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Perplexed
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“Whistleblower” bill gets Senate OKBy William Hershey | Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 03:49 PM The Ohio Senate has approved legislation aimed at making it easier for “whistleblowers” to expose fraud in government. The vote was 32-0 on Senate Bill 7 on Tuesday, May 5. It requires State Auditor Mary Taylor to set up a fraud-reporting system for residents and public employees to anonymously report fraud and misuse of public funds. It also extends whistleblower protections against retaliatory firings or other disciplinary action taken against state employees who report the fraud. Taylor also ready has a fraud reporting system including a hotline - 1-866-FRAUD-OH - but the new legislation would strengthen the system by putting it into law, her office said in a press release. “This important legislation will enhance our efforts to hold state and local government accountable for how it spends tax dollars,” Taylor said in a press release. The bill now goes to the House. |
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Pacman
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Perplexed define for those of us not in the business, "AGGRESSIVELY MARKET MIDDLETOWN AS A LOWER-COST HOME OWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY ZONE."
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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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Perplexed
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SUBJECT: Living Cities - Mixed Housing Initiatives Around the U.S. (Thanks Paul Nagy)
Judy -
While the HOPE VI Program has limited annual HUD funds allocated, there are other readily available means to revitalize once blighted neighborhoods using other sources of capital and creative, market-based private/public partnerships! That's exactly what I tried to establish here through a close, mutually respectful relationship with real estate professionals, target area residents, mortgage bankers and city staff. Our Middletown Home Ownership Partnership was predicated upon a bottom-up approach rather than City Hall knows best. Consider what I am saying Judy. You might find some merit in this approach rather than major land clearance activities.
Some day I would welcome providing you with a briefing on Oklahoma City's $100 million "Alliance Community" affordable housing initiative too!
Nelson Self
CD Administrator (RESIGNED??)
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Perplexed
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CITY MANAGER OFFERS URBAN RENEWAL CONCEPT FOR MIDDLETOWN?
CONTROVERSIAL DEMOLITION PROGRAM & POPULATION SHRINKING SOLUTIONS?
WE ARE NOT FLINT, MICHIGAN JUDY?
"Planetizen" - In this new column, award-winning journalist and author Roberta Brandes Gratz reports on urban development crises around the country and the opportunities they present for positive action.
"Demolition as a planning tool is back in vogue. Not since the discredited postwar urban renewal policies of the 1970s have political leaders embraced so wholeheartedly the idea of bulldozing vast tracks of vacant residential structures—and consequently, demolishing existing urban fabric, undermining local initiative, derailing organic regeneration, and displacing longtime residents and local businesses. When no productive policy exists, demolition is the easiest way to look like the problem is being addressed. The vacant building syndrome is simply planning by default.
This state of affairs comes at just the time when many older, deteriorated neighborhoods offer the best opportunity for urban regeneration and the best resource for addressing the national affordable housing crisis. This is not the 1970s, when so many cities hit bottom and the urban exodus was in full swing. The tide has clearly turned. Cities are increasingly enjoying a renewed popularity among middle- and upper-income groups. Real estate values in historic neighborhoods are accelerating beyond property owners’ wildest dreams. Artists and other members of the “creative class” are seeking out abandoned or underused industrial neighborhoods. People who can afford to do so are moving into less car-dependent neighborhoods, meaning the car-free life is beginning to replace the suburban dream of the 1950s through the ‘80s. The opportunity for people with limited income to seek the same urban lifestyle, however, disappears when low-income neighborhoods are bulldozed. Yet demolition of vacant structures is widespread. Philadelphia exhibits the problem in its most severe form, with nearly 60,000 vacant parcels (the highest per capita in the country). Small investments have been made in reclamation efforts, but the bulk of budgeted money is going for further demolition. Last fall, the city of Buffalo, New York, said it planned to tear down a record number of vacant buildings in the 2006 fiscal year, around 1,000 deteriorated properties, nearly three times higher than the average number of annual demolitions since 2002." I SAY, AGGRESSIVELY MARKET MIDDLETOWN AS A LOWER-COST HOME OWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY ZONE. THE NEWLY EXPANDED DOWN PAYMENT/CLOSING COST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PLUS THE AVAILABILITY OF CREATIVE MINOR HOME REPAIR FINANCING HAS ALREADY ENTICED OVER 70 WORKING FAMILIES TO PURCHASE HOMES HERE. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY HAS OCCURRED IN WARDS 3 AND 4 TO DATE. HOWEVER, MULTIPLE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE AND WAITING IN WARD 1 (AND YES) WARD 2.
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VietVet
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Point well taken Pacman. Just trying to address the Forbes pollution bashing of the area and the reasons for it rather than addressing the motivations of why people would be inclined to locate elsewhere because of it.
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Pacman
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Vet when people look for an area to settle in they don't check wind current's, etc. What they do do is read articles like these and cross the city off their list. So reasoning as to why the air quality is poor in this area is immaterial to most people, even if it can be rationalized.
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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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spiderjohn
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I dunno, Mike
AK has been doing it 4ever
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Mike_Presta
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“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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VietVet
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Middletown is 5% of the population of the defined area. There are hundreds of diesel belching trucks up and down I-75 everyday. AK has cleaned up it's act, using stack scrubbers, since the 60's when it spewed orange iron oxide all over everything in town. Most of the industry that once was, ain't no more in town. The nearest coal firing power plant is where around here? The area is heavily dependant on the jet stream for clearing out the pollution. It ain't gonna move out of here on calm hot summer days. Shared pollution. Alot of situations that are out of our control. Forbes must like using the Middletown name when it comes to reporting on controversial topics such as dying and polluted cities. This is an industrial area of the state and growth produces pollution. We're not set up for clean living environments like Tucson Arizona(which, by the way has much fewer good paying jobs than here due in part to clean air regulations). Tucson also has much cleaner air because their weather isn't as controlled by the jet stream as ours. It's the Midwest and goes with the territory. Pardon us Forbes for attempting to prosper by allowing growth which may create some negatives along the way.
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Vivian Moon
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Ahhh Pacman...That was a GREAT one liner.
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Pacman
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Quick where is Mort & Ashworth?
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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson |
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Perplexed
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Middletown part of metro area named Worst Polluted Cities - Say it 'aint so Judy??By Jessica Heffner
Staff Writer Updated 9:42 AM Thursday, April 30, 2009 MIDDLETOWN — Forbes strikes again against the city of Middletown, including it among a metro area dubbed one of the worst metro areas in America for unhealthy levels of year-round particle pollution and ozone pollution Middletown is just part of the metro area, which stretches to Cincinnati and includes Wilmington and parts of Indiana and northern Kentucky. The metro area ranked eighth on the list for unhealthy levels of year-round particle pollution and fifteenth for ozone pollution, according to the Forbes list which was compiled using a new air study by the American Lung Association. The year-round particle counts reflect the amount of tiny solid and liquid particles in the air, most often emitted from diesel-powered vehicles, steel mills and coal-fired power plants, according to the study. Numbers from the American Lung Association show the following about the Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington, Ohio-Ky.-Ind. metro area: • Total Population: 2,176,749 • Pediatric Asthma: 49,837 • Adult Asthma: 144,472 • Chronic Bronchitis: 55,519 • Emphysema: 27,209 • CV Disease: 586,626 • Diabetes: 125,943
Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2843 or jheffner@coxohio.com. |
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Perplexed
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Rumor has it that the ALIEN was abducted by the Romulans from Alpha Centauri universe last night. Reportedly, the ALIEN is now headed for parts unknown on a weird looking UFO traveling at warp speed!
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Mike_Presta
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Speaking of "Moving Middletown Forward", where is my friend Mr. Alien???
He assured us that he can clear all this up, and he last visited on April 24, but he has not supplied us with the facts necessary to discern exactly who or what this group is, and how they differ from the CIC.
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“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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Vivian Moon
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Yes sir Mike...this is all YOUR fault. Yep you and your WORD GAMES have now confused the City Manager. Shame on you! |
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VietVet
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Mike- I'm sure Ms. Gilleland meant to say Middletown Moving Forward, not the taboo/blacklisted, yet painfully similar- "Moving Middletown Forward"! Those inquisitive, pesky rascals in city government like to review our posts here and I'm sure that we just confused her (them) with our incessant "rantings" about the similarity in names. Now, gosh darn it, we've gone and confused those faithful executors of the public's business- those sultans of saavy. WE are the problem here. WE controlled this confusing name topic. WE are responsible for their mishaps in name usage. WE are the problem to these 's. Why- shame on us!!! We probably need to apologize.
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Mike_Presta
MUSA Council Joined: Apr 20 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3483 |
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On April 22, our City Manager penned a guest editorial for The Middletown Journal. The very first sentence of this informative piece read as follows: “Moving Middletown forward is a communitywide goal.” Perhaps it was just a coincidence. It could have been a Freudian-like slip. It may have been a subtle reference to the CIC with the similar name. It probably was just a phrase that she chose to use. BUT, (there’s always a “but”, isn’t there?), I, for one, find it interesting how frequently these three words: “Moving Middletown Forward”, keep popping up in the speech and writings of those who keep saying that no group by that name exists!!! And now that I think about it, all the things outlined in that flyer headed “Moving Middletown Forward” were “communitywide goals”! |
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“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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