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Professor Hollinger is the numbers guy. We couldn't do what he does even if we wanted to. No one's trying to steal his gig.
Still ...
In the grand tradition of year-end reviews from every corner of the media map, it feels right to say farewell to a wild 2008 in the NBA with a "Year In Numbers" compilation, with special year-end thanks to Peter Newmann, Kareem White and all our friends from ESPN Research and the Elias Sports Bureau.
In the span of 19 dizzying days leading up to the annual trade deadline, starting Feb. 1, we witnessed three blockbuster trades: Memphis' Pau Gasol to the Lakers, Miami's Shaquille O'Neal to the Suns and New Jersey's Jason Kidd to Dallas. Some league observers (hello!) would refer to the three mega-deals as the peak of the most frenzied two-year flurry of big trades ever.
There was an estimated TV audience of 200 million in China for the Houston-at-Milwaukee game on Feb. 2 pitting Yao Ming against countryman Yi Jianlian, dwarfing the worldwide viewership for the New York Giants' Super Bowl upset of the previously unbeaten New England Patriots the next day. Viewers watched even though Yao had a quiet 12 points and nine rebounds and Yi had a quieter six points and seven boards in Houston's 91-83 victory.
The Heat and the Hawks had to replay the final 51.9 seconds of a December game in Atlanta nearly three months later, thanks to the first upheld protest in the NBA since 1982. After the league office supported Miami's claim that Shaq incorrectly fouled out of an overtime loss to the Hawks, Atlanta was fined $50,000, and NBA commissioner David Stern called its courtside stat crew "grossly negligent" for crediting one of Udonis Haslem's fouls to O'Neal. Shaq, though, was traded before the finish could be replayed and neither team scored in the March 8 do-over, which resulted in a 114-111 win for the Hawks.
Chris Andersen's ban from the NBA started Jan. 27, 2006, and lasted 767 days after he tested positive for an undisclosed "drug of abuse," which is the classification for amphetamines (and their derivatives such as methamphetamine), cocaine, LSD, opiates (heroin, codeine and morphine) or PCP as defined by the league's anti-drug program with the players' union. Andersen signed with Denver in the offseason after a brief return to the New Orleans Hornets and -- along with fellow comeback kids Nene (testicular cancer) and Kenyon Martin (the NBA's first player to undergo microfracture surgery on both knees) -- he has unexpectedly helped improve the Nuggets' defense in the wake of the controversial salary-dumping trade of Marcus Camby to the Clippers in July.
That was the Knicks' overall record during Isiah Thomas' four-plus seasons as the face of the franchise in Gotham, which ended with a 132-123 loss at Indiana on April 16. As Knicks coach in 2006-07 and 2007-08, Thomas went 56-108.
All eight playoff teams in a first-of-its-kind Western Conference race won 50 games, preventing the 48-win Warriors -- who won more games than all but three teams in the East -- from reaching the postseason.
Tim Duncan was 0-for-4 on 3-pointers for the season when he drained an unforgettable 3 from the right wing to force a second overtime in Game 1 of a highly anticipated first-round showdown with Phoenix, leading to an epic 117-115 comeback win. The dispirited Suns, still smarting from a controversial second-round exit to the Spurs one year earlier, never recovered from Duncan's dagger, falling into a 3-0 series hole that ultimately led to a 4-1 loss and the departure of coach Mike D'Antoni.
With aggressive courting, promises of total support and a healthy four-year, $24 million contract, new Knicks president Donnie Walsh convinced D'Antoni that he would be happier coaching in New York than Chicago. They struck a deal May 10, just 11 days after D'Antoni's Suns were eliminated.
With just a 1.7 percent chance of winning the NBA's draft lottery, Chicago hit the lotto anyway on May 20, setting up the Bulls to draft Memphis' Derrick Rose as the No. 1 overall pick ... and immediately subjecting D'Antoni to second-guessing for choosing the Knicks over the Bulls.
As if a comeback from 24 points down on the road to win Game 4 wasn't enough, Boston inflicted further torture on its longtime rivals from Los Angeles with a 39-point title-clinching beatdown in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. The 131-92 rout secured the Celts' league-record 17th championship banner, halted a title drought of 22 years and made champions of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen in their first year together.
A mere 28 coaches in league history -- with Boston's Doc Rivers becoming No. 28 -- have snapped up all 62 of the NBA's championships, with nine rings each won by Celtics legend Red Auerbach and Lakers coach Phil Jackson. The only active coaches with a title on their résumés: Jackson, San Antonio's Gregg Popovich (four), Charlotte's Larry Brown (one) and Rivers.
The SuperSonics' 41-year run in Seattle came to an abrupt end July 2, when team and city officials reached an agreement to terminate the Sonics' lease at KeyArena two years early, immediately clearing a path for the franchise to move to Oklahoma City. The city retained the team's name and colors, but the team took Rookie of the Year Kevin Durant and the Sonics' record book to Oklahoma City, ending a Pacific Northwest rivalry between Durant and Greg Oden before it ever started. Durant and the rest of the team were officially reinvented as the Thunder two months later.
Team USA beat the reigning world champs from Spain twice by a combined 48-point margin at the Beijing Olympics. The Yanks eventually rolled to a 37-point rout in group play but found themselves up only two in the fourth quarter of the gold-medal match against the short-handed Spaniards (minus injured point guard Jose Calderon) before finally pulling away for an emotional 118-107 triumph to cap a humbling eight years between golds.
On Sept. 23, disgraced referee Tim Donaghy began serving a 15-month prison term in Pensacola, Fla., for his participation in a gambling scandal that Stern described as the "worst situation that I have ever experienced" ... and cast a shadow on what was supposed to be a dream Finals matchup that brought the Lakers and Celtics together on the big stage for the first time since 1987.
A mini-exodus in free agency resulted in 11 established NBA players signing with European clubs over the summer. Most of them were foreign-born players -- Primoz Brezec, Carlos Delfino, Jorge Garbajosa, Gordan Giricek, Nenad Krstic, Bostjan Nachbar and Juan Carlos Navarro -- but the surprise factor was much bigger in the cases of Earl Boykins (Italy), Jannero Pargo (Russia) and Carlos Arroyo (Israel), and Josh Childress' lucrative move to Greece.
Golden State's Monta Ellis was suspended for 30 games without pay after a mo-ped accident that he initially refused to tell the team about ... and which required ankle surgery expected to sideline him well into January ... and which occurred less than a month after he signed a new $66 million contract with the Warriors.
Twenty-three days is all it took for six teams to make coaching changes this season, doubling the previous single-season record of firings before Christmas. Oklahoma City's P.J. Carlesimo (1-12 on Nov. 22), Washington's Eddie Jordan (1-10 on Nov. 24), Toronto's Sam Mitchell (8-9 on Dec. 3), Minnesota's Randy Wittman (4-15 on Dec. 8), Philadelphia's Maurice Cheeks (9-14 on Dec. 13) and Sacramento's Reggie Theus (6-18 on Dec. 15) were dismissed after eight teams (Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Milwaukee, New York and Phoenix) made offseason coaching changes.
The cumulative head coaching experience of the six men who filled those jobs totaled 31 games. All 31 of them appeared on the résumé of Minnesota's Kevin McHale, who was forced to move to coaching amid growing ridicule of his front-office dealings, most recently McHale's draft day decisions in 2006 and 2008 to trade away Brandon Roy and O.J. Mayo.
On just the seventh day (and the first Monday morning) of the 2008-09 regular season, Denver dealt Allen Iverson to Detroit in a multiplayer deal that netted Denver native Chauncey Billups. The Nuggets then won 17 of their first 25 games with Billups, while the Pistons are a Lions-like 0-6 on Sundays and just 11-11 overall through Thursday's games since becoming the third NBA team to employ AI.
Stephon Marbury -- he of the $20.8 million salary -- has logged a mere 231 minutes of playing time in 2008. And zero minutes since Jan. 11, to be precise.
Washington's Agent Zero -- some of you know him as Gilbert Arenas, summertime recipient of a new $111 million contract -- has logged zero minutes of playing time in 2008 thanks to persistent knee trouble, with no firm date established for his return.
The legendary Pete Newell, whose coaching successes in college and the Olympics -- as well as his expertise in teaching defense and post play -- sent him to the Hall of Fame in 1979, died in mid-November at the age of 93.
Two more big trades on Nov. 21, sending Jamal Crawford to Golden State and Zach Randolph to Clipperland, sliced $27.5 million off the Knicks' payroll for the 2010-11 season, ensuring that New York will have the salary-cap flexibility to make a big-money offer to Cleveland's LeBron James in the free-agent bonanza expected in the summer of 2010.
It should be noted that LeBron isn't doing too badly with the Cavs, who haven't lost a home game in 15 tries since acquiring Mo Williams in the offseason and who should be up to 18-0 at home by the time Boston arrives Jan. 9. James has improved his all-around game (most notably on defense and at the free throw line) and offensive improvements ushered in by coach Mike Brown have also helped the team.
A nagging elbow injury to his shooting arm didn't stop Carmelo Anthony from shredding Minnesota for 33 points in the third quarter of a 116-105 Denver home victory Dec. 10. The outburst tied George Gervin's record for points in a quarter, but Melo's feat was clearly more impressive given that Gervin's 33-point quarter came on the final day of the 1977-78 season, when he and then-Nugget David Thompson famously dueled for the league's scoring title. Anthony's eruption rallied the Nuggets out of a 12-point deficit against the lowly Wolves and, at one stage, Melo netted 26 points from 13 trips down court.
Although the Hornets' average home attendance ranked only 18th in the league entering the weekend, it's an amazing number given what the city of New Orleans has been through since Hurricane Katrina. Slipping below a per-game average of 14,735 from December 2007 through the end of this season would allow Hornets owner George Shinn to exercise an out clause and move the club, but that's not going to happen now that Chris Paul and Co. have a season-ticket base of nearly 10,000 watching them.
Offseason splashes Elton Brand (Sixers), Baron Davis (Clippers) and Jermaine O'Neal (Raptors) netted their teams a combined record that was 22 games under .500 entering Friday's play. Philly and Toronto have already changed coaches and Davis and coach Mike Dunleavy are coexisting (very) uncomfortably in L.A.
That's the length of the Boston winning streak -- amazingly the longest in franchise history -- which finally ended with a Christmas Day defeat to the Lakers. Of course, it wasn't even the longest win streak of this crazy calendar year: The Rockets reeled off 22 wins in a row from Jan. 29 through March 16, with 10 of them coming without Yao.
That's the Lakers regular-season record with Pau Gasol in the lineup. Gasol hit back at all the folks who say L.A.'s big men aren't tough enough to hang with Boston by shaking himself out of a three-quarter funk to deliver a flurry of crunch-time blows that eventually took down the Celtics.
Entering Friday's play, the East was 87-65 against the West in head-to-head games. The West has had a winning record against the East in every season this decade; 1997-98 is the last full season the East had the better record.
Only 552 more days, as of Friday morning, till that summer of 2010 shopping bonanza is here.
Dimes past: December 10 | 11 | 12 | 13-14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20-21 | 22 | 23 | 24
Five questions with Grizzlies guard O.J. Mayo:
Q: The media consensus seems to be that you've exceeded expectations through the first third of your rookie season. Are we right?
A: Maybe so. I've been OK. I'm just trying to take the easy shots and stay away from the 50/50 shots and let everything happen in the flow of the game. But I'll let you grade me.
Q: Is it fair to say that, when you got to the NBA, you weren't expecting to be surrounded by seven other guys 23 or younger?
A: It's a little hard because we're all extremely young. This is a rough league for a young team. We might be learning more from the opponent instead of learning from each other. But at the same time it's good because we're growing together. I feel like if we can stay together for these next two or three years, we're going to be a special team in the league.
Q: How mad are you at the Timberwolves for trading you on the same night that they drafted you? Is it the kind of deal where, for the rest of your career, you're going to want to stick it to them?
A: I'm not mad. With me, [the trade] kind of opened my eyes up that it's definitely a business. From the first day, it's a business. I'm just happy that it wasn't something where I got set on Minnesota and then I was traded. There wasn't time [for that]. You put on a Minnesota hat and then maybe 30 minutes later you're watching ESPN and they say there's a blockbuster trade going down. But it was great the next day when I flew to Memphis with DA [fellow rookie Darrell Arthur]. It was a pretty easy transition.
Q: Did you keep that Wolves hat?
A: Yeah, I kept it. It's the first hat I put on, so I kept it.
Q: I'm sure you've figured out by now that I have to ask you about the Rookie of the Year race like every reporter. How well do you know Derrick [Rose from the Bulls] and do you think you can beat him out?
A: I know him well. We grew up playing against each other since the eighth grade. But I really try not to pay attention to it too much. Obviously it comes up a lot. It's a great award for a player to win. But that's not something I'm really playing for.
Chicago (Illinois): How can you give O.J. Mayo the First Trimester ROY over [Derrick] Rose? Rose (right) is a better all-around player who tries to get everyone involved. Mayo is just a scorer. I hope your decision wasn't based solely on the fact that Mayo leads all rookies in scoring.
Marc Stein: Nope. That's not it.
Mayo has been super efficient as a 20-point scorer, which is rare territory for rookies. He's been a much better 3-point shooter so far than anyone imagined. And don't forget that Rose is also surrounded by more established players, which has to make his transition to the NBA somewhat easier.
The Grizz have been starting three rookies. Their point guard play has been a mess. It's far from an ideal situation -- Mayo is closer to being a veteran than a rookie on that team because the Grizz are so young -- and he's really been special offensively so far. I saw Mayo in his first NBA exhibition and, let me tell you, his progress from then to now is considerable.
But we're still talking about a marginal difference between them ... and I'll admit that the lack of national attention O.J. gets playing in a market like Memphis, fair or not, factored into my thinking. I wanted to give him some recognition now because, let's face it, Rose has a huge advantage in the ROY race playing in a market like Chicago and on a team that will probably be in the playoff hunt all season.
In short: I don't think Mayo has been sufficiently recognized for his fine start and giving him ROFT status was my opportunity to address that.• Read the full chat
"Expectations will keep going up for him."Grizzlies coach Marc Iavaroni, acknowledging the reality faced by O.J. Mayo, in spite of the unavoidable ups and downs for rookies, after the 21-year-old scored a season-low seven points in Dallas on Tuesday.
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Shopping might be too strong a word, but the reality, in this economy, is that moving Walton would be difficult no matter how motivated the Lakers were. Walton is a role player scheduled to earn $21.6 million over the next four seasons after this one.
Yet I also suspect that Jackson isn't too disappointed that the 28-year-old is still around, no matter how much financial sense it makes for the Lakers to make Walton available, with the emerging Trevor Ariza up for a new contract in the summer and L.A. perennially possessing one of the league's highest payrolls.
Walton earned just 58 minutes of PT in the Lakers' first 20 games, but he's made eight starts in December, including a 28-minute stint in the Lakers' Christmas Day victory over the Celtics. Because he keeps the ball moving, provides consistent energy and knows the system -- much of that in stark contrast to the unpredictable Vladimir Radmanovic -- Walton has suddenly reclaimed a prominent spot in Jackson's rotation.
It's one of the biggest upsets of the season.
The Grizzlies, despite frequently starting three rookies, don't quite field the league's youngest roster.
The Warriors still hold that distinction with an average age of 24 years and 167 days.
Portland is second with an average age of 24 years and 190 days, followed by the Grizz at 24 years and 312 days, although that figure will have to be adjusted slightly now that Steve Francis (31) is headed to Memphis after the recent buyout of Antoine Walker (32).
Furthermore, in one of the greater ironies of the season, Golden State's youth movement is being overseen by the oldest coach in the four major North American professional team sports. Don Nelson, who turns 69 on May 15, is two months and three days older than Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre.
Yet we should probably describe it as one of the greater ironies of the season that will attract almost zero coverage because of everything else swirling around the Warriors, which our own Ric Bucher covers here with a level of detail that demands an immediate click.
Scratch that.This is one of the biggest upsets of the season, from late, late, late Friday night:
Golden State 99, Boston 89!
It doesn't matter how tired the Celts might have been after their Christmas Day exertions in Los Angeles. History says that blowing a fourth-quarter lead to the Dubs was virtually impossible, making this loss unforgivable.
According to the ever-trusty Elias Sports Bureau, Boston's loss represents only the second game ever in NBA history that a team with a winning percentage of .900 or better (at least 25 games into the season) lost to a team with a winning percentage below .300.
The only other time it happened was on Jan. 12, 1972, when the Lakers (40-4, .909) suffered a 108-107 road loss to the Cincinnati Royals (11-31, .262). That loss came just three days after L.A.'s record 33-game winning streak was halted by the Bucks in Milwaukee.
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Is this Pau Gasol telling us where he thinks the Lakers should be in our next Power Rankings? This much we know: L.A. is 45-10 with Gasol in the lineup. (See Box 1.)
Our early overflow runs beyond the deluge of transactions, which continued on Christmas Eve with that Steve Francis deal Houston and Memphis sneaked in.
We've also seen lots of memorable last-second shots in a season that's basically 30 games old.
Roger Mason's triple from the corner on Christmas Day in Phoenix didn't just seal the win for San Antonio in the most painful way possible, for the umpteenth time, in the Spurs-Suns rivalry. Mason's walk-off 3 with less than a second remaining in San Antonio's 91-90 triumph was the eighth of nine game-winning shots this season.
We compiled a list of those go-ahead shots, along with a YouTube link to the actual highlight, before Detroit's Allen Iverson brought the total to nine Friday night with a game-winner in the final second to beat Oklahoma City:
Dec. 25: San Antonio's Roger Mason
(Spurs 91, Suns 90)
Dec. 23: New Jersey's Devin Harris
(Nets 108, Pacers 107)
Dec. 9: Orlando's Hedo Turkoglu
(Magic 109, Trail Blazers 108)
Dec. 2: Indiana's Troy Murphy
(Pacers 118, Lakers 117)
Nov. 28: Minnesota's Mike Miller
(Wolves 105, Thunder 103)
Nov. 12: Boston's Paul Pierce
(Celtics 103, Hawks 102)
Nov. 6: Portland's Brandon Roy
(Blazers 101, Rockets 99 OT)
Oct. 31: Memphis' Rudy Gay
(Grizzlies 86, Magic 84)
Our First Trimester award winners here at Stein Line HQ were published in the previous Weekend Dime, but host Frank Dale made sure they remained a topic for discussion and dissection on ESPN's NBA Today podcast.
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We haven't seen his Superman cape yet this season, but Dwight Howard is "only getting better every day," as we're reminded in Box 10. Especially on the defensive end.
It's something even Gilbert seemed to hint at back in November when he opined that "if this is one of those years where we don't make the playoffs or we finish in last place ... that's what happened to San Antonio and that's how they got Tim Duncan and look at them now."
Forget, for a moment, that having the worst record in the league only nets a 25 percent chance of winning the draft lottery.
Or the belief among draftniks that a 2009 class of draftees headlined by Blake Griffin and Ricky Rubio doesn't quite feature a Duncan.
Isn't this something that the Wiz and Arenas shouldn't consider? It would certainly seem so at a time when you can't read a story about the 26-year-old without being reminded that Arenas -- the recipient of a $111 million contract in the summer -- has racked up more surgeries on his left knee (three) since an April 2007 collision with Charlotte's Gerald Wallace than playoff victories (two).
The Wiz, though, apparently aren't there yet. A source close to the situation insisted Friday that the plan remains for Arenas to return to the court in the near future -- similar to Elton Brand's comeback with the Clippers late last season from an Achilles' tear with no hope of getting to the postseason -- in spite of where the Wiz are in the standings and the obvious long-term concerns about Arenas being healthy enough to live up to his contract.
One last word about Celtics versus Lakers on Christmas Day: Boston and L.A. showed up with a combined record of 50-7, good for a composite winning percentage of .877 that ranks as the highest for any game in league history in which each team had played at least 25 games.
So it was a rather special occasion. Agreed?
The previous record was set on Dec. 15, 1972, with the Lakers (25-4) also hosting the Celtics (23-3). With the teams' combined winning percentage at .873, Boston posted a 102-98 victory in which Dave Cowens (31 points, 19 rebounds) outdueled Wilt Chamberlain (18 points, 14 rebounds).
One of my favorite execs (who shall remain nameless) has been all over me lately about the Magic.
I admit it: This guy called it. He told me back in the summertime that the Magic would be doing what they're doing, cementing themselves as the third-best team in the East despite what I (and others) deemed insufficient tweaking to the roster. I didn't listen.
So I'm giving him the floor now, after he checked in to respond to our selection of Boston's Kevin Garnett over Dwight Howard as the best defensive player in the league with one-third of the season complete in the last Weekend Dime:
"I think it's time to start talking about Orlando as a contender," he said. "Who can't they beat? They can play any style. They can play big. They can play small. They've got so many shooters that J.J. Redick can't even get on the court for them.
"[Beating Boston or Cleveland in the playoffs] might not happen this year, but Dwight Howard is only getting better every day. What I would worry about more is whether they can re-sign Hedo [Turkoglu]. It looks like they're going to have problems keeping him, and he's huge for them.
"But [general manager] Otis Smith has done a good job there. They've put together that team nicely. They overpaid Rashard Lewis, but then they have Jameer Nelson, who is going to outperform his contract.
"I'll agree with you on KG. He's still the best defensive player in the league. He's just so smart. He reads what the other team is trying to run offensively and tries to disrupt it. Dwight Howard is not that kind of defender yet.
"But don't sleep on the Magic. The only two problems I see are re-signing Hedo -- and LeBron James. I wonder if they're going to end up like Cleveland in the [late] 1980s ... with LeBron as MJ. The Cavs had a good team but could never get past Michael."
Team officials know better than sportswriters that defense is rarely something you can judge with statistics as the main thrust, not even when the individual numbers are so gaudy that Howard is threatening to join Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1975-76), Bill Walton (1976-77), Hakeem Olajuwon (1989-90) and Ben Wallace (2001-02) in the exclusive club of players to lead the league in blocks and rebounds in the same season.
Numbers simply don't account for a player's ability to defend players of all sizes ... or his help defense ... or the impact of a defensive anchor like Garnett, who can lift his teammates' intensity and hold them accountable like a coach. The Celtics are in the midst of one of the best starts in NBA history, rank at or near the top in virtually every defensive category despite losing James Posey in free agency and have quickly hushed all the questions coming into the season about their hunger for another championship. All of that is why KG prevailed here.
However ...
I had to let my guy have his say. The Magic have been everything he said they'd be so far.


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September 23, 2014
'Celebrity and its Discontents': The 2014 Performing Arts Lecture Series
Celebrities have fascinated the public for centuries — but why? And how does the spotlight affect those on whom it shines? This year's Performing Arts Lecture Series, presented by the School of Drama, explores the power of celebrity from unique perspectives in three evening lectures.
January 22, 2014
Arts Roundup: Music, dance — and students perform 'Reefer Madness'
Dance and drama lead this busy week of UW Arts, with the Dance Program's Dance Faculty Concert and later, "Reefer Madness" by the Undergraduate Theater Society and the School of Drama's production of "Reading to Vegetables."
January 15, 2014
Arts Roundup: Student music recitals, A Far Cry — and 'Theater from the Inside Out'
This week enjoy a variety of events happening across campus with a highlight being an inside look at the "Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia" at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

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The state is set to begin reconstruction work on Monday on several New Orleans streets in areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
All are in the city's 9th Ward.
Barrier Construction Co. is the contractor for the $2.4 million project, which involves segments of Forstall, Tupelo and Alvar streets.
The state Department of Transportation and Development said the work will include resurfacing, repairing curbs and installing handicap-compliant ramps. Completion is expected by October.
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- The City wants to add an extra full-time librarian for programing and marketing to help with the library's strategic plan, part of which is to develop programs and outreach initiatives to engage seniors and help them connect to the community.
- Community Social Plan (CSP) staff are doing socioeconomic planning and community development activities in both the City and County, identifying and finding solutions to services gaps with special focus on youth, senior and transportation needs. Staff will support the newly created Peterborough Seniors' Planning Table. A June 2013 seniors summit is planned.
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(PETERBOROUGH) Be ready to fork over an extra $97 in 2013.
That's the increase the average city taxpayer, the owner of a $206,000 home, will be pay on top of last year's tax bill.
City council is now eyeing a 3 per cent all-inclusive tax increase.
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That value will be phased in over four years. It's calculated the average home in Peterborough will increase in value by 2.2 per cent annually.
That means if your house is now worth more, the tax increase will be added on top of that new value. The City has assistance in place for low-income seniors to deal with any tax increase.
One big change for 2013 is how community groups will receive any funding.
Traditionally, groups have received a set grant and have had to come back the City every few years to ask for more as costs go up. Now, they'll receive an automatic 2 per cent grant increase annually. This applies to groups like Community Care Peterborough, the Peterborough Lions Club and Showplace.
The only exception is the Peterborough Agriculture Society, which is still in contract negotiations with the City.
Anyone with concerns about the 2013 draft budget can speak at a public meeting Dec. 5 at City Hall before final budget numbers are approved.
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Carlsbad's Said will triple up at Watkins Glen
This season has not been the busy racing season that Boris Said expected.
He thought he'd have a full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup ride with a new team run by Bill Jenkins. But the ride never materialized.
"I turned down a lot of other opportunities because I thought I had a full-time ride," Said says. "The guy turned out to be a pathological liar. I had nothing, but by the time I realized that, all the other opportunities were gone."
So the Carlsbad driver will be making up for some lost time this weekend as he drives in all three races during NASCAR's annual visit to the famed Watkins Glen road course in upstate New York.
One of NASCAR's top road-course drivers, Said has been invited to drive cars in NASCAR's Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races, as well as Saturday's Grand-Am Rolex Series sports car race.
"I'm really excited to be doing all three," says Said, who could be spending as many as 19 hours in race cars this weekend. "I get the chance to race three cool cars."
Said has tripled before in NASCAR road-course weekends at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma.
He's been out of the cockpit most of this season while doing commentary on Speed and ESPN on everything from NASCAR to the rally cars at last weekend's X Games.
"I've been training a bit harder for this one," Said says. "I don't sleep that much. I'll be ready."
One advantage that he will have this time around is that the cars he'll drive this weekend are guaranteed spots in the field. Both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup cars rank in the top 35 in the standings and are prequalified. The Corvette he will co-drive in the Grand-Am race is also assured a spot on the grid.
"That makes a huge difference," he says. "I don't have to worry about qualifying to get into the field. I can use practice to set up the cars the way I like."
What Said likes is the Watkins Glen course. He was born and raised in New York.
"There is a lot of high-speed running at Watkins Glen," he says. "You need horsepower and good brakes. You need the brakes to pass because you are going to go into corners as deep as you can. It is a track where you can be very aggressive with the cars."
Said plans to be aggressive.
"I'm going for broke in qualifying," he says. "I want to be upfront. I want to give these teams good finishes."
Said is hoping his run in the Red Bull Racing Sprint Cup car will lead to more opportunities with the deep-pockets international team.
In his role as NASCAR commentator, Said has had a chance to see Poway's Brian Ickler, who is running on the Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series.
"I think he's really good," Said says of Ickler. "It looks like he has speed and ability. He looks pretty smart out there, too. He finishes races. He looks more experienced than he actually is."


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Grand Junction health insurance rates still among highest in state
Updated: 10/01/2014 - Grand Junction's health insurance rates continue to be higher than other parts of Colorado although prices are going down overall in the area.
Updated: 10/01/2014 - Grand Junction's health insurance rates continue to be higher than other parts of Colorado although prices are going down overall in the area.
Updated: 10/01/2014 - Community Hospital will soon house an oncology program with an oncological physician, a gynecological and oncology surgeon and a director of pharmacy.
Updated: 10/01/2014 - The Mesa County Sheriff's candidates were in the spotlight once more as they went head to head in a debate hosted by the Grand Junction Lions Club at the two Rivers Convention Center.
Updated: 10/01/2014 - A man is fighting for justice after being fired from his job for failing a drug test, but his company isn't the only one in Colorado to use termination as an option for those who are caught getting high.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - Police in Missouri say a former Colorado funeral home worker tasked with spreading cremated ashes in the Rocky Mountains instead kept four people's remains in the trunk of his car for several years after he was fired.
Updated: 10/01/2014 - The announcement that five Dallas schoolchildren were possibly exposed to the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has some nervous parents planning to keep their kids home.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - Colorado's new marijuana industry is in for a brand new element Wednesday - competition.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - The name of a motorcycle driver from Montrose killed Friday has been released.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - Colorado health officials have confirmed a 10th case of paralysis-like symptoms in a child.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - The Colorado Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a marijuana-related firing case that could have big implications for the state's pot smokers.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper and Republican Bob Beauprez are meeting for their second debate before November's election.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - In addition to her Olympic gold, Mikaela Shiffrin now has a street named after her.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - The Colorado Department of Transportation is emphasizing the importance of having proper snow tires.
Posted: 09/30/2014 - Michael Blagg's attorneys are working hard to get him out of the Mesa County Jail while he awaits his re-trial.
Updated: 09/30/2014 - In light of the tragic off-roading death in Utah, we take a closer look at the dangers of the sport.
Updated: 09/30/2014 - A Colorado Veterans appreciation group prepares vets for a six day hunting event.
Updated: 09/30/2014 - There was criticism and controversy for the commissioners at Monday's meeting mainly over open records for candidates in the race for Mesa County Sheriff.
Updated: 09/30/2014 - What's in your food? That's the question a measure on the 2014 General Election Ballot will cover. Proposition 105 requires genetically modified food to be labeled.
Updated: 09/30/2014 - The first ever Country Jam economic impact study was released on Monday and the results shocked many at the Mesa County Commissioners meeting.
Updated: 09/30/2014 - The Grand Junction Fire Department hasn't received any applications for haunted houses as of Monday.
Posted: 09/29/2014 - The parent companies of the Supervalu and Albertsons supermarkets say they have uncovered another breach of their computer networks, potentially compromising data from consumers.
Posted: 09/29/2014 - A sex offender from Indiana has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for sexually assaulting a teenage girl and killing her mother, brother and sister in southern Colorado.
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Yesterday saw the release of "A Portrait of Part-Time Faculty Members," a new multiyear study from the Coalition on the Academic Workforce. Since contingent faculty make up the majority of the professoriate today, you'd like to think there was some good news in the study.
In reality, however, the news is bleak:
- Median pay per course in 2010 was $2,700. ($2,235 at two-year schools; $3400 at four-year doctoral or research schools).
- Pay doesn't correspond with credentials-wage premiums for better credentials within the contingent workforce are small; likewise, there's not much of a career ladder. And, of course, contingent faculty pay lags behind similarly-educated professionals in other fields.
- Part-time faculty have access to limited professional development, and are generally excluded from governance.
- Most part-time faculty teach in such positions for extended periods of time, and most would prefer a full-time appointment, if one were available.
As Robert Townsend noted on the AHA Today blog:
"These data are striking, but there's even more emotional impact contained in the Wordle text cloud used as visual at the front of the report (and in this post). It depicts the responses to an open question about the biggest challenges they face as contingent faculty. Not surprisingly, "job," "security," and "time" all stand out. But the most important word here is "lack"-as it's the absence of so many of these things that looms large. The dominance of the word "faculty" points to one of the largest recurring concerns from respondents, the perceived lack of collegiality and respect from many of their colleagues."
Read the rest of this article on Prof Hacker at The Chronicle of Higher Education
See the full survey report on contingent faculty at the Coalition on the Academic Workforce website
by Amber N. Wiley
In December 2010 Adrian Fenty, then mayor of Washington, D.C., announced the highly anticipated plans for the re-design of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. The Office of Public Education Facilities Management (OPEFM), a city agency created in 2007 to fulfill campaign promises for a complete overhaul of the school system, had conducted two design competitions in two years with the hopes of selecting a winning design for the Dunbar building. During the course of the two competitions firms the caliber of Foster + Partners, Adjaye Associates, and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners submitted designs for the twenty-first century manifestation of the high school.
How did this design competition for a public high school become such a high profile event? Was it Washington politics as usual, showboating on the part of the mayor and city government, which had grappled with bad press on the state of the education system in the nation's capital? What was at stake here?
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, the first municipally funded public high school in the nation for blacks, was founded in 1870 as the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth. [1] The school moved numerous times during the next twenty-one years, housed in makeshift locations until finally settling at M Street between First Street and New Jersey Avenue, N.W., where the first substantial building for the school was constructed. It was rededicated as the M Street School and remained there for twenty-five years.
In 1916 a new building was erected in response to the growing student body – the design of the school building by municipal architect Snowden Ashford was a testament to the hopes and wishes of its community. Ashford was credited with more experience building and maintaining schools than any other architect of the early twentieth century. [2] One critic later noted that because Ashford did not discriminate in design "Washington's black schools were separate but truly equal to their white counterparts." [3] The three-story building employed Tudor references with a running parapet along the roof and a central fortified tower on the facade, and contained large windows and a ventilation system. On January 17, 1916 the new M Street High School was renamed Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in honor of the deceased poet.
Throughout segregation, and despite overcrowding over the years, Dunbar High School flourished, upholding the high tradition of its predecessor the M Street School. Dunbar's academic success was born out of racial discrimination during the era of segregation – its concentration of highly educated black teachers, some of whom held doctorates, were denied employment at other educational institutions. This misfortune turned out to be a blessing for students who were guaranteed a first-rate education at Dunbar.
As a result of the commanding faculty, combined with a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, Dunbar sent many of its graduates to a number of prominent colleges, including Howard, Amherst, Williams, Oberlin, Radcliffe, Smith, Harvard, Vassar, and Yale. [4] Some of the better-known graduates of Dunbar include Benjamin O. Davis, the first black general in the United States Army, and innovator in blood plasma research Dr. Charles Drew. Suffragist Mary Church Terrell and educator Anna Julia Cooper, one of the first black women to receive a Ph.D., both taught at the school. Cooper also served as principal of the M Street High School for the school from 1902 to 1906.
Desegregation and a population shift stemming from the Second Great Migration played a major role in the perceived decline of Dunbar as a leading educational institution. While the process of desegregation did not change the racial demographic of Dunbar's students, due in part to a Board of Education clause that stated students were prohibited from attending schools outside their neighborhood residential boundaries, it did dramatically change the socioeconomic status of the students. The academic change within Dunbar High School was more drastic than its physical transformation as the school's prestige began to diminish. The school slipped from high rankings and association with Washington's African American upper-middle-class in the 1950s to ultimately being characterized as "a failing ghetto school" by conservative economist Thomas Sowell in 2002. [5]
After the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency collaborated with the Model Inner City Community Organization (led by Walter Fauntroy) in an effort to revitalize the school's neighborhood while combatting the increasingly negative reputation of the school and its facilities. The new $17 million Dunbar High School constructed in 1977 by Bryant & Bryant was both a high-rise and open-plan school. The success of open-plan schools was particularly dependent on the correct implementation of their design with new teaching methods that worked to complement the specially configured spaces, innovative furnishings, and carpeting. Teaching methods included team teaching, modular teaching, and non-graded levels of instruction that emphasized the individuality of each student's learning processes.
Washington Post architecture critic Wolf Von Eckardt praised the new design noting "its brick and mortar arrangement does away with the confining, authoritarian rigidity of the old egg crate classrooms and recognizes that the constant in our time is change, that education is a fluid process." [6] The design was the most ambitious, avant-garde, and expensive for a public school in the metropolitan area, costing more than four times the amount estimated to bring the 1916 building it replaced up to code. [7] The ahistorical approach to the new design signified a rejection of the past and a focus on contemporary and future needs, revealing the strong disconnect between past accomplishments and the state of the institution in the 1970s.
The competition-winning design announced by Mayor Fenty in December is by the team Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn and Moody-Nolan. In many ways, it resembles the 1977 building it replaces: it is at the forefront of contemporary design practices for educational facilities, it incorporates flexible learning spaces, and it intends to re-define monumentality in a modern context.
The new school differs in its embrace of the past and historical figures associated with the institution. Yet in the 120 years since the erection of the M Street School facilities, the institution has been housed in three different buildings, and by 2014 the number will be increased to four. The constant reincarnation of Dunbar every thirty years strikes at the heart of the institutional memory of the school, creating a fractured narrative of the nation's first high school for blacks. Additionally, the tradition of politicians and activists using Washington public schools as experimentation grounds for policy and architecture leads to a repetitive cycle of high design, incompetent maintenance, and destruction.
Dunbar is a particularly worthwhile case study because of the historical association of great accomplishment that continuously pushes its innovative designs. Here, the grand posturing of the school's architecture reveals an insecurity about the academic and cultural climate of the institution today, and the belief that architecture does have the power to redirect the course of a school that has depleted and fractured institutional memory.
-- Amber N. Wiley
1 U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form for M Street High School , 2.
2 See Kimberly Prothro Williams, "Schools for All: A History of DC Public School Buildings 1804 – 1960," District of Columbia Historic Preservation Office (2008).
3 S. J. Ackerman, "Architect of the Everyday," Washington Post , November 6, 2005.
4 Jervis Anderson, "A Very Special Monument," New Yorker (March 20, 1978): 93, 100.
5 Thomas Sowell, "The Education of Minority Children," in Education in the Twenty-First Century , ed. Edward P. Lazear (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2002), 79-92.
6 Von Eckardt as quoted in Jervis Anderson, "A Very Special Monument," New Yorker (March 20, 1978): 111.
7 Michael Kiernan, "Razing Fight Begins Anew," Washington Star , February 28, 1975, B 1.
by Jonathan Massey
You drink it. I drink it. Wikipedia proclaims it the world's most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and suggests that it follows only water and tea in our collective liquid intake.
But what about breweries? They hardly appear in architectural histories. Participating recently in the Bike Brooklyn Beer Blitz got me thinking not only about this building type but also about the many modes and sites of historical research beyond the academy—the work of those amateur historians, enthusiasts, and other unpedigreed experts whose work intersects with that of professional historians to generate knowledge about architecture's past.
Breweries have been in the news a lot lately, as they are now the frequent sites of adaptive reuse in cities throughout the industrialized world. Among the most prominent are London's Truman Brewery, Copenhagen's Carlsberg Town, Perth's Swan Brewery, Shanghai's Union Brewery, and Zurich's Löwenbräu complex. Mostly, these disused industrial complexes have been turned into venues for the exhibition of art, though some contain art production spaces, housing, retail, office, or other programs.
There isn't much when it comes to the history of breweries, however, beyond a few isolated accounts coming out of industrial archeology. The best sources turn out be home brewers, local history researchers, and tour guides--or at least one exemplary tour guide: Matt Levy , of Levys' Unique New York. On a mild Sunday earlier this month I joined fifteen other cyclists for Matt's four-hour bike tour of former breweries in the north Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick.
From the mid-19th-century to the mid-20th, these onetime Dutch townships hosted a dense concentration of breweries run largely by German immigrants, along with no small number of bars, beer halls, and beer gardens. We biked around the city, visiting empty, reprogrammed, and redeveloped sites once occupied by Schaefer, Rheingold, Fallert, Huber, Ulmer, and other brands. We also stopped at some of the churches these beermakers built. The tour culminated at the avenue of crisp granite mausoleums that constitutes "Brewer's Row" at Evergreen Cemetery. And while the focus was historical, we didn't fail to stop and sample the output of Sixpoint Craft Ales , Brooklyn Brewery , and other borough enterprises.
It was a fine time.
Some of the pleasure lay in finding historical insight infused with the affective charges that come from the physical activity of pedaling, the sensations of bicycle perception, and the metabolic enhancements of alcohol. Some came from the easy sociability of an ad-hoc cycling crew that mixed in different ways as we moved through different neighborhoods and tour stages. Some derived from the interactions the Blitz afforded me with architectural historians and history venues outside the nexus of universities and museums.
The Bike Brooklyn Beer Blitz was a work of passion and enterprise on the part of a Bushwick resident whose family business offers custom tours of New York City. It started at the City Reliquary , a storefront community museum that features oddball collections and offbeat events. Much of Matt's information came from a 1976 volume self-published by Will Anderson, author of "From Beer to Eternity" among other titles. We were joined at the end by Donato Daddario , the Evergreen Cemetery gravedigger who has become the chief keeper of its history. And a television crew tracked us for a local cable show on Brooklyn businesses.
It was a pleasure to join this network of enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and institutions brought together by their commitments to place and to its history. And, of course, to beer.


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ROSSLYN, Va. (WUSA) - Metro officials have confirmed that a Blue Line train has derailed outside of the Rosslyn station.
A single wheel set on the train derailed. A Metro spokesman said there were no injuries reported, and that the train was evacuated. The derailment happened about 7 p.m. on the Blue Line route which travels from Franconia-Springfield in Virginia to Maryland's Largo Town Center stop.
Service was temporarily suspended, but trains on the Blue and Orange lines are now single tracking around the incident. Delays in both directions are expected.
Metro reported at 10:50 p.m. that Blue Line trains are still single tracking between Foggy Bottom and Arlington Cemetery, and the Orange Line is single tracking between Foggy Bottom and Clarendon due to the derailment, but that no delays to late-night service are expected.


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Tales from the Creeps: A White Nationalist Horror Story
Happy Halloween.
In honor of the holiday, the Hatewatch staff dug deep into our photo archives to unearth the creepiest image to crawl out of the white supremacist movement in quite some time. Here you go:
Though it resembles a promotional still from the 1960 horror flick "The Brides of Dracula," starring Peter Cushing, the photo (which apparently circulated among white supremacists on the Internet) actually shows Women for Aryan Unity activist Victoria "Vickie" Cahill standing over the embalmed (we hope!) corpse of David Lane, one of the inner-circle members of the Bruders Schweigen, or Silent Brotherhood, a white nationalist terrorist organization also known as The Order.
Like a lot of white nationalists, especially incarcerated ones, Lane was deep into racist neo-paganism, so we're assuming the coins on his eyes are meant for Charon, the mythical ferryman of Hades, who transports newly deceased souls across the river Styx. Lane was a great promulgator of Wotanism, a racist form of Odinism, which was practiced by Norsemen in the Middle Ages. (The flag on his body appears to be that of Norway, where Odinism was once practiced.)
The exact date and location of the photo are unknown, though it's a good bet it was taken in or near Kalispell, Mont. within a few days of Lane's death in prison on May 28, 2007, while he was serving a 190-year sentence for racketeering and conspiracy related to the 1984 assassination of Jewish talk radio host Alan Berg. Lane drove the getaway car after an accomplice machine-gunned Berg to death as he stood in the driveway of his own Denver area home.
Not long before he died, Lane, who was suffering from cancer, arranged for his body to be released to neo-Nazi stage mom April Gaede. Lane frequently corresponded with Gaede, who encouraged his infatuation with her teenage twin daughters, who were 54 years his junior. Lane referred to them as his "fantasy sweethearts."
Gaede arranged for Lane's corpse to be transported from the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., where he died in his cell, to her home in Kalispell, Mont, and then announced that she "and the gals from WAU [Women for Aryan Unity]" had established a David Lane Memorial Fund to cover the expenses of interring Lane's remains.
According to Gaede, Lane told her that he wanted to be cremated and have his ashes placed in the capstone of a pyramid monument. It seems that was a bit outside Gaede and the WAU's price range. Gaede posted on the racist online forum Stormfront that "[s]ince we are not in a situation to build a monument in a White homeland," she was planning to instead distribute Lane's ashes among 14 miniature pyramids to be enshrined in the homes of 14 white nationalist women. This was a tribute to Lane's coining of the "14 Words," the white nationalist catchphrase that goes, "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." (Two skinheads who were arrested earlier this week for allegedly plotting to rob a gun store and then attempt to assassinate Barack Obama reportedly told police they intended to honor the 14 Words by cutting the heads off 14 African Americans.) ( continue to full post… )
American Legion Attacks Report, and SPLC Responds
In the Fall 2008 issue of the Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center detailed a long list of defamatory falsehoods published by the American Legion, a major veterans group, in its new booklet, A Strategy to Address Illegal Immigration in the United States. As the Report's story said at the time, the book "regurgitates discredited and often completely false information about how 'illegals' are bringing crime, disease and terrorism to this country, even as they wreck the economy."
On Thursday, the American Legion posted a response to the Report's criticisms on its website, including a copy of a letter sent to the editor of the Report a few days earlier. The letter notes (as our story did) that the booklet is "under review" — this because of repeated complaints from the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the American GI Forum, a Hispanic veterans group — but then goes on to toss off the Report's allegations. Finally, in an apparent effort to bolster its case, the Legion goes on to cite a series of completely unrelated attacks on SPLC that it wrongly attributes to the Atlanta Constitution.
Here is our letter of response, sent today to Legion Commander David Rehbein:
Dear Commander Rehbein,
It's unfortunate that your response to our detailed criticism of your immigration booklet is limited to a disingenuous characterization of what we say as merely reflecting different "perspectives" on immigration. Had you actually looked at the concrete criticisms we made, instead of simply insisting we were wrong, you would have had to face the fact that you made numerous errors of fact, clear mistakes that have the effect of defaming and vilifying what you like to call "illegal aliens."
You suggest that we "sugar coat" the problem of illegal immigration. Let's briefly revisit a sampling of what the American Legion does in its booklet:
• You falsely claim that "non-citizens make up fully 30% of the American prison population." That is propaganda. The real number is under 6%.
• You falsely attribute the claim that 49% of incarcerated illegal immigrants had prior felony convictions to a GAO report. The report says no such thing, and neither does any other.
• Without the benefit of any attribution, you falsely state that "more Americans are killed by illegal aliens than die in the Iraq war." Translated, your claim means that 4% of population (the same 12 million illegal immigrants to whom you refer) is responsible for 11.4% to 16.1% of our nation's murders. Every study shows that immigrants commit fewer, not more, crimes than natives.
• You cite an extreme-right propagandist (Madeleine Cosman), writing in a totally discredited journal, to claim that illegal immigrants are bringing a series of dread diseases to the United States. You have no other evidence at all for this inflammatory suggestion. Please note that the same journal you cite for proof recently published the claim that HIV does not cause AIDS.
• You falsely claim that 7,000 people in the United States were infected with leprosy between 2000 and 2003 by illegal immigrants. The real number of people infected with leprosy in those years is about 400. And no one knows how many of those, if any at all, were attributable to immigrants. ( continue to full post… )
Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Rise for Fourth Year in a Row
Hate crimes targeting Latinos increased again in 2007, capping a 40% rise in the four years since 2003, according to FBI statistics released earlier this week.
As anti-immigrant propaganda has increased on both the margins and in the mainstream of society — where pundits and politicians have routinely vilified undocumented Latino immigrants with a series of defamatory falsehoods — hate violence has risen against perceived "illegal aliens." Each year since 2003, the number of FBI-reported anti-Latino hate crime incidents has risen (see table, below), even as a swelling nativist movement has become larger and more vitriolic.
The FBI statistics, which are simply compilations of state statistics as mandated by federal law, are notoriously sketchy. Because of a variety of problems in the voluntary reporting system, including the failure of many victims to report crimes to police, the FBI figures have long been suspected of being far lower than the actual level of such crimes. And that turns out to be true. The FBI has reported national hate crime totals of between about 6,000 and about 10,000 since it began publishing the numbers in 1992, depending on the year (the new report counts 7,264 incidents in 2007). But a definitive 2005 study by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (PDF), based on detailed and highly accurate National Crime Victimization Surveys, found that the real annual level of hate crime in America averaged some 191,000 incidents — in other words, about 20 to 30 times higher than the numbers annually reported by the FBI.
Although the numbers of FBI-reported anti-Latino hate crime attacks are small — from 426 incidents in 2003 to 595 incidents in 2007 — the trend they suggest is almost certainly a real one. California, which does a better job of reporting hate crimes than most states, has also seen a major uptick in anti-Latino violence, and the growth of hate groups has been most dramatic in Southern border states like California, Arizona and Texas, the front lines of the immigration controversy.
At the same time as anti-Latino violence has risen, the Southern Poverty Law Center has reported a major increase in hate groups — from 602 in 2000 to 888 in 2007, a 48% percent jump — and said that the growth has been almost entirely driven by the immigration debate. White supremacist groups that normally target African Americans and Jews have focused heavily for the last several years on the "threat" of Latino immigrants, exploiting the issue successfully in order to recruit more and more members, especially in the border states. That has only begun to change recently, as hate groups increasingly turn their attention to the subprime crisis (which they blame on minorities) and the likely prospect of a black president. ( continue to full post… )
Help Save Maryland Faces Off With Immigrant Rights Group
Members of Help Save Maryland staged a counter-protest targeting demonstrators who were voicing opposition to proposed legislation that would deny public services to illegal immigrants and require a count of immigrant children in public schools.
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Immigration Still A Top Priority With Minutemen
Despite the public's attention shifting to issues like home foreclosures and the danger of a global recession, members of groups like Jim Gilchrist's Minuteman Project continue to push immigration as a white-hot topic.
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Daniel Cowart, one of the two men arrested Friday in an alleged plot to assassinate Barack Obama and murder more than 100 people, was a member of a racist skinhead group formed earlier this year. The group, the Supreme White Alliance (SWA), posted a note after the arrests saying that a "probate" member — clearly Cowart, although the site didn't mention his name — had been booted out some time ago.
Cowart, in fact, is described as "member #3" of the SWA on the group's Ning site (Ning is a social networking site), meaning he was the third to sign up for an account on that site. In "Daniel Cowart's Supreme White Alliance page," Cowart describes himself as "easy going and easy to get along with, as long as you are White!" In addition, a photo obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows Cowart at a birthday party held for Adolf Hitler last April along with others linked to the SWA. The group is displaying a birthday cake marked with its SWA acronym.
It's not clear if Cowart's alleged partner, Paul Schlesselman, was a member or associate of the group. The SWA posting suggests that he is not.
The two men were arrested after federal agents uncovered what they described as a plot to go on a multi-state "killing spree." In an affidavit, the ATF said that the two, both of whom it described as holding "strong" white supremacist beliefs, had met via the Internet in late September. They later got together and allegedly decided to kill 88 people, followed by beheading another 14 African Americans. (The numbers are neo-Nazi codes representing white supremacist slogans.) Officials said they also intended to target a predominantly black high school, a gun store, and individuals who they planned to rob to raise money. The final act, according to the affidavit, was to come when both men dressed in white tuxedoes and top hats and attempted to shoot Obama as they drove toward him while shooting through the windows, agents said. Both men fully expected to die in their final attack.
The SWA Ning site also carries a page showing "Daniel's Friends," belonging to Daniel Cowart, that lists as a friend Steven Edwards (posting as "Stevenfuckit08″), the current president of SWA. Edwards is the son of Ron Edwards, who is the imperial wizard, or national leader, of the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), based in Kentucky. The Southern Poverty Law Center is currently involved in civil litigation with Ron Edwards and the IKA over the beating of a teenage boy in 2006. The case is scheduled for trial on Nov. 12.
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On Friday, the ATF busted up an alleged plot to assassinate Barack Obama and go on a multi-state "killing spree." Agents arrested two men, Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn. (pictured twice below), and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Ark. (right), and charged them with possessing an unregistered firearm, conspiring to steal firearms, and threatening a candidate for president.
According to an affidavit filed by an ATF special agent, the men met through the internet and planned to engage in a "killing spree" that included shooting 88 African Americans and beheading another 14. Targets included a predominantly African-American school. At the end of the alleged spree, the men intended to try to kill Obama.
"88," an important number in skinhead numerology, means "Heil Hitler" – as "H" is the eighth letter of the alphabet. "14" likely refers to the "14 Words," a white supremacist slogan that originated with the late David Lane. Lane died last year in prison while serving a sentence for his role in an assassination plot carried out by The Order, a white supremacist terrorist group that was destroyed in 1984.
One of the suspects, Cowart, is a known member of a new skinhead hate group, the Supreme White Alliance (SWA), formed at the beginning of 2008, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He attended a Hitler's Birthday party held last April by the group.
SWA is headed by Steven Edwards, son of Ron Edwards, who leads the Imperial Klans of America. The Southern Poverty Law Center is currently involved in civil litigation with Ron Edwards and the IKA over the beating of a minority youth in July 2006.
Since 1995, there have been more than 60 major domestic terrorist plots that have emerged from the radical right. These have included everything from plans to bomb government buildings to amassing missiles, explosives, and even biological and chemical weapons. Most contemplated the deaths of large numbers of people — in one case, as many as 30,000.
Since 2000, the number of hate groups has risen by almost 50 percent — from 602 in 2000 to 888 in 2007. White supremacists have been stunned by Obama's rise. That, considering the economic tough times, makes this a dangerous period.
According to ATF officials, the investigation is continuing, and more charges are possible.
Mongols Indictment Details Biker Gang's Racism, Alleged Crimes
Shooting up "Toys For Tots" charity events. Selling cocaine to Catholic high school football coaches. Earning "purple wings" by having sex with dead women.
Unsealed earlier this week, a vividly detailed, 177-page federal indictment (PDF) leveling 86 felony counts against 79 members of the Mongols motorcycle gang is a dizzying cavalcade of barbarous and degenerate acts, whose alleged perpetrators were arrested Tuesday during simultaneous raids involving more than 1,000 federal agents and local police in a half-dozen states, representing the culmination of a three-year undercover investigation dubbed "Operation Black Rain." The indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, accuses Mongol gang members of engaging in drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering. The gang, made up of 500 to 600 members, is based in Los Angeles but has affiliate chapters in 13 states as well as Mexico and Canada.
According to the indictment, the four undercover officers who infiltrated the Mongols discovered that it was a fundamentally racist organization. The gang's mostly Latino members were motivated to commit violent acts, up to and including murder, not only by greed, revenge and sheer bloodlust, but also by racist hatred of African-Americans, who the gang often targeted purely for the color of their skin. "Mongols crimes typically include acts of violence … and, very frequently, hate crimes directed against African-American persons who might come into contact with the Mongols," it reads. ( continue to full post… )


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The brains behind the San Fernando Valley residents group that has stopped construction of the Orange Line busway is a former Los Angeles transit official who has worked as a highly paid consultant to MTA unions, the Bus Riders Union and even the Los Angeles school district.
The focus of much of the effort of Tom Rubin has been waging a spirited fight against the policies of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the agency that gobbled up his former employer, the Rapid Transit District, more than a decade ago, in an effort to coordinate transportation policies throughout the county.
Working as an unpaid consultant to Citizens Organized for Smart Transit, the Valley group fighting the busway through its members' neighborhoods, the wonkish Rubin has guided an effort that on Monday won a state appellate court order halting - at least temporarily -construction of a $330 million project that is 40 percent complete.
``Tom is the fact man,'' said Diana Lipari, the chairwoman of COST, a private group that refuses to disclose its membership or financial backing, and whose lawsuit halted busway construction this week.
``Tom is the person who knows the actual facts. Tom is an essential part of what we're doing.''
The California Court of Appeal handed COST a victory by ordering the MTA to stop construction on the Orange Line, at least until a hearing next week, although the delay could grow into months.
The work shutdown - costing up to $70,000 a day, according to the MTA - came after the court last month overruled the lower-court judge in the case, saying the MTA's environmental review was inadequate because the agency failed to study a system of Rapid buses as an alternative to the busway.
Supporters of the busway have been outraged that construction is being halted after so much work, especially since community opposition cost the Valley a chance to get a promised east-west subway or light-rail line in the past. Two Valley city councilmen on Wednesday called for a report next week on steps the city could take to help complete the project.
``We're livid about it,'' said Bruce Ackerman of the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley.
``What the Orange Line brings to that swath along the Valley in the way of new jobs, new economic opportunities - not to mention convenience for the residents abutting this project - I am just amazed.
``I cannot believe a handful of people who really don't have the interests of the San Fernando Valley at heart can stop a project like that.''
The residents group COST was formed in spring 2002, shortly after the MTA gave the busway final approval, as an umbrella group of the various opponents that had been fighting the project for more than a year.
Rubin attended that meeting, in the living room of Lipari's home, when about 25 people, many with contributions of about $1,000 each, agreed to start working on the lawsuit.
He and Lipari had crossed paths in the previous months fighting the MTA, and found common cause in their belief that a system of red Rapid buses across the Valley was preferable to the busway.
The group hired land-use attorney John Henning. Rubin continues compiling the nitty-gritty details of bus speeds and route analysis to form the backbone of arguments against the Orange Line.
As a private group not required to disclose its membership or finances, COST says only that its membership is in the thousands and financial support comes not from any formal group but from individuals opposed to the project. It says no money comes from unions.
``I'm hoping the specifics can come out with a real comparison that people will really look at,'' said Lipari, a former opera singer and New Yorker, who has sold real estate in her Valley Glen neighborhood since 1993.
``If MTA comes out with a study that says Rapid bus is better ... and then they still chose the busway ... well, then, the public has to say, Well, what are you doing?''
Rubin, a certified public accountant by training, puts it this way.
``We're of the opinion if a proper study is done, and it shows there are better ways to move people around, the elected officials on the MTA board may take some cognizance of it.''
Rubin worked for the precursor to the MTA, the old Southern California Rapid Transit District, for four years as the CFO, and a year at the MTA after the two merged in 1993, before taking a layoff package in 1994.
He said one of his last projects at the MTA was an analysis of a proposed fare hike - which he strongly criticized - that put him in touch with the Labor/Community Strategy Center, the parent group of the Bus Riders Union, which won a consent decree that has given it a major say in fares, bus purchases and MTA priorities.
That summer, he worked pro bono helping to draft the center's lawsuit that resulted in a consent-decree settlement that capped fares and forced the MTA to start buying more buses. When the court ordered the MTA to pay for monitoring of the consent decree, the center hired Rubin, a job he continues to this day, he said.
He also worked for the MTA's mechanics union in 2003 when it tried unsuccessfully to get legislation in Sacramento to help shore up its ailing health benefits trust fund, which went on to become the center dispute in the monthlong MTA strike last fall.
During the transit strike of 2000, he said he was hired by the bus drivers union.
Currently, Rubin works as the paid consultant for the Los Angeles Unified School District's bond oversight committee, which oversees spending of billions of dollars in school construction money.
Rubin says he's financially able to do choose his crusades, and that his work against the MTA is nothing short of a labor of love.
``I have two main reasons. One, MTA without adult supervision is very dangerous. And two, many of the things I have done, participated in, have led to major improvements that would not have happened.
``I feel I have made a difference, basically in some cases over the strongest possible objections of MTA.''
He said he sees faults in the MTA's other projects, the trains to the Eastside and Santa Monica, but has to pick his battles - though he's already criticized the Santa Monica train proposal, saying it, too, should have considered the Rapid bus alternative.
But Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, the MTA board member who has championed the Orange Line through his district, believes the busway will ultimately prevail, an aide said.
``He's confident the busway is the better mode; he's also confident the busway will prevail in court,'' said Yaroslavsky press aide Joel Bellman.
``(Yaroslavsky) is confident that the MTA will prevail in court on the merits of its arguments and that this mode will be thoroughly endorsed by the board as the optimal mode.''
Lisa Mascaro, (818) 713-3761
(color) Tom Rubin prepares to fight the MTA as it tries to overturn the decision against the proposed Valley busway.
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