Newsmakers

Unemployment EXTENSIONS more help

davedohio — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:53:32 GMT

Why aren't our elected Ohio officials helping us get this extra help? Write them to ask them..this is a desperate plea for unemployed Ohioians...

From the National Employment Law Project
For Immediate Release: March 20, 2009
Press Contact only: Tim Bradley, 646-452-5637
Workers contact: unemployedworkers@gmail.com
Over ½ Million Workers to Exhaust Benefits in March & April if
States Don’t Act
13-20 Weeks Federally-Funded Extension of Benefits Available in Stimulus
for High-Unemployment States
Washington, DC – New analysis released today by the National Employment Law Project
revealed that 567,000 jobless Americans will exhaust their federal unemployment benefits in the
coming weeks if their states do not authorize a temporary extension of benefits provided for in the
federal economic recovery package. Available to all states with unemployed rates above 6.5%,
the Extended Benefits program would provide an additional 13-20 weeks of benefits to workers
who have already used up their Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) benefits. Of the
states whose unemployment rates are high enough to trigger the extensions – which are now
being funded 100% by the federal government under the stimulus bill – only about half have
passed the necessary authorization to receive the funds.
“Over half a million jobless workers will run out of unemployment benefits in March and April if
their states do not act now,” said Christine Owens, Executive Director of the National
Employment Law Project. “The Extended Benefits program is a straightforward, federallyfunded
extension to continue benefits for workers in high-unemployment states who have already
run out of emergency unemployment compensation. These benefits would come to very longterm
unemployed workers who still can’t find work after receiving all of their EUC benefits. This is
the only provision in the stimulus bill that addresses the needs of these long-term jobless
workers, and states should not overlook it,” Owens stated.
The Extended Benefits program, started in the 1970s, pays extended benefits in high
unemployment states and allows states different options for tapping into the program. One option
is for states to provide these benefits once their unemployment level exceeds 6.5% over a threemonth
period. While the cost for paying these extended benefits would normally be split 50-50
between states and the federal government, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act, the extended benefit is fully federal-funded through 2009. Only a fraction of states, however,
have adopted the 6.5% trigger provision.
• States that have yet to act to receive Extended Benefits: Approximately 567,000
workers would qualify for Extended Benefits after exhausting their EUC benefits if 14
high-unemployment states, as well as the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia,
adopted the 6.5% unemployment rate trigger. As of March 19th, those states are:
Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts,
Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee.
• States that have yet to act to get 20 weeks Extended Benefits: In places where the
unemployment rate exceeds 8% – Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, Puerto Rico, and South
Carolina – workers will be entitled to an additional 7 weeks of extended benefits if their
states authorize the trigger, affecting approximately 132,000 workers.
• States that already qualify for 13 weeks Extended Benefits: Sixteen states and
Puerto Rico already qualify for the Extended Benefits program under one of the
program’s provisions: Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Alaska, Connecticut, Minnesota, North
Carolina, and Washington qualify for 13 weeks of benefits. Oregon and Rhode Island
already qualify for 20 weeks of extended benefits. As a result, about 405,000 workers in
those states will qualify for extended benefits when their EUC benefits expire between
now and June.
• Who benefits: A total of nearly 1 million workers – over 970,000 – who will run out of
federal emergency extensions (EUC) by June will qualify for an extension of jobless
benefits under the extended benefits program if all states enact it.
• The urgency to act: In all high-unemployment states, the federally-funded extended
benefits will be available to all private sector workers – 95% of the unemployment
insurance case load – who exhaust EUC and begin their extended benefits in 2009.
States have the option to sunset the legislation in late 2009, after which the 100% federal
funding provision expires.
“Many states have overlooked this unique chance to help long term jobless workers and funnel
more federal stimulus into their economies. They need to act now because time is of the essence:
thousands of workers will run out of jobless benefits in a matter of weeks. It would be a shame –
and devastating for thousands of workers – if states sit on their hands,” Owens concluded.
For more information on the Extended Benefits program, including a state-by-state breakdown of
the potential impact the program would have around the country, view NELP’s Extended Benefits
analysis: http://www.nelp.org/page/-/UI/extended.benefits.feb.09.pdf?nocdn=1
Workers can find out whether their state qualifies for EB under the different “trigger” formulas at
the U.S. Department of Labor at http://ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims_arch.asp under
“Extended Benefits Trigger Notice.”

Hamilton County Justice Center

bp5019 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:56:32 GMT

Someone needs to investigate the Hamilton County Justice Center.

I want to know WHY my son's little bit of commissary credit keeps disappearing! He has had

a few people send him $10 here and $20 there but it keeps being taken away and he can't even

go get shampoo or shave creme!! It now shows he has 30 cents!

There are SOME of the people in there who are NOT guilty of what they are being charged with!!

Until you have a loved one, (OR YOURSELF!) locked up in there, you can't imagine not being able

to even have the personal items to care for yourself on a daily basis!

Discrimination: NKY affected by Senate Bill 68

mheaton — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:14:59 GMT

Kentucky has a bill going through the Senate that will make it illegal for a Single person to adopt, foster or be a relative caregiver if he or she is living with someone. Yes. "co-habitating" with someone. The FIRST part of the act says that KY believes that in order to foster, adopt or be a relative caregiver, you should be married. You cannot co-habitate with someone (anyone) and be a foster/adopt/caregiver. WHAT? That is what it says. (I have posted it below)

It is only in the subsequent paragraphs that it says if you are "in a sexual relationship with the person you are co-habitating with"... then you will not be allowed to adopt, foster or be a relative caregiver.

Let's think about what this means.
1. If you are a Single Adult Female who wants to adopt or foster a child, or be a relative caregiver to a family member... and you have been living with your boyfriend for 10 years (common law marriage), currently, you would be allowed to adopt/foster/caregive. Under this new law, you would be banned.

2. If you are a Single Adult who is living with your Adult Sibling (non-sexual relationship), under the first part of this law, you would not be allowed to adopt/foster/caregive.

3. If you are a single adult who is living with your significant other (sexual relationship) for any length of time, you cannot adopt/foster/caregive.

Currently, ALL adults would go through a throrough investigation by the Social Worker and Adoption Agency to adopt or foster. So, in any of the above situations, you could currently build your family that way. I did. Though, I'm single, if I had had someone living with me, he would have gone through just as stringent measures as I did. That is the right way. THIS LAW IS NOT.

This includes KINSHIP adoption.

What's next? Taking ALL SINGLE person ADULT rights away? This is complete and utter discrimination and needs to be stopped. It was aimed (supposedly) at the GLBT. But it is absolutely not worded that way. It includes ALL, and I do mean ALL single adult persons who might be in a relationship with another adult, sexual or otherwise, so long as they are co-habitating.

I beg and implore of you to write to your senator and to every single senator in the State of Kentucky to get this VOTED NO. We need to take our rights back. If an agency wishes to discriminate against single people, that is one thing... but not the STATE. This is not a Kentucky State issue.

To find your senator: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/whoswho/county.htm

Another way to write to the KY Fairness Alliance: http://eqfed.org/campaign/family?rk=2dLWo-9qGxbLE
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Here's the legislation:

AN ACT relating to the welfare of adopted and foster care children.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

SECTION seq [section]1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 199 IS CREATED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

(1) The Kentucky General Assembly finds that it is in the best interest of a child in need of adoption or foster care to be reared or placed in a home in which the adoptive or foster parents are not cohabiting outside of a marriage that is legally valid in Kentucky.

(2) An applicant shall not be approved to provide foster care or relative caregiver services to a child, or approved to receive a child for adoption if the applicant is cohabiting with a sexual partner outside of a marriage that is legally valid in Kentucky.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to prohibit the approval of foster care, relative caregiver services, or adoption of a child by an applicant who is cohabiting with a sexual partner outside of a marriage that is legally valid in Kentucky; create the short title "The Child Welfare Adoption Act"; exempt children placed for adoption prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 199.470 to conform.

Again, PLEASE, please, please write your Senator. Get involved. Do something. Help protect our rights as Single people.

Melissa
Proud SMC to DD Mia

again:
To find your senator: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/whoswho/county.htm

Another way to write to the KY Fairness Alliance: http://eqfed.org/campaign/family?rk=2dLWo-9qGxbLE

Hamilton County Justice Center

bp5019 — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:48:48 GMT

Someone needs to seriously investigate the Hamilton County Justice Center.

My son is there and he doesn't have soap or shave creme because for the second week in a row, someone has lost his commisary note. As of tonight, he is extremely sick with a cold/flu was lying shivering and asked to see a doctor. He was told that if he filled out a form, he might be seen by a doctor in 2 weeks. Two weeks!!!! This is unacceptable!! No matter what these people in there, have done, they need to be treated humanely!!

We moved to Florida 11 years ago from Cincinnati and from the sound of it, the city is doing downhill.

UT Clermont Corruption

UTClerResident — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:51:45 GMT

Thank you for airing the exposee of Union Township Clermont corruption. I often wondered why and if the township should even be in the commercial development business. Now to learn how UT trustees purchased land for $300,000 per acre from the developer CUC that paid only $81,000 per acre and that former township administrator Ken Geis became a partner of CUC after facilitating this fraud is very troubling.

In your report, you also noted the Union Township civic center. I've always been surprised that no one raised the issue of how this was funded. Somehow UT had the money to build this while at the same time UT asked residents to approve another fire and police levy. Seems to me the priority should have been to use whatever money UT had on funding the fire and police instead of building a new palace.

Then we had all the issues with the Walkers. Doug Walker, then a Trustee, took over as UT administrator when Geis resigned. He was recently forced out with a very lucrative severance package. His wife Mary Walker was recently charged with ethics violations and lost her re-election as Clermont County commissioner. She had also been a UT trustee.

I've always been supportive of our local schools and government but this time I cannot vote for the UT fire and police levy coming up Feb 3.

Disgusted UT Clermont Resident.

hi

cincyaddy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:43:38 GMT

whats the weather where you live

Low Income (poverty level) SSDI people

Zwaron — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:32:14 GMT

I was wondering if either politician offers any help to people with Social Securiyt Disability, whereas a tax credit really doesn't offer any real help. I really have a hard time making ends meet, I have Medicare, but have to pay back for medicaid and food stamps recieved because The Change of Income status I sent to my caseworker was lost. That was when I recieved my first Social Security Disability Check. I don't hear where politicians stand on people like myself. I'm not getting answers from emails to them.

Death of dog prosecuted, death of child not

eastgatetax — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:18:56 GMT

On the very day that Cecilia Slaby was found dead in her mother's Mercedes SUV, a dog was found dead in the back yard of a black neighborhood in Hamilton County.

Although the owner of the house had no knowledge of the strange dead dog in her backyard, she was hauled out in handcuffs and her children were placed in temporary foster care.

After being locked up in the Justice Center for several days, she finally faced a judge and was convicted and sentenced to time served, even though her 10-year-old nephew appeared in court and explained to the judge that he had put the sick dog in his aunt's yard without telling her on his way to school, and had planned to come back after it later.

The judge acknowledged that perhaps the woman didn't know about the dog, but his rationale in finding her guilty was that SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT WAS IN HER OWN BACKYARD.

So, following that same logic, wouldn't Jodie Edwards and Brenda Slaby be responsible for what was in their own SUVs?

The black lady didn't put the dog in her yard, but both Edwards and Slaby admit having strapped their daughters into those car seats themselves.

NO LAW CAN BE CONSIDERED JUST UNLESS IT IS EQUALLY APPLIED TO ALL CITIZENS, REGARDLESS OF RACE OR ECONOMIC STANDING.

Cecilia & Jenna's Law

eastgatetax — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:05:58 GMT

In order to prevent future tragedies on the order of cases such as Cecilia Slaby and Jenna Edwards, we the undersigned, being residents of the State of Ohio, respectfully request the adoption of the following wording to be added as a clarification of the Ohio Revised Code Section 2919.22(A):

(still working on the wording of the law to be inserted here)

The actual wording would add a specific penalty for leaving a child

in a car alone when the result was detrimental to that child’s health

or well-being. It would not require a prior history and would actually

create a new category of child endangering.

We the citizens of the State of Ohio, respectfully request the even-handed application of all sections of the Ohio revised Code, without regard to race or socio-economic status.

It could have happened to any of us - baby Jenna

Sunkistgrrl — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:15:58 GMT

I want to make i t known that I am supporting Dr. Jodie Edwards in this horrific time of her life.

After talking with dozens of parents I have concluded that the fate of Jenna Edwards could have happened to anyone. No one can really say what they will and will not do in the future because they have not been through it yet. You can't predict how you will react.

I think the reaction of her church and university family have been a wonderful example of how Chrsitians should treat each other in a time of need. These Christians are not judging, pointing fingers, or telling Jodie how much of a better parent they are over her. They are surrounding her with love, support, and prayer - much like how a true family acts. The evidence has been given over to the authorities, the court will make its decisions and Dr. Jodie Edward will be at the mercy of the court.

I can't tell you why Jodie didn't go back out to her van during the day. I can't even begin to imagine the horror that came over her once she realized what had happend. And I can't start to make sense of this awful, tragic death. But what I can tell you is that I will stand by my friend and help the rest of the world to know about her and who she is. She is not a monster. She is not a malicious person. She is the last person that I would have ever thought this would happen to. I bet she even thought to herself last year during the Slaby case "How could she have let that happen. I would never do that to my children."

So for those of you who assume she knowingly did this to her daughter, I ask you to wait to see what the investigation uncovers. Don't be quick to judge - because it could have been you and not her.

Read the Child Endangering Law for Yourself

eastgatetax — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:17:22 GMT

“Ohio Revised Code 2919.22(A), states in relevant part that "no person, who is the parent of a child under eighteen years of age, shall create a substantial risk to the health or safety of the child, by violating a duty of care, protection, or support." R.C. 2901.01(H) defines "substantial risk" as "a strong possibility, as contrasted with a remote or significant possibility, that a certain result may occur or that certain circumstances may exist."

“Parents have a legal duty to protect their children from harm. State v. Sammons (1979), 58 Ohio St. 2d 460, 463, 391 N.E.2d 713. The crime of child endangering under R.C. 2919.22(A) may be committed by acts of omission: "an inexcusable failure to act in discharge of one's duty to protect a child where such failure to act results in a substantial

risk to the child's health or safety is an offense under R.C. 2919.22(A)." State v. Kamel (1984), 12 Ohio St. 3d 306, 309, 466 N.E.2d 860.”

The Supreme Court of Ohio has held that R.C. 2919.22(A) requires proof of a culpable mental state of recklessness as an essential element of the crime of child endangering. State v. McGee (1997), 79 Ohio St. 3d 193, 680 N.E.2d 975, syllabus. R.C. 2901.22(C) provides that a person acts recklessly when, with heedless indifference to the consequences, he perversely disregards a known risk that his conduct is likely to cause

a certain result or is likely to be of a certain nature. A person is reckless with respect to circumstances when, with heedless indifference to the consequences, he perversely disregards a known risk that such circumstances are likely to exist.

Low-Income Clermont Parents Prosecuted for Dead Child

eastgatetax — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:08:53 GMT

If "forgetting" your child is not proof of reckless and negligent behaviour, then will somebody tell me why the Bittner's are in jail??????

About four years ago, a low-income couple in Clermont County, the Bittners, accidentally left their infant daughter in a hot van for about an hour. When she was found (still alive) they brought her into the house and soaked her in cool water, and she appeared to recover. Apparently, however, her kidneys had shut down and she died after they rushed her to the hospital the next day.

The Bittners received jail time, and their remaining children were taken away from them.

What mistakes did the Bittners make??

1) They were low-income. They had no "connections" and could not afford an expensive lawyer.

2) They got their daughter out of the car while she was still alive.

3) They tried to revive her.

4) They did not co-ordinate media events or attempt to hide behind their church.

5) They did not try to insinuate that either someone else or factors outside their control were to blame. (The Bittner's probably couldn't afford daycare).

So what lessons have we learned? If you run over someone, just keep on going - you might just get away with it. If you leave your child in a hot car for a little while, might as well just wait until she's completely dead, and the body is so thoroughly degraded that all evidence is destroyed.

And don't try this if you are just a regular working person. The rules are different for the "well-connected."

Woman murdered in Madison

hrfields75 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:04:29 GMT

Why did they take those comments off? We have the right to comment just as they have the right to comment about their friend or family member. By reading other comments you learn alot more about what happened than what the news will will tell you. So, I am guessing that the truth really bothered someone and chanel 12 took the comments off and you can no longer comment on that story!

Dead Babies - Different Standards -

jugglermoon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:19:04 GMT

I don't get it. If you're a white college educated upper-middle class female and you "forget" your child in the car and s/he dies. You get a prayer vigil and an acquital. If you're a high school educated (or less) woman of color and you leave your child in the car while you run a 5 minute errand you get locked up for child endangerment and your kid gets put into the foster care "system."
To hear the faculty of a christian college admonishing the public not to "throw stones" is crap. Who's holding vigils for the families of the poor who are obviously held to a more rigid standard than the rest of us??? No one's throwing stones. Some of us are just trying to figure why it's endangerment in one neighborhood and a "tragic oversight" in another.

Web scam

Putterso — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:34:19 GMT

I would like to report a website called Cypersecurity. When I signed up it was supposed to be free but when I realized there was a charge, I attempted to delete and could not. When I logged back in later in the day Cybersecurity popped up and I could not access anything. There was no option but to purchase. I called the number they gave on the site and it was a recording. Finally with tech support i was able to disable and destroy and restore my computer. I thought the public should know about this. Walter

Northern Kentucky man helps reopen 30 year old Hollywood murder case

naithom — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:41:31 GMT

Thirty-four years ago there was a movie premier in Cincinnati of a film called "Let's Go for Broke", a B-movie spy flick starring a woman named Christa Helm. The film, unfortunately flopped and two years later, Christa Helm was brutally murdered outside a friend's home as she was picking him up to go to a party. The case was never solved and remained forgotten to all but Christa's family and friends.

That was until 2006 when pop culture blogger, Steven Thompson, from Covington, needed a film to use for his blog's (Booksteve's Library) ongoing article called, "Movies That Fell Through The Cracks". Thompson, who has an extensive film scrapbook, pulled the ad for "Let's Go For Broke" and started researching why the film apparently disappeared and found himself investigating a 31 year old murder.

With help from his wife, Rene, who is an experienced researcher and pop culture writer, John O'Dowd, and Christa's own daughter, Nicole Clements, Thompson was able to get interest in the case reinvigorated enough that both the LA Police Cold Case Unit and CBS's 48 Hours are taking another look at the murder.

48 Hours will show "The Last Take", the story of the Christa Helm murder on Saturday, April 26th.

NAFTA and Mexican Trucking Companies

Wen782 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:43:33 GMT

I sent this note (long and windy) to George Voinovich and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, where Scott and I live. We'll see if I get anything back.

Our government needs to be revamped and the good old boys and their bull need to go the way of the beta max. If you think this won’t affect you, you are wrong. It will affect us all, as time goes on. NAFTA is not fair trade for America, it’s fair for everyone BUT us. It's supposed to stand for North American Free Trade Agreement. It really means North America: F*** The Americans.

My letter (and a fun way to spend a little bit of my lunchtime):

'As one of your constituents and a registered voter, I hope that I can count on you and the rest of the government to do the right thing and block the Mexican trucking company invasion into the US. I realize, and you know that the public feels that the government is not here to help us, but maybe you can change our minds about at least the representatives we have in Ohio.

Sending the "best of the best" of the Mexican companies over here until they establish that they're ok and then sending whatever is leftover isn't going to help the US economy.

Given that we can't control the flow of illegal immigrants here in this country and the Mexican president says that anywhere a Mexican IS, IS MEXICO, I vote we don't encourage MORE flow here from across the border. We should shut down the Mexican border and make them all go home if they disregard our laws and come here illegally, but I realize that's probably too much to ask. The least we can do, though, is not allow the trucks through, since the border patrol can surely see something that big and stop it.

As it is, if you don't support ending the Mexican trucking companies coming here, you are turning your back on me, my husband and our community. My husband is an owner operator. His business would be affected by this. Perhaps not directly, but indirectly, as more money hungry companies stretch out to increase the profits, they say heck with the little man. Forgotten are those “little men and women” who have been the backbone of this country and its success, those who bring in the load.

We're not out to make a fortune doing this, we're out to survive and support our lifestyle and our home. You, as a member of the elected officials for our state, SHOULD be sponsoring that in the best way you can. That means not supporting this border crossing at free will.

I don't want to live in Mexico, and you should want to stay in office, so I would hope that you also would be against this happening. The US needs to make a stand, not keep standing up for lower cost and bigger profits and saying heck with the American public and worker.

Note that YOUR STATE has double the national average of foreclosures. Do you REALLY think that allowing Mexican trucking companies free reign here in the US (and Ohio) where many American truck drivers live will really help that situation? No.

It's time for the American public and government to stand up, stand strong and try to keep this country strong and proud, not allow it to become a third world country.

Thank you for your time.

Wendy '

http://www.ooida.com/Documents/083107_JJ_ltr.htm

http://www.landlinemag.com/Special_Reports/2007/Sep07/090407_Court_denies.htm

Single mothers needing Christmas Help-who can help?

franksinwein — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:11:40 GMT

I know single mothers who are attending NKU, who work full and part-time and are in serious need of Christmas gift help and Christmas dinner help. I know of one mother without a vehicle and is barely paying her rent but still takes care of her small child, works, studies, and attends classes-she does not even have a winter coat and has duct-taped her 5 year old gym shoes; she does not have a support network, family near and is doing everything on her own. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know where these women can recieve assistance? Plus, the later woman does not have a car and can not pick anything up. Thank you for your time.

Read My Lips-No Sales Tax increase

mysteriously silent — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:05:18 GMT

The citizens of Hamilton county have voted down a sales tax increase for the second time. What part of "NO" do the Hamilton County Commissioners have a problem with. It is time we clean house in Hamilton County vote every single commissioner out who supports the hair-brained idea of pushing the sales tax increase through anyway. It is obvious that the will of the people means nothing to this group of commissioners!!!!

Kroger

NetGuru — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:52:18 GMT

things must be going good when a union thinks it is time to strike.

Water Balloon Prankster Must Pay Back City and County

NoNewsIsGoodnews — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:03:41 GMT

Anyone else feel this is a lttle rediculous. $25,000 . I mean I can see a hefty fine for inducing painc even, but a helicopter charge for a water baloon prank, seems like the city is really reaching on that one.

http://www.local12.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=9c76a590-f5ca-4bd8-8118-0af1151b71ba

California Fires

mysteriously silent — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:07:59 GMT

I am a Cincinnatian visiting in San Clemente, California. These fires are a terrible tragedy. You can only imagine the trauma these people are going through. To stand at the botton of a hill and watch your home and everything you own go up in flames. They want to stay in their homes only to be told by local law enforcement that they have to leave because they are in danger. This has been so reminiscent of "Katrina" "FEMA" do your job "this time"

Rochelle Perry

navyblue439 — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:49:04 GMT

I am with Rochelle's mother on this. $20,000 bond set for hit and run and vehicular homocide. This is just too low. The court needs to throw the book at this driver. I find it offensive that the court did not see fit to put more value in the life of a yong girl who had her whole life before her. A life full of promise. A life instantly taken from her by one so callously unconcerned about her that he would drive on after hitting her and leaving her dying in the street . Just sickening. It makes me wonder if he could have been in other unsolved hit-and-runs accidents?

No Workers to Pick Crops???

Curious — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:38:57 GMT

Ok, on the news the other night they showed fields that can't be harvested because the illegal aliens are being cracked down on....yeah right.

My thought was why not start using some of the guys in jail who are sitting around doing nothing but watching tv or hanging around doing nothing. Maybe it wouldn't be a place anyone would ever want to go back to if they actually had to work like the rest of us out here do everyday to support their "3 hots and a cot". Before anybody starts with the "cruel and unusual" crap...what's cruel and unusual about having a job? The law abiding types do it, so should the vultures who prey on us. Maybe when they got out they'd think a job out here was a piece of cake compared to jail.

I 74 Trashed

mack1 — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:46:21 GMT

I 74 is full of trash from downtown to indiana state line!! It is a mess.I think we need to put some of our unbehaved youth and some of those prisoners in the overcrowded jail to work. What do you think?? New Jail New Tax?? Or pick up some trash for early release. Use the tax money that we are already spending instead of paying city workers that could be doing something else to pick uo trash. Littering is Nasty. I 74 is Gross.