opened the first Las Vegas KOA in 1971. As one of the most popular destinations for RV enthusiasts in the country, Las Vegas has long been one of KOA's leading locations.
"KOA offers the best in outdoor hospitality, and we are interested in providing campers a premier place to stay in Las Vegas," said KOA President Pat Hittmeier. "Sam's Town is a beautiful facility with top-tier services run by a great group of people. The partnership is a winning combination."
With nearly 500 spaces across two parks, Las Vegas KOA at Sam's Town will offer both 30- and 50-amp full-hookup sites, spacious pull-through sites, and extended-stay opportunities. The park is fully landscaped, offering shade trees, grass and designated pet areas. Campground amenities include two pools with hot tubs, laundry and shower facilities, cable and Wi-Fi, and a communal barbecue area.
Opened in 1979, Sam's Town is one of the largest and most established gaming resorts on the Boulder Strip. In addition to a 133,000-square-foot casino, the property offers a wide array of unique amenities, including award-winning restaurants like Billy Bob's Steakhouse, Willy and Jose's Cantina and the Firelight Buffet; live entertainment nightly at Roxy's Lounge; an 18-screen movie theater; a 56-lane bowling center; Shepler's Western Store; and Mystic Falls Park, home of the Sunset Stampede Laser Light Show. The property also offers regular free shuttle service to the Las Vegas Strip and downtown Las Vegas.
Las Vegas KOA at Sam's Town officially opens at 5225 Boulder Highway on Oct. 1. To reserve a stay, or for more information, visit VegasKOA.com, or call (800) 562-7270. For more information on Sam's Town, visit www.samstownlv.com.
Camping Winding Down At Nev. KOA Site
September 23, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · Leave a Comment
Since MGM Resorts International decided to close the Kampgrounds of America (KOA) campground near Circus Circus and make it the City of Rock, campers have known their time was limited, television station KLAS reported.
MGM is making room for the Rock in Rio open-air venue; making it the end of an era for the 350-space campground that has sat north of Circus Circus for 35 years.
Guests staying at the campground say this KOA isn't your typical RV park.
"I like it very much because it's so close to the Strip and you can walk there. It's really great. I didn't expect it was possible to be so close," said Peter Ofner, visiting from Austria.
Beginning in May of 2015, all of that will change. The Rock in Rio USA festival is expected to host 300,000 people over two weekends in May.
Camper Becky Quigley, who is visiting from Nebraska, isn't sure where she will stay in the future.
The next closest RV park to the Strip is downtown.
KOA plans to make an announcement about the move of the campground soon, according to the campground's site on KOA.com.
For the full story, click here.
KOA Reports Increase In Labor Day Camping
September 3, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · Leave a Comment
Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA) saw gains over Labor Day Weekend compared to the same weekend in 2013, according to numbers provided by KOA.
Across the nearly 500 North American campgrounds in the KOA network, check-ins were up 1.9% from Wednesday through Sunday and total camper nights were up 6.2% compared to last year's Labor Day period, looking at same-campground comparisons.
KOA is still compiling numbers for the peak summer season, since KOA includes this week as part of that season.
Clarks Win RV In KOA, Keystone Contest
July 21, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · Leave a Comment
KOA Adds 14 Locations In 2014 (So Far)
July 17, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · Leave a Comment
Camper Jay Conner of Billings, Mont., was road weary as he and his wife made their way across Northern California's U.S. 395. They thought they had a ways to go to find their next campground. Then, they saw that familiar yellow Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA) sign, the company said in a written announcement about this year's growth.
"It was a great delight to find this new KOA!" Conner wrote KOA in a letter after their stay at the new Coleville/Walker, Calif., KOA. "We didn't see a listing in the KOA Directory for this park, so we turned around to look, expecting to just see an old, unused sign."
What they found instead was one of KOA's new additions behind a brand-new KOA yellow sign. The campground was formerly known as the Meadowcliff Campground. With 34 sites, it's far from being the largest KOA, but it's a beautiful jewel in California's Eastern Sierras Mountains.
The campground is so new to the KOA system that it just missed publication in the 2014 KOA Directory. But it's listed on KOA.com or via the KOA app (available for download free at the Apple Store or Google Play).
"We were impressed with the overall cleanliness of the park, and the modern facilities," Conner said in his letter. All sites include cable TV and free Wi-Fi, and there is an on-site restaurant. There are even private, family-style bathrooms and ATV trail access.
The Coleville/Walker KOA is just one of the 14 new locations KOA has added to its North American system so far in 2014.
And stay tuned, the company said: There are many more great new KOA locations to come.
Other new KOA Locations include:
• Pocatello, Idaho: This quiet campground is back in the KOA system under new management. It's surrounded by the mountains, and just 30 minutes away from world-famous Lava Hot Springs. Pocatello is the home of Idaho State University, and there is a Museum of Natural History on campus. At the KOA, you'll find extra-long pull through sites and super clean Cabins.
• Alamogordo/White Sands, N.M.: Just off US-54/70, you'll find this respite in the desert, with open, shady sites. Just down the road is the New Mexico Museum of Space History, detailing the state's role in the U.S. Space Program. If hiking is your thing, there are plenty of trails at the nearby White Sands National Monument, where the roads lead through the flour-white gypsum sands.
• Decatur/Wheeler Lake, Ala.: This campground sits on Wheeler Reservoir, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Water activities are the main thing at this KOA, with water skiing, canoeing, sailing, fishing and swimming at the top of the list that also includes photography, hiking, and birdwatching.
• Benbow, Calif.: Visitors to the lost coast of northern California will find this campground along the East Branch of the South Fork Eel River. There are new deluxe cabins where you can sit and admire the mountain views and majestic redwoods. The campground has a nine-hole golf course, putting green and driving cage. You can hike among the giant trees at the nearby Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Rockefeller Forest and Founders Grove.
• Uniontown, Pa.: This KOA, formerly the River's Edge Campground, is situated between the Youghiogheny River and the Great Allegheny Passage Bike Trail, so every campsite comes with a view of the trail or the river. You can fish for trout or rent a canoe, or set off on a bike ride of any length along the 150-mile trail. This KOA has themed weekends each summer, with live bands, bonfires and dance parties around the new pool.
• Starkville, Miss.: This new KOA, right on the shores of Oktibbeha County Lake, is just minutes from Mississippi State University. You can swim at the beach, enjoy the waterslides, or cast a fishing line. And its just a few miles to the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge and the famed Natchez Trace Parkway.
• Nashville, Tenn., North: This KOA is handy to all Music City attractions, just 13 miles north of the downtown Nashville loop. There's even a "Little Country Opry," with music and dinner every Thursday night all summer long. There are 100 sites here, on 8 1/2 acres.
• Hancock/Stevens Point, Wis., South KOA Journey: The newly built KOA in central Wisconsin has a pond, along with a large heated swimming pool. It's surrounded by vegetable and tree farms, and is near biking trails. It's just off I-39 in a wooded setting.
• Naples, Maine: This western Maine KOA is a full-service campground in the heart of the Sebago Lakes Region. There's a huge heated pool, and a kitchen open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Rent a canoe for the lake, check out the game room and settle around the campfire at the end of a busy day.
• Sanger/Denton, Texas, North: This is the newest KOA in Texas, nestled just off I-35. It can accommodate any size RV, with 90-foot pull throughs and Wi-Fi. There's a pavilion for outdoor cookouts, and an Austin stone fireplace to keep away the evening chill.
• Shreveport/Bossier City, La.: This award-winning campground is now back in the KOA system. You can sleep under the tall pines. Enjoy a variety of Louisiana foods at the many nearby restaurants, or try your luck at the casinos down the road. This KOA has two Kamp K9 dog parks, as well as new deluxe cabins.
• Fort McCoy/Lake Oklawaha, Fla.: This new Florida KOA is located on a bluff overlooking the 13,000-acre Lake Oklawaha Rodman Reservoir. It's also surrounded by the 400,000-acre Ocala National Forest. It has 3,700 feet of privately owned lake frontage.
• Nashville East/Lebanon, Tenn.: This is the newest KOA added to the system. It's in the countryside of middle Tennessee, only 20 minutes from Nashville. There are both open and shaded sites, a swimming pool, tent sites and a well-stocked camp store. It's a base camp for the Grand Ole Opry, the Hermitage and Cheekwood Botanical Gardens.
KOA Offers Details On 2014 Con/Expo
July 9, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · Leave a Comment
"What's Behind Your Yellow Sign" is the focus of this year's Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA) convention and exposition, a play on the KOA "What's Behind The Yellow Sign" marketing campaign.
The event moves to Charleston, S.C. for 2014 and will happen Nov. 12-15.
The theme, according to Jenny McCullough, director of training and events for KOA, is a focus on "really honing in on what makes each individual KOA unique to their campers." With nearly 500 sites across North America, there's a significant variety of KOA options out there.
Here's the schedule of events:
Wednesday, Nov. 12
Registration desk open
Kamp green event at the Mount Pleasant/Charleston KOA
Welcome reception at Boone Hall Plantation
Thursday, Nov. 13
Welcome to KOA general session
Educational workshops
Owners association area meetings
Friday, Nov. 14
President's and Founder's awards breakfast
Keynote – Waldo Waldman
Franchisee of the Year and Rising Star Luncheon
Jim Rogers' fireside chat
KOA expo opening reception
Saturday, Nov. 15
KOA expo
Final night celebration & KOA Care Camps auction
KOA CEO's "Undercover Boss" Airs Again
July 1, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · Leave a Comment
For more details on the show, click here.
KOA Reports Father's Day Reservations Up
June 13, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · Leave a Comment
More camping fathers – and their children – will be enjoying Kampgrounds of America (KOA) locations in North America this Father's Day Weekend, according the advanced reservations reported by KOA Inc. in a written announcement.
As of Monday, June 9, advanced reservations for the Father's Day Weekend (June 13-15) were running 5.6% ahead of the same period in 2013. A total of 22,150 reservations had been made, representing a total of 56,100 camping nights.
"We continue to see strong growth in camping in 2014," said KOA President Pat Hittmeier. "Our Big Weekend in May to benefit KOA Care Camps for children with cancer saw a 6.3% increase in camper nights, and the recent Memorial Day Weekend holiday saw an increase of 3.2% in reservations."
During the Father's Day Weekend, participating KOA campgrounds in North America will be offering free camping for children.
KOA's First Franchise Celebrating 50 Years
June 9, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · 1 Comment
The first campground to join the Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA) franchise system is celebrating 50 years.
The Cody/Yellowstone (Wyo.) KOA has a weekend of special activities planned June 13-15, according to a written announcement from the campground.
"Fifty years of camping memories have been made here at Cody KOA," said Jean Mickelson, general manager of the campground located on the eastern edge of Cody. "We want to be able to celebrate this accomplishment and all of our wonderful campers who have stayed with us over those last 50 years."
"Bringing families together is what camping is all about, and we are excited to celebrate both our anniversary and Father's Day," said Mickelson, who is in her 14th summer at the Cody KOA. She said in addition to special weekend activities at the campground, kids will stay free to mark the occasion.
KOA founder Dave Drum created his first campground on his property along the Yellowstone River south of Billings, Montana, in 1962 to meet needs of people traveling to the Seattle World's Fair. On June 18, 1964, Cody landed the first franchise of the company, which now has more than 485 campgrounds across North America. Ernest Goppert and M.C. Calkins were partners in the Cody franchise, one of a handful of campgrounds that struck deals with KOA in 1964.
"We're delighted to congratulate Cody KOA on its special anniversary," said Jim Rogers, CEO of KOA since 2000. "It has long been one of our most popular campgrounds, one that provides our campers with a wonderful gateway to the Yellowstone region."
The campground was awarded the 2014 KOA President's Award for receiving top scores in customer service surveys and KOA's Quality Review. It is one of 10 franchises owned by Recreational Adventures Co., a family-operated business headquartered in Hill City, S.D.
The birthday celebration starts early Friday, June 13, with a special pancake breakfast and winds down with a wine-tasting event featuring samples from Buffalo Jump Winery.
The festivities continue Saturday, June 14, with birthday pancakes served up by local Boy Scouts. Campers will be eligible for $50 giveaways and other prizes Saturday morning. A climbing wall will provide fun for kids, campers can sign up to tie dye special anniversary T-shirts and lessons in Dutch-oven cooking will be conducted, including in a special dessert. Birthday cake will be served at the evening ice cream social. Campers can also visit a photo booth that will provide fun pictures to memorialize their stay.
Sunday, June 15, is Father's Day, and the Cody KOA will again serve up birthday pancakes.
The campground is one hour from the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park and minutes away from the five museums of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the Cody Nite Rodeo and Buffalo Bill Dam Visitor Center. Fly fishing and whitewater rafting draw many travelers to the area.
KOA Cody offers more than 200 campsites, 20 cabins and five deluxe cabins. There is a heated swimming pool, hot tub and a wading pool with spray fountain. Campers can enjoy Wi-Fi, bike rentals, a horseshoe pit and basketball court, a giant checkers and chess set, jumping pillow, game room and many other activities.
KOA & Lazydays RV Plan First-Ever Joint Rally
June 2, 2014 by Woodall's Campground Management · Leave a Comment
Oktoberfest at Okeechobee KOA is the first time Kampgrounds of America (KOA) is putting on an RV rally, and they're doing it at the Florida site with the help of Lazydays RV and Fantasy RV Tours.
The rally will happen Oct. 17-20, and the organizers are billing it as an "historic event," one that's "part expo, part carnival and all fun," according to a written announcement from KOA and information from Fantasy RV Tours.
"This will be a great chance for campers to enjoy a true rally atmosphere while staying at one of our best KOA campgrounds," said KOA CEO Jim Rogers. "KOA camping is all about relationships and the fun of interacting with other campers. Rallies like 'Oktoberfest at Okeechobee' can be a showcase for great KOA camping."
John Lebbad, chief marketing officer for Lazydays RV, said, "Lazydays is proud to be partnering with KOA to present this incredible rally to our loyal customers."
There will be 360 RV sites dedicated to the rally, which includes catered pool parties, an Oktoberfest "biergarten," a golf tournament, a Lazydays show, seminars, cooking, a tennis clinic, photography and crafts workshops, a pet parade and other events, plus prizes.


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Revenge of the Renters
Christopher Gardner
Heller Way is Mr. Wong's neighborhood. That is, Allen Wong owns almost all of it. For years, his tenants have asked him to fix things up. Now they're suing for $1 million.
By Stephanie Mejia
ON RAINY NIGHTS, Jorge Rocha and his brother slept on a shared bed covered with plastic bags to protect themselves from the yellow drops of water that fell from cracks in the ceiling. Next to them, his mother and sister slept in another bed, also covered in plastic. Their east San Jose house dribbled on them like that for three years, leaving dingy yellow stains on the family's furniture and clothes.
"Our room leaked the worst," says Rocha, 22, whose grandmother, aunt and cousin slept in two other rooms. "I remember we had to put pots and pans on the floor. Inside the pots we would put rags so that you wouldn't hear the clink when the water hit."
Finally their landlord, Allen Wong, repaired the old and shabby roof. Then he raised the rent from $845 to $945.
"We'd be afraid to tell him about things that needed to be fixed because after he'd fix them he'd raise the rent," Rocha says.
Recently Rocha moved out of Wong's building to a house less than a mile away, thus ending his family's stay on Heller Way, a blighted, dead-end street near the intersection of Alum Rock Avenue and King Road.
There are 14 houses on Heller Way; all but two belong to Allen Wong. On Heller Way, houses stand shoulder to shoulder, crowding one another. Cars swamp the small court, parked bumper to bumper, devouring the sidewalk. In this mostly poor, Latino community, tenants wage war against taggers, painting over graffiti on their fences only to find them tagged again within less than a week. At night young kids and teenagers crowd the court so that driving through the street becomes hazardous. Rocha can recall a few times when returning home was impossible due to police blockades.
Six months ago, a group of Heller Way tenants began to have meetings at nearby San Antonio Elementary School, right next to the brand-new $32 million Mexican Cultural Heritage Gardens and Plaza. Frustrated with the condition of their houses, six of them decided the legal system might have a remedy for their neighborhood's condition. They found an attorney and sued Allen Wong and his son Gilbert Wong for $1 million, alleging numerous housing code violations and substandard living conditions in the duplexes.
"It's a slumlord operation where there is mold all over the place, the stoves have no ventilation, the wall heaters don't function, there are cockroaches, rats," says the Heller tenants' attorney, Robert David Baker. His complaint further alleges that Wong's properties suffer from "defective foundations, weakness of structural supports, lead paint, deterioration of flooring and walls causing leaking and mold, electrical violations, broken windows, unsafe doors and windows for security purposes, lack of insulation in the walls and ceiling, improper placement of gas devices, and various municipal and county code violations."
Ruben Velazquez, a Heller Way resident, says residents complained to the city's code enforcement department, but the problems were never sufficiently investigated. Often, he says, when city inspectors order repairs, the Wongs make temporary or cheap repairs to avoid the fines. Meanwhile, he says, the homes continue to deteriorate.
JUANITA BACA, code enforcement officer for the area, says Wong has received numerous notices of code violations, but he has avoided fines by completing repairs on time. Nevertheless, Baca understands why tenants are complaining.
"There was non-maintenance," she says, "but I've seen worse."
Allen and Gilbert Wong refused to comment on the lawsuit, but their lawyer, Nicolas Palumbo, calls the suit unfounded. "There is no evidence to support [the tenants'] position," he says. "The buildings were maintained on an ongoing basis."
What the Heller tenants' suit is really about, Palumbo says, is poverty and an inflated housing market that is not his client's problem.
"They are claiming that because they are low-income, my client shouldn't be able to charge the rent he is," Palumbo argues. "My client is providing a service at a contractual rate; if they don't like the service, they can leave."
The Velazquez family claims their home has never been repaired in 22 years. Sylvia Velazquez says her roof has leaked for 20 years. It wasn't until mid-1998 after the El Niño storms that Wong began repairing some of the defects in the Velazquez home, including a hole the size of a softball in the main bedroom floor.
According to Ruben Velazquez, 21, the hole had been there for about 10 years.
"We were covering it with furniture and a rug," he says.
In order to improve the look of the Velazquez house, Wong recently painted it. These improvements to their home were the first in many years, and tenants attribute it to the pressure of the lawsuit.
The lawsuit represents the frustrations of a neighborhood that has grown tired of blight and crime.
"I remember my grandma telling me the neighborhood was known as 'Sal Si Puedes' before we even moved in there," Rocha says. An expression used to describe the plight of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers, "Sal Si Puedes" (Get Out If You Can) represents a struggle of poor immigrants for justice.
When construction began on the recently completed Mexican Cultural Heritage Gardens and Plaza, Heller Way residents hoped it might be a sign the city planned to focus more attention on their corner of the city. Three nearby homes were knocked down to make way for the center's parking lot. The families living in them were relocated, which Heller Way tenants saw as quite good fortune.
Richard Rios, deputy director of the Redevelopment Agency, says there were 10 families living in the three homes and the condition of the houses was "terrible."
According to San Jose city attorney Joan Gallo, there are no other plans to further alter the struggling neighborhood, nor are there any plans for the city to get involved in the Heller Way suit, no matter that it's a block from a $32 million city investment. Just two miles south of Heller Way, the city of San Jose established a program it calls "Project Crackdown" that focused city code inspectors, police and other resources to eliminate blight in the area. Some Heller Way tenants are holding out hope that such a program could spruce up their neighborhood. Until then, the Heller Way tenants are fighting the Wongs on their own.
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