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Yves Rocher is a worldwide cosmetics and beauty brand, founded in 1959 by the French entrepreneur Yves Rocher (1930–2009) and based in La Gacilly. The company is present in 88 countries on five continents and employs 13,500 personnel, excluding more than 215,000 through additional indirect jobs.
The Yves Rocher group achieved a turnover of 2.012 billion euros in 2004. The group also manages the brands Daniel Jouvance, Dr Pierre Ricaud, Isabel Derroisné, Petit Bateau, Kiotis, Stanhome and Galérie Noémie.
The company maintains a botanical garden, the Jardin botanique Yves Rocher de La Gacilly, at its industrial site in La Gacilly. It is open to the public without charge.
The Yves Rocher Foundation was founded in 1991 by Yves Rocher under the aegis of the institute of France since 2001.
Yves Rocher Vostok, the company's East European subsidiary, sued Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his brother for fraud and money laundering. Novaya Gazeta accused Bruno Leproux, managing director of Yves Rocher Vostok, of assisting the Russian government's campaign against Alexei Navalny.[1][2]
Since August 2014 the "One Question for Yves Rocher" movement[3] has been expanding in Europe in order to get the Yves Rocher corporation to take a definitive position on the case against Navalny.
On December 30, 2014, Alexei Navalny's brother Oleg was sentenced to 31⁄2 years forced labour and Alexei Navalny himself to a suspended sentence of 31⁄2 years.


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Nestled on the beach, this Taormina hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Recanati Beach and Archaeological Museum. Norman Castle of Calatabiano is 2.8 mi (4.4 km) away.
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Simply walk outside to feel the sun on your face at the sand beach. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at Hilton Giardini Naxos like an outdoor pool and a seasonal outdoor pool.
Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. The property also offers a snack bar/deli and a grocery/convenience store. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a beach bar and a bar/lounge. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This beach hotel also offers a 24-hour fitness center, a steam room, and a sauna. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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Panarea - Overlooking the ocean and pool, this restaurant specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
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OUR SPA has massage/treatment rooms and couples treatment room(s). Services include massages, facials, body scrubs, and body treatments. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, and thalassotherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, and Turkish bath/hammam.
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Seth Andrews, The Thinking Atheist, tackles the right-wing talking point that America is a "Christian nation"… whatever that means:
The most important rebuttals begin at the 1:35 mark.
You can be skeptical and friendly at the same time.
Seth Andrews, The Thinking Atheist, tackles the right-wing talking point that America is a "Christian nation"… whatever that means:
The most important rebuttals begin at the 1:35 mark.
Hemant Mehta is the editor of Friendly Atheist, appears on the Atheist Voice channel on YouTube, and co-hosts the uniquely-named Friendly Atheist Podcast. You can read much more about him here.
Interestingly, not only did the Treaty of Tripoli explicitly state that the USA is not, in any sense, founded as a Christian nation, but it was UNANIMOUSLY approved by Congress (many of whom were the actual "founding fathers" from just a few years earlier), and it was fully printed in the major newspapers of the day, without even a single editorial or letter to the editor ever opposing this explicit denial of Christianity having any preferential role in the founding of our country.
Modern theists are trying to revise history to make it fit with what they wish was true.
Another argument that comes up is the Holy Trinity Church vs. United States SCOTUS decision. However Justice David J. Brewer went on to discuss this in "The United States a Christian Nation"
We classify nations in various ways as for instance, by their form of government. One is a kingdom, another an empire, and still another a republic. Also by race. Great Britain is an Anglo Saxon nation, France a Gallic, Germany a Teutonic, Russia a Slav. And still again by religion. One is a Mohammedan nation, others are heathen, and still others are Christian nations.
This republic is classified among the Christian nations of the world. It was so formally declared by the Supreme Court of the United States. In the case of Holy Trinity Church vs. United States, 143 U. S. 471, that court, after mentioning various circumstances, added, "these and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation."
But in what sense can it be called a Christian nation? Not in the sense that Christianity is the established religion or that the people are in any manner compelled to support it. On the contrary, the Constitution specifically provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Neither is it Christian in the sense that all its citizens are either in fact or name Christians. On the contrary, all religions have free scope within our borders. Numbers of our people profess other religions, "and many reject all. Nor is it Christian in the sense that a profession of Christianity is a condition of holding office or otherwise engaging in the public service, or essential to recognition either politically or socially. In fact the government as a legal organization is independent of all religions.
So in an Organic sense, yes, we have Christian roots. Our history is Christian in the sense that it's not Muslim or heathen. But clearly as a legal organization, it is independent of all religions.
You mean David Barton is wrong? Or do you mean David Barton is a lying sack of shit?
Seth does great work.
The problem is that these people don't care about your "facts" and "history". They already have a faith-based conclusion and they will happily let David Barton tell them what they want to hear. Even if they did grudgingly admit all of the ways in which our Founders said they weren't creating a Christian nation, they're just going to see that as God working in mysterious ways to create a Christian nation. Believing in a Christian nation is the political equivalent of Creationism, a self-contained fantasy world.
One part of the Declaration of Independence is never cited or mentioned:
"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to
bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian
Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction
of all ages, sexes and conditions."
This is overt racism and the known rule of warfare attributed to the Indian Savages applies more to the colonists and their descendents than the Indians. The U.S. up to today has always practiced an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions among those who opposed American imperialism.
For a Brit looking in on US society from outside the goldfish bowl this is a simple case of an argument that is demonstrably proven to be wrong by the facts and evidence. No the US is not a "Christian nation". It is a secular one, and one of the first in the world to be established as such.
America is faith driven and clings to religion more than any other western state. Whereas after the mechanized slaughter of the early and mid 20C wars most European states began to become rapidly less and less religious, America didn't.
Americans also have this societal thing of thinking that everyone has a right to express their opinions, and that all opinions (no matter how ridiculous) must be given equal consideration. The American sense of fair play and free speech serves to support this dissonance. To the average church going American the opinion of Mr Pastor is equal to or superior to that of Mr History Professor and Mr Constitutional Lawyer.
Americans, more than other westerners, also seem to have this built in part of them that thinks faith and belief are equal to facts and evidence. One example is the love Americans have for daft conspiracy theories (come on…. 1 in 5 think the government was behind 9/11…the same % that think the moon landings may have been faked).
Another factor Id chuck in is the chaotic state of US education systems, which result in compromised educations. In almost all European states education is a state run business, where private schools are a small minority, and home schooling is almost non existent by law. Teachers and schools are regularly inspected by government bodies to ensure state curricula are being taught properly. History education in the US seems in a parlous state when in a recent survey just under 20% of the kids polled did not know it was we Brits the US fought in the War of Independence. If they cant answer a basic question like that how the hell do you expect them to know the facts in this vid?
So while the facts and evidence clearly show the US was established as a secular state on pluralist and humanist values, my guess is it will be a cold day in hell before you persuade the majority of Americans of that argument.
In my mind, these discussions are almost entirely irrelevant. The personal beliefs or intentions of the founding fathers can be argued over beers, but the only thing that matters is what they wrote. That only matters today in that it is still law. Anything else is just shooting the breeze.
The US constitution unambiguously created a secular government. Under that framework, the vast majority of US citizens today are Christian. To argue that the US is not a Christian nation is specious: it's a Christian nation with a secular government. In my view, the goal of secular activists must be to ensure that the Christian majority understand the benefits of this arrangement and don't try to change it.
Post 1746 and Culloden the Brit national anthem had a pesky 6th verse all about crushing the rebellious Scots blah de blah. We dropped that.
Its a bit harder to take a patent Pentagon approved redactive marker pen and scribble out that pesky clause though eh?
Methinks twas the first example of "political projection" – the favored tool of the right wingers.
No, it is not a Christian nation. That should be clear from a day spent in history 101. However – and this is important – it is not a 'secular' nation as currently understood. The lines of the 18th century would not be as thickly drawn as they are today. And the purpose of the Bill of Rights was protecting people from the government, not the other way around. So the Founders would scratch their heads at the notion that we were somehow uniquely a Christian nation. I think they would say 'haven't you read the instructions?' But they would be equally appalled at, say, the recent string of elected officials attempting to banish a company from their towns because of espousing a religiously based belief. To miss either of those points is to basically say we really don't care what the Founders actually wanted anyway.
You might want to go back and take a look at the posts (and comments) at atheist blogs after the reports about those elected officials. They were taken to task pretty strongly by most of us, as I recall.
"America is faith driven and clings to religion more than any other western state."
I always think it's odd when people say things like this. Surely, the US is one of the LEAST religious countries in the Americas, all of which are "western states".
I was happy to see some atheists and progressives jump up and down about that. Sadly, not all did. As stories break that the restaurant in question is backing down, read those comments. There are actually people celebrating the government cracking down on all those 'religious right types. Censorship? Damn tootin. It works and we're glad it works!' So I'm happy and thankful for those atheists and progressives who see that, not only are such actions in flagrant opposition to the intentions of the Founders, but it is also stupidity in the first degree, since we all know from history that the government stripping away freedom is like eating peanuts – once you start, you just can't stop. Something, when you get right down to it, that the Founding Fathers were well aware of.
Ask a Christian if people who follow the Pope are Christian,
if people who ask for forgiveness for sins from a priest are Christian,
if people who accept homosexuality are Christian
if people who have sex outside of marriage are Christian
if people who don't go to church are Christian
if people who don't take the Bible literally are Christian
if people who wear magic underwear are Christian
if people who are pro-choice are Christian…
Once they're done dividing up who is and isn't a True Christian™ ask why they believe America to be a Christian Nation when only this very small percentage of Americans are Christian.
It's funny how religious people, and not just Christians, love to take safety in the majority when it's convenient, but denounce most of the people in that majority for not following the right brand of religion.
If you are talking about chik fil a, you really missed the point. No one was trying to censor the restaurant. The protest was about the funding of anit-gay groups that were going to Uganda and trying to pass laws that would make homosexuality illegal. You are the one displaying a high degree of stupidity right now.
Even if we were a Christian nation, it seems like atheists wouldn't exactly be the first ones they should be going after: http://truth-tables.com/index.php?archive=213
We are a Christian Privilege Nation.
Yes they were. When a government official uses his role as a government official to attempt to punish a citizen for expressing his views, that is censorship by any definition. I mean, there was a time when a record store would refuse to sell the Rolling Stones and liberals everywhere screamed 'censorship'! If an elected leader attempted to use his role in the government to do it? Are you kidding me? All you're saying is that it's not censorship if it's punishing those who don't acknowledge the Truth (TM). Which is, of course, what anyone and everyone who has ever pined for censorship has said.
And that government official was wrong. Liberals and progressives were against that too. Boycotting the restaurant is not the same as censorship. You are confusing two issues here. People were protesting the funding of anti-gay groups. The government official took it upon himself to deny chik fil a the right to build his business. None of the groups who were boycotting chil fil a supported the government official. You really do not understand what happened. I could care less about chik fil a's owner's religion. When he used the money to support anti-gay groups that were passing laws that made homosexuality illegal that was what people were protesting.
"Whatever that means"? Really? It means most people here are Christians and most have been since colonial times.
Was that hard?
anti-gay groups that were passing laws that made homosexuality illegal
The groups aren't actually passing any laws. They are lobbying for anti-gay legislation. And they're not trying to make homosexuality illegal (at least not in the US), they're trying to make same sex marriage illegal, and make it legal to bully gay kids if your religion says being gay is a sin, etc.
Yes, that's my point. People can disagree all they want. That's no problem. Boycott away! And I'll fight to the death your right to do so. But I mean the government officials, including those now crowing victory, victory in light of CFA backing down. As well as those saying 'more, more, we want more government officials punishing those who dare resist the dogmas of liberal diversity!' That's my beef.
I am personally alarmed at the growing number of folks who seem to think it's time to put an end to all this open and tolerant toward freedom BS. And it isn't just one side or the other. Religious and non-religious, left and right, I see a growing impatience that some are having with those who dare to disagree. And that, more than anything, is my biggest fear. Go after CFA all you want, or go and support it. Either way, hurrah for a free country. But those who are trying to lobby to get the government on their side – no matter what their beliefs – are the biggest threat to freedom in our nation today.
I wasn't talking about the U.S. Chik fil a was knowingly funding an anti-gay christian group that was working with Ugandan politicians to pass laws that would jail homosexuals and put to death for repeat offenders. So far Uganda has not passed the law, but gays are very afraid for their safety and lives because of the animosty U.S. christian groups has caused. I agree that it is bad here too because of the anti-gay climate chik fil a and other anti-gay hate groups are supporting that leads to bullying and suicide of gay teens. These groups are violating the religious freedom of non-christians that believe is gay is okay by passing laws that discriminate against gays.
You are not getting it. The government official's actions were unacceptable. He was trying to censor chik fil a which is wrong. People were claiming victory against CFA for their defunding of a hate group. They were celebrating that no more money was going to a group that was trying to pass laws in Uganda to imprision gays. That's it!! What part of that do you not understand!! These fictional groups supporting goverment censorship of CFA is all in your mind. The only groups that are trying to take away freedoms are the fundie christian groups passing laws discriminating against non-believers. You scream censorship and denial of freedom because others want to live they way they want and not by the christian religion.
You weren't clear on "not the USA". Since chik-fil-a is a US company, that was my assumption. As I was writing it occurred to me that you might be talking about Uganda, so I added the "in the US anyway".
Don't get me wrong, I agree in general, I just think that while we're making sure we're accurate about "boycott" vs. "censor" we need to be very careful about accurate language in other areas too, hence also my "lobby" vs. "pass laws".
I'll also mention here that many people who supported the CFA boycott also supported the various politicians who said CFA would not be welcome in their cities. There was at least one guest post on this very blog, with lots of supporting (and some dissenting) comments.
There are people who oppose CFA's support of anti-gay agendas, who get into a mob mentality, and think it's 'cool' for politicians to talk about denying CFA a business license. Not everyone, but the position does exist.
That voice is probably the only thing that would nudge me off a 0 on the Kinsey scale.
So we define nations by their majority now? In that case, America is a white, female, heterosexual, Christian nation.
Some are, sure. But others are making it clear that they're cheering for the censorship part. I'm not saying everyone is. But enough to be worried.
Oh, and please stop with the idea that folks you agree with are angels. The second biggest problem in our age is that people actually believe that those they agree with are pure, perfect, flawless, and always right about everything, but it's, it's, it's – themmmm – who are the problem. Wake up and smell the coffee. Why did all those mayors do what they did? Because based on their calculations they thought they would have support for doing it. And some did support them. Fortunately – for now- enough didn't that it didn't succeed initially (though it did in the long run).
I'm sure you can provide specific examples, then.
If that is all people meant when they said that, then it wouldn't be a big deal. However, it is used to justify giving Christians and Christianity special privileges and powers.
I can see the demand for evidence. After all, I appear to have made the startling claim that across the entire planet, there may actually be an atheist or two, or maybe even a couple liberals, who could be, wow, not perfect. Naturally evidence should be forthcoming. Or you could simply visit any one of a hundred blogs or websites featuring the stories in question, skim through the blogs – and this is important – and take off the lenses that say 'by definition all atheists and liberals are perfect, kind, loving, and flawless,' and read the bloody comments. The best example I saw in a brief glance was from this story:
Where a hapless poster was lamenting the victory of government officials threatening free speech, and fearing that more censorship would now be forthcoming, only to get this response from someone whose other posts suggests sympathies against CFA:
"If only that were true."
No doubt posted by a radical right wing conservative Christian.
Good points all. I am a card carrying west-coast, bleeding heart liberal. That said, I see the liberal left getting swallowed up by the too far left that seek censorship, oppression and over the top bullying. A great example of this is the recent A+ movement (and movement is apropos as they are much akin to stinky bowel movements).
Looking at the original context of the Treaty of Tripoli, it was written as a Treaty with a nation populated predominantly by Muslims. Of course they said that, in order to appease their partners, and probably no one objected because the Treaty was too important to quibble over such things. But that does not erase the fact that our supreme court recognizes a special relationship between religion and the government, authorizing public prayer at state sponsored meetings and from the beginning approved state-funded chaplains, or that the majority of the American population is Christian and will likely continue to be Christian since atheists do not reproduce themselves even by converting Christians or other faiths. Yeah, History is complicated, but "America is a Christian Nation" is a true statement, as much as "America is an English-speaking nation" even if it's not the official religion or official language of the USA.
If you use the majority rule then yes it would be, however the founding fathers made sure to state we were not a christen nation for that reason and more. If america is considered a christen nation because the majority of people are, then people of a minority would be adversely affected by the majority. No, America isnt a Christen nation.
You'd be surprised how much you question the 9/11 bombings when you watch this:
I know its from a biased source but its the first link I could find.
You may scoff, but as I see it there are three kinds of people:
1. Those that believe their government would NEVER do anything to hurt them, and all they do is in their best interests
2. Those that believe their government would do something like this to propagate their own agenda, but still grasp at straws as to why they couldn't have done (because believing would mean other things in their life would have to be questioned)
3. Those that believe their government is perfectly capable of doing anything in their power to do anything they want
Jet engine fuel burns at 900 degrees
Steel melts at 1500 degrees
Start with that question and see how many inconsistencies there are
100s of lives VS throwing the US into a war for billions of dollars in oil
I can see the motivation
Do y'all think that we could break the treaty if we wanted to?
"America is a Christian Nation" is a true statement, as much as "America is an English-speaking nation" even if it's not the official religion or official language of the USA.
That is a really funny joke.
US= 13 English colonies.
America was America more than 100 years before the English inmigrants moved to the East coast and settled the colonies.The rest is well known: genocide of the truly Americans=the natives, and plundered of everything they could.
History is not a big asset in the US. It is sort of Hollywoodland stories.
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Lots of court action happening in this Monday edition of morning news. Let's see what's on the docket, eh?
One of the nine Greenpeace protesters who broke in to Procter and Gamble's headquarters this spring will plead guilty today to lesser felony charges, the Associated Press reports. Charles Long of Chicago will take a plea deal to avoid serving jail time and will instead do community service and pay restitution. Long and the eight other protesters entered P&G's Cincinnati headquarters March 4. The group hung large banners from the side of the building protesting the company's use of palm oil, which Greenpeace says leads to rainforest destruction. The protesters argue they were within the bounds of the First Amendment when they committed the act. All but Long are fighting the felony burglary and vandalism charges, which carry a possible sentence of nine years in jail.
• One of Cincinnati's biggest developers is seeking to transform a whole block of Race Street near Findlay Market, as we reported Friday. Check out the details of Model Group's plan here.
• Though Cincinnati missed out (if that's what you want to call it) on the 2016 GOP National Convention, the city may still have a shot at another major national gathering. Cincy is still in the running for the 2016 NAACP Convention and is competing with St. Louis, Baltimore and Austin, Texas for the gathering. Cincinnati last hosted the annual convention in 2008. Both Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain spoke at that event, and the coming election year convention will surely be just as politically important. Representatives from the city traveled to Las Vegas in July to make the pitch for Cincinnati, and a site visit here is expected sometime in the fall. The NAACP will make the final decision sometime before the end of the year.
If Cincinnati lands the convention, 2016 could be a big year for Ohio politically. Cleveland ended up with the Republican National Convention and Columbus is competing for the Democrats' national gathering. There's some grousing, by the way, that Cleveland ended up with the convention because of the pull and political ambitions of powerful Ohio Republicans Sen. Rob Portman and Gov. John Kasich, both of whom have hinted at possible bids for the party's presidential nomination.
* New City Manager Harry Black starts today. Black, Cranley's pick for the job, was previously the City of Baltimore's finance head. He replaces interim City Manager Scott Stiles, who will go back to his role as assistant city manager.
• Jury selection for Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter's trial on nine felony counts begins today. Hunter is facing charges of forgery, tampering with evidence and abuse of court credit cards and faces up to 13 years in prison. The case is politically contentious, with Hunter foe Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters saying that Hunter is partly responsible for two shooting deaths in Avondale due to rulings she made that kept the juveniles involved out of prison. Both sides have long witness lists and attorneys who express confidence they'll win the day. Hunter's attorneys and supporters say she's being railroaded and that she's faced political resistance since she won a highly contested election for the position in 2010.
• Scientists and doctors are expressing concern over an uptick in hospitalizations for a respiratory illness called Enterovirus EV-D68. The virus causes symptoms very much like a severe cold. Enteroviruses aren't new, or even all that rare, but recent outbreaks among children in Kansas City, Mo. Ohio, Illinois and other Midwestern cities have raised eyebrows. In Kansas City, up to 30 children a day have been hospitalized with the virus. A hospital in Columbus reported a 20 percent increase in patients with severe respiratory symptoms, and the facility is currently testing the patients to see if they are suffering from the enterovirus. So far, none of the outbreaks have caused any deaths.
• Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson said over the weekend that he will sell his share of the team after it was revealed he had sent racist emails to other team officials two years ago. One email complained about the number of black cheerleaders and fans the team had and said black fans scared away more wealthy whites. Levenson has apologized for the email, saying it was "inappropriate" and "offensive." Officials for the Hawks have distanced themselves from Levenson.
"Bruce was confronted with this email from 2012, and he decided that instead of fighting it ... he thought it was best for the city, for the team, for his family, to walk away," Hawks CEO Steve Koonin told CNN Sunday.
• Finally, you may have seen some news stories circulating about how someone finally solved Britain's century-and-a-quarter-old Jack the Ripper mystery using an old shawl and some modern genetics work. Not so fast, Smithsonian magazine says. The magazine and other skeptics say there are still a number of questions about the evidence used to arrive at the conclusion that a 23-year-old Polish immigrant named Aaron Kosminski was the killer.
So as you may (or may not) have noticed, there was no morning news update yesterday. Did you know that the internet is a thing that can go out, that it doesn't just emanate from some corner of the universe like gravity or light? We went without the unifying force in the world for hours yesterday, huddled around each others' desks in fear while gazing into our smartphones, praying for 4G coverage.
But now we're back online and serving up a double dose of morning news.
Local charter school VLT Academy is gone, but some say the lingering spirit of unregulated schooling and questionable legality remains in the building. The Ohio Department of Education is investigating Hope4Change Academy, a charter that began operating in August at VLT's former site on Sycamore in Pendleton. That school, or whatever it is, no longer has a sponsoring organization, meaning it legally can't operate as a school. The ODE ordered it to shut down, but says its classrooms are still full of students. An employee of Hope4Change told a reporter that the building is a tutoring center, and officials with the school claim they're just making computers available to students who need to take online classes. The ODE is continuing to investigate.
• Let's go back to that parking permit idea Mayor Cranley floated the other day, which could charge OTR residents $300-$400 a year to park in the neighborhood to help fund streetcar operating costs. Turns out it would be the most expensive of such programs in the country, tripling car-choked San Francisco's $110-a-year permit scheme. Critics say that would be a huge burden on the neighborhood's low-income population. Mayor Cranley has said that low-income residents of the neighborhood would be exempted from the fee.
• There is another new wrinkle in the Mahogany's saga, the controversial restaurant and only African-American-owned business at The Banks. The establishment was told Wednesday it was in violation of its lease and would have to vacate the riverfront development.
The restaurant's lease says Mahogany's must be open daily, a clause it violated when it closed for four days in late August due to unpaid state sales taxes, its landlord NIC Riverbanks One said. However, Mahogany's attorney today said that the order to vacate is in error, and that the restaurant's lease only applies to voluntary closures, not the tax struggles it has faced. The restaurant paid the back taxes it owed and reopened Saturday. It's just the latest chapter of troubles for the restaurant, which has struggled with rent payments and other difficulties for two years at The Banks.
• A Cincinnati resident and former University of Toledo student says a man who raped her was fined $25 and given probation by the school. She filed a complaint with the Department of Education against the university Wednesday, joining a number of other students at schools across the country challenging the way the institutions punish sexual assault. She's outraged, she says, by the punishment a former acquaintance received for allegedly sexually assaulting her while both were at UT. She reported the incident six months later after battling anxiety and depression. The university has confirmed that it fined her attacker $25, required him to attend 10 hours of sexual assault training and put him on a year-long probation. He was allowed to remain at the school and keep his campus job. The woman left University of Toledo to finish her studies elsewhere.
"The way they handled it was extremely upsetting," the woman told USA Today.
• With tension still in the air from recent police shootings in Ferguson, Mo. and closer to home in Beavercreek, local groups held a forum in Evanston last night to discuss issues surrounding law enforcement treatment of minorities. Among those in attendance were Cincinnati Chief of Police Jeffery Blackwell, community leaders and activists Rev. Damon Lynch, III and Iris Roley, Councilman Chris Seelbach and others. Blackwell commented that some Cincinnati Police officers are trying out body cameras. He also commented on the investigation into the shooting death of John Crawford III, who was killed by police in a Beavercreek Walmart Aug. 5. Attorney General Mike DeWine has declined to release to the public security camera footage of the shooting. Blackwell said the footage should be made public.
• Cincinnati is one of Bicycling magazine's top 50 bike-friendly cities, rolling in at number 35. That's just under Chattanooga and just above Milwaukee. New York City, Chicago, and Minneapolis rounded out the top three, respectively. The rankings consider bike infrastructure such as bike lanes and trails, as well as environmental factors such as hills and hot summers. Working in Cincinnati's favor: The Central Park bike lanes and RedBike, the city's new bike share program.
• Going after the elusive gambling hipster demographic, Horseshoe Casino has announced it will be hosting a farmer's market next week on Sept. 10. The event will feature 24 vendors, cooking demonstrations, and more. If rain happens, the market will move to the casino's parking garage. There is a Portlandia reference in this somewhere and I just can't find it right now so I'll leave it up to you.
• Fast food workers across the country began strikes and protests yesterday, hoping to push some of the nation's biggest food chains toward a $15 an hour minimum wage. Labor organizers with the Service Employees International Union say actions are planned in more than 100 cities. The SEIU is also encouraging workers outside the fast food industry to get involved, including home health care and janitorial workers.
• Finally, this new Google Glass app detects other peoples' emotions. You know, the kind of thing you do naturally when you're having a face-to-face conversation with someone that is unmediated by some crazy internet-connected device you have attached to your face.
Whoa. We're already halfway through the week. That's awesome. Here's your news today as we sail toward the weekend.
The parents of four Colerain High School students filed a $25 million lawsuit yesterday against the school and the Colerain Township Police Department alleging racial discrimination violating the students' constitutional rights.
The lawsuit claims that the students were held in a room guarded by armed officers for six hours and interrogated April 10 after school officials said threats about a school shooting were found online. The four were later expelled. Officials say they found evidence on social media that the teens had gang affiliations. These accusations stem mostly from the fact the students were making "street signs," in a rap video, administrators say, or "hand gestures associated with hip-hop culture" as their attorneys called the gestures. Hm. Neither of those sound racial at all.
The students involved in the lawsuit, who are black, say white students at the school who engaged in similar conduct were not expelled. School officials deny any racial discrimination in discipline, though the school's disciplinary records show that black students receive a higher number of expulsions than white students at the school, despite making up a smaller proportion of the student body.
• Mayor John Cranley has suggested that maybe the streetcar will just run part time if voters, property owners along its route, or council members don't find some way to pay for a projected $3.8 million shortfall in operating funds. Last week Cranley told 700 WLW's Bill Cunningham, who is not really known to host reasonable conversations about public transit, that running the streetcar on reduced hours or select days, say when the Bengals or Reds play, could be an outcome of a funding shortfall.
Supporters say the money shouldn't be hard to find, and that there are a number of options available. They also say that Cranley and other critics aren't taking into account the expected upswing in economic activity the streetcar will bring.
Cranley said he was looking to property owners in OTR to get behind a special taxing district or $300-$400 residential parking permits that could make up some of that money. The thing is, the federal grant application the city filed to get the funds to build the streetcar stipulates that it will run seven days a week. Currently, the streetcar is slated to run from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and until 2 a.m. on weekends. Cranley has said there is nothing stipulating how frequently it must run, however.
"Remember there is no obligation that we have to run it on a certain level of frequency," Cranley said in the interview. "So if it doesn't end up having a lot of ridership we can reduce the rides on it."
• Work will begin in the next couple weeks to gut the former SCPA building on Sycamore Street in Pendleton to turn it into 142 market-rate luxury apartments under the name Alumni Lofts. Core Redevelopment, the Indianapolis-based developer leading the project, recently contracted the interior demolition out to Erlanger, Ky., company Environmental Demolition Group. There will be some special challenges in redeveloping the former school including two pools on the fifth floor that will have to be removed without damaging the building's walls and floors. The redevelopment is a part of big ongoing changes in Pendleton, which also include the construction of single-family homes in the neighborhood and other renovation projects for apartment buildings.
• Another big apartment project in a historic building is beginning to take shape in nearby Walnut Hills. Evanston-based Neyer Properties has purchased the historic 1920s-era former Baldwin Piano Company building on Gilbert Avenue for $17 million. Neyer has indicated it is looking to turn the building, which is currently office space, into 170-190 loft-style apartments.
• A suburban Detroit man who shot a woman on his front porch seeking help after a car accident was sentenced today to a minimum of 17 years in prison. Theodore Wafer of Dearborn Heights shot and killed Renisha McBride Nov. 2, 2013 as she stood on Wafer's front porch. She had been banging on Wafer's front door, seeking help after she hit a parked car and sustaining injuries hours earlier. Wafer, whose car had been vandalized a few weeks prior, said he thought his home was being invaded. He grabbed a shotgun and fired through his screen door, killing McBride. He called 911 afterward. Wafer stood trial and was found guilty of second-degree murder in August for the shooting. He claimed the shooting was self-defense.
• Finally, app-based rideshare company Uber has caused some controversy here in Cincinnati and across the country. Critics say the company skirts rules and regulations that cab companies usually have to follow. But the flak Uber has gotten here is nothing compared to Germany, where a court in Frankfurt just issued a temporary ban on the service that could hobble the company's ability to operate across that country. The ban comes after a lawsuit by taxi companies alleging that Uber doesn't have the necessary insurance and permits to operate in Germany.
So let's get to what's happened in the past three days in the real world while we were all busy watching fireworks and drinking beers, shall we?
The Great Recession dropped incomes in 111 of 120 communities in the Greater Cincinnati area, according to a report today by The Cincinnati Enquirer. The recession lasted from 2007 to 2009, though its reverberations are still being felt today. The drop hit wealthy neighborhoods like Indian Hill and low-income areas like Over-the-Rhine alike. The average drop in income was more than 7 percent across the region, though reasons for the loss and how quickly various neighborhoods have recovered are highly variable. Wealthier places like Indian Hill, where income is tied more to the stock market, are well-positioned to continue an already-underway rebound. Meanwhile, places with lower-income residents like Price Hill still face big challenges.
• A Centerville man filed a lawsuit against Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino Friday, charging that the downtown gambling complex engaged in false imprisonment and malicious prosecution last year. Mark DiSalvo claims that he was detained while leaving the casino after a dispute over $2,000 in video poker winnings. DiSalvo wasn't able to immediately claim the winnings because he didn't have the proper identification, but was told he would receive paperwork allowing him to claim the money later. He says he waited two hours before receiving the forms. Afterward, as he stopped to check the nametag of an employee who was less than kind to him, he was confronted by casino security officers, who called police. Three Cincinnati police officers were originally named in the suit as well, but the department settled out of court. DiSalvo claims casino employees and police gave false testimony about him and his prior record.
• Sometimes, something is better than nothing. At least, that appears to be the thinking for groups supporting the Hamilton County Commissioners' compromise icon tax plan to renovate Union Terminal. The Cincinnati Museum Center board decided to back the commissioners' version of the plan last week, despite earlier misgivings. That plan replaced a proposal by the Cultural Facilities Task Force that would have also renovated Music Hall.
Now the task force, led by Ross, Sinclaire and Associates CEO Murray Sinclaire, is regrouping and looking for ways to fund the Music Hall fixes without tax dollars.
"Initially we were very disappointed and somewhat frustrated because of all the time we spent" on the initial proposal, Murray said, but "we've got an amazing group of people with a lot of expertise and we'll figure it out."
Meanwhile, Republican Commissioner Chris Monzel, who helped orchestrate the new, more limited deal, has said he supports it. Initially, he indicated he wasn't sure if he would vote for the plan himself. The backing of the Museum Center board has swayed him, however, and he now says he's an enthusiastic supporter of the effort to shore up Union Terminal.
• The Cincinnati Cyclones have a new logo, which is exciting, at least in theory. The team's prior logo looked a lot like a stack of bicycle tires brought to life by a stiff dose of methamphetamines, and the one before that looked Jason Voorhees fan art. Neither of which is really all that bad if you want to strike fear and confusion (mostly confusion) into the hearts of your opponents. But the team, making a bid for a higher level of professionalism, tapped Cincinnati-based design and branding firm LPK for a new look. The results are slick and clean, with the team's colors adorning a sleek sans-serif font and a big "C" with a kind of weather-report tornado symbol in the middle. The team's marketing reps call the new logo "versatile," while fans have taken to the team's social media sites to call it boring and generic and to compare it to water circling a toilet bowl. Personally, they can put just about whatever they want on their jerseys and I'd still hit up any game on $1 dollar hotdog night. Not a lot of hockey options around here.
• In the past three days, federal judges have stayed or struck down some of the nation's strictest laws against women's health facilities that provide abortions, enacted last summer in Texas and Louisiana. The laws stipulated very specific standards for clinics. The Louisiana law, which was put on hold by a federal judge Sunday night, set requirements that facilities have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles, a rule that could have shut down every clinic in the state. The Texas law stipulated that clinics had to meet the same standards applied to hospitals, which would have dictated how wide hallways had to be in the facilities and other burdensome rules. That law was struck down by a federal judge Friday. The law would have caused the closure of 12 clinics in the state. Ohio has laws similar to Louisiana's requiring hospital admitting privileges. That has caused problems for many facilities here, including one in Sharonville which a Hamilton County magistrate ordered to stop providing abortion services last month.
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The board of the Cincinnati Museum Center yesterday voted to support county commissioners' plan to fund renovations of historic Union Terminal, which houses the museum. Officials for the Museum Center originally criticized the plan, which replaced an earlier proposal that included Music Hall, because it seemed to put some funding sources for renovations to both Union Terminal and Music Hall in jeopardy. Republican Commissioners Chris Monzel and Greg Hartmann voted to put the new plan on the November ballot despite these concerns. Now officials with the Museum Center say their concerns have been addressed and they're comfortable putting their support behind the new, Union Terminal-only deal, which will raise about $170 million through a .25 percent sales tax increase. The renovation project is expected to cost about $208 million. The gap will need to be covered by private donations and possible historic tax credits.
• Speaking of lots of money (seems like we're always talking about lots of money around here, but hey, cities are expensive) the streetcar battle continues as the city searches for funds to pay operating costs. Right now, the city needs to account for a slightly less than $4 million a year to run the streetcar plus another $1 million in startup funds, which will need to be raised by next July. Supporters on city council say this shouldn't be a problem and that multiple options exist for ways to raise the funds, including sponsorships and advertising, selling gift cards for rides on the streetcar, different property tax districts, possible grants and private donations. But opponents of the project, including Mayor John Cranley, are more doom and gloom, saying that the shortfall is just the kind of scenario they had in mind when they spoke out against the streetcar. Either way, the city is committed at this point. It agreed to run the streetcar for 25 years when it accepted millions in federal grant money for its construction. Is there a really large couch somewhere in the city with lots of change under the cushions? I'd start there.
• Ah, the early days of presidential campaigns, when the candidates are about as committal as those tentative, nascent romances you had your freshman year of college. Sen. Rob Portman has officially decided he wants to think about the possibility he might run for president in 2016 and is considering setting up an exploratory committee so he can raise and spend money should he decide he wants to try for the big gig. That's basically the campaign equivalent of texting someone, "hey, 'sup?" The presidency has yet to text him back, but I'll keep you updated. Portman has been also non-committal in his statements, saying he'll think about a run for the White House if no other Republican candidates seem capable of winning but that right now he's just working on his Senate campaign. He's raised $5 million toward that end, money he could shift that over toward a national campaign.
• California lawmakers have passed a law requiring its colleges to adopt the most precise standards yet for what constitutes sexual consent as part of a drive to curb the sexual assault crisis sweeping college campuses. The so-called "yes means yes" bill is controversial, which is kind of mind-boggling since its provisions sound like common sense when you read them.
The prospective law says that consent is "an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity" and that lack of struggle, silence or the use of drugs or alcohol do not invalidate claims of sexual abuse. Opponents say the bill is an overreach and too politically correct and that it could open up universities to lawsuits. California Gov. Jerry Brown must still sign the bill into law, and has until September to do so.
• A while back we talked about New York City's mixed-income developments and so-called "poor doors," or separate entrances the buildings' low-income residents must use. The battle over those doors rages on, and the New York Times has an in-depth look at the fight. As large-scale public housing goes the way of the dodo across the country and affordable housing becomes more a private enterprise, it's a debate worth check out.
• So. There are a lot of important things going on in the world. We're struggling with how to handle ISIL, a militant, fundamentalist insurgent group in Iraq, and the UK just raised its terror alert level due to threats from the group. Russia continues to dance all over the Ukraine. Our economy is struggling to support America's middle class. Racial tensions in the U.S. continue to simmer and our police forces are becoming more militarized. But the most breathtaking news of all happened yesterday, when President Barack Obama wore a tan suit. TAN. In what only further proves that journalists on Twitter are the absolute worst people on the planet, that little bit of ephemera went viral as every reporter ostensibly paid to inform you about a news conference discussing some of the aforementioned important events flipped their wig about Obama's new fashion statement. The suit was completely unremarkable– a little too baggy, a little too buff-colored, maybe, but come on now. The response to Obama's suit even spawned an article about the response, because that's journalism now. Someone got paid to write that article about journalists' response to Obama's suit, and now I'm writing about the article about the response. Sigh.
• In other important national news, forget those cases of beer that have like, 30 beers in them. Reuters reports that a small brewery has invented the 99-pack of beer. Alas, it's only available in Texas, where gas station beer caves are the size of airplane hangers and the average Super Bowl party attracts 500 people.
This week is almost over, and that's a great thing. I haven't had my customary coffee and donut yet this morning, so let's do this news so I can get to that.
Security footage from the Beavercreek Walmart where police shot John Crawford III shows that Crawford was not acting violently, an attorney for his family said yesterday in a statement. Attorney Michael Wright says Crawford was facing some shelves and talking on his cellphone when he was fired upon and that police "shot him on sight."
This contradicts officers' reports. They say Crawford was waiving the pellet gun he had picked up from a shelf at the store and refused to drop it. Reports said, "he looked like he was going to go violently."
Crawford, 22, is one of a number of young black men who have died during incidents with police recently under controversial circumstances. The death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a few days after Crawford's death sparked wide-scale unrest in the St. Louis suburb.
Activists in Beavercreek and across the country have demanded release of the security footage of Crawford's shooting, which Attorney General Mike DeWine has refused to release until a grand jury is convened Sept. 3. DeWine says releasing the tapes to the public could bias the jury pool and hinder the ongoing investigation.
• There has been talk lately of changing some one-way streets in Over-the-Rhine to two-way, including parts of Main Street. The shift could slow traffic to levels safer for pedestrians and help local businesses, traffic experts say. UrbanCincy has a much more detailed rundown of proposed changes and the history of traffic patterns in OTR here. It's interesting stuff, especially if you have to drive through the area every day or live there and have to deal with the increased traffic zooming through.
• The Hamilton County Board of Elections today announced it will host a "vote check" where county residents can call into a the board to make sure their voter registration is good to go. The phone-bank style call-in session will be held Sept. 23 from 5 to 6 p.m. and on Oct. 6 at the same time. That Oct. 6 date is the last day to register or change your voter registration information in Ohio. Put it on your calendar.
• I didn't know a place in America could be more or less American than any other place in America, but apparently there's a listicle for a city's degree of American-ness, and Cincinnati came in second behind Nashville. The report by WalletHub.com, a personal finance website, considered 26 factors in the country's 366 largest metro areas including age, income, housing, gender and other demographic measures to come to its ranking of places most statistically like America's overall averages. Indianapolis came in third in the most-American sweepstakes. The southwest dominated the bottom five, with two Texas cities (Brownsville and McAllen) and an Arizona burg (Yuma) hanging out and being all un-American (whatever that means) with the likes of Altoona, Pa. and Boulder, Co. America!
• If you spend a lot of time up in West Chester, well, first, sorry about that. That's unfortunate. But if you are hanging around up there in the land of Ikea and you're hoping for that rare, elusive, thrilling sighting of House Speaker John Boehner, who reps the area hard in Congress, well, you may as well be looking for a yeti. You won't see Boehner at the local Red Robin or whatever the heck other fancy, all-you-can-eat-fries restaurants they have up there, shaking hands and kissing babies in his district, because he's out raising millions for the GOP. Yes, he has a Democratic challenger for his re-election bid, Miami University professor Tom Poetter, but Boehner's not sweating him too much. His campaign has raised more than $2 million to Poetter's $60,000, and Boehner's coasted to re-election easily in the past. Instead, Boehner is wooing party donors in Wyoming (the state, not the neighborhood) resort towns and shoring up his power base with fellow establishment GOPers, hustling hard to keep his seat as speaker as he fights off attacks from his right.
• Finally — cheer up! The economy is getting better. For someone. Somewhere. Economic growth was better than expected in the last quarter, according to the Department of Commerce. Despite this, more Americans are anxious about the state of the economy now than during the Great Recession, a new Rutgers University poll reports. Some of this has to do with the fact that the average worker still hasn't recovered fully financially from the economic downturn, wages have remained stagnant even as unemployment has decreased and perceptions of job security are lower than ever, even as Wall Street rebounds and corporate profits have soared.
Morning y'all! After a rough start (a bit more on that later), I'm here and ready to give you the news.
Two prosecutors from Hamilton County will lead the state's investigation into the police shooting death of John Crawford III, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced yesterday.
Stacey DeGraffenreid and Mark Piepermeierand were appointed by the AG yesterday. Piepermeierand, of Sharonville, heads the Hamilton County Prosecutor's office criminal division and has handled many high-profile cases in that capacity. He's responsible for reviewing all police use-of-force issues in Hamilton County and has done so for the past 15 years.
Police shot Crawford inside a Beavercreek Walmart Aug. 6. Another customer called 911 when he saw Crawford with what he thought was an assault rifle. Officers arrived and demanded Crawford drop the weapon, which turned out to be a pellet gun from the store. When he didn't comply immediately, officers shot him and he died. Crawford's family, along with activists, have called for answers as to why he was shot.
• The state of Ohio has ordered embattled restaurant Mahogany's closed after it didn't follow state sales tax rules. The restaurant on The Banks has struggled to pay rent and loans owed to the city and was almost evicted in April. The restaurant was able to catch up on the rent but still owes more than $300,000 to the city in loans. Owner Liz Rogers has said that the restaurant has struggled after $80,000 was embezzled from the establishment and a rough winter kept business slow. Rogers has also pointed the finger toward someone in the city's administration who she says has been leaking untrue information about the business. Mahogany's can reopen after it pays back the undisclosed amount it owes the state in sales taxes.
• Think sky-high executive pay is kind of absurd? You're not alone. Former Kroger CEO David Dillion said during a panel on management at the Aspen Ideas Summit last month that his paycheck for leading the company was "ludicrous." A video of that summit is just now trickling out, with Huffington Post covering the statement yesterday.
Dillion's $13 million paycheck last year was actually below the $15 million average for CEOs in America, which makes his compensation "seem a little more responsible," he said during the summit. "Still you'd argue, I think," he continued, "it was pretty damn high."
Dillion said his eight-figure pay package started out fairly reasonable but ballooned out of control as Kroger's stock went up. That's a terrible problem to have. That dang stock price, that dang paycheck, both just rising and rising and rising like the temperature needle on my poor struggling car as I sat in traffic this morning (yes, my car overheated on the way here and I'm bitter). There's just nothing you can do about that. If only Dillion had like, RUN THE COMPANY or something, maybe he could have gotten that ludicrous pay rate under control. Oh, wait…
• Speaking of big ole billowy clouds o' cash, former 20102 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is on his way to Kentucky to help make it rain for Sen. Mitch McConnell, who is fighting a tough battle against his Democratic opponent Alison Lundergan-Grimes. McConnell has been pulling out all the conservative A-listers to raise cash, a sign that he's seriously worried he could lose his seat in what looks to be one of the most contentious and expensive Senate campaigns in history. It's certainly the fight of his career, but the stakes go higher than that. Every seat matters come November, when Democrats will struggle to maintain their slim majority in the Senate. Should Republicans take enough seats, they'll run both that chamber and the House, making President Obama's last two years in office one big bummer.
• Another politician experiencing a big ole bummer right now is Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was indicted a couple weeks back on some pretty serious felony charges involving abuse of power. It's a long, complicated story that involves a DUI (not Perry's), some backroom dealings, a possibly shady cancer research organization and more. So much more. Anyway, Perry's been kinda sailing through this whole thing, smirking in his mugshot and getting ice cream afterward, the whole deal. He's also played it well politically, refusing public money for his defense team of all-star attorneys. But he recently dropped a comment about that that is less than great PR. He's not turning down public money for his defense because it's the right thing to do, but "to keep folks from grousing about it," he said. The whole Texas-sized imbroglio (gotta love that word) has also hit Perry where it hurts: his holster.
• I usually try to end with some weird news to lighten the mood a lil, but this story is just crazy and sad and confusing. A shooting instructor in Arizona died Monday while teaching a 9-year-old girl how to shoot an uzi. The girl lost control of the semi-automatic weapon due to its recoil as she was firing, and the instructor was shot in the head. An investigation is ongoing to determine the exact sequence of events.
Hey all. It's morning news, and I'm earlier than usual. I'm as surprised as you are.
The city of Cincinnati has announced it will cover medically necessary transgender surgery for employees under its insurance plan. A majority of city council signed a letter urging the change, which was then initiated by interim City Manager Scott Stiles. The city will be the first in Ohio to do so, joining only Berkeley, Calif., Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Seattle offering the benefit. A mental health professional will have to agree that the procedure is necessary for an employee before it is covered. The change will kick in next year and is a way for the city to stay competitive and attract the best job candidates possible, said Councilman Chris Seelbach. Many large companies, including P&G, offer transgender-inclusive benefits.
• Oops again. Duke Energy revised their estimates for the amount of diesel fuel it spilled into the Ohio River last week up to 9,000 gallons. The company previously reported it thought about 5,000 gallons had spilled when an oil transfer valve was left open Aug. 18 at the company's New Richmond power plant. On the positive side, the cleanup of that spill is almost complete, and no adverse affects to wildlife or residents living along the river have been reported.
• A shifty fast-food sovereign looks to leave the country he rules for cold northern lands to save a few gold coins. Meanwhile, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown really wants you to grab a Frosty and a Crave Case this weekend in protest. Brown is up in arms about a proposed merger between Burger King and Canadian-based Tim Horton's. The deal would create one of the world's largest fast food conglomerates and see the king abdicating his burger throne in Miami, Florida for Canada. That part rankles Brown, who says the merger could well be a corporate inversion, or a move from the U.S. meant to evade corporate taxes. He's encouraging his constituents to grab some grub from Ohio-based companies like Wendy's or White Castle.
"Burger King's decision to abandon the United States means consumers should turn to Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers or White Castle sliders," Brown said in a press release that contained little hint anyone responsible was aware how hilarious that sounds. I'm going to avoid all this royal intrigue and continue to get my burgers from the grill outside of Avril-Bleh's downtown.
• A national gun control group called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense has started a petition asking Cincinnati-based Kroger to ban open carry in its stores. The group cites recent violence in the company's stores, including a Georgia murder-suicide in June and another shooting incident in the same state that left two people injured. Kroger has said that the safety of its customers is important and that its policy is to follow prevailing state law. Open carry laws vary by state, with some states like Ohio placing few restrictions on your right to tote a deadly weapon around while you're picking out breakfast cereal or cilantro for a nice homemade pico de gallo. Moms Demand Action received criticism recently when it was revealed the group received $50 million from noted gun control advocate and ex-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who, anonymous sources reveal, is not in fact a mom.
• A national Pew Research poll released yesterday found that Americans have very little faith in law enforcement's ability to hold its officers accountable for misconduct, engage in good race-relations practices and use an appropriate level of force. This distrust held true for respondents of all races but was especially marked among those in the black community, where nine out of 10 respondents said the police do a "fair" to "poor" job. The poll comes as the police shooting of Mike Brown, an unarmed black teen in a St. Louis suburb, has set off a national debate over police conduct, especially as it relates to race.
• Finally, this new photography project by the New Orleans Times-Picayune is worth a look. You can slide between photos of New Orleans just after Hurricane Katrina and recent pics of what the same areas look like today to get a powerful look at how the city has — and in some places hasn't, really — recovered from the disaster.
Heya. It's news time.
Got a few hundred thousand dollars sitting around? Want to be part of the
gentrification renaissance in Over-the-Rhine? Step up and make your pitch to 3CDC! The development corporation has announced it will open up the 33 city-owned properties for which it is the preferred developer to other developers who want to get in on the action in OTR. 3CDC will then make recommendations to the city on which plans for the properties around Findlay Market get the green light, based on financial feasibility, timeliness of renovation, parking considerations and whether hotdogs, tacos and pizza served at your proposed upscale but casual eatery are artisanal enough. Proponents of the process say it's far more open than 3CDC's development strategies thus far, while opponents of the development group's preferred developer status say 3CDC still has too much power calling the shots in the neighborhood.
• As the streetcar gets closer to a reality in downtown and OTR, Northern Kentucky is now looking at how it can get on board. City leaders in Newport and Covington are talking about ways those cities can link up with Cincinnati's streetcar. Covington Mayor Sherry Carran and Newport City Commissioner Beth Fennell have expressed support for the idea, saying the transit system could alleviate traffic problems and boost economic development there.
• While we're talking Northern Kentucky, let's talk about the Noah's Ark theme park, called The Ark Encounter, being built in Grant County. The project has come under fire from Americans for the Separation of Church and State, a national advocacy group, because it has applied for tax credits despite possibly discriminatory hiring practices. Americans for Separation of Church and State points out that the park's parent organization, Answers in Genesis, requires job applicants to sign a "statement of faith" that pledges allegiance to the group's Christian values, including opposition to homosexuality and a belief in the literal truth of the bible. Americans for Separation of Church and state says that amounts to discriminatory hiring and should make the Ark project ineligible for the $73 million in tax incentives the state has approved for the project. Officials with The Ark Encounter say the park's employment policies have yet to be written and that they will comply with all state and federal laws.
• Butler County Children Services employees have been on strike for the past week, fighting for a 3.5 percent pay increase each year for the next three years. The county is standing firm, however, and things have started getting acrimonious. The county claims union representatives for the Child Services workers have misrepresented work done by the county since the strike has happened by claiming that some 80 home visits have been missed in that time. Union officials deny any misrepresentation. They say they've been forced to strike by the county's refusal to meet their demands and that work isn't getting done. The county has hired a number of new personnel since the strike and say they're handling the workload without the striking union members.
• Gov. John Kasich signaled last week that he will again turn down job-requirement waivers for food aid in all but 17 counties in the state. Last year, the governor's office allowed just 16 counties to get the waivers, which the federal government issues in high-unemployment areas to exempt those seeking food stamps from work requirements. Without the waiver, food aid recipients are limited to three months of benefits before they must find a job or enter a state-funded work program. But both jobs and spots in these work programs have been difficult to find, leading to criticism of Kasich's decision to turn down the waiver in most of Ohio's counties from groups like the Ohio Association of Foodbanks and liberal think tanks like Ohio Policy Matters. Advocacy groups have filed a federal civil rights claim seeking to overturn the state's decision and extend the waiver to all 88 Ohio counties.
• In national news, the funeral for Mike Brown, the 18-year-old shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, was held today. Brown's family has asked protesters who have taken to the streets in the wake of his Aug. 9 shooting for a peaceful event. Ferguson has been on edge since the shooting, with everything from peaceful demonstrations to all-out rioting taking place. Civil rights attorney Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and the parents of Florida shooting victim Trayvon Martin all attended the memorial.
It's a gross rainy Friday, so grab some coffee and let's settle in with some news.
Two local organizations that help veterans experiencing homelessness will be getting a $1.5 million boost, Secretary of Veterans Affairs and former P&G head Bob McDonald announced yesterday. A program run by Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries in Woodlawn will get nearly $1 million in grant funding from the VA. The Rehabilitation Center Inc. serves seven counties in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region. The Talbert House in Walnut Hills, which serves veterans in Hamilton County, will get the other $500,000. The funding is part of more than $300 million in grants given out nationwide, nearly $9 million of which went to organizations in Ohio fighting homelessness among veterans.
• Is there anything more comforting than the knowledge your local police department is slowly becoming a paramilitary force? Recent revelations about the federal government's program decommissioning military equipment into the hands of local law enforcement are mind-boggling and also darkly hilarious.
Even among my friends and family who are still afraid of living in urban areas, I would think fear of landmines in Cincinnati is pretty low, maybe non-existent. But that hasn't stopped the Hamilton County law enforcement officials from receiving two land-mine detection kits from the program. Kenton County got a mine-resistant truck along with 44 pairs of night-vision goggles, 34 pieces of body armor and 22 assault rifles. Newport got a pretty awesome Humvee, though it's not armor plated. Really important question here, guys — is that thing land-mine proof?
• Caesar's Entertainment Corp., parent company to Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino, will pay the largest fine ever doled out by the Ohio Casino Control Commission. Caesars will pay a $200,000 fine for lack of financial transparency involving the company's ongoing $23 billion debt restructuring efforts.
• Attorney General candidate David Pepper has received criticism recently for his legal record. Do records show he embezzled money? Took bribes? Sold drugs? No, no, I'm afraid it's much darker. Pepper, it seems, is a serial illegal parker. Over the past 14 years, Pepper has paid more than $9,000 in parking fines, averaging 13 tickets a year, though the bulk occurred when he was County Commissioner from 2007 to 2009, according to an investigation by the Associated Press. That's a lot of tickets, sure, but most of them are for parking at expired meters. Some are a bit more serious offenses — displaying expired plates. When you break it down, he's been fined about $700 a year for all those offenses. Pepper's campaign chalks the fines up to a busy schedule and a lot of late meetings. But his opponent Mike DeWine's campaign says the number of offenses isn't an accident and makes him unfit to be attorney general.
"Nearly everyone has made a mistake by forgetting to go back and feed a parking meter," DeWine campaign spokesman Ryan Stubenrauch said. "But that Mr. Pepper racked up nearly $10,000 in fines shows a stunning disregard for basic traffic laws — particularly for someone running to be Ohio's top law officer."
Pepper's campaign said it would rather have that smudge than allegations facing DeWine, which include accusations that the attorney general's office has been engaged in pay-to-play practices, allegedly awarding lucrative legal contracts with the AG's office to private firms that donate to DeWine's campaign.
"[Pepper is] happy to debate old parking tickets versus Mike DeWine's current practices as attorney general," Pepper spokesman Peter Koltak said.
• Finally, things in Ferguson, Mo., seem to be calming down for the time being. Protests, some violent, have rocked the St. Louis suburb since the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. Lately, however, the protests have become somewhat more peaceful. Yesterday the state's National Guard units withdrew from the city and the number of arrests police have made has been dropping. Investigations into the shooting are ongoing, as the Justice Department works with state and local law enforcement to try and determine what happened between Brown and officer Darren Wilson. Wilson says that Brown attacked him in his patrol car, though others say Wilson was the aggressor and that Brown was retreating when he was shot. An autopsy showed that Wilson shot Brown at least six times.


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24 CFR 1003.1 - Applicability and scope.
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The policies and procedures described in this part apply to grants to eligible applicants under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program for Indian tribes and Alaska native villages.
Title 24 published on 2014-04-01
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