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Upgrading an Acre of Nothing
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We moved into an acre with no landscaping done at all. There were a few gravel pits with weeds coming out, but that was it. Our master plant included, adding a walkway, building a dock on our pond property, building a deck, play sets, burn pit and stone patio! (After the house gets resided!)
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Wednesday, 18Dec2013. On a very chilly clear night, while taking pics in lower Queen Anne, I lined up the full moon with the tip of the Christmas lights on top of the Space Needle.
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Rocky Mountain Research Station Publications
RMRS Online Publication
RMRS-P-27: Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness
values: Seventh World Wilderness Congress symposium; 2001 November
28; Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Watson, Alan; Sproull, Janet, comps. 2003. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Seventh World Wilderness Congress symposium; 2001 November 28; Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Proc. RMRS-P-27. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 272 p.
ISSN 1945-0672 (print)
ISSN 1945-0680 (online)The Seventh World Wilderness Congress met in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 2001. The symposium on science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values was one of several symposia held in conjunction with the Congress. The papers contained in this proceedings were presented at this symposium and cover seven topics: state-of-knowledge on protected areas issues in South Africa; traditional and ecological values of nature; wilderness systems and approaches to protection; protection of coastal/marine and river/lake wilderness; spiritual benefits, religious beliefs, and new stories; personal and societal values of wilderness; and the role of science, education, and collaborative planning in wilderness protection and restoration.
Keywords: biodiversity, protected areas, tourism, economics, recreation, wildlife, alien species, spiritual values
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PDF File Size: 225 K1. State-of-Knowledge on Protected Areas Issues in South Africa
Planning and Management of the Umfolozi Wilderness Area in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: A Model for Managing African Wilderness Areas
W. D. Densham, A. J. Conway
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N. Guy Palmer, Maretha E. Shroyer, Nigel Wessels
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William R. Bainbridge
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M. E. Shroyer, P. Blignaut
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W. D. Densham, R. J. Fincham
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Stefanie Freitag-Ronaldson, Ralf H. Kalwa, Jaco C. Badenhorst, Jan P. Erasmus, Freek J. Venter, Flip J. Nel
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Ralf H. Kalwa
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In Quest of African Wilderness
Malcolm Draper
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Linda Moon Stumpff
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T. Damu
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Sandra Hinchman
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Kelly Luck, Zweliyanyikima Vena
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Chad E. Dear
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Robert L. Arnberger
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An NGO's Contribution to Mountain Conservation in South Africa
A. Schoon, M. Shroyer, F. Hunziker
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Paul J. Mitchell-Banks
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Jeff Jarvis
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David M. Johns
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Perry Brown
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Rationalization of the Commercial Afforestation Program on the Western Shores of Lake St. Lucia for Nature and Wilderness Conservation, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
William R. Bainbridge
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John J. Daigle, Jamie Hannon, Cynthia Stacey
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Laani Uunila
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Penny S. Bernard
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Sally Wynn
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Preserving Paradise Through Religious Values of Nature: The Islamic Approach
Hafiz Nazeem Goolam
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Baylor Johnson
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David M. Johns
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Value of Wilderness Revisited
Lisi Krall, John Organ, Florence R. Shepard
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Peter B. Myles
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Laura M. Fredrickson
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Sophie Jakowska, Dyrce Lacombe
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Les Wadzinski
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Patrick T. Maher, Gary Steel, Alison McIntosh
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Ecological Research and Educational Programs to Support Protected Area Management: Lessons From the United States Experience
David N. Cole
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Stephen F. McCool
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Jan W. van Wagtendonk
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Crewenna Dymond, Steve Carver, Oliver Phillips
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Till M. Meyer
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Børge Dahle
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Nicholas King
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Teresa C. Magro
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Teresa Cristina Magro, José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves
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Charles Besancon, Wayne A. Freimund
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Title: RMRS-P-27:
Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values:
Seventh World Wilderness Congress symposium; 2001 November 28;
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Hello Cincy! Here's what's going on this morning.
Though you won't find a way to help shore up the building on the ballot in November, efforts to fund renovations of Music Hall may get a big boost soon. Advocates for the Cincinnati landmark have applied for $25 million through the Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program offered by the state once every two years. Music Hall is competing for the tax credits with The Huntington Building and May Co. Department Store building in Cleveland and the former Goodyear headquarter building in Akron. The award would be in addition to another $25 million in other tax credits and $40 million in private donations, all of which go along way toward the building's estimated $133 million renovation costs. The winner of the credits will be announced in December.
• Lots of questions have been popping up in City Council and elsewhere recently about the way the city makes development loans, even as past loans to some of the city's biggest developers continue to linger unpaid. Council members have expressed concerns that there isn't enough of a process for deciding who gets the loans and on what terms, leaving a patchwork of deals that are of questionable value for the city. The city has a number of old loans it has made to big developers still hanging around, including almost $9 million worth from between 1991 and 2001. Those loans were used on big, now completed projects in and around downtown. The terms are fairly generous, and many of the borrowers have yet to repay much if any of the principles on those loans.
• Err, so I went to school here for a few years. The Principal of Edgewood High School, which is up in Butler County between Hamilton and Middletown, has said he'll be getting his concealed carry permit so he can start packing a gun on the job. State law allows individual districts to decide if staff should be armed, but Edgewood, based in the rural/exurban town of Trenton, is the only district in the Greater Cincinnati area that has moved to allow it. Principal Russ Fussnecker said he may start carrying the weapon before the school year is out. He says it's a measure "to make the school safer" in case of a mass shooter. Other schools have taken milder safety measures. Kings High School in Mason has installed new barriers to keep someone from shooting their way through doors into the school. Lakota has added in-school police and training drills.
•Law enforcement officials from Memphis, Tenn., and Detroit are meeting with officials from Ohio in Cleveland this week to discuss rape kit backlogs at a first-of-its-kind summit around the issue. Untested kits, which may contain genetic information that can convict rapists, have piled up here and in other states. The untested kits have become a big issue in this year's race for attorney general, as challenger Democrat David Pepper hits Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine over Ohio's backlog.
• Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is getting more help from Democrats in her much-watched run against Kentucky Senator and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Many of the 16 female Democratic senators are rallying around Grimes with campaign plugs, strategy advice, money and other support. Powerful Senators like Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. and progressive firebrand Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. have all jumped on board, holding fundraisers, donating cash and giving shout outs to Grimes. Whether all that help will pay off remains to be seen. Various pundits and polls have recently declared Grimes dead in the water, while others say she's still neck and neck with McConnell.
• One of the big issues in the race is the state's dependence on coal. Both McConnell and Grimes have promised to keep coal-friendly policies alive in Kentucky, which is dominated by the industry. McConnell has tied Grimes to Obama, who many Kentuckians blame for the industry's decline. But how much does coal really matter to Kentucky? Turns out, there is as much myth flying around as fact.
• Throw off thy long-sleeved chains of corporate oppression, my barista sisters and brothers, and put on the short-sleeve shirt or necktie of freedom. But please not both at the same time, because that just looks terrible. Starbucks is lifting its ban on visible body art, as well as "colored ties and neck scarves and black denim." Really? You all couldn't wear black jeans? If CityBeat outlawed black denim, I would have to go buy like, five new pairs of pants.
All right. It's beautiful outside right now and I'm at a desk (as I imagine you are) with a load of election stories to write. I'm sure you've got your own stuff going on as well; let's do this news thing quick so we can all be a little closer to getting to the weekend.
Are you embarrassed for Ohio yet? No? Just wait. Everyone's favorite big-talkin' sheriff will be representing the Greater Cincinnati area to an audience of millions soon. Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones is filming a segment of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, where he will tangle with host Jon Stewart. Jones is well known for his antics and sometimes factually questionable assertions. He recently tried to bill Mexico for the amount it cost Butler County to jail undocumented immigrants he alleges came from that country. He also likes to equate immigrants with crime, drugs and disease which I explored briefly a while back. Now… he's going national.
"We're going to be filming a segment on illegal immigration and the upcoming elections," Jones told the Cincinnati Enquirer about the show, which he's filming this afternoon. Can't wait!
• Dena Cranley, wife of Mayor John Cranley, will join 14 area pastors' wives in an effort to extend health tests and information about diseases that predominantly affect low-income urban areas, the mayor's office said in a news release today. The services will be available at area churches with financial support from Walgreens. The program is part of a national push called First Ladies Health Initiative that has already been launched in Los Angeles and Chicago. The initiative provides free screening for diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, and more.
• 3CDC will buy three buildings with 80 units of low-income housing in Over-the-Rhine on the 200 block of West 12th Street across from the Drop Inn Center and at 1301 Walnut Street. The developer says the buildings are "problem" properties, with high amounts of police calls, and that residents there want out. 3CDC says it's helping those living in the 64 occupied units find other places to live. The developer doesn't know what it will do with the buildings yet, but says the building on Walnut may become an expansion of nearby Mercer Commons project and could end up as mixed-income housing,. Helping low-income people find more enjoyable, safer surroundings sounds great, but a couple questions spring to mind. Will the low-income units be replaced one-for-one? What do residents have to say, and will they be relocated to nearby housing in OTR? None have been quoted so far about the buildings' problems, and it's unclear where they will be moved to. You can peruse crime stats yourself to see the propensity of police calls to the buildings, how many people arrested lived in the buildings and so forth.
• There's a reason you shouldn't get relationship-related tattoos, and I think it's kind of the same with building names. Chiquita Brands International peaced out on Cincinnati in 2011, first moving to North Carolina and now training its wondering eyes toward Ireland. Until recently, we still had a big, prominent building, the Chiquita Center, bearing the company's name. It kind of made us look like we weren't ready to move on from the relationship. No more. We're finally letting go. The center will be rebranded as 250 East Fifth, a simple, bold declaration that the building doesn't need to define itself by its bygone relationship with some flashy, globe-trotting company with tons of banana money.
• Finally, I think I found my Halloween costume. This guy was dressed in the creepiest possible way when he drunkenly entered someone's house and passed out on their couch, only to be discovered by children. Undead Santa couch surfer for the win.
It's probably safe to call 80,000 tons of rotting meat and vegetables a big mess. In fact, I don't want to live in a world where such a thing doesn't qualify for "big mess" status. The deeper issue is what can be learned from such a mess and who will be held responsible.
Council voted Oct. 15 to spend $300,000 to clean up Compost Cincy, a former composting company created in Winton Hills in 2012 with the help of the city's Office of Environment and Sustainability (OES).
Neighbors of the site have complained for the past year of unbearable odors. The company closed its doors in October 2013, but the smell remained. Now, the city is left with the bill for cleaning it up.
Composting takes food waste, and by rotating it and controlling its decomposition, converts it into soil. San Francisco was the first city to institute a municipal program when it started collecting compostable waste in 1996. Today, the city collects more than 600 tons of waste a day for composting. A number of other cities, including Portland, Ore., Seattle, Boulder, Colo., and other generally progressive places also have programs. If composting isn't done correctly, though, allowing for the correct mixture of air to reach the refuse, you just end up with a progressively worse smell.
That seems to be what happened with Compost Cincy. Since 2012, the company accumulated 45 code violations from the city and two EPA citations. The city refused to renew its lease last year due to complaints about odor. One factor at play may have been the fact the company was doing outdoor composting. Many compost facilities are located indoors as a way to mitigate odor creation.
The OES will cover $220,000 of the cost of clean up with its budget, with another $80,000 coming from city contingency account. Mayor John Cranley pinned a good deal of the blame for the project's failure on the city office.
"The origin of this entire organization is to combat odor," Cranley said during an Oct. 15 City Council meeting. "So it's pretty embarrassing that it was this office that came up with this compost mess in the first place. It's a nightmare for the people who have had to go through this for a year."
Council voted 9-0 to fund the clean up effort. But Cranley's remarks created a good deal of controversy around the role of the organization and the city's efforts to establish sustainability programs.
The official mission of the office goes beyond odor control. The OES is charged with leading sustainability efforts in the city. That includes redeveloping brownfield sites around the city, helping run Cincinnati's recycling program and protecting the city's air quality. Council members P.G. Sittenfeld, Yvette Simpson and Chris Seelbach all chimed in to support the office.
"I want to stick up for the Office of Environment because I don't think it's their fault, or that they were in any way trying to emit odors on purpose in our city," Seelbach said at the meeting. "Composting is something that there is a large demand for. The business, Compost Cincy, was actually doing really well because lots of people wanted to bring their compost there and buy the soil that it produces."
Seelbach said zoning was the big issue, something the OES doesn't control. Simpson said that the Office of Trade and Development, not the OES, selected the site. She said the office needs more support.
"We need more resources to the offices of sustainability to so we can get at least 10 years behind," Simpson said, noting that Cincinnati is falling short of sustainability efforts made in other, comparable cities. She acknowledged that Compost Cincy was "poorly executed" but said that wasn't the fault of OES.
She praised the city's recycling program and said the city should support more sustainability efforts, not mock failures. She pointed out that council and the mayor have been willing to support other endeavors that don't guarantee success.
"We're going to continue to have conversations about whether the city should support small businesses, and we just invested $5 million in Cintrifuse, which runs start ups," she said. "Some may work, some may not, some stay in the city and some may leave, but there's no question we should spend money on that."
Cranley also faulted other OES initiatives, including the city's infamously unpopular one garbage can policy.
"This came out of the same organization that said we should have meatless Monday and all kinds of bad ideas," he said. "It seems like we should not be funding organizations who then end up creating multi-hundred-thousand-dollar cleanups."
Councilman Kevin Flynn also had pointed questions about the project, but from a different angle.
"If this was a good business, then why is the city having to pay $300,000 to clean up this mess?" he asked. "We need to be able to go after the money that resulted from these people paying for dropping off their waste and the money from the people who were buying the dirt created by that waste. Under our current policy, we don't have that ability to do it."
Flynn said the structure of the business and the city's agreement with it mean that owner Grant Gibson may not be liable for cleanup costs. Gibson told The Cincinnati Enquirer he had sunk about $500,000 into the business.
Meanwhile, Compost Cincy's website is still live, though it states that the company is shuttered. In a somewhat passive aggressive farewell message, the owners also put some blame on the zoning process for the company's problems, though they say, in the end, location doesn't matter as much as the attitudes of a composting project's neighbors. The site's farewell missive seems to claim it was sunk by unfounded fears about composting.
"If our society doesn't move faster towards actually being green and not talking about it, our planet will be 100 percent wrecked of natural resources in the very near future," the site says. "With that said, make the changes necessary to your life."
Good morning Cincy! I'm a little groggy today after last night's Iron Fork event, which was awesome. If you were at the Moerlein Taproom for the chef showdown and restaurant sampling festivities, you probably saw me with the group that pretty much monopolized the giant Jenga set all night. Sorry 'bout that. Anyway, on with the news.
One of the Greenpeace activists on trial for hanging an anti-palm oil banner from P&G headquarters has died, the Associated Press reports. Tyler David Wilkerson, 27, died Oct. 6, according to an obituary in the Fresno Bee newspaper. No cause of death or other details have been released. Wilkerson was one of eight activists facing felony burglary and vandalism charges in connection with the March protest. A ninth activist took a plea bargain.
• Yesterday's City Council meeting was action packed. Well, maybe not action packed, but interesting and eventful. OK, OK, just eventful, and with more bickering than usual for some reason. Members of council got their feathers all ruffled by the fact that the media knew about Cincinnati's $18 million budget surplus before they did, perhaps marking the end of new City Manager Harry Black's honeymoon with the city's most illustrious deliberative body. Council members found it a bit off-putting that plans were already being made for that money before they even knew it existed. Black promised to make sure every council member is tipped off the next time the city finds unexpected change in the couch cushions.
But look at me over here gossiping. Substantive stuff happened as well.
• The city will pay $300,000 to help clean up a failed compost facility in Winton Hills affectionately nick-named "Big Stanky." OK, no one but me calls it that. But it does smell very bad, and that's caused a great deal of controversy. The company, Cincy Compost, went bust earlier this year, but left something like 80,000 tons of rotting meat and other food scraps behind. The city is chipping in on the cleanup because it has to be done, but Mayor Cranley and a few council members weren't happy about it. Cranley used the issue as an opportunity to jab at the city's Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability, which he blamed for the mess. Other council members, including Chris Seelbach, jumped to defend the office, to which Cranley replied that the office's "Meatfree Monday" initiative was dumb. Seemed like a bit of a low blow, since Seelbach is a vegetarian, but that's neither here nor there.
• Council also voted to apply for nine HUD grants worth more than $6 million for the city's Continuum of Care program. The money would be used to provide rental assistance for homeless, low-income people with disabilities. Council also approved a $500,000 loan to Walnut Court Limited Partnership, a Walnut Hills developer. The developer will be rehabbing 30 units in the neighborhood to provide housing for very low income individuals. This deal was a bit more controversial, as Councilman Kevin Flynn questioned how the property, which was overseen by HUD, came to need such extensive renovations and why the city should have to pay for them.
• Moving on to market rate developments, there are some new plans for the former site of the historic house that held Christy's/Lenhardt's restaurant and bar in Clifton Heights. The house was demolished last year to make way for an apartment building in the university neighborhood. Gilbane Development Co., which was part of initial plans to put a larger development at the site, has come back with some revised, scaled-down ideas. The building was originally going to be eight stories tall with 245 units of housing. It will now be only six stories with 190 units, as well as some commercial space. The project will be part of a larger development effort for the block that should happen sometime in 2015.
• A little old, but worth noting: The Hamilton County Public Defenders Office has written a letter to Mayor John Cranley
about Cincinnati Prosecutor Charlie Rubenstein, saying he took
inappropriate actions last month by getting a judge to sign a warrant
that would have allowed him to search the entire public defender's
office over a single robbery case. That just doesn't happen to private
law firms, the defender's office says, and shouldn't be allowed. The
mayor and the city manager have said they want to work with the public
defender's office to make sure evidence is gathered in the least
invasive way possible in the future.
• LeBron James was in Cincinnati yesterday for a Cavs preseason game at
Xavier University against the Indiana Pacers, and he said he liked the
city, calling it "a great sports town." Despite being arguably the
state's biggest name in sports, James had never played in Cincinnati
before. He scored 26 points in the game.
• Let's take a quick jog south and revisit the Kentucky Senate race, shall we? Recent articles have prognosticated that time is almost up for Democrat Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his seat. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the party's national arm in the race, stopped spending money on ads in the state this week, leading reporters to say the party is pulling out of the race and that Grimes is ready for the fork, cause she's done. That appears to have been a premature judgment, however. Potential Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigned for Grimes yesterday in Louisville, urging voters in the Bluegrass State to "put another crack in the glass ceiling" by putting Grimes into office. It also turns out that the DSCC is still running polls in Kentucky and may jump back into the race with more ads before all is said and done. Grimes' campaign also has about $4 million in that cash money in the bank, so don't count her out just yet.
Much has been made of Grimes' refusal to say who she voted for in the last two presidential elections, and some pundits, including conservative commentator Rich Lowry, have said it has sunk Grimes' chances in the race. Lowry wrote a deeply dumb rant ostensibly about that subject (though it quickly jumps the rails and becomes yet another boring anti-Obama diatribe about four paragraphs in). Clearly Democrats are still hoping Grimes has a chance, though.
So much stuff has happened in the last 24 hours. I'm just going to hit you with all of it without my usual witty introduction.
A jury found Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter guilty on one felony count yesterday. The jury says Hunter broke the law by gaining access to confidential files relating to the firing of her brother, an employee of the juvenile court, and passing them on to him. The jury could not reach a decision on eight other felony charges against Hunter, for which she may or may not be retried. The conviction carries a penalty of up to a year and a half in prison. Hunter will be sentenced in December. It's also very likely the state Supreme Court will take disciplinary action, which may include disbarring her. Hunter has been on suspension with pay as the trial took place and will now be suspended without pay until she is removed from the bench officially.
• Sometimes you put on that pair of jeans you haven't worn in a long time and find some cash you forgot about wadded up in one of the pockets. I love those days. Cincinnati just found $18 million in its pants somewhere, and now the city is debating how to spend it. The cash is a budget surplus from better-than-expected tax revenues and cost-cutting. City Manager Harry Black has some ideas on how to use that money, including kicking more than $4 million to a fund for winter weather response, using another $4 million to pay back neighborhood development funds the city borrowed, holding $3 million in reserve for possible future police and fire expenses, $275,000 to make sure the city hires more businesses owned by women and minorities, $400,000 for a new city government performance analysis office and other ideas. I always just spend extra money I find on pizza, but that's probably among the reasons why I don't run the city. But seriously, $18 million is enough to buy each resident of the city $60.50 worth of pizza, maybe combined into one enormous Adriatico's MegaBearcat the size of Mt. Airy Forest. Think about it, Mr. Black.
• You'll note that using any of the surplus to fund streetcar operating costs is not on that list, presumably because Mayor John Cranley has drawn a hard line in the sand about using city money for its projected $4 million annual shortfall. But others are more open to using money from the city's coffers to plug that gap, including Vice Mayor David Mann, who suggested at yesterday's City Council Transportation Committee meeting that while not ideal, he hasn't written off the idea. That's significant because Cranley's suggestion to draw down operating hours to close the funding gap would have to be approved by City Council. Other options include raising funds through a parking plan, special improvement or other means. Council seems split on whether it would vote for a reduction in service hours
• Mayor Cranley thinks there are "too many" transitional living houses for those recovering from addiction in the city, but Price Hill-based New Foundations Transitional Living can stay in the neighborhood, according to a settlement it reached with the city recently. The six homes for men and women recovering from addiction to drugs and alcohol have been the focus of controversy in recent months. Neighbors complained earlier this year about the houses, saying the neighborhood wasn't zoned for them. Price Hill is zoned for single occupancy, not the so-called "congregant occupancy" needed to normally run group homes. The city investigated removing the homes from the neighborhood. But under the Fair Housing Act, transitional homes such as New Foundations are allowed in single occupancy neighborhoods. Under a compromise, the for-profit group will reduce the occupancy of the houses and promise not to expand in the neighborhood.
• Another building along Central Parkway in Over-the-Rhine is being rehabbed, and this one's really cool news. The Central Parkway YMCA is getting a $27 million renovation that will include the creation of affordable housing. The update will modernize and augment the building's fitness equipment, adding new weight rooms and group fitness areas, a cycling studio and put affordable housing for seniors on the top floors. I love the building and have recently pondered getting a membership because they're one of the few fitness places in town with an actual track for running. I should probably wait a little bit on that, though, because the building will be closing in December for renovations. It's expected to open back up in early 2016.
• If you're not tired of the tea party vs. conservative establishment narrative that has dominated the political news cycle the past, oh, seems like forever now, here's another one for you. Some prominent local tea party activists are bummed because they weren't allowed into a Monday rally for Gov. John Kasich in Butler County. The group, including Cincinnati Tea Party President Ann Becker, was outside the rally protesting Common Core, the educational initiative that looks to standardize performance measures for U.S. students. They say they were denied admission because they were wearing anti-Common Core T-shirts. Officials with the Kasich campaign say it had nothing to do with their shirts and everything to do with the fact they were being disruptive to the event. I honestly don't know who to root for here so I'm just going to move along on this.
• While we're on the "suburbs are cray" tip, let's talk about this story for just a sec. State Rep. Ron Maag is throwing a fundraiser he's calling a "Machine Gun Social" in Lebanon Oct. 25. By throwing Maag a little cash for his re-election campaign, you get to fire machine guns in a nature preserve. Just like when you were in high school and your cool gun rights friend would invite you out to the rock quarry to shoot at bottles and cans! But don't worry — you have to be at least a teenager to fire the guns, they'll be permanently pointed downrange and there will be instructors present to, like, instruct you on the best way to neutralize a threatening soda can with a hail of semi-automatic rifle fire. Maag's Democratic opponent is of course pitching a fit, but has chosen, oddly, only to take issue with his use of the word "social."
• Whoa, this is already too long, but I need to get at least one national story in here. Another medical worker in Texas has tested positive for Ebola. That worker apparently flew from Cleveland to Dallas the day before she started having symptoms. I usually try to end this stuff on a positive, non-terrifying note, but today I failed.
So, I skipped writing the morning news yesterday to hang out at City Council half the day. I know, you're jealous. Let's catch up.
The city should declare Mahogany's, the former restaurant at The Banks, in default on its $300,000 loan, Councilman Kevin Flynn said during the Budget and Finance Committee meeting yesterday. After coming to The Banks two years ago, restaurant owner Liz Rogers fell behind on rent, loan payments and state sales taxes, eventually shuttering Mahogany's last month. Rogers has tried to convince the city to reduce the amount she owes, and even threatened to sue, but the terms of her loan mean she may be on the hook for more than just the $300,000. The city could initiate foreclosure proceedings on her other restaurant in Butler County, which she offered up as collateral. Rogers may also be asked to pay back a nearly $700,000 grant the city gave her. Rogers still owes more than $265,000 on the loan and is $40,000 behind on her payments. Flynn is asking for all relevant financial records from the restaurant so the city can determine what assets still remain that the city could claim to recoup part of its investment.
• Meanwhile, in the Law and Public Safety Committee meeting earlier yesterday, councilmembers wrestled with Councilman Charlie Winburn's marijuana expungement ordinance. Winburn's proposal looks to give those convicted under a 2006 city law that criminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana a chance to expunge those convictions from their criminal records. In Ohio, possession of less than 100 grams of marijuana is a minor misdemeanor that does not show up on a person's criminal record, though the ordinance changed that to a fourth-degree misdemeanor, which does. The ordinance itself was repealed by council in 2011, but many who were convicted still have trouble getting jobs or educational loans due to the blemish on their records. The committee wrestled with some detailed legal questions about the ordinance, including the tricky nature of issuing an ordinance that seeks to work retroactively. Though the ordinance has yet to pass out of committee, Winburn said he hoped it would be ready for a full council vote in two weeks.
• A new budget proposal by Hamilton County Administrator Christian Sigman looks to fundamentally shift the way the county pays for the services it provides. It will do so in a way that could very well shift more of the burden onto the backs of low and middle-income people, however, as sales taxes increase and property taxes go down. You can read more about that here.
• Dr. Deana Marchbein, the president of Doctors Without Borders USA and expert on Ebola, spoke last night at the downtown library. Marchbein talked about the risk the virus represents, as well as other world health issues worth concern. Marchbein has said she isn't super worried about Ebola in the United States since it is less contagious than many other diseases and because the U.S. has better access to modern medical isolation of patients than West Africa, where the disease has run rampant. Marchbein did express serious concern about that, noting that the spread of the disease there has grown out of control. Her talk is well timed; last week in Dallas, a man from Liberia died from the disease, the first fatality in the U.S., and a second case, the first time Ebola has been transmitted here, was discovered. That person, a nurse who treated the deceased man in Dallas, is now isolated and receiving treatment for the virus.
• Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes faced off in their first and only debate last night. McConnell is the Senate minority leader and has held the Kentucky Senate seat for 30 years. Grimes is the Kentucky Secretary of State. The two went at each other last night, trading barbs on a number of issues while not really revealing anything new about their policy proposals. McConnell battered Grimes by tying her to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and basically any other Democrat he could think of, including the Clintons. Grimes bashed McConnell over his cozy relationships with big money donors, including the infamous Koch Brothers, who have poured millions into a large number of races for candidates supporting their vision of a libertarian utopia where companies have little oversight from the government.
The race has been a titanic battle so far. Grimes has been running very close behind McConnell, who usually coasts to victory. At least one recent major poll has put Grimes ahead by a couple points, though other polls have her trailing by the same margin.
• Finally, if you're like me, you're still trying to figure out what to wear to Halloween parties. Yes, I'm kind of a grownup, sort of, but my friends still have costume parties so I'm still required to figure out what to be every year. My fallback—a cowboy—is getting pretty old, so I've been perusing costume ideas. But I don't think any of these are going to work. I can't decide if the zombie hotdog costume is the worst thing ever, or the hashtag costume. No, wait, definitely the hashtag. Warning: a few of these are mildly NSFW.
A budget proposal by Hamilton County Administrator Christian Sigman unveiled Oct. 13 called for a .25 percent increase in sales taxes and a decrease in property taxes for the county. The decrease would amount to $38 for every $100,000 worth of property, meaning homeowners would generally see a wash or net savings on the deal while low-income and middle class residents pay more in taxes.
Sigman says the budget represents a big
change in the way the county funds itself. The benefit of relying more
on sales tax, he says, is that it raises much more money from those who
live outside the county but buy things here. The budget proposal would
provide $210 million in 2015. That's short of the $222 million needed by
county departments, but a big jump from the $200 million available
under the current budget.
Democratic County Commissioner Todd Portune said the proposal was "bound to be controversial," since sales taxes place a higher burden on the poor.
Unlike income or property taxes, everyone pays the same sales tax rates regardless of income or assets. But lower income residents generally spend more of their money on necessities, including those subject to sales tax, meaning they end up paying a larger portion of their income in sales taxes. The bottom fifth of workers in Ohio, those making less than $17,000 a year, pay 7 percent of their income in sales taxes under the state's current tax structure. Meanwhile, top earners, those making more than $138,000, pay as little as 1 percent in sales tax. And Ohio's tax structure has gotten more regressive over the years due to cuts in the state's income tax.
At 6.75 percent, Hamilton County's sales tax is about average for the state. Even if the .25 percent increase were to pass on the ballot in November, it would still be lower than other major cities in Ohio. Franklin County, where Columbus is located, has a 7.5 percent sales tax, and in Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is, it's 8 percent.
The sales tax increase was first proposed last summer as part of a plan to renovate Music Hall and Union Terminal. Republican County Commissioners Greg Hartmann and Chris Monzel voted to strip Music Hall out of that plan, but the tax hike will be on the November ballot for Union Terminal. That hike could also be used to provide for a number of other county needs, including a proposed move for the county Board of Elections office from downtown to Mount Airy.
Commissioners have not said whether they support the budget proposal.
Oh wow it's Friday, I saw pretty much the best show I've seen in months last night when Mirah played MOTR Pub and I just had a pretty great donut and tons of iced coffee. But this isn't a baked goods or early 2000s music blog (I wish), so let's get to the news.
Attorneys for the Greenpeace activists arrested for hanging a banner from P&G's headquarters in March lost a legal tussle yesterday as a judge ruled jurors wouldn't be able to take a tour of the crime scene. The defense alleges the activists didn't damage windows when hanging the banner, and that other windows on other floors have similar damage that pre-existed the protest. The felony charges against the activists hinge on that damage. P&G says the company has made so many changes since the incident, including new security measures, that a tour of the building would only confuse jurors. The judge in the case sided with the company, because nothing is more confusing to jurors comparing windows than some extra security guards milling about. Eight of the nine protesters face felony burglary charges that could land them in prison for more than nine years. A ninth protester made a plea bargain over the summer.
• Imagine this: guidelines from a federal agency are vague and clouded, and local factions on both sides of an argument are using that ambiguity to make political points. Shocker, right? The streetcar funding imbroglio is a white elephant gift that just keeps getting passed back and forth between the mayor, transit advocates and news organizations. First, the mayor said the city may cut streetcar service if the project's $4 million annual operational funding gap isn't filled. Advocates for the project objected, saying that the federal grants used to build the streetcar prohibit the city from doing so. Then a Cincinnati Enquirer story last month said the hours would be up to the city, with the Federal Transportation Administration staying out of the mix. But it also suggested that the city couldn't run it only for special events, as Mayor Cranley suggested on 700 WLW in what he later called an "extreme hypothetical."
Hm. So, uh, can we just get some numbers up in this? Like, just how many hours a week does the city have to run the streetcar? In its various grant applications to the FTA, the city has promised to run the streetcar 16-18 hours a day, 365 days a year. Is the city tied to that number? The FTA's response to the controversy doesn't totally clear this up.
"We expect Cincinnati to provide the nature and quality of service that
it proposed in both the TIGER and Urban Circulator grant applications,
which were a consideration in the selection of the applications for the
award of grant funding," the agency said in a statement responding to recent questions from the Cincinnati Business Courier. Well, huh.
• The clock is still ticking on an effort to establish a co-op grocery store at the site of the former Keller's IGA in Clifton, but the game is now in overtime. Officials with the group Clifton Cooperative Market announced they've signed an extension on a contract to purchase the building on Ludlow Avenue near Clifton Avenue, and now have 90 more days to do so. The group is trying to raise $1.65 million to buy the building by selling shares to community members. So far, they've got more than 800 co-op members and $600,000 banked for the project. The market will be an "uptrend" grocery, which I think means $3 bottled sodas, a lot of quinoa and kale as far as the eye can see. I'm not hating. I like all those things.
• Here's an interesting story about the way the city of Cincinnati collects property taxes, and how small-government conservatives passed laws back in the late 90s limiting the amount the city can collect to a specific dollar figure. The results have been a mixed bag at best.
• Cincinnati is one of the worst places in the country for irrelevant political ads, a new study has found. I mean, given the level of non-representation we're getting out of our federal, state and local politicians and the appalling lack of options we have for most races, I'd say pretty much anything these jokers slap on a billboard is more or less irrelevant. But alas, the study says our ranking is because our market is split between Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana and because candidates in one state often have to buy ads for the whole region.
• The accepted wisdom on millennials is that we're all entitled Bard College grads working on our Tumblr poetry blogs and being snotty to baby boomers from our perch as lowly Starbucks baristas while we work to save up money to move to Bushwick. We really haven't helped ourselves in this regard, as we're pretty much a generation obsessed with branding ourselves as such. But hey! Did you know that two-thirds of millennials don't have a bachelor's degree? Did you know that many grew up facing deep poverty and lack of educational opportunity? This NPR piece gives a little more attention to young folks who you probably won't see on an episode of Girls anytime soon. It's a good read.
• Finally, I can't decide if this fake John Matarese Twitter account is trolling us or not. Or if it's even really fake. John, is that you?
Theoretically, there is no better real estate for a political candidate than the inside of a polling place, where a candidate's name can be freshly stamped onto voters' minds as they enter the voting booth. Currently, though, only one politician in Ohio gets access to this potential last-minute plug: Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted.
He says recent voter information signs prominently featuring his name are standard issue for secretary of state. But Democrats say he's taking unfair advantage of his position.
There are laws against campaigning in polling places, and bumper stickers, buttons or other campaign swag are frowned upon in our temples of democracy the way movie theaters hate it when you try to sneak in some Twizzlers or a bunch of McChicken sandwiches in your pants. (I tried this once and the theater wasn't too happy. I think you can sneak snacks into the polling places, though.)
So big signs with your name on them are a no-go, unless you're the current secretary of state, charged with overseeing elections. Then you're required to draw up informational posters with instructions on how voters can update their voter registration and make sure they're at the right polling place. These posters can be posted at voting locations. You can also put your name on those things. Real big, if you want to.
Husted definitely wanted to, and did, emblazoning his name and signature on 2-foot by 3-foot posters that his office is now requiring all polling places to post. That has Democrats, including Hamilton County Democratic Chairman Tim Burke, crying foul.
Burke has taken exception to the inclusion of Husted's name "the size of an oversized bumper sticker" on those posters. Burke is also chair of the Hamilton County Board of Elections, and he fired off an email earlier this week to Husted's office demanding clarification about the requirement polling places post the posters. The letter contained some not-so-subtle digs as well.
"I am struggling to understand how it is legitimate or fair to create a situation where you will be the only candidate on the ballot in next month's election to have your name prominently displayed along with the office to which you seek reelection in each polling place," Burke wrote in the message dated Oct. 7.
Burke also questioned the inclusion of a second, 11-by-17-inch poster that likewise prominently features Husted's name. That poster, designed by a 5th grade contest winner, has little factual information about voting, Burke says.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matt Damschroder replied later that evening, saying the posters are a routine task for the secretary of state's office and that Husted's name and signature are present to assure voters that the poster is official. Damschroder also pointed out that county board of elections members, such as Burke, have their signatures displayed at the bottom of ballots.
Those signatures are small, however, and are unaccompanied by text spelling out the commissioners' names. Perhaps they should work on the size and legibility of their autographs.
Let's not forget the fifth-grade contest winner in all this. Damschroder said polling places aren't required to post that poster.
"We have simply suggested that boards of elections post the winning design to advance the two-fold goal of encouraging participation in the democratic process, generally, and building civic-mindedness among the next generation of voters," he said.
If that kid is following along with what's happening to that poster, she or he is surely getting a lesson about politics as well.
Good morning! Apparently two tuba players are dueling with chainsaws outside our window, or at least it sounds like it. I'm going to try and fight through the distraction to give you the morning news. Today's update is mostly a politics sandwich, but stay with me here, because things are getting interesting as we speed toward Nov. 4.
Republican Councilman Charlie Winburn will do anything for your vote as he runs for state Senate in a heavily Democratic district encompassing much of Cincinnati — but he won't do that. I told you yesterday about Winburn's recent evolutions on issues near and dear to most liberal hearts and minds. He's pulling for expungements for folks who have marijuana convictions under a now-rescinded Cincinnati law, and though he says he's pro-life, he recently lost endorsements from right to life groups after he signaled some reconsideration on women's choice issues.
Last night during a debate with state Senate opponent Democrat Cecil Thomas, Winburn made the case that he's "an independent thinker," willing to listen to his potential Democratic constituency but also able to use clout gained with the GOP as a long-time member of the party and reformed hard-core right winger. But one place he's not bending: same-sex marriage rights. While Thomas, who was once opposed to gay marriage, has changed his tune on the issue, Winburn's staying put on that one. "Let me be clear about what I believe," he said during the debate. "I do not support gay marriages. Period." Tell us how you really feel, Charlie.
• Former Mahogany's owner Liz Rogers has a new deal she wants the city to think about. Rogers, who recently threatened the city with a lawsuit if it didn't forgive a $300,000 debt she owes on her former restaurant at The Banks, now wants the city to cut that debt almost in half and suspend payments until July 2016. Rogers has proposed paying $800 a month for 12 years, interest free, to pay back the loan. City Manager Harry Black has passed the proposal along to City Council for a final decision.
• There's another big development project happening in Walnut Hills. Developers Model Group are working with the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation on a $9 million project to renovate 3 buildings along East McMillan Street in the neighborhood. The buildings will house about 7,200 square feet of retail space and 30 market-rate apartments. The aim is to attract residents interested in urban living who can't afford or don't want to pay downtown or Over-the-Rhine prices.
• Who's trolling over tolling? Was the head of the OKI, the region's planning office, being overly provocative when he said yesterday that drivers who avoid the crumbling Brent Spence Bridge are "realists?" Those opposed to tolls on the bridge, who call themselves by the equally provocative name "No BS Tolls," say OKI head Mark Policinski should publicly rescind his statement about the safety of the bridge, calling it "unacceptable" and calling him out for fear-mongering. Policinski says he'd didn't say the bridge was going to collapse tomorrow, just that reports show it is degrading. The battle rages on.
• It's one of the most-watched 2014 races in the country, and yesterday the clash came to Northern Kentucky. A big throng of supporters, along with a healthy group of national press and local press, came out to hear Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky's Democratic candidate for Senate, make her pitch to the area. Grimes came to Newport yesterday to talk about two of the region's biggest concerns: the aforementioned Brent Spence Bridge conundrum and the burgeoning heroin crisis. Grimes slammed her opponent, Senate Minority Leader and 20-year incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell, saying he didn't have a plan for either issue. She promised she could secure funding for a replacement for the Brent Spence Bridge by closing some of the state's corporate tax loopholes. She also pledged to use some of that money to hire more law enforcement officers and fund drug treatment programs.
McConnell's campaign shot back against Grimes' speech. McConnell said he has floated the idea of rolling back state rules that require companies working government contracts to pay the prevailing wage in an area. The campaign says the savings from that move could be used for the bridge. He's also laid out plans for increasing the number of counties under scrutiny as drug trafficking areas, though he hasn't mentioned Northern Kentucky specifically.
A recent poll commissioned by the Louisville Courier Journal put Grimes ahead by two points in the race, though other polls have her trailing McConnell.
• Finally, the Greater Cincinnati area ranks lowest in the region, and very low nationally, in terms of public transit and job accessibility. It's very hard for people to use public transit to get to their jobs in Cincinnati, according to a new University of Minnesota study. The area came in 41st out of 46 cities, well below Columbus (27), Cleveland (26), Indianapolis (38), Pittsburgh, (22), Louisville (36) and Detroit (34). Bummer.


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Federal safety regulators have expanded an investigation into rear-light failures in
Mercedes-Benz C-class luxury vehicles.
The probe now covers nearly 253,000 cars from the 2008 through 2011 model years.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the stop, tail and turn signal lights
can fail because of a melted electrical connector. The agency and Mercedes have received 402
complaints, including five fires and one injury.
Mercedes also said more than 23,000 warranty claims could be tied to the problem.
The safety agency has upgraded the probe to an engineering analysis. That's a step closer to
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A Clockwork Core Set: Announcing Munchkin Steampunk
AUSTIN, Texas (August 13, 2014) – Next year, Steve Jackson Games adds gears, goggles, and steam-powered robots to the backstabbing and goofy humor of their hit card game, Munchkin, in Munchkin Steampunk. Fan-favorite artist Phil Foglio, who has won three Hugo Awards for his work on the steampunk comic series Girl Genius, teams up with veteran designer Steve Jackson to bring the world of Munchkin Steampunk to life.
"We really like clockwork spider automatons," said Munchkin Czar Andrew Hackard. "I mean, who doesn't? And they make killing monsters and taking their stuff even better!"
Munchkin Steampunk is a standalone core set but is compatible with other Munchkin games. It gears up for release mid-2015.


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I was screaming at the tv wanting to know why he did that as well. I hated that play call with a passion. I also think he is a little over conservative at the end of games. But all that being said we won the game wether of not it was in spite of Kubiak or not. Enjoy the win a little. Dang. Goosfraba buddy. Goosfraba.
Made the thread before the game was even over. It didn't matter if we won or lost. That wasn't the point. It's the typical turtle dick ways of Kubiak and how plays not to lose. Always running the ball on a play that is 3rd and 9+, and giving the ball to the other team or settling. I would have had no problem with the play if we actually had a kicker that hadn't shown that he was a big choker. We have a choker at kicker and that's who you're putting your confidence in?? That's stupid football. It should have cost us the game. The difference in winning and losing doesn't change the bad positioning that the HC put the team in by not trying to win the game. Same stuff that haunted this losing team for years before Wade's defense made this team a consistent winner. Sure, it messed up against a good offense in the Lions and even the Jags, but I've got a lot of confidence in Wade's abilities to make adjustments. I don't have that same ability in some turtle dick HC who can't even watch the last play of the game in his 7th season as a HC.
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Fox Point-Bayside prepares for more budget cuts
Projected state aid, revenue cap might fall short
Fox Point - When the subject of Fox Point-Bayside's 2013-14 budget came up a month ago, administrators in the district indicated belt-tightening would be a highly likely scenario.
At the time, Director of Business Services Amy Kohl indicated she was projecting receipt of about $50 per student from the state.
But a month later, as details of Gov. Scott Walker's 2013-15 biennial budget are being released, it appears the district will be working at a zero-base dollar figure.
While Walker has indicated he supports increasing funding toward the voucher school program, his proposed budget does not include an increase in the state-imposed revenue cap. If plans move forward, it means districts will not receive additional income through the state or the property tax levy - which, in Fox Point-Bayside's case - is its largest source of revenue.
With her projected $50-per-student projection, Kohl said Fox Point-Bayside could have incurred a $15,500 gain in the district's revenue-limit authority - a scenario that still would necessitate budget cuts.
Instead, Kohl said she is expecting the district to take a $37,500 loss, based on enrollment figures from the district's three-year rolling average. The reversal in what had been projected will result in even greater challenges as specific details start dropping into the 2013-14 budget document.
"We knew, and have known, that there were going to be challenges," Kohl said. "But now we're going to have to place extra focus in certain areas."
With the majority of Fox Point-Bayside's budget going toward personnel costs - salaries and benefits - administrators in the district maintain there is not a lot of wiggle room before resorting to staff cuts and increased class sizes.
Dan Westfahl and Don Galster, principals of Stormonth Elementary and Bayside Middle schools, respectively, have each been charged with reducing their building budgets by 10 percent for the 2013-14 school year. Some of the dollars, however, will be transferred over to the district's curriculum budget.
Priorities are being examined, and some maintenance projects might be deferred - in the short-term, at least - in favor of continuing to fund curriculum and technology.
While it likely will not yield a significant cost savings, copying costs are one area of focus administrators plan to zero in on in the upcoming school year. District Administrator Rachel Boechler said Fox Point-Bayside spends about three times the amount a district of its size should be spending on copying costs.
"Other than that, there's not a whole lot else," Boechler said of easy targets in the budget cutting process. "It's already been getting pretty thin."
Other expenditures - including transportation - are outside of the district's control because of a shared arrangement with Nicolet High School, the other two K-8 feeder districts and area private and parochial schools.
But transportation is one of several examples Fox Point-Bayside has used over the years to pool resources with neighboring districts, both inside and outside the immediate Nicolet community.
"We're going to be looking further at how we can do shared services to any degree we can," Boechler said.
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artichoke beet pizza
i haven't cooked beets in a long time, and i don't even know how it's possible they slipped my mind. i saw this beet risotto on jessica's blog, apples and butter, and the beet invaded my mind like aliens taking over a host body. i made the risotto immediately, but it was so quickly polished off, there was no time for pictures. i'll make it again, it was kinda brilliant. the thing is, i got a bit carried away and i roasted a whole sheet of baby beets, a lot more than i needed for one dish. that's how this one got to be - a cross between the leftover beets and my daughter whining for pizza. the combo of beet and marinated artichoke is surprisingly good. it's excellent.
initially i didn't want to cook it, i was afraid these two have too much moisture and i'll end up with a soggy pie. it's all good as long as you keep them in a strainer for 15-20 minutes. as an alternative to roasting the beets, you can steam them. get small ones if possible, they cook faster and they're easier to peel. be careful with them, that juice staines right to the bone. once they're cooked and cooled, slice them thinly and put them in a mesh with the artichokes.
stretch the dough to the size and shape of your baking vehicle. spread with tomato-based pizza sauce. sprinkle a good handful of grated parmesan over it. then alternate slices of beet, artichoke and mushroom. don't overcrowd it. then take 4 or 5 springs of thyme and run your fingers against the stem to get the tiny leaves off, and sprinkle them evenly. i also used some chopped sage, but that's not as vital as the thyme. give it a grind of pepper and bake at 425F for 15-20 minutes.
it's the best of both worlds. your kid gets pizzzzaaaaa! and you get a few veggies in her, and a grown-up lunch. the spinach is dressed simply with olive oil, champagne vinegar, dijon and honey. it makes a great companion for the pizza but doesn't steal its thunder. i think it would be lovely with a few dots of goat cheese, and/or a few asparagus tips. i plan to turn all these ingredients into a panzanella, stat. the aliens are still eating my brain.
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cool lassi(e), thanks!
celia: yes. i wanted something sharper to stand up to the sweetness of the beets and delicious punch of the artichokes. goat cheese, if i had it, would go on top of it, and not instead. the nutty sharp goes great with the beets - i think they would overwhelm anything mild like mozzarella. i also had a nice sharp cheddar in mind, but i don't like the way that melts. it's not as dry, so when it melts it gets saucy and goopy and i didn't know how it would add up with the moisture content of the beets and artichokes. parmesan crisps up like nothing else, it's perfect.
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By Maria Luisa Cesar : December 19, 2012 : Updated: December 19, 2012 10:50pm
A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit allegation that Southside Independent School District fired Alma Guzman-Estrada in retaliation for lodging formal complaints that she was experiencing gender discrimination.
The former employee, now a school board member, sued the district last year.
The ruling means that Guzman-Estrada, who sought hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay and compensatory damage, will receive no money. She could not be reached for comment Wednesday but her attorney, Olga Brown, said filing an appeal is "something we're looking into."
Superintendent Juan Jasso referred questions to Southside's attorney, Craig Wood.
"The district had said from the beginning that the reason for her termination was that she was divisive with her coworkers and evidence of that existed prior to her filing a grievance," Wood said.
The 11-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Harry Lee Hudspeth found the district's reasons for firing Guzman-Estrada were "legitimate, non-discriminatory and not pretextual."
It referred to testimony that Guzman-Estrada derided employees, asked one employee about the alleged extramarital affair of her supervisor and sent a "rather bizarre email" to the superintendent asking why she had not been invited to a holiday party — calling the lack of an invitation "a grave and serious concern."
At a trial earlier this month, Guzman-Estrada acknowledged she was vocal about her opinion that a male colleague was not qualified for his job but denied allegations that she gossiped or used a racial slur.
Brown said she still strongly believes in the merits of Guzman-Estrada's case and said proving retaliation can often be difficult. She said would encourage Guzman-Estrada to continue serving on the school board and said her lawsuit "brought focus" to issues of gender discrimination within the district.
Originally a gender discrimination and retaliatory firing case, the judge previously ruled in favor of the district's motion to narrow its scope to focus solely on Guzman-Estrada's termination.
In court, Brown tried to make the link that her client was fired for questioning her pay and contract and because she raised questions about the district budget, the hiring process and the superintendent's spending.
If Guzman-Estrada had responded to the allegations against her, the district could have considered other options beside termination, Jasso has said.
"I think the judge felt as the superintendent felt, that if you don't respond, how is the fact finder to come to any different kind of conclusion?" Wood said.


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U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack testified before Congress today, updating a subcommittee on the USDA's preparations to prevent an outbreak of the H1N1 influenza, previously called swine flu, from occurring in livestock.
Vilsack repeated USDA's conclusion that the virus has not infected any pigs in the U.S. and that American pork is safe to consume. However, he noted the agency is working to develop a vaccine for swine.
When the human strain of the influenza was first reported two weeks ago, it sent shockwaves through the agriculture futures markets and prompted some countries - illogically, it turns out - to place temporary ban on imports of U.S. pork.
"Vigilance is something we are used to at USDA and we have an effective safeguarding system in place that utilizes surveillance, testing and monitoring to ensure diseases are kept out of the livestock industry," Vilsack said.
Swine influenza, though not the 2009-H1N1 strain, is endemic in the United States, Vilsack said. He added that USDA and the swine industry have a long history of successfully dealing with this virus.
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9 Milk Stouts to Drink If You're Breastfeeding—or Just Thirsty
On November 19, at the stroke of midnight, my daughter, Violet, came screaming into the world. I looked over at my wife, Jenene, exhausted yet elated while cradling our newborn, and thought to myself, I could really use a celebratory beer.
It was my wife, however, who really needed a beer. Her pregnancy encapsulated nine months of cruel irony. As a beer journalist, I spend my days, nights, and sometimes mornings sampling bitter India pale ales, crisp lagers, and stouts as dark as December night. Save for a few sips here and there, Jenene's pregnancy was her own personal form of Prohibition. But now that Violet has arrived, Jenene is free to unwind with a beer or two.
In fact, it might be necessary. Beyond dulling the ache of a screaming infant and sleepless nights, drinking beer might actually be beneficial for my wife's newest job: breastfeeding. According to a study in the journal Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, researchers in Munich discovered that polysaccharides in barley—the main building blocks of beer—stimulates prolactin, which encourages milk's production.
And what better beer to drink than a milk stout, which has long been associated with nursing mothers and, curiously, invalids. "I love how those get clumped together," says Ro Guenzel, the head brewer at Colorado's Left Hand Brewing, which makes a marvelous milk stout.
The milk stout style got its start as a literal blending of stout porter (as the stronger stuff was then known) with milk, which served as a lunchtime reviver to help laborers endure the dregs of the workday. In time, brewers began adding milk directly to the beer during fermentation before switching to lactose, a.k.a. milk sugar. (When added to beer, lactose creates a fuller body and imparts a sweetness that balances out the roasted characteristics.)
Milk stout was popular in Great Britain in the early half of the 20th century, when brewers touted the dark dram as a nutritious—and occasionally doctor-prescribed—tonic suitable for nursing mothers. As the century dragged on, though, milk stout waned in popularity. Following World War II, the British government allegedly banned brewers from using the word milk in ads and labels and touting milk stout's healthful properties, and it went under the generalized mantle of sweet stout.
For once, America has laxer labeling restrictions. Here milk stout proudly boasts its dairy-case designation, though drinking too much as a new mom may be discouraged. Alcohol has been found to inhibit milk's production, with babies drinking less milk in the four hours following Mom knocking back a bottle. (There are no such issues with nonalcoholic beer, but where's the fun in that?) After nine months of pregnancy—plus a few weeks for a tardy birth—my wife deserves a great beer, not an O'Doul's. And while milk stouts are doubtlessly having a moment (see a few great ones to try in the slideshow), these dark, smooth, and lightly sweet brews may not be the best style for mom and baby.
"In my vicarious experience, hoppy beers always seemed to be best for my nursing wife," says Guenzel, a father of two. "My mother, a lactation consultant, claims that the estrogenic and slightly sedating properties of hops help to relax mothers and stimulate their milk production."
With parenthood, though, we'd prefer if the bitterness came later. For now, we'll toast to the milk (stout) of human kindness. Here are nine to try.
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Med School in 3? Let Debate Begin
Med School in 3? Let Debate Begin
"Young doctor" could be considered a contradictory term because by the time physicians-to-be finish med school, residency, and a year of fellowship, they are not so young anymore. And they are saddled with debt.
To address those problems plus the physician shortage, some medical schools have eliminated the fourth year. Doing so will not only speed up the process but also, theoretically, increase the ranks of primary care physicians.
Those making this argument often cite an article in the March 21, 2012, issue of JAMA (http://tinyurl.com/JAMA-MED) by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, and Victor R. Fuchs, PhD. Emanuel and Fuchs write, "[T]here is substantial waste in the education and training of U.S. physicians. Years of training have been added without evidence that they enhance clinical skills or the quality of care. This waste adds to the financial burden of young physicians and increases health care costs. The average length of medical training could be reduced by about 30% without compromising physician competence or quality of care."
Paying off those enormous student loans might be one reason why aspiring doctors choose to be specialists, where they can make more money.
Not everybody likes this idea. Writing in the Sept. 19, 2013, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (http://tinyurl.com/Goldfarb-piece), Stanley Goldfarb, MD, and Gail Morrison, MD, state that a similar effort was attempted in the 1970s for the same reasons: to reduce medical school costs and to increase the number of PCPs. It failed.
"The hope that students would opt for primary care careers was not consistently borne out," they write. "Students enrolling in some accelerated BA–MD programs in community-based medical schools tended to enter careers in family medicine in higher numbers than did those from standard MD programs, but even those numbers were nowhere near the hoped-for 60% to 75%; and overall, these programs did not consistently boost the number of students choosing primary care careers."