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Cincy City Manager courts businesses upset with Indiana's RFRA law; more streetcar headaches; public nude photog coming to Cincy, looking for "the crown jewels"
Good morning y'all. I cannot wait for this weekend so let's get to it. Are you a businessperson in Indiana steamed about the state's new Religious Freedom Restoration Act? A lot of people are. In the wake of controversy around Indiana's law, which as written allows businesses to discriminate against LGBT individuals on the basis of religious beliefs, Cincinnati City Manager Harry Black is making a pitch to Indiana businesses: Come to Cincy. We're more accepting, and that's good for business, Black says. Black has already written to companies like Yelp who had planned to expand in Indiana but are now pulling back thanks to the new law signed by Gov. Mike Pence last week. Many businesses have balked at such RFRA laws, both in Indiana and elsewhere, saying they're morally objectionable and bad for business. Pence and Indiana lawmakers announced a fix to the law earlier this week that they say would prohibit discrimination. But many of the law's critics, including big business, say the fix isn't enough. Now Cincinnati is looking poach some of that business expansion for its own.• Another day, another embarrassing streetcar argument. At yesterday's City Council meeting, Mayor John Cranley lashed out at the city's streetcar team, saying it had "secretly" spent $200,000 on studies for the transit project's potential second leg into uptown. It turns out that last February, the team, led by project executive John Deatrick, spent about $70,000 out of a fund set aside for streetcar studies in 2008. The team authorized the full $200,000 in contracts to two firms to do budget and cost benefit analyses but paused the work when it became clear focus on the current phase of the streetcar was the priority. Cranley says the 2008 City Council resolution creating the original $800,000 pot of money for studies didn't specifically authorize the streetcar team to use the money and that the studies are an example of a "culture of secrecy" around the project. The team says it was unaware it had to ask for special permission to undertake the analyses for phase 1b. Phew. City Manager Harry Black, who has the power to discipline city personnel, says there appears to be no grounds to punish members of the streetcar team. Can we just stop the fussin' and the feudin', please?• Parking rates are changing in Over-the-Rhine and downtown Tuesday. The shifts, which are tied to usage in the areas, have been planned for a year and were given final approval by Cincinnati City Council yesterday. Rates will go up or down by a quarter in various parts of the downtown/OTR area. In general, rates will go down or stay the same west of Vine Street, ranging from $2.00 an hour south of Sixth Street to $.75 an hour north of Central Parkway. East of Vine Street, rates will go up; it will now cost $2.25 an hour to park south of Central Parkway and $1.25 an hour north of it. The city has watched usage rates in various parts of downtown/OTR since January to come up with the new rates, a kind of makeshift "dynamic parking" effort. In other cities, sophisticated data crunching can change parking rates on meters according to demand on an hourly basis. That won't happen here, but by shifting rates according to the parking market, city leaders hope to incentivize parking turnover in busy areas and encourage drivers to park in less-used locations. Some of the funds from the parking boost will go to the streetcar, and some to the general fund, City Manager Harry Black says. • I grew up in Hamilton, where the grisly legacy of James Rupert is hard to escape. On Easter Sunday 40 years ago, Ruppert murdered 11 members of his family in a house on the corner of Minor Avenue in Hamilton's Lindenwald neighborhood. At the time, it was the largest mass-murder in U.S. history. Yesterday, Rupert had a parole hearing. The parole board's decision hasn't been announced yet, but the Butler County Prosecutor's Office is strongly objecting to his release. • Hey, here's a weird one. Need some new nude photos in front of Music Hall? There's a guy who may be able to hook you up on Opening Day, when he comes to Cincinnati to shoot nude photos of folks in front of local landmarks. He's done it in a number of big U.S. cities, sometimes with getaway drivers nearby due to the illegal nature of being naked in public. I can't avoid comment on this quote in the Enquirer, so here it comes:"I am looking for Americana, the history of the United States," Harvey Drouillard says. "I am looking for the crown jewels." Crown jewels indeed.• A few days ago, I told you about how the Ohio General Assembly floated a proposal that required college students and other somewhat transitory voters to register their car in Ohio if they wanted to vote here. Many Democrats have likened that measure to a poll tax; it would cost most students $75 to re-register their cars and if they don't and try to vote, their current registration would become invalid. Gov. John Kasich apparently agreed with the detractors, vetoing the measure Wednesday. The provision was tucked into Ohio's transportation budget legislation, which moves forward without the voter registration law. • Finally, U.S. negotiations with Iran over that country's nuclear program have made big headlines lately, with a lot of politicking going on around the fact that we're negotiating with the country at all. But according to some sources, those negotiations have taken a fruitful and promising turn lately. Here's the latest on where things stand with U.S. efforts to keep Iran from developing nukes. The whole process is fascinating and terrifying stuff.
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SORTA, Union and Council Wrangle over Streetcar Operating Contract
Nick Swartsell
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The Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority must choose whether union employees or others will run the streetcar. That's caused controversy.
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Mornings News and Stuff
New home for crime lab?; Seelbach pushes for streetcar plans uptown; is it time to abolish Ohio's death penalty?
Hey all! Hope your weekend was great. I spent my Saturday at the Neighborhood Summit, so mine was super fun because I'm a huge dork. If you're like me and you're into community building, urban planning, transit, or anything else at all city related, though, it's kind of like our Midpoint. Highlights included a three-part panel discussion among Police Chief Jeffery Blackwell, activists Damon Lynch III and Iris Roley and other experts talking about how far the Cincinnati Police Department has come since 2001, as well as another set of presentations about immigration in Cincinnati. Anyway, on to the news. Could labs on Cincinnati's East Side currently occupied by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health be a new home for the Hamilton County crime lab? County Commissioner Todd Portune says he's looking into that possibility. Last month, the federal government announced it was providing $100 million to build a new facility for NIOSH to combine the organization's two labs in Cincinnati into one complex over the next few years. That could free up plenty of lab space for the county's cramped and outdated morgue and crime labs, currently in a building built in the early 1970s. What's more, some of that $100 million could go toward renovating the current NIOSH lab so the county crime lab could move in. The idea comes after county commissioners killed a plan to move the morgue, crime lab and other county offices to a former Mercy Hospital in Mount Airy donated to the county for a dollar. Commissioners have said it would cost too much money to retrofit that building for the new offices.• A statewide task force on police-community relations put together by Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the wake of controversy over police shootings is coming to Cincinnati tonight. A public listening session will be held at 4:30 p.m. at the Kingsgate Marriott, 151 Goodman Drive, near the University of Cincinnati. City Locals Councilwoman Amy Murray, Pastor Damon Lynch III and others make up the panel, which will produce a report in April on ways to improve relationships between police and community members. Kasich ordered the task force in December in response to nationwide consternation over police shootings of unarmed citizens of color across the country. In Ohio, the August shooting death of John Crawford III in a Beavercreek Walmart and the October killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice on a playground in Cleveland have gotten national attention. Both held toy guns at the time of their deaths, and police say they seemed to pose a threat. But the families of both Rice and Crawford say police were reckless and did not act appropriately. They say the shootings are indicative of a larger cultural problem between police and communities of color.• As political bickering continues to swirl around the streetcar's first phase, Councilman Chris Seelbach is pushing the city to work on planning the rail project's next leg. Seelbach has created a motion in council seeking to spur the city to begin work on plans that would take the streetcar uptown toward the University of Cincinnati and many of the city's hospitals. The motion directs the city administration to give detailed accounting of how much the next phase of the project would cost and how it might be paid for with state and federal grants. Seelbach has also requested the city refine its process for engaging community members along the route to get better input on the project. Originally, plans for the streetcar treated the downtown loop currently being built and an uptown jaunt as one phase. But then Gov. John Kasich pulled $55 million in state funding for the project, resulting in the current scaled-down scope. Mayor John Cranley, who has been a vocal opponent of the streetcar, has said it's much too soon to begin focusing on the next phase before the first is even finished. But Seelbach and other supporters say the only way to tap into federal funds and other sources of funding is to have a plan in place and ready to go.• Sen. Sherrod Brown, one of Ohio's highest-profile Democrats, has endorsed former Gov. Ted Strickland in his run for the state's other senate seat, currently held by Republican Rob Portman. That's not a surprise — Strickland is one of Ohio's other super high profile Democrats — but it does signal the challenge City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld has ahead as he challenges Strickland in the Democratic primary for the seat. Sittenfeld, who announced his candidacy last month, has recently said he won't back down from the race despite his big name competitor. He's raised at least $500,000 for his run and told supporters last week that he's all in for the fight. Though Brown endorsed Strickland, he was careful to praise Sittenfeld in his announcement, saying the 30-year-old has a bright future in politics. • In the face of issues around execution drugs, a steady number of exonerations of those on Ohio's death row and other factors, is it time to consider reforming or abolishing Ohio's death penalty? Many feel strongly that it is, including unlikely conservative opponents to the punishment. Recent delays to executions caused by Ohio's struggle to find a source for drugs that will end an inmate's life humanely have renewed calls for the state to reconsider its death penalty entirely. This Columbus Dispatch story takes a deep look into the issue and is worth a read. • Finally, March 7 marked the 50th anniversary of the violent clash between police and protesters in Selma, Alabama, an event that helped fuel new national civil rights legislation, including the Voting Rights Act. Thousands visited Selma over the weekend to commemorate the anniversary, which was marked by passionate speeches by both President Barack Obama and outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder used his speech to question the future of the VRA, parts of which have been dismantled by recent Supreme Court decisions. Here's a pretty in-depth New York Times piece about events in Selma over the past few days. That's it for me. You know the drill. Tweet (@nswartsell), e-mail (email@example.com), comment, send me a telegram or a fax (do people still fax? Is that still a thing?) Here we go. Tweet me about whether you still use a fax machine or even know what a fax machine is. I kind of do.
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Morning News and Stuff
3CDC eyes Ziegler Park; streetcar contract drama; an unclear sentence could cost millions their healthcare
Hey all. Let's get this news thing going before the snow comes once again and grinds everything to a halt. Or just dusts the ground with a little inconvenient powder, depending on how much you trust weather forecasters. Yesterday I told you a bit about 3CDC's presentation to City Council's Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee. During that meeting, 3CDC head Steven Leeper said the developer might cross the $1 billion threshold this year for investment made in the basin since it began in 2003. Let's dig into my notes a bit and talk in more detail about a couple things regarding Over-the-Rhine the developers have planned. One of the noteworthy projects on the group's radar is a redevelopment of Ziegler Park on Sycamore Street. The park is across from the former SCPA building and just a block from Main Street's active corridor of restaurants, bars and apartments. 3CDC head Steve Leeper said Ziegler's revamp would increase the number of basketball courts and other active features currently found there. Removal of the courts at Washington Park during its 2010 revamp by 3CDC caused controversy among neighborhood residents, many of whom used the courts regularly. Leeper promised that while Washington Park's character is more "passive" in nature, Ziegler would be a much more "active" park."There will be a lot more athletic activities going on there," Leeper said, "and hopefully it will attract kids from the neighborhood who can spend their time in those athletic endeavors like we all did when we were kids."• Leeper also outlined progress on three facilities for individuals without homes — two in Queensgate set to replace the Drop Inn Center and City Gospel Mission facilities currently in Over-the-Rhine and a third in Mount Auburn built to replace the Anna Louise Inn downtown. These projects have been controversial — advocates fought hard for years to keep the Drop Inn Center at its location in OTR and a protracted legal battle stretched on for many months between Cincinnati Union Bethel, which runs the Anna Louise Inn in Lytle Park, and Western & Southern Financial Group, which eventually purchased the property against CUB's wishes. The new spaces are a bit further from the city's center, though they do have a larger capacity. • Speaking of the Drop Inn Center, its winter shelter will be open the rest of this week in response to dropping temperatures, according to a release sent out by the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless. Usually, the winter shelter is closed by this time of year, but with winter taking its time going away, the shelter will stay open a bit longer. • Here we go again: More streetcar drama could be coming our way. There is currently a potential fight brewing over who will operate the transit project. Council has set a limit of $4.3 million a year on bids for running the streetcar. The Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority is taking bids on the contract, and there's controversy over whether to use union employees for the job or not. Some council members favor that move, even if it costs a bit more, and they've asked SORTA to negotiate with the Amalgamated Transit Union, which also runs the city's bus service. But ATU has accused SORTA of dragging its feet on contract negotiations and trying to undercut the union by demanding a separate collective bargaining agreement for running the streetcar. SORTA says a separate agreement is necessary because the scale of the streetcar — just 30 employees at most — is much smaller than 750 people who run the city's bus service. Union officials, however, says that SORTA is trying to get the lowest bid possible out of the union in order to drive other bids down as well. My guess is we'll be hearing a lot more on this one. A decision must be made on the operator of the project by July. • Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld today said he will stay in the race for U.S. Senate, ending speculation he might bow out after former governor Ted Strickland entered the race last week. Sittenfeld will face Strickland in the Democratic primary. The winner will face incumbent Sen. Rob Portman, unless he is felled by a primary challenger — an unlikely possibility. "Since we launched our campaign, I have been more grateful than I can express for the enthusiasm, encouragement and support we've received," Sittenfeld said today in a statement on social media and his website. "So I want you — my supporters and friends — to hear it from me directly: I'm all in. Ohio needs a forward-looking leader to replace Rob Portman and the broken culture in Washington that he's long been part of." • You might be able to walk around The Banks with a bit of the ole' alcheyhol on Opening Day. For a while now, lawmakers in Ohio have been trying to pass legislation that would allow cities to designate open container districts where folks can have a beer out in public. It looks like the legislation is good to go, with enough support at the State House, and now local officials are telling the Ohio General Assembly to hurry the dang thing up so we can chug a couple Moerleins in public to celebrate the Reds beating the Pirates April 6. The bill looks likely to pass the House, hopefully with the two-thirds vote margin needed to put it into effect immediately. Local State Sens. Democrat Cecil Thomas and Republican Bill Seitz have introduced a bill in the Senate to speed the process up there as well. Now that's what I call bipartisanship. If the bill passes, council will have to scramble to create and approve the districts, one of which looks likely to be the area around the stadium. Ladies and gentlemen, you have a month. Get to work.• Hey! Do you want people fracking in state parks? It could happen soon whether you like it or not. Four years ago, Gov. John Kasich signed into law a provision allowing fracking on state land. He then pulled a fast one and declined to fund the commission that would give drillers approval for fracking permits on that land, basically circumventing the law he signed. Very clever. But the Ohio General Assembly, which is currently dominated by pro-fracking Republicans, is working to pass a bill called House Bill 8 that would bypass that commission. Proponents of the bill say it's meant to help private landowners who want to sell drilling rights to wells that might end up under state land. But critics note that under the current version of the bill, so called "surface impacts," or drilling directly on state land, are not outlawed and would be permissible if the law passes. The bill heads to committee next week and looks to pass there, after which it will be considered by the whole House. • In national news, Supreme Court arguments begin in King vs. Burwell today, a lawsuit which could revoke health care subsidies for 7.5 million people currently signed up under the Affordable Care Act under the federal exchange. The core of the case is the contention that the language of the 2009 law does not allow the federal government to issue subsidies to people who went through the federal exchange, and that only those living in states that created their own exchanges are eligible for government help with their health care bills. It's a nitpicky suit turning on a few words in a turn of phrase, but it could completely unravel Obamacare by making it unaffordable for those in the 34 states that did not or could not establish their own health care exchanges online. Many agree that's the point of the suit, in fact — another attempt to repeal the healthcare system by throwing a legal wrench into its works. Just think! A pedantic semantics debate could leave millions without access to health care. And you thought clear writing wasn't important.That's it for me. Hit me with those tweets and those e-mails: @nswartsell or firstname.lastname@example.com
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Streetcar fund healthier than thought; Boehner wins speakership again, proposes fruit ladders to the stars; Ferguson grand juror sues St. Louis County prosecutor
Hey all! My colleague, CityBeat arts editor Jac Kern, just got engaged over the holiday and there's champagne everywhere in the office right now. Congrats! Now I'm going to try to power through the distraction to bring you the news because I'm a soldier like that.So the streetcar contingency budget, which is set aside for unforeseen complications and cost overruns, is healthier than previously thought, officials announced yesterday. Last month, streetcar Project Executive John Deatrick announced that the worst-case scenarios his office ran had the fund down to about $80,000 after everything was paid out. But after some political blowback, especially from streetcar foe Mayor John Cranley, Deatrick and company went back to the drawing board, reassessed costs and adjusted that figure. The new estimate is that the contingency fund has about $1.3 million left. What changed? Not much. Deatrick says the streetcar team renegotiated some contracts and scaled back a fence around the streetcar substation. That fence was set to be solid brick, but will now be partially steel. Some council members, including Chris Seelbach, expressed concerns that the project was being scaled back due to political pressure, but officials with the project say it will run the same distance with the same number of cars for the same amount of time and that it hasn't been scaled back in any meaningful way.• As the weather gets colder, demands on area homeless shelters are increasing, straining space available for those with nowhere else to go. While a funding increase council passed last month has given area shelters more money to work with, demand may outpace the increase."The demand for winter shelter has been greater than expected this winter," Strategies to End Homelessness President and CEO Kevin Finn said in a statement. "... Such increased and early demand could exhaust resources that we hope will last us through February."• Local grilled cheese dynamo Tom + Chee is expanding, its founders report, with plans to open five new restaurants in Southern Texas, mostly in suburbs of Houston. The company has partnered with the Tunica-Biloxi tribe to bring the restaurants to the region. The new restaurants will join 13 others in Georgia, Nebraska, Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee. • Northern Kentucky residents who have been touched by the region's heroin epidemic took their concerns to the Kentucky state capitol in Frankfurt yesterday. One-hundred-thirty Northern Kentuckians came to the rally asking for changes to state laws that could cut down the number of heroin overdose deaths. Among the policy changes advocates are asking for: repeal of a law that keeps Kentucky police from carrying anti-overdose drugs like Narcan. Police in Cincinnati and many other cities carry the drugs, which can mean the difference between life and death for overdose victims. A new program in Kentucky will give state funds to three hospitals to provide Narcan kits to emergency overdose patients, including St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Fort Thomas. The hospital was chosen due to the high number of overdose victims it treats. • It's official. Rep. John Boehner, R-West Chester, has lived to fight another day as speaker of the house. Boehner held the most powerful perch in the House despite challenges from the far-right wing of the Republican party, who hold that he didn't do enough to repeal Obamacare and cut the federal budget. Tea party-affiliated reps had a similar mutiny attempt last session, in 2013, when 12 voted against Boehner for speaker. This time, opposition doubled, as 24 conservative House members voted against him. Boehner still coasted to a win, but the drama highlights the continued fissures in the party. Even as it grows more powerful— the 246 seats Republicans hold in the House are the most they've had since the 1940s — it's clear there's little agreement about what should be done with that power. Perhaps in reflection of this mixed-up mindset, Boehner offered this lumpy, ill-formed bag of metaphors on the House floor after his win."So let's stand tall and prove the skeptics wrong," Boehner said. "May the fruits of our labors be ladders our children can use to climb to the stars."Fruit ladders to the stars, y'all.Boehner was quick to deal out discipline to members who voted against him, having two Republicans who voted against him kicked off the House's powerful rules committee, which sets the agenda for the House. • One of the grand jurors in the Darren Wilson case is suing the St. Louis County prosecutor over what he says were misleading statements about the grand jury's decision not to indict Wilson. Prosecutor Robert McCullough presented evidence to the grand jury after the August shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Mike Brown by Ferguson Police officer Wilson. The grand jury member accuses McCullough of misleading the public about the grand jury's deliberations and is asking to be able to speak publicly about the case in his suit. The juror, who so far has remained anonymous, is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri. Brown's shooting along with other police shootings of unarmed black citizens have triggered civil unrest and activism around the country. • Finally, this isn't really news related but I have to share it anyway. Here are the ladies of Downton Abby, which just started a new season, playing Cards Against Humanity. Warning: it gets a lil raunchy. Also, you're welcome.
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News in Review 2014
Today's news and our top daily/weekly stories of 2014
Hey all! In a minute, I'm going to hit you with the list: the biggest, the most interesting and the most disturbing stories we covered this year on a daily or weekly basis. We've already given you our favorite news cover stories; those long-form pieces which we spent weeks or even months putting together. Now it's time for the everyday stuff. But first, let me just throw a couple things your way that are making news on the last day of 2014. Memorials are planned for Leelah Alcorn, the Kings Mills 17-year-old who committed suicide on I-71 Sunday after suffering with lengthy depression and isolation due to her transgender status. These memorials include a candlelight vigil in front of Kings High School Saturday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. In other news, the city came to an agreement with unions over its pension obligations last night. The deal, which took 10 months of negotiations, including a nine-hour marathon talk session between the city, employees and retirees, is complicated, but here's the upshot: The agreement will allow the city to stabilize the pension fund, to which it owes $862 million, by whittling down retiree health benefits over time while putting $200 million from the health care trust fund into the pension fund. The city will also make a $38 million payment into the system next year. On to the list. It's a bit absurd to do these end of the year lists, right? I mean, ongoing stories don't conveniently bookend themselves on New Years Eve, but tend to linger on and on (see: streetcar fight). But we have to stop somewhere and brag about our coverage, and the day we run out of calendar seems as good as any. So here are some of the big stories we covered in 2014:1. Police Shootings and Race: A Familiar StoryCincinnati is no stranger to controversy surrounding police shootings. So the unrest around an August incident in Ferguson, Mo., where a police officer shot an unarmed teenager named Michael Brown felt very close to home. The incident sparked civil unrest in Ferguson and across the country. Just days before, a similar incident occurred in a Beavercreek Walmart, where police shot 22-year-old John Crawford while he was holding a pellet gun sold in the store. We watched the Crawford case closely from the beginning. His shooting as well as a number of others around the country that came to light afterward were especially pertinent in Cincinnati, bringing back memories of the 2001 shooting of Timothy Thomas by police in Over-the-Rhine. We covered the parallels between 2001 and now, followed local reaction to the recent police shootings and delved deep into racial tensions in Beavercreek. New incidents of questionable use of force by police officers continue to emerge, suggest this story is far from over. We'll be following it just as closely in 2015.2. Icon Tax DebateTwo of Cincinnati's favorite buildings need big help. But getting the money to renovate historic Music Hall and Union Terminal has been a political struggle. An initial proposal by business leaders would have levied a .25 percent sales tax increase over time to fund renovations on both buildings. But Republican Hamilton County commissioners Chris Monzel and Greg Hartmann balked at including Music Hall in that arrangement, opting instead to shorten the duration of the tax increase and only fix Union Terminal. That left supporters of OTR's major landmark angry and triggered a campaign to unseat Hartmann in the November election, though that effort fizzled. Meanwhile, Music Hall may get the fixing up it needs after all: the building was awarded $20 million in tax credits in December that will go a long way toward needed renovations.3. The Battle Over Cincinnati's Last Abortion Clinic After lawmakers passed restrictive new laws requiring clinics that provide abortions to have transfer agreements with area hospitals, and then turned around and barred state-funded hospitals from entering into those agreements, things looked bleak for the region's two remaining clinics. The situation got even worse over the summer when the Ohio Department of Health revoked the license of one of those clinics, Women's Med in Sharonville, after refusing to grant the clinic an exception to those new rules. The area's last remaining abortion provider, the Elizabeth Campbell Surgical Center in Mount Auburn, got a similar warning from the state in November. The clinic had been waiting a year to hear back from the state about its request for a variance to the rules on the grounds that its doctors have individual admitting privileges with area hospitals. Planned Parenthood, which runs the clinic, sued the state, claiming Ohio's laws are unconstitutional and present an undue burden to women seeking abortions. The state blinked, providing the clinic with a variance and keeping Cincinnati from becoming the largest metropolitan area in the country without direct access to abortion services.4. Transit: Fights and Forward MovementFrom ongoing streetcar drama to fights over bike lanes to efforts to bring better rail service to Cincinnati, how we get around got a lot of attention this year. In the spring, a battle flared up over Mayor John Cranley's diversion of funds away from on-street bike lanes to bike paths, and further controversy arose over a new bike lane being built on Central Parkway. One business owner concerned about a few parking spots temporarily ground that project to a halt before the city agreed to spend thousands of extra dollars accommodating the parking concerns. There was some other progress on bike-related projects this year as paths on the city's east side, including plans that could also someday include light rail, continued to take shape. Bickering about how the city will pay for the streetcar dominated the daily news, with new panics about the project's yearly operating budget and construction contingency fund cropping up constantly. Meanwhile, in a project of a much larger scale, a group of advocates launched a campaign this year to get daily rail service going between Cincinnati and Chicago. Unlike the streetcar, that effort has been surprisingly bi-partisan. That level of agreement has been rare in transportation fights. But all the back and forth is good on one level — it means Cincinnatians are actively thinking about and engaged in conversations around transit alternatives. 5. Cincinnati's Big Developments: Concerns and QuestionsThere's no denying Cincinnati has had a huge year in terms of development. Over-the-Rhine continues to change at a rapid pace and other neighborhoods are quickly following suit in their own ways. But developers and the city administration that courts them are powerful folks, and it's always good to ask questions when millions are getting thrown around like Monopoly money. We delved into concerns over Cincinnati City Center Development Corporation's move into northern OTR, where the city awarded it decision-making power over a whole swath of neighborhood surrounding Findlay Market even as residents and the OTR Community Council expressed serious concerns about the deal. We talked to residents and businesses in Clifton Heights, where the city enacted zoning changes and tax deals for an out-of-town developer who will build a large, student-centered apartment complex despite protests from some long-time residents there. And we took a deep look into what the new I-71 interchange means for Avondale and Walnut Hills, both largely black communities whose members have historic reasons to distrust highway projects. Will development surrounding a new highway on and off ramp in these historically neglected and low-income neighborhoods lift up residents there, or will it bulldoze them? The questions around Cincinnati's big-budget developments remain, and we'll continue asking them in 2015.6. Charter School Drama2014 was the year things got weird at Ohio charter schools. VLT Academy in Cincinnati shut down after a long, messy fight by the school to secure a sponsor organization over protests from the Ohio Department of Education. A charter high school in Dayton, along with several others run by Chicago-based Horizon schools, came under scrutiny from federal authorities after former teachers made multiple reports of records forging and sexual misconduct. Overall, multiple studies, including a CityBeat review of state education data for Cincinnati charters, found that charters don't seem to perform any better on the whole than public schools, and in many cases, perform worse. Meanwhile, charters are held to lower standards than public schools. All that begs the question: what are taxpayers getting for the diverted funds that pay for these often for-profit schools?7. The Persistence of Poverty We covered a number of issues surrounding poverty in Cincinnati, from former staffer German Lopez's excellent cover story on the city's poverty problem to more specific issues like affordable, subsidized housing, increases in homelessness in the city and a proposed hate crime law that would protect the homeless. There was also some good news, as Lower Price Hill, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods received free Wi-Fi so students and residents could connect to the outside world. As one of the city's biggest, most complex challenges, Cincinnati's high poverty rate works its way into a number of other issues such as sex trafficking, the heroin crisis and others, meaning we're just getting started in our coverage. Expect much more in 2015.This is by no means an exhaustive list. Some other big stories we checked out this year include German Lopez's great piece on efforts to legalize marijuana in Ohio and our coverage of the court battle over Ohio's gay marriage ban. When you're all bored and hungover tomorrow, peruse our coverage from the last year. Then hit me up with what you'd like to see in the new year. What's important to you that Cincinnati media is neglecting? Find me at firstname.lastname@example.com and @nswartsell on Twitter.
by Nick Swartsell
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Council passes tax deals; big announcement on Music Hall; this coffee has a little something extra
Hey y'all. Here's a brief rundown of the news this morning before I have to fly out the door to cover a few things. • City Council yesterday voted to approve a number of property tax-related items we've already reported on. But here are the cliff notes. Among the bigger ones was a controversial move to create two tax increment financing districts around properties owned by Evanston-based developer Neyer. The group has said it will be making big improvements to the area and asked the city to create the TIF districts to fund infrastructure improvements in the districts. Some critics have called this a tax abatement, but in reality, Neyer will stay pay taxes — they'll just end up in a fund earmarked for public works projects around their buildings instead of flowing into the general fund, where they could be used for police, transit, etc. Council also passed an amendment at the request of Councilwoman Yvette Simpson requiring council approval of all expenditures from the fund. Councilman Chris Seelbach voted against the TIF districts.• City Council also unanimously passed a 15-year tax abatement for a project in Clifton Heights by Gilbane Development Co. that will bring 180 units of student housing to the neighborhood. The abatement, which could be worth up to $12 million, is for the building's proposed environmentally-friendly Silver LEED certification. Council voted unanimously for the tax break. This project was also controversial, as a number of residents in Clifton Heights say such developments are changing the character of the neighborhood.• Believe in Cincinnati, the grassroots group responsible for pushing the streetcar forward last winter, is holding a rally today to launch an effort pushing council to make plans for the streetcar's extension into uptown. City administration so far has no plans for such a study until the first phase of the project is complete and can be evaluated. Believe in Cincinnati would like to see the next phase planned soon so that the project can apply for grants and find other funding.The rally will be at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Race and Elder streets near Findlay Market. "Why shouldn't we get those scarce federal dollars for transit instead of another city? If we don't have a plan, we won't be considered," said the group's leader Ryan Messer to the Cincinnati Business Courier.• Meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Mayor John Cranley will hold a news conference at Music Hall, where he's likely to announce that the landmark has won an Ohio historic tax credit worth millions. Representatives from the State Historic Preservation Office and the Ohio Development Services Office will also speak at the press conference, along with state Sen. Bill Seitz. The grant is worth up to $25 million. Music Hall has been competing with Cleveland's Huntington Building and May Co. department store and the former Goodyear Tire Co. headquarters in Akron. The historic hall, which is home to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and a number of other cultural institutions, needs $123 million in renovations. Funding efforts so far are still $40 million short. The state tax credit could go a long way toward filling that gap.UPDATE: Music Hall will get the full $25 million tax credit.• The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio is investigating a grant program for public schools recently put forward by Gov. John Kasich. The Community Connections mentorship program conditions receipt of the grant on public schools' collaboration with religious institutions, something the ACLU says may be violate separation of church and state under the constitution. The group is investigating the program further. "The First Amendment of the Constitution provides very strong protection against the government imposing religion upon children in public schools," said Heather Weaver of the ACLU Program on Religious Freedom and Belief in a news release. "This new program appears to disregard those protections and injects religion into our classrooms."• Continually low wages and changes to federal food assistance programs have been a one-two punch for low-income families in Ohio, a new study finds. The combination of stagnant pay and cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program enacted last year mean that Ohioans lost access to the equivalent of 195 million meals since November of last year, according to research by the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, which provides food assistance across the state. The study showed that 50 percent of households receiving food assistance have at least one member who is employed; it also showed that many of those recipients are underemployed and received no boost in wages from the year prior. Tied to the $265 million cut to the SNAP program Congress enacted last year, that's left many families worse off than they have been before. The cuts have other repercussions as well, according to the group."Our network and the people we serve can't afford to absorb any more spending tradeoffs, reductions, or harmful policy changes," said OAF Executive Director Lisa Hamler-Fugitt. "The loss of $265 million in entirely federally-funded SNAP benefits has already had an astronomical economic impact. Every $5 in federal expenditures of SNAP benefits generates $9 in local spending, so this loss of SNAP benefits has not only impacted the food budgets of low-income families — it has also led to an estimated $477 million in lost revenue for grocers and retailers and lost economic growth."• If you need a way to boost productivity around the office, well, this is one way to get that done. Or it might just start a ton of fights and paranoid ramblings. Actually, maybe just steer clear of this "enhanced" coffee shipped to Germany recently.
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City tax deals for developers draw scrutiny; streetcar passes selling briskly; Bush vs. Clinton: the rematch?
Good morning all. It's like, 8 a.m. and I've already experienced utter, terrifying confusion today. Normally that doesn't happen until at least noon. Earlier, I woke up to a loud, continuous peal of thunder, which stupefied me in my half-awake state because it's, you know, December and that usually doesn't happen. I thought my house was falling down or exploding or something. Then I fell back asleep.Anyway, news time. Is the city doing some shady dealing on tax breaks? City Council's Neighborhood Committee yesterday approved a number of property tax deals city officials say will help spur development and job growth. The committee is made up of all members of Council, so passage here means the measures are pretty much a done deal. Some critics, however, question whether the tax deals are in the city's best interest. Drawing special scrutiny was a pair of proposed TIF districts in Queensgate and the West End. The narrowly drawn districts would encompass properties owned by Evanston-based developer Neyer, which is mulling some as-yet-unnamed but said to be large-scale improvements to the property. The TIF measures would set aside property taxes paid on those improvements for public infrastructure projects within the districts, instead of that money flowing into the city's general fund. The measures were last minute additions to the agenda, and some, including downtown resident Kathy Holwadel, are suspicious. Holwadel penned an opinion piece for the Cincinnati Enquirer pointing out that the city doesn't have any idea what it will use the TIF money for, which is unusual. Others have pointed out that various members of the Neyer family were Mayor John Cranley's second-largest donors during last year's mayoral election, kicking him more than $26,000. Critics ask if the administration is giving the developer special deals.The TIF districts don't represent out-and-out tax exemptions and Council will still have to vote on future uses of the taxes put in the TIF fund.Councilwoman Yvette Simpson at the meeting yesterday raised concerns that the TIF money would only go toward projects that benefit the developer and suggested a larger TIF district that would allow the city to spend the collected money on a wider area. City officials say state laws have limited the amount of money larger TIF districts can accumulate. Simpson abstained on the vote. Councilman Chris Seelbach voted against the districts. • The committee also approved a number of other tax deals, including a 15-year, $12 million tax exemption for Gilbane Development Co. on its proposed development project in Clifton Heights. This project has also been controversial, with residents saying there is already too much student-oriented housing like the Gilbane project in the neighborhood. Stay tuned for our in-depth story on that in the print edition tomorrow.• The family of John Crawford III will file a lawsuit against the officers involved in his shooting as well as the Walmart corporation. Crawford was shot by police officer Sean Williams in a Beavercreek Walmart while carrying a pellet gun Aug. 5. The family's attorneys, as well as Crawford's father, will announce more details about the lawsuit at a news conference at 11 a.m. today in Dayton.• The special edition Cincinnati streetcar passes Metro is offering have raised more than $40,000 so far, the department reports. The commemorative metal cards get riders 15, 30 or 60 days of unlimited rides on the streetcar for $25, $50 and $100, respectively. If you're still thinking about getting one, better hurry — 1,000 of the 1,500 cards produced have already sold.• Would you kayak in the Ohio River? If so, you'll be excited about this. The Covington City Commission will decide today whether to enter into a partnership with Queen City Water Sports Club to design and build a facility on the former location of Jeff Ruby's Waterfront restaurant where people can rent canoes and kayaks. The boat that housed Waterfront sank in August, and now the city is looking for new uses for the property where it was docked. • Former Hamilton County Commissioner and Cincinnati City Councilman David Pepper looks likely to become the Ohio Democratic Party's next chairman after his closest opponent, former lieutenant governor candidate Sharen Neuhardt, dropped out of the race yesterday. Pepper ran for attorney general in the last election but was beaten by incumbent Republican Mike DeWine. If he wins, he'll replace outgoing chair Chris Redfern, who resigned after the Democrats faced big losses in November.• Nineties nostalgia is so hot right now. Doc Martens are on every foot. People are listening to Soundgarden unironically again. Flannel shirts, etc. If you're really wanting to party like it's 1992 again, though, you may soon get your chance. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is looking more and more like he's going to jump into the race to become the Republican nominee for the presidency. He's releasing a book. He's raising some cash. His most likely opponent? Democratic nominee frontrunner Hillary Clinton, of course. If those last names don't ring a deep, deja-vu inducing bell, don't worry. Those Bush vs. Clinton tees are going to look great at an Urban Outfitters near you. America: where anyone can become president, but especially anyone from a wealthy political dynasty. Woo!
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Streetcar fund may dwindle; Ohio Board of Education nixes "5 of 8" rule; will Congress meet its budget deadline?
Hey all. I'm about to run out and cover a bunch of stuff, but here's a quick hit list of what's up today.The streetcar's contingency construction budget may only have about $80,000 unaccounted for, project executive John Dietrick announced yesterday. It started with nearly $8 million. That low number is a worst-case projection, but with 21 months left until construction is finished, it's a very slim cushion. Part of the problem: The city spent $1 million from that fund covering the costs of delaying the streetcar while fighting over whether to continue the project last winter.• UC students have been staging so-called "die in" demonstrations over the past few days in protest against police shootings of unarmed black citizens. Another one will take place today at noon in the university's Medical Sciences Building.• Former Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter will have to wait for an appeal on her felony convictions from jail, Judge Norbert Nadel ruled yesterday. Hunter was convicted on one felony count of having an unlawful interest in a public contract over allegedly interceding in the firing of her brother, a court employee. A jury hung on eight other felony counts in her trial. Hunter's supporters say she's a victim of politics as the county's first black juvenile court judge. She faces six months in jail.• State lawmakers have squashed, for now, a highly restrictive "heartbeat bill" that would have made abortions illegal in Ohio after a fetus has a detectable heartbeat. A vote on the bill was killed by conservative lawmakers who feel the law may be unconstitutional. They say they fear court challenges to the bill could endanger Ohio's other abortion restrictions. • The Ohio Board of Education agreed yesterday to strike down the state's so-called "5 of 8" rule that required schools to hire specialized positions like art teachers and librarians. Boosters say the move gives local districts more control over their budgets, but opponents say it will make it easier for cash-strapped schools to eliminate necessary staff. The bill will next go to the state legislature for approval before coming back to the board for a final vote in March.• We all have deadlines. Congress' deadline is Thursday, when our current, hard-won federal budget expires. And while it looks like there won't be a big, destructive fight over the budget this year resulting in a weeks-long shutdown like last year, it also looks equally likely that Congress won't get the job done in time. While key congressional leaders agreed last night on a trillion-dollar deal, there are still a lot of bumps in the road before the legislation makes it to the president's desk.
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Cincinnati police to get body cameras; early streetcar pass available; Ark Park wants to correct "myths"
All right y'all. After a brief delay while I listened to a presentation about health insurance (as captivating as it sounds) I'm here with the news this morning. Cincinnati's 600-strong uniformed police force will eventually be equipped with body cameras after a seven-month pilot program involving West Side officers wrapped up this week. The move comes as activists around the country call for more police accountability in the wake of recent police shootings of unarmed citizens. Cincinnati's body camera program will cost anywhere from $500,000 to $2 million depending on which vendor the city chooses. Cincinnati City Council's Law and Public Safety committee has pledged to help find funds, and Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffery Blackwell will be making a trip to Washington to ask the federal government for some of the money as well. Officers involved in the pilot program said the cameras they tested aren't perfect and expressed concerns about privacy for victims of crime and whether what is filmed will end up as public record. Some activists around the country have called for federal rules requiring police wear body cameras, and President Barack Obama announced last week an plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help equip police departments with the technology. Others, however, question the efficacy of the method, pointing to the death of Eric Garner, who died after being placed in a choke hold by police in July. The officer who placed Garner in a headlock was not indicted by a grand jury despite video footage of the incident.• Though the streetcar is months away from being operational, you can still give the transit fanatic (or skeptic) in your life a rail-themed Christmas gift. Starting today, SORTA is offering a commemorative early pass for the Cincinnati streetcar allowing unlimited rides for periods of time after the streetcar opens. You can get the $25 card for those members of your family who are afraid of downtown and with whom you argued about the streetcar this Thanksgiving. Maybe some free rides will change their minds. Or they'll hate it and give it to you to use. Win-win. They, or you, will be able to ride cost-free for the first 15 days the streetcar is operating. You can step it up for the serious streetcar supporter and get the $50 or $100 cards, which give the recipient 30 and 60 days of fare-free riding, respectively. These are the first physical items issued to the public for the transit project, which I'm sure will be interesting to some folks.• Answers in Genesis, the religious group behind a controversial Noah's Ark theme park in Grant County, Ky., has launched a billboard campaign it says seeks to correct "myths" about the project. The park has raised eyebrows because it could receive state tax credits even though its parent company makes its employees sign statements affirming their Christian religious beliefs. If the park did the same with prospective employees, it would not be eligible for help from the state. The state's Tourism Development Finance Authority has preliminarily approved a 10-year tax incentive package for the park that could be worth up to $18 million on the $73 million project. National advocates for the separation of church and state have cried foul at the deal, saying it violates state and federal non-discrimination laws. The Ark group, however, says they'll comply with those laws for the park. They're fighting back with 16 billboards in Frankfort, Louisville and Lexington directing people to their website. They've also sprung for an electronic billboard ad running in New York City's Times Square for some reason."With this new billboard campaign, the attention-grabbing wording will get people to visit our website, where they will discover the truth about our full-size Ark and learn how some intolerant people are trying to keep it from succeeding," the group said in an email news release. • The Ohio Board of Education will meet today and discuss eliminating rules that require public schools in Ohio to hire art and music teachers, librarians and other specialized staff. The so-called "5 of 8" rule could be on the chopping block because some local control advocates say it amounts to an unfunded mandate on local schools from the state. However, those who support the rule say it ensures that all schools have faculty who can teach vital subjects and perform other necessary duties. They say eliminating the rule will hurt low-income students, whose cash-strapped schools will be most likely to drop the positions. • State Rep. Alicia Reece formally introduced the so-called "John Crawford's Law" yesterday, which would require toy guns to be brightly colored to distinguish them from real weapons. The bill aims to prevent police shootings like the one that happened in August at a Beavercreek Walmart, where Crawford was shot while holding a BB gun. More recently, Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old, was shot and killed for holding a toy pistol on a playground in Cleveland. In a puzzling addition, the law would also limit where a person can carry a BB gun, even though Ohio remains an open carry state where you can tote around your real gun almost anywhere you please.
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A Nebraska housewife (Pam Dawber) and a Reno blackjack dealer (Katey Sagal) are united by their husbands' kidnapping of their children.
Cast: Pam Dawber, Katey Sagal, Jeffrey Nordling, Ryan Hoeck, William Russ, Miko Hughes, Ilana Weiss, Sean Dunn
Director: Donald Wrye
Genres: Drama

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Talks had been ongoing between the pair over the last week since relegation from the Barclays Premier League followed their historic FA Cup win.
Martinez has been linked with the vacant job at Goodison Park ever since David Moyes was announced as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor at Manchester United and the Toffees made their move on Friday.
That appears to have persuaded the Wigan manager the time was right to end his four-year association with the club and although Whelan will not stand in the way of the 39-year-old, he will demand compensation.
Martinez remains in his post for the time being but Whelan told Press Association Sport: "Roberto wants to move on and I have got to accept it.
"Everton rang me and I said they have permission to talk to him. I would never stop Roberto talking to football clubs.
"We will let him go but he's on a 12-month rolling contract so if he moves someone will have to buy him out of his final year.
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Update on Granito De Arena GroupFélix is 34 years old and is from a community called Macho de Agua where World Vision's offices are located, which supports children with few resources more than anything else. She has worked with VisionFund for four years to improve her business' condition and with her earnings, has improved her children's lives. She says that one of her children is sponsored and she likes that because she has received support and help on the part of World Vision. She says that she studied up to her second year of secondary school because her parents could not continue supporting her because she has many siblings and they did not have enough to continue supporting her studies.
She belongs to a group called Granito de Arena and says that they named it that because a business grows little by little from one grain of sand to the next. Félix makes a living buying and selling lambs and has done so for more than five years. During December for the past two years she has been selling clothing including pants, t-shirts, ponchos, hats, gloves, and scarves for women, men and children. During the rainy season she also grows corn and wheat, which she feeds to her animals. She says that she is going to buy the clothing in Mexico City where they give the best prices and will be able to make a profit when she makes her sales. She says that she sells her clothing in her neighborhood and to people she knows around her community since she sells her clothing to them in installments and every 15 days she collects the money little by little. She is very happy with her business. She says that it is going well for her because during the cold weather she sells the clothing that she stocks up on. She is now requesting a loan to buy a greater variety of cold weather clothing and also whats to begin selling plush boots for the winter because they are inexpensive and has seen them in stock in Mexico City. Féliz wants to continue with her business all year since her customers have told her to continue selling because she knows how to pick out clothing.
She is married to Fernando who is a public transportation driver. They have three children--Estefany is in preparatory school, Fernanda is in high school and sponsored by World Vision and little Emili who is 3 years old. The loan will benefit her because she will be able to have an income source to give her children a better quality life. The other four members of the group are María de Lourdes, Sonia, Eduardo and Marisol. They will invest in businesses selling in-season fruits and vegetables, gravel, sand and stone to sell as building supplies, in the purchase of material to make artisan weaves to then sell and in the maintenance of assorted public services.
Previous Loan DetailsMarisol is 32 years old and says that she is studying in her eighth semester at UPN (National Pedagogic University) for a degree in Middle Indigenous Languages. This will enable her to teach indigenous children who speak Mazahua since this is the predominant culture and language in her communi... More from Granito De Arena Group's previous loan »
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
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- Nov 28, 2012
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I have repeatedly heard that the only times our nation has declared war has been against other nations. Given the recent changes in the way certain nations now conduct themselves, I believe it is time to depart from precedent.
The laws of our nation demand that those who aid and abet criminals be held accountable for those actions as if they, themselves, were actively involved in the crime. It is time we hold those nations that provide sanctuary, military support, training and intelligence to terrorists accountable for their actions as accessories before and after the fact of the crime.
We should, and must, declare war on the man who has declared war on us.
By Osama bin Laden's words he has declared war on the U.S. and by the recent actions has committed an act of war on our soil. By declaring war on bin Laden and putting those who support him on alert to the consequences of their actions we can set a scenario of limited warfare with the attainable goals of destruction of bin Laden, his followers, sources of support and finance and training areas.
If those nations that have been hiding behind the idea this is a terrorist cell not related to our governments wish to avoid the full wrath and power of our nation and military, they may surrender all terrorists currently quartered in their nations and destroy all support systems for the terrorists. This would not absolve them from prior responsibilities, but would eliminate the peril of assault by our military at this time.
If I understand the Constitution, it is the power of the Congress to declare war. I urge the Senate to seriously consider movement in this direction.
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Shame on all the gasoline retailers who raised prices on the backs of our dead and wounded citizens. I will never - and I mean never - do business with them again.
My vote is that these opportunistic companies go out of business. And I vote with dollars.
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Society for Savings Is Setting Trend for Nonbank Activities in Connecticut: Thrift Has Signed Leases with an Insurance Agency Adn with H&R Block
Society for Savings Is Setting Trend For Nonbank Activities in Connecticut
Thrift Has Signed Leases with an Insurance Agency and with H&R Block
By early next year, customers at the Society for Savings, a thrift based in Hartford, Conn., will be able to buy insurance, have their income tax returns prepared, book a trip to Hawaii, and purchase stocks and bonds--all without leaving the lobby.
It's part of a new program called the "Xchange at Society,' which offers nonbank services in a walled-off section of Society's busiest branches, in Hartford and Avon. These services will soon be offered in Wethersfield, Greenwich, anc West Hartford.
Before long, Society hopes to have other services available at the Xchange, including a full-scale investment counseling operation.
"As the markets dictate the need for other service in the Xchange, we will be happy to provide space for them,' said Peter Mulligna, senior vice president for marketing at Society.
"I feel very posivively about what Society is doing,' said Robert Eden, director of the Savings Bank Association of Connecticut. He said that he has learned of no other depository institutions in the state that are attempting to provide the same sort of one-stop financial nancial services center that Society has established through the Xchange. "I don't know whether any others will be doing anything similar,' he said.
Connecticut Banking Commissioner Brian J. Woolf, however, said he believes that now that Society is setting the example, other bnaks in the country will follow suit.
"I think it's just the next basic step for banks to take to increase their fee income and broaden the services they offer to the general public,' Mr. Woolf said. "It's in the embryonic stages right now, but in time you're going to see more and more banks getting involved with this thpe of activity.'
Mr. Woolf has for some time been a strong backer of banks moving into nonbank areas, providing they comply with state and federal regulations.
"I am a firm believer that banks should be involved in this type of activity,' he said. "This is the kind of one-stop financial services center that banks are going to have to become if they are going to survive.'
Society is one of an increasing number of banks and thrifts that offer a discount brokerage service through Fidelity Discount Brokerage Inc. of Boston.
But in september, Society took the first step toward expanding its nonbank offerings, by setting up the Xchange and signing a lease with Secured Bankers Insurance Agency Inc., a newly established, autonous insurance agency. Society thus became the first depository institution in Connecticut to lease space to a full-service insurance agency.
Society asked for a banking department ruling on the legality of leasing space to an insurance agency. Mr. Woolf's response was that as long as Society and Secured Banker remained separate businesses, there would be no problem.
"I don's have any problem with that. Insurance is just another financial product,' Mr. Woolf said. "But it's got to be an arm's length realtionship-- no interlocking directorships--and the bank cannot own the agency.'
Mr. Woolf said he heard "not a murmur' from the insurance industry over the arrangement. "I didn't expect that we would,' he said, "because no one was giving the banks the right to mvoe into the insurance industry. …


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Posted: 02/11/2013 - The Sanitary Fish Market along the Morehead City waterfront is celebrating 75-years in business.
Posted: 02/11/2013 - We should see a bit of sunshine with mild temperatures across our area on Tuesday.
Updated: 02/11/2013 - Monday crews started closing down a lane of the Emerald Isle bridge 24-7 to try and get construction work done before tourist season.
Updated: 02/11/2013 - A local Monsignor and priest both say the announcement that Pope Benedict would resign came as a shock, but they also understand why he wants to step down from the demands of the job at age 85.
Updated: 02/11/2013 - One car dealer in the east is being recognized for his industry accomplishments and community efforts as the 2013 TIME "Dealer of the Year."
Updated: 02/11/2013 - Police say they caught two men red-handed---stealing copper out of an old school that was leased by the Police Athletic League and the Fraternal Order of Police.
Posted: 02/11/2013 - Tony Tata is a former Army general and Wake County schools superintendent asked by Gov. Pat McCrory to manage the Department of Transportation, which spends about $5 billion in state and federal funds annually.
Updated: 02/11/2013 - The state Health Department says the number of flu deaths in the state remains at 37.
Posted: 02/11/2013 - A North Carolina lawmaker is gauging support for a bill to allow coastal towns to enforce smoking bans on beaches.
Posted: 02/11/2013 - Currituck County's beaches receded anywhere from 2 to 7 feet along nearly 23 miles of the barrier island in 2011.
Updated: 02/11/2013 - State police now say three people are dead in a courthouse shooting that happened this morning in Wilmington, Delaware.
Updated: 02/14/2013 - Surveillance video of the stabbing was played for the judge in court. In it, Robb says Spell put on gloves, looked for Daniels in the hallway, then came up behind him and stabbed him.
Updated: 02/11/2013 - Police want you to be on the lookout for a trio of dangerous crooks.
Updated: 02/14/2013 - On Monday, deputies in Beaufort County said they were still looking into why an abandoned house went up in smoke at 4AM on Sunday.
Posted: 02/11/2013 - A power outage that disrupted the services at the Raleigh headquarters of the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles has been resolved and operations will be back to normal for the new week.
Updated: 02/10/2013 - Dock Dogs national competition wraps up in Washington as part of the East Carolina Wildlife Festival.
Updated: 02/11/2013 - Authorities have cancelled a Silver Alert for a missing Wayne County teenager.
Posted: 02/10/2013 - A Duplin County Fire Chief says that a single wide mobile home was destroyed Saturday after a fire.
Posted: 02/09/2013 - A cold night is in store for eastern Carolina.
Updated: 02/10/2013 - Officials say that a water line that broke following a car accident with a fire hydrant has been sealed.
Updated: 02/11/2013 - A frontal system brings rain to eastern Carolina for the start of the week.
Updated: 02/09/2013 - Investigators in Wayne County have arrested a man in connection with a breaking and entering that could be involved in other felonies in a nearby county.
Updated: 02/09/2013 - Wildlife enthusiasts have a weekend paradise right here in the east, courtesy of the East Carolina Wildfowl Guild.
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Protection of Health-Care Providers' Rights of Conscience in American Law: Present, Past, and Future
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This Article will briefly review legal protection for a health-care provider's right of conscience in three historical periods or from three broad and overlapping chronological perspectives, which, for simplicity's sake, are labeled past, present, and future. This review will address several questions: Does legal protection for a health-care provider's right of conscience have significance as a matter of foundational principles of republican constitutionalism? Is legal protection for fights of conscience of health-care providers constitutionally permissible? Is it constitutionally required? Are current legal protections for rights of conscience of health-care providers adequate? Will they be adequate in the future? Are protections for providers' rights of conscience and patients' rights to seek legal treatments reconcilable?
Part II of this Article reviews how protection of fights of conscience is deeply embedded in the foundational republican principles that undergird the American Constitution. Protection for rights of conscience is a fundamental human right in the American legal tradition as a matter of core principles. This part also considers the constitutional history of the validity of statutory and administrative provisions that provide protection for rights of conscience of health-care providers, and it shows that the constitutional doctrine of abortion privacy or liberty itself assumes and allows protection for the rights of conscience of providers to decline providing services that are morally troubling (to them).
Part III briefly considers the present policy--the current panoply of legal protections of rights of conscience of health-care providers in American (mostly federal) law. The congressional enactments as well as the Provider Conscience Rule adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2008, and the debate over the necessity for protection of rights of conscience in law in America today are particularly considered. Some deficiencies of the current regime of legal protections are noted.
In Part IV, protection for rights of conscience of health-care providers in the future is considered. This part focuses particularly on the proposal to rescind the 2008 Provider Conscience Rule.
Part V concludes that health-care providers' rights of conscience have been and can be fully protected, while patient access to services is accommodated, but only if there is full commitment to protecting, not sacrificing or giving nominal respect for, rights of conscience.
This Article focuses primarily upon rights of conscience in the abortion context because that is where the issue has been raised, discussed, and contended most thoroughly for the past four decades. However, the issue extends far beyond the practice of elective abortion. Today, a growing number of health-care practices, procedures, medications, and methods raise serious moral concerns for at least some health-care providers. These include such issues as: human stem cell research; cloning; genetic engineering (including gender pre-selection); DNA screening and medical treatment for various genetic disorders; surgical abortion (by a variety of procedures including so-called "partial-birth abortion"); pharmaceutical abortion (by such pills as RU-486 and the "morning after pill" (MAP)); sterilization; capital punishment; assisted suicide; sex-change procedures; provision of contraceptives to minors; and provision of assisted reproduction technologies to unmarried persons and couples including gay, lesbian, and transgendered couples, (1) to name just a few of the currently controversial biomedical practices that raise profound moral implications for at least some members of our society. The principles established herein with specific reference to abortion are intended to be generally applicable in non-abortion contexts in which health-care providers may decline to provide or assist in technically possible biomedical experiments, procedures, or treatments for reasons of conscience. …


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