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A Purcell Marian High School administrator was fired for declaring his public support for same-sex marriage. Mike Moroski, who was the assistant principal at the Catholic school, wrote about his support for LGBT equality on his personal blog. Following the blog post, Moroski claims he was given an ultimatum by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati to resign or recant his statements. CityBeat covered same-sex marriage and the amendment that could bring marriage equality to Ohio here.
A board vote failed to remove State Board of Education President Debe Terhar from her position. In response, Ohio Democrats filed a lawsuit seeking access to her cell phone and other records. Terhar has been receiving heavy criticism for a Facebook post that compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler. CityBeat wrote about Terhar's ridiculous Facebook post here.
Cincinnati Public Schools and Winton Woods City Schools were among nine city school districts found to be scrubbing attendance data by the state auditor. The school districts claim most the errors were simple mistakes, not intentional manipulation of data. Both the auditor and schools agree state policy is too confusing and must change.
The city of Cincinnati is beginning the process of sorting through construction bids for the streetcar. Three bids ranging from $71 million to $87 million have already come to light, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer. The bids could push up the price tag on the streetcar, but Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, cautions the process is barely starting. CityBeat covered the streetcar and how it relates to the mayor's race here.
Cincinnati is speeding up the demolitions of condemned buildings this year, particularly buildings near schools and family zones.
A new report from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services found employment in the shale industry was up 17 percent in the first quarter of 2012. Critics caution the jobs aren't worth the risks — pointing to a number of environmental and health concerns related to hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." CityBeat wrote about fracking and its extensive problems here.
One in 25 students in Columbus schools are restrained or secluded. The state's lax seclusion policies have been under heavy criticism in the past year following the discovery that school staff were using seclusion for convenience, not just to restrain students.
On Wednesday, Metro staff will be holding a security exercise meant to gauge counterterrorism capabilities. Metro bus service will not be affected.
The Horseshoe Casino pays homage to Liuzhou, China — Cincinnati's sister city of 25 years.
The chief curator resigned from the Cincinnati Art Museum.
A Cincinnati woman was charged with helping her daughter beat up a student during a classroom brawl.
Curiosity is officially the first robot to drill another planet.
A new report from the state auditor found Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) and Winton Woods City Schools were manipulating attendance data for the 2011-2012 school year, but the report seems to lay much of the blame on state policy, not just irresponsible school districts.
CPS and Winton Woods were cited among nine school districts by State Auditor Dave Yost for improperly withdrawing students from enrollment. More than 70 other schools had errors in their attendance reporting, but they were not found to be purposely manipulating — or "scrubbing" — attendance data.
The report largely focused on flaws in state policy that enable bad attendance reporting — particularly a single "count week" in October that encourages school districts to boost attendance during that one week and no other time in the school year.
"Kids count every day, all year long," Yost said in a statement. "They deserve better than what we're giving them — Ohio's current system for measuring attendance and performance is obsolete and in too many places, filled with error and bad information and even outright fraud. It's amazing that it works at all, and sometimes, it doesn't."
As a solution, Yost is calling on legislators to change school funding so it's based on year-long attendance reporting.
The report also made 12 other recommendations, including increased oversight and monitoring, more programs for at-risk students, better training, use of automated data reporting, more accessibility to pertinent information for the Ohio Department of Education and clearer rules.
Winton Woods was one of the few schools to self-report issues to the auditor. Jim Smith, interim superintendent of Winton Woods, admits the school made mistakes and will make adjustments. But he says most of the issues were explained away as errors, not intentional data manipulation. Only four of the 15 issues couldn't be reasonably explained, according to Smith.
Smith says the Education Management Information System (EMIS), which is used to report attendance data, is problematic for highly mobile
students, particularly in urban school districts. He argues the system
is too complicated and difficult to use for tracking such students.
In a Feb. 8 press release, Winton Woods claimed the reporting issues were related to confusion regarding expelled students, poor record keeping and a lack of well-defined procedures and reporting systems.
In an emailed statement, CPS Superintendent Mary Ronan wrote the school district made mistakes, but internal audits did not find evidence of data manipulation or scrubbing. She linked the errors to confusing state policy and issues with highly mobile students.
School attendance data is one of many ways states measure school performance, as required by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Update (Feb. 12, 10:29 a.m.): Originally, this story did not include comments from CPS. It was updated to reflect comments CityBeat obtained after publishing.
In response to Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley's call for a debate, the campaign for Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, another Democratic candidate for mayor, is calling both campaigns to schedule a series of debates. Jens Sutmoller, Qualls' campaign manager, said in a statement, "Vice Mayor Qualls believes the citizens of Cincinnati deserve a robust series of public debates between the two final 2013 Mayoral candidates. She looks forward to articulating her optimistic vision of Cincinnati's future and the investments we need to make in our neighborhoods and city to achieve a welcoming city of opportunity for all our citizens."
Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) are being used as a model by other schools around the state and country. Other schools are particularly interested in Cincinnati's community learning centers, which provide services not directly related to education, including health clinics, mental health counselors, tutoring programs and extensive after-school programs. The approach is being praised for making schools serve the greater needs of communities. CityBeat wrote about CPS and its community learning centers here.
Steve Dyer, an education policy fellow at Innovation Ohio, says Gov. John Kasich's school education plan actually does the opposite of what Kasich claimed: "However, after examining the district-by-district runs produced by the Kasich Administration yesterday (which I posted at Innovation Ohio earlier), what is clear that even without eliminating the guaranteed money Kasich said he wants to eliminate soon, kids in the poorest property wealth districts in the state will receive 25 cents in additional state revenue for every $1 received by kids in the property wealthiest districts." A CityBeat analysis found the education plan increases funding for Cincinnati Public Schools, but not enough to make up for past cuts.
The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati State and Miami University are getting slight increases in funding under Kasich's higher education funding plan.
The plan increases overall higher education funding by 1.9 percent,
with UC getting 2.4 percent more funding, Cincinnati State getting 4
percent more and Miami getting 1.8 percent more. The increased funding
should be helpful to Miami University, which recently initiated $99 million in summer construction and renovation projects. Historically, Ohio has given its universities less funding per pupil than other parts of the country.
An appeals court ruling could put the Anna Louise Inn back at square one. On Friday, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals affirmed most of a lower court's ruling against the Anna Louise Inn, but it sent the case back down to the lower court on a legal technicality. The ruling means the case could restart, but Tim Burke, the inn's attorney, claims the Anna Louise Inn has already done what the appeals court asked. For CityBeat's other coverage of the Anna Louise Inn, click here.
Media outlets are finally picking up the story about illegal immigrants and driver's licenses. Gongwer wrote about it here, and The Columbus Dispatch covered it here. CityBeat originally wrote about the story last week ("Not Legal Enough," issue of Feb. 6).
Following the board president's comparison of Adolf Hitler and President Barack Obama, the Ohio State Board of Education is set to discuss social media. CityBeat wrote about Board President Debe Terhar's ridiculous Facebook post here.
Remember the Tower Place Mall! Two tenants are holding out at the troubled mall as they look for different downtown locations.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine wants everyone to know he's still cracking down on synthetic drugs.
The pope is stepping down.
How kids draw dinosaurs is probably wrong.
Damaged parking meters in Over-the-Rhine are causing problems for residents and local businesses. For months, thieves have been cutting off the top of meters to steal change. The vandals directly steal revenue from the city, ensure the damaged meters won't collect revenue until they're fixed and force the city to shell out more money to fix the meters. Businesses and residents are also worried the damaged meters cause confusion for drivers and make the area look unattractive.
Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley wants to debate Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, a Democrat who's also running for mayor, over the city's plan to privatize parking services. Cranley, a former council member, has pushed the city to find an alternative to the privatization plan — sometimes leading him to make claims with little backing. Qualls isn't ecstatic about the privatization plan, but she seems to side with City Manager Milton Dohoney's position that it's necessary to avoid the layoff of 344 city employees.
County officials around the state are peeved at Gov. John Kasich's budget plan because it limits how much they can leverage in county sales taxes.
The proposal bars counties from changing their sales tax rates for
three years starting July 2013, and it also adjusts county's rates to
force a 10 percent revenue increase over the prior year beginning
December 2013. The Kasich administration claims the move is necessary to
prevent county governments from using the governor's plan to subtly raise the sales tax, but county officials argue the
move infringes on local rights. Kasich's plan lowers the state sales tax rate from 5.5 percent to 5 percent, but it expands what's affected by the tax.
CityBeat analyzed Kasich's budget proposal yesterday:
Kasich's school funding plan is also drawing complaints from school leaders. At a press conference, Kasich made his plan sound fairly progressive, but school leaders found the actual numbers underwhelming, and 60 percent of schools won't get any increased funding.
City Council Member Chris Seelbach took to Facebook to slam Cranley for some recent comments regarding freestanding public restrooms. During an interview with Bill Cunningham, Cranley tried to politicize the issue by saying City Council wants to build a $100,000 freestanding restroom. In his Facebook post, Seelbach explained that's not the case: "John Cranley, if you haven't heard (which I find surprising), NO ONE on City Council has ever said, in any capacity, that we should spend $100,000+ on a 24-hour public restroom facility. No one. In fact, I went on Bill Cunningham to make that clear. I'd appreciate if you'd stop trying to politicize the real issue: Finding a way to offer more public restroom choices in our urban core for our growing and thriving city. In case you didn't hear my interview with Cunningham, or my comments to almost every media source in this region, I'll post the interview again." Seelbach's interview with Cunningham can be found here.
Clifton's new grocery store will begin construction next week. Goessling's Market-Clifton is finally replacing Keller's IGA on Ludlow Avenue.
A local high school's prom was canceled to punish students for a massive water balloon fight at lunch. The giant fight was planned as a prank on social media, and school staff tried to prevent it by warning students of the repercussions on the day of the prank. Students did not listen. Prom was lame, anyway.
PNC Bank donated $450,000 to Smale Riverfront Park. The money will be used to build the PNC Grow Up Great Adventure Playground, which will have a swinging rope bridge for kids to walk across a canyon. PNC is among a handful companies to donate to the riverfront park; most recently, Procter & Gamble donated $1 million.
Cincinnati was called the most literate city in Ohio.
The Montgomery County Democratic Party endorsed the Freedom to Marry Amendment, which would legalize same-sex marriage. CityBeat wrote about the amendment here.
Kasich's latest budget proposal would privatize food services in prisons to save $16.2 million. The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, which represents prison staff, has come out against the plan.
A lawsuit has been filed to take down a Jesus portrait in Jackson Middle School in southern Ohio. The lawsuit is being backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the Freedom from Religion Foundation. They argue the portrait is an "unconstitutional endorsement of religion and must be removed."
A new cure for color blindness: goofy glasses.
There's new evidence that a giant asteroid really sparked earth's last great mass extinction event, which killed the dinosaurs.
Gov. John Kasich says he's cutting everyone's taxes in his 2014-2015 budget, but an analysis released Thursday found the plan is actually raising taxes for the poor and middle class. The Policy Matters Ohio report reveals the poorest Ohioans will see a tax increase of $63 from Kasich's budget plan, while the top 1 percent will see a tax decrease of $10,369.
For the poorest Ohioans, the new tax burden comes through the sales tax. On average, the bottom 20 percent of the income ladder will have their income taxes reduced by $8, but the sales tax plan will actually increase their average sales tax burden by $71.
The middle 20 percent fares slightly better. Under the budget proposal, they will get
a $157 income tax cut on average, but their sales tax burden will go up by
$165 — meaning they'll end up paying $8 more in taxes.
The top 1 percent get the most out of Kasich's tax plan.
Their income taxes will be reduced by a whopping $11,150. The top 1 percent
do see the highest sales tax increase at $781, but it's nowhere near
enough to make up for the massive income tax cut.
Kasich says his budget is all about creating jobs and spurring the economy, but the regressive tax system defies economic research. A previous analysis from the Congressional Budget
Office (CBO), which measures the budgetary and economic impact of
federal policy, found
letting tax cuts expire on the wealthy would barely dent the economy. The same report also found the economy greatly benefits from tax and social welfare programs that
disproportionately benefit the lower and middle classes.
Another report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) also concluded tax hikes on the rich would have negligible economic impact. The findings made national Republicans so angry that they pressured CRS to pull the report. CRS later re-released the study — except this time it had nicer language to appease politicians that can't handle reality.
Kasich's plan proposes cutting the state income tax by 20 percent across the board and lowering the sales tax from 5.5 percent to 5 percent. To pay for the cuts, the proposal broadens the sales tax so it applies to additional services — including cable TV services, coin-operated video games and admission to sports events and amusement parks — while keeping exemptions for education, health care, rent and residential utilities.
For more analysis of Kasich's budget, check out CityBeat's other coverage:
Gov. John Kasich touted a rosy, progressive vision when announcing his education reform plan Jan. 31, but reality does not match the governor's optimism. It's true Kasich's proposed 2014-2015 budget
will not reduce school funding, but under the Kasich administration,
local schools will still have a net loss in state funds.
The governor's office released tentative budget numbers yesterday that show the Kasich plan will give Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) $8.8 million more funding for the 2014 fiscal year. But that's not enough to make up for the $39 million CPS will lose in the same fiscal year due to Kasich's first budget, which was passed passed in 2011. Even with the new education plan, the net loss in the 2014 fiscal year is $30.2 million.
The problem is Kasich's first budget had massive cuts for schools. The elimination of the tangible personal
property reimbursements (TPP) hit CPS particularly hard, as CityBeat previously covered ("Battered But Not Broken,"
issue of Oct. 3). In the Cut Hurts Ohio website, Innovation Ohio and Policy Matters Ohio estimated Kasich's budget cuts resulted in $1.8 billion less funding for
education statewide. In Hamilton County, the cuts led to
$117 million less funding.
Kasich's massive cuts didn't even lead to lower taxes for many Ohioans. A report from Innovation Ohio found school districts and voters made up for the big education cuts with $487 million in new school levies. In 2012, Cincinnati voters approved a $51.5 million levy for CPS. The school levies are a direct increase on local income and property taxes, but they're measures Ohioans clearly felt they had to take in the face of big state budget cuts.
For more analysis of Kasich's budget, check out CityBeat's other coverage:
Gov. John Kasich's school funding plan may not be so progressive after all. In his initial announcement, Kasich promised the program will be more progressive by raising funding to poorer schools, but this fact from StateImpact Ohio seems to contradict that claim: "Under the projections released by the state, a suburban district like Olentangy that has about $192,000 of property value per student would get a more than three-fold increase in state funding. Meanwhile, Noble Local, a small rural district with about $164,000 of property wealth per student sees no increase in state funding." The Toledo Blade found Kasich's education plan favors suburban schools. The Akron Beacon Journal pulled numbers that show rich, growing school districts will do fine under the plan. According to The Columbus Dispatch, 60 percent of Ohio schools will not see increases in funding from Kasich's plan.
The Ohio Department of Transportation is now shying away from statutory guarantees for northern Ohio in the Ohio Turnpike plan. Originally, Kasich promised 90 percent of Ohio Turnpike funds will remain in northern Ohio, albeit with a fairly vague definition of northern Ohio. Now, even that vague 90 percent doesn't seem to be sticking around. But the plan would still be a massive job-creating infrastructure initiative for the entire state. The Ohio Turnpike runs along northern Ohio, so changes to fees and the road affect people living north the most.
WLWT published a thinly veiled criticism of local teacher
salaries. The article pointed out Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) pays
45 of its employees more than $100,000 a year.
Of those people, 42 are administrators and three are teachers. In
comparison, the highest paid Cleveland school teacher makes $86,000. The
article also glances over the fact CPS is "the number one urban-rated
school district in the state" to point out the school district is still
lacking in a few categories. As CPS Board President Eileen Reed points
out, a school district needs to attract better educators with higher
salaries if it wants to improve. Paying teachers less because the school
district is performing worse would only put schools in a downward
spiral as hiring standards drop alongside the quality of education.
County commissioners seem supportive of Kasich's budget. Republican commissioners Chris Monzel and Greg Hartmann said the budget could be "revolutionary" by changing how county governments work. Democratic Commissioner Todd Portune highlighted the Medicaid expansion in the budget. As "revolutionary" as the budget could be, it's not enough to make up for Ohio and Kasich's troubled past.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital was ranked the third best pediatric hospital in the United States by Parents magazine.
The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments is looking for comments on updating the region's bike map. Anyone who wants a say should leave a comment here.
The upcoming Horseshoe Casino is partnering up with local hotels to offer a free shuttle service that will seamlessly carry visitors around town.
One courageous grandma stood up to an anti-gay pastor. During a sermon, the pastor outed a gay high school student and told everyone they would "work together to address this problem of homosexuality." At that point, the grandma snapped at the pastor, "There are a lot of problems here, and him being gay is not one of them." She then apologized to the boy and walked out.
Music has a lot of effects on the brain. Here is an infographic that shows them.
Bonus science news: Earth-like planets could be closer than most people think.
Council Member P.G. Sittenfeld is circulating a small business petition to stop Cincinnati from privatizing parking services. Sittenfeld threw his support behind the petition in a statement: "Individual citizens have made clear that they are overwhelmingly against outsourcing our parking system. Now we're going to show that small businesses feel the same way. I hope that when council sees that the small businesses that are the engine of our city are strongly against outsourcing our parking, we can then nix the proposal immediately." The petition asks city officials "to find a smart, resourceful, sustainable alternative to address the budget situation." City Manager Milton Dohoney says parking privatization is necessary to avoid laying off 344 city workers.
Gov. John Kasich's expanded sales tax is going to hurt a lot of people. The tax is being expanded to apply to many items included in households' monthly budgets, such as cable television, laundry services and haircuts. The revenue from the sales tax expansion will be used to cut the state income tax by 20 percent across the board, lower the sales tax from 5.5 percent to 5 percent and slightly boost county coffers.
City Council and local residents are not impressed with the USquare development. At a City Council meeting Tuesday, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls described the development: "I have to say that it is underwhelming. And that's about the kindest thing I can say about it. And also really repeats, on many different levels, virtually all of the mistakes that have ever been made in the city and in neighborhoods when it comes to creating public spaces." But architect Graham Kalbli said he's excited about the plan: "Because we've taken a vacant strip of land and really made kind of a living room for the Clifton Heights community. We wanted to do that, that was one of our overriding goals."
The Hamilton County Board of Elections is subpoenaing 19 voters who are suspected of voting twice in the November election. Most of the voters being investigated filed provisional ballots then showed up to vote on Election Day.
David Mann is officially running for City Council. The Democrat has served as a council member, mayor and congressman in the past.
Traffic congestion isn't just bad for drivers; it's also bad for the environment and economy. The Annual Urban Mobility Report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute found traffic congestion cost Cincinnati $947 million in 2011 and produced an an extra 56 billion pounds of carbon dioxide nationwide.
Leslie Ghiz is taking the judge's seat a little early. The former city council member was elected to the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in November, but she was appointed to the seat early by Gov. John Kasich to replace Dennis Helmick, who retired at the end of 2012.
The magic of capitalism: Delta is already matching a low-cost carrier's fares to Denver at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
The U.S. Postal Service is ending Saturday mail delivery starting Aug. 1. The Postal Service has been dealing with financial problems ever since a 2006 mandate from U.S. Congress forced the mail delivery agency to pre-fund health care benefits for future retirees. Riddled with gridlock, Congress has done nothing to help since the mandate was put in place. This will be the first time the Postal Service doesn't deliver mail on Saturdays since 1863.
It's unlikely zombies could be cured by love, but it's possible they could be cured by science.
The next Michael Jordan has been discovered:
New casino revenue numbers are well below 2009 estimates. State officials previously estimated Ohio's casinos would bring in $1.9 billion a year once they were built and functional, but the latest state budget cuts that prediction by half. The new estimates are due to competition with racinos and lower-than-expected performance at casinos that are already up and running.
Gov. John Kasich announced his 2014-2015 budget, unveiling a few pleasant and unpleasant surprises for progressives. As part of the budget, Ohio is going ahead with expanding Medicaid to meet Obamacare's financial incentives, despite Kasich's past criticism of the national health care program. But the budget also directs higher revenues to cutting taxes, instead of making up for past spending cuts enacted by Kasich.
A Miami University fraternity's $10 million lawsuit has been dismissed. The lawsuit accused the university of "malice, hatred and ill will" for the suspension of Phi Kappa Tau after it had a fireworks battle with another fraternity. The battle led to police discovering marijuana inside the fraternity.
Looks like Ohioans are returning to school. Some universities, including Miami, have seen a spike in the number of applications recently, despite Ohio having fewer high school graduates in the past few years. The spike is likely due to out-of-state recruiting.
City Council will vote tomorrow on whether to provide tax breaks for neighborhood projects in Walnut Hills and Linwood. The projects are focused on buildings that are apparently uninhabitable, according to the developer.
PNC Bank is set to announce a "major gift" to Smale Riverfront Park. The gift would continue a stream of private contributions to the park. Last year, Procter & Gamble donated $1 million to fund the P&G Vibrant Playscape.
Cincinnati's tree fee will not change this year. The tree fee is paid by homeowners so the city can take care of trees in public rights of way.
Cincinnati was awarded the Audrey Nelson Community Development Achievement Award from the National Community Development Association for contributing to the renovations of the Villages at Roll Hill.
An unhappy defendant punched his own lawyer in court.
The 3-D print revolution has taken an unexpected turn: Scientists can now print human embryonic cells. The researchers hope to use the cells as ink for printed organs and tissues.
The Medicaid expansion would add more Ohioans to the state-federal health care program by raising the eligibility threshold to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, up from 90 percent. The budget summary claims the expansion makes financial sense for the state as long as the federal government picks up most of the tab. As part of Obamacare, the federal government takes all the costs for newly insured Medicaid recipients for the first three years. After that, the federal government's share is brought down to 95 percent and ultimately phased down to 90 percent. If the federal government reneges on its promise to pay for the bulk of the share, Kasich's budget has a trigger to wind down the Medicaid expansion.
The budget also proposes income and sales tax cuts, which would come with some trade-offs. The state income tax would be brought down by 20 percent across the board, and the sales tax would be cut from 5.5 percent to 5 percent. To balance the cuts, Kasich has proposed broadening the sales tax to include other "economic activity," while keeping exemptions for education, health care, rent and residential utilities.
In another slew of tax changes, Kasich's plan proposes revamping the oil and gas severance tax. It would eliminate the tax for "small, conventional natural gas producers," but imposes a 4 percent tax for bigger oil and gas producers.
In the past, liberals have voiced opposition to tax cuts — instead favoring investments elsewhere. Policy Matters Ohio released its own budget proposals Jan. 31, which emphasized "education, health care and human services." The plan would also increase the income tax for top earners.
City Council Member P.G. Sittenfeld released a statement criticizing Kasich's budget for not using the extra revenue to scale back local government and education cuts enacted in the 2012-2013 budget: "At a time when local governments around the state are being forced to slash basic services, lay off safety personnel, raise taxes, and sell off assets just to stay afloat, it's out of touch for Gov. Kasich not to reverse his raid on our local government fund. We don't pay taxes to pad the governor's soundbites, we pay them to maintain our roads and keep cops on the street. This should not be a partisan issue. It's simply illogical governance to make the state look good while in the process hurting Ohio's cities."
The budget proposal also includes Kasich's Ohio Turnpike plan and education reform plan.

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"Power Is Shifting from West to East."
Not really. Dine on a steady diet of books like The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East or When China Rules the World, and it's easy to think that the future belongs to Asia. As one prominent herald of the region's rise put it, "We are entering a new era of world history: the end of Western domination and the arrival of the Asian century."
Sustained, rapid economic growth since World War ii has undeniably boosted the region's economic output and military capabilities. But it's a gross exaggeration to say that Asia will emerge as the world's predominant power player. At most, Asia's rise will lead to the arrival of a multi-polar world, not another unipolar one.
Asia is nowhere near closing its economic and military gap with the West. The region produces roughly 30 percent of global economic output, but because of its huge population, its per capita gdp is only $5,800, compared with $48,000 in the United States. Asian countries are furiously upgrading their militaries, but their combined military spending in 2008 was still only a third that of the United States. Even at current torrid rates of growth, it will take the average Asian 77 years to reach the income of the average American. The Chinese need 47 years. For Indians, the figure is 123 years. And Asia's combined military budget won't equal that of the United States for 72 years.
In any case, it is meaningless to talk about Asia as a single entity of power, now or in the future. Far more likely is that the fast ascent of one regional player will be greeted with alarm by its closest neighbors. Asian history is replete with examples of competition for power and even military conflict among its big players. China and Japan have fought repeatedly over Korea; the Soviet Union teamed up with India and Vietnam to check China, while China supported Pakistan to counterbalance India. Already, China's recent rise has pushed Japan and India closer together. If Asia is becoming the world's center of geopolitical gravity, it's a murky middle indeed.
Those who think Asia's gains in hard power will inevitably lead to its geopolitical dominance might also want to look at another crucial ingredient of clout: ideas. Pax Americana was made possible not only by the overwhelming economic and military might of the United States but also by a set of visionary ideas: free trade, Wilsonian liberalism, and multilateral institutions. Although Asia today may have the world's most dynamic economies, it does not seem to play an equally inspiring role as a thought leader. The big idea animating Asians now is empowerment; Asians rightly feel proud that they are making a new industrial revolution. But self-confidence is not an ideology, and the much-touted Asian model of development does not seem to be an exportable product.


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RALEIGH - The state House on Monday evening likely will vote to cut payments to unemployed workers in order to limit scheduled increases to the unemployment taxes that businesses must pay.
The cuts would apply to idled workers who start collecting unemployment as of July 1.
The legislation is strongly favored by Republicans and opposed by Democrats. With the Republican majority in the General Assembly and a Republican governor, the bill is expected to become law in the next few weeks.
Workers' unemployment benefits vary with the wages they earned before they were laid off, how long they were employed and other factors. Under current law, higher-paid workers who lose their jobs can get as much as $535 per week in unemployment benefits.
The new law would cap the benefit at $350 per week.
The average worker now receives $291 per week.
Under current law, workers could receive payments for up to 26 weeks.
The changes would set the duration to between 12 and 20 weeks, depending on the state's unemployment rate.
State Rep. Elmer Floyd of Fayetteville, a Democrat, expects to vote against the bill. He foresees unintended consequences.
"It's going to have an adverse effect on the recipients, and it's going to have an adverse effect on the business community," Floyd said.
When the workers get smaller checks and then run out of benefits, Floyd said, the stores they patronize for their necessities will lose their business. Some workers may resort to crime when they run out of money, he said.
The plan to change the benefits is driven by a need to repay a $2.5 billion debt that the unemployment insurance program has accrued with the job losses of the Great Recession. North Carolina owes this money to the federal government.
Floyd said the state should try to persuade Congress to forgive at least part of the debt. That would free up more money for the laid-off workers, he said.
The cuts in benefits to the employees will allow the state to pay off the debt by the end of 2015; otherwise, the state was on track to pay it back by the end of 2018, an analysis shows.
As long as the state has the debt on its books, unemployment insurance taxes have a surcharge. That surcharge is $63 per worker this year. It rises annually until the debt is paid off, going to $84 in 2014 and $105 in 2015, according to the analysis. By 2018, it would be $168.
When the debt is paid off, the surcharge drops to $0.
The high and rising cost of North Carolina's unemployment insurance is dissuading companies from opening in North Carolina, said state Rep. Julia Howard of Mocksville, the sponsor of the legislation.
Republican state Rep. John Szoka of Cumberland County said the changes are needed to resolve a difficult problem and, ultimately, to draw more job-creating businesses to the state to hire the unemployed workers.
"We have to pay that 2-point-something back," Szoka said, and he wants it done quickly. "Paying that back, I believe helps the citizens of the state, because it makes us more competitive. More businesses are coming to look at our state as opposed to going somewhere else. ... You have to take a long view on this, and some of the opponents of this, I believe, are taking a short view."
When it works correctly, the state unemployment insurance program builds up a reserve during good times that it can draw upon to help laid-off workers during bad times.
According to comments lawmakers made at a House Finance Committee meeting Thursday, the General Assembly in the 1990s and in 2000 cut unemployment taxes six times during good times because some thought the taxes were too high. This left the reserve with too little money in it to cover the heavy job losses that struck North Carolina when the recession started in 2007.
The state had to borrow from the federal government to continue making the payments the unemployed workers were entitled to receive.
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Check out lots more of her art at her website "Melo Rockin' Our City": www.melodominguez.com.
Mel got her start painting mural in Los Angeles and went on to serve an internship at Self Help Graphics & Art in East Los Angeles sponsored by The Getty Museum. During the internship she began creating art in various mediums, including watercolor, ink, acrylic, plaster, clothing and photography.
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Many of Hollywood's funniest people paid their dues delivering punch lines in comedy clubs across the country and some still -- the stage for a little tuneup.
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From a Super Bowl to the super -- Hello everyone I'm Charles -- -- for Neil Cavuto in -- ravens might be champs but the city of Baltimore looking more like shops.
New report its head at the financial ruin if some of the highest taxes in the state take its social Democrat to Washington take -- Because just this week -- put them unveiled a 300 billion dollar tax hike they say will help pay down the debt.
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And unfortunately we hear -- from Reid Pelosi and my president.
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That the Democrats did already pushed through I haven't had is that really balance things.
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You know -- you say -- all -- -- the -- -- pay higher taxes but.
As as as the only item in your -- book on how to fix the economy -- that doesn't seem like it's gonna ever work.
Hi keep digging and it taxpayers -- terrible Larry did -- no taxes at all.
-- a favorite all we -- about a percent taxes I mean I don't again why we definitely nerves at all why did you not in Iraq beeper once again you know why are we likely to have no taxes at all.
Now we don't yet we have to have some balance out there's a balance in the budget I mean for God's sakes we're grown -- visible and people respond to balance the budget we're not -- to be like small children.
-- Charlie.
Ballots obviously so were we hear a lot but this is is the only solution we every get -- I know.
And here's what I can't help interrupt the ban on this one issue.
All you have to do is look -- you have to do is look at the places.
That impose these punitive taxes Baltimore.
New York.
Look at their economies.
It's not the word lie it's a -- -- got that big New York, New York has a structural budget deficit I.
I know for a fact not why you don't you tell me as well as businesses -- leave those cities.
With all due respect businesses are leaving those states are -- saying they're flocking to California.
-- -- -- -- -- -- They are -- yeah.
It's time yeah multiple it has nothing do with taxes and all rarely certain people or businesses apartment goods that businesses are moving -- -- California because the weather's labs.
All right hold only seconds and -- Nevada -- -- and when I looked at a I don't I don't wanna -- out of that Charlie were brought have a great point particularly in this case because.
This particular proposal is punitive it is -- -- tax.
All kinds of benefits from from you know the distribution of Medicaid Medicare benefits stock option benefits.
It's just one of these things where we're going up to something that people earned an -- punitive.
Why is that -- so you have what.
I'll I'll handle as -- -- he -- bit of a great point in your opinion Charles duke college punitive.
On the technical expression is progressive and then I am not making a value judgment there's a difference between a progressive tax rate.
And a and M and an even tax rate absorbed regressive tax rate physical wins we've had in the United States -- -- for decades.
Says that when that you taxed people.
Who are get -- who are benefiting a disproportionate.
Way you don't have the liked it but that's the approach I do want to talk about Baltimore for a second.
-- we it is it is not valid to compare a city with the United States government Baltimore -- a declining city.
The population is what is the question is why and why is that didn't want it hasn't happened to date there are many reasons the United States is not in that this is why we're doing -- declining city -- -- was New York declining city -- 97 -- lottery -- why are currently bringing the total Gergen I'll give you some reasons.
Very high taxes very high crime -- and welfare state that could not be sustained that was New York in the 1970s.
That that's Baltimore now that's California and a comedy could be New York -- Charlie.
The observation you make about California simply isn't true I mean is our music our blogger Larry no.
But the budget the budget is being balanced and businesses are I'm blogging.
He -- now there are.
This very day they are you can't -- I'm gonna bring you back into this because the bottom line as you can sort of try to you know nitpick you can nitpick here -- -- I don't think.
I do think Charlie is fired I did know Charlie is on the concert -- -- -- I'm nitpicking here -- look at the highest tax rates in this country and you look at were the most misery is in this country.
And you look at where the most welfare dependents are in this country.
You look at the places where the highs that levels are in this country they all seem to have one thing in common than they only have once a losing Gary and that's -- is there said he had taxes -- -- -- is Syrian state by the way Illinois and troubled the California in trouble -- city and -- municipalities.
And countries around the world -- America.
Because if -- only have one solution.
The tax people were successful forget about the disproportionate.
Analogy of it the fact of the matter is -- -- up and go to work I should make a lot more money to someone who doesn't.
But Gary today as a policy.
We understand a word balance but this goes beyond balance -- Quite and look where I'm sitting here arguing back and forth but there is a fact of life out there right now.
And it's cold sixteen trillion in debt headed towards the twenties.
And I have noose via bad debt was not created by -- it was created by a ban in Washington DC because they refuse the Bob balance their books.
For how many years.
And yet they're putting -- on our back all your experience I loved one on the offense -- Larry and one -- and.
All I am saying is the more money you take out of the economy and put over there we were inefficient and ineffective we know that for a -- The worst that the potential of this economy will never ever be reached and as simple as that.
How -- big budget is not balanced by while we know that it had not to North America just like -- it's not -- right now because we know all of them are -- -- -- right but date in this whole idea that taxes are the solution.
I was shocked that anybody still believes that.
Well there are a lot of -- there I mean a lot of would benefit from -- from taxes in this country you now I mean you got half the country virtually every country like every now and that's grown and they're -- you know federal income tax.
But to -- your point Adam.
I did think you can compare the United States to Baltimore used to this is a city this long been in decline although I do love Baltimore.
But this country worst suffering through this period of in the -- economic and the ladies in on and we and we're trying to sit around wondering why that has Walt.
How about the fact that as government -- percentage of our economy government spending is higher than it's been historically.
We need to get back below 20% were not and were sit -- wondering why the economy is growing so slowly it's going to be ten years out and we're going to be in worse shape.
And that it's gonna dawned on us that that's the reason why and where Livan and all of a -- nation in decline but once they.
I love you like mad but I do that's his -- ever had in this -- during World War II oh when attacks were dramatically.
-- higher than they are now.
-- -- -- -- Are not I don't know how to take credit and melody and job and are you -- -- -- got go to once I can bet I do want to say something to that because that's brought up all the time.
Have you looked at the percentage of the population that was paying that high rate.
It will be if you adjustment for -- in a -- someone making three point six million dollars now it's sort of -- parts of say hey we had high tax -- in the past.
And it worked at what level -- do you personally think Alex is it okay for the government to take 60708090%.
Of what you -- Wednesday spirit world or do even wage earners.
We're paying taxes -- the 30%.
So that was Dexter my desire for everyone so and I say -- right now I mean I -- I pay my taxes it's breathtaking how much I'd pay but I am afraid they have to be even higher we're gonna balance the budget as and Baltimore has many many other reasons.
Why it's declining.
Other than taxes as a very high crimes the but it does have the best crab cakes and.
Did that at a moment do you think Tampa beside the -- -- know what what's.
It -- be thinking -- accommodates a crab cakes and I -- both gonna take the bill lob Baltimore because.
You know what one thing we did have a -- to -- state taxes he local taxes the obamacare taxes Americans are taxed to death and that proves biggest point there's a -- in this country we saw the consumer confidence.
That means you know what the taxes aren't going to do that I'm gonna do trick.
You know we we we shout a lot but in here we we actually are getting into real disagreements in how to solve problems you know the beginning Gary said.
Every program they run meaning the government.
Is bankrupt not the FDA not the FAA game not the interstate highway system we need our government we need to figure out how to make it work -- -- to say let's.
Do away we'll we'll leave it there although I keep parent that they -- more money for the interstate highway system does.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 11, 2003 – Investors and brokers need to be on their guard against a new fraud scheme in which con artists are falsely posing on the Web as authentic brokerage firms that are members of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which maintains a special reserve fund to protect the customers of insolvent brokerage firms. In the wake of receiving more than a dozen complaints from U.S. and overseas fraud victims hit by this new form of "brokerage identity theft," SIPC today issued a public warning and also announced that it has forwarded files to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (NASAA) documenting instances of this new form of fraud.
Here's how the scheme usually works: Con artists set up a Web site that uses the name of an actual SIPC member brokerage firm, but with a different address. In other cases, the party committing the fraud uses the name (and, in some cases, the address) of an actual registered broker, and then sets up a bogus entity using that person's name and address. The fictional internet entity claims to be a long established and respected brokerage firm, and a member of SIPC. The victim is often told to check the membership database on SIPC's Web site, in order to "prove" that the firm is a SIPC member, when in fact the fictional firm has simply stolen the identity of a real SIPC member.
SIPC President Stephen Harbeck said: "SIPC has recently received information from more than a dozen U.S. and non-U.S. victims of this type of fraud. Experience tells us that most investors who lose money never follow up with a regulatory authority. So, we believe that the complaints we are seeing are just the tip of an iceberg. In addition to issuing this warning, we have sent our files to state and federal securities regulators in the hopes of identifying and shutting down these 'brokerage ID theft' rings."
NASAA President and Connecticut Securities Director Ralph A. Lambiase said: "Brokerage identity theft joins a long list of scams that rely on the Internet to stalk millions of potential victims at minimal cost. Identity theft is inherently difficult to detect. For that reason alone, investors should refuse any unsolicited online contact from anyone seeking personal information or money by simply hitting the delete key. I urge investors to contact their state securities regulator if they suspect they have been defrauded by this scheme."
Harbeck noted that some of the schemes result in the "brokerage ID theft" ring simply offering a security for sale, taking in investor funds (often by wire transfer) and then vanishing. In more elaborate schemes, the con artists contact a shareholder of a thinly traded security. They tell the shareholder to refer to the SIPC Web site as "proof" of the good standing of his fictional brokerage firm. The con artist then offers to buy the thinly traded security at an attractive price. The phony broker may pretend to represent an unnamed party seeking to obtain a controlling interest in the thinly traded corporate shares. The shares have often declined to virtually no value in the open market, and consequently the shareholder is pleased to hear that a potential buyer exists. But the offer comes with a catch. The seller must make a substantial "good faith deposit" prior to the sale. When no sale by the unnamed party is made, the seller is often told a nonsensical story by e-mail, to the effect that the SEC has "declared a moratorium on all accounting-based trades," or that the SEC has "rejected the trade," or, in one case reported to SIPC, that the buyer has contracted cholera.
Another variation of this ID theft scheme involves telling the victim that their thinly traded, valueless shares can be used as a "deposit" or "down payment" for the purchase of a larger, well-known public company, but that there is an additional sum to be paid so as to complete the purchase of shares in the well known company. Because the "down payment" supposedly values the thinly traded securities at a premium, the deal appears attractive to the victim. Once the down payment is wired to the con artist, the victim never hears from the fictitious brokerage firm again.
To date, SIPC has seen evidence of victims in the United States, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore and Australia within the last few months.
From its creation by Congress in 1970 through December 2001, SIPC has advanced $513 million in order to make possible the recovery of $14.0 billion in assets for an estimated 622,000 investors. SIPC estimates that more than 99 percent of eligible investors have been made whole in the failed brokerage firm cases that it has handled to date.
SIPC is an important part of the overall system of investor protection in the United States. While a number of federal, self-regulatory and state securities agencies deal with cases of investment fraud, SIPC's focus is both different and narrow: Restoring funds to investors with assets in the hands of bankrupt and otherwise financially troubled brokerage firms. SIPC was not chartered by Congress to combat fraud.
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