Light-rail foes question conclusions of new study
Yet another obvious headline. Water is west, fire is hot, and sugar is sweet. Who would have guessed that people evolved in the anti-rail campaign are going to disagree with a study favoring light-rail? A three year old could have seen that coming. I would have like to see a story that maybe talked to business owners who might or might not benefit from light-rail, and then comments from the heads of the pro-con sides of the issues. Just reading quotes from the usual suspects on any issue is a stimulating as a plain cake doughnut.

Sentinels Lash Out At FOP's Decision: Black Police Union Wants To Step In
An interesting twist to the situation. This would be a good PR move for the Sentinels, but on the ground it does nothing to improve the situation. The Sentinels are not a group that speaks for anyone on the police force but its own small membership. The leader speaks some of the same "blame Elder" dogma that borders on racist propaganda. This is really an opportunistic grab of the spot light, but it was a masterful one.

Airport To Lose 128 Screener
What happened to homeland security? We can afford a tax cut, but we can't afford more airport screeners? This is a 26% cut in the number of screeners, so expect longer lines.

Covington Passes Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
It appears the CCV hate mail did not stick with City of Covington, KY Officials. Mike McConnell was not pleased this morning on news that it likely to pass. He still wrongly calls this as a special right that he can't use. He is wrong. Under this law people cannot be discriminated against for simply being heterosexual. Mike may claim that such a thing would never happen anyway. Mike should then consider himself lucky and not get pissed off about being in the majority on sexual orientation. It is unlikely that I will be discriminated against because I am not Iraqi, but does that mean that Iraqi's should not be protected from discrimination on account of national origin? This law is simple and should be adopted. If it is wrong to have anti-discrimination laws, then we have to get rid of them all: race, religion, sex, gun owners, etc. I wonder what Mike and other Libertarians will say about those.

ETHAN HAHN: You asked for it.

CHRIS ANDERSON on Portland's problems.

Police union wants out of reform agreement
Here are two big problems with this event. The first is that only 200 of the 1,050 members of the FOP voted on the issue. Fangman thinks that is a fair representation of the overall cop view? Is that how they vote on their union contract?

The second is the fact that this really means nothing, if the police carry out the agreed to reforms. The only issue is how to judge those reforms have taken place. That takes me back to a legal question. There were two legal documents that came out at the time of the collaborative agreement's adoption. There was the settlement agreement with the CBUF and the ACLU, and there was the agreement with the Justice Department. I am guessing the FOP are only pulling out of the agreement with the CBUF and ACLU, not with the DOJ. It would potentially be very bad to break the deal with the DOJ. I don't think Fangman wants John Ashcroft running the CPD. Neither theEnquirer article or the Post'sarticle addresses this issue. I am assuming it is legally possible to stay in one and not the other. Adhering to the DOJ settlement was part of the CBUF-ACLU agreement, but I don't think it was the other way around. If I am correct, police reform will still be carried out and supported by the FOP, they will just not agree to the oversight rules set up by the CBUF-ACLU document.

That was a mouthful, so I hope it makes sense. Copies of the Collaborative Agreement and DOJ Agreement.

Other Coverage: AP Wire, Business Courier, WCPO, WLWT, WKRC.