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Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is putting forward legislation that would break up the big banks to avoid what has been colloquially dubbed "too big to fail." The liberal senator is teaming up with Sen. David Vitter, a very conservative Republican from Louisiana, to put together the bill, which Brown says will make the economy safer, secure taxpayer money and help create jobs. In his push, Brown has compared the big banks to Standard Oil, which was broken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1911 after the oil giant breached antitrust laws.
Indiana Gov. Mike Spence fired back at Ohio Gov. John Kasich for insulting Indiana in recent remarks: "Indiana is the best state in the Midwest to start a business, grow a business and get a job. … With the Hoosier state consistently winning the competition for fiscal responsibility and reform, somebody should remind the governor of Ohio that trash talk usually comes before the game." In a speech Monday, Kasich said, "This is not Indiana where you go to Indianapolis … and then say, 'Where else are we going to go? Gary?' "
Ohio is a leader in reducing prison re-entry, and that's translating to millions of dollars for the state's taxpayers. Ohio's recidivism rate, which measures how many prison convicts are returning to prison after being released, dropped to 28.7 percent in 2009, from 39.5 percent in 2003. The latest data is from 2009, so it's before Gov. John Kasich took office and passed measures to further reduce prison recidivism, which provide new ways for criminals to get records expunged, allow released criminals to obtain a certificate of qualification from courts for employment and offer sentence-reduction incentives for prisoners to get job training and education programs while in prison.
The Ohio House approved a bill that would effectively shut down Internet sweepstakes cafes, which state officials claim are havens for gambling and other criminal activity, by limiting their prize payouts to $10. The bill received support from law-enforcement groups, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, some charity organizations and the state's casino operators.
Mayoral candidate John Cranley says the city should redirect funding meant for the streetcar to the MLK/I-71 Interchange project, but the funding is set up through federal grants that are highly competitive and allocated specifically to the streetcar project.
Opponents of the city's parking plan briefly celebrated yesterday when they assumed Graeter's had joined their efforts, but the ice cream company says it was all a misunderstanding. Graeter's is allowing opponents to gather petition signatures in front of its stores because the sidewalks are public property, but the company says it didn't give permission to gather signatures within the stores.
Cincinnati's Findlay Market earned a glowing review in The Boston Globe, sparking a wave of celebration on social media.
The Smale Riverfront Park is forging ahead largely thanks to the help of private funders, who have made up for an unexpected drop in state and federal funds.
The Ohio Senate paved ahead with legislation that will raise the speed limit on some highways, particularly in rural areas, to 70 miles per hour. The bill contains obvious time benefits for drivers, but environmental groups say higher speed limits mean worse fuel efficiency and insurance groups say it will make roads more dangerous.
A West Chester trucking company is cutting 250 jobs.
Popular Science has nine reasons to avoid sugar to save your life.
The Ohio Board of Education named Richard Ross, one of Gov. John Kasich's top education advisers, to the state school superintendent position. Ross' appointment links the Ohio Department of Education more closely with Kasich, according to StateImpact Ohio. Ross is replacing Stan Heffner, who resigned in August after an ethics investigation found he had misused state resources for personal matters and testified in favor of legislation that could have benefited a company he planned to work for.
In a study that should be out next month, Ohio and Kentucky officials are reviewing the Brent Spence Bridge project to make it more affordable. Many officials want to use tolling to help pay for the bridge, but northern Kentucky residents and elected officials have pushed back because they're concerned tolls will divert traffic to other bridges in Ohio and hurt the local economy.
In a press conference in front of the Ohio Statehouse yesterday, more than 100 educators and members of the Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools (CORAS) asked Kasich to rework his education reform proposal in a way that would raise per-pupil funding, fully fund transportation, career technical and special education programs and pay for new initiatives like the Third Grade Reading Guarantee. Under Kasich's current proposal, the state is reducing aid from $5,700 for each student to $5,000, but CORAS says funding should be increased to $6,270. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget proposal, which includes his education reform plan, here.
While funding in Kasich's plan is mixed for traditional public schools, charter schools will get 4.5 percent more funding, according to the Legislative Service Commission. Conservatives typically tout charter schools for providing more "school choice," but in a previous report, Policy Matters Ohio, a left-leaning policy research group, found more choices may bring down results from teachers and students.
Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan and friends and family of fire victims are pushing for a review of Cincinnati's fire ordinance codes to avert fire deaths. The proposed changes include more required fire exits, annual inspections, a mandatory fire drill at the beginning of each school semester, the removal of all exceptions in the code and a measure that would prevent air conditioning units from being placed on windows that are supposed to act as exits. Quinlivan is also encouraging the University of Cincinnati to restart a certified list of preferred rental locations around campus, which would only include housing properties that pass fire safety inspections.
The first public hearings on Kasich's budget proposal to expand Medicaid contained mixed testimony, with supporters touting greater accessibility to health care and improved health results and opponents claiming that Medicaid leads to worse outcomes and will discourage people from improving their economic situation. Previous studies, which CityBeat covered along with the rest of Kasich's budget proposal here, found Medicaid expansions led to lower mortality rates and better health outcomes in certain states. The Health Policy Institute of Ohio says the Medicaid expansion will save the state money in the next decade and provide health insurance to 456,000 Ohioans by 2022.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has posted the full lawsuit filed against the city's parking plan, which is set to have a hearing in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on Friday. CityBeat wrote more about the lawsuit here.
Judge Robert Ruehlman ruled that Elmwood Place can't collect on tickets from speed cameras that he recently deemed a violation of motorists' due process. The city and police are filing an appeal to the initial ruling, which halted the use of the cameras.
Eighteen percent of Greater Cincinnati's chief financial officers plan to hire for new professional-level positions in the second quarter, while 66 percent say they will only fill jobs that open in the next three months.
Ohio joined 37 states and the District of Columbia in a $7 million settlement with Google yesterday that is expected to net $162,000 for the state. The case centered around Google collecting data from unsecured wireless networks nationwide and taking photographs for its Street View service between 2008 and March 2010.
The effort to effectively ban Internet sweepstakes cafes passed an Ohio House committee.
The federal government may not need to balance its budget at all, according to Bloomberg.
Trained Soviet attack dolphins with head-mounted guns are on the loose.
The region's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate shot up in January, with the City of Cincinnati at 8.6 percent, up from 6.7 percent in December; Hamilton County at 7.9 percent, up from 6.2 percent; and Greater Cincinnati at 8 percent, up from 6.4 percent. The rates were still lower than January 2012, when Cincinnati was at 8.8 percent, Hamilton County was at 8.3 percent and Greater Cincinnati was at 8.5 percent. But the civilian labor force, which measures the amount of people working and looking for jobs, was larger across-the-board in January 2012 than it was in January 2013. Federal and state employment rates are normally adjusted for seasonal factors, but local rates are not. The full data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services can be seen here.
Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald launched an "exploratory committee" for a gubernatorial election campaign that intends to unseat Gov. John Kasich. In his announcement video, FitzGerald says state leaders have let down Ohioans and he can provide a better alternative.
The Cincinnati Tea Party is protesting Kasich's plan to expand Medicaid to include anyone up to or at 138 percent of the federal poverty level. The tea party says the expansion, which is financially supported by Obamacare, is financed by the federal government's debt and creates more long-term problems by failing to address current issues with the U.S. health care system. The Health Policy Institute of Ohio says the Medicaid expansion will save the state money in the next decade and provide health insurance to 456,000 Ohioans by 2022. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget proposal, which includes the Medicaid expansion, in further detail here.
Yesterday, Kasich's administration tried to explain why it did not seek legislative approval before transferring about $6.5 million in taxpayer money to JobsOhio, but it did not provide any evidence for its claim that the grants used do not require legislative approval. State Democrats are getting increasingly critical of the lack of transparency behind JobsOhio, a publicly funded nonprofit agency that Kasich established to eventually replace the Ohio Department of Development. Recently, State Auditor Dave Yost has been pushing to fully audit JobsOhio's finances, even its private funds, but Kasich and General Assembly Republicans argue the state auditor can only check on public funds.
Bipartisan efforts to get rid of traffic cameras are underway, largely because the policy is seen as a money grab, may be unconstitutional and likely to be put to referendum, anyway.
A nun, poll worker and widower have been indicted in the Hamilton County Board of Election's voter fraud case. The board says the charges are only the beginning, and other investigations are ongoing.
In order to meet new state standards, Cincinnati will implement safety improvements for pedestrians, including changes to lines separating pedestrian crosswalks and countdowns on more pedestrian signals.
The University of Cincinnati is investing $1.6 million in its doctoral programs and accepting proposals to support others to show how it would result in better faculty, student research productivity, recruitment, retention of top students and ability to leverage extended funding.
With yesterday's approved changes to the state's transportation budget, Ohio could be moving to a 70 mile-per-hour speed limit soon.
A dad hacked the game Donkey Kong to allow his daughter to play a heroine instead of Mario.
With a new artificial intelligence app that tweets even after a person dies, mortality is no longer a concern for retaining Twitter followers.
Cincinnati's plan to lease parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority remains on hold as a lawsuit arguing the law should be subject to referendum works through the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. The legal dispute is focused on City Council's use of the emergency clause, which eliminates a 30-day waiting period on implementing laws and takes away the possibility of a referendum. Emergency clauses are routinely deployed in City Council, but opponents of the parking plan say that doesn't make them right.
Whether the parking deal does go through or not, the Tower Place Mall renovations will be carried out. The city originally included the renovations as part of the plan, but Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the city is planning on selling the the property to a subsidiary of JDL Warm Construction for an undisclosed sum, and the company will then pay an estimated $5 million for the redevelopment.
Gov. John Kasich's plan to expand the sales tax to fund tax cuts is being heavily criticized by some members of the business community, but Rep. Ron Amstutz, chairman of the Ohio House Finance & Appropriations Committee, says he is looking into ways to save the proposal. Kasich's plan would expand the application of the sales tax to include more services, including cable TV and admission to sport events, but it would lower the sales tax rate from 5.5 percent to 5 percent and carry out 20-percent across-the-board income tax cuts. CityBeat wrote about Kasich's budget proposal in further detail here.
As part of Kasich's education plans, the state's school voucher program is expanding to help students meet a Third Grade Reading Guarantee, which requires third-graders pass a test in reading proficiency before they can move onto fourth grade. Supporters argue the voucher program provides more choice and control for parents, but opponents say the state should not be paying for private educations. A previous Policy Matters Ohio report found expanded school choice through more vouchers can have negative effects on education, including worse results for students and teachers.
State Auditor Dave Yost is pushing for a full audit of JobsOhio, the publicly funded private, nonprofit agency, but Republican state legislators are joining Kasich in opposition. The opposing Republicans say the state auditor can track any public funds used for JobsOhio, but they say the agency is allowed to keep its private funds under wraps. Kasich says he plans to replace the Ohio Department of Development, which can be fully audited by the state auditor at any time, with JobsOhio.
The Ohio Department of Education apparently knew or should have known of ongoing data scrubbing in schools as early as 2008, according to The Toledo Blade. Emails acquired by The Blade show officials analyzed and discussed data reports that year after media reports detailed how urban districts excluded thousands of test scores on state report cards.
Supporters of the Anna Louise Inn gathered Friday in celebration of International Women's Day and to stand against Western & Southern's repeated efforts to run the Inn out of the neighborhood.
The U.S. Census Bureau says Cincinnati commutes are much shorter than the national average, with only 2.9 percent of Cincinnatians spending more than 60 minutes one-way during their commute, as compared to the 8.1 percent national average.
The Cincinnati Enquirer unveiled its new tabloid format today. Ben Kaufman says it looks nice and arrived on time.
The Killers are coming to the Horseshoe Casino.
A new study says results from fMRI scans are unintentionally distorted and inaccurate — to the point that some studies on the human brain that use fMRI results may be seriously questionable.
The plan to lease Cincinnati's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority remains up in the air today after court rulings kept a court-mandated restraining order in place until at least March 15, when a hearing is scheduled at the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
The hearing on March 15 will establish whether the lawsuit should move forward and whether the restraining order will remain until the lawsuit is resolved. The latter poses a budgetary challenge to the city; if the restraining order is kept in place and opponents gather the signatures required for a November referendum on the parking plan, the city says it will have to make cuts before July to balance the budget for fiscal year 2014, which could result in layoffs.
"We've been very clear that, by state law, we need to have a balanced budget starting July 1, so we will need to do all things necessary at that point," says Meg Olberding, city spokesperson.
The lawsuit was originally moved to federal courts on March 7 because it included complaints regarding civil rights. Plaintiffs removed the mention of civil rights, which then prompted Judge Michael Barrett to send the lawsuit back to the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
City Council approved the parking plan in a 5-4 vote on March 6, but the plan was almost immediately held up by a temporary restraining order from Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Winkler. The restraining order is meant to provide enough time to process a lawsuit filed by Curt Hartman, an attorney who represents the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), on behalf of local activists who oppose the plan and argue it should be subject to referendum.
"If there was even five seconds without a temporary restraining order in place, the city's going to sign that lease," Chris Finney, another attorney that represents COAST, said in a public statement after the hearing with Barrett. "At that point, the city will argue that the case has moved and that the (referendum) petitions are void."
The legal dispute is focused on City Council's use of the emergency clause, which eliminates a 30-day waiting period on implementing laws but takes away the possibility of a referendum.
In an interview on March 7, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, who voted for the parking plan, told CityBeat the dispute over emergency clauses is politically motivated: "I think it's nothing but a political controversy that's generated for political gain and for political purposes. Council passes many of its ordinances with emergency clauses. In fact, the other candidate for mayor himself consistently voted for emergency clauses."
The other mayoral candidate Qualls is referring to is John Cranley, a former council member who opposes the parking plan and says he will support a referendum effort.
"Just because the emergency clause may be used too often doesn't make it right," says Cranley. "I never voted for an emergency clause when there was a stated grassroots effort to have a referendum on a vote that I was facing."
CityBeat previously covered the parking plan in further detail here.
In February, the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, from 7.9 percent in January, and the nation added 236,000 jobs. Many of the new jobs — about 48,000 — came from construction, while government employment saw a drop even before sequestration, a series of across-the-board federal spending cuts, began on March 1. Economists seem quite positive about the report.
In January, Ohio's unemployment rate rose to 7 percent, from 6.7 percent in December, with the number of unemployed in the state rising to 399,000, from 385,000 the month before. Goods-producing and service-providing industries and local government saw a rise in employment, while jobs were lost in trade, transportation, utilities, financial activities, professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, state government and federal government. In January, U.S. unemployment rose to 7.9 percent, from 7.8 percent in December.
A new report outlined renovations for the city-owned Tower Place Mall, which is getting a makeover as part of Cincinnati's parking plan. A lot of the retail space in the mall will be replaced to make room for parking that will be accessed through what is currently Pogue's Garage, but two rings of retail space will remain, according to the report. The parking plan was approved by City Council Wednesday, but it was temporarily halted by a Hamilton County judge. The legal contest has now moved to federal court, and it's set to get a hearing today.
Meet the mayoral candidates through CityBeat's two extensive Q&As: Roxanne Qualls and John Cranley. Qualls spoke mostly about her support for immigration, the parking plan and streetcar, while Cranley discussed his opposition to the parking plan and streetcar and some of his ideas for Cincinnati.
A Hamilton County court ruled against the controversial traffic cameras in Elmwood Place, and the Ohio legislature is considering a statewide ban on the cameras. In his ruling, Judge Robert Ruehlman pointed out there were no signs making motorists aware of the cameras and the cameras are calibrated once a year by a for-profit operator. The judge added, "Elmwood Place is engaged in nothing more than a high-tech game of 3-card Monty. … It is a scam that motorists can't win." Bipartisan legislation was recently introduced to prohibit traffic cameras in Ohio.
JobsOhio, the state-funded nonprofit corporation, quietly got $5.3 million in state grants, even though the state legislature only appropriated $1 million for startup costs. JobsOhio says it needed the extra funds because legal challenges have held up liquor profits that were originally supposed to provide funding. In the past few days, State Auditor Dave Yost, a Republican, has been pushing Republican Gov. John Kasich and JobsOhio to release more details about the nonprofit corporation's finances, but Kasich and JobsOhio have been pushing back.
Advocates for Ohio's charter schools say Kasich's budget amounts to a per-pupil cut, with funding dropping from $5,704 per pupil to $5,000 plus some targeted assistance that ranges from hundreds of dollars to nothing depending on the school. A previous CityBeat report on online schools found traditional public schools get about $3,193 per student — much less than the funding that apparently goes to charter schools.
Fountain Square will be getting a new television from Cincinnati-based LSI Industries with the help of Fifth-Third Bank and the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC). The new video board will have better image quality and viewing angles, but it will also come with more screen space for sponsors.
Ohio's casino revenues rose in January. That could be a good sign for Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino, which opened Monday.
In light of recent discussion, Popular Science posted a Q&A on drones.
City Council approved a plan to lease the city's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, but the plan is now being held up by a judge's temporary restraining order (TRO). The plan was passed with an emergency clause, which is meant to expedite the plan's implementation, but it also makes the law immune to referendum. The judge's TRO, which will delay implementation for at least one week, will provide enough time to process a lawsuit filed by Curt Hartman, an attorney who represents the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), on behalf of local activists who oppose the plan and argue it should be subject to referendum. The parking plan will lease the city's parking assets to fund development projects, including a 30-story tower and a downtown grocery store, and help balance the deficit for the next two fiscal years. Opponents say they're concerned about the plan leading to parking rate hikes, and they say the plan will not fix the city's structural deficits.
Before the final vote on the parking plan, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. gave a presentation to City Council that showed options for reducing Cincinnati's structural deficit, including a reduction or elimination of lower-ranked programs in the city's Priority-Driven Budgeting Process, a reduction in subsidies to health clinics that are getting more money from Obamacare, the semi-automation of solid waste collection or the introduction of new or increased fees for certain programs, among other changes.
Ohio senators are pushing a law that would make records of people licensed to carry concealed firearms in Ohio off-limits to journalists. The senators say they were inspired to push the law after a New York newspaper published the names and addresses of permit holders in three counties. Dennis Hetzel, executive director of the Ohio Newspaper Association, says the law will decrease government transparency and limit rights: "I wish the pro-gun forces would be as respectful of the First Amendment as they are of the second, and they should be fearful of excessive government secrecy."
The superintendent and treasurer of the Cincinnati College Preparatory Academy, a charter school, were indicted after allegedly using school funds to go to "Girls weekends" in Chicago, sightseeing tours through California and Europe and a trip to Boston to see Oprah — allegedly costing taxpayers more than $148,000. Dave Yost, state auditor, said in a statement, "The audacity of these school officials is appalling. The good work by our auditors and investigators has built the strongest possible case to ensure they can never use the public treasury as their personal travel account again."
The Ohio Department of Transportation and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet are working together to make the case that any delays in the Brent Spence Bridge project will hurt Greater Cincinnati's economy. Most people involved in the issue agree the bridge needs rebuilding, but not everyone agrees on how the project should be funded. Northern Kentucky politicians in particular have strongly opposed instituting tolls — one of the leading ideas for funding the project.
In public hearings yesterday, service industry officials said Gov. John Kasich's budget plan, which will expand the state's sales tax to apply to more service, would drive some service providers out of Ohio and make the state less competitive. Among other complaints, Carter Strang, president of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, said the plan could make it harder for Ohioans to access legal counsel by increasing costs and reducing employment in the legal sector. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget proposal in detail here.
State Auditor Yost filed a subpoena to get JobsOhio's financial records after the agency failed to turn them over. The subpoena puts Yost at odds with Kasich, a fellow Republican who established JobsOhio, a nonprofit company, in an attempt to bring more jobs to the state and replace the Ohio Department of Development.
Hamilton County is launching the Hamilton County Community Re-entry Action Plan, which will help integrate ex-convicts back into society. Commissioner Todd Portune told WVXU the plan will help with overpopulation in jails and prisons: "When you build (jail and prison) facilities, the population in them always seems to rise to meet whatever the (capacity) level is in the facility. You never seem to have enough space. The real answer beyond facilities is that we've got to turn around the lives of the individuals who are in our corrections system that have made bad choices."
The University of Cincinnati says it won't block an outdoor display of vagina pictures on campus.
Yesterday, Kentucky's U.S. Sen. Rand Paul held a nearly 13-hour filibuster to protest any possible use of drone strikes on American soil. Paul was joined by senators from both sides of the aisle in his opposition to using the strikes, which were used in Yemen in 2011 to kill Anwar al-Aulaqi, an American citizen accused of being a high-ranking al-Qaeda official.
The same Cleveland judge who made a woman hold an "idiot" sign for driving around a school bus is making a 58-year-old man hold another sign for threatening officers in a 911 call. The sign will apologize to officers and read, "I was being an idiot and it will never happen again." The man will also go to jail for 90 days.
There used to be camels in Arctic Canada, but that shouldn't be too surprising — camels currently reside in the Gobi Desert, which can reach -40 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter.
In a 5-4 vote today, City Council approved a plan to lease Cincinnati's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to help balance deficits for the next two fiscal years and fund development projects in Downtown, but the plan is now being held up by a Hamilton County judge's temporary restraining order (TRO).
The plan was approved with an emergency clause, which means it is not subject to referendum, according to City Solicitor John Curp. Councilman Chris Seelbach joined the parking plan's five supporters in approving the emergency clause, which is meant to expedite the plan's implementation by removing a 30-day waiting period.
Shortly after the parking plan was approved by City Council, Judge Robert Winkler signed a TRO that will halt its implementation for at least one week. The judge's action will provide enough time to process a lawsuit filed by Curt Hartman, an attorney who represents the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), on behalf of local activists who oppose the plan and argue it should be subject to referendum.
Mayor Mark Mallory says the emergency clause was passed to speed up the plan's implementation in time for the budget that will begin July 1, not to suppress voters: "I don't think that any member of council has ever voted for an emergency clause in an effort to keep voters from being able to reverse the decision that the council is making, so I take exception with that characterization."
The parking plan got its required fifth vote, up from a 4-3 vote in the Budget and Finance Committee Monday, from Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan, who abstained from voting in the committee meeting because she said she was concerned about the city's long-term fiscal outlook. She says her concerns were eased after she read the leasing agreement and listened to a presentation from City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. that gave City Council a few options for fixing the city's structural deficits.
The parking plan's other supporters were council members Roxanne Qualls, Yvette Simpson, Cecil Thomas and Wendell Young. Council members Seelbach, P.G. Sittenfeld, Chris Smitherman and Charlie Winburn voted against the plan.
The plan, which CityBeat previously covered ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27), will lease the city's parking assets to fund development projects, including a 30-story tower and a downtown grocery store, and help balance the deficit for the next two fiscal years. The deal will produce a $92 million upfront payment, and the city projects that additional annual installments will generate more than $263 million throughout the lease's duration.
Opponents say they are concerned the plan will give up too much control of the city's parking meters and garages, which they say could lead to spikes in parking rates.
Under the initial plan, downtown rates will remain at $2 an hour and neighborhood rates will be hiked to 75 cents. Afterward, parking meter rates will be set to increase annually by 3 percent or the rate of inflation on a compounded basis, with actual increases coming in at 25-cents-an-hour increments. That should translate to 25-cent increases every three years for downtown and every six years for neighborhoods, according to Meg Olberding, city spokesperson.
The city will be able to bypass the so-called "cap" on parking meter rate increases through a unanimous vote from a five-person advisory committee, approval from the city manager and a final nod from the Port Authority. The process, which begins with an advisory committee that will include four members appointed by the Port Authority and one selected by the city manager, will allow the city to raise and lower rates to adjust for changing economic needs, says Olberding.
Opponents also say the money from the parking plan is being used too quickly, which does little to alleviate the city's structural deficits.
Dohoney previously argued the plan will help reduce the deficit by generating recurring revenues through long-term economic growth and development.
"The situation that we're in requires that we accelerate growth right now, not later," he said Monday. "If we do not do that, then we're going to have further negative ramifications to deal with."
With the lease agreement approved, it is now up to the Port Authority to develop and publicize the bond documents that will further detail the framework of the parking plan.
in the same meeting, City Council unanimously passed a resolution
asking the federal government to take up comprehensive immigration
Update: This story was updated to reflect Judge Robert Winkler's actions.
City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. gave a presentation to City Council today that explained how Cincinnati could work to reduce its structural budget deficits. The presentation was presumably in response to Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan, who said Monday that she wanted to see a long-term deficit reduction plan before she could approve the city manager's proposal to lease parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority.
Even with the parking plan's one-time infusion of money ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27), Cincinnati will need to make further changes to balance budgets for the next three fiscal years. To help tame these deficits, Dohoney says the city could reduce or eliminate lower-ranked programs in the city's Priority-Driven Budgeting Process, reduce subsidies to health clinics that are getting more money from Obamacare, semi-automate solid waste collection or introduce new or increased fees for certain programs, among other changes.
But some council members said they were more concerned about how the city will manage once it loses the parking plan's one-time injection of funding after the 2016 fiscal year.
"I think this is a bit muddled," Quinlivan said. "It doesn't get to the systemic problem we have."
Quinlivan, who has long argued for "rightsizing" police and fire departments, says the city should draw down its public safety spending to "sustainable" levels, but she says she would prefer attritioning public safety forces over abrupt, short-term cuts. Dohoney acknowledges attrition would help balance budgets, but he cautions that even attrition "would have to be married" with a plan that reduces the public's expectations for public safety services — particularly if the city decides to not answer every 911 call by dispatching officers, which is currently required.
Dohoney says City Council needs to be clearer with its long-term budget policy. "If we're going to make adjustments, I need clear policy direction, and I do not feel that I have it," he says. "Give me a clear direction on where you want the police department to be, and I can get it there."
The city manager says the city will have to approve a tax hike or cuts to government spending, which poses the possibility of layoffs, if it's serious about eliminating structural deficit problems.
For every 1,000 residents, Cincinnati has less cops than
only two comparable cities: Cleveland and St. Louis. The fire department
has higher numbers, with Cincinnati equal to Pittsburgh and above
other comparable cities. The high levels of cops and firefighters per
capita comes despite downsizing in the police and fire departments in the past five years.
Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls says the city may have drawn down its police force between 2000 and 2012, but the local police department has also been reorganized in a way that actually puts more cops out on patrol. Lea Eriksen, the city's budget director, says street strength has moved from 832 police officers out of 1,034 officers available in 2002 to 864 out of 981 in 2012.
Between 2000 and 2012, the fire department was the only
city agency to see an increase in employment, while the city had slight
employment reductions overall. In the same time span, the General Fund increased by more than $30 million, and Cincinnati's population fell by about 10 percent.
Two Ohio senators, including Senate Minority Leader Eric Kearney of Cincinnati, are pushing a bill that will require the state's Bureau of Motor Vehicles to grant driver's licenses to the children of illegal immigrants. The senators claim state BMV offices are inconsistently applying President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows the children of illegal immigrants to remain in the country without fear of prosecution, but the Ohio Department of Public Safety says the issue is still under review. CityBeat originally broke the story after hearing of Ever Portillo's experiences at a Columbus BMV office here, and a follow-up story covered the internal conflict at the BMV over the issue here.
Ohio officials have said the state has only put $1 million toward JobsOhio, but records recently acquired by The Columbus Dispatch show $5.3 million in funding has been directed to the program
so far, and the public investment could be as high as $9 million. State
officials said the funding is necessary because constitutional
challenges, which the Ohio Supreme Court recently agreed to take up,
have held up the program's original source of funding — state liquor
profits. JobsOhio is a nonprofit company established with the support of
Gov. John Kasich that's meant to attract investment and bring jobs to
the state. Kasich says he wants to replace the Ohio Department of Development with the nonprofit company in the future.
City Council's Budget and Finance Committee approved a plan to lease Cincinnati's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority in a 4-3 vote yesterday, but the plan will require five votes to become law in a final City Council vote tomorrow. The plan, which CityBeat previously covered, would lease the city's parking assets to fund development projects, including a 30-story tower and a downtown grocery store, and help balance the deficit. The deal would produce a $92 million upfront payment, and the city projects that additional annual installments would generate more than $263 million throughout the lease's duration. Critics are worried the city will give up too much control of its parking assets as part of the deal, and concerns about the city's long-term deficits remain. The alternatives — plans B, C and S — would fix structural deficit problems, while the budget only helps balance the deficit for the next two fiscal years.
The company that will operate Cincinnati's parking meters if the parking deal is approved by City Council had problems in the past, according to a tip received by multiple news outlets from Tabitha Woodruff, an advocate at Ohio Public Interest Research Group. The issues surfaced years before Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) was bought by Xerox in 2010, and Xerox now denies any wrongdoing. One of the issues is a 2007 audit, which found ACS mismanaged parking meters in Washington, D.C. Kevin Lightfoot, a spokesperson at Xerox, says the audit was based on "faulty information," and a lot of the problems found were because the auditor improperly read parking meter screen displays.
An approved commitment by the Hamilton County Transportation Improvement District (HCTID) may ensure a rail service is ready for Cincinnati in time for the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune is pushing for local and state governments to break down any barriers for Oasis Rail Transit, which will carry passengers from Downtown to Milford.
The Ohio Board of Education will decide between two candidates for state superintendent next week: acting Superintendent of Public Instruction Michael Sawyers or Dick Ross, Gov. John Kasich's top education adviser.
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Office of Student ResearchVascular Biology and Therapeutics ProgramAnimal OrganogenesisInternal Medicine: Cardiovascular Medicine: Yale Cardiovascular Research Center: Greif Lab
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Vascular biology; Vascular smooth muscle; Vessel wall; Developmental biology; Clonal analysis; Lineage analysis; Pulmonary artery hypertension; Aorta; Intracranial hemorrhage; Atherosclerosis. more...
- B.S., Stanford University, 1991
- M.D., University of Califoria-San Francisco, 1997
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- Greif, DM*, Eichmann A*. (2014). Vascular biology: Brain vessels squeezed to death. Nature, 508:50 (Corresponding authors).
- Sheikh, AQ, Lighthouse, JK, Greif, DM*. (2014). Recapitulation of developing artery muscularization in pulmonary hypertension. Cell Reports, 6:809 (*Corresponding author).
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The most prevalent glands in cats are the apocrine glands. Commonly known as sweat glands or skin glands, they are also a source of common tumors in many breeds of cats. The majority of these tumors are benign, but there are some that are malignant and can be very aggressive. Along with the presence of the malignancy lies the potential of metastasis to the lungs and regional lymph nodes.
There are several different categories of these tumors. Apocrine adenoma, apocrine ductal adenoma, adenoma of the anal gland, apocrine ductal adenoma and anal gland sac carcinoma.
The location of the tumor will classify it as either glandular or ductular. The majority of the malignant tumors arise in more senior cats. They are a firm, well differentiated and solitary tumor. The most common place for them to appear is in the dermis, which is the mesodermic layer of skin or deeper parts of the dermis. If the tumor appears as an ulcerative plaque type tumor it is most likely a malignant tumor. They have the potential to multiply quickly.
This type of tumor will generally appear in the armpit or groin and are often mistaken for a type of dermatitis called pyotraumatic dermatitis. These are worsened by the constant biting, licking and other contact by the cat.
Apocrine adenomas will appear as lumps. Some of these lesions can be cystic. They are common in cats between 8 and 12 years of age and up. Rarely however, do the anal cysts appear in cats. In cats, surgical removal is recommended to avoid metastasis to the lymph nodes or the digestive system.
As with any cancer the diagnosis is made via a fine needle aspiration. Histopathology is preferred due to the technique used in preparing the slides and the staining of the tissue sections. Proper diagnosis will also determine prognosis, as it will tell the stage of the disease. The technique of histopathology also rules out other specific types of Cat Cancer.
The preferred treatment of this type of cancer is excision. If the margins of the removed tumor are clear, no other treatment is necessary. If, however, surgery is not possible, radiation therapy is used and can be effective treatment.
There is no clear cut prognosis. It depends on the findings found by the veterinary pathologist.
There are several other types of apocrine gland tumors. Adenomas of the anal sac are seldom malignant. It is difficult to determine if they are benign or malignant.
Anal gland carcinomas arise from the apocrine secretory epithelium in the wall of the anal sac. There are some cat breeds that are prone to these as well.
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SAINT PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Swarm (8-8) clinched a home playoff game after defeating the Colorado Mammoth (5-11) 12-8 on Treasure Island Field at Xcel Energy Center in front of 9,623 fans during its final regular season game on Saturday night.
After sweeping the regular season series against the Mammoth, Minnesota will now host its first home playoff game since 2008 when it takes on the defending champion Washington Stealth (8-8) in a Divisional Semifinal match up on Saturday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. CDT on Treasure Island Field at Xcel Energy Center.
The Swarm sits at 2-1 against the Steath in regular season play. Minnesota defeated Washington 16-8 on Friday, Jan. 14 in Everett and 11-10 in an overtime victory at home on Saturday, Jan. 29 The Swarm fell to the Stealth in a 16-15 overtime loss at Comcast Arena at Everett on Saturday, April 9 when the two teams last met.
During the Swarm's last trip to the playoffs in 2010, Minnesota fell 14-10 in the first round of playoffs to the Stealth.
Leading the Swarm, F Ryan Benesch (3g, 5a) finished the 2011 regular season as the NLL overall points leader with 95 points. He also led the league with 46 goals. He was the only player in the league to record more than 45 goals and assists. Benesch earned the first scoring crown in team history and tallied a career-high in both points and goals.
After trailing the Mammoth 4-2 in the second quarter, Minnesota scored a season-high 10 unanswered goals to secure the win in spite of a scoreless fourth quarter.
Goalie Nick Patterson recorded 37 saves on 45 shots in the win.
Tallying his ninth goal of the season, F Sean Pollock (2g) posted the Swarm's final goal of the regular season with 1:50 remaining in the third quarter to put the Swarm up 12-4. Forwards Jamie Shewchuk (3g, 1a) and Ryan Benesch each recorded a hat trick, and Aaron Wilson (1g, 2a) and Callum Crawford (2g, 4a) both notched a goal for Minnesota during the third quarter. At the end of the quarter, the Swarm led the Mammoth 12-4.
During the second quarter, F Kevin Ross (1g, 1a) brought Colorado's lead down to 4-3 after notching his ninth goal of the season. Shewchuck responded 25 seconds later to tie the game up at 4-4, after which Benesch netted his 45th goal of the season to give Minnesota its first lead of the game at 5-4. With 1:04 remaining, Crawford tallied the final goal of the period to give the Swarm a 6-4 halftime lead.
In the first quarter, Pollock scored the first Swarm goal of the game at the 8:41 mark to bring Colorado's lead down to 2-1. Benesch posted the final goal of the quarter with 7:51 remaining to tie the game up at 2-2.
Forward John Grant (1g, 4a) led Colorado with five points. Goalies Chris Levis and Matt King made a combined 33 saves on 45 shots.
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Katherine Dennis expected to have her first baby at a hospital, not her stepmother's home.
She anticipated dealing with doctors, not firefighters in a makeshift delivery room.
Dennis was supposed to deliver at Carolinas Medical Center in Pineville. She went to the hospital early Monday morning, but was sent home at 4 a.m.
Landen Scott Dennis arrived five hours later.
"He was born at 9:32 this morning," Dennis said Monday.
Dennis was at stepmother Sherri Kiser's home on Kensington Avenue in Gastonia when she went into labor.
"It was quite different than I had expected," Dennis said. "He is my first child. They always say that you know you're in labor. And I knew I was in labor, but I didn't know I was quite that far along."
Kiser, a retired nurse, instructed Dennis to lie on the floor. She saw the baby crowning so she called 911 to get the help on the scene.
Dennis' contractions were coming about every two minutes.
Gastonia Fire Station 3 is just two miles away. A crew arrived seven minutes after the call went out at 9:23 a.m. Monday.
Firefighters respond to pregnancy calls around five times a year, according to Gastonia firefighter Jeremiah Thompson.
"When we were en route, we knew this one was different," he said.
The 911 dispatcher notified the crew of four this baby was coming — and sooner rather than later. They arrived to find the mother on the living room floor in advanced labor.
Dennis tried to wait as long as she could for the firefighters to arrive. She told them she needed to start pushing when they walked through the door.
The crew didn't have time to spare. Landen was born about 45 seconds to a minute after firefighters arrived, Thompson said.
"It just took me two pushes, and he was out and done," Dennis said.
Firefighter Kevin Bolick said he was getting oxygen ready, just in case, when he looked up and saw the baby.
Thompson placed the boy on his mother's chest. The healthy baby started crying about 10 seconds later. Five or six minutes after that, paramedics arrived to take mother and son to Gaston Memorial Hospital.
While the birth wasn't what Dennis was expecting, the new mom said she wasn't scared.
"I'm a nurse myself, and my stepmom is retired nurse. We both knew we were going to be in good hands," said Dennis, 23. "We both have a very strong faith so we knew that we weren't going to be alone during the process."
Father and husband Travis Dennis, 24, walked in the door just as his son came into the world. He'd left to go to work but hurried home when Dennis called him. His commute is about 10 minutes.
"He was just taken aback. I think we were all in shock that it had happened at the house," Dennis said. It wasn't a freak out thing at all."
Landen arrived as a perfectly healthy baby boy with no problems.
"And that's why I do attribute a lot of it to my faith. I knew I was going to be OK," Dennis said. "The only part that was getting me was the fact of not being able to push until they got there."
Landen was born two days before his due date.
"I had a traumatic birth when I was a baby, but he had a dramatic birth when he came into the world," Dennis said. "I'm just so happy he's here."
The firefighters on Ladder 3 don't take any credit for the delivery. They say they just assisted the mother.
"The mother was the real hero," Thompson said.
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The project Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) is an innovative policy research initiative focusing on linking climate change research with policy making and development. ACCC is a 3 year project started in June 2009 as a collaboration between UK, China and Switzerland; it is funded by the UK Department For International Development (DFID), the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC). ACCC is building on the results of a long standing collaboration between UK and China in the area of Climate Change adaptation.
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Some people think that the idiom "at any rate" is "at any road." I first noticed this inversion on the subtitles to the BBC drama South Riding (Bless all subtitlers: without them dialect driven BBC dramas would be as riddled with holes as the Queen's tea strainers.). The web confirms the widespread nature of the switch. Some examples:
: " At any road, it is disappointing to see a blogger who I respect write a post that essentially reads…. "
: " At any road, it's a very scary predicament when your in it"
: " At any road, I think in addition to feeling as if she is a special kind of friend, personally known or not, those who knew anything about what she has and has not done believed she had been betrayed enough."
: " At any road, I was forced to go BACK into the order and fix the expiration date on the CC info"
: " At any road, I don't follow the Survivor show AT ALL,"
I also see "any road" used as a substitute for "anyway". And oops, the last entry here is from the Oxford Dictionary telling me that's a common Northern English usage.
Well any road, the bear decided to go after something easier, like a great white shark.
How did you land up in here any road? Wot gots you to do in here?!
Well, any road, now that yer here, we might as well make the best of yer visit,
any road (up) chiefly Northern English informal term for anyway 'any road, I'm sure you'll make a go of it'"
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Nice find, fp. As I was looking over examples of "at any road," I thought there must be some semantic attractor out there influencing the switch – the sound leap from "rate" to "road" seems just too large to make without a bridge. But I couldn't think what the attractor might be. Having "anyroad" with the meaning of "anyway" would allow the speaker to add an "at" under the influence of "at any rate." Making "at any road" a blend as well as an eggcorn.
The speaker in South Riding, which is set in Yorkshire, was probably using "any road" in a dialectically correct way.
Last edited by kem (2011-07-08 13:31:21)
The gate/road/way family of adverbs and adverbial phrases in historical/dialectal English is humongous. The word "gate" ("path," "street"; from Old Icelandic "gata") was an especially fertile seedbed of things adverbial in Middle English. Here's the OED's listing, and I know they don't list a bunch of things that occurred in Middle English:
In combination with certain adjs. and advs., often with advb. genitive ending -s, as any gate(s. Also algate adv., another-gates adj., howgate adv., many gate adv., many gates adv., no-gate adv., no-gates adv., none-gate adv., none-gates adv., othergate adv. and adj., othergates adv. and adj., sogate adv., sogates adv., thus-gate adv., thus-gates adv., for which see those words.
For many of them, you can figure out the meaning by substituting "way(s)" or "wise" for "gate(s)."
At any gate, if you want to send your head spinning, read the amazingly long etymological note to "road" in the OED.
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Everyone here seems to be assuming that "at any rate" is correct and old, and that "at any road" is wrong, new, and a mishearing of "rate." Couldn't it just as easily be the other way around?
Anyway, I don't see the logic of "at any rate." What do rates have to do with anything?
"At any road" is not, apparently, an English idiom. "Any road" is. I suspect the "at" is a result of a blend with "at any rate." Though for some the path from "at any rate" to "at any road" probably does not go through "any road (=anyway)."
"Rate" in the idiom means "cost, price." The idea seems to be to pursue the action in the main clause no matter what the outlay (i.e., at any cost).
English has a number of "rate" idioms. "At this rate" also harks back to accounting, though most modern speakers probably think it has something to do with rate of speed.
kem wrote:
"At this rate" also harks back to accounting, though most modern speakers probably think it has something to do with rate of speed.
Indeed. To me the prototypical usage would be something like "at this rate we'll never get there!"
In a sense an interest rate or other accounting rate is a matter of speed (in an abstract sense: change in "size" rather than "position" over time) as well. Fwtw.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Jim Dixon wrote:
Everyone here seems to be assuming that "at any rate" is correct and old, and that "at any road" is wrong, new, and a mishearing of "rate." Couldn't it just as easily be the other way around?
There's a problem of evidence. "At any rate" in something approaching the current meaning is well attested, and goes back well over 300 years. But as Kem implied, it's pretty darn hard to find instances of "at any road" in the same sense in published writing. Also, even the phrase "any road" isn't attested till the very late 19th C; dialectal/regional usage often made it into print only very late, so it's possible "any road" is older than we know, but again the evidence doesn't seem to be available.
He also wrote:
Anyway, I don't see the logic of "at any rate." What do rates have to do with anything?
As Kem said, this could have developed as an extension of the "cost, price" meaning of "rate," and the OED entry might be read as implying that that's what they think, too. But "rate" could also mean "mode, manner, way in which something is done" by the early 16th C, so both the "manner" and "cost" meanings were available for "rate" by the time the idiom started showing up in the early 17th C. Since "anyways," "anygates," and much later "any road" could also mean something between "in any manner" and "in any case," I think it's at least possible that the development of "at any rate" was influenced by the ways/gates/-wise family of adverbs.
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Prairie Lights powered by Gexa Energy, 5610 Lake Ridge Parkway, Grand Prairie, Texas, has extended its last day to Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014.
"With Thanksgiving being so late this year and the days we lost due to the ice storm, our patrons are clamoring for more nights of lights," said Event Manager Beverly Grogan. "So, we will continue operations through Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014."
The always-popular two-mile drive featuring four million lights that drew 168,000 visitors in 2012, is better than ever in 2013 with all new custom displays. Prairie Lights powered by Gexa Energy will be open from 6-9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday non-holidays and 6-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday and holidays, now-Jan. 5. Non-holiday Monday through Thursday, cars are $20. Holidays and Friday through Sunday, cars are $30, which includes Dec. 24, Dec. 25, Dec. 31 and Jan 1. Rates for larger vehicles vary. Check www.prairielights.org for rates or call 972-237-GLOW (4569).
The theme park also offers a unique out-of-car experience in Holiday Village midway through the drive with concessions, carnival rides and gifts. Photos with Santa start at $10 through Dec. 23. For an additional $5/adult and $3/child, guests will enjoy Holiday Happiness, an all-new crackling-with-joy 15-minute musical show featuring holiday song and spirit performed by the talented professional actors and singers of the Texas Family Musicals who dance up a winter snowstorm, delivering a blizzard of laughs through Dec. 31. The always-popular Holiday Magic Walk-Through Forest, for an additional $3/adult and $2/child, is so full of lights all will be amazed.
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The plan would reduce the state prison population by 27,000, providing desperately needed relief for a system holding 171,000 inmates--nearly twice capacity. The Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, supports the plan, which reduces the penalties for some crimes and allows some convicts to serve their time at home.
Legislative Republicans, however, say the entire plan is soft on crime. That's enough to cause serious problems in the Assembly. Several Democrats there are eyeing higher office. Others face tough re-election bids. A "soft-on-crime" label could kill their political careers.
Faced with the choice of trying to fix an overburdened system or saving their own skin, the politicians look out for themselves. Assembly Speaker Karen Bass scrambles until midnight to find enough votes. It doesn't work.
Eleven days later, the Assembly passes a dramatically watered-down version of prison reform, a bill so flawed it leaves a $300 million hole in the state budget. Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg vows not to allow his house to vote on the Assembly's version unless further reforms are added, but his threat falls on deaf ears. On Sept. 11, with no further reforms in sight, the Senate passes the Assembly's watered-down bill.
The mere possibility of looking soft on crime has sent the Legislature to its knees.
Up and down the Golden State, from San Francisco to San Diego, voters consistently put their support behind tough-on-crime candidates, tough-on-crime ballot initiatives, tough-on-crime sentencing laws. Everyone wants to punish the bad guys and keep them off the streets. In the current fiscal year alone, public safety spending will consume $13.5 billion – 11 percent of the state's total budget.
But there are consequences to this mindset.
At a time when the state is struggling with its finances, the spiraling costs of California's focus on public safety have tied the hands of budget-makers who want to spend more on education and social services – and have given power, influence and wealth to the state's law enforcement community. Consider:
•California has the most costly state prisons in the nation. But the $8 billion a year system is plagued by inconsistent and outdated policies that have led to severe overcrowding and high recidivism. California's lock-em-up mentality gets criminals off the streets—but New York has cut crime far more by keeping fewer convicts in prison. (See graphic)
•State and local governments are buckling under the weight of generous public safety pensions, which were given to police, firefighters and prison guards without a sufficient examination of future costs. Pension costs have driven one city to bankruptcy and pushed others in that direction. Since the pensions were liberalized in 1999, state pension resources have fallen from a surplus of $32.8 billion to an unfunded actuarial liability of $35 billion last year, according to the state's own numbers.
•California has become more protective of its police than any state in the nation. Police and prison guard unions and other public safety lobbies have secured laws that keep the public from gaining access to police disciplinary records, making it almost impossible to publicly identify offending officers and determine whether they are being adequately punished.
Meanwhile, the services California provides to all its citizens are in trouble:
State spending on primary education is mediocre. A 2008 study by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office found that California spent $7,673 per K-12 student, 25th out of the nation's 50 states. (See report in PDF, p. 57) Budget cuts this year could push the state further down the list.
California roads are among the worst in the nation. A 2009 study by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and TRIP, a national highway research group, rated 66 percent of California roads as mediocre to poor, fourth worst in the country. (See report in PDF, p. 10)


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Marin Alpine Trail 29er 29er Hardtail
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Product DescriptionMarin Alpine Trail's big wheels equal big speed. Every Marin 29er is designed to elevate your ride. Combining Marin's proprietary 29er geometry with the inherent qualities of larger 29" wheels, every bike offers a stable ride that rolls over roots, rails
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Date Reviewed: October 6, 2013
Strengths: Components value for price paid are better than the competition. Drive train brakes, fork, all higher end compared to others at this price point. I bought the 2013 version at the 2014 model turnover time for about a 30% discount. Shopped around and around almost too much at a bunch of local shops and the Marin came out the winner by a good margin.
Weaknesses: Higher end components would push this past 1k real fast
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Price Paid: $600.00
Similar Products Used: Trek, Specialized, Kona
Date Reviewed: August 19, 2013
Strengths: The weight is reasonable and the brakes and drive train work well it is a good value 29er
Weaknesses: nothing apparent
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Date Reviewed: January 14, 2013
Strengths: the parts, pretty much anything NONE Marin, the Shimano components, the Fox fork etc.
Weaknesses: The Frame, duh.
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Date Reviewed: September 9, 2012
Strengths: Feel solid, gears shift smoothly, really like the 29'er tiires. It really seems to climb well.
Weaknesses: I changed out the seat, and put on better pedals. The front shock adjustments are clunky, except for the lockout.
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Purchased At: REI
Date Reviewed: September 2, 2012
Strengths: Solid frame
Brakes work great
Decent form for price
Weaknesses: Super wide handle bar
Bottom Line:
I highly recommend this bike!
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Purchased At: Rei
Date Reviewed: June 26, 2012
Strengths: Continental Race King 2.0 tires - yeah, these work
Brakes - very good, as for mechanic brakes
Weaknesses: Frame - cracked within 1 year
Saddle - the worst saddle I ever used
Fork - very poor performance, than failed
Grips - slips when you ride
Hubs - poor
Rims - weak
All the drivetrain - poor
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Purchased At: REI
Date Reviewed: June 5, 2012
Strengths: Handles great, comfortable position, good components for price point.
Weaknesses: Bit heavy, grips, pedals.
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Price Paid: $722.00
Purchased At: REI
Date Reviewed: October 19, 2011
Strengths: Handles great, fast, very good components, awesome for the big guys- 6'6 230.
Weaknesses: could use a better tires and seat
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $700.00
Purchased At: Sun & Ski Sports
Similar Products Used: none
Date Reviewed: June 20, 2011
Strengths: Great entry level 29er! Just a few upgrades make it better!
Ruby SL, brake levers, clipless pedals, cranks, stem and bars and grips. Also made single speed!
Weaknesses: Still kinda heavy- lighter hubs/rims would help
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid: $600.00
Purchased At: REI
Bike Setup: Ruby SL Fork, brake levers, clipless pedals, cranks, stem and bars and grips. Also made single speed!
Date Reviewed: June 15, 2011
Strengths: Geometry perfect for my build and style of riding, frame (strong) not overly heavy and very worthy of upgrades.
Weaknesses: Stock Forks, Cranks, wheelset, bars are poor quality but expected on a $800.00 29er hardtail
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $800.00
Purchased At: Sun and Ski
Similar Products Used: Marin Palisades trail 29er (bad geometry) Giant XTC 29er, Haro Ally SS 29er.
Bike Setup: Rock Shox Recon Gold forks, Stylo Team 3.3 Cranks, Easton EC 90 low rise bar, Stans ZTR ARCH Wheelset, SRAM X7 hubs, SPD 540 Pedals SLX Front Der, SLX shifters, XT Rear Der. Continental Race King 2.2's tires front and rear
Date Reviewed: May 19, 2011
Strengths: Seems to have good quality Components compared to last 29er. This also seems to roll better and I just like the overall feel of this bike. I tried this bike to compare it to my specialized Rockhopper Comp 29er Disc. and it came up a winner. I personally like the shocks, stering and Brakes better. I'm 5'11" and about 215lbs and ride as much as possible in dry weather (50 to 150 miles a week) I have a 26" mountain Bike and a 700C touring bike. All Bikes use the same shifters and have Disc brakes, but the alpine will be the mainstay for a while I love it.
Weaknesses: I would love to see a chain guard since it will be seeing allot of street use.
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $795.00
Purchased At: REI
Similar Products Used: specialized Rockhopper comp 29er/ Specialized Hard Rock 29er / Tested a Felt 29er but couldn't see spending the price difference.
Bike Setup: Added a new stem with riser adjustment. Changed the peddals to Well-go the rest is stock.
Date Reviewed: March 25, 2011
Strengths: good and smooth, rides well and once you get it going it does not want to stop
Weaknesses: wish i had just a tad bit smaller frame ,i ended up getting the xl size and I am 6ft 1inch
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Price Paid: $675.00
Purchased At: city cyclist
Similar Products Used: fugi nevada, traK 4 series 4700
Bike Setup: all stock
Date Reviewed: November 5, 2010
Strengths: Paint job.
Weaknesses: Frame (on the 2008 & 2009 versions). The components are low end, but I don't view that as a weekness. It was not an expensive bike, the components are what you should expect from a lower end bike.
Bottom Line:
Purchase with caution. If you are a rail-to-trail type of rider, you'll probably be fine. If you're more aggressive than that, I'd steer you away from this bike.
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Price Paid: $400.00
Purchased At: ING DIRECT Web Store
Similar Products Used: Specialized Stumpjumper Comp 29.
Bike Setup: Non stock. There isn't a part on the bike that is stock. All has been completely upgraded.
Date Reviewed: August 15, 2010
Strengths: Overall quality, ergonomic and LOOK
Weaknesses: Still looking for one
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $749.00
Purchased At: REI
Bike Setup: Effortless: well engineered all the way through
Date Reviewed: April 11, 2010
Strengths: SIZE, STRENGTH
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid: $675.00
Purchased At: R.E.I.
Similar Products Used: GT
Bike Setup: STOCK
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Weezy wrote:Hill might not truly be a C, but I don't think we have any choice but to play him there as we have no other backup C. Pau cannot be the starting PF and backup C, he will be worn out by mid-season, especially after the olympics this summer. I actually do think Hill is a C in today's NBA though, he boards like one, defends like one, and is better around the rim than further out from it.
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gill wrote:We also signed Meeks???
DMK wrote:ZenMaster4President wrote:
Nuff Said!!!
MITCH! So many quality posts all around CL. Just lovely seeing all of this!
Tobias Funke wrote:Mitch you magnificent bastard!
Balance&Options24 wrote:Mitch is playing chess with diamond studded pieces while everyone else is playing marbles with rocks.
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Kobe8Fan wrote:Jodie Meeks' Agent: Jodie Meeks Won't Take Veteran's Minimum
By Mark Medina
August 6, 2012, 3:13 p.m.
How will the Lakers fill out the rest of their bench?
It's possible the answer lies with Devin Ebanks, Jodie Meeks or both.
Whoever it is, the Lakers hope they can find a backcourt player who could reduce Kobe Bryant's minutes and provide needed outside shooting. Philadelphia 76ers shooting guard Meeks could fill that description since the 25-year-old shot in the high 30% range in the past two seasons. Meeks' agent, David Bauman, said Meeks is on the Lakers' radar and that of "four or five" other unspecified teams. But Bauman said Meeks' interest with the Lakers could hinge on a significant variable.
"We're happy to talk, but we're not talking minimum for a guy like Jodie," Bauman told The Times in a phone interview on Monday. "He'll get more than the minimum wherever he signs."
The Lakers have a mini mid-level exception worth $3 million, but General Manager Mitch Kupchak said on July 25 that it's unlikely they'll use it unless there's "credible value." The Lakers were hoping to add players only at the veteran's minimum worth $1.5 million, an option veteran forward Antawn Jamison chose despite making $15.1 million last season with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
BDG wrote:The fact that we got him for so cheap is an absolute steal.
gill wrote:We also signed Meeks???
Tobias Funke wrote:gill wrote:We also signed Meeks???
This made me picture fans rejoicing about Dwight being a Laker and out of nowhere Mitch pops up dressed like Billy Mays and screams "But wait! There's more!!!!" and announces the Meeks signing.
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One of the Las Vegas' famous faces was among the preview crowd wandering wide-eyed through the lobby of the Aria Resort & Casino, the showpiece of the new CityCenter, the most extravagant megaresort in the city's history.
"It's beyond belief; it's so awesome you can't take it all in," said Siegfried Fischbacher, the blond partner of the Siegfried & Roy tiger-and-illusion show that performed for almost five decades. In a wheelchair at his side was his dark-haired partner, Roy Horn, who was injured by one of the tigers in 2003, closing the long-running act.
"The city has been on kind of a roller-coaster," Fischbacher said. "This is going to bring new life to Las Vegas."
Even in a city with its own Eiffel Tower, Great Pyramid and Venetian canal, CityCenter is an audacious array of art and architecture. With a price tag of $8.5 billion, the largest privately funded project in U.S. history, the complex of buildings on 67 acres next to the Bellagio on the Strip is a high-stakes bet that nearly folded.
"We had a very near-death experience" is how Bill McBeath, president and chief operating officer of Aria, put it. The project was conceived some five years ago as a 50 percent joint venture between MGM Mirage, owner of Bellagio and other resort properties, and a subsidiary of Dubai World, the investment company once thought to have pockets as deep as its oil wells.
The old Boardwalk Hotel and Casino, in between the Monte Carlo and Bellagio, was torn down and construction began on CityCenter. Then came the world financial crisis and the two partners had a spat, with Dubai World suing MGM Mirage last spring.
"Just like every corporation in America, we had the economic downtown create some trouble for us," spokesman Gordon Absher said. "There was a point where CityCenter was very close to bankruptcy."
Thanks to a restructuring of loans, CityCenter pushed on to completion and today is on "a solid financial footing and has what the financial world refers to as a good amount of runway ahead of us," Absher said.
Some of the 7,000 rooms in the hotels are being offered for sale as condos, and prices have been slashed 30 percent, bringing an entry level unit to about $400,000.
That's why there was as much relief as elation at December's grand opening, where Bobby Baldwin, chief executive of CityCenter, looked out over an open-air news conference called in front of Aria, spread his arms and said: "It's hard to believe you can get all this for just $8.5 billion."
Billed as an "urban metropolis" and a "city within a city," CityCenter consists of:
•Aria, a 61-story, 4,004-room resort with 11 restaurants featuring a roster of celebrity chefs. The hotel contains the project's one casino, the only place where smoking is allowed in CityCenter. Its spa has 62 treatment rooms and 800,000 square feet of space. Nightly rates range from $149 to $799 for rooms, $500 to $7,000 for suites.
•Las Vegas' first Mandarin Oriental, a 47-story luxury hotel with a 23rd-floor "sky lobby" and lounge overlooking The Strip. The hotel has 392 guest rooms and 227 residences. The two-story spa is an elegant sanctuary in this neon city.
•Vdara Hotel & Spa, a 57-story, all-suite boutique hotel with 1,495 rooms, each with a kitchen and most with a washer and dryer. The hotel, which will sell condos, connects to Bellagio by a walkway. Nightly rates range from $149 to $2,000.
•Veer Towers, twin 37-story buildings designed with a five-degree tilt that makes them eye-catching even amid the city's glittery skyline. The towers are the only strictly residential buildings in the complex.
•The Harmon, a 400-room luxury boutique hotel that will open later in 2010. Construction problems delayed the opening.
•Crystals, a 500,000-square-foot enclosed retail and entertainment district that will have Cartier, Dior, Prada, Tiffany, Versace and Vuitton among its high-end shops.