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Alan Calvert's Milo Barbell Company began to offer its adjustable barbells at the turn of the 20th century, giving rise to progressive resistance training. Before then, bodybuilders lifted fixed weights. "When people could change the plates and incrementally add weight, it made it easier for them to see their progress and train," says Jan Todd, a professor in the Kinesiology and Health Education department at the University of Texas at Austin. Today, plate-loading free weights and machines such as chest presses, shoulder presses, and leg curls save gym owners countless square feet of floor space.
Thaddeus Fairbanks built the first platform scale in Vermont in 1830. The invention ushered in a new, important motivator: knowledge of one's weight. Regular weighing remained uncommon until the insurance industry became intrigued by the metric; insurers wanted to know their clients' weights because heft had been linked to an increased risk of death, writes science journalist Gina Kolata in her book Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss—and the Myths and Realities of Dieting. The bathroom scale, with its promise of privacy, appeared at the turn of the 20th century. Another key staying-slim tool would soon follow: the full-length mirror.
From the Greek words for "beautiful" and "strength," calisthenics was practiced in ancient Greece and had one of its first American advocates in Catharine Beecher, who founded a girls school in Hartford, Connecticut. Beecher taught a system of calisthenics there that she devised, incorporating principles from Per Henrik Ling's Swedish gymnastics as well as music. The body-weight-as-resistance exercises intended to improve the coordination, health, and general vitality of females were recognized as beneficial to men as well; they remain an important part of military fitness regiments—and, really, the regimen of any gym-goer.
Gatorade's blend of carbohydrates and electrolytes debuted at the University of Florida in 1965. Inspired by a desire to help the Gators' football players, who were suffering the negative effects of dehydration after playing for hours in the heat, the drink replaces lost salts and helps athletes stay hydrated. "It made everybody all of a sudden aware that we need to hydrate," says Todd. "It's hard to believe, but it wasn't always that way."
The modern athletic shoe evolved from the plimsoll shoes of 19th-century England. Early shoes included Charles Goodyear's mid-19th Century invention of vulcanized rubber not only on the soles—which were quiet, allowing wearers to "sneak" around—but also at the toes, preventing the big toe from breaking through. Keds became the first mass-market athletic shoe in 1916, and various performance-enhancing design changes followed. The most famous was perhaps the Nike waffle sole, invented when University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman poured rubber onto his family's waffle iron.
When the 10-speed bicycle came to the U.S. from Europe with its additional options, increased ease of use and streamlined design that reduced drag and added speed, baby boomers fell in love. By the early 1970s, a full-on bicycle craze had begun and manufacturers like Schwinn were facing shortages. "I remember all of a sudden, everybody seemed to want a 10-speed bike," says Todd. Suddenly, biking wasn't just for kids. The 1980s would bring the modern stationary bike, an update of the crank-operated Gymnasticon of the late 18th century. Countless sweaty Spinning classes would follow.
Its namesake is a mill operated by a person or animal treading the steps of a wheel to grind grain. And the physical labor continued through the years: Prisoners sometimes walked early treadmills in 19th-century England and in New York at the Bellevue Penitentiary, where they generating power. By the 1960s, research by Kenneth Cooper led to the idea that the treadmill could be an important tool for aerobic exercise. Today, some treadmills have returned to their roots as sources of power. Gyms like the Green Microgym of Portland offer treadmills that harness the power of walkers and runners to generate electricity.
In the late 19th century, physiologist Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard discovered he felt "rejuvenated" after injecting himself with testicular extracts from dogs and guinea pigs. Decades later, in 1935, scientists isolated and chemically synthesized testosterone (two of them, Adolf Butenandt and Leopold Ruzicka, won a Nobel for their work). Anabolic steroids, synthetic derivatives of testosterone, were used as performance enhancers among Olympic weightlifters in the 1950s. Although now illegal in professional athletics due to their long-term negative health affects and performance-altering effects, steroids grab the spotlight every sports season with the stars that take them spurring no shortage of controversy along the way.
Before personal trainers rose to their current level of ubiquity, weightlifters who'd watched Ah-nold at Gold's Gym in the 1977 film Pumping Iron would ask gym employees—or the guy in the best shape—for help. Today's trainers "trick" muscles through periodization—changing up a workout so the body doesn't have time to adapt—while also providing accountability, injury prevention, and general guidance. Some exercises involve complex movement patterns, says Mike Fantigrassi, a specialist with the National Academy of Sports Medicine. As with a sport like golf, "it takes coaching to do something right if you haven't done it before," he says.
This little sensor that fits in a Nike+ shoe (or that may be worn on a runner's own pair) enables tracking of performance indicators like speed and distance, as well as the ability to map a route. It relays information via a voice that becomes both pedometer and pace coach, providing real-time feedback and encouragement on the route. There's also the ability to select a "power song" for an extra boost. Users of the system can upload their workout information to the Web to track their progress and plan a training schedule. Users can also join an online running community, giving runners access to one of the most important tools of training: competition. —Jennifer Weiss


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For 16 years UNICEF and Starwood Hotels and Resorts have been working together to raise funds for the world's most vulnerable children – with over USS7 million raised since the program began.
The UNICEF Check Out for Children Challenge is a staff fundraising competition between the various Starwood Hotels which began in 2003 – and continues to gather strong support throughout Starwood Hotels and Resorts in the Asia Pacific region.
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COLUMBUS — The Ohio House moved closer to a vote Wednesday on a sweeping package of spending and policy initiatives spearheaded by Gov. John Kasich, after stripping out his signature tax provision on oil and gas.
Kasich's fellow Republicans in the House opted to pull the proposal for more study. It calls for increasing Ohio's severance tax on oil and gas production by 4 percent and spending the revenue on income-tax relief. The governor continued to fight for its inclusion, however.
A House vote was scheduled Wednesday afternoon on the midterm budget bill after dozens of committee changes were made Tuesday. The changes included pulling from the bill a provision that sent Planned Parenthood to the back of the line for federal funding, but keeping a provision that establishes state trooper authority in privately owned correctional facilities.
Kasich's administration took the unusual step of crafting the bill outside the normal two-year budget cycle, as a way to move forward with policy initiatives the governor launched last year after taking office.
The measure headed to the House floor over the objections of local government and school groups that wanted to see the spending plan send more state revenue to police, fire and school district coffers hit by an earlier round of budget cuts. To that end, Democrats sought to create a revolving Kids and Communities First Fund, but were unsuccessful.
Under the Democrats' proposal, Kids and Communities First would initially be funded by projected surplus tax revenue and dollars from the state's rainy-day fund then, as an ongoing money source, be funded from Kasich's proposed tax hike on oil and gas extraction.
Kasich wants to hike oil and gas extraction taxes to 4 percent in two or three years. Energy companies swarming the state in search of new natural gas and oil resources in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays would have the option to waive the tax to offset startup costs. Income tax reductions would begin in 2015, and deepen as proceeds rose.
The oil and gas industry opposes the tax increase as a deterrent to industry growth that Kasich is counting on to improve the state's economy. But the governor has dismissed their concerns, saying they can't get to the oil and gas unless they come to Ohio.
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MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. - Sarah Saunders allowed only one unearned run in 6 1/3 innings, while Jesse Crist and Rebekah McDaniel sparked the offense with two runs batted in apiece as Mount Olive defeated Pfeiffer 6-1 in game one of a Conference Carolinas softball doubleheader Friday at Nancy Chapman Cassell Field. The twinbill was the Trojans' home finale. Pfeiffer gained a split with a 5-3 victory in game two as the Falcons rallied with four runs in the sixth inning.
Mount Olive (20-14, 8-4 Conference Carolinas) broke a scoreless tie in game one with four runs in the bottom of the third after the first two Trojan batters were retired. Three consecutive walks loaded the bases and Kalie Smith was hit by a pitch to bring in the first run. Robbin Kennedy scored the second run on a wild pitch and another walk loaded the bases again.
McDaniel then drove in the final two runs with a line single to center, the Trojans only hit of the inning. Mount Olive sent 10 batters to the plate in the inning. Crist singled in runs in the fourth and sixth innings for the Trojans.
Saunders (3-0) got out of a one-out bases loaded jam in the second with a strikeout looking and a groundout. She scattered eight hits and overcame leadoff hits in each of the first four innings. Saunders struck out two and walked two before giving way to Lauren Smith in the seventh. Smith retired both batters she faced.
Pfeiffer (15-26, 5-11) avoided the shutout on Kirsten Pattersons rbi-triple in the fifth inning after a Falcon runner reached base on an error.
In the nightcap, Megan Ready sparked a two-run rally in the bottom of the fifth as the Trojans broke a 1-1 tie. Ready, making her first plate appearance of the day, kept the inning alive with a two-out single. Kennedy capped a 10-pitch at bat with a double to left-center to drive in Ready and give Mount Olive its first lead of the game. Kennedy scored on Christie Wrights single up the middle to give the Trojans a 3-1 lead.
Wright (3-6) got the start in the circle for Mount Olive and limited Pfeiffer to a single run through five innings before running into trouble in the sixth. Ashlee Ellen led off with a single and the Falcons loaded the bases on a one-out single by Tyresha Ellis and a walk to the No. 9 batter. Ellen scored on Celia Fews sacrifice fly and Pfeiffer tied the game 3-3 on Emily Workmans rbi-single. Melanie Conklin put the Falcons ahead to stay with a two-run triple to right-center.
Pfeiffers defense robbed the Trojans of potential base hits in the bottom of the sixth. Kalie Smith hit a shot that appeared to be going through the left side, but Falcon third baseman Ellen gloved the ball on the first hop to prevent the base hit. Left fielder Sadie Saine, who had just entered the game that inning, made a shoestring catch on Crists line drive. Falcon pitcher Shelby Brown (8-8) went the distance and retired the side in order in the bottom of the seventh for the win.
Wright reached base in each of her six plate appearances in the doubleheader. After going 1-for-1 with a single and three walks in the opener, she was 2-for-2 with a single, double and walk in game two.


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The 2012 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, released Wednesday, is a snapshot of how federal employees view their jobs.
But the results also indicate how well federal managers are doing theirs — measuring how effective they are at recruiting and retaining a quality federal workforce.
As with overall federal-employee satisfaction scores, the Human Capital Assessment and Accountability Framework Index trended downward in 2012.
Habitual high-scorers, such as NASA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, continued to sit atop the list. But the report also singled out the Office of Management and Budget for its notable improvements.
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The Office of Personnel Management bases the HCAAF index on a combination of four measurements from the survey: leadership and knowledge management, results- oriented performance culture, talent management and job satisfaction.
Governmentwide, scores across all of those factors fell slightly from 2011 levels. Leadership and knowledge-management scores dropped 2 percentage points to 60 percent. Scores measuring agencies' progress on creating a results-driven culture and job satisfaction also fell 2 percentage points to 52 percent and 66 percent, respectively. Talent management sustained a single point drop to 59 percent.
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That's why Kinston's boys are a win away from yet another state championship.
Tiquan Canady, Qwarri Ham and Jeremy Taylor are three who know their roles, stick to them, and enjoy getting down and dirty while the rest of their teammates fill up the stat sheet.
Canady, a junior, is known as the enforcer, whose sole purpose is to provide valuable minutes off the bench banging in the paint. Ham, a junior, is known as Mr. Hustle, whose job is to be a sparkplug and to energize the team and the crowd with his no-holds-barred approach to defense. And Taylor, a senior starter, is known as the doorman, whose job is set screens and box out.
"We do whatever it takes (to win)," Taylor said.
When Kinston, which will face Waxhaw Cuthbertson at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill for the NCHSAA state 2A title at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, suffered its last loss 19 games ago, Canady, Ham and Taylor weren't relishing their roles.
The loss — a 50-47 setback to Cuthbertson in the HighSchoolOT.com Holiday Invitational — was a wake-up call for the trio. Ham didn't play, Taylor played only one quarter and Canady wasn't his usual self.
Since then, they — and their teammates — have been rolling.
"The hustle comes from running in practice, wanting to go to the state championship game — just wanting it all — and thinking about what happened during the Christmas tournament," Ham said.
Ham showed his improvement and responsibility when his hustle against SouthWest Edgecombe in the semifinals of the Eastern Plain 2A Conference tournament got coach Perry Tyndall off the bench and electrified the crowd in the Vikings' win.
Ham forced a steal on the defensive end then chased down the loose ball to the wing, fell on it, did a somersault, then kicked it out to Brandon Ingram while lying on his back.
Ingram caught the ball near his ankles, dribbled it loosely then passed back to Ham, who stepped up and drained a 3 that sent Tyndall into a frenzy of excitement.
On more than one occasion, Taylor has been the one to seal off the lane as Denzel Keyes comes flying through for an alley-oop from Josh Dawson in either an out-of-bounds play, a set play or in transition.
In the second round against Pittsboro Northwood, Canady got his much-deserved first varsity dunk that brought cheers from the Kinston bench.
The excitement came because usually it's Canady who's keeping the opponent from getting to the rim.
"It's all about being tough — that's my role," Canady said.
Odds are, Canady, Ham or Taylor won't be the ones who fill up the stat sheet against the Cavaliers on Saturday.
But if the Vikings win, they will be a big reason why.
"I think any team that makes it this far has those guys that are willing to do anything you ask of them," Tyndall said.
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Julie and I will be there.
Julie and I will be there.
"...a glass can only spill what it contains..."
That was my first meeting and also my first time at Roosters. I had a good time and I'm really looking forward to the next meeting!
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Hey for those that paid their membership Sat. check the list out and make sure I gotcha. If not sorry and let me know. The membership list is under "General" then LDGC Membership Form.
YUP! Good meeting, good times, good food!
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Good meeting Steve! I had a great time and I have a feeling this is going to be an awesome year for disc golf in the greater Louisville area. If anyone is sittin on the fence, not sure if they should join the club or not, now is the time. Be a part of history in the making.
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Sorry I missed the meeting . I had planned on being there, but I was still cutting trees off the driveway until sunday. No electric, no phone, and no cell phone reception. Hope someone will fill me in at a later date.
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OXFORD, Ohio - The Miami University women's basketball team let Eastern Michigan hang around, but not for long.
The RedHawks pulled away in the second half, earning a 70-48 victory over the Eagles Sunday afternoon at Millett Hall.
Miami (11-6 overall, 3-1 Mid-American Conference) has won three straight and is 5-1 in its last six games.
"Finally a big win," MU coach Maria Fantanarosa said. "We've talked to the team about when you get a lead, continuing to build that lead. We feel like we can be a deep team, we feel like we have a lot of talent and today in the second half - with some defensive adjustments - you got to see the up-tempo (offense we've been hoping for)."
Miami, which led 33-29 at halftime, struggled in the first 15 minutes, giving up easy baskets in the paint. The hosts were outscored 24-10 down low despite holding a 22-14 advantage on the boards.
Eastern Michigan (3-14, 1-3 MAC) led 25-20 with 6:49 left, but the RedHawks started to pack in the zone and force the visitors to take outside shots. Miami closed out the first half with a 13-4 run and broke the game open after the break.
"The last five minutes of the first half our defense, we just shut them down," said senior point guard Courtney Osborn, who had a team-high 18 points with four assists. "We had ball pressure, obviously they didn't hit outside shots and when they did get the ball down low, we contested it and we blocked out."
Osborn continued, "We did a great job in transition today. That really sparked our offense in the second half."
The RedHawks didn't allow an EMU field goal until the 6:33 mark and held the Eagles to 34.5 percent shooting. Eastern Michigan also struggled from both beyond the arc and the charity stripe, shooing 3-for-17 and 5-of-17, respectively.
Miami was 38.6 percent from the floor and 6-of-22 from deep. The hosts were also solid from the free throw line, making 20-of-24 attempts.
"Our offense started to click today," Osborn said. "You saw our timing get better and things started to roll."
The RedHawks outscored the Eagles 37-19 after the break and stepped up their play inside, as four post players finished with six points or more.
Kirsten Olowinski, despite foul trouble in the first half, tallied 12 points and nine rebounds, while Erica Almady finished with six points and a team-high 12 rebounds.
Jessica Rupright chipped in six points and seven boards, while Hannah McCue scored six points and had two rebounds.
"I thought we had a lot of contributions from every post player that played," Fantanarosa said.
Miami had 18 second-chance points, compared to EMU's two. The RedHawks also outrebounded the Eagles, 50-30.
Junior guard Hannah Robertson scored 13 points and added eight rebounds.
"I'm really confident in where we are right now and we are going to keep making strides," Almady said.
Next up, Miami travels to play Bowling Green Wednesday at 7 p.m.


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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, State Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, compared Ohio's energy efficiency laws to former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's five-year plan. Seitz is leading the charge on a review of the state's energy efficiency and renewable energy standards, which CityBeat covered in further detail here. The review has been supported by Akron-based First Energy, an energy company that has long opposed Ohio's energy efficiency standards. But environmental groups say they're worried the review will water down a law that has brought clean energy and jobs to the state.
Cincinnati is poised to approve a lease of Music Hall that will allow renovations to move forward. The plan would lease the Music Hall for 75 years to carry out renovations that will likely cost between $50 million and $100 million, with the city contributing about $10 million. CityBeat covered the plan when it was first announced here.
In the midst of Cincinnati's heated budget battle, the Ohio Casino Control Commission will release its monthly revenue estimates for Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino today. City officials estimated that about $9 million to $11 million will be available at a City Council meeting Thursday — seemingly the only point of agreement in a testy exchange over the city's budget that left city leaders with no consensus on local budget woes. Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley and others have proposed using casino revenue to help balance the city's budget without layoffs, but Cranley's $21 million estimate has drawn criticism for being unrealistic.
The Ohio House is likely to propose alternatives to Gov. John Kasich's budget plan this week. State legislators have criticized Kasich's plan for favoring the wealthy, raising taxes for many Ohioans and expanding Medicaid with the use of federal funds. CityBeat covered the governor's plan in further detail here.
National parks around Ohio are cutting hours and hiring because of sequestration, a series of across-the-board budget cuts that began March 1 after congressional inaction. The cuts have forced the James A. Garfield National Historic Site at Mentor, Ohio, to close on Sundays, which means about 30,000 tourists will be unable to visit this year, according to Todd Arrington, chief of interpretation and education at the park.
Ohio's rural speed limit is being changed to 70 mph, and signs will soon reflect that.
Margaret Thatcher, Great Britain's only female prime minister, died at age 87.
A fusion rocket could shoot people to Mars in 30 days.
City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. and other city administration officials say the city will have to carry out Plan B, which would lay off 344 city employees, including 189 cops and 80 firefighters. But council members Chris Seelbach, P.G. Sittenfeld, Charlie Winburn and Chris Smitherman claim there are other ways — casino revenue and cuts elsewhere — to balance the budget.
The meeting got testy after a few council members called the city administration "disingenuous" for framing Plan B and the parking plan as the only two budget options, prompting Mayor Mark Mallory to slam council members for attempting to pin the city's budget woes on the city administration.
"I don't think anyone in the administration wants to see their colleagues laid off," Mallory said. "The administration makes a recommendation to this mayor and to this council. The final decision makers are the elected leaders."
He added, "What's disingenuous is to create a crisis and then criticize the administration for its response to the crisis when those responsible for dealing with the crisis are the elected leaders. It would be like an arsonist setting a building on fire and then complaining about how long it took the fire department to get there and what equipment they used to put out the fire."
Lea Eriksen, the city's budget director, said the ideas she heard at the special session today would not be enough to close the budget gap.
Throughout the discussion, the city administration repeatedly dismissed ideas presented by council members as not enough to overcome the city's $35 million deficit and avoid layoffs. By the city administration's admission, even Plan B would only close about $26 million of the projected deficit.
How that budget gap is closed may come with additional expenses. Eriksen said the budget gap may reach $45 million if the city carries out Plan B because the city would also be forced to pay for accrued leave and unemployment insurance.
Still, Assistant City Manager David Holmes admitted the city could balance the deficit without Plan B or the parking plan, but the numbers must "add up" and would require direction from City Council.
When the discussion came to casino revenues, Holmes said the city administration feels "uncomfortable" projecting casino revenue because the state's projections have trended downward in the past few years. In 2009, the state government estimated Ohio's casinos would take in $1.9 billion a year, but that projection was changed to $957.7 million a year in February.
Eriksen said the city estimates between $9 million and $11 million in casino funds will be available to the city. She said even if Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino hits its $100 million goal, the city will not be able to get the $21 million previously touted by Horseshoe Casino General Manager Kevin Kline because the money is pooled with money from other casinos around the state, which has fallen far below projections, before it's distributed to cities and counties.
When asked about shifting parking meter revenue to the general fund to help balance the budget, Eriksen said doing so would ultimately be a "wash" because of expenses currently attached to parking meter revenue.
Seelbach suggested making more cuts through the
priority-driven budgeting process. Eriksen explained Plan B does cut
programs that were poorly ranked by the process — the mounted patrol
unit, arts funding and recreation centers were a few examples she cited. But
only relying on programs ranked poorly by the priority-driven budgeting process would "decimate" departments and
programs that the city deems essential, she said.
In the original 2013 budget proposal put forward by the city manager, mounted patrol was cut, but Seelbach lobbied for the program's restoration.
Multiple council members brought up traveling and training costs as potential areas to cut, but Eriksen said the city administration had not considered further cuts in those areas because the leftover expenses are currently used to get certifications that city employees "need to do their jobs."
Councilman Charlie Winburn, the lone Republican on City Council, asked the city administration if they tried to balance the budget without layoffs. Eriksen replied, "Yeah, that was called the parking plan." She added without the parking plan, it would be "mathematically impossible" to balance the budget without layoffs.
When Winburn suggested city employees should take salary cuts, Eriksen said such cuts would require extensive negotiations with unions because about 90 percent of the city's employees are unionized.
In November, Winburn was one of the prominent supporters of giving the city manager a raise and bonus.
Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, a Democrat running for mayor, said she would be open to using any revenues possible for reducing the budget gap, but she said City Council must acknowledge the harsh budget realities facing the city — further re-emphasizing points she made in a blog post Sunday.
John Cranley, another Democrat running for mayor, has said in the past that the threat of layoffs is "the boy crying wolf." Cranley released his own budget plan on March 28 that he says would avoid layoffs and balance the budget without the parking plan, but some critics say the budget's revenue estimates are unrealistic.
Eriksen said Cincinnati has run structurally imbalanced budgets since 2001, but city officials say deficits have been made much worse by state cuts in local government funding carried out by Gov. John Kasich and the Republican legislature since 2010 ("Enemy of the State," issue of March 20).
City Council approved the parking plan in a 5-4 vote on March 6 that would lease the city's parking assets to the Port Authority to raise funds that would help balance the deficit for the next two fiscal years and pay for new development projects, including the construction of a downtown grocery store ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).
Opponents of the parking plan, who say they fear it will lead to rate hikes, filed their petitions for a referendum effort today. It is so far unclear whether they have the 8,522 verified signatures required to put the issue on the November ballot.
City Council will hold a special meeting at 2 p.m. today to discuss alternatives to laying off cops and firefighters to balance the budget, which CityBeat covered in detail here. Council members Chris Seelbach and P.G. Sittenfeld are pushing to use casino revenue and cuts elsewhere in the budget to avoid cutting public safety services. A spokesperson for Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, a Democrat running for mayor, told CityBeat that Qualls will also consider every option available. John Cranley, another Democratic candidate for mayor, has long called the threat of layoffs "the boy crying wolf."
City Council unanimously passed a motion yesterday that will require all parades receiving financial support from the city to adhere to the city's anti-discrimination policies. Council members cautioned that the measure won't require event hosts to invite fringe groups, but it will ensure LGBT individuals, people of color and women are allowed to participate in future events. The measure was inspired by a recent controversy surrounding the St. Patrick's Day Parade, which barred an LGBT group from participating.
An appeals court will hear arguments over the Cincinnati parking plan and the city's use of emergency clauses on May 6, even though the city had asked for a final decision by May 1. Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler's original ruling decided emergency clauses do not remove the possibility of a referendum. Emergency clauses are regularly used by City Council to remove a 30-day waiting period on passed legislation, but the city says that power is weakened by Winkler's ruling since the city will now have to wait for referendum efforts to safely begin implementation.
Meanwhile, referendum organizers against the parking plan are expected to drop off petitions at City Hall later today. Organizers previously said they have more than 10,000 unverified signatures, but they'll need 8,522 verified signatures to get the issue on the ballot. The parking plan, which CityBeat explained in further detail here, would lease Cincinnati's parking assets to the Port of Greater Development Authority to raise funds that would be used to help balance the deficit for the next two fiscal years and launch development projects, including a downtown grocery store.
This week's CityBeat commentary: "Poor Messaging Holds Back Parking Plan."
JobsOhio agreed to let State Auditor Dave Yost check their books — private funds and all — last month, but Yost says he's still in talks with the agency about future audits. JobsOhio is a publicly funded, nonprofit corporation established by Gov. John Kasich and the Ohio legislature to eventually replace the Ohio Department of Development.
Kasich's advice for opponents of the Medicaid expansion: "Kick them in the shins." As part of a broader budget proposal, the governor is seeking to take advantage of Obamacare to expand Medicaid with financial support from the federal government, but some Republican legislators fear the money won't be there in a few years. Independent analysts say the Medicaid expansion will save Ohio money, which CityBeat covered alongside Kasich's budget in further detail here.
The cost of Reds games has gone down since last season, according to one study.
Ohio's improving economy is leading to less problem loans in the statewide mortgage market.
Headline: "Nobody Wants a Facebook Phone."
A new laser zaps away cocaine addiction from rats.
Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler's ruling last week has already led to the dissolution of one project,
according to Mayor Mark Mallory. The Kinsey Apartments project fell
through after City Council was unable to expedite a change in the
building's classification that would have enabled access to state tax
credits. Winkler's ruling effectively eliminated the city's use of
emergency clauses, which the city used to remove a 30-day waiting period
on passed laws, by ruling that all Cincinnati laws are open to
referendum. The ruling means the city can no longer expedite laws even in extreme cases, such as natural disasters. The city is appealing the ruling.
Council members Chris Seelbach and P.G. Sittenfeld are calling for a special session of City Council to get the city administration to answer questions about budget alternatives to laying off cops or firefighters. Mallory and other city officials claim the only way to balance the budget is to carry out Plan B, which would lay off 189 cops and 80 firefighters and make cuts to other city services. But Sittenfeld and Seelbach have proposed alternatives with casino revenue and cuts elsewhere.
The Ohio House may scrap Republican Gov. John Kasich's school funding formula to use a "Building Blocks" model championed by former Republican Gov. Bob Taft. The legislators say the formula will give more certainty to local officials by always providing a base of funding based on the average cost to educate a student, but the governor's office says the approach neglects recent increases in school mobility. Kasich's formula has come under criticism for disproportionately benefiting wealthy districts, which CityBeat covered in further detail here.
Ohio's per capita personal income rose at one of the fastest rates in the nation last year, according to an analysis from Dayton Daily News. The news is another sign of Ohio's strong economic recovery, but it remains unclear whether the rise will bring down the state's income inequality.
The Ohio Democratic Women's Caucus (ODWC) is criticizing Attorney General Mike DeWine's efforts to exempt more health providers from providing contraceptive coverage based on religious grounds. "DeWine wants to allow all employers to deny crucial health care services like birth control, cancer screenings and vaccines if they disagree with the services due to their personal or political beliefs," Amy Grubbe, chairwoman of the ODWC, said in a statement. As part of Obamacare, health insurance companies are required to provide contraceptive coverage — a measure that may save insurance companies money by preventing expensive pregnancies, according to some estimates. But DeWine and other Republicans say the requirement violates religious liberty.
Ohio and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are partnering up to use technology to crack down on fraud in the federal food stamp program that costs the U.S. taxpayer millions of dollars a year.
A public Ohio school is taking down a portrait of Jesus after being threatened with a lawsuit for allegedly violating separation of state and church.
Duke Energy reached a settlement that will allow the company to raise the average electric bill for its Ohio customers by $3.72 per month.
Hamilton County's SuperJobs Center and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' Veterans Program are partnering with 28 employers, ranging from the University of Cincinnati to Coca Cola, to host the annual veteran hiring event at the SuperJobs Center, located at 1916 Central Parkway, on April 4 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
The Midwest Homeschool Convention at the Duke Energy Convention Center will bring former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul and 15,000 visitors to Cincinnati.
President Barack Obama says he wants to fund a research project that would map the human brain.
By 2020, scientists estimate the world's solar panels will have "paid back" the energy it took to produce them.
Scientists are growing immune cells in space to study how astronauts' immune systems change in space.
Councilman Chris Seelbach says Mayor Mark Mallory and other city officials are wrong to claim Plan B, which would lay off 189 cops and 80 firefighters and make other cuts to city services, is the only solution to the city's budget deficit if the parking plan isn't implemented.
Seelbach and Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld called for a special City Council session on April 4 to get the city administration to answer questions about alternatives to laying off cops or firefighters.
Seelbach, who opposes the parking plan, has pointed to casino revenue and cuts in programs ranked poorly by the city's priority-driven budgeting process as two potential alternatives to eliminating at least 269 public safety positions.
"We spent $100,000 on the priority-based budget process to give the public and a diverse cross-section of the entire city input on what the Council and the city should be spending money on," Seelbach says. "We should be using those results when deciding where we should make cuts."
In the midst of the parking plan debate, Seelbach proposed Plan S, which would redirect $7.5 million in casino revenue to help balance the deficit, cut $5 million based on the results of the city's priority-driven budgeting process and put two charter amendments on the ballot that, if approved, would include up to a $10-per-month trash fee and increase the city's admissions tax by 2 percent.
At a press conference on March 28, Mayor Mark Mallory implied the plan is unworkable because it relies on November ballot initiatives. "We don't have until November," he said.
But Seelbach says City Council could pass a stub budget that would sustain the city financially until the ballot measures are voted on. If both the measures are rejected, City Council would then be required to make further adjustments to balance the budget.
Even without the ballot initiatives, Seelbach's suggestions for casino revenue and cuts based on the priority-driven budgeting process could be approved by City Council to avoid at least two-thirds of the $18.1 million in public safety cuts outlined by Dohoney's Plan B memo. Seelbach says further cuts could be made through the budget-driven priority process if necessary.
"It worries me that these threats of 344 layoffs is just an attempt to sell the parking plan," he says. "Every option should be on the table."
Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, previously told CityBeat that City Council could choose its own cuts and use other revenue, including casino revenue, to balance the budget.
"Council can use whatever revenue sources they want," she said. "That's why the memo … says we can either use this plan or another plan."
In the 2013 mayoral race, the threat of laying off cops
and firefighters has played a prominent role in the parking plan debate.
Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley has repeatedly said the
threats are "the boy crying wolf." On Friday, he proposed his own budget plan that he says would avoid layoffs, but critics say Cranley's casino revenue estimates ignore recent trends.
Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, another Democratic candidate for mayor, said the city will have to lay off cops and firefighters if the parking plan doesn't go into effect, echoing earlier comments she made in a blog post Sunday.
On March 6, City Council passed a plan that would lease the city's parking assets to the Port of Greater Development Authority to help balance the budget for the next two fiscal years and fund development projects, including a downtown grocery store ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27). But the plan is being held up by a referendum effort after a ruling from Judge Robert Winkler on March 28.
It's Opening Day today, which means it's time for a citywide celebration of the Cincinnati Reds and baseball. At the City Council meeting last week, Mayor Mark Mallory declared today a local holiday, so if you need an excuse to sneak in a few beers while watching the parade at work, say the mayor made you do it.
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles will allow the children of illegal immigrants who qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to obtain driver's licenses. DACA was signed by President Barack Obama to give recipients the opportunity to remain in the country legally without fear of prosecution, but until Friday, the BMV wasn't sure that qualified recipients for driver's licenses.
Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley proposed his budget plan Thursday that he says will avoid layoffs and the city's plan to lease its parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, but critics say the plan is unworkable and some of its revenue sources are "fantasy." Cranley's proposal calls for $21 million in casino revenue that Horseshoe Casino General Manager Kevin Kline previously said will be available to City Council, but Jon Harmon, legislative director for Councilman Chris Seelbach, says the number is using an outdated model and the city's estimate of $10 million is more in line with recent turn of events. The budget proposal also claims to make its cuts and raise revenue without layoffs, but even Cranley was uncertain about whether that's possible.
Opponents of the city's parking plan say they've gathered more than 10,000 signatures — more than the 8,500 required — but the signatures still need to be verified before the plan is placed on the ballot. Last week, the mayor told Cincinnati residents to not sign the petition because he says it will force the city to make budget cuts and layoffs. A ruling from Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler opened the parking plan to referendum by essentially striking down the city's use of emergency clauses.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is backing a wider religious exemption for contraceptive coverage in health plans. As part of Obamacare, health insurance plans are required to provide contraceptive coverage — a measure that may save insurance companies money by preventing expensive pregnancies, according to some estimates. But DeWine and 12 other Republican state attorney generals argue the mandate infringes on religious liberty.
It's not just charter schools that do poorly under the state's new report card system; most urban schools would flunk too. An analysis by StateImpact Ohio found urban schools actually perform worse in some areas, supporting arguments from charter school advocates that the report cards' harsh grades show a demographic problem in urban areas, not a lack of quality in education. An analysis of old data by CityBeat in 2012 found Cincinnati Public Schools would fall under the new system.
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The last two generations are falling behind their parent's wealth. The trend shows a generational divide behind rising income inequality in the United States.
Ohio gas prices are starting to go down this week.
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In response to the March 28 announcement that City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. has begun implementing a plan that will lay off cops and firefighters, mayoral candidate John Cranley released his own budget plan that claims to avoid layoffs and the implementation of the city's parking plan. But critics say Cranley's budget is unworkable.
Cranley's budget uses casino revenue, parking meter revenue and various cuts to raise nearly $33.8 million — more than the $25.8 million necessary to balance the budget without a parking plan.
Cranley's critics have taken to social media to claim Cranley's revenue projections are "fantasy." They also claim the across-the-board budget cuts ignore the city's priority-driven budgeting process, and there's no certainty that such broad cuts can be carried out without laying off city employees.
Whether avoiding layoffs is possible through Cranley's proposal remains unclear, even according to Cranley's two-page budget plan, which reads, "We need to identify only roughly $26 million to cover the 2014 deficit and will reduce some of these cuts to ensure that there are no layoffs."
Cranley says there is no certainty that the cuts could be carried out without any layoffs, but he says he would do everything he can to prevent personnel cuts: "I believe that people should take pay cuts. … If I cut the office of the council members' staff, I can't force an individual council member not to lay someone off, but I would certainly encourage them to reduce salaries as opposed to layoffs."
In government budget terms, a 10-percent cut to any department is fairly large — particularly for Cincinnati's operating budget, which uses 90 percent of its funds on personnel. In comparison, the cuts from the 2013 sequester, the across-the-board federal spending cuts that President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats say will lead to furloughs and layoffs around the nation, ranged between 2 percent and 7.9 percent, depending on the department.
The cuts make up one-third of Cranley's proposal, while the rest of the money comes from casino and parking meter revenue. For his casino revenue numbers, Cranley cites Horseshoe
Casino General Manager Kevin Kline, who told City Council he
expects the casino to raise $21 million each year, but city officials
have said they only expect $10 million a year.
Cranley insists the extra $11 million will come to fruition. He says, "I would put my track record of being the chairman of the budget committee for eight years, which balanced budgets without layoffs, ahead of the people at the city that estimated the costs of the streetcar."
Just in case, Cranley says his plan purposely overshoots the $25.8 million deficit to leave some leeway in carrying out cuts. But without the extra $11 million, Cranley's plan would only raise about $22.8 million — $3 million short of filling the budget gap.
Jon Harmon, legislative director for Councilman Chris Seelbach's office, says the city and state were originally expecting a lot more revenue from the state's new casinos, but the legalization of racinos, which enabled racetrack gambling, has pushed revenue projections down.
In February, Ohio's Office of Budget Management estimated the Horseshoe Casino will raise $75 million in tax revenue for the city, state and schools, down from a 2009 estimate of $111 million, after seeing disappointing returns from Ohio's already-opened casinos. The local numbers reflect a statewide revision downward: In 2009, the state government estimated Ohio's casinos would take in $1.9 billion a year, but that projection was changed to $957.7 million a year in February.
Even if Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino does much better than the state's other casinos, the way casino revenue is collected and distributed by the state makes a $21 million windfall unlikely, according to Harmon. Before the state distributes casino revenue to cities, counties and schools based on preset proportions, the money is pooled together, which means all the casinos would have to hit original estimates for Cincinnati to get $21 million — an unlikely scenario, according to Harmon.
The other major revenue source in Cranley's budget is $5.2 million in parking meter revenue, which the city manager's office told CityBeat in February is usable for the general fund after months of insisting otherwise. Some of that money is already used in the general fund under current law, but the parking plan would remove that revenue altogether and replace it with new revenue. Cranley says his plan would forgo the parking plan and secure the $5.2 million in the general fund.
Among other cuts, Cranley's proposal would eliminate some of the money that goes to software licensing. With the way the cut is outlined in Cranley's two-paged budget proposal, it's unclear whether it would hit all software licensing or just some of it, but Cranley says his plan is only reducing $531,554 of about $2.6 million, which he says still leaves a $1 million increase over 2012's software licensing budget.
"I'm telling people what my priorities are: police, fire, parks, recreation, garbage collection, health department (and) human services," he says. "I believe that elected officials should not be paying consultants from Denver to tell people in Cincinnati what their priorities are. I believe that elected officials should tell the voters what their priorities are."
Cranley's comments are critical of the the city's priority-driven budgeting process, which ranked city programs based on feedback gathered through local surveys and meetings with Cincinnati residents.
With or without the parking plan, Cranley says the city is facing structural deficit problems. He says his plan permanently fixes those issues, while the parking plan would only eliminate the deficit for the next two fiscal years.
Cranley and Libertarian mayoral candidate Jim Berns oppose the city's parking plan, while Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, another Democratic mayoral candidate, supports it.
The parking plan, which was approved by City Council on March 6, would lease the city's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to help balance the deficit for the next two fiscal years and fund development projects, including a downtown grocery store ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).
But the semi-privatization plan is being held up in court. Most recently, Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler ordered a permanent restraining order on the plan pending a referendum effort. The extended injunction sparked criticism from city officials, who say delays will lead to fiscal and procedural problems.
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Yesterday, Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler gave a ruling that effectively opened the parking plan to referendum, but city officials said the decision poses major fiscal and legal challenges to the city. Mayor Mark Mallory and City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. said the lack of a parking plan will force the city to lay off 344 employees, including 80 firefighter and 189 police positions, to balance fiscal year 2014's budget in time for July 1, and City Solicitor John Curp said the ruling, which concludes emergency clauses do not eliminate the possibility of a referendum, greatly hinder the city's ability to expedite the implementation of laws. The parking plan, which was previously approved by City Council, would lease the city's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to help balance the budget for the next two years and fund economic development projects, but the court ruling means the plan must be put on hold at least until a referendum effort is complete.
Ohio Democrats say Gov. John Kasich's local government funding cuts are to blame for Cincinnati's budget woes. In a statement, Chris Redfern,
chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, said, "Make no mistake, the only
reason Cincinnati has been forced to debate firing hundreds of police
and firefighters is because Gov. Kasich cut tens of millions of dollars
to the city in his last state budget. As communities like Cincinnati
struggle to deal with the last round of cuts, Kasich's at it again,
proposing to steal another $200 million from local communities to help
pay for tax giveaways to the rich. If Kasich gets his way and passes his
proposed handout to his friends, more communities across the state will
see layoffs, skyrocketing local tax levies, and deep cuts to schools."
Kasich's local government funding cuts have caused Cincinnati to lose
$40.7 million in state funding over two years, according to Policy Matters Ohio. CityBeat covered Kasich's local government funding cuts here and his budget proposal here.
A study found a wastewater injection well used for fracking caused Oklahoma's largest-ever earthquake. The findings echo fears from Youngstown residents, who experienced an earthquake early in 2012 that was pinned on nearby wastewater injection wells, which are used to dispose of waste produced during the fracking process. CityBeat covered fracking, the relatively new drilling technique that injects water underground to open up oil and gas reserves, in further detail here.
In private budget news, a survey by Card Hub found Cincinnati residents have some of the nation's worst budgeting habits. In the 30-city survey, Cincinnati ranked No. 28 for budgeting habits, ahead of only Tampa, Fla., and Orlando, Fla. Boston was ranked No. 1 in the nation.
The Port Authority is carrying out a demolition in Jordan Crossing that will pave the way for $75 million in redevelopment. Mayor Mark Mallory described his experience with the development, "This has been a source of frustration, but also a source of hope. … This area is prime for job creation and redevelopment."
State legislators are once again trying to get student members of schools' board of trustees the ability to vote — a move that would empower students in public universities. The bill was introduced last year, but it died a slow death after facing opposition from administrators at Ohio University and Bowling Green State University. Gov. John Kasich and Ohio State officials reportedly support the idea.
A Sunday school teacher at a local church near Dayton was fired after declaring her support for same-sex marriage.
Cincinnati Financial Corp. and Meridian Bioscience Inc. were named among the country's most trustworthy firms.
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New national science education guidelines say climate change should be in classrooms.
Caffeine-addicted bacteria die if they get decaf. Scientists say they want to use the bacteria to clean caffeine-polluted waterways.
Speaking at a press conference today, city officials did not mask their contempt for the ruling that put the parking plan on hold earlier in the day, saying it will force the city to make cuts and layoffs to balance the 2014 budget and potentially eliminate the passage of expedited legislation.
The press conference was in response to a ruling from Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler, which opened the parking plan to referendum and ordered a permanent injunction on the plan pending any referendum effort. City Solicitor John Curp said the city is appealing the ruling.
Mayor Mark Mallory and City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr.
explained the city will now have to close a $25.8 million shortfall in
the budget for fiscal year 2014, which begins July 1.
Dohoney said he has already ordered city departments to begin
preparations for Plan B, which will lay off 344 employees, including 80
firefighter and 189 police positions, to balance projected deficits.
"Part of the irony is we're swearing in a recruit class tomorrow," he said, then shook his head. "Too bad."
In addition to meeting the July 1 budget deadline, the city has to expedite some layoff notices to meet union contracts, which typically require a notice 30 days in advance.
Curp said the ruling also poses significant legal challenges that will hinder the city's ability to expedite legislation with emergency clauses. Emergency clauses are often used by City Council to remove a 30-day waiting period on passed laws, and the city argues they also remove the ability to referendum.
The layoffs could be retroactively pulled back if the city wins in appeals courts or if the referendum effort fails to gather enough petitions.
"Don't sign the petition," Mallory said. "If you sign a petition, you're laying off a cop or firefighter."
Dohoney said the delays make the city look sluggish — an image that he says the city has been trying to overcome. "One of the criticisms I've gotten is that this city takes too long to get deals done," he said. "This complicates that."
City Council approved the parking plan to lease the city's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to help balance the budget for the next two fiscal years and fund development projects around the city, including a downtown grocery store ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).
Opponents of the plan argued that there were alternatives that did not involve laying off cops or firefighters. Councilman Chris Seelbach proposed Plan S, which would redirect $7.5 million in casino revenue to help balance the deficit, cut $5 million based on the results of the city's priority-driven budgeting process and put two charter amendments on the ballot that, if approved, would include up to a $10-per-month trash fee and increase the city's admissions tax by 2 percent.
At the press conference, Mallory called the alternatives "unworkable." He said Plan S in particular does not work because it relies on a ballot initiative that would have to be voted on in November. "We don't have until November," he said.
Opponents say they're concerned the parking plan will cede too much control over the city's parking meters, which they say will lead to a spike in parking rates.
The city says rate increases are initially capped at 3 percent or inflation — whichever is higher — but the rates can change with a unanimous vote from a special committee, approval from the city manager and a final nod from the Port Authority. The special committee would be made up of four people appointed by the Port Authority and one appointed by the city manager.
In the legal proceedings, the two sides are arguing whether emergency clauses eliminate the ability to hold a referendum on legislation. Opponents of the parking plan, headed by the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), say the city charter is ambiguous with its definition of emergency clauses, and legal precedent demands courts side with voters' right to referendum when there's ambiguity.
Supporters of the parking plan cite state law, which says emergency legislation is not subject to referendum. Terry Nestor, who represented the city in the court hearings, said legal precedent requires the city to defer to state law as long as state law is not contradicted in the city charter.
Winkler sided with opponents of the parking plan in his decision. He wrote in his ruling, "If the people of Cincinnati had intended to exempt emergency legislation from their referendum powers, they could have done so when adopting Article II, Section 3 of the City Charter."
Mallory says the city is not disputing voters' right to referendum in a general sense; instead, he says the city needs to expedite the budget process to balance the budget before fiscal year 2014.
City officials say the parking plan is necessary largely because of Gov. John Kasich's local government funding cuts, which Dohoney previously said cost Cincinnati $22.2 million in annual revenues ("Enemy of the State," issue of March 20). Opponents argue Cincinnati had structurally imbalanced budgets years before Kasich took office, but the city says Kasich's policies have made the situation much worse.
The parking plan is one of the few issues dividing Democratic mayoral candidates John Cranley and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls. Cranley opposes the plan, while Qualls supports it.
In a ruling today, Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler said the city will have to allow for a referendum on the parking plan and imposed a permanent injunction pending the outcome of a referendum.
The ruling means the city may be unable to rely on the parking plan to balance fiscal year 2014's budget, and the city may be forced to find cuts elsewhere by July 1, when the new budget will kick in.
The ruling may be appealed, but City Solicitor John Curp says he is not aware of any filing yet. He says Mayor Mark Mallory and the city administration plan to hold a press conference later this afternoon to discuss the ruling in further detail.
For opponents of the parking plan, the ruling comes as a big victory that will allow them to put the parking plan on the ballot if they gather enough eligible petition signatures by April 5.
For the city, the ruling potentially leaves a $25.8 million hole in the 2014 budget.
When the restraining order was extended for two weeks on March 20, city spokesperson Meg Olberding told CityBeat the delays were causing the city to approach a "pressure point": "We respect the court's right to do that (the extension), and know that every day that we cannot make the parking deal happen is a day that we are closer to having to lay people off."In the past, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. said the plan will force the city to lay off 344 employees, including 80 firefighter and 189 police positions.
But opponents argue there are ways to solve the budget without laying people off. As an alternative to the parking plan, Councilman Chris Seelbach proposed Plan S, which would redirect $7.5 million in casino revenue to help balance the deficit, cut $5 million based on the results of the city's priority-driven budgeting process and put two charter amendments on the ballot that, if approved, would include up to a $10-per-month trash fee and increase the city's admissions tax by 2 percent.
City Council approved the parking plan on March 6 to lease the city's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to help balance the budget for the next two fiscal years and fund more than $100 million in development projects, including the creation of a downtown grocery store and more than 300 luxury apartments ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).
Opponents of the parking plan say they're concerned the city will cede too much control over its parking assets and cause parking rates to skyrocket. The city says rate increases are initially capped at 3 percent or inflation — whichever is higher.
But the rates can change with a unanimous vote from a special committee, approval from the city manager and a final nod from the Port Authority. The special committee would comprise of four people appointed by the Port Authority and one appointed by the city manager.
The ruling comes after the city and opponents of the parking plan met in court on March 15 to discuss whether the plan is subject to referendum.
Curt Hartmann, an attorney who represents the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) and opponents of the parking plan, said the city charter is vague on its definition of emergency clauses, and legal precedent supports siding with voters' right to referendum when there is ambiguity.
The city cited state law to argue emergency clauses, which remove a 30-day waiting period on legislation, eliminate the possibility of referendum. Terry Nestor, who represented the city, said legal precedent requires the city to defer to state law as long as state law is not contradicted in the city charter.
With his decision, Winkler sided with opponents of the parking plan. He wrote in the ruling, "If the people of Cincinnati had intended to exempt emergency legislation from their referendum powers, they could have done so when adopting Article II, Section 3 of the City Charter."
The parking plan is one of the few issues dividing Democratic mayoral candidates John Cranley and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls. Cranley opposes the plan, while Qualls supports it.


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Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1982-1984 (ICPSR 8535)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics
Sixteen components focusing on nutritional practices and physical health comprise this survey of Hispanic Americans. The Body Measurements file includes anthropometric data on individuals such as skeletal and skin fold measurements, body circumferences, height, and weight. The Dental Health data provide dental history information, including the frequency of and reasons for visits to a dental hygienist, fluoride treatments, and the results of a clinical examination. The Blood and Urine Assessments component of the study contains clinical data such as red and white blood cell counts, serum iron and vitamin levels, amount of lead, and other assays. The Physician's Examination file provides the results of a basic physical exam, and the Dietary Practices/Food Frequency component includes information on food recall, special diets, frequency of meals, and consumption of various types of foods. The Adolescent and Adult History Questionnaire file supplies information on health care and problems getting care, dental care, health status, conditions, medical treatment, pesticide exposure, smoking, acculturation, meal programs for school-age children, reproductive history, and health status of children. Measures of Depression provides data on feelings of depression, how depression affected everyday life, help sought during depression, and weight changes and sleep loss due to depression. The Alcohol Consumption Data section includes information on the amount and kind of alcohol consumed, reasons for drinking, and self-perception of drinking habits. The Drug Abuse file offers information on the use of barbiturates and other sedatives, marijuana and hash, inhalants, and cocaine. The Hearing data were collected during the physical examination and provide information on respondents' ability to hear and the condition of their hearing organs. The Gallbladder Ultrasound data include information on disease, history of symptoms, findings of ultrasounds, and physical examinations of the gallbladder. Diabetes and OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test) data were also collected. Respondents were asked whether they had diabetes and were also questioned about age of onset, medication taken, diet, and if the OGTT had been administered. The file also contains detailed information on the OGTT, diet before the testing, time intervals between blood drawings, and plasma glucose values in milligrams and deciliters. The Vision section furnishes information on the respondent's eyesight, whether he or she had a problem seeing, appliances worn, age when corrective lenses were first worn, if a doctor had been visited for sight problems, and findings from a physician's examination. Measurements of the respondent's visual acuity with and without correction are also included in the data. The Child History section includes information on health status, health care utilization, infant feeding practices, participation in meal programs, school attendance, and language use. The 24-Hour Recall lists amounts of calories, protein, total fat, fatty acids, cholesterol, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, alcohol, vitamins, and minerals for each food item consumed by each person. It also contains a description of the food, ingestion period, approximate time of consumption, and food source. The data from the Measurement and Interpretation of Electrocardiograms file give an objective measure of the cardiac health status of individuals examined in the survey. Despite the limitations of such data, the electrocardiographic variables are carefully and completely defined. Also, an extensive process was used to ensure the accuracy of the findings. In addition, each part of this collection provides sociodemographic data, such as age, race, national origin, birthplace, education, employment, insurance, and use of public assistance. Also included are family data including number of people in the family, family income, poverty index, use of food stamps, and size of residence.
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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics. Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1982-1984. ICPSR08535-v8. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08535.v8
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Subject Terms: alcohol consumption, demographic characteristics, dental health, depression (psychology), diet, drug abuse, eating habits, eyesight, health, health care, health insurance, health status, hearing (physiology), Hispanic or Latino Americans, income, medical history, nutrition
Geographic Coverage: United States
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Universe: The three Hispanic-American population subgroups represented in this study are: (1) Mexican-Americans from Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, (2) Cuban-Americans from Dade County, Florida, and (3) Puerto Ricans from the New York City area, including parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.
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