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THE DARFUR crisis has demonstrated the limits of U.S. influence. President Bush and administration officials have described it as genocide and pushed intermittently for sanctions, peacekeeping deployments, and a deal between Sudan's government and its rebel opponents, but their efforts have been hampered by the hesitancy of other players.

Sanctions resolutions in the U.N. Security Council have been delayed and diluted because
Russia sells weapons to Sudan's government and because
China has a large stake in Sudan's oil.
Efforts to deploy a serious peacekeeping force have been undermined partly
by foot-dragging within the Security Council,
partly by the indifference of Sudan's Arab neighbors to the suffering of Darfur's Muslim victims
and partly by the ambivalence of the African Union,
which has veered between brave efforts to supply soldiers and a misplaced deference to Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
Yesterday brought a small victory in the effort to force action. Now a bigger test follows.... (The Washington Post)
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WALL STREET JOURNAL
So this government in Baghdad, fighting for its life, has not mastered even the grim science of the gallows, and has no knowledge of the "drop charts" used for hangings around the world. The Tikritis had been much better at this sort of thing. They had all the time in the world to perfect the skills and techniques of terror; they had done it against the background of relative indifference by outside powers. And they had the indulgence of the neighboring Arabs who gave their warrant to all that played out in Iraq under the Tikriti despotism.
Pity those men now hunkered down in Baghdad as they walk a fine, thin line between the yearning for justice and retribution in their land, and the scrutiny of the outside world. In the annals of Arab history, the Shia have been strangers to power, rebels and dissidents and men on the run hunted down by official power. Now the ground has shifted in Baghdad, and an Arab world steeped in tyranny reproaches a Shia-led government sitting atop a volcano. America's "regional diplomacy"--the name for our earnest but futile entreaties to the Arab rulers--will not reconcile the Arab regimes to the rise of the Shia outcasts.
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NEW YORK TIMES
Europe Resists U.S. Push to Curb Iran Ties By STEVEN R. WEISMAN The resistance threatens to open a new rift between Europe and the United States over Iran.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/washington/30iran.html?th&emc=th
Administration officials say a new American drive to reduce exports to Iran and cut off its financial transactions is intended to further isolate Iran commercially amid the first signs that global pressure has hurt Iran’s oil production and its economy. There are also reports of rising political dissent in Iran.

In December, Iran’s refusal to give up its nuclear program led the United Nations Security Council to impose economic sanctions. Iran’s rebuff is based on its contention that its nuclear program is civilian in nature, while the United States and other countries believe Iran plans to make weapons.

More weapons of mass dstruction...

"We are telling the Europeans that they need to go way beyond what they’ve done to maximize pressure on Iran," said a senior administration official. "The European response on the economic side has been pretty weak." The American demands and European responses were provided by 10 different officials, including both supporters and critics of the American approach.


QUOTATION OF THE DAY
- QUOTATION OF THE DAY - "She has served the good Lord, she has served the church, she has served us. What better legacy can she leave?" - JOHN STEWART JR., on his great-aunt Emma Faust Tillman, who died at age 114.
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Rising temperatures will leave millions more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water shortages in China and Australia, as well as parts of Europe and the United States, according to a new global climate report
The report, due for release in April but detailed in The Age newspaper, said an additional 200 million to 600 million people across the world would face food shortages in another 70 years, while coastal flooding would hit another 7 million homes.
"The message is that every region of the earth will have exposure," Dr Graeme Pearman, who helped draft the report, told Reuters on Tuesday.
"If you look at China, like Australia they will lose significant rainfall in their agricultural areas," said Pearman, the former climate director of Australia's top science body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
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BETTER DEAL: I would rather have teachers living out of the district who are willing to teach our children than alleged pedophiles in administrative positions who came in from other states.
- Flint
MAKING SACRIFICES: I think before presidents start a war with any other country, if they have children, they should sacrifice their children first. That way they would really think about starting a war with another country.
Flint

SUIT UP: There should be a multitude of lawsuits over the Flint School District dress code. I have witnessed students being denied access to an education. Being sent to the office until someone brings a uniform keeps youngsters out of class.
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Is it me or is China the REAL superpower these days. I mean George Bush has got the usa so occupied by war, that Americans are distracted from the world picture. I know China deserves to sit on top of things given their bad luck. But what with supporting iraq and behavior like that mentioned in this article [url=http://www.CHINAS-INSURANCE.COM ] they are able to call the shots [/url] more than any other country. From josephsara
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01/29/ 2007

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Political Protest is your right!

(Washington - AP, January 27, 2007) - Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.

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RE: 2/ 10/ 07 Education workshop
I hope it inspires some QUALITY people to run for the Board.

We are in some DEEP TROUBLE there!!!!!!
My biggest concern is that a new faction will want to oust Milton. The current Board has done a poor job of doing a good evaluation. Most of the scandals were not even mentioned in his evaluation. So at this point if they want to "switch" superintendents they will have to buy him off....like was done with Dr. Ray.

If the Board had done a quality job on the evalution they may have had grounds to fire him at no cost.

The deficit alone should be grounds to consider if he is capable of running an operation this large (1/4 of a billion dollars).

This all coupled with larger loss of students than normal, and a continuing poor performance academically DOESN'T LOOK GOOD!

Thank you for providing this venue for the public. It is greatly needed

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IRAQ
spokesman for Iraqi security forces in Najaf, Col. Ali Nomas Jerao, said that 250 suspected insurgents were killed in the fighting, which took place about eight miles northeast of Najaf, and that 40 people were detained. The U.S. military did not provide death tolls for Iraqi forces or insurgents.

The fighters, who called themselves the Soldiers of the Sky, are driven by an apocalyptic vision of clearing the Earth of the depraved in preparation for the second coming of Muhammad al-Mahdi, a Shiite imam who disappeared in the 9th century, according to Ahmed Duaibel, a spokesman for the provincial government in Najaf. The governor of Najaf province, Assad Abu Gilel, said the group planned to attack pilgrims and shrines and to assassinate Shiite clerics at the peak of the religious holiday, called Ashura, which culminates Tuesday.
NEW YORK TIMES

Iranian Reveals Plan to Expand Role in Iraq By JAMES GLANZ Iran's ambassador to Baghdad outlined a plan to expand its economic and military ties with Iraq that will almost certainly bring more conflict with the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/world/middleeast/29iranians.html?th&emc=th


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In Law School, Obama Found Political Voice By JODI KANTOR Barack Obama arrived at Harvard Law School as an unknown; by the time he left, he had become a political sensation. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html?th&emc=th

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 23 — The peers who elected Barack Obama as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review say he was a natural leader, an impressive student, a nice guy. But in the 1990 Revue — the graduating editors’ gleeful parody of their elite publication — they said quite a bit more.......He arrived there as an unknown, Afro-wearing community organizer who had spent years searching for his identity; by the time he left, he had his first national news media exposure, a book contract and a shot of confidence from running the most powerful legal journal in the country.

Washington Post
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Dan BalzWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, January 29, 2007; Page A01
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Jan. 28 -- Lynda Waddington met Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton twice this weekend as the Democratic senator from New York made her initial campaign visit to the state with the nation's first presidential caucuses. Clinton, she said, is nothing like the politician she sees portrayed in the press.

"The media in particular has a bad habit of taking our candidates and giving them back to us in a caricature," said Waddington, an Iowa Democratic Party official and activist. "Al Gore was a bumbling elitist. With Hillary, they have her painted as a cold fish. That's absolutely what you do not get in person. She's very warm and very intelligent."


QUOTATION OF THE DAY-

"Urge the American companies to come here." - HASSAN KAZEMI QUMI, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq, on Iran's plans to begin its own reconstruction effort for its war-torn neighbor.


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DAVENPORT, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that President Bush has made a mess of Iraq and it is his responsibility to "extricate" the United States from the situation before he leaves office.
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"It's not the American people or the U.S. Congress who are emboldening the enemy," said Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and White House hopeful in 2008. "It's the failed policy of this president — going to war without a strategy, going to war prematurely."
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"I think most of the nations in that part of the world believe their security is supported, if you will, by the United States. They want us to have a major presence there," Cheney said in an interview with Newsweek magazine, according to a transcript released by the White House on Sunday.
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It's not just the nation's capital, where busloads of people from at least 30 states are headed to make their voices heard.

Around the country, lawmakers' district offices are feeling the heat as well through Quakers' peaceful "vigils" and the occasional act of civil disobedience. In one recent case, the Episcopal bishop of northern California was arrested for blocking the door of the federal office building in San Francisco. And marches and rallies are planned in other cities, including Orlando, Fla., Seattle, San Diego, and Newark, N.J.

Major organizations are working to ensure that events do not include fringe groups and speakers, such as anarchists or socialists. Until recently, "people on the far left got control of the agenda and it became marginalized, even though the sentiment in the country increasingly became antiwar," says one organizer, who wished to remain anonymous. These days, such events feature labor union members, environmentalists, and especially active duty military people, says this source.

Organizers of the Washington event are anticipating between 300,000 and 500,000 people. Among Americans, 70 percent opposed a troop surge, according to a recent AP-Ipsos poll.
Movement organizers are careful not to indicate anything other than strong support for the troops.

"A big difference between the antiwar movement now and the one in Vietnam is that there has not been - even among the most radical of them - attacks on the troops themselves," says political scientist John Allen Williams of Loyola University Chicago. "That is absolutely crucial."
That's one reason Tim Kahlor of Temecula, Calif., will join protesters in Washington.

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FLINT TWP. - Fights sent at least five police agencies scrambling to the area's largest mall Saturday night.
Shoppers and retailers said at least 50 people were involved in several fights in different areas of the Genesee Valley shopping center, mostly near the food court sometime before 8 p.m.
"We've had mass fighting in the mall," was all Flint Township Sgt. Tim Jones would say at the scene. "We've got multiple people in custody." [ Mabey the saftey and convience of the Mall is gone, will street entrance downtown come back, I hope so for Flint}

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GREEDY RUN: How greedy. These people are running for president. Just look at all the millions they are going to waste. The people they want to serve need medical insurance, good educations, good jobs. But now we will see all the hoopla and waste.
- Flint

BANNING FREEDOM: Since hospitals are banning smoking on their property, why not ban everything unhealthy? Sweets and pop lead to diabetes. The cafeterias serve food that raises cholesterol and diabetes. They are taking away people's right to make their own decisions.
- Flint

A REAL PROBLEM: Problems are a problem in Beecher School District. What is wrong with their math program? The number of kids mastering basic math skills plummets after fourth grade. The latest MEAP scores should tell them where the problems are.
- Fenton

CHECK BAD BLOOD: The Generals deserve a packed house for every game. So-called Flint fans need to come up with a better excuse for not coming out to the games besides the temperature in the arena. Concession prices are probably the best in the league. Flint fans need to get over the bad blood and get out there and show some support to the team!
- Burton

TERRIFIC MURAL: If you happen to be in the Flint Cultural Center after dark, make sure you drive past the front of the Flint Institute of Arts where the new mural Earth, Wind, Fire, Water seems to flow out of the windows. It looks terrific!
- Genesee County

BIG PAYOFF? It will be interesting to see how much money the Pfizer CEO gets after they shut down the facility in Ann Arbor.
- Genesee County

CHANGE NEEDED: Sure can tell this is an election year in Burton. Smiley's cronies are at it again, attacking all those who are a possible threat this year. I'm sure there will be plenty of good honest people to choose from this year. Politicians are like diapers - they need to be changed often.
- Burton

CAPED CRUSADERS? Wow, all they need now is the Riddler on the Burton City Council and they can rename it Gotham City!
- Burton

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(Washington - AP, January 27, 2007) - Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.
Celebrities, a half-dozen lawmakers and protesters from distant states rallied in the capital under a sunny sky, seizing an opportunity to press their cause with a Congress restive on the war and a country that has turned against the conflict.
Marching with them was Jane Fonda, in what she said was her first anti-war demonstration in 34 years.

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01/05/07

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WILL THE DEATH OF SADDAM HUSSEIN BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST?
NO!
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The killing of Saddam Hussein is nothing but a smokescreen - a diversion in a series of diversions that will do nothing to address the price of the occupation of Iraq.
If the Bush administration truly wanted to curb the cycle of bloodshed, it would come clean and share with the US public, the Iraqi people, and the international community the real goals of this disastrous neoconservative adventure.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq was an act of US economic self interest, marketed as a war of liberation.

Iraq was chosen ahead of Iran or Syria because it had been weakened by 13 years of sanctions.

It provided the opportunity to station US bases in the Middle East, and a vantage point to monitor Iran. Control of the massive oil reserves was not to be sniffed at, either. It was assumed that Iraqis' distaste for Saddam would somehow make occupation acceptable.
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Former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark previously denounced the Iraqi Special Tribunal's death sentences against Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 20. Clark served on Hussein’s defense team during the trial.

"The consequences of execution will be greater violence." Clark warned, "I don't think you can rationally expect anything else." ....

The implications of execution are dire. Clark noted that "The Pentagon [had] announced that violence in Iraq was at an all time high."
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Clark also commented on the parallels between Vietnam and Iraq. He observed that long many knew that the U.S. government’s war of aggression against Vietnam was doomed to failure, the war dragged on with massive casualties mounting.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=FRE20070101&articleId=4281
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2. WHITE ADOPTIONS OF BLACK BABIES. ALL CHILDREN NEED WHOLESOME ENVIRONMENTS
"We had three children and we wanted one more. I was about to go off pills when I read an article about American Indian children and I thought, why not?" That, as Housewife Judy Meredith of Boston explains it, is how she and her husband—both white—came to adopt a 13-month-old Indian called Tommy and a two-week-old black baby named Jackie.

The Merediths' decision is part of a growing phenomenon known in sociologist's jargon as transracial adoption.

Last year 2,200 black babies were adopted by white U.S. families, compared with only 700 in 1968. Today there are more than 10,000 "T.R.A. families" in all 50 states and in the ten Canadian provinces.

Today's Child. The trend is due partly to changing racial attitudes, but even more to an acute shortage of white babies brought about by the pill, easier abortion laws, and an increasing number of unwed mothers who keep their offspring. Because of the shortage, adoption agencies have changed their tactics.

3. IS AMERICA READY FOR A BLACK PRESIDENT?
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America has never come close to electing a black president.
The entertainment world, however, is bewitched by this possibility. Up until now, the idea of a black president has most often been portrayed at the safe ironic distance of comedy, as in the case of 'Head of State,' or, less frequently, in the science fiction genre (how telling is that?), with Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact, or Zeus "Tiny" Lister, Jr. in Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element serving as prime examples. In genres of fiction the idea of a black president is widely portrayed, it is in reality, alas, that the issue eludes us.

There is, of course, the Colin Powell factor.

Everyone says that they would love Colin Powell to run for the Presidency ("Run Colin, Run"), but in reality would he actually stand a chance? Possibly, but as he has never been elected to office, the question is a toss up. Could Colin Powell go in and sweep the Southern primaries on Super Tuesday as a Republican candidate needs to? Can you imagine the Secretary of State, hand held high, at the state capitol of South Carolina, where there is still furor in the air over the Confederate flag issue? No, me neither.

In the history of the United States there has never been anything but a constant succession of white male presidents.

...Last week Latinos were officially recognized as the largest minority, extrapolated from recent census figures. Asians and Blacks have precisely one Governor in American history each. And there are currently no Blacks or Asians in the Unites States Senate.

But when will we actually have an authentic black President?

I would like to say here that we will have a black president within the century, The only optimistic message I can give out is that it will be before the first black Pope, which, in my reasoning, appears to be several centuries away.

Then again, The Church has only recently accepted Galileo’s interpretation of reality, so the question of centuries may be overly optimistic.
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IS AMERICA READY FOR A WOMANPRESIDENT?

(CBS) As has been the case for a number of years, nearly all Americans say they would vote for a woman for president from their own political party if she were qualified, a CBS News/New York Times poll has found. And while a significantly smaller majority thinks America is actually ready to elect a woman president, that number is still the highest ever found by a CBS News poll

Ninety-two percent of adults now say they would vote for a woman for president from their political party if she were qualified for the job. This support has increased steadily over the past 50 years. In a Gallup poll conducted in 1955, 52 percent said they would support a woman for president. That number rose to 73 percent in 1975 and to 82 percent in 1987.

Today, 55 percent of those polled think America is ready for a woman president. This is up 7 points from December 1999 and the highest number since CBS News starting asking the question in 1996.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/03/opinion/polls/main1281319.shtml

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4. BUSH POISED TO GIVE MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS AMNESTY/CITIZENSHIP WITH THE INTENT OF

REQUIRING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO JOIN THE US MILITARY.
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WASHINGTON -- The armed forces, already struggling to meet recruiting goals, are:
considering expanding the number of noncitizens in the ranks --
including disputed proposals to open recruiting stations overseas and putting more immigrants on a faster track to US citizenship if they volunteer -- according to Pentagon officials.

Foreign citizens serving in the US military is a highly charged issue, which could expose the Pentagon to criticism that it is essentially using mercenaries to defend the country.

Other analysts voice concern that a large contingent of noncitizens under arms could jeopardize national security or reflect badly on Americans' willingness to serve in uniform.

The idea of signing up foreigners who are seeking US citizenship is gaining traction as a way to address a critical need for the Pentagon, while fully absorbing some of the roughly one million immigrants that enter the United States legally each year.

The proposal to induct more noncitizens, which is still largely on the drawing board, has to clear a number of hurdles. So far, the Pentagon has been quiet about specifics -- including who would be eligible to join, where the recruiting stations would be, and what the minimum standards might involve, including English proficiency. In the meantime, the Pentagon and immigration authorities have expanded a program that accelerates citizenship for legal residents who volunteer for the military.
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5. THE INCARCERATION RATE OF MEN AND WOMEN HAS EXPLODED IN THE UNITED STATES.
WHY?
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WASHINGTON – More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there, according to a new report by the Justice Department released Sunday. That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world.

It's the first time the US government has released estimates of the extent of imprisonment, and the report's statistics have broad implications for everything from state fiscal crises to how other nations view the American experience.

If current trends continue, it means that a black male in the United States would have about a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison during his lifetime. For a Hispanic male, it's 1 in 6; for a white male, 1 in 17.

The numbers come after many years of get-tough policies - and years when violent-crime rates have generally fallen. But to some observers, they point to broader failures in US society, particularly in regard to racial minorities and others who are economically disadvantaged.
"These new numbers are shocking enough, but what we don't see are the ripple effects of what they mean: For the generation of black children today, there's almost an inevitable aspect of going to prison," says Marc Mauer, assistant director of The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington. "We have the wealthiest society in human history, and we maintain the highest level of imprisonment. It's striking what that says about our approach to social problems and inequality."

Numbering in the millions

Justice Department analysts say that experts in criminal justice have long known of the stark disparities in prison experience, but they have never been as fully documented. By the end of year 2001, some 1,319,000 adults were confined in state or federal prisons. An estimated 4,299,000 former prisoners are still alive, the new report concludes.
"What we are seeing is a substantial involvement of the public in the criminal-justice system. It raises a lot of questions in the national dialogue on everything from voting and sentencing to priorities related to state's expenditures," says Allen Beck, chief of correction statistics at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, who directed the report.
Nor does the impact of incarceration end with the sentence. Former inmates can be excluded from receiving public assistance, living in public housing, or receiving financial aid for college. Ex-felons are prohibited from voting in many states. And with the increased use of background checks - especially since 9/11 - they may be permanently locked out of jobs in many professions, including education, child care, driving a bus, or working in a nursing home.
Enfranchisement for ex-felons

More than 4 million prisoners or former prisoners are denied a right to vote; in 12 states, that ban is for life.

"That's why racial profiling has become such a priority issue for African-Americans, because it is the gateway to just such a statistic," says Yvonne Scruggs- Leftwich, chief operating officer of the Black Leadership Forum, in Washington. "It means that large numbers in the African-American community are disenfranchised, sometimes permanently."
Some states are already scaling back prohibitions or limits on voting affecting former inmates, including Maryland, Delaware, New Mexico, and Texas.

In addition, critics say that efforts to purge voting rolls of former felons could lead to abuses, and effectively disenfranchise many minority voters.

"On the day of the 2000 [presidential] election, there were an estimated 600,000 former felons who had completed their sentence yet because of Florida's restrictive laws were unable to vote," says Mr. Mauer of the Sentencing Project.

The new report also informs - but does not settle - one of the toughest debates in American politics: whether high rates of imprisonment are related to a drop in crime rates over the past decade.

The prison population has quadrupled since 1980. Much of that surge is the result of public policy, such as the war on drugs and mandatory minimum sentencing. Nearly 1 in 4 of the inmates in federal and state prisons are there because of drug-related offenses, most of them nonviolent.

Narcotic-related arrests

New drug policies have especially affected incarceration rates for women, which have increased at nearly double the rate for men since 1980. Nearly 1 in 3 women in prison today are serving sentences for drug-related crimes.

"A lot of people think that the reason crime rates have been dropping over the past several years is, in part, because we're incarcerating the people most likely to commit crimes," says Stephan Thernstrom, a historian at Harvard University.

Others say the drop has more to do with factors such as a generally healthy economy in the 1990s, more opportunity for urban youth, or better community policing.

But no one disagrees that prison experience will be a part of the lives of more and more Americans. By 2010, the number of American residents in prison or with prison experience is expected to jump to 7.7 million, or 3.4 percent of all adults, according to the new report.
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6. SCHOOLS CONTINUE TO CRUMBLE IN FLINT. NEW SCHOOLS( COSMETICS) ARE NOT
THE REAL ANSWERS.

WE NEED TO INSTITUE A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO EDUCATION. WHAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED

IS THE SCHOOL BOARD, ADMINISTRATION AND TEACHER ATTITUDES AND PROFESSIONALISM.
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If you take it for more than a political slogan, President Bush's motto for education reform--"no child left behind"--is a wildly ambitious goal. It is every bit as audacious as Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty or John F. Kennedy's race to the moon.

NOT SO GLOOMY. Low-income and minority students fare the worst. Only 29% of all fourth-graders read proficiently at their grade level, but among low-income kids, the figure is 13%. By the end of high school, black and Hispanic children perform only at the level whites do in eighth grade. "This achievement gap is the most important issue of social justice in our society," says Tom Vander Ark, executive director for education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which doles out $100 million a year for education reform. The problem is an economic issue, too, since white kids will fill fewer than half of U.S. school seats by 2040, down from 65% today and 85% in 1950.Still, the prospects are not quite so hopeless as the gloomy report card suggests. Many schools in prosperous, upper-middle-class suburbs have always done a good job, as have certain schools in solid middle-class districts. The real challenge lies with the continuing mediocrity that plagues too many of America's schools--and the disastrous state of education for kids at the bottom. The good news: The past two decades have seen an explosion of local reform efforts aimed at even the most intransigent problems. "We now have abundant evidence that there are strategies that can make a significant difference," says the Urban League's Price.

HEFTY OUTLAYS. At the same time, however, the U.S. must also pony up more money for serious reform. Bush wants a $2 billion, or 10%, boost in federal K-12 spending. But that's pennies out of the $360 billion total the U.S. shells out annually on public education. No one has tried to figure out what it would take to provide every child with an adequate education. Wyoming took a shot at it and came up with $7,400 per student a year, or 18% more than what it had been spending. The cost would certainly be higher in many states with big cities and many poor families.

PAY TEACHERS FOR PERFORMANCEFew factors affect students' performances more than the quality of their teachers. A Tennessee study in 1996--to cite just one of many making the same point--found that fifth-graders who had three years of effective teaching improved their math scores by 83%, vs. a 29% gain for students with ineffective teachers. Yet many teachers are unqualified. One-third of secondary school math teachers and roughly half of physical science teachers didn't major or minor in the subjects they teach. Often, "the most senior teachers opt for the nicest schools, while we put our weakest teachers in the hardest locations," says Robert T. Jones, president of the National Alliance of Business (NAB), which backs training and education initiatives.The appalling shortage of quality teachers stems in part from chronically low pay.

UP THE LADDER. The payoff has been great. It has avoided the teacher shortages of other states. "We turn away three [applicants] for every one we let into our teaching program, and the grade-point average of those accepted is 3.4," brags Richard L. Schwab, dean of the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Teacher attrition is down, and Connecticut has made huge gains in student achievement, especially in reading, where it ranks first in the nation.....More pay and training cost big bucks. Still, warns the January report by the NAB and the three other business groups, "without high-quality teachers, our efforts to improve student achievement are destined to fail." It's a question of paying now or paying later.

MAKE SCHOOLS SMALLERTwo years ago, Yrcania Castillo was kicked out of Hunter College High School in New York. Although the school is highly regarded, Yrcania found it too competitive and impersonal. "My attendance and grades were terrible," she admits. Then she discovered Humanities Prep, a small school in Manhattan that specializes in giving kids a second chance. Yrcania blossomed in the intimate environment of the 175-student school, where she's now a senior. "At Hunter, they didn't care, but here they're really concerned," says Yrcania, 17, who has applied to college. Without Humanities, "I would likely have ended up on welfare," she says.For decades, U.S. education has operated under the assumption that bigger is better, especially in high schools. After former Harvard President James B. Conant advocated eliminating smaller schools in favor of large, comprehensive ones in the 1950s, most urban high school students began attending factory-like schools with 1,000 students or more. Today, many have become cauldrons of violence, pitiful achievement, and high dropout rates.It's time for a 180-degree turn. New construction should favor "small neighborhood schools, with 200 to 500 students," says Jack Clegg, CEO of Nobel Learning Communities Inc.

REBORN. The movement is proving that the intimacy long offered by elite prep schools can work minor miracles in disadvantaged districts. Student attendance climbs, and dropout rates fall, according to a new study of Chicago's small schools by the Bank Street College of Education in New York. The schools in the study are located in Chicago's poorest neighborhoods. "It's like a village, where all of the teachers know the students," says Alice Perry, whose daughter, Mary, is a student at Best Practice High, a new Chicago small school.The school-within-a-school concept makes smallness work even in cavernous buildings.

HOLD EDUCATORS ACCOUNTABLELucy McVey took over as principal of Blanton Elementary in Austin, Tex., in 1996 with one mission: to remove it from the state's list of low-performing schools. Blanton earned the stigma after its mostly Hispanic immigrant students scored poorly on the TAAS. To shake things up, McVey required teachers to attend staff development sessions that ran till 8 p.m. She enticed 600 working-class parents to attend a baked-potato social, where she exhorted them to get more involved. "It was a tremendous struggle," McVey says. Some teachers even quit. But after just one year, math scores jumped by 33%, reading scores by 25%--and Blanton got off the list. Further improvements have landed it on the state's list of blue-ribbon schools.

HORNET'S NEST. Critics warn that annual testing would create test mania and divert kids from broader learning.

But there's ample evidence that performance can rise with well-designed accountability systems that use tests in addition to other measures. In North Carolina's ABC program, each school gets a target for how much they should improve on the state's test each year. Schools that meet the standard receive a bonus of up to $1,500 per teacher.4. OFFER MORE VARIETYMost people associate school choice with vouchers, which allow parents to use public funds for private schools. But while vouchers remain stymied in a political and legal quagmire, there has been an explosion of choice in public school systems. Charter schools have multiplied from 100 in 1994 to 2,000 today. They serve a half-million of America's 53 million K-12 students, estimates Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform in Washington. Another 1 million or so kids have a choice of schools within the traditional public-school system, she estimates. By contrast, only about 20,000 students in a handful of cities attend private schools using publicly funded vouchers. Indeed, giving students a choice of public schools, where 90% of kids go, is a more realistic alternative than vouchers. It's also a far easier political sell, since the teachers unions support charters.


NEW MODELS. To ensure that students have access to educational approaches that best fit their needs, school boards should be overhauled and given the primary responsibility for creating choice in their districts. In effect, boards should help every school become a charter school, with the ability to set its own approach within broad guidelines. Boards would set the guidelines and oversee the results to ensure that schools meet performance standards.5.

PROVIDE ADEQUATE FUNDINGIn January, a New York court issued a stinging indictment of the state's funding of New York City's 1.1 million-student school system. A staggering 31% of the city's teachers flunked the basic exam required of new educators on their first try, vs. 4.7% of those in the rest of the state. Hundreds of city school buildings have structural deficiencies. Overall, the state's poorest districts, mostly in the city, spend $2,800 per child less than the richest, mostly located in suburbs and upstate. That works out to some $60,000 less per class.6.

INCREASE TIME IN SCHOOLThe amount of time kids spend in class has remained largely unchanged since the 19th century, when schools adopted the six-hour day and the nine-month calendar to accommodate farm life. The summer break is especially harmful to minority and poor kids. They enter the first grade half a year behind upper-income children but fall 2.5 years behind by the end of fifth grade, according to a Baltimore study by Johns Hopkins University sociologists Doris R. Entwisle and Karl Alexander. "Almost all of this gap can be traced to the summer vacations, when lower-income kids were treading water and upper-income kids were forging ahead," says Alexander. The reason, he concluded, is that upper-income families do so much better at keeping their kids stimulated during the summer."

NO SHORTCUTS." The solution--requiring more time in school for kids who need it--is simple to say but difficult to achieve. "Schools have to be in session year-round," argues Chicago's Vallas. One problem, of course, is cost. There's also resistance from teachers, parents, and students, who all like the summer break. In addition, more time isn't as necessary for many affluent kids, giving the concept a penalize-the-poor tinge.

USE TECHNOLOGY EFFECTIVELYSchools have embraced new technology with fervor in recent years. Some 95% of public schools are wired to the Internet, up from less than 35% in 1994. There has also been an explosion in the digital resources available to schools, from virtual courses and field trips to access to some of the world's great libraries.Yet so far, technology has done little to improve the national report card. The problem: Most educators don't know how to use it to improve student learning, teacher cooperation, or even school administration. That needs to change, since no other tool offers more potential to transform our schools.

GONE FISHING. Similarly, Washington State has created a statewide fiber-optic intranet called K-20 that links every college and school district in thestate. Now "we're offering all kinds of virtual courses," says state superintendent Terry Bergeson. Seven districts, from Forks, a fishing town on the Olympic Peninsula, to North Franklin on the Columbia River, have teamed up on a project to help protect salmon. Kids monitor water quality, discuss their findings with each other through teleconferences, and report to their local communities.http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_12/b3724001.htm

7. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER JACKIE POPULAR SHOULD RESIGN?
No, she gave notice, asked for directoin did it very public the coujncil and city attorney shoukld apologize to her...


8. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WAS DEFEATED BY MICHIGAN VOTERS. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE
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To One United Michigan members and friends: We write today to thank you for joining with us to fight Proposal 2. Like you, we are deeply disappointed that voters supported an amendment that eliminates affirmative action as a tool to provide equal opportunity and diversity in our state. We created an incredible and diverse coalition, building relationships many thought could never happen. Unfortunately, our best efforts were not enough. Issues well beyond our control influenced the outcome of this referendum.

The combination of our opponents' fraud and deception, our racially segregated state and present economic and social fears in a changing world truly made this an uphill fight. You can't change a culture with a political campaign. But it was and is a fight worth fighting. That's why we are considering continuing our efforts to ensure equal opportunity is provided to all here in Michigan . In the coming weeks, we will provide information to our coalition partners and interested parties regarding the impact of Proposal 2 and share recommended best practices on how to create and promote diversity from around the country. Early next year we will be reaching out to ask you to consider how this very powerful coalition's work to achieve the goals of inclusion and diversity can be pursued on a state-wide basis.As a state, we must embrace diversity as an asset and advantage for all of us, or we will be hindered in the efforts to achieve our goals for Michigan 's future. We know that diversity makes us stronger, and is too critical to our future to simply abandon.We thank you again for your many contributions to our fight and we look to leaders like you in our business, labor, education, interfaith and other various communities to continue to make equal opportunity a priority.We hope you will continue as a partner in the coalition effort
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• Group estimates 20 crooked former lawmakers are earning government pensions• Pensioners include Democrats and Republicans• Democrats offered pension legislation last year, will offer again

(CNN) -- As Democrats pledge to clean up Congress when they take control this week, public interest groups are urging them to add one more item to their ethics reform list: Stop rewarding crooked colleagues.
Led by the conservative National Taxpayers Union, two dozen watchdog groups of all political stripes say it's time to stop making taxpayers pay the pensions of lawmakers who are convicted of or plead guilty to crimes committed while in office.
For example, Republican Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham of California, who pleaded guilty in 2005 to tax evasion and conspiracy to accept bribes and kickbacks from contractors he was voting to give government business, will pocket an estimated $64,000 annual government pension while serving eight years in a North Carolina federal prison.
"I think the vast majority of Americans, certainly all the groups that signed the letter, think that's really wrong," said John Berthoud, president of the National Taxpayers Union.
Berthoud's group, which has urged tougher standards for disgraced members of Congress for years, estimates 20 crooked former lawmakers are earning government pensions.
They come from both sides of the political aisle. James Traficant, a former Democratic representative from Ohio who was convicted of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion, is serving eight years in a Minnesota prison and getting an estimated $40,000 pension. Former Republican Sen. David Durenberger of Minnesota, who pleaded guilty to fraud in 1995 and served a year's probation, receives an estimated $86,000 a year, according to the National Taxpayers Union.
The figures are estimates because Congress keeps the amount of all federal pensions secret. Pensions are based on years in office and any contribution the officeholder might make. But most of the money comes straight out of taxpayers' coffers. Right now, federal law stipulates the only grounds to strip a congressional member of his or her pension is treason. Admitting to being a common crook does not cause forfeiture of the pension.
"It's hard, unless you are a member of Congress or former member of Congress, for anybody to understand how on earth you could ask taxpayers to pay pensions for people like these,'' Berthoud said.
Traficant and Cunningham did not answer letters requesting comment, and an assistant to Durenberger said the former senator was not available to talk about his pension. CNN, however, did directly contact the convicted lawmaker who is estimated to pull down the biggest pension, Illinois Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski, former chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.
Known for his booming voice and the clout he wielded for years on the Hill, Rostenkowski said he did not want to talk about the matter. He served time for mail fraud and earns a $126,000 pension, according to the Taxpayers Union calculations. That gives him 126,000 good reasons, critics say, to keep his opinion about the matter to himself.
Drew Hammill, a spokesman for incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said House Democrats, with the support of Pelosi, offered legislation last year that would strip current members of their pensions if convicted of a felony. Hammill said Democrats will reintroduce similar legislation in the 110th Congress, which begins Thursday.
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DETROIT - Toyota Motor Corp. continued to gobble up market share in 2006, passing DaimlerChrysler AG as the No. 3 auto seller in the U.S. for the first time during a full calendar year.
Toyota, which includes the Toyota, Lexus and Scion brands, ended the year with 15.4 percent of the U.S. automotive market, compared with DaimlerChrysler's 13.3 percent, according to figures released Wednesday by Autodata Inc
...General Motors Corp., the world's largest automaker, reported December sales fell 13 percent to 334,501, and its sales for the 2006 dropped 8.7 percent compared with the previous year. Its market share was 24.3 percent for the year, with just over 4 million vehicles sold....
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WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats stepped hungrily to the brink of power on Wednesday, promising immediate action to limit the influence of lobbyists and pledging to constantly prod the Bush administration to bring U.S. troops home
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WHAT'S THE HURRY? It has become a daily sight for me to see drivers literally running red lights. I was stopping for a red light in front of me when the guy behind me swerved around me and ran the light. Why is everyone in such a hurry and willing to break the law?
- Swartz Creek
RUDE RETURNER: Had to laugh and shake my head upon hearing the following comment made in the gift return line at JC Penney: A lady was returning some clothing and finally got to the front of the line and yelled out, "I am in a hurry," then proceeded to tell the clerk at least five things that she wanted her to do with her returns, all of which took time to resolve. She acted like she was the only person in line and had to wait.
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COMMISSIONER CURTIS: It is unfortunate that Burton City Councilman Jamie Curtis will soon be taking a seat as a Genesee County commissioner. I used to only have to read about his self-serving antics; now they will affect me directly.
- Grand Blanc Township
NO FAN OF THE NBA: How sad to see we have a bunch of thugs playing pro basketball and being paid millions. Grow up! You guys are nothing but an embarrassment to most of us. I, for one, am choosing not to support you anymore.
- Swartz Creek
HOUSING STANDARDS: Only in Flint would crack houses still stand while historic homes get bought and bulldozed.
- Richfield Township

WORKED ONCE: Maybe if Shannon Pitcher wrote a letter of apology and had it printed in The Flint Journal, she could keep her job.
- Grand Blanc
THANKS OFFERED: Thank you to the people who found my daughter and nephew at the Genesee Valley shopping center and thanks for keeping them safe.

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ON GUARD: There is still about half the nation that believes in this president, and is not as naive, leftist or vocal when it comes to the threat of terrorism here.
- Flushing
CULTURE CLASH: I am very upset with the Flint Cultural Center. I'm a part of the Ambassadors Club. I give $1,000 a year, and I'm not going to give that anymore. The center is about culture and not about demolition. I think that it stinks they are trying to demolish those homes.
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WALK IN OUR SHOES: I am calling in response to a Talk Back in regards to heroin addicts and prostitutes as EMTs. I would like to know if that woman has ever tried to do our jobs.
- Swartz Creek
BAD BOARD: I left the last Gaines Township meeting just as confused as when I got there. They claim to do good for the township and for their residents, but they cut our questions short, said they would get to them later, or just didn't answer at all. Only two board members spoke up - the rest sat there looking very bored and irritated that they even had to be there. I can't believe that they actually believe they are doing what's best for our community.
- Gaines Township
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From Al Garcia
I'll tell you what Ive done, Ive come on here to stand up for the citizens of Flint and demand accountability for them, several who are family and friends!
I'll keep bitchin' until the citizens of Flint are given what they have earned. The hard working people of Flint built and drove (literally) this country to greatness and now that the chips are down, the national and state officals have taken a long runny, smelly crap right on the face of Flint.
Thirty years of this town as a toilet bowl has been 30 years to long if you ask me!! It's up to local elected officals to DEMAND better.
So if people like Dayne, Ryan, Dale, Adam, Donald or who ever wants to run this once great city, DAMN IT, they better tell the citizens of Flint what they plan to do! There isnt a chance in hell I would move back to Flint, but I cant change the fact that it is my hometown. Even after all this crap, Im still proud to be from Flint, Im just sick and tired of watching what has happened to it.
Thats what Ive done and will continue to do for Flinttown!
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FROM TED J
You can't fix a problem if you don't know what the problem is. Nor can you you put forth something resolution to something if you don't recognise that you even have the problem. Ah, and yes it Slams the Mayor! Hopefully this does show the problem well enough that we recognise the problem and correct it next election.
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A Rapunzal look a alike, which is which
Some one is spoofing...rapunzel. Third post that I did not make. I haven't even watched these video's yet, it takes to long to download. I do not make racial comments. They have my writing style down pretty close. Hilarious! Wondered if I had to many New Years cocktails and did not remember posting! Peace, RAP
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Terry, a suggestion. lose the step by step pan & zoom. its inefficient at best and distracting at its worst. If you were to do a continuous pan & zoom, it would be an ok opening device. But as you are currently doing it, it looks worst than amatuerish. You'll lose your audience if you don't grab them within the first, what, 5 - 7 seconds. TLR has a great intro song & images. Now, I'm no expert on computer video. But when I was learning to paint [art, not walls], I was taught the importance of a "lead in line"...something in the painting that would draw the eye of the viewer into the painting. Capturing the viwer's attention. That's what you have to do....draw the eye/interest of the viewer into your broadcast. But doing it in a Frankenstein-like "step..halt....click..step...halt click..." ain't doing it. just a suggestion. _________________Biggie
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WOMAN SHOT, WHO IS TO BLAME?
WHO SHOULD TELL US?
THE PROSECUTOR, A POLICE CHIEF OR AN OMBUDSMAN?
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FLINT - A Flint police officer is on administrative leave after allegedly being involved in a shooting of a Flint woman Sunday night.

The shooting took place as police were responding to a call of shots fired on W. Pierson Road near Fleming Road about 10 p.m. Sunday.

When police arrived, an officer approached a group of people who had been shooting several types of firearms. Some were still armed as police approached, said Flint Police Lt. Tim Johnson
A woman, 24, of Flint was shot in the chest, apparently by police, and taken to a Flint hospital.

Her condition was listed as serious.

A number of weapons and illegal drugs were recovered at the scene and taken to the state police crime lab in Bridgeport. The investigation is continuing.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don’t believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

Judge Learned Hand, in P. Hamburger, The Great Judge, 1946
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Effect of Obama's Candor Remains to Be Seen
Senator Admitted Trying Cocaine in a Memoir Written 11 Years Ago (By Lois Romano, The Washington Post)

As a potential candidate, Obama has presented himself as a fresh voice offering a politics of hope.

Many say he offers something new in American politics: an African American with a less-than-traditional name who has so far demonstrated broad appeal.

What remains to be seen is whether the candor he offered in his early memoir will be greeted with a new-style acceptance by voters.
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COST OF WAR: It seems the American public is convinced the only war they are willing to support is one in which they get to vote on before we begin it.

My question to all of you out there who think the business of America is to have "the good life" regardless of the cost - is it a just war when the barbarians are knocking down my door or yours?

[Well put, what is the price of our freedom-trb]

- Flint
PATIENCE PLEASE: When I was shopping the after-Christmas sales I noticed there is a difference between the after-Christmas and the before-Christmas shoppers. The before-Christmas shoppers have something the after-Christmas shoppers don't. It's a little thing called patience.

[Nonsense, I saw a lot of pushing and shoving before Christmas..-trb]

- Flint

CHRISTMAS BLESSING: What a wonderful front-page Christmas story ("Counting their blessings") about the Taylor family.

It was refreshing to read the family values they hold for their children.

Reading about their family was a wonderful start to my Christmas morning!
- Swartz Creek

TRULY MISSED: With the passing of Gerald Ford, we lost a great man. He was a great Michigan man. He will be missed.

- Davison

STOP THE FIGHTING: It's sad to see how mean the Burton City Council has become.

All they are interested in doing is fighting, and it's costing the taxpayers with all their retaliatory actions.

[Burton has taught Flint how to act up.-trb]

- Burton
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01/02/07

GOOD MORNING FLINT

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Date:01/02/07

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories but leave my people, and soon you will have a new and better factory. -Andrew Carnege

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Finding leaders
[But we need a responsible media first-trb]

In 2007, well search for those who can make a difference

FLINT
http://www.mlive.com/columns/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1167666602226900.xml&coll=5#continue


THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION

Monday, January 01, 2007

In greeting a new year, the Editorial Board of The Flint Journal focuses, as always, on what this community must accomplish to not only maintain its advantages and opportunities but also how best to increase both.


[Sign me up to follow you guys-trb]

And in considering the significant economic, educational and social challenges to be faced and perhaps overcome in 2007, the critical need in each instance is for more top-quality leadership at the highest levels in every sector.

[Define leadership/ Somebody like you or like me?-trb]

It seems there are never enough good people to go around. And great leadership is rare, indeed.
Therefore, this year we will make an extra effort to encourage the best and the brightest to step forward - to run for a public office, to participate in a business or neighborhood association or to work for a nonprofit agency.

[Noqw how the hell will you do this. You are the same economic leadership that trashes all regular people who step forward and rise to saint hood these so temporary Harvard and Yale bottom feeding groupies that are here to rage our town and leave.-trb]

These jobs should not be left to those who too often see them as vehicles to serve themselves. And even those with good intentions often lack the requisite vision and skills.

[You are serving yourself by writing this editorial to serve your business base.-I will go with the neighborhood folks any day ..-trb]

Unfortunately, we see the results of this regularly: Small ideas, too many personality squabbles, and valuing turf protection over regional prosperity. A community of a half-million souls that expects to survive and thrive in a global economy needs leaders with a view oriented toward the entire area's welfare.

[I am glad YOU HAVE SOUL OR AT LEAST CAN SPELL IT.-TRB]

Integrity and courage also are essential, as too often even when the right course is known, the wrong path is taken. For example, those who could fix Genesee County's substandard ambulance system have allowed themselves to be hamstrung by special interests. Narrow, politically motivated thinking also caused Flint and its suburbs to separate a 911 center a decade ago and has been an obstacle to combining administration of the city and county libraries.

[ AHHH.YOUR REAL AGENDA...-TRB]

Regular readers of the Opinion pages will note that promoting collaboration is not a new theme for us.

[You have been beating this drum as children do ..you do not understand how to make it happen or what its implication could really mean..somebody from Harvard said it was a good idea..in Boston..well I digress..-trb]

It's our failing that calls for regional strategies, unconventional thinking and reasonable risk-taking too often have been rejected. Safer, short-term solutions were chosen instead.

[This is are rejected because we do not trust you. As your reader know you have earned this distrust. Good job...-trb]

However, if that had always been this area's leadership history, General Motors would not have been created - and wouldn't still be here - a flourishing Cultural Center would not exist and Bishop Airport would not be growing.

[At last we agree...-trb]

Realistically, we won't see similar large accomplishments, or even smaller successes, without more leaders who can conceive of and cooperate effectively on important community goals - people who can make a difference. In 2007, we'll attempt to find them.

[Ahhh ..you mean cooperate with your regional chamber of commerce..got it...-trb]
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Lets start our year with a pint of the old river eh!

FLINT - So, do you want to gulp down a glass of Flint River water?
City administrators again are pushing to make it a possibility - and the idea already is drawing the ire of some City Council members.

"No matter how they try to extract those trace (treatment) chemicals, something will get through and be passed on to our children," Councilman Sheldon Neeley said.
http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-41/1167657630314470.xml&coll=5

[Listen up and I will tell you a decage long story of political intrigue, corruption, scandal its called the Flint to Port Huron Water Line..(theme song Clock Work Orange.)..beware of any reference to water by a Flint Politician ..it may drown you..., stay tuned and get a life preserver.....-TRB]

MOVIE REVIEW HAPPY FEET

I saw Happy Feet over the weekend. It starts as teen age rebellion, segways to the conflict between big band and rock and roll and ends with a smashing dancing love song to the environmental movement. I give it 8 out of 10 Coneys and the little kids loved it too-Terry Bankert Watch out for Leopard Seals!

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MATT ZACKS wins. The Flint Journal admits its EDGE was a dull blade.
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From guest Michael Moore su—!
I noticed Ryan Eashoo is talking about Michael Moore again, how sad. He was in the new biography about michael moore. He and Michael should get a real job. Like our great president Bush told him before. I am going to put this website on moorewatch, so others can see how much of a loser these folks are.
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9792. South Clio City Parking Lot.... by
Sparticus158, 1/2/07 2:17 ET
Man does that parking lot need to be re-surfaced. The one behind the dentist office and the Nite Cap. Its terrible with all of the potholes that get filled and don't stayed filled for very long. Same goes for that crater-like pot hole on New Street;just south of Pine.
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