Thursday, March 29, 2007
Fort Wayne Police Department Southeast Crime Statistics for 2006
From the No I don't want any Fries with my shake letter:
The southeast quadrant has experienced a cumulative crime decrease of 22.23%.
During 2006, ten (10) homicides occurred in the southeast quadrant-seven (7) fewer than during 2005.
This represents a 41.2% reductions in homicides occurring in the southeast.
We also saw significant decrease in aggravated assaults, when simply stating are assaults (or batteries) where to victim's injuries require medical attention. during 2006 the number of aggravated assaults occurring southeast was reduced by 19%.
The southeast quadrant experienced a 5% reduction in the number of non- fatal shootings last year. There were 19% fewer incidents involving family violence in our quadrant during 2006.
We are continuing to work closely with ATF in their Safe Neighborhoods initiative in an attempt to get more guns off the street and, through federal assistance, to prosecute to the fullest those responsible for gun violence.
During 2006, the 85 FWPD officers assigned to the southeast division were successful in removing 342 guns from the streets. South east crime for the first months of 2007 is down almost 22%.
Below is the rest of the letter:
The southeast quadrant has experienced a cumulative crime decrease of 22.23%.
During 2006, ten (10) homicides occurred in the southeast quadrant-seven (7) fewer than during 2005.
This represents a 41.2% reductions in homicides occurring in the southeast.
We also saw significant decrease in aggravated assaults, when simply stating are assaults (or batteries) where to victim's injuries require medical attention. during 2006 the number of aggravated assaults occurring southeast was reduced by 19%.
The southeast quadrant experienced a 5% reduction in the number of non- fatal shootings last year. There were 19% fewer incidents involving family violence in our quadrant during 2006.
We are continuing to work closely with ATF in their Safe Neighborhoods initiative in an attempt to get more guns off the street and, through federal assistance, to prosecute to the fullest those responsible for gun violence.
During 2006, the 85 FWPD officers assigned to the southeast division were successful in removing 342 guns from the streets. South east crime for the first months of 2007 is down almost 22%.
Below is the rest of the letter:
Gun Crime Reduction Program
Project Safe Neighborhoods grant gun crime reduction program
A summary of the federal program is the following
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is a nationwide network designed to create safer neighborhoods by reducing gun violence and gun crime, and sustaining that reduction.
The program is led by the U.S. Attorney in each of the 94 federal judicial districts. United States Attorney Joseph S. Van Bokkelen Northern District of Indiana located in Hammond, Indiana is our attorney. Locally, PSN will be coordinated by the Sheriff of Allen County Ken Fries.
The area targeted for gun crime surveillance and investigations is determined by gun crime statistics from 2004-2006, per grant guidelines. The statistics include all homicides, homicides by gun, robberies by gun, and aggravated assaults by gun.
We will measure our performance by percentage of targeted sites reporting a reduction over the previous year in the number of homicides with a gun.
We will also count the number of aggravated assaults and robberies committed with a gun with the targeted Project Safe Neighborhoods site.
The PSN Gun Crime Reduction Program will be a joint effort of the Allen County Police Department and the Fort Wayne Police Department. There will be 3 officers from each agency working a predetermined shift at a targeted site.
The city and county already partner on tow other federal grant projects, Justice
assistance Grants (equipment grant), and Fatal Alcohol Crash Team (overtime to respond to and investigate crashes involving OWI).
Reverend Michael L. Latham
Reverend Michael L. Latham is the pastor of Renaissance Baptist Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Latham was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1960 and moved to Fort Wayne in 1970. Pastor Latham was converted in 1974 and called into the Gospel Ministry in 1977. Pastor Latham confessed the call to preach and was licensed to preach the Gospel in 1980. Latham preached his trial sermon the fourth Sunday in March 1980 and has been preaching the Gospel over 26 years.
Reverend Latham was ordained in 1989 after God called him to organize Renaissance Baptist Church. Latham was ordained by his Pastor, Reverend Dr. Samuel Walker, Jr., of Jerusalem Baptist Church, Fort Wayne, Reverend Latham has been the "under Shepard" of Renaissance Baptist for over 16 years.
Pastor Latham's ecumenical service includes serving on the Faith Based Advisory committee for the State of Indiana. Latham is a member of the Fort Wayne Area Seekers Pastors Group, the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Fort Wayne, and Concerned Ministers of Fort Wayne. Reverend Latham is also 1st Vice Moderator of the Northern Indiana Missionary Baptist Educational District Association and Founder of the United for a Change Youth Organization.
Reverend Latham is also employed by the State of Indiana, Family & Social Services where he serves as the Chaplain for the State.
Reverend Latham has been the President of the NAACP Fort Wayne-Allen County since 1999. As a community leader he also services on the State of Indiana Juvenile Justice Task Force, as an Allen County Jail Chaplain and Fort Wayne Police Department Chaplain, and is a League for the Blind and Disabled board member.
Pastor Latham has received the Peace & Justice Award and Outstanding Service in the Community awards from the Associated Churches of Fort Wayne-Allen County. Latham has also received the Black History Leadership/Service Award, the Community Award form the Fort Wayne Police Department, Paul Harris Fellow Award from the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, Renaissance Deacons "Dedication to Calling & Community Service" award, and the Pastor of the Year award from the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Fort Wayne.
Reverend Latham's education includes the Seeker's Sabbatical at Union Theological Seminary (New York), Fort Wayne Bible College (now Taylor University Fort Wayne Campus), Simmons Bible College Fort Wayne and Marion, Indiana). Pastor Latham graduated from of Northrop High School, Fort Wayne, in 1979.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Shaquanda Cotton's Protesters.
Rickey Smiley and other supporters of Shaquanda Cotton rallied for her release. Despite the rain, a crowd of on 350 strong turnout in Shaquanda Cotton behalf.
However cries of racism, has been attack as the mother, Creola Cotton, just playing games.
Really now.. and what game is that?
That's not what the people of Paris Texas are saying.
However cries of racism, has been attack as the mother, Creola Cotton, just playing games.
Dennis Eichelbaum, an attorney for the Paris school district, said the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has vindicated the district by finding no evidence of discrimination in three cases the agency has closed. Five other investigations remain open.
Eichelbaum said Creola Cotton is preventing the district from fairly defending itself by refusing to let the school district make her daughter's entire records public.
"Mrs. Cotton has been wrongfully attacking the character of the district," Eichelbaum said. "She's being disingenuous with regard to her daughter being an innocent child."
"She's playing a game," the attorney said.
Really now.. and what game is that?
That's not what the people of Paris Texas are saying.
Local residents responding to a civil rights rally outside the Lamar County Courthouse on Tuesday were in one accord — saying love and justice for all needs to prevail in Paris, Texas.
They said public protests are necessary and most problems are with the school system and law enforcement.
Condra Ridley
Fort Wayne Allen County Main Library is impressive. But something is missing. Three weeks ago, I learned that something was someone, Condra Ridley. 
At the grand opening, Couniclperson Glynn Hines was searching for her office in hopes of finding her. Taking a break before joining my volunteer tax group, I was told by someone, that Condra Ridley had cancer.
Cancer.
Today, once again, I was told that Ridley was indeed not in her office because she has cancer. And I stumbled upon this article. I join the many of the community, by saying God Speed in your recovery.
At the grand opening, Couniclperson Glynn Hines was searching for her office in hopes of finding her. Taking a break before joining my volunteer tax group, I was told by someone, that Condra Ridley had cancer.Cancer.
Today, once again, I was told that Ridley was indeed not in her office because she has cancer. And I stumbled upon this article. I join the many of the community, by saying God Speed in your recovery.
Sometimes folks stumble onto my blog through a search. And being the curious person I am I sometime follow the search terms. The term Fort Wayne Sport Corporation lead to the law firm of Barrett and McNagny. It goes to the community involvement statement and its partners.
I found several of the partners' community involvement very interesting.
Thomas Niezer
I remember reading about Thomas Niezer here.
And here, here, and only eight (8) sues, and here, and the Indiana Attorney General says where is the money? The money? The money? The Money?
Interesting, huh Hardball Capitol, Jason Freier. This alone explain why only $2 millions dollars of private investment was spent downtown..why use your own money when you can use OPM. It's a tradition in Fort Wayne, called using other people money.
I found several of the partners' community involvement very interesting.
Thomas Niezer
Fort Wayne Sports Corp. - Board Member and Vice President
Housing and Neighborhood Development Services, Inc. - Board Member
Bishop Dwenger High School - Board of Education - Member and President
Downtown Blueprint Plus/City of Fort Wayne - Steering Committee Member
The Learning and Development Center, Inc. - Legal Advisor
Three Rivers Festival - Past President
Leadership Fort Wayne - Graduate
I remember reading about Thomas Niezer here.
Niezer also addressed allegations that the amount of government money received by NHP and reported on its tax returns did not match the amounts reported by the city, which awarded them. Niezer said the city reports the amount of money that was awarded, while NHP reports the amount of money actually received and in hand because the awards are only paid to the agency as the money is spent.
Niezer said he takes issue with city councilmen who have called NHP's loans "predatory," saying the interest rates the Partnership charged were always below market value, in some cases lower than 1 percent.
Niezer listed the actions of NHP, pointing out that all 3,000 loan applicants were enrolled in homebuyer training courses, even if they were not approved for financing, the agency did not charge mortgage insurance and did everything it could to help clients avoid foreclosure.
And here, here, and only eight (8) sues, and here, and the Indiana Attorney General says where is the money? The money? The money? The Money?
Samuel J. Talarico, Jr.
City of Fort Wayne Common Council - Elected Member
Fort Wayne - Allen County Economic Development Alliance - Board Member
Talarico, Jr. is big on the Harrison Square Park.
To tack on interest is like saying I bought a $150,000 home for $400,000,” Talarico said.
Interesting, huh Hardball Capitol, Jason Freier. This alone explain why only $2 millions dollars of private investment was spent downtown..why use your own money when you can use OPM. It's a tradition in Fort Wayne, called using other people money.
Fort Wayne seeking property tax release
Senate bill by Thomas Wyss is requesting to designate certain areas in Senate bill 369 as housing maintenance areas. Fort Wayne's bi-partisan coalition zoing body, have their fingers crossed that this bill after being revised over at least for time with pass the senate.
Summary of Legislation: This bill allows a municipal legislative body to designate an area within the municipality as a housing maintenance area. It provides that the total territory of all housing maintenance areas in a municipality may not exceed 5% of the territory of the municipality. The bill provides that a person that makes certain maintenance expenditures on qualified residential property in a housing maintenance area is entitled to a credit against municipal property taxes.
This bill provides that the maintenance expenditures are eligible for the credit only if they are paid to a contractor licensed by the municipality. It provides that the credit equals the result of: (1) 50% of the amount of the person's maintenance expenditures; divided by (2) the number of years for which the person may claim
the credit and provides that the credit may not exceed 50% of the person's municipal property tax liability.
The bill requires an ordinance designating a housing maintenance area to specify: (1) the categories of residential property that are eligible for the credit; (2) the number of years for which a taxpayer may claim the credit (not to exceed ten years); (3) the municipal department responsible for administering the credit;
(4) any limits on the eligibility of a person to claim a credit because of unsafe building violations or health and safety violations; and (5) the types of maintenance for which a credit may be claimed.
This bill would be effective in January 2008.
Summary of Legislation: This bill allows a municipal legislative body to designate an area within the municipality as a housing maintenance area. It provides that the total territory of all housing maintenance areas in a municipality may not exceed 5% of the territory of the municipality. The bill provides that a person that makes certain maintenance expenditures on qualified residential property in a housing maintenance area is entitled to a credit against municipal property taxes.
This bill provides that the maintenance expenditures are eligible for the credit only if they are paid to a contractor licensed by the municipality. It provides that the credit equals the result of: (1) 50% of the amount of the person's maintenance expenditures; divided by (2) the number of years for which the person may claim
the credit and provides that the credit may not exceed 50% of the person's municipal property tax liability.
The bill requires an ordinance designating a housing maintenance area to specify: (1) the categories of residential property that are eligible for the credit; (2) the number of years for which a taxpayer may claim the credit (not to exceed ten years); (3) the municipal department responsible for administering the credit;
(4) any limits on the eligibility of a person to claim a credit because of unsafe building violations or health and safety violations; and (5) the types of maintenance for which a credit may be claimed.
This bill would be effective in January 2008.
Harrison Square Park is No South Town Mall
What did you say Mad Anthony? Fort Wayne is still stealing land, but this time its not from the Indians. And you've think folks need to keep an eye on Mayor Dick. 
"Cities that don't know how to be cities, or don't want to be cities, build downtown stadiums, catering to car owners, corporate box owners, and wealthy ticket holders. Tax-draining stadiums serve the very people who deserted the city. To think that stadiums can provide a salvation or even a mild assist to the ills of downtown is pure folly, especially when most games are played at night." (38) Robert Brandes Gratz with Norman Mintz. Preservation Press 1998. From Harrison Square PowerPoint Presentation 2007.
"Cities that don't know how to be cities, or don't want to be cities, build downtown stadiums, catering to car owners, corporate box owners, and wealthy ticket holders. Tax-draining stadiums serve the very people who deserted the city. To think that stadiums can provide a salvation or even a mild assist to the ills of downtown is pure folly, especially when most games are played at night." (38) Robert Brandes Gratz with Norman Mintz. Preservation Press 1998. From Harrison Square PowerPoint Presentation 2007.
Claim and Reality
" The Claim, existing facilities are "inadequate", a new stadium would facilitate efforts to redevelop an urban core BUT...no inducement for independent retailers to invest in adjacent businesses." The rest of the reality.
From CEDIT funds $19.84, CRED $11.25 m, Park Bond $1.5, Current Credit Bond $5m. Cash Reserves, $3.55 m = $42.14 million
Present value of of the total funds CEDIT $12.62 m, CRED $7.14m, park bond $950 thousand, Fund $1m, current credit bond $$5 m, and cash reserves $3.55=$30.26
From Jefferson Pointe TIF $25.2m and Jefferson Pointe TIF cash on hand $6m = $31.2m
Present value of the total funds Jefferson Pointe TIF $16m and Jefferson Pointe TIF $6m=$22.0m
From Harrison Pointe TIF $19.1m and Belmont purchase $2.1m=$21.20m
Present value of the total funds Harrison Pointe TIF 12.12m and Belmont Purchase $2.1m=$14.22 m
The totals: $73.6 m and the present value is $52.26 m. The number changes when Harrison Pointe TIF dollars are collected to a total $94.8m and the present value $66.48m.
Source: Harrison Square: WHERE the MONEY COMES FROM and WHERE IT COULD BE SPENT, 2007.
From CEDIT funds $19.84, CRED $11.25 m, Park Bond $1.5, Current Credit Bond $5m. Cash Reserves, $3.55 m = $42.14 million
Present value of of the total funds CEDIT $12.62 m, CRED $7.14m, park bond $950 thousand, Fund $1m, current credit bond $$5 m, and cash reserves $3.55=$30.26
From Jefferson Pointe TIF $25.2m and Jefferson Pointe TIF cash on hand $6m = $31.2m
Present value of the total funds Jefferson Pointe TIF $16m and Jefferson Pointe TIF $6m=$22.0m
From Harrison Pointe TIF $19.1m and Belmont purchase $2.1m=$21.20m
Present value of the total funds Harrison Pointe TIF 12.12m and Belmont Purchase $2.1m=$14.22 m
The totals: $73.6 m and the present value is $52.26 m. The number changes when Harrison Pointe TIF dollars are collected to a total $94.8m and the present value $66.48m.
Source: Harrison Square: WHERE the MONEY COMES FROM and WHERE IT COULD BE SPENT, 2007.
Tom Smith we are working on the riverfront
TOM Smith is going to vote for the Baseball Park, he just playing to the crowd. Others will vote based on ego like Tim Pape a vote for his children's future, Sam Talarico for his children's future, John Crawford, leader of the pack, Tom Hayhurst, to keep his friends employed, and Glenn Hines, because he can use something else instead of the Southtown Centre mantra and Renaissance Pointe, to tell African-American voters, they have a future in low wage jobs.
Oh I forgot Tom Didier, where ever the Republican says to sign, so will he go, so that's a total of seven. Forget how much it's going to cost the taxpayer. It's a place where they all hang out together, ain't that special.
Tom Smith is already campaigning for the next project; Riverfront. That leaves the two senior guys. John Shoaff and Don Schmidt, well it makes sense, the elders know how to think for themselves and that makes a big difference when it comes to real leadership.
From the DID website: Municipal Riverfront Improvement District/ CREeD. An infill strategy for the downtown core is being developed that will weld these two sets of incentives to grow mixed-use projects, featuring first floor retail/restaurants and upper floor housing as well as integrating arts and culture into a number of smaller developments. Setting the conditions to spur creative industries is the key goal of the strategy.
Loft Competition: We are working to finalize construction numbers on the development of four lofts.
Community Based Development: The mixed-use development that the DID has helped conceptualize for Superior Street adjacent to Club Soda is being pursued by a local development team. Environmental issues are currently being studied to see how they
will impact development at the site.The DID is working to spur housing in two buildings with for-profit developers. Both rehabs would produce cool loft product, but it has not been determined whether units would be ownership or rental.
UEA / DID Collaboration: John Stafford has agreed to facilitate detailed discussions between the DID and Urban Enterprise Association boards, about how the two agencies might become more intertwined. Recommendations to the full boards are expected in time for consideration at April meetings.
Oh I forgot Tom Didier, where ever the Republican says to sign, so will he go, so that's a total of seven. Forget how much it's going to cost the taxpayer. It's a place where they all hang out together, ain't that special.
Tom Smith is already campaigning for the next project; Riverfront. That leaves the two senior guys. John Shoaff and Don Schmidt, well it makes sense, the elders know how to think for themselves and that makes a big difference when it comes to real leadership.
From the DID website: Municipal Riverfront Improvement District/ CREeD. An infill strategy for the downtown core is being developed that will weld these two sets of incentives to grow mixed-use projects, featuring first floor retail/restaurants and upper floor housing as well as integrating arts and culture into a number of smaller developments. Setting the conditions to spur creative industries is the key goal of the strategy.
Loft Competition: We are working to finalize construction numbers on the development of four lofts.
Community Based Development: The mixed-use development that the DID has helped conceptualize for Superior Street adjacent to Club Soda is being pursued by a local development team. Environmental issues are currently being studied to see how they
will impact development at the site.The DID is working to spur housing in two buildings with for-profit developers. Both rehabs would produce cool loft product, but it has not been determined whether units would be ownership or rental.
UEA / DID Collaboration: John Stafford has agreed to facilitate detailed discussions between the DID and Urban Enterprise Association boards, about how the two agencies might become more intertwined. Recommendations to the full boards are expected in time for consideration at April meetings.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
African-Americans Bloggers Recognized by Newspaper Journalist
Howard Witt recognizes African-American bloggers. Witts was surprised by the way many African-American bloggers got the word out about Shaquanda Cotton. The power of the African-American bloggers impact crosses all borders including beyond the borders of the United States.
Witt expresses his belief that Internet blogging is more powerful in getting out information about injustices that are occurring within these community. Witt is right. Many appointed leaders in some communities are stymied in effecting change among the status quo. It is when the citizens organize en mass that change occur. Governor Rick Perry, did not want millions of African-Americans showing up in a small town in Texas, called Paris. Bottom line.
Perhaps, the virtual civil right movement will be utilized to build protest movements in other ciites where injustices is melded out on a daily basis.
Note: African American Political Pundit posted about bloggers blogging about race a few days ago, read here.
Witt expresses his belief that Internet blogging is more powerful in getting out information about injustices that are occurring within these community. Witt is right. Many appointed leaders in some communities are stymied in effecting change among the status quo. It is when the citizens organize en mass that change occur. Governor Rick Perry, did not want millions of African-Americans showing up in a small town in Texas, called Paris. Bottom line.
Perhaps, the virtual civil right movement will be utilized to build protest movements in other ciites where injustices is melded out on a daily basis.
Note: African American Political Pundit posted about bloggers blogging about race a few days ago, read here.
OH say can You see..
Winter and March's wind has been rough on our red white and blue. The weather has been harsh on many of the old flags in the community,
I was surprised by the dirty ripped and torn flag flying in Southgate near Krogers.
Maybe it's just me, but I thought the flag was to be without blemish. Can you name other places where you're seen some of the tattered-looking flags in our community?
...by the dawn's early light.
Governor Rick Perry and Shaquanda Cotton
Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribute writes:
4,700 delinquent youths
Among this number, Shaquanda Cotton is included. Cotton refused to admit guilt to an incident where a complaint was filed against her. Cotton was given a seven year indeterminate sentence. Cotton would serve this sentence in a high risk juvenile correction facility.
Outrageous.
The Texan of the Year, Governor Rick Perry appointed a special master to investigate juvenile facilities in Texas.
This was good news for students like Shaquanda Cotton because the committee could make determination to release youths who were were being held in an arbitrary manner, including Shaquanda Cotton.
Arbitrary manner lifts the blame off of racialist practices in the two institutions, the schools and the courts and places it simply on administrative mishandling.
The "if" requires silence. If Shaquanda Cotton is released, buried in the if is that protesters needs to tone it down on the issue of race. And Cotton and her mother are muted in the process, a form of coercion.
Sad. Shaquanda Cotton case should be a wake up call to every city to question and challenge the schools and the legal system unfettered discretionary sentencing practices. The harm in the rush to incarcerate falls unfairly on the shoulders of the young. Many of these youth may not have any legal representative in the process.
When doves cry, somebody needs to listen:
The sentences of many of the 4,700 delinquent youths now being held in Texas' juvenile prisons might have been arbitrarily and unfairly extended by prison authorities and thousands could be freed in a matter of weeks as part of a sweeping overhaul of the scandal-plagued juvenile system, state officials say.
4,700 delinquent youths
Among this number, Shaquanda Cotton is included. Cotton refused to admit guilt to an incident where a complaint was filed against her. Cotton was given a seven year indeterminate sentence. Cotton would serve this sentence in a high risk juvenile correction facility.
Outrageous.
The Texan of the Year, Governor Rick Perry appointed a special master to investigate juvenile facilities in Texas.
Jay Kimbrough, a special master appointed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to investigate the system after allegations surfaced that some prison officials were coercing imprisoned youths for sex, said he would assemble a committee to review the sentence of every youth in the system.
This was good news for students like Shaquanda Cotton because the committee could make determination to release youths who were were being held in an arbitrary manner, including Shaquanda Cotton.
Among the leading candidates for early release is Shaquanda Cotton, a 14-year-old black girl from the small east Texas town of Paris, who was sent to prison for up to 7 years for shoving a hall monitor at her high school while other young white offenders convicted of more serious crimes received probation in the town's courts.
Arbitrary manner lifts the blame off of racialist practices in the two institutions, the schools and the courts and places it simply on administrative mishandling.
But if the teenager is released, Kimbrough noted, the decision will have nothing to do with whether she was the victim of racial discrimination in the schools and courtrooms of Paris, as civil rights groups have alleged. Instead, it will be based on whether she has been treated arbitrarily by prison officials since she has been incarcerated.
Texas' juvenile prison system, known as the Texas Youth Commission, was first rocked by scandal last month after revelations surfaced that two administrators at a youth prison in west Texas had allegedly coerced sex from inmates for years and that prison officials and local prosecutors chose not to pursue the cases.
The "if" requires silence. If Shaquanda Cotton is released, buried in the if is that protesters needs to tone it down on the issue of race. And Cotton and her mother are muted in the process, a form of coercion.
Civil rights advocates have long been concerned that Texas' system of indeterminate sentences for youths places too much discretion in the hands of prison authorities, who retain the power to hold or release youths at will. Now the sex scandal--and the concern that some victimized youths may have been threatened with longer detentions to keep them quiet--has prompted Kimbrough to examine the entire practice.
Nearly 90 percent of juveniles incarcerated inside Texas youth prisons were sent there on indeterminate sentences that could run as long as their 21st birthdays. But many of those inmates become eligible for release after serving only nine months, if prison authorities are satisfied that they have completed all the steps, or "phases," of an elaborate behavioral modification program.
"The system is wide open for abuse and corruption," said the ACLU's Harrell. "How difficult would it be for a 12-year-old kid to file a complaint on an assistant superintendent of a facility when that assistant superintendent is actually the one who is sexually abusing her and that same person gets to decide when she gets out? Basically the official gets to say, 'Comply and keep quiet or I'll keep you here until you're 21.' "
Sad. Shaquanda Cotton case should be a wake up call to every city to question and challenge the schools and the legal system unfettered discretionary sentencing practices. The harm in the rush to incarcerate falls unfairly on the shoulders of the young. Many of these youth may not have any legal representative in the process.
When doves cry, somebody needs to listen:
If kids have behaved violently, then those are the ones that may very well have a justification for their sentence extension," Harrell said. "But most of the cases I have heard about have to do with petty instances, like Shaquanda's contraband socks."
The "phases" system also contains a built-in Catch-22 for youths, like Shaquanda, whose legal appeals are still making their way through the courts. One of the first phases that must be satisfied is a requirement that youths admit their guilt--an admission that would instantly compromise their appeals.
Congressional Gold Medal for Fort Wayne Tuskegee Airman
The United States will honor the Tuskegee Airmen and Fort Wayne Harold L. Gaulden will be among those who will receive a Congressional Medal. William Douglas, of McClatchy Newspapers writes
[o]n March 29, the United States will honor the Tuskegee Airmen by awarding the group the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress. About 300 airmen, out of the nearly 1,000 trained at Tuskegee, will attend the ceremony in the Capitol's rotunda.
It was less than three months ago that H.L Gaulden tried to explain the significant of the coin that was in his hand at a community Kwanzaa event held at Weisser Park Center. The coin was not the real thing, he shared. The design was being worked out, and that was the hold up. Gaulden was unsure when the medal would be ready, as he touched the replicate. The Tuskegee Airmen were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal but Gaulden wanted folks to know that this time he and the rest were going to get the real thing. Not just the old funny looking coin he was holding in his hand.
The real thing must have seemed as elusive as the opportunity for Tuskegee airmen to fly planes in combat. But Gaulden knew it was going to happen. He just had to continue to wait.
Gaulden who was born and raised in Grambling, Louisiana served as a member of the 386 Fire and Rescue Squad, according to an article by Linda Oliver, during World War II.
In 1941, the all-black 99th Pursuit Squadron was activated in Illinois and became the core of what later became called the Tuskegee program. At the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the university founded by Booker T. Washington, trainees went through ground, tactical and flying training under the leadership of Benjamin O. Davis Jr., one of the few African-American soldiers at that time to have graduated from West Point, according to the DC Traveler.
President Franklin Roosevelt, wife Eleanor Franklin was reported to have flown with the Tuskegee Airmen. The late Charles Anderson, the famed pilot was reported to have taken Mrs. Franklin on an hour long flight. Pilots were believed to be inferior pilots based on their skin color. The "Chief" as Anderson was known was reported to be the first African-American pilot to hold an air transport license, according to an article by Shelly Hatfield.
The Chief was one of those who earned their wings, as the Fighting 99th squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group. Anderson would become the chief flight instructor thus his nickname. Anderson will not be among the 300 men at the Capitol, he died April 13, 1996.
According to a Mcclatchy-tribune,
Democratic Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York and Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan introduced identical bills in 2005 to give the airmen the congressional medal. The Senate bill passed in October 2005 and the House followed in February 2006. President Bush signed the bill into law in April.
Rangel introduced his bill because he knew about Tuskegee's legacy and personally knew former fliers like Brown. Levin's interest developed from Michigan's connection to the Tuskegee program. In its later years, some of Tuskegee's training shifted to Michigan's Selfridge and Oscoda fields. And former Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young trained through the Tuskegee program as a navigator bombardier.
Gaulden will finally receive his bronze Congressional Medal. The gold medal will remain behind in Washington D.C. at the Smithsonian. But one thing for certain, Mr. Gaulden will tell those who want to hear all about it.
Fort Wayne Community Schools on Academic Watch
Fort Wayne Community Schools Superintendent Wendy Robinson presented the school board with the task at hand in improving students achievement. Ese Isiorho reports,
This is not just a student problem. Parents will need to get involved to insure that everyone is doing what is needed for their students.
Fort Wayne Community Schools is scheduled to hold its annual Title I "Parents as Partners" spring conference from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., March 27 at Pilgrim Baptist Church, 1331 Gay St. More than 150 parents from the district's 11 Title I schools are expected to attend the event, according to Frost.
The district as a whole is on “academic watch” under Public Law 221. A report the Indiana State Board of Education released in August puts schools and districts in one of five categories, from best to worst: “exemplary,” “commendable,” “academic progress,” “academic watch” and “academic probation.”
The district also has failed to make adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and the percentage of students passing the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress test has been below the state average for the last 10 years.
This is not just a student problem. Parents will need to get involved to insure that everyone is doing what is needed for their students.
Fort Wayne Community Schools is scheduled to hold its annual Title I "Parents as Partners" spring conference from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., March 27 at Pilgrim Baptist Church, 1331 Gay St. More than 150 parents from the district's 11 Title I schools are expected to attend the event, according to Frost.
Bloggers Need to leave Paris Texas and Shaquanda Cotton alone
Phillip Hamilton of the Paris News is a little upset with bloggers. Hamilton is a little upset to the bloggers who stated that Shaquanda Cotton sentence was seven years. Hamilton wants these same bloggers to know Cotton is not in prison, but a dormitory-style facility. And last but not least, Hamilton wants these same bloggers to know that Cotton's case is about a criminal act and not about racism.
How come so many bloggers reached the same conclusion and Hamilton didn't?
And that's what got bloggers blogging.
How come so many bloggers reached the same conclusion and Hamilton didn't?
The problem is that bloggers and talk-radio blabbers in the Metroplex and elsewhere have taken the spark the Chicago Tribune story started and fanned it into flames of outrage against our community. Now, other media are flocking to Paris to write about what one CNN producer told me last week is the "broader story" about how Shaquanda's case is affecting Paris.
Shaquanda's case isn't affecting Paris, but outside influences certainly are.
And that's what got bloggers blogging.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Drugs-Anna Nicole Smith
No surprise here. Overdose of medication. If you're worth as much money as was Anna Nicole Smith who was going to stop her from taking drugs? TMZ reports on Smith cause of death. Where does this leave Howey and the baby? Two overdoses under this watch? Do we really think he's the one to look out for the best interest of the child?
Fort Wayne-Allen County Consolidation Plan
Fort Wayne core base is shrinking. Fort Wayne has begun a comprehensive plan that places the majority of African-American families close to an environmental dump. Do you think Kenneth Eng was a ghost writer for our city. Please leave comments.
Brought to you by Kenneth Eng
via Paula Mooney
Brought to you by Kenneth Eng
via Paula Mooney
New Jobs on the Internet and Generating Income Working from Home
John Chow says there is money to be made online. John Chow dot com is a blog that helps bloggers make money online. Chow is offering to link to your blog if you the blogger review his blog. Chow's site is so popular, I don't think I would be considered for a link until I reached 65 years of age. But, I just reviewed his blog. So let's see how long it will take for my blog to show up on John Chow's. Chow is about keywords ranking. One of the presenters on this post will discuss the importance of keywords.
But I'm not waiting on John Chow to reach out to me. So here's my March 26, 2007 carnival. This post is about new jobs on the Internet, generating income working part-time from home, and a prediction on what will be the future online jobs.
New Jobs on the Internet
Listen there are millions of bloggers online, and millions of these bloggers are competing for ad dollars. Blogging is not just about personal journals or diaries. Blogging can sometimes generate dollars. Some bloggers are making thousands of dollars a week, a month, or a year. Some earn hundreds of dollars a week, a month or a year. But many newbies like myself make mere pennies. I've made a total of $13.35 in the few months that I began my crusade to earn big buck while blogging. If posting alot gets you paid, I would be paid but it does not bring in the bacon. What brings in the bacon?
I am going to let folks who have been blogging longer than me provides some tips and answers. The Positivity Blog presents 5 lessons I have learned from John Chow posted at Personal Development with The Positivity Blog.
I have so much trouble with trackback links, create a link, that I have put them on my to do list. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out keywords to place in my posts. And I find out that there are even tricks to keywords. What exactly does keywords mean, is there a place to go to find a list of keywords. Will keywords help me get noticed in this space out there called blogosphere? Matt OConnor presents Why Keywords Are Your Friend posted at Adventures In Internet Marketing. Keywords is part of what drives John Chow's site.
There were some words that created a huge spike in my traffic. As a local blogger, huge for me would not measure at all on the well known sites. But, I was excited. My traffic was driven by two links and two issues. The links were Chittlin's and Chopsticks and Isis Kali. The first link to drive my post was Isis Kali 's blogger, Jeanette Ponder who was mentioned in an associated press news paper article for not making the ranking for the HotEnough website. Some in the blogosphere, question why Jeanette Ponder was not ranked higher.
The reason I got so many hits for Jeanette Ponder because the newspaper writer fails to list her blogsite. in the article.
The second link was Chittlin's and Chopsticks who wrote about Shaquanda Cotton, a young child sitting in prison. The sentencing of this young girl will shock your sensibilities. It is a must read. I was very fortunate in getting linked to these two bloggers at the right time. I want to take this moment and say thank you.
Traffic is important for generating income because if you don't have enough traffic you won't be considered for some advertising, such as pay per post. Praveen presents My Simple Trading System: How Much Money From PayPerPost posted at My Simple Trading System.
In the meantime, while I'm trying to drive my traffic. I am wondering, how do I get more clicks and value for my adsense ads. I get quite a few impressions but pennies! There must be a trick to this. I see the term optimizing alot when it comes to adsense. Optimization?
Lead Optimize presents Flower Shop Model posted at Gravity Unknown . Com. For me optimizing is a work in progress. I still believe I'm missing something more important when it comes to adsense. Vahid Chaychi presents AdSense Arbitrage Secrets Revealed ! posted at Weboma.com Personal Development with The Positivity Blog . The tip found in this posting was helpful and even a list of keywords.
And for those who are working out of your home, Vahid Chaychi presents The First Step to Start an Online Work at Home Business posted at Weboma.com. Other bloggers chimes in on Generating Income Working from Home
Sundance presents PayPerPost.com posted at Ideal Internet.
Steve Messall presents The Quest Begins posted at QuestForAMillion.net.
I am not a one subject blogger, and this may be a problem in generating income. From reading some of the high traffic bloggers, it appears they are focused on a topic or are considered experts on a topic. They write long and interesting posts on a topic and that's enough to drive their traffic. People keep coming back to these sites. I think that has to do with getting money too. I think you have to focus on working on ways to generate income. almomento presents How to Change Your Money Fate posted at BurstCreativity
Online marketing is directed at bloggers with lot of readers. These bloggers have created careers from their blog or blogs. There could be a future in blogging beyond personal journals, if you are an excellent storyteller, creative and have some technical skills. What will the future bring? Jobs Predictions in the Future Steve Faber presents Top Careers for the Next Five Years posted at Debt Free.
That concludes this edition of new jobs on the Internet and generating income working from home.
But I'm not waiting on John Chow to reach out to me. So here's my March 26, 2007 carnival. This post is about new jobs on the Internet, generating income working part-time from home, and a prediction on what will be the future online jobs.
New Jobs on the Internet
Listen there are millions of bloggers online, and millions of these bloggers are competing for ad dollars. Blogging is not just about personal journals or diaries. Blogging can sometimes generate dollars. Some bloggers are making thousands of dollars a week, a month, or a year. Some earn hundreds of dollars a week, a month or a year. But many newbies like myself make mere pennies. I've made a total of $13.35 in the few months that I began my crusade to earn big buck while blogging. If posting alot gets you paid, I would be paid but it does not bring in the bacon. What brings in the bacon?
I am going to let folks who have been blogging longer than me provides some tips and answers. The Positivity Blog presents 5 lessons I have learned from John Chow posted at Personal Development with The Positivity Blog.
I have so much trouble with trackback links, create a link, that I have put them on my to do list. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out keywords to place in my posts. And I find out that there are even tricks to keywords. What exactly does keywords mean, is there a place to go to find a list of keywords. Will keywords help me get noticed in this space out there called blogosphere? Matt OConnor presents Why Keywords Are Your Friend posted at Adventures In Internet Marketing. Keywords is part of what drives John Chow's site.
There were some words that created a huge spike in my traffic. As a local blogger, huge for me would not measure at all on the well known sites. But, I was excited. My traffic was driven by two links and two issues. The links were Chittlin's and Chopsticks and Isis Kali. The first link to drive my post was Isis Kali 's blogger, Jeanette Ponder who was mentioned in an associated press news paper article for not making the ranking for the HotEnough website. Some in the blogosphere, question why Jeanette Ponder was not ranked higher.
The reason I got so many hits for Jeanette Ponder because the newspaper writer fails to list her blogsite. in the article.
The second link was Chittlin's and Chopsticks who wrote about Shaquanda Cotton, a young child sitting in prison. The sentencing of this young girl will shock your sensibilities. It is a must read. I was very fortunate in getting linked to these two bloggers at the right time. I want to take this moment and say thank you.
Traffic is important for generating income because if you don't have enough traffic you won't be considered for some advertising, such as pay per post. Praveen presents My Simple Trading System: How Much Money From PayPerPost posted at My Simple Trading System.
In the meantime, while I'm trying to drive my traffic. I am wondering, how do I get more clicks and value for my adsense ads. I get quite a few impressions but pennies! There must be a trick to this. I see the term optimizing alot when it comes to adsense. Optimization?
Lead Optimize presents Flower Shop Model posted at Gravity Unknown . Com. For me optimizing is a work in progress. I still believe I'm missing something more important when it comes to adsense. Vahid Chaychi presents AdSense Arbitrage Secrets Revealed ! posted at Weboma.com Personal Development with The Positivity Blog . The tip found in this posting was helpful and even a list of keywords.
And for those who are working out of your home, Vahid Chaychi presents The First Step to Start an Online Work at Home Business posted at Weboma.com. Other bloggers chimes in on Generating Income Working from Home
Sundance presents PayPerPost.com posted at Ideal Internet.
Steve Messall presents The Quest Begins posted at QuestForAMillion.net.
I am not a one subject blogger, and this may be a problem in generating income. From reading some of the high traffic bloggers, it appears they are focused on a topic or are considered experts on a topic. They write long and interesting posts on a topic and that's enough to drive their traffic. People keep coming back to these sites. I think that has to do with getting money too. I think you have to focus on working on ways to generate income. almomento presents How to Change Your Money Fate posted at BurstCreativity
Online marketing is directed at bloggers with lot of readers. These bloggers have created careers from their blog or blogs. There could be a future in blogging beyond personal journals, if you are an excellent storyteller, creative and have some technical skills. What will the future bring? Jobs Predictions in the Future Steve Faber presents Top Careers for the Next Five Years posted at Debt Free.
That concludes this edition of new jobs on the Internet and generating income working from home.
How Long? Not Long..Free Shaquanda Cotton
Mary Madewell reports that the Paris branch of the NAACP calls for a timely release of Shaquanda Cotton.
The Paris Branch of the NAACP called for a timely release of Shaquanda Cotton from the Texas Youth Commission after a four-hour executive committee meeting Saturday.
The group also asked that an emergency item be placed on Monday night’s Paris City Council agenda to consider naming a diversity task force.
The group also called for an expedited appeal of the Cotton case by the Texarkana Court of Appeals in motions approved unanimously by nine board members at Saturday’s meeting.
With the media attention, official in Paris are getting a little nervous. Judge Superville suggest that folks look at all the facts in another article by Madewell.
County Judge Chuck Superville says he fears for the community’s safety and is calling for the national media and other organizations to investigate the facts before drawing conclusions about the Shaquanda Cotton case..
I called Judge Superville's office and left a message. I found this statement to the media about the failure to release Shaquanda Cotton on bond insightful:
The March 2006 case is on appeal with the Texarkana Court of Appeals. The court conducted a 10-hour hearing in August 2006 to consider a request that Cotton be released on bond.
The judge said Cotton could have been released at that time but would not speculate why the appellate court did not grant the bond. The judge said he presented the facts of the case and that attorneys for both the prosecution and for Cotton presented arguments.
The real deal..they just did not give a care.
Another statement by Judge Superville:“That theme was repeated witness after witness—that the mother made it impossible to help Shaquanda,” Superville said. “She blamed everyone except the child for misbehavior.”
Weak as dirty dishwater, can we say foster care.
The spotlight of Cotton's case has illuminated some deep seated racial tension in Paris, Texas. Free Shaquanda Cotton and let the citizens work peacefully in making the necessary changes. Dallas South Blog, Shawn Williams has some interesting comments on his blog. Here's another blog.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The lecture circuit or Paul Helmke's job
What is Mayor Dick going to do after he leaves office? I've been asked the question so many times. I don't know ! But, I figure it's a question in need of an answer. First, I am going to speculate. Richard comes from a statistical quality orientation, and was a founder of the local TQM Network. What is TQM Network?
The TQM Network is a program of the Northeast Indiana Business Assistance Corporation (NIBAC) a 501c3 non-profit organization. NIBAC, originally founded by Graham Richard, and a local group of like-minded professionals dedicated to grass roots economic development through assisting others to improve individually and organizationally in the areas of competitiveness, profitability and quality. Through Cheri Becker’s diligent leadership and an active board of directors, we began working toward their vision for Northeast Indiana to become known internationally for the quality of its products, services, people and work life.
Well where does the money come from?
To begin the journey toward achieving that vision, in the early 1990’s a group of area manufacturers and community representatives collaborated to receive grants to fund this vision. A total of $385,000 from the State of Indiana through the Strategic Development Fund Grant (SDF) was secured and matched with almost $425,000 of private local capital to seed the development of a highly innovative program called the TQM Network.
Where is this cutting edge business located?
Downtown..
The TQM Learning Center is located in the FourthWave Building (formerly NIPSCO), at the southeast corner of Main and Barr - across the street from the Performing Arts Center. Parking is immediately east of the building, with entry from eastbound Main or northbound Lafayette.
Would that be the old Nipsco building where FourthWave is located?
You betache..
TQM Learning Center - Leadership & Learning Center
300 East Main Street, Suite 120
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Does this have anything to do with the Lean six sigma implemented for city workers?
Oh yeah, the employees and city department served as guinea pigs.
Six sigma was the starting point for improvement in the city. The TQM Network provided bargain-priced training, and companies like ITT and Raytheon lent black-belt level employees to the city to work on improvement teams with city employees.
As a quest speaker, Scott Lasater, Director of the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise Institute will lead this session. For the last decade, Scott Lasater has been known around General Electric as 'The guy who taught Six Sigma to Jack Welch (CEO, GE)'. As Master Black Belt and Director of Global Lean Six Sigma Training, he has trained over 5,000 business leaders internationally. His primary focus has been developing and coaching GE customers as Black Belts and their senior executives in the deployment of Lean Six Sigma. In the last three years alone, his Black Belt students saved in excess of $450 Million for their own organizations.
What is Mayor Dick up to of late?
,,Mayor Richard will share the latest innovation he is forging, the new High Performance Government Alliance - a partnership with the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns, the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and the TQM Network. Mayor Richard will describe how the City and other Indiana governmental entities will be using business and education partnerships and broadband technology to be globally competitive. This powerful alliance has the potential to save tax-payers millions and radically improve the quality of life in Indiana.
Who are some of the partners?
American Society of Quality
American Society of Quality, Section 0905
American Society for Training & Development
BAE Systems
Barnes & Thornburg
Barrett & McNagny
Briljent
Business Excellence Consortium – Milwaukee School of Engineering
Cavanaugh Consulting Group
City of Fort Wayne
CH2MHill
Concentra
Crystal Ball
EH Design & Consulting
Economic Growth Partnership
Fort Wayne Metals
Goal QPC
JMP
IFN Technologies
Indiana Data Center
Indiana Institute of Technology
Industrial Solutions Group
IPFW
Ivy Tech Community College
Minitab
National Serv-All
Northeast Indiana Innovation Center
OnCall PSN
Parkview Health
Raytheon
ReVision LLC
SAS Systems
Springboard Thinking Group
WCM Associates
Do you think their any conflict of interest?
Oh yeah big time.
Do you think the Harrison Square Park will generate business for TQM Network?
Now that's a question we should ask Mayor Dick. If you can't find him in city hall you know where to find him, just go right down the street to his 501(C)(3). And you have to pay a $100 to hear him speak.
What about Mayor Dick's book?
Performance is the best politics?
About workers doing their jobs, I don't know, but you can buy the book here. Can't say the same for the Mayor but at least he wants the little guy to earn his money.
And what about wiring the city?
Verizon needed to keep its customer, but here's Mayor Dick's take on it.
Jason Freier's interview with Journal-Gazette
Jason Freier Hardball Capital partner, answers five questions. Gives five interesting answers.
Hat tip to Downtown Fort Wayne Baseball.
Hat tip to Downtown Fort Wayne Baseball.
Brain Drain- the lack of PHD Professors on the College Campus
The problem with the school system is spilling over onto the college scene. And why the problem impacts the economical grown of the State of Indiana. Karen Franciso of the Journal Gazette reports on what could be viewed as potential political intervention in Ivy Tech appointment of a new president. It appears that Ivy Tech has become a retirement home for elected official seeking second careers.
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne is not Ivy Tech, but the IPFW University is filled with political appointments. The reason that is offered given is that the university is unable to attract PHD professors. These are educated scholars who are not seeking to make nice to incompetents influencing appointments. Unfortunate for those students who are paying top dollars to be educated by professors who had earned their doctorates in a specific field of expertise. Deferring the title of professor on present and former elected official does not give them credentials just legitimize the instructor for evaluating and teaching those students who believe such instructors are qualified to teach the class. Such instructor may be ill equipped to engage such students in the learning process and such a policy that promotes unqualified instructors can only contribute to Indiana mantra of suffering from Brain Drain . How can you teach what you have not been trained to teach?
There are few well paying jobs for students leaving high school. Many decide to go on to college to get a degree to increase their chances later when searching for a job. However, many of these students are ill prepared for a four year degree and sit in remediation classes. The university is no longer a degree college to these students but a money making machine, siphoning off dollars from naive students and parents. Classes that are non credits but cost the same as credit classes. The university is able to collect funding from these students and the students may end up without a degree.
The competition for these students have caused many local colleges and university to seek money elsewhere by investing in real estate. These university are investing in building dormitories in hope of attracting students who would select a technical school over a university curriculum. All the major universities in Fort Wayne has build dormitories.
Many of these students have a better chance with taking online courses for free rather than attending college with professors who are politically appointee. The more these students began seeking online course for free from prestigious school the sooner the university will be required to hire qualified professors. Parenst should demand to seek the diplomas of all college professors before spending a dime.
Hat tip to Indiana Law blog.
Notes was unable to find who had PHD's from the IPFW website.
“You don’t have to be too politically sophisticated to see (Ivy Tech) has become a place where elected officials have been hired in droves,” said Julia Vaughn, policy director for Common Cause/Indiana. “(The college) seems to have grown tremendously over a short period of time. I have to chuckle as I read the stories about the politics involved in the search. It seems rather inevitable that would be case.”
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne is not Ivy Tech, but the IPFW University is filled with political appointments. The reason that is offered given is that the university is unable to attract PHD professors. These are educated scholars who are not seeking to make nice to incompetents influencing appointments. Unfortunate for those students who are paying top dollars to be educated by professors who had earned their doctorates in a specific field of expertise. Deferring the title of professor on present and former elected official does not give them credentials just legitimize the instructor for evaluating and teaching those students who believe such instructors are qualified to teach the class. Such instructor may be ill equipped to engage such students in the learning process and such a policy that promotes unqualified instructors can only contribute to Indiana mantra of suffering from Brain Drain . How can you teach what you have not been trained to teach?
A community college researcher suggests that Indiana will be at a disadvantage if it doesn’t develop a strong, politically autonomous system. “Community colleges are essential in any industrial-based economy moving to a knowledge-based economy,” said James Jacobs, associate director of the Community College Research Center at the Teachers College at Columbia University. “The states that are recognizing that are advancing faster than the states that aren’t.”
There are few well paying jobs for students leaving high school. Many decide to go on to college to get a degree to increase their chances later when searching for a job. However, many of these students are ill prepared for a four year degree and sit in remediation classes. The university is no longer a degree college to these students but a money making machine, siphoning off dollars from naive students and parents. Classes that are non credits but cost the same as credit classes. The university is able to collect funding from these students and the students may end up without a degree.
The competition for these students have caused many local colleges and university to seek money elsewhere by investing in real estate. These university are investing in building dormitories in hope of attracting students who would select a technical school over a university curriculum. All the major universities in Fort Wayne has build dormitories.
What might be unique about Indiana, however, is that community colleges elsewhere tend to fall to the bottom of the education funding food chain – after K-12 schools and higher ed. With its tremendous political clout, Ivy Tech has quietly become the favored party.
Many of these students have a better chance with taking online courses for free rather than attending college with professors who are politically appointee. The more these students began seeking online course for free from prestigious school the sooner the university will be required to hire qualified professors. Parenst should demand to seek the diplomas of all college professors before spending a dime.
Hat tip to Indiana Law blog.
Notes was unable to find who had PHD's from the IPFW website.
Regional Seminar-Building the Future with Vision and Action
Rev. James M. Burton Rev. James M. Burton will serve as the keynote speaker for the Building the Future with Vision and Action seminar. Rev. Burton is with the Greater Faith, M.B. Church located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The seminar will take place in Chicago, IL. This seminar will be a two day workshop (April 13-14, 2007) at the Holy David Community Development Center. Address provided is Rainblow P.U.S.H> Coalition 930 East 50th Street, Chicago, IL.
The seminar will include several host and hostess: Chicago Television WGN-CW Channel 9 Director of Community Relations Merri Dee, Minister James Taylor,Jr. CEO of Just Talent INC., and Mikal Clay "The Hair Doctor". Mayor Rudy Clay of Gary Indiana will partly sponsor the seminar.
Get additional information about the seminar by clicking on the flyer.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
United for a Change Gospel Hour
In the chair for the United for a Change Gospel Hour on WHNT 96.3 FM is the one and only radio pastor, Pastor. Fredrick Latham.
Pastor Fredrick Latham
Pastor Latham will provide to the community, gospel music, spiritual messages and information about community events on WHNT 96.3FM . Pastor Latham's, locally produced, radio program will air on Sunday morning from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
And if anyone ask you who told you so, just tell them FAAIW said so.
Pastor Latham will provide to the community, gospel music, spiritual messages and information about community events on WHNT 96.3FM . Pastor Latham's, locally produced, radio program will air on Sunday morning from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
And if anyone ask you who told you so, just tell them FAAIW said so.
Love me some Peanut Butter
Fort Wayne creative minds at work, wins a college scholarships. News-Sentinel reports,
Let children be children and look what they can do! It has nothing to do with the school but their own creative juices.
Alexandra Yoder, 12, won a $25,000 college scholarship after taking first place in the “Jif Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich Contest.”
Let children be children and look what they can do! It has nothing to do with the school but their own creative juices.
The sixth-grader’s creamy concoction, self-titled Peanut Butter Rolls “Sushi Style,” bested nine other finalists in judging Thursday at the Culinary Loft in New York City’s SoHo area. Yoder, a sixth-grader at St. Vincent de Paul School in Fort Wayne, wrapped Jif peanut butter, granola, strawberries, bananas and strawberry cream cheese inside a crepe.
Hackers Dark side
There are folks who use computers who can not resist obtaining other folks data. This is a good article on how to collect data to use as evidence in a court of law. It is a crime..it's called cybercrime. This is for businesses, but good information for personal computer home users.
All Eyes on the Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Department
Amanda Iacone reports its more secrecy, when the FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY HEALTH Department would not release the name of a returning employee. It's called control in implementing discriminating practices among select personnel. It's definitely not about competency.
The person more than likely was wrongfully terminated and was going to sue them big time.
From Michael Schroeder of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
Can we say criminal action..read here,Folks.
Disclaimer here. More stuff that did not make sense here and here
The investigation, which involved GPS tracking devices placed in vehicles, led to the resignation, firing or retiring of six employees and unpaid suspensions for two others.
The person more than likely was wrongfully terminated and was going to sue them big time.
Two other employees were suspended for “loafing on the job” and using work vehicles for non-work related purposes. The pretext was unauthorized use of a company vehicle.
Pruitt was among the six health inspectors the department threatened to fire because of the investigation. She said she retired instead.
She said the punishments were uneven and that the department’s policies were unevenly upheld. Those who were terminated were accused of the same violations as those who were suspended, Pruitt said.
Waldron said the disciplinary procedures were fairly and impartially applied in each situation.
“The actions that were taken were based on each individual’s situation and the egregiousness of the offenses,” Waldron said in a statement Friday.
From Michael Schroeder of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
At the Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health, the recent in-house investigation led by Mindy Waldron relied on GPS equipment secretly hidden in cars to track workers’ movements. The investigation began after Waldron heard comments from the public that some of the department’s employees weren’t where they were supposed to be. The probe’s findings led to the firing or resignation of six workers. Two other workers were suspended without pay and the department late last week was taking steps to fire another worker.
Unlike the health department, most employers who use the technology do so in full view of their employees. That means they must sell employees on the technology that some construe as an electronic baby sitter by showing other aspects of its usefulness, including safety.
Can we say criminal action..read here,Folks.
Disclaimer here. More stuff that did not make sense here and here
Friday, March 23, 2007
Crime does pay
Just ask the former LaGrange County Department of Child Services bookkeeper who has to only serve six months on work release and on home detention. So who do we put in jail? And she only has to back $36,000 from using a state credit card.
Angela Mapes writes
Angela Mapes writes
But an audit by the State Board of Accounts released in August showed that between January 1995 and January 2006, Davisson bought at least $176,000 worth of documented, but improper, items and an additional $253,000 worth of purchases that were missing the required vouchers.
Shaquanda Cotton Mother gives Interview to Free Shaquanda Cotton
Shaquanda Cotton's mother gave an interview to DryerBuzz in the battle to free Shaquanda Cotton. Creola Cotton, mother of Shaquanda Cotton provides interesting details on the imprisonment of her 14 years old daughter. Creola Cotton is part of a group called Concerned Citizens for Racial Equality that has made folks in Paris Texas School system uncomfortable. So uncomfortable that they used a minor incident to silence Shaquanda Cotton's mother and the group.
The controversial shoveling incident allegedly snowballed when Shaquanda Cotton nor Creola Cotton would admit guilt for their part in the incident. The incident involved an injury to Shaquanda Cotton and a failure to inform the parent in a timely fashion about the incident. A recommendation was made to impose a severe indeterminate sentence on Shaquanda Cotton as punishment for failure of mother and daughter to comply. The sentence pulled a 14 year out of school and placed her into prison for seven (7) years, an indeterminate sentence. Shaquanda Cotton's action were upgraded to criminal charges making her eligible for imprisonment.
The indeterminate sentence was a message to the mother and the child, that punishment would be handed down based on their being defiant rather than Shaquanda Cotton's guilt. In other words, a longer sentence for mother and daughter lack of compliance with what authorities requested. It did not matter if Shaquanda Cotton was innocence, Shaquanda Cotton and her mother needed to plead guilty to appease those making the request.
Charles Dudley Warner writes
Not only that the sanction handed down branded Shaquanda Cotton as a criminal for life. It tells others that Shaquanda Cotton is marked unfit to be treated in an humane manner. It tells others that Shaquanda Cotton is not to be viewed as a mere child but viewed as a threat to their quality of life.
Shaquanda Cotton does not need our sympathy, she needs her freedom now. Free Shaquanda Cotton now. Shaquanda Cotton needs this sanction removed from her and for us to write the Governor of Texas and to demand her immediate release. Write and tell the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry Shaquanda Cotton has served 365+ day to many for this minor incident. Just click on his name.
Don't let Shaquanda Cotton be another Katrina. Let us not be just outraged and do nothing. Act. Write. Do something. Free Shaquanda Cotton.
It came be done. I had written my letter. Go here and let Shaquanda Cotton know you have intervened in her behalf.
Read more about Shaquanda Cotton
The controversial shoveling incident allegedly snowballed when Shaquanda Cotton nor Creola Cotton would admit guilt for their part in the incident. The incident involved an injury to Shaquanda Cotton and a failure to inform the parent in a timely fashion about the incident. A recommendation was made to impose a severe indeterminate sentence on Shaquanda Cotton as punishment for failure of mother and daughter to comply. The sentence pulled a 14 year out of school and placed her into prison for seven (7) years, an indeterminate sentence. Shaquanda Cotton's action were upgraded to criminal charges making her eligible for imprisonment.
The indeterminate sentence was a message to the mother and the child, that punishment would be handed down based on their being defiant rather than Shaquanda Cotton's guilt. In other words, a longer sentence for mother and daughter lack of compliance with what authorities requested. It did not matter if Shaquanda Cotton was innocence, Shaquanda Cotton and her mother needed to plead guilty to appease those making the request.
Charles Dudley Warner writes
An indeterminate sentence is a commitment to prison without any
limit. It is exactly such a commitment as the court makes to an
asylum of a man who is proved to be insane, and it is paralleled by
the practice of sending a sick man to the hospital until he is
cured.
Not only that the sanction handed down branded Shaquanda Cotton as a criminal for life. It tells others that Shaquanda Cotton is marked unfit to be treated in an humane manner. It tells others that Shaquanda Cotton is not to be viewed as a mere child but viewed as a threat to their quality of life.
Shaquanda Cotton does not need our sympathy, she needs her freedom now. Free Shaquanda Cotton now. Shaquanda Cotton needs this sanction removed from her and for us to write the Governor of Texas and to demand her immediate release. Write and tell the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry Shaquanda Cotton has served 365+ day to many for this minor incident. Just click on his name.
Don't let Shaquanda Cotton be another Katrina. Let us not be just outraged and do nothing. Act. Write. Do something. Free Shaquanda Cotton.
It came be done. I had written my letter. Go here and let Shaquanda Cotton know you have intervened in her behalf.
Read more about Shaquanda Cotton
Harrison Square Park and the Wizard's Magic
Downtown Fort Wayne Baseball gets a hat tip on this one...Harrison Square Park
I decided to play with the editorial.
What is the Jefferson-Illinois Economic Development Area?
It is a piece of property that is exempt from seeking its property dollars to the state. It is called a tax incremental finance district, TIF, for short.
Where will the money go?
Local entity has stated the exempted funds will be used to pay for improvement in that specific area.
What does this have to do with Harrison Square?
Because TIF dollars are only to be used in the specific geographic area, and Harrison Square is not in that area. The TIF is being expanded to include Harrison SQuare by the redevelopment department.
Just as the redevelopment failed to first appraise property as required by state law before purchasing the property. This team is attempting to circumvent the limited use of TIF in the geographic area.
Why is this important for the Harrison Square project?
To pay for infrastructure and the building of a new parking garage downtown. The new parking garage is a business deal for the city to capture some revenue from the Baseball Stadium and the new hotel development.
Why should we care if TIF is being expanded for the Harrison Square Project?
Because if TIF can be gerrymandered to serve the interest of big business, why not use TIF dollars for the existing small businesses that are all ready downtown.
Does TIF keep my property taxes low?
No property taxes is determined by the budget of your various departments, the salary and expenses for running the departments. Unless some of the staff department, or buildings are being reduced property taxes will continue to be increased.
What TIF does is every time property taxes are increased for the folks who live within that specific taxing district the increase will be set aside and used for improvement in that specific area. And it insures that the bond will be paid off.
Is this fair?
No because TIF is a financial enhancement that does not include all businesses, individuals or other tax jurisdiction. The $12 millions dollar that is collected in TIF dollars could be better used to improve our combined sewer problems. The burden of the TIF special district capture these dollars and remove them for such uses and places the burden of another city experimental project doctored up to be for the good of the residents while lining the pockets of a few. It is not an equitable, effective nor efficient tool used for economic development.
So what's next?
According to the Journal Gazette:
Appeal your reassessment, by using the proper evidence.
And go to the city council meeting and let your voice be heard.
Or sell your house and get the hell out of the city of Fort Wayne.
I decided to play with the editorial.
What is the Jefferson-Illinois Economic Development Area?
It is a piece of property that is exempt from seeking its property dollars to the state. It is called a tax incremental finance district, TIF, for short.
Where will the money go?
Local entity has stated the exempted funds will be used to pay for improvement in that specific area.
What does this have to do with Harrison Square?
Because TIF dollars are only to be used in the specific geographic area, and Harrison Square is not in that area. The TIF is being expanded to include Harrison SQuare by the redevelopment department.
Just as the redevelopment failed to first appraise property as required by state law before purchasing the property. This team is attempting to circumvent the limited use of TIF in the geographic area.
Why is this important for the Harrison Square project?
To pay for infrastructure and the building of a new parking garage downtown. The new parking garage is a business deal for the city to capture some revenue from the Baseball Stadium and the new hotel development.
Why should we care if TIF is being expanded for the Harrison Square Project?
Because if TIF can be gerrymandered to serve the interest of big business, why not use TIF dollars for the existing small businesses that are all ready downtown.
Does TIF keep my property taxes low?
No property taxes is determined by the budget of your various departments, the salary and expenses for running the departments. Unless some of the staff department, or buildings are being reduced property taxes will continue to be increased.
What TIF does is every time property taxes are increased for the folks who live within that specific taxing district the increase will be set aside and used for improvement in that specific area. And it insures that the bond will be paid off.
Is this fair?
No because TIF is a financial enhancement that does not include all businesses, individuals or other tax jurisdiction. The $12 millions dollar that is collected in TIF dollars could be better used to improve our combined sewer problems. The burden of the TIF special district capture these dollars and remove them for such uses and places the burden of another city experimental project doctored up to be for the good of the residents while lining the pockets of a few. It is not an equitable, effective nor efficient tool used for economic development.
So what's next?
According to the Journal Gazette:
The redevelopment commission’s approval was the first in a four-part process to amend the economic development area’s boundaries. The Fort Wayne Plan Commission will review the expansion proposal on Monday to make sure it fits with the city’s comprehensive plan. Then the Fort Wayne City Council will vote to approve or reject the plan.
The final step is for it to return to the city redevelopment commission for a public hearing and confirming resolution.
The expansion of the area is an important step in securing a large portion of the money needed to pay for Harrison Square. But it does not obligate the city to spend a single cent, and it does not mean the project has to go ahead. It will allow the city to follow through on its promises if the project is approved or ensure the city will have money to pay for another downtown economic development project if Harrison Square is nixed.
Appeal your reassessment, by using the proper evidence.
And go to the city council meeting and let your voice be heard.
Or sell your house and get the hell out of the city of Fort Wayne.
Fight Fight-Why's everybody always picking on me?
Tony Dungy, Indianapolis Colt Coach, first was too meek to win a Superbowl championship. Fire him was a call. He wins a Superbowl. We love Dungy they howled. But no rest for the weary. Now Superbowl Coach Dungy is being lumped in with the immaturity of two African-American males who displayed intolerance to same sex individuals. And with Ann Coulter who blatantly used a negative terms to emasculate John Edwards, a potential presidential candidates whom good looks appeal to women voters .
Michael Morot writes in the Indy Star
Coach Dungy used no negative terms to denigrate the same sex community. The community is looking for a fight where there is none. Coach Dungy, it is reported, does not even use pejorative language. And in Coach Dungy not using pejorative language he has made a conscious choice for expressing himself, knowing that such language is objectionable and offensive.
Because Coach Dungy comments at the program honoring him as a family man was not hate speech, he is entitled to express himself under the first amendment:
The same sex battle is with the government, your legislators, go rough them up.
Michael Morot writes in the Indy Star
Former NBA star Tim Hardaway apologized twice after responding to a question about his reaction to a gay teammate by saying "I hate gay people." Actor Isaiah Washington, of the hit television show "Grey's Anatomy," sought counseling after using a gay slur when he referred to another cast member. Author-columnist Ann Coulter was chastised for repeating the slur when referring to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards during a speech to a conservative group.
Coach Dungy used no negative terms to denigrate the same sex community. The community is looking for a fight where there is none. Coach Dungy, it is reported, does not even use pejorative language. And in Coach Dungy not using pejorative language he has made a conscious choice for expressing himself, knowing that such language is objectionable and offensive.
Because Coach Dungy comments at the program honoring him as a family man was not hate speech, he is entitled to express himself under the first amendment:
Coach Dungy is speaking for himself and expressing his views, which he is fully entitled to do," league officials said in a statement. "No doubt there are people in our league that have a different view. We respect the right of employees to have and express their views and don't regulate the political or religious views of team or league employees.", from Morot's article.
Bil Browning, who runs bilerico.com, a blog that focuses on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues, wrote: "When the head coach publicly states that part of the Colts fan base should be second-class citizens, you can't expect those same fans to support the team."
The same sex battle is with the government, your legislators, go rough them up.
WAR ON dRUGS
Former President Richard Nixon'S war on drugs has not stopped adults from continuing their drug use. Over 20 millions adults use drugs. And according to news report over 3 millions use cocaine. And Anna Nicole death is a testament to the abuse of prescription drugs.
Indiana is not exemption from drug use. Indiana has its fair share of cities which earned the title for crack cocaine distribution. Gary and Fort Wayne are two cities well known for trafficking drugs. Indiana is also well known for its Meth Lab. Methamphetamine Labs environmentally unsafe. Chemicals can be left behind in containers that can explode. Department of Environmental Management has new rules governing who can cleanup property used for manufacturing controlled substances and who will bear the cost of cleaning up the meth mess.
The directive is aimed directly at business owners whom property is used for meth cooking.
However, this law will impact single dwelling home. Landlords of such properties are so fearful of having to pay for such clean up that they are educating themselves on how determine if their property is being used for a meth lab.
Arthur E. Foulkes writes in the Terre Haute Tribe- Star:
But law enforcement must use the tool. Here in Fort Wayne, a man has been arrested for meth and bond amount informs of law enforcement interest. It tells us nothing of how much drugs were confiscated or dollar collected in the bust.
And the law impacting the manufacturing of illegal controlled substance could be used to discourage landlord from renting property to crack cocaine makers. Many rental property owners would more than like get out of the business of making money off the drug problem if they knew they would have pay for clean up in neighborhoods were drugs are sold.
Indiana Law Blog gets another hat tip.
Indiana is not exemption from drug use. Indiana has its fair share of cities which earned the title for crack cocaine distribution. Gary and Fort Wayne are two cities well known for trafficking drugs. Indiana is also well known for its Meth Lab. Methamphetamine Labs environmentally unsafe. Chemicals can be left behind in containers that can explode. Department of Environmental Management has new rules governing who can cleanup property used for manufacturing controlled substances and who will bear the cost of cleaning up the meth mess.
The directive is aimed directly at business owners whom property is used for meth cooking.
The cleanup would be required at an apartment building, multi-family dwelling, condominium, hotel or motel, rental storage units, outbuildings accessible to children, and more where the controlled substance was manufactured, with some exceptions, before the property could be reoccupied or transferred.
Sec. 8. (a) "Contaminated property" means real property, a vehicle as defined in IC 9-13-2-196, a mobile home as defined in IC 6-6-5-1, or a watercraft as defined in IC 9-13-2-198.5 that has been used for the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance.
(b) For an apartment building, multifamily dwelling, condominium, hotel, or motel, the term is limited to the unit that was identified by the law enforcement agency as having been used for the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance if all of the following are true:
(1) The entry to the unit is located on the:
(A) outside of the structure; or
(B) interior of the structure and is closed by a fire door assembly.
(2) The unit has no other opening to another unit or space.
(3) The heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system for that unit is enclosed within that unit and is separate from the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system of any other unit, except for:
(A) a hot water boiler that serves more than one (1) unit in the structure; or
(B) an air conditioning condenser located outside the structure.
(c) The property is not a contaminated property if the law enforcement agency that identifies the property as having been used for the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance determines that:
(1) the process used to manufacture the controlled substance has not been started;
(2) all chemicals to be used in the illegal manufacture of the controlled substance have been removed; and
(3) no contamination related to the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance is present.
(d) The term includes any areas outside a structure that were used for the disposal of chemicals used in the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance.
(e) A property is no longer a contaminated property when the certificate of decontamination prepared under 318 IAC 1-5-9 for that property has been issued or the activities required by 318 IAC 1-6-2 have been completed.
However, this law will impact single dwelling home. Landlords of such properties are so fearful of having to pay for such clean up that they are educating themselves on how determine if their property is being used for a meth lab.
Arthur E. Foulkes writes in the Terre Haute Tribe- Star:
When you cook meth, you’re releasing smoke [and] gas that coats all the surfaces it comes into contact with,” said Eric Lawrence, director of forensic analysis at the Indiana State Police laboratory in Indianapolis. These chemicals travel through a home’s ventilation system and are “deposited in the baby’s bedroom, in the kitchen and every place else,” Lawrence said.
Some of the potentially dangerous chemicals used in making meth include anhydrous ammonia (farm fertilizer), lithium (camera batteries), ether (engine starter), brake cleaner, muriatic acid, paint thinner and kerosene, according to information provided by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The high price of cleaning up meth lab properties has gotten the attention of people who rent residential housing, said Charlie France, a founder of Indy Property Investors, an Indianapolis group designed to help people in the real estate business.
The risk of finding a meth lab in a rental home creates “a big deterrent for us,” France said. “We’re the ones that … have our money and credit locked up” while a meth lab is being dismantled, she said. A rental home may sit vacant for months even before the landlord’s cleanup can begin, she said.
Landlord associations, such as Indy Property Investors, have sought advice from police and others about how to spot potential meth-lab activity.
“We know what to look for now,” France said, but there are still risks. “We can’t put our heads in the sand” about meth, she said.
But law enforcement must use the tool. Here in Fort Wayne, a man has been arrested for meth and bond amount informs of law enforcement interest. It tells us nothing of how much drugs were confiscated or dollar collected in the bust.
And the law impacting the manufacturing of illegal controlled substance could be used to discourage landlord from renting property to crack cocaine makers. Many rental property owners would more than like get out of the business of making money off the drug problem if they knew they would have pay for clean up in neighborhoods were drugs are sold.
Indiana Law Blog gets another hat tip.
Scott Wims-Track Star
Former Northrop Sprinter Scott Wims is building on his track record at Nebraska University.
Men's 4x400-Meter Relay
Men's 200-Meter Dash Prelims
Neither senior Nate Probasco nor freshman Scott Wims advanced to the finals of the men's 200-meter dash. Probasco was only two spots short after clocking the 10th-best time of 21.02, which marked a season-best performance. Wims' time of 21.37 earned him 16th place.
Both Huskers will have one more opportunity to earn an NCAA scoring position, as they will join Hulett and redshirt freshman Daniel Christensen Saturday for the 4x400-meter relay.
Below is Wims' Bio..read more here.
Men's 4x400-Meter Relay
Nebraska’s young 4x400-meter relay provided the team with an addition point to push it into a tie for 25th place in the final team standings. Senior Nate Probasco and freshmen Scott Wims, Daniel Christensen and Lukas Hulett each garnered All-America honors after clocking in with a time of 3:08.68 to place second in their heat, as well as eighth overall. The foresome became the first Husker men’s relay to earn an NCAA placing since the team won the 1996 national title in the distance medley relay. The last NU 4x400 to place was in 1994.
Men's 200-Meter Dash Prelims
Neither senior Nate Probasco nor freshman Scott Wims advanced to the finals of the men's 200-meter dash. Probasco was only two spots short after clocking the 10th-best time of 21.02, which marked a season-best performance. Wims' time of 21.37 earned him 16th place.
Both Huskers will have one more opportunity to earn an NCAA scoring position, as they will join Hulett and redshirt freshman Daniel Christensen Saturday for the 4x400-meter relay.
Below is Wims' Bio..read more here.
Courtesy: NU Media Relations
Release: 01/07/2007
Personal Bests:
Prep Indoors: 55m, 6.38; 60m, 7.94
Prep Outdoors: 100m, 10.43; 200m, 21.10
High School: Arthur "Scott" Wims should make an instant impact for Nebraska in the short sprints after emerging as one of the nation’s top prep sprinters as a senior... finished sixth in the 100-meter dash at the 2006 USA Junior Outdoor Championships in Indianapolis with a time of 10.46... posted his personal-best mark of 10.43 to win his qualifying heat... also competed in the USA junior 200-meter dash... was an alternate on the U.S. 4x100-meter relay that claimed gold-medal honors at the 2006 IAAF World junior meet in Beijing, but did not run during the competition... ran a personal-best 60-meter dash time of 6.94 during the semifinals at the 2006 Nike Indoor Nationals in Landover, Md., but did not reach the finals... swept the Indiana state titles in the 100 and 200 as a senior at Northrop High School with respective times of 10.46 and 21.15... also helped push the Bruins to a fifth-place finish in the 4x100-meter relay and a third-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay... earned his first two state titles as a junior in 2005 with victories in the 200 (21.52) and 4x400-meter relay, while also placing fourth in the 100... competed in both the 200 and 4x100-meter relay during his first state meet appearance as a sophomore in 2003. Personal: High school coach was Bob Shank... major is electrical engineering... parents are Art and Karen Wims... born May 30, 1988
Thursday, March 22, 2007
House Rule Committee SJR-7 Debate-Video
SJR-7 debate listen here .to the You will need about 3-5 hours of listening time.
Hat tip to Indiana Law blog
Hat tip to Indiana Law blog
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