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Walker took up a dozen pens, one at a time, to sign into law a bill that not only takes away the ability of unions to bargain collectively over pensions and health care but also limits pay raises of public employees to the rate of inflation and ends automatic union dues collection by the state.
The union members ought to be jumping with joy and doing cartwheels! Rate of inflation will be substanial in the next few years. And, I bet pay won't go down if we experience any deflation.
I hope they arrest anyone caught threatening the Governor's life.
Back in the 70's when La. voters had to make the decission between a union state or a Right To Work state, the person running the ad campaign for worker's freedom was gunned down in a Baton Rouge parking lot by union thugs.
Hitler did not have to destroy democracy; he merely took advantage of the decay of democracy and at the critical moment obtained the support of many to whom, though they detested Hitler, he yet seemed the only man strong enough to get things done. F. A. Hayek from his book, "The Road To Serfdom".


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Gil Gershoni and Ken Goldberg explore the idea of questions and curiosity in their new exhibit "Are We There Yet?: 5000 Years of Answering Questions with Questions" (stylized as Ar? W? Th?r? Y?t).
Gershoni and Goldberg explore the idea of questioning beginning with the joke "A man asks a rabbi: Why do Jews always answer a question with a question? The rabbi answers: Do we?" Both artists explore inquisitive impulse in relationship to the Jewish identity, in both broad and specific settings.
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statistical machine learning, and digital sound design." Anyone who is interested in participating can, regardless of proximity. The process is simple: go to the website, submit your question, and watch it appear. A query will show up both online, on the free iPhone App, and in the museum at the exhibit itself. Gershoni and Goldberg have ingeniously made the scope as open as possible, anyone with internet access can paticipate, question, challenge, and create.
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Skip to comments.Terri Schiavo's Family Calls for Observance of Terri's Day to Honor Disabled Woman
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But I've been thinking about the the Beijing Olympics and I couldn't help but realize that the Olympics have been hosted by evil regimes on two other occasions, Berlin in 1936 and Moscow in 1980 (the Winter Olympics were in Sarajevo in 1984 but Yugoslavia was always more a powder keg than a military power) and BOTH times the evil regime had collapsed within about a decade.
When Carter kept America out of the Moscow Olympics in 1980, two things happened:
1. We allowed the Soviets to claim "victory" by saying that the Americans knew they would lose so they stayed home.
2. An untold number of American athletes had their dreams shattered because an impotent president preferred this to standing up to communism. Many of these athletes compete in sports where there is only one chance to be the best (gymnastics is the main one, but also swimming and track and field events), most of them had trained their entire lives for this opportunity (and in many cases their families had made incredible sacrifices) and Carter took it away.
So, mademoiselle big eye refused medical treatment. I KNEW it. I watch the Discovery Channel. I can't RIP mademoiselle cuz if she committed suicide, resting in peace is not an option?
Ten minutes of My Name is Earl?
The batteries on the remote were bad and I didn't feel like getting up, after ten minutes I couldn't take any more.
My Name is Earl is better than NBC news. They are the Obama news network. In Memphis, OBAMA was a no show for the MLK event. NBC did a voiceover McCain's speech. Brian Williams made an apologee and said it wasn't intentional. (I'm no McCain person by any stretch of the imagination, but NBC makes CNN look fair and balanced).
The only show I really like is Prison Break.
Prison Break? I thought it was called American Idol. I'd love to be on AI and get sent home. The losers end up doing better anyway. Prison Break is AI without the singing but they BOTH HAVE JUDGES.
Have you ever watched Prison Break? It's great!
American Idol is just a remake of the Gong Show but they charge money to vote and send the money to leftists.
But Chuck Barris had other talents as well! He was good at the BIG ZOT or so I heard.
April 7, 2008 - It's more common than you might think: people who were thought to be dead and now are healthy. Do we dare make the judgment on who lives and who dies?
In the Declaration of Independence, "life" is listed as a right--and is listed first. But some have attempted to change the meaning of this word, to suit their own purposes and agendas. Nobody told them the Declaration couldn't be changed, but many hospitals, lawyers, legislators, and even clergy not only believe it can be changed, but have changed its meaning for their own purposes.
Sometimes people are told they will never recover from a serious injury, or their life is no longer worth living. Others are in constant pain. Still others may be thought to be in a 'comatose' or 'permanent vegetative state'. Faced with these circumstances some in authority believe it is not only okay, but prudent, to put an end to life when confronted with these circumstances. Have you ever noticed that patients are only told this when they can't respond? And their closest relatives are complicit with the urge to put them "down"?
Here are a just a few of the recent cases in the news about people though to be beyond hope and targets of euthanasia.
1) From June of 2007 - Jan Grzewski was a Polish railway worker who was hospitalized after an injury at work and remained in a coma; doctors found cancer in his brain and predicted he would not recover; after 19 years he spontaneously woke up and talked about memories of when he was in a coma.
2) From September of 2007 – A Venezualian named Carlos Camejo was declared dead after a highway accident, and was sent to a morgue; he woke up in excruciating pain while medical examiners started their autopsy; examiners determined something was amiss when the body started bleeding.
3) From October of 2007 - Jesse Ramirez, from Phoenix, AZ, was considered fatally injured when his SUV crashed into a pottery store; his wife made the decision to pull his feeding tube out and Jesse went 6 days without food or water; all had prepared for his aforementioned death; shortly after hospice officials reported that Jesse was indeed awake and alert; he was transferred to a rehab center and put into recovery.
4) From February of 2008 – The relatives of a 65 year old Minnesota woman named Raleane Kupferschmidt, were told by doctors she was brain dead with no brain activity, and that she would not recover; a CT scan revealed she had suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage a month earlier; doctors had removed her breathing tube and were waiting for her to die; but she began sucking on an ice cube and began to mouth words; later she exclaimed "God's not done with me yet."
5) In March of 2008 - A girl named Haleigh Poutre from Boston, MA was so brutally beaten 2 years ago by her adoptive parents she was left in a coma not expected to revive; a CAT scan revealed a subdural hematoma (blood on surface of brain); as a ward of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, Haleigh was to have all life support removed after only 6 days; the court decided to euthanize her, and shortly thereafter she began breathing on her own; her feeding tube was left in and she has recovered most of her cognitive abilities.
If you do a little bit of digging you will find that these five cases are actually only tips of the iceberg of people coming back from an assumed death over the past few months. They are only a partial list of those considered dead for all practical purposes. How many more were there like these five that were actually euthanized that really weren't dead. How many each month… each year? Did their loved ones not hear their cries for life? Was their feeding tube removed without knowing what would really happen in several years, months, or days? Were they even given a feeding tube?
Pope Benedict XVI recently stated that euthanasia "appears as one of the more alarming symptoms of the culture of death..." Don't we remember Pope John Paul II taking sustenance through a feeding tube as he waved to onlookers through his upper window at the Vatican days before his death?
It's easy to make the judgment that the existing life is not worth living, and opt for the death. One knows that many, who are not able to communicate in any way, are silently pleading to their killers to be kept alive. Life was started by God. It's not ours to take. One only need to look to the Netherlands to know that this mentality, this ideology, of "playing God" will come back to bite us. And the bite may not only be physical, but could have spiritual consequences.
The Euthanasia Temptation: Those Who were Thought Dead might be Alive
George Bernard Shaw hated doctors, and by avoiding them managed to live a vibrant and productive life until his death at age 95.
He summed up one of his major complaints against doctors in the brilliant prelude to his play The Doctor's Dilemma: "It may be necessary to hang a man or pull down a house. But we take good care not to make the hangman and the housebreaker the judges of that. If we did, then no neck would be safe and no house stable."
What Shaw is saying is that, in medicine, there are areas in which conflict of interest is a major factor in decision-making.
In Manitoba recently, this came to the fore in the case of 84-year-old Samuel Golubchuk, who had been diagnosed by his physicians as having no chance for recovery. His doctors ordered the Orthodox Jew to be removed from a ventilator and feeding tube but Golubchuk's children objected, in part because their father's religious beliefs would be violated if doctors pulled the plug. They took it to the Manitoba courts and a judge ruled he would remain on life support until a trial's determination.
The doctors' now-stalled decision was supported by a recent directive from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba. The family must be informed and given four days' notice, but the life-or-death decision rests solely with the doctors.
I would like to view this case in the context of conflict of interest. Not in the sense that Shaw meant. Clearly, the doctors would earn more money keeping Golubchuk alive than allowing him to die.
No, here the conflict is more subtle – but also more relevant for all of us who use health care. Put bluntly: the cost of care is being borne by those who will not receive any benefit from it. Mr. Golubchuk and/or his children are receiving what has been deemed to be unnecessary health care, solely because they demanded it.
In Canada, there is a finite amount of health-care money available. And 40 to 50 per cent of all the money spent on health care for someone will be spent in the last few months of their life – and of that, more than half in the last week or so.
Clearly, this is not money well spent in terms of years of life – or health – per dollar. Obviously we should spend to care for all who are sick. But toward the end of a life, the amount spent rises sharply and some argue that we are really just extending the dying process.
In this case it can be argued that for every day Golubchuk continues on extremely expensive life support, there is less money available for other medical needs.
One of the biggest issues in health care in Canada is how to decide where to spend our health-care dollars. These priorities will become more and more important.
We should not leave these decisions to the courts, since we run the risk of excluding those who should be making the decisions – you and I, the people who use, fund and, yes, work in the system.
Dr. Murray Waldman has been a family doctor, coroner and administrator.
Terri's family, attorneys and numerous elected leaders (including President Bush) used heroic efforts to try to save her life. Terri's food and water were stopped by court order until she died. She was the first American ever ordered to die by a court without being convicted of a capital crime or even being a criminal.
The moral outrage of this act caused a righteous reaction by millions around the world and was completely ignored by a court that saw no value in Terri's life. Her death has been termed "the longest public execution in American history."
Christians are commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ to care for "the least of these" who can give nothing in return. Included among the "least" are the physically and mentally disabled, the elderly who can no longer care for themselves and those who cannot speak for themselves whether in the womb or in a nursing home at the end of life.
Terri Schiavo's legacy compels us to remember that God's word - the Bible - is clear about these issues. God is the giver of all life; He allows disabilities; and God is the sole being who should decide when life ends.
It is my prayer that God's people care as He does in caring for "the least of these," and pray earnestly and act energetically in the legal and political arena to stop society from playing "god" with other people's lives.
Robert E. Settle
Never forget Terri Schiavo's death
You have to hand it to the Democrats. Anytime theres a chance to talk about faith as it relates to the social justice issues (poverty, Darfur, AIDS, human rights) they are ready to go and willing to talk about how the Bible speaks to those issues. Good for them.
On the flip side, just wondering but wheres the talk about the life and marriage issues? Wheres the talk in these forums about embryonic stem cell research or Terri Schiavo and other very important issues to faith voters? Ill tell you exactly where they are: remember the Value Voters debate in the fall of last year? That debate addressed those issues. Guess what? Only the most die-hard social conservatives showed up. (Alan Keyes, Mike Huckabee, Sam Brownback, etc) No McCain, no Romney, definitely no Giuliani...........
Democrats Engage in Faith Talk, Make Inroads
Morenz and her mother had talked many times about end-of-life decisions after Morenz's father suffered a stroke in 2000 and moved to a nursing home in Connecticut.
"My mom would say, `I don't want this for myself.' She begged me never to put her in a nursing home. She wanted what she considered to be a good quality of life."
Morenz also helped her mother execute a living will that expressed those wishes. "You're not asking for euthanasia," Morenz said. "You're asking that nothing be done to try to keep you living in a condition that's unacceptable to you."
The value of discussing and documenting end-of-life wishes before a crisis became dramatically clear in 2005 through the case of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman whose husband and parents disagreed over whether to withdraw her feeding tube.
Schiavo, who had suffered brain damage and was unable to speak or care for herself, did not have a living will, and the debate over treatment reached Congress, the president and the federal courts.
Fortunately for Morenz, both her mother, who died in February, and her father, who died in October, had living wills. She felt she understood what they wanted, and she had been legally designated to make health care decisions for them...........
Along with the first robins, tulips and term papers, spring at U of T is marked by the arrival of anti-abortion activists. Around this time each year, U of T Students for Life and their off-campus allies break out a set of posters from the U.S. group Genocide Awareness Project and protest on campus.
Connell claimed repeatedly that women who choose abortion are psychologically damaged by the experience. With adoption, she argued, There isnt that terrible, terrible regret, for the rest of her life.
She also covered issues from capital punishment to the Terri Schiavo case.
Terri Schiavo could smile, could communicate, the media didnt want you to know that because we live in a very anti-life society, she said.
The mood at the counter-protest was upbeat, with cheers greeting a call of 20 years of reproductive choice in this country! Chantal Sundaram, a CUPE 3902 staff rep, said the counter-protesters were well-received by passing students............
Students rally to abort genocide demonstration
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EUGENE, Oregon, April 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave an interview with the editor of Eugene's Register-Guard paper, Jack Wilson, on April 6, in which she praised Oregon's assisted suicide laws.
Clinton, who spoke in Eugene on the same day as leading conservative bioethicist Wesley J. Smith, commended Oregon for providing the "right" to assisted suicide........
Hillary Clinton on Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law: "I Commend Oregon on this Count"
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Thanks for posting this, 8mmMauser.
Terri Schiavo's legacy compels us to remember that God's word - the Bible - is clear about these issues. God is the giver of all life; He allows disabilities; and God is the sole being who should decide when life ends.
However, despite their numerous protestations to the contrary, adherents to the culture of death fall into one of two categories:
1. They are atheists and therefore do not care about God's Commandments.
2. They are truly satanic and believe in God, but work to destroy Him and his Word.
Unless a woman is raped (and the incidence of pregnancy from rape is so low that really shouldn't be a factor in the abortion debate, but is routinely brought up by abortionists for emotional reasons), they already had the "choice" whether or not to reproduce.
By the time a person goes off to college they have generally spent far more time in school learning about sexuality than they have spent learning about our nation's history and Constitution. If they have not learned by the age of 18 that there is a 100% foolproof method to prevent pregnancy, than they are wasting their time and money in college and should pursue careers that are better suited to their intellectual abilities, perhaps they could remove animal feces from city parks.
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Hope for the Future for those told they have no right to hope!
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Hope for the Future for those told they have no right to hope!
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The decision to remove Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is comparable in its inhumanity to the actions of the Nazis during World War II, Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler said before an audience of mostly students in Frist 302 last night.
Schiavo died in 2005 at age 41, two weeks after doctors, following orders from a federal judge, removed a feeding tube that had kept her alive for more than a decade.
Schiavo had previously suffered brain damage following an incident of cardiac arrest, which had deprived her brain of oxygen.
"There is no such thing as a person who is a non-person. There is no one so disabled that they have lost their value or dignity," Schindler said, adding that classifying individuals as "non-persons" would be akin to "walk[ing] down the same path that led to the Nuremberg trials."....................
Schindler: Schiavo was not in a vegetative state
I thought the conservative movement wanted less government influence in people's lives, yet over and over again they want government laws to tell you what to do. They do this by legislating morality.
From the federal Terri Schiavo's Law, to Rhonda Storm's intelligent design bill disguised as "academic freedom," to this abortion bill, conservatives want government control of your moral choice. It is getting to the point where I can't tell a conservative from a liberal. Both want all problems solved by government.
It is becoming difficult to vote for either party these days. Do I want the liberal government telling me what to do or the religious right "conservatives" making me live in the way they see fit?........
Another Move By Government To Legislate Morality
Despite the media's focus on the daily dramas of real litigants and their lawyers, the impact of judicial decisions may affect those who aren't even parties to a specific case. Though the criminal prosecutions of Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson captured enormous public attention, the same could be said for civil cases involving Terry Schiavo, Elian Gonzales, Bush v. Gore, and Big Tobacco -- cases which were likely to have much more impact on the lives of everyday citizens than matters centering on the fate of Scott Peterson or the actor formerly known as Baretta............
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Bristol, RI (LifeNews.com) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia continues to educate the law students of America and, once again, presented his explanation that no right to abortion exists in the Constitution to students at Roger Williams University. Last month, Scalia told students at the University of Central Missouri the same thing.
Scalia said a legal right to an abortion is not found in the document that guides our judicial process............
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Again Says Abortion Right Nonexistent
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- While pro-life advocates have repeated the mantra for years that embryonic stem cell research hasn't helped a single patient while adult stem cells have already been used in humans afflicted with dozens of diseases, a leading scientist in England is beginning to admit defeat.
Lord Patel of Dunkeld, the chairman of the UK National Stem Cell Network and a chancellor at Dundee University, says embryonic stem cell research is simply not working.....
Scientists Admit Embryonic Stem Cell Research Hasn't Been Successful
Thread by wagglebee.
Salem, OR (LifeNews.com) -- Comments pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made over the weekend have drawn significant attention from those opposed to euthanasia. Clinton gave a convoluted answer to a local Oregon newspaper's question on assisted suicide but appeared to support the grisly practice.
The Eugene Register Guard newspaper asked Clinton about her "attitude" towards the law....
Anti-Euthanasia Activist Says Hillary Clinton Clearly Supported Assisted Suicide
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Actually, it was worse because the Nazis never made any pretense that they "loved" their victims or that they were just "following the wishes" of their victims.
This sounds like the rantings of a typical libertarian (and unfortunately FR still has a few of these disruptors). They seem to have a total inability to distinguish between "limited" government and "no" government and they are actually anarchists who prefer the latter. They don't want anyone to tell them that they can't smoke pot, watch porn, use prostitutes and kill those they no longer consider useful.
Terri's warriors never for a moment quit fighting because we all
believed in our hearts America would do the right thing
and rescue her from her tormentors.
Something died in our nation's psyche the day Terri
succumbed to her murderers.
However he has stated he would strike down a law that would
strike down abortion in all 50 states.
Bobby Schindler mentioned the above article on the radio last Saturday.
Disabled and elder rights are not religious rights. They are HUMAN RIGHTS.
Unfortunately, the felosers branded the fight for Terri as religious wackos which it wasn't but the silver tongued devil already had the deck stacked against Terri with cretin Judge Greer (whose property value as many on Island Estates as published in the newspaper is one-half it's former market value). So, he's suffering out there on his island with the other millionaires. Poor cretin. We all know Greer loves money, especially money tinged with innocent blood.
Something died but something was born. Many stopped that day, suffering the shock, and some continued with even stronger resolve. Testimony to that is just our continuation of Terri Threads. Soon after Terri's death, I was dismayed, not discouraged when so many left, and stayed away from our threads. I fully expected it all to dwindle in a month or two as people quit talking about it and the topic died. But it didn't!
Three years later, tons of repercussions later, it is still going strong, with the world of the left and right reminding us on a daily basis that Terri's Legacy soared. What little faith I had! I blush at the thought. Yes some Terri warriors left, some were only tired and will return, and many joined the battle with us afterwards.
And we persevere as we see those who live for death struggling to pursue their craft even in the face of God.
And Our Lord wins over their gods even as Msgr. Malanowsky reminded us that fateful Easter.
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
We covered Nat Hentoff's words a few times upthread, although the wording changes slightly. It was in the Washington Times as well.
Thank you 8mm for your perseverance and daily reminders of
how precious and infinitely valuable life really is.
One can't help but think of you and your dearly departed good friend
who would have a good word for us to carry on and never give up, in spite of what sometimes seems like insurmountable odds!
When T'wit left, he passed the baton to us. Every morning I post I cannot help but pass my thoughts through his filter with the desire that they approach his wisdom. He kept up that perseverance and urge to us all right up until his last moments. In that respect he is still with us in spirit.
Nat Hentoff wrote a piece on Tuesday about the Schiavo Family Foundation. My father was in a vegetative state for three years following a stroke. I have had elderly relatives in nursing homes as they lingered close to death. I have told my relatives that I do not wish to endure either situation, nor do I wish to squander the nation's medical reserve, nor do I wish to wait to be "cruelly starved and dehydrated" to accomplish my ends. Because there is no "right to die" in California, this probably means that I will have to terminate my life myself before it is really necessary. Carol Atwood Santa Cruz
Nat Hentoff wrote a piece on Tuesday about the Schiavo Family Foundation. My father was in a vegetative state for three years following a stroke. I have had elderly relatives in nursing homes as they lingered close to death. I have told my relatives that I do not wish to endure either situation, nor do I wish to squander the nation's medical reserve, nor do I wish to wait to be "cruelly starved and dehydrated" to accomplish my ends. Because there is no "right to die" in California, this probably means that I will have to terminate my life myself before it is really necessary.
Carol Atwood
Santa Cruz
State needs 'right to die' laws
In 2001, the Schindler family the parents, brother and sister of Terri Schiavo formed the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation to try to save the life of their loved one who, as her brother, Bobby Schindler, said to me recently, was deemed unworthy of life because she was cognitively disabled. The judiciary and the press did not agree with that justified accusation that Terri was cruelly starved and dehydrated to death...........
Terri Schiavos lifesaving legacy
You just can't look for logic in this morass. It is all about emotion and symbols like torches and global warming and kum by yah. Somehow when I think of morass I think of Hillary.
Does she realize how utterly idiotic this sounds? NOBODY needs a "right" to die, it is going to happen to all of us no matter what.
But she says it so softly... She doesn't say she is going to off herself, or commit suicide or croak herself, but uses gentle words. It is all about feelings, not meanings. Word meanings are for others, like those who think.
And what is this crap? Three years ago we were told it was "euphoric," when did it become cruel? The leftist death cult should really take some lessons from Muhammad's death cult of even the Nazis, consistent propaganda is key to an evil agenda.
That is where cognitive dissonance, hallmark of a liberal, comes into play. That is how they can weep over a baby seal meeting a bat, but chuckle at a scissors to the head of a baby about to be born. They can keep both thoughts side by side and not have a clue of the conflict. It is a gift from the dark side.
I just ordered a custom holster for my Kimber, it's going to elephant with alligator trim, I can't wait to wear it around some liberals!
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Did someone just inform these three that David Stern has erased their entire NBA legacies and they will now be known as Victor Page, Scott Burrell and Pete Chilcutt?
In a possible related story, Detroit is 3-7 in their last 10.
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I knew that Iverson was going to be the end of this team. This guy is just a loser, a loser, a loser. AI is the most overrated player in the history of the NBA.
They lost again. Awesome.
I think Detroit fans and the media should STOP pointing the finger at Iverson and look at this IDIOT Rookie Head Coach Michael Curry and his assistant coaching staff like Darrell Walker (whom as a player sat on the bench on every single team he ever played for)!!! Curry should be at Oklahoma, Charlotte, or Memphis… NOT Detroit!!!
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by Scott Westerfeld
Leviathan Introduction
In A Nutshell
When we think World War I, we think trench warfare, Franz Ferdinand, and War Horse. When Leviathan's author, Scott Westerfeld, thinks World War I, though, he thinks colossal beasties fabricated out of the DNA of multiple species patrolling the skies, steam-powered walkers dominating the land, and secrets. Lots and lots of secrets. Come to think of it, the secrets part is true of almost any war.
Leviathan is set in an alternate reality where Darwinists (the folks with the beasties) align against Clankers (the folks with the walkers) for a massive world war. It's still 1914, and there are still entangling alliances (another thing we think of when we think of World War I), but this is World War I like we've never seen it before. Like, ever.
Published in 2009, Leviathan is the first book in a trilogy that covers the early days of World War I in this very different world. Westerfeld usually sticks to science fiction, and there's plenty of that on display here, along with a healthy dose of history and a suggestion of romance to boot.
World War I might seem like a thing of the past, but in Westerfeld's hands, it's a fantastical tale for the ages.
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World War I is older than your grandpa, so what can it possibly have to do with you? Plenty—just ask any historian you meet how World War I gave birth to the modern era; we assure you they'll have plenty to say in response.
But Leviathan isn't a history book, and it's not even straight-up historical fiction. So for our purposes, let's take a look at a common wartime activity: keeping secrets. Like, giant ones. Ever felt like you had to sit on a bombshell? For yourself, for a friend, or for your country? Our two protagonists know what it's like to keep secrets, especially about themselves.
Ever been a prince on the run, hiding your whereabouts from the great-uncle who had your parents assassinated? No? Us neither (sorry to disappoint). What about trying to hide your identity from anyone who happens to be looking? Unless you're James Bond, probably not, although on second thought, James Bond loves to tell people who he is (Bond, James Bond).
Extreme circumstances aside though, have you ever felt like the more you hide the truth, the more complicated things get, and the more you have to lie? We're betting the answer is yes to that one, and Prince Aleksander of Hohenberg knows exactly how you felt. Big time.
We're lucky that these days, women have a lot more freedom to do what they want and don't have to disguise themselves as men in order to join the military. Still, if you've ever had to hide something about yourself in order to do what you want to do, talk to Deryn Sharp, who has to disguise herself as a boy in order to fly.
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In "The Impossible," Juan Antonio Bayona's harrowing film about the catastrophic tsunami that struck Thailand in 2004, real life supplied the disaster.
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East Coast Reggae Jam Rock band, TreeHouse! formed in 2010 in Myrtle Beach, SC, with members, Jeremy Anderson on vocals and guitar, Matt Link on bass, and Trey Moody on drums. TreeHouse! spearheaded its own original local following in the area until the band was performing special events with some of the biggest acts in their genre at venues such as House of Blues. reeHouse! released its debut album in June of 2011 and began touring continuously from North Carolina to Florida. By 2012, the band was performing at regional conferences, events, and festivals across the Southeast. After jamming hundreds of shows together, the band released its sophomore album, Growth, in May of 2013, composed of songs all written through live jams. Since 2013, TreeHouse! has been expanding more North, from Virginia to New York and Ohio. The band has found its "growth" and its niche as a heady festival act, but the band has been known to turn any room into a Rasta Woodstock! visit website
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by German Lopez
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Parking Meter Company's Past Problems Resurface
Before Xerox buyout, audit found ACS improperly managed parking meters
The company that would operate Cincinnati's parking meters if the city passes its controversial parking plan this week was mired with audited problems and complaints in the past. The issues surfaced years before Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) was bought by Xerox in 2010, and Xerox now denies any wrongdoing. A 2007 audit found ACS had failed to take care and keep track of parking meters it operated in Washington, D.C. The audit claimed 35 percent of parking meters listed in ACS's inventory were missing, about 16 percent of the remaining meters were completely inoperative and 65 percent had problems that ranged from defacing to improper height and stability. ACS also failed to fix meters within the 72-hour period mandated by its contract, according to the audit. For some residents, the broken meters led to unfair tickets, with 6,888 tickets, or nearly 1 percent of parking meter tickets, being improperly issued at unfixed meters, according to the audit. The audit also found a 903-percent increase in overall parking meter complaints under the privatization contract with ACS. The audit also questioned the financial gains for Washington, D.C., which had to pay $8.8 million, or 33.4 percent, more under privatization than projected trends under public management. The bad audit wasn't enough for Washington, D.C., to cut its contract with ACS, which still manages the city's parking meters today. The audit was among a few other problems tipped to multiple media outlets by Tabitha Woodruff, an advocate at Ohio Public Interest Research Group. In 2007, ACS was accused of bribing police officers in Edmonton, Canada, but a judge ruled in favor of ACS, stating there wasn't sufficient evidence. In 2010, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) charged ACS with backdating and falsely disclosing stock options between 1996 and 2005, and ACS consented to a permanent injunction without admitting or denying the charges. All the discovered problems occurred before 2010, when Xerox bought ACS.Kevin Lightfoot, a spokesperson at Xerox, says the audit's findings were based on "faulty information." He says Xerox and the District of Columbia Department of Transportation found ACS had saved Washington, D.C., money. He also claims the auditor had misunderstood the parking meters' screen displays, which he says led to the improper identification of inoperative or malfunctioning meters.CityBeat previously covered the parking proposal, which would lease the city's parking assets to fund deficit reduction and economic development, in detail. Mayor Mark Mallory and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls have endorsed the plan, and it's currently expected to have the five votes necessary to pass a possible City Council vote today. On Friday, Councilman Chris Seelbach revealed Plan S, an alternative proposal that would not lease the city's parking assets and would instead use $7.5 million in casino revenue, cut $5 million based on the results of the city's priority-driven budgeting and allow voters to choose between a $10-per-month trash fee or a 2-percent increase in the city's admissions tax. City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. also put forward his "Plan B," which would lay off 344 employees, eliminate Human Services Funding and close pools and recreation centers, among other changes. In response, mayoral candidate John Cranley proposed his own plan, which would use casino revenue, parking meter revenue and cuts to "non-essential programs" to tame the deficit. Plan B, Plan S and Cranley's plan all fix the structural deficit in the city's budget, while the parking plan only fixes the deficit for two years.
by German Lopez
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2013 Election
at 10:14 AM |
Morning News and Stuff
Council may vote on parking today, GOP criticizes Kasich's budget, casino's grand opening
City Council may vote today on the controversial plan to lease the city's parking assets to fund economic development and temporarily balance the deficit. On Friday, Councilman Chris Seelbach put forward Plan S, which would redirect $7.5 million in casino revenues, cut $5 million based on the results of the city's priority-driven budgeting and allow voters to choose between a $10-per-month trash fee or increase the city's admissions tax by 2 percent. Previously, City Manager Milton Dohoney unveiled Plan B to the parking plan, which would lay off 344 employees, eliminate Human Services Funding and close pools and recreation centers, among other changes. In response, mayoral candidate John Cranley proposed his own plan, which would use casino revenue, parking meter revenue and cuts to "non-essential programs" to tame the deficit. Plan B, Plan S and Cranley's plan all fix the structural deficit in the city's budget, while the parking plan only fixes the deficit for two years. The parking plan was unanimously approved by the Cincinnati Planning Commission Friday, and it appears five council members are ready to give the plan the go-ahead. Members of Gov. John Kasich's own party are beginning to show skepticism toward the governor's budget proposal, which would expand the sales tax to apply to more services, increase the oil and gas severance tax and make more Ohioans eligible for Medicaid — mostly at the cost of the federal government. Republicans are likely to propose alternatives before a mid-April vote. In a Quinnipiac University poll, a majority of Ohioans approved of the Medicaid expansion but not Kasich's tax plan. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget plan in detail here. Police are taking measures to prevent traffic problems at the Horseshoe Casino's grand opening tonight. Meanwhile, Indiana casinos are preparing for downturns as the Horseshoe Casino promises a major alternative to tri-state gamblers. During the soft opening last week, Ohio's casino regulator found the Horseshoe Casino would have to fix its security and surveillance before the grand opening. Previous studies found casinos bring job growth at the cost of crime, bankruptcy and even suicide, and a Dayton Daily News report also found the state's casinos are falling short of job projections. On Friday, the sequester, a series of across-the-board federal budget cuts, kicked in, and it could mean big funding reductions for Ohio's schools. The blunt cuts are largely because Republicans refuse to negotiate with President Barack Obama and Democrats — to the point that Republicans don't even know what the president is proposing. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio is asking the state's Department of Education to expand its seclusion room rules to apply to charter schools. Previous reports found seclusion rooms, which were originally intended to hold out-of-control kids until they calm down, have been largely used for convenience by educators, leading to stricter policies from the Ohio Department of Education. But the regulations currently apply only to traditional public schools, not charter schools. Reminder: On top of putting everyone around you in danger, texting while driving will now result in a fine up to $150. The Cincinnati Zoo has confirmed it has terrible taste in names with its choice for the new four-week-old gorilla: Gladys Stones. Still, the zoo does have that whole environmentally friendly thing going on. Maybe the pros outweigh the cons. U.S. researchers are claiming they have "functionally cured" an HIV-infected infant after extensive treatments left the virus's presence in blood at such low levels that it can no longer be detected by standard clinical tests. Scientists are ostracizing what Popular Science calls the "world's sexiest octopus." If you can watch BigDog, the four-legged robot, toss cinder blocks with ease and not fear the robot apocalypse, you're not prepared.
by German Lopez
Posted In:
2013 Election
at 10:30 AM |
Morning News and Stuff
Parking plan's final public hearing, officials list Plan B, governor's approval hits highs
The tone was negative once again in the final public hearing for the city manager's plan to lease the city's parking system. Of the two dozen speakers, only four were positive. Tabitha Woodruff, who is with the Ohio Public Interest Research Group, voiced mixed feelings about the plan: "As we feared it provides a short-term solution to a long-term budget problem, raises hours and rates on citizens, and has the potential to incur high transaction costs. … We're encouraged, however, by the selection of a public entity, the Port Authority and by numerous proposed provisions of the lease intended to insure the city maintains control of details like rates and hours." CityBeat wrote about the plan in detail here. If City Council does not agree to lease Cincinnati's parking system, the city manager's office says the city will be forced to lay off 344 employees, including 80 firefighter and 189 police positions, and eliminate Human Services Funding, but critics argue there are better alternatives. Mayoral candidate John Cranley says casino and parking revenue and cuts to non-essential programs could help clear the deficit without the plan.Gov. John Kasich's job approval rating has risen above 50 percent for the first time, and he's beating all the potential Democratic gubernatorial candidates in theoretical match-ups, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. CityBeat covered the governor's budget plan, which will set the state's policy blueprint for the next two years, here. The Ohio House will vote on Kasich's Ohio Turnpike plan today, which leverages the Turnpike for a statewide infrastructure program. With the approval of Metro's operating budget, City Council and Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) have ended their dispute over streetcar funding. Council members had been approving monthly budgets as they worked things out with SORTA, which manages the region's bus system. SORTA filed a lawsuit disputing the limits of the transit fund, but it dropped the suit after the city said it will not use the money for maintenance of streets, sidewalks and streetlights. (Correction: This previously said the city will "only use the money for streets, sidewalks and streetlights" when the opposite is true.)The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) says the state's schools are making improvement, but they still "have room to grow." In the latest state report cards, Ohio schools improved in 14 of 26 categories and met the state's performance goal on 21 out of 26, with particularly strong gains in math and science, but ODE says, "The performance of Ohio's economically disadvantaged students and minorities remains unacceptably low." The state auditor has a problem with how Ohio's schools report data through what he calls a "just-trust-me" system. The Hamilton County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a 40-year agreement with the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) that will lease the county-owned Memorial Hall and provide renovations to the 105-year-old building. County officials have long said the building, which is used to host concerts, shows and speaking events, is in dire need of upgrades, particularly overhauls to its roof, windows, facade work, floors, air conditioning and bathrooms — all of which will now be financed by 3CDC with the help of tax credits.The commissioners also approved a two-year policy agenda, which generally outlines their plans for county finances and taxes, infrastructure and economic development. The Over-the-Rhine Eco Garden could be forced to relocate if the city approves CitiRama's development proposal. The move would be fully funded by the city's Department of Community Development, with startup and relocation costs paid for. Ohio's concealed weapon carry permits reached record highs in 2012 with more than 76,000 permits issued. Fewer Ohioans are starting their own businesses, and the state's level of self-employment is one of the lowest in the nation, according to a report from Dayton Daily News. With Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino set to open March 4, gambling addiction could be one of the downsides to the casino's glitz and job creation, but extra funds for the state's treatment programs and special training for casino employees could help combat the problem. A medical marijuana amendment could be on Ohio's 2013 ballot, but anti-drug groups are already speaking out against it. Think the 114-year-old Japanese woman has reached an impressive age? Guffaw. Popular Science lists six much older animals.
by German Lopez
Posted In:
2013 Election
at 05:50 PM |
City Manager Lists Alternatives to Parking Plan
Plan B would lay off 344 city employees, eliminate Human Services Funding
If City Council does not agree to lease Cincinnati's parking system, the city manager's office says the city will be forced to lay off 344 employees, including 80 firefighter and 189 police positions, but critics argue there are better alternatives.In a memo dated to Feb. 26, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. wrote that the city will also have to close three community centers and six pools; eliminate Human Services Funding, which aids the city's homeless and poor; and reduce funding for local business groups, parks, nature education for Cincinnati Public Schools and environmental regulations, among other changes. In total, the cuts would add up to $25.8 million — just enough to balance the deficit that would be left in place without the parking plan. In addition to the cuts, failing to approve the parking plan, which leases the city's parking meters for 30 years and lots and garages for 50 years to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, would displace plans to convert Tower Place Mall, construct a 30-floor tower with a grocery store downtown, accelerate the the I-71/MLK Interchange project, acquire the Wasson Line right-of-way for a bike trail and add $4 million to the next phase of Smale Riverfront Park ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27). Democratic Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, who's running for mayor, has come out in favor of the parking plan, but John Cranley, another Democrat running for mayor, says he opposes the deal because it will hurt downtown businesses. "It's the boy who cried wolf," Cranley says. "In 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 … they threatened to lay off police and firefighters, and it never happened." Cranley says he would rather take $10 million from projected casino revenue and $7 million from current parking revenues to help clear the deficit. For the remaining $8.8 million, he would cut non-essential programs, which would exclude police, fire, garbage collection, health, parks and recreation, street pavement and Human Services Funding, across the board by 10 to 15 percent. If that wasn't enough, he would then move to the essential programs, which he says make up about $300 million in the $368.9 million budget, with a 1-percent across-the-board cut. He says his solution would have the upside of fixing structural deficit problems in Cincinnati's General Fund, whereas the one-time lease of the city's parking assets will only take care of the deficit for the next two years. Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, says City Council could use the casino revenue to pay for the deficit, but $4 million of it is already set for the Focus 52 program, which funds neighborhood development projects. "Council can use whatever revenue sources they want," Olberding says. "That's why the memo … says we can either use this plan or another plan." Cranley says he would not do away with the Focus 52 program, but he would instead find funding for it in the Capital Budget, which is separate from the General Fund. Olberding says City Council could approve the use of about $3 million in parking meter revenue for the General Fund, but the rest of the parking money, which comes from lots and garages, is tied to an enterprise fund, which, by state law, means the city would have to sell its parking lots and garages before it could obtain money for the General Fund.Cranley, who also opposes the streetcar project ("Back on the Ballot," issue of Jan. 23), says it would be possible to pay for the I-71/MLK Interchange and other projects if the streetcar wasn't taking up funds. If it was up to him, he says he would remove streetcar funding and use it on other development projects "without batting an eye." In the Feb. 27 City Council meeting, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls said the Budget and Finance Committee will likely vote on the city manager's parking plan on March 4 or March 11.
Parking Stimulus
City manager's new parking plan attempts to limit private influence, boost development
German Lopez
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 27, 2013
On Feb. 19, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. announced what he called a "public-public partnership" that would give control of Cincinnati's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to fund more than $110 million in economic development and help balance the city's budget for the next two years.
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Inspection Finds Dangerous Conditions at Private Prison
German Lopez
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 27, 2013
A surprise inspection of the private prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) on Feb. 22 revealed higher levels of violence, inadequate staff, high presence of gang activity, illegal substance use, frequent extortion and theft, according to the report from the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (CIIC), Ohio's nonpartisan prison watchdog.
by German Lopez
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at 10:08 AM |
Morning News and Stuff
City releases parking documents, parking plan gets hearing, restroom could cost $35,000
Following CityBeat's blog post yesterday, the city released the official documents for the city manager's parking plan. So far, no one has reported anything outrageous or unexpected. If you see anything, feel free to email firstname.lastname@example.com. Of the two dozen people who spoke at a public hearing for the parking plan yesterday, all but two opposed the plan. Much of the opposition came from people who said they were worried parking will be expensive, but the city manager's office says it will take three years for parking rates to go up in Downtown and six years for rates to go up in neighborhoods after an initial hike to 75 cents. CityBeat covered the parking plan in detail here. Cincinnati officials are now saying that a freestanding restroom could cost as low as $35,000. Officials say the public restroom is needed to accommodate growing activity and population in Over-the-Rhine and Downtown. Some critics were initially worried that the facility would cost $100,000. Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino will partner up with the Cincinnati Police Department to keep out cheats and prevent theft. The casino will also have advanced surveillance equipment, allowing them to detect anyone around the casino before they even get into the building. It may seem like a lot, but casinos do tend to attract cheaters and other troublemakers, according to Ohio Casino Control Commission Director of Enforcement Karen Huey. The Horseshoe Casino is set to open March 4. A report from the Governors Highway Safety Association found more teen drivers died in crashes this year than the last two, and some officials fear wireless devices may be a leading cause. In Ohio, the six-month grace period for the teen wireless ban expires Friday, which will allow police officers to issue tickets instead of warnings to teenagers using any wireless devices while driving. Gov. John Kasich's budget proposal would cut back a state-funded college internship program, which awarded $11 million to universities around the state. Ohio Democrats are asking Kasich to put his Ohio Turnpike funding promises in writing after they found out the governor's budget proposal doesn't actually say that 90 percent of leveraged funds will remain in northern Ohio, which Kasich originally promised. Barry Horstman, investigative reporter at The Cincinnati Enquirer, collapsed and died in the newsroom yesterday. CityBeat offers its condolences to Horstman's co-workers, family and friends. The University of Cincinnati got a $2.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to train cancer researchers. "Our emphasis is on training the next generation of cancer researchers to translate basic science discoveries into improved patient care," Susan Waltz, co-principal investigator of the grant and professor of cancer biology at the UC College of Medicine, said in a statement. A homemade jetpack can reach altitudes up to 25,000 feet, but it might have some trouble landing.
by German Lopez
Posted In:
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at 10:03 AM |
Morning News and Stuff
Federal cuts will hurt Ohio, casino revitalizes neighborhood, danger at private prison
The White House released a list of what cuts will be made in Ohio as part of mandatory spending cuts set to kick in March 1, which are widely known as the sequester. Among other changes, 26,000 civilian defense employees would be furloughed, 350 teacher and aide jobs would be put at risk due to $25.1 million in education cuts and $6.9 million for clean air and water enforcement would be taken away. President Barack Obama and Democrats have pushed to replace the sequester with a plan that contains tax changes and budget cuts, but they've failed to reach a compromise with Republicans, who insist on a plan that only includes spending cuts. Community Council President David White told WVXU that the streets and sidewalks of the long-neglected neighborhood of Pendleton were previously crumbling, but the Horseshoe Casino's development has helped transform the area. With Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds, the city has budgeted $6 million in neighborhood development that has led to new trees, expanded sidewalks and the potential for further developments that will appeal to new businesses. A surprise inspection of the private prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) on Feb. 22 revealed higher levels of violence, inadequate staff, high presence of gang activity, illegal substance use, frequent extortion and theft, according to the report from the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (CIIC), Ohio's nonpartisan prison watchdog. The CIIC report found enormous increases in violence, with a 187.5-percent increase in inmate-on-inmate violence and 305.9-percent in inmate-on-staff violence between 2010 and 2012. Many of the problems are being brought on by inadequate staff, according to the report. The findings echo much of what privatization critics have been warning about ever since Gov. John Kasich announced his plans to privatize the state prison in 2011, which CityBeat covered in-depth here. Kasich has highlighted funding increases in the education plan in his 2014-2015 budget proposal, but the plan also includes looser requirements for Ohio's schools. The plan will remove the teacher salary schedule from law, which sets a minimum for automatic teacher pay increases for years of service and educational accomplishments, such as obtaining a master's degree. It would also change the minimum school year from 182 days to 920 hours for elementary students and 1,050 for high school students, giving more flexibility to schools. CityBeat took an in-depth look at the governor's budget and some of its education changes here. Ohio Democrats want to change how the state picks its watchdog. The governor currently appoints someone to the inspector general position, but Democrats argue a bipartisan panel should be in charge of making the pick. Mayor Mark Mallory is in Spain to meet with CAF, the company constructing the cars for Cincinnati's streetcar project. Streetcar opponents, including mayoral candidate John Cranley, say the cars are being built too early, but the city says it needs the time to build the cars, test them, burn the tracks and train staff in the cars' use. CityBeat covered the streetcar and how it relates to the 2013 mayoral race here. The amount of Ohio prisoners returning to prison after being released hit a new low of 28.7 percent in 2009. The numbers, which are calculated over a three-year period, indicate an optimistic trend for the state's recidivism statistics even before Gov. John Kasich's sentencing reform laws were signed into law. Cincinnati's real estate brokers say the city manager's parking plan will revitalize Downtown's retail scene by using funds from semi-privatizing Cincinnati's parking assets to renovate Tower Place Mall and build a 30-story apartment tower with a parking garage and grocery store. The University of Cincinnati was the second-best fundraiser in the state in the past year. On Feb. 20, UC announced it had met its $1 billion goal for its Proudly Cincinnati campaign. On Saturday, Bradley Manning, the American citizen accused of leaking a massive stash of diplomatic cables and military reports to WikiLeaks, went through his 1,000th day in U.S. custody without a trial.Popular Science has seven ways sitting is going to kill us all.
by German Lopez
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at 11:40 AM |
No Parking Documents Before Public Hearing
City says official details, contracts will be ready before City Council vote
City Hall will host public hearings about the city manager's parking and economic development plan today, but the hearings will take place before the public knows all the official details. Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, says the legal documents and contracts for the deal aren't ready to be released yet, but they will be ready before City Council holds a vote. "We're still finalizing the documents," Olberding says. "These are long, complicated documents, so we want to make sure they're done right, and we'll put them online as soon as they're available." When the documents are released, they will include Cincinnati's deal with the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, but they will not divulge specifics on the Port Authority's contracts with AEW, Xerox, Denison and Guggenheim — the four private companies partnering with the Port Authority to manage city's parking assets. Without the full details, mayoral candidate John Cranley, who opposes the parking plan, says he's concerned the public is going into the deal blind: "Why are they having public hearings before giving the contract to the public and giving us the exact details? What they do is sit back and selectively give information." The lack of details has already led to some surprises since the parking proposal was announced to the public. On Feb. 21, Olberding told CityBeat the city will be able to bypass the so-called cap on parking meter rate increases through unanimous vote from a five-person advisory committee, approval from the city manager and a final nod from the Port Authority. The process, which begins with an advisory committee that will include four members appointed by the Port Authority and one selected by the city manager, will allow the city to raise and lower the cap in case of changing economic needs, says Olberding.Under the initial plan, parking meter rates will be set to increase annually by 3 percent or the rate of inflation on a compounded basis, with any increases coming in 25-cents-an-hour increments. That should translate to 25-cent increases every three years for Downtown and every six years for neighborhoods, says Olberding. City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. unveiled his parking proposal on Feb. 19, promising $92 million upfront and an additional $3 million a year to pay off the city's budget deficits for 2014 and 2015, build a 30-story high-rise Downtown with a grocery store and 300 luxury apartments, renovate Tower Place Mall and complete the I-71/MLK Interchange project ("City Manager Proposes Parking, Economic Development Plan," issue of Feb. 20).
by German Lopez
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at 05:34 PM |
Inspection Finds Dangerous Conditions at Private Prison
Report echoes concerns raised by privatization critics
A surprise inspection of the private prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) on Feb. 22 revealed higher levels of violence, inadequate staff, high presence of gang activity, illegal substance use, frequent extortion and theft, according to the report from the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (CIIC), Ohio's nonpartisan prison watchdog.The CIIC report found the Lake Erie Correctional Institution had a 187.5-percent increase in inmate-on-inmate violence between 2010 and 2012, leading to a rate of inmate-on-inmate violence much higher than comparative prisons and slightly below the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) average for all state prisons. Rates of inmate-on-staff violence increased by 305.9-percent between 2010 and 2012 and were much higher than comparative prisons and the ODRC average, according to the report.Safety and security were major areas of concern, with the report noting "personal safety is at risk." Fight convictions were up 40 percent, but they weren't any higher than comparative prisons or the ODRC average, the report found. Disturbances, use of force, access to illegal substances, shakedowns and bunk searches were all in need of improvement, but rounds were acceptable. How staff handle the use of force and sanctions were particularly problematic, the report said: "Incident reports indicate that staff hesitate to use force even when appropriate and at times fail to deploy chemical agents prior to physical force, risking greater injury to both inmates and staff. Staff also do not appropriately sanction inmates for serious misconduct. At the time of the inspection, the facility had no options for sanctions other than the segregation unit, which was full."Fair treatment, fiscal accountability and rehabilitation and reentry were all found by the report to be in need of improvement, with many of the problems focusing on inadequate staff — a common concern critics repeatedly voiced after Gov. John Kasich announced his plan to sell the state prison to CCA in 2011. "The above issues are compounded by high staff turnover and low morale," the report said. "New staff generally do not have the experience or training to be able to make quick judgments regarding the appropriate application of force or how to handle inmate confrontations. Staff also reported that they are often required to work an extra 12 hours per week, which may impact their response."The troubling findings left CIIC with dozens of recommendations for the private prison, including a thorough review of staff policy and guidelines, stronger cooperation between staff, holding staff and inmates more accountable and the completion of required state audits and evaluations.The only positive findings were in health and well-being. The report said unit conditions, mental health services and food services were all good, while medical services and recreation were acceptable.The report echoes many of the concerns raised by private prison critics, which CityBeat previously covered ("Liberty for Sale," issue of Sept. 19). A September audit from ODRC also found the prison was only meeting two-thirds of the state's standards, and reports from locals near the prison in January warned about a rise in smuggling.
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