Contract talks reach turning point as frustration grows over economic divide between wealthy corporations and city’s struggling workers, neighborhoods

Cincinnati – Hundreds of janitors who clean the majority of Cincinnati’s office space voted today to authorize their bargaining committee to call a strike if necessary in the coming weeks. The overwhelmingly affirmative vote means janitors representing the more than 1,200 janitors who clean the majority of the area’s office space could call for a city-wide strike at any time. 

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Cincinnati – Four janitors representing the more than 1,200 janitors who clean the majority of Cincinnati’s office space were arrested today at the headquarters of Fifth Third Bank as they asked the city’s largest bank to support workers’ efforts to win good jobs with health care. With ongoing contract negotiations with their employers failing to yield improvements in workers’ jobs to date, today’s arrest marks a critical turning point in the janitors’ campaign.

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RFK Jr., an environmental lawyer, describes himself as a free marketer. That got this Cincinnatian thinking—what if some Cincinnati restaurants got together and agreed to turn down their air conditioning a few degrees? They’d save money, help save our environment, and generate free positive press for themselves and our city.

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Meanwhile Deaconess still promotes Dr. Hankenstein’s bizarro theories

The Marines gave Cincinnati’s own Henry Heimlich a maneuver of their own, expelling his name from a humanitarian award given yesterday in Alabama.  Give the Marines and the Spirit of America festival credit for having the self respect to do the right thing and dump the Heimlich name. Meanwhile in Cincinnati, every local daily paper and TV news department continues to avoid reporting about ongoing medical atrocity experiments being conducted by the Heimlich Institute, experiments which involve our local Episcopal Diocese.  As we’ve come to expect, when it comes to dodging tough stories about the Heimlichs, the motto here remains “Semper Fi.”

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Study shows Cincinnati’s Population 46,000 more than Census

Northside – Mayor Mark Mallory released the Shop 52 DrillDown study today at a press conference in Northside.  The DrillDown uses 27 different sources of information to show that Cincinnati’s population is 378,259, not 332,252 as the Census reported last Thursday.  The study also shows Cincinnati’s average household income is $54,083, not the $43,992 reported by the 2000 Census, and that Cincinnati’s city-wide income is over $9.2 billion, not the $6.5 billion reported by the 2000 Census.  Mayor Mallory partnered with Social Compact and Property Advisors to conduct the DrillDown analysis.

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Recently, I posted this complaint to the BBB about The Enquirer’s unethical coverage of suicides on a Sunday front page spread.  As a result, I have gathered even more useful leads about where this developing story should go next, and I have decided to provide updates as I navigate this emerging process.

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Recently, a colleague noticed that City Hall does not have any signs posted on the front door like everyone has seen at private establishments that are open to the public, like restaurants.  You know the sign:  “No Shirt.  No Shoes.  No Service.” (Recently, I saw a restaurant had updated the sign mistakenly, so it read “No Smoking.  No Shirt.  No Shoes.  No Service.” But that is another matter.) Is this sign’s absence because City Hall does not serve food, and further because it is a public building?  In other words, must one be wearing a shirt and shoes to enter City Hall?  Can someone wearing only underpants enter and request an appointment with the Mayor?

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I am rather amazed at all the things, politically, I get accused of being.  I have been accused of being a Republican, a Democrat, a neo-con, and a liberal.  These wildly divergent accusations cause me political identity crises all the time—but more significantly, I wonder what it means that an outspoken independent advocate can be so contradictingly accused in such short periods of time.  What does that tell us about our political environment in Cincinnati?

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9 million children are uninsured in the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world. 18,000 people die every year because they don’t have health care, that’s six 9/11s every year. Why do we have a system that says pay or die? Our national scandal will be exposed!

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Yesterday in Oakley, Monica Williams—local activist and member of the NAACP—challenged panelists (at a discussion about identifying the values of the Democratic Party) to discuss why so many African Americans in Cincinnati feel disenfranchised by local Democrats.  City Council Candidate Greg Harris was not a panelist, but he has some ideas for how Williams’ concerns can be addressed—so The Cincinnati Beacon is proud to provide them for our readers.

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For those that believe in self-determination & participatory democracy the NAACP is calling on you to take action now. There’s a major grassroots mobilization effort to give the people of Hamilton County a voice & a choice in their future & the future of their children. We want the regressive jail tax on the ballot. Half of democracy is just showing up & collecting a few signatures from your friends, family & your community.  Here’s where and how you can do it.

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As of this week, the following people have picked up petitions to run for City Council. This is only the list of people who have picked up petition forms (and it does not include those who recently picked up forms).  Some of these people will doubtless not submit 500 names.  Included in this list is the candidates’ party affiliation and their precinct, where given. 

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While out tasting our delicious city this weekend, the Cincinnati Beacon discovered yet another unknown candidate for City Council. Sean Robert Lackey is a lifelong resident who says he has a professional background in business management, marketing & operations.

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Andrew Warner is back doing some media activism, this time filming Josh Krekeler (Convener, Southwest Ohio Green Party) interview a new candidate for City Council—Steven Pavelish.  You can see Pavelish’s campaign page here.  He promises to do things like work “full time” as a Councilmember, and he shares several “fun facts”—like how Cincinnati is a one-day drive for 60% of the U.S.A.

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Emotions flared last night at the NAACP, where County Commissioner Todd Portune answered questions about his jail tax proposal.  Overwhelmingly, members of the Cincinnati NAACP made clear their opposition to a new jail—and Portune made clear that he had to build a facility, even if no one liked it, because otherwise he might get impeached or sued by the Sheriff. 

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Tomorrow, President Smitherman is inviting EVERYONE to attend the Thursday, May 24, 2007 NAACP general membership meeting.  Todd Portune, President of the County Commissioners, will be our guest speaker.  The meeting begins promptly at 6:00 pm at the Thomas Moore Building (located at 3457 Montgomery Road) .  Commissioner Todd Portune has been a friend of the NAACP.  Our organization is opening up our meeting to the general public and the media to listen to Commissioner Portune’s desire to build a jail. 

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I can’t but notice that the new jail, along with many other recent completed and proposed projects, have one thing in common—they use a lot of concrete.  Here’s a quick list: football stadium, baseball stadium, re-alignment of Fort Washington Way, slave museum, convention center, new schools, tunnel under Mt. Auburn (in the failed light rail proposal), new jail, Fountain Square remodel, proposed replacement of Brent Spence bridge, proposed MLK interchange with I-71, and there are probably more.

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One year ago today, I published an item entitled ”Donald Shabazz and a Giant UFO”—which spent most of its words examining some little known beliefs about The Nation of Islam (NOI).  In honor of that anniversary, I’d like to share some new things I’ve learned about NOI, specifically that gorillas are a result of white people messing up a genetic experiment to turn themselves black.

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Brian Garry, candidate for Cincinnati City Council, thanks our Mayor, City Council and the Board of County Commissioners for appointing Steve Love and Robert Richardson to the Banks Working Group. “I applaud the Labor Unions for their firm support of a platform which includes a representative cross-section of our citizens. I strongly urge the adoption of the Policy of Economic Inclusion and Workforce Development. It makes sense, it’s only fair and it’s the right thing to do,” says Garry.

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Cincinnati – Mayor Mark Mallory is encouraging Cincinnati citizens to participate in the 15th Annual “Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive this Saturday sponsored by the Cincinnati Letter Carriers.  To participate, citizens need to collect non-perishable food items and leave them near their mailboxes.  As they deliver the mail on Saturday, Cincinnati area postal workers will pick up the food donate it to the Freestore/Foodbank.

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This afternoon at Committee, Chris Bortz made the right decision, and supported fixing the zoning error that has plagued Kerry Ryan’s redevelopment project in Clifton Heights.  (For more on that story, read this, or this.) Now, Ryan can move ahead with the permitting process and get the formerly vacant property put to use.

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The Clifton Heights Improvement Association (actually, just one member named Bill Landeck) took issue with a recent headline:  ”The Matrix of Cincinnati Zoning Codes:  Kerry Ryan’s Renovated House Meets Resistance from CHIA.” Landeck’s complaint based itself on the fact that the CHIA, as an organization, had not “resisted” Kerry Ryan’s attempt to improve the neighborhood (apparently, Landeck does not know how to use a dictionary).  Nevertheless, new documents and new statements now add more details to this developing story—the story on one man trying to improve a neighborhood, and meeting resistance from organizations like CHIA.

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There are many parallels between Prohibition I, which was the banning of alcohol for personal consumption, and the modern-day banning of marijuana in Prohibtion II.  To research an upcoming article for The Cincinnati Beacon I have been reading some contemporary literature from the 1920’s and ‘30’s, which was when Prohibition I was in effect.  I have selected some excerpts from that material which seem to speak to us from across time.

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For Just, Comprehensive, Immigration Reform

“It has been a year since May 1, 2006 when over a thousand immigrants and our supporters marched in downtown Cincinnati, along with millions of others across the United States, to promote a just and comprehensive immigration reform,” said Sylvia Castellanos, Coordinator of the Coalition for the Dignity and Rights of Immigrants, (CODEDI). “This year we will march again, this time at the state capital in Columbus,” she said. 

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Recently, Charlie Winburn stated that City Council does not have a crime plan.  Is it true?  Not according to documents recently forwarded to The Cincinnati Beacon from a source inside City Hall!

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The Banks Working Group held a meeting yesterday, Monday, April 23, 2007, to unveil their progress to the public.  The majority of the NAACP’s officers and many of its executive committee members were present for the presentation.  Jim Clingman, chairperson of the NAACP Economic Development Committee, asked the Banks Working Group members whether they had established any partnerships with African American developers, whether the Group had solicited and retained any African American developers, whether the Group had solicited and retained any African American investors, and whether there would be any African American ownership in the final product.  The Banks Working Group members answered no to each question.

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Cincinnati, OH, April 20, 2007 – Today a broad alliance of community, faith and labor organizations called on the Banks Working Group to adopt a platform that ensures the Banks project benefits all members of the Cincinnati community.

Speaking for the alliance, which calls itself the Citizens’ Working Group, Pastor Gregory Chandler said “We look forward to the presentation of drawings at the public meeting of the Banks Working Group.  But drawings and plans are only part of the Banks Working Group’s responsibility.”

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Word on the street has it that State Rep. Tom Brinkman—who cannot run for another stint at State Representative due to term limits—has his eye on national office, specifically Jean Schmidt’s Congressional seat.  Given the recent scandal surrounding Don Imus, will the nation be ready for Tom Brinkman’s racist friend Jim Schifrin?  Will our country take kindly to Brinkman’s open fraternization with a vile, disgusting, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic blowhard?  And further, what does Brinkman have to say about his own implicit endorsement of Schifrin’s obscene behavior—which includes posting pictures of naked women to the internet (with no disclaimer), and referring to the Mayor of Cincinnati as a “gay darkie”?

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Jeff Berding says he’s a Democrat, and he wants the Democratic Party to endorse him in his bid for City Council, 2007.  But how does Jeff Berding’s record compare to issues important to Democrats?  Take our trivia quiz, and check your knowledge of Berding!

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Jim Schifrin, who publishes the disgusting Whistleblower under the name “Charles Foster Kane,” has entered a panic mode given the national outcry concerning Don Imus and his racially loaded language.  Schifrin, who used this edition of The Whistleblower to front himself as taking some kind of principled stand, fears that his access points will get cut.  With no politicians to openly fraternize in public with the likes of his filth, Schifrin’s imaginary world will come crashing.  So he is acting like his own trash is a first amendment issue, ignoring the reality that one’s right to speak garbage has no relationship to forcing other people to subsidize, approve, or otherwise use positions of authority to bolster the advancement of disgusting and sophomoric rhetoric.

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