I tried to download the NSP2 application file from the link at the top of this listing but I could not get it to work. Has anyone else had a problem downloading it?
The importance of local newspaper reporters goeseven beyond the 61% item origination rate. A few years ago the Vindicator ran a 4 Sunday series of articles on a local issue. The length and depth of the articles was probably equal to what TV news would consider about 40 "in depth" on air reports. Both width and depth used to be the advantage of print media.
I certainly have no insight into how newspapers can survive. I still like the papercopy but can imagine someday I will no longer have it. Your newspapers in the schools program clearly showed your fear that young people are just not developing a concern for daily local news beyond sports.
I live in a household that takes both the Vindicator and the Tribune and I consider the Vindicator to be the better paper particularly since the Tribune gave up its best local columnist.
There are only a few things I can think of doing. Read it. Occasionally try to mention ads when buying something. Try to use some of the coupons that advertisers will know came from the paper. If you are in a conversation with people bring up information from the newspaper and act just a little surprised if other people did not know about it.
I know how hard it is to find the old fashioned news carriers so I don't mind if you just keep flinging it on the porch. If someone is elderly or handicapped putting it in the door might be nice.
As in even simpler types of reconciliation it can be impossible to hammer out issues A to Z one at a time. If one participant is willing to give on issues A to M but not N to Z that participant will scuttle the whole process long before it even reaches issue M. Only the presentation of one or more overall reconciliation plans for consideration is likely to move towardsmajority acceptance. Where does a successful plan arise from? Not from a source that is not well tuned to years of careful listening to all parties interested in progress in some of the crucial issues at stake. Public airing of individual issues is fine but the reconciliation is overall. This is particularly true of there are parties whose agenda is really to blow up the whole process.
Now that the public option is out it is time for Republicans like Olympia Snowe and George Voinivich to vote for the bill. Enough compromises have been made. This is a long way from the single payer plan that I would have preferred but we are at the brink and there are too many lives being ruined by pre existing condition issues.
Cuyahoga County has a record of providing hundreds of millions of dollars of local tax levy money over more than 40 years to its community college system. The system has major campus facilities throughout the county. This dedicated local effort has been recognized by the state which has resulted in state building funds being made available to make additions to accomodate active ongoing programs and expand others.
Constructing a 2million dollar maintenance building on the OSU Lima campus should not be looked at automatically as some kind of extravagance unrelated to the educational mission of the Lima campus. A maintenance facility might not sound flashy particularly when we would rather have the money for our local area. Lima may well look jealously at some of the buildings built with state money at YSU in Youngstown.
Rather than attack the mission of other established programs that have proven their dedication to the community college concept we should proceed with developing viable programs close to where the demand develops. There may well be sufficient existing physical facilities available to get a good start.
Judges should be allowed to appeal their budgets so that they can maintain independence in their judicial decisions. That part is valid. A Board of Commissioners or council should not be able pressure a courts decision making process by threatening to cut its budget. Being allowed to "mandate" their budgets is something else. The current situation does not seem to involve an issue of judicial decision independence. The judges statement that they know best what their costs are is probably true but their self interest is also heavily involved and may not give them the best perspective. Even if their personal salaries are paid from a different source their self interest is closely tied to how much they pay their friends and coworkers and the level of their workloads.
I don't think the opposition to bailing out the auto industry is based on wanting the uaw employees to be forced to make minimum wage ( about 7,8$ per hour)with no benefits as the letter writer claims. There is a long distance between that and 25 to 28$ per hour with excellent benefits and near full pay on layoff ( not jobs banks )
The odds that the auto industry will ever pay back the government money is no more likely than that the financial industry backing will be recouped by eventual asset sales.
Yes. Community colleges like Sinclair in the Dayton area are fulfilling a valuable mission in their communities. The state has recognized that the current system in the Mahoning valley with county adult career centers, Kent branches and parts of YSU all competing in an uncoordinated free for all needs to be changed. Calling it a system at all is not really appropriate. Every metropolitan area of the state except the Mahoning Valley has recognized the need. This doesn’t need to involve building new buildings. It does need to involve a new community college governing board dedicated to its mission. To help understand the mission of community colleges the resources of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges are available. The institutionalized high cost structure of public 4 year universities prevents effective cost efficient instruction that is more appropriately delivered by a community college in an era when the vast majority of high school graduates begin post secondary education.
if someone had 11.9 million dollars to invest it seems unlikely they would want to buy 40% of an arena that no one thinks can make $600,000 per year. The city doesn't even particularly want to own 100% of the arena for 11.9 million.
Flaws, omissions demolished HUD plan
I tried to download the NSP2 application file from the link at the top of this listing but I could not get it to work.
Has anyone else had a problem downloading it?
January 23, 2010 at 12:22 p.m. permalink suggest removal
What if 61 percent of your news stopped?
The importance of local newspaper reporters goeseven beyond the 61% item origination rate. A few years ago the Vindicator ran a 4 Sunday series of articles on a local issue. The length and depth of the articles was probably equal to what TV news would consider about 40 "in depth" on air reports. Both width and depth used to be the advantage of print media.
I certainly have no insight into how newspapers can survive. I still like the papercopy but can imagine someday I will no longer have it. Your newspapers in the schools program clearly showed your fear that young people are just not developing a concern for daily local news beyond sports.
I live in a household that takes both the Vindicator and the Tribune and I consider the Vindicator to be the better paper particularly since the Tribune gave up its best local columnist.
There are only a few things I can think of doing. Read it. Occasionally try to mention ads when buying something. Try to use some of the coupons that advertisers will know came from the paper. If you are in a conversation with people bring up information from the newspaper and act just a little surprised if other people did not know about it.
I know how hard it is to find the old fashioned news carriers so I don't mind if you just keep flinging it on the porch. If someone is elderly or handicapped putting it in the door might be nice.
January 22, 2010 at 11:40 a.m. permalink suggest removal
‘Reform’ can’t blossom behind closed doors
As in even simpler types of reconciliation it can be impossible to hammer out issues A to Z one at a time. If one participant is willing to give on issues A to M but not N to Z that participant will scuttle the whole process long before it even reaches issue M. Only the presentation of one or more overall reconciliation plans for consideration is likely to move towardsmajority acceptance. Where does a successful plan arise from? Not from a source that is not well tuned to years of careful listening to all parties interested in progress in some of the crucial issues at stake. Public airing of individual issues is fine but the reconciliation is overall. This is particularly true of there are parties whose agenda is really to blow up the whole process.
January 8, 2010 at 4:55 p.m. permalink suggest removal
The roots of politics run deep in health-care reform debate
Now that the public option is out it is time for Republicans like Olympia Snowe and George Voinivich to vote for the bill. Enough compromises have been made. This is a long way from the single payer plan that I would have preferred but we are at the brink and there are too many lives being ruined by pre existing condition issues.
December 18, 2009 at 12:51 p.m. permalink suggest removal
New community college off to good start in Valley
Cuyahoga County has a record of providing hundreds of millions of dollars of local tax levy money over more than 40 years to its community college system. The system has major campus facilities throughout the county. This dedicated local effort has been recognized by the state which has resulted in state building funds being made available to make additions to accomodate active ongoing programs and expand others.
Constructing a 2million dollar maintenance building on the OSU Lima campus should not be looked at automatically as some kind of extravagance unrelated to the educational mission of the Lima campus. A maintenance facility might not sound flashy particularly when we would rather have the money for our local area. Lima may well look jealously at some of the buildings built with state money at YSU in Youngstown.
Rather than attack the mission of other established programs that have proven their dedication to the community college concept we should proceed with developing viable programs close to where the demand develops. There may well be sufficient existing physical facilities available to get a good start.
September 29, 2009 at 12:39 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Should judges be able to mandate their budgets regardless of a government’s fiscal problems?
Judges should be allowed to appeal their budgets so that they can maintain independence in their judicial decisions. That part is valid. A Board of Commissioners or council should not be able pressure a courts decision making process by threatening to cut its budget. Being allowed to "mandate" their budgets is something else. The current situation does not seem to involve an issue of judicial decision independence. The judges statement that they know best what their costs are is probably true but their self interest is also heavily involved and may not give them the best perspective.
Even if their personal salaries are paid from a different source their self interest is closely tied to how much they pay their friends and coworkers and the level of their workloads.
April 9, 2009 at 1:01 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Don’t begrudge autoworkers decent pay and benefits
I don't think the opposition to bailing out the auto industry is based on wanting the uaw employees to be forced to make minimum wage ( about 7,8$ per hour)with no benefits as the letter writer claims. There is a long distance between that and 25 to 28$ per hour with excellent benefits and near full pay on layoff ( not jobs banks )
The odds that the auto industry will ever pay back the government money is no more likely than that the financial industry backing will be recouped by eventual asset sales.
December 9, 2008 at 11:46 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Do you believe there is a need for a proposed Mahoning Valley community college?
Yes. Community colleges like Sinclair in the Dayton area are fulfilling a valuable mission in their communities. The state has recognized that the current system in the Mahoning valley with county adult career centers, Kent branches and parts of YSU all competing in an uncoordinated free for all needs to be changed. Calling it a system at all is not really appropriate. Every metropolitan area of the state except the Mahoning Valley has recognized the need. This doesn’t need to involve building new buildings. It does need to involve a new community college governing board dedicated to its mission. To help understand the mission of community colleges the resources of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges are available. The institutionalized high cost structure of public 4 year universities prevents effective cost efficient instruction that is more appropriately delivered by a community college in an era when the vast majority of high school graduates begin post secondary education.
April 3, 2008 at 9:12 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Y’town has a chance to go for gold with arena
if someone had 11.9 million dollars to invest it seems unlikely they would want to buy 40% of an arena that no one thinks can make $600,000 per year. The city doesn't even particularly want to own 100% of the arena for 11.9 million.
February 7, 2008 at 10:46 p.m. permalink suggest removal