Yesterday, the International Socialist Organization at UC sent a letter to UC officials asking questions about an upcoming speech by Chris Simox.  The ISO claims Simox has “a history of anti-immigrant racism, vigilante violence, xenophobia, and hints of fascism.” Here is a copy of their letter.

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I have always found the interface at the Cincinnati Elections Commission rather bulky and hard to use.  So, volunteers with The Cincinnati Beacon are experimenting with other strategies for making information user-friendly for the public.  Check out these offerings for campaign contributions to some current City Council members.

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Guest column by Bill Joiner.

I spent Friday afternoon doing exactly what corporate Cincinnati, as represented by their agent, 3CDC, wants. I parked in Fountain Square, shopped, went to the Contemporary Art Center, and had dinner. A possibly pleasant agenda, but every time that agenda impinged on Fountain Square, I couldn’t believe how incompetent 3CDC was, and how much they were working against their sponsors’ desires.

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Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence moves to implementation

Cincinnati—Mayor Mark Mallory and the Cincinnati City Council today unanimously approved the contract for CIRV (the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence), a comprehensive community based approach to improving public safety.  CIRV will target the most violent offenders in our community for both increased enforcement and increased support. 

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Several weeks ago, we all heard reports about how City Council had a late night negotiating session—trying to reach a compromise for the City’s budget.  But less people have heard the reports about empty wine bottles being spotted in the trash cans of the offices of Leslie Ghiz and Jeff Berding.  According to a source inside City Hall, those office staffs dealt with the stress of budget negotiations by getting drunk.  Is it true?

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Everyone involved at The Cincinnati Beacon would like to thank you, our faithful readers, for taking the time to vote in CityBeat’s ”Best of Cincinnati” poll.  Thanks to you, The Beacon was named “Best Blog” in the “Reader’s Picks” category.  Additionally, we made other appearances in the latest CityBeat special feature—making this our third year in a row to earn a spot in a publication spotlighting what makes Cincinnati unique!

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Contract talks to improve pay, benefits for 4,000 janitors and create a new economic standard for as many as 165,000 other service workers

Cincinnati—Just days after launching their groundbreaking “Three Cities One Future” Campaign, janitors headed to the bargaining table in Cincinnati today to negotiate a historic model contract that will create a new economic standard for 165,000 service workers in the Midwest. Initially impacting more than 4,000 janitors in the three cities in the coming months, the union contract will set minimum standards in pay, access to health care, and working hours for janitors employed by ABM, Jancoa, Professional Maintenance of Cincinnati, Aetna Building Maintenance, Scioto Corp, CSI, and One Source. The contractors provide janitorial and other services to commercial office buildings, mall, banks, universities, airports, museums, and municipal, county, and state offices throughout the region.

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Here is the report from City Manager Milton Dohoney to the Mayor and members of Council.  Items of particular interest:  the City has spent more than $41,000 dollars over last year’s amount in defending City ordinance cases (which seems attributable to CMC 910-23); sixty-two guns have been confiscated (but no word on if those guns were unlicensed); 2,010 cases resulting in a 4th degree misdemeanor conviction.

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Recently, an unmarked, brown envelop was sent to me via the USPS.  The address was typed on a label, and there was no return address. Inside, the anonymous mailer placed a single piece of paper—the wanted poster pictured below.  What is going on here?  Why would someone put together a poster like this?  Where do actions like this lead?  What insights does it provide as we find ourselves approaching the one year anniversary of Kabaka Oba’s death?

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Recently, Justin Jeffre and I were planning for the revolution at a local Skyline Chili when Sam Malone and Charlie Winburn grabbed a table in the opposite corner.  We approached them, and they warmly welcomed us to their table, kindly offering to buy us lunch.  For over an hour, we discussed a wide variety of issues about Cincinnati informally, but there was one point where Winburn and Malone wanted to go on the record—they oppose the recent actions of the so-called Fiscal Fascist Five (Ghiz, Berding, Bortz, Monzel, and Cole), who wanted to decimate human services from the City’s budget.

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It is always encouraging when we find others with similar concerns to our own.  This message was left today on our voicemail hotline.  I edited out the caller’s phone number.

We have already attempted to contact this caller, and we will do whatever we can to assist her search.

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Recently, the Charter Committee informed me that I am not allowed to become a paying member because of the fact that I moderate The Cincinnati Beacon.  (Read the full letter from Jeff Cramerding from the Charterites here.) A quick look at the Charter Committee’s web site, however, will show that this new decision marks an incredible change from the originally published mission of that organization.

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Program to focus on youth employment to beautify neighborhoods

Oakley – Mayor Mark Mallory this morning announced the details of the new youth artist mural program that he introduced in his State of the City address.  MuralWorks will employ Cincinnati youth to create 6 murals in various neighborhoods all over the city.  The project has been developed in partnership with ArtWorks and is presented by UBS/Gradison, Proctor and Gamble, and others.  The Mayor made the announcement in Oakley outside the Blue Manatee Children’s Bookstore in front of a mural that ArtWorks created last year. 

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In November of 2005, I published a story about Joe Wessels.  As best I can tell, he is still upset at me about this story, even though it has been offline for over a year—until now.  (I just decided to put it online again—so feel free to read this reposting.) Here’s the thing:  the issue has become relevant again, given the nasty send-off Wessels recently published regarding the demise of CincyNation—a news aggregator of local headlines published by Rick Hines.  So, for the hard-core web-heads out there paying close attention to Cincinnati blogospheric conditions, check out this latest installment!

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CinWeekly has included The Cincinnati Beacon in it’s list of “great Cincinnati blogs.” You can read their whole list here—which is an extension of a main article you can find here. 

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In at the Cincy NewsAche blog, a commenter left a stunning message, asking for people to spread the word.  Allegedly, The Enquirer secretly added additional charges to their subscription fees, and these additions have been the subject of reports to the Better Business Bureau and the Ohio Attorney General Consumer Fraud Division.

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The story we posted on February 25th about 3CDC’s water-filled garage made it to television media this week, when WLWT filed this report about the profound leaking.  And in many ways, the rise of the 3CDC leaky garage story to television news shows the power of new media in pushing stories to a higher level.

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Social bookmarks are an emerging media interface for finding and sharing stories—from both traditional media outlets and independent blogs alike.  Now, a new site currently in beta——brings the elegance of something like Digg to the local media scene.

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Good evening.  Thank you for gathering with me for the 2007 State of the City Address.

Thank you Jazmone for that wonderful introduction.  I have chosen Jazmone to be the president of my Youth Council because she is extremely active in our community.  Jazmone, thank you for being here tonight and for taking an active role in building a better future for Cincinnati.  And by the way good luck in tonight’s tournament.  How about a round of applause for this remarkable young woman? 

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Recently, Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune urged Cincinnati City Council to reconsider their recent criminalization of marijuana possession.  But the entire idea to criminalize marijuana was originally introduced by David Pepper!  What kind of new perspectives, therefore, does Pepper have on Cincinnati’s marijuana ordinance from the vantage of his new position on the County Commission?

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Bill Joiner, a member of the Springfield Township Democratic Club, recently distributed the following email to a long list of recipients.  In the message, he reveals details about an upcoming “birthday party” for Jeff Berding—which really appears to be a fundraiser with Berding’s Republican friends.  In the following message (published with Joiner’s permission), see details about the members of the host committee, a Who’s Who of area Republicans.

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Michael Earl Patton reports that the Enquirer classified section—on Sunday, February 4th (Super Bowl Sunday)—included a small announcement in section 75.  Because it was so easy to miss, Patton requested that we repost the announcement here, as a public service.  The following language is cited directly from the classified page, including all the original punctuation.

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In today’s Enquirer, Dan Klepal writes a snide piece about Councilmember David Crowley’s motion that Cincinnati pass a resolution opposing the war in Iraq.  Klepal’s column begins with what sounds like a joke, ends with a quotation against Crowley’s resolution—and in the middle he briefly mentions a website without giving any details.  It turns out that website—Cities for Progress—is a network of activists and leaders working for social change.

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Yesterday, The Enquirer ran a headline entitled “Ford Tinkers with Tranny.” The story was really about Ford Motor Company’s potential investment in the Sharonville Transmission plant, but the headline had a perverted subtext:  “tranny” is a commonly used word for “transexual,” and the word “tinker” has a playful connotation, to say the least.  Was The Enquirer trying to drive web traffic through making people think their story was about something untoward?  Why has the headline been changed at The Enquirer’s web site?

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The Enquirer has reached a new low today, using a legless and armless high school student to drive traffic to their online blog network as a way to increase revenue.  See for yourself.  Today’s paper includes this fluff piece about Dustin Carter—another in a long series of “human-interest” stories capitalizing on this kid’s physical disability to sell advertisements.

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Medical Association Apparently Backs Henry Heimlich’s Discredited Claims

Deaconess Associations, Inc. has totally revised the Heimlich Institute web presence, recently implementing a brand new look.  (The site is actually listed as being registered by Barbara Lohr.  In this recent newsletter, Lohr is named Director of Corporate Marking and Communications for Deaconess; she also has this email address through the Heimlich Institute: .) The updated site is particularly noteworthy in that it still forwards dangerous medical theories already debunked by every credible medical association.

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Guest column by Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune.

The new business model for the Enquirer is to drive as many “hits” as they can to their website for purposes of their on-line advertisers.  They write their headlines to drive interest—not necessarily to inform the reader. They are assuredly presenting stories in such a way as to generate a “conversation.” I would characterize it as they are covering issues and writing about them, including headlines, in ways that are designed to arouse the public and drive people to want to write or otherwise get involved with the paper or its on-line presence.

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The following “transcript” apparently documents the meeting where Sheriff Leis won the right for the County to pay legal expenses so they could be sued.  Throughout the transcipt, James Harper was called “Mr. Harp.” We corrected his name. 

For anyone following this story, we figured apparent courtroom proceedings may shed some light on the issue.

Thanks to Michael Earl Patton for acquiring and providing this document.

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Hat-tip to Axinar

Something extraordinary has happened at YouTube:  someone with Autism has used technology to give “neurotypical” minds an insight into non-standard thought processes.  In other words, if you have ever seen a so-called “mentally disabled” person behave erratically, this video should give you a radically new understanding of the potential diversity of the human mind.  This autistic user’s video transforms strange, autistic behavior into the kind of monk-like meditation you might otherwise expect from a spiritually enlightened practitioner of Eastern religion.

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In , Nate Livingston calls on readers to provide research concerning claims that big businesses have strong-arming City Hall into reallocating human service money into organizations backed by their corporations.  Is there any merit to these claims?  Will readers step to the plate and provide research?

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