Day One of MidPoint was a huge success! Yes, those who missed out still have two full days to hit great shows and really amazing events. If you have not been to the MidPoint Midway, then you are missing out on heart of the festival. The Box Truck events are a fun augmentation to the music, but there is still plenty of music there too. Tonight my shows of choice include:
Toror y Moi at 9:30 at the SCPA Corbett Theater
Deerhoof at 11:45 PM at the Know Theatre
STRFKR at 12:30 at MOTR
According to Twitter the live.mpmf.com should be fixed, so Tweet on.
Friday, September 23, 2011
CincyPAC Endorsements Announced
CincYPAC has annoucned their 2011 Cincinnati City Council election endorsements. The list is:
It says much when no other Republican running has anything in common with the mainstream issues put forth by CincYPAC. The Republicans in this Council race are nearly uniformly running an anti-city platform, which entails enacting policies that benefit people living outside the city more than inside.
Chris BortzThe Republicans have only 1 candidate on that list, Catherine Mills, and her YP connections, I believe, were more the cause of her getting the support of enough people at CincYPAC than her positions on the group's issues.
Kevin Flynn
Nicholas Hollan
Catherine Mills
Roxanne Qualls
Jason Riveiro
Chris Seelbach
Yvette Simpson
P.G. Sittenfeld
It says much when no other Republican running has anything in common with the mainstream issues put forth by CincYPAC. The Republicans in this Council race are nearly uniformly running an anti-city platform, which entails enacting policies that benefit people living outside the city more than inside.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
MidPoint Music Festival Day One!!!
One of the best times of the year has arrived and I am more than excited, I am ecstatic with the prospects of what awaits over the next three days. Tonight my shows of choice include:
The Seedy Seeds at 7:30 at the SCPA Corbett Theater
The Watson Twins at 9:30 PM at the Know Theatre
Jessica Lea Mayfield at 11:45 at the Know Theatre
Be sure to keep tabs on live.mpmf.com for Tweets and texts from all over the festival.
The Seedy Seeds at 7:30 at the SCPA Corbett Theater
The Watson Twins at 9:30 PM at the Know Theatre
Jessica Lea Mayfield at 11:45 at the Know Theatre
Be sure to keep tabs on live.mpmf.com for Tweets and texts from all over the festival.
Chamber Of Commerce 'Endorsements'
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce released a scorecard of candidates for Cincinnati City Council. As would be expected, the endorsed Republicans got a uniform high score, along with Charterite Chris Bortz. Vice-Mayor Roxanne Qualls also got a mostly high score.
The Cincy FOP Likes Sexual Harassers
I always wondered why the Cincinnati FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) would stand behind police officers who abuse their power, fighting to keep bad cops on the force. Well, it just may be a fetish they have. The FOP have reportedly endorsed disgraced former Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen for Cincinnati City Council. Allen settled a lawsuit with a former staffer for sexually harassing her. Abuse of power by the top legal man in the county is alluring to some people. The police union leadership likes to play it kinky, at least in politics.
I've not found a full listing of endorsements from the FOP, but I would feel really embarrassed to be listed along side Mike Allen if I were any candidate.
NOTE: The Fire fighters reported endorsed him too. That's just sad.
I've not found a full listing of endorsements from the FOP, but I would feel really embarrassed to be listed along side Mike Allen if I were any candidate.
NOTE: The Fire fighters reported endorsed him too. That's just sad.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Waiting on COAST's Casino Sidewalks Causing Deaths Tweet
I am waiting, totally on pins and needles, for the latest Tweet from COAST. I'm expecting it to read something like "$16.8M Casino sidewalks cause brownouts to all fire houses for a week, thousands to die."
Hold on, you say? That's not fair? Sidewalks are funded by the capital budget and the Fire Department is funded via the Operating budget? Hmm, that's crazy Streetcar talk! Everyone knows that via magical (and illegal) means, the City could violate the law and use that Sidewalk money to save cops jobs! We all know that, right? Right???
The four Republicans on council wouldn't vote to spend money $16.8M to fund sidewalks to promote a private endeavor when that money could be spent on saving police and fire jobs, would they? Especially when that endeavor is gambling. Isn't that a sin in Charlie Winburn's eyes?
Is my snark getting through to everyone? Yes, today the city is set to approve spend $16.8M in funds to build street and sidewalk construction around the new casino and if the committee vote there is no one against it. Only Chris Bortz is questioning where the funding is coming from, which is a fair question. The Republicans on council are not questioning it, yet they play into the lies that anti-Streetcar forces put forth, claiming that capital funds in the budget could be used to prevent police or fire layoffs (or "brownouts".) For the record, I am for the new streetscape, but I would like the source of funding of it to have some help, like from the State. The people of the State of Ohio voted to put the Casinos in, so if there is public funding needed for any part of it, the State should pony up for it, not just the localities.
None of the those anti-streetcar forces are screaming about $16.8M in street work that will actually redirect traffic. They I guess like to gamble and are not doing anything to prevent the city to spend money on the Casino. Again, COAST (the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes) seems to be rather subjective on the "Spending" part of their name. I've seen others call them "COA T" in comments on other blogs and on the Enquirer's website. Well, here's another example to fit the hypocrisy of that group. It fits well with all of the lies they spew.
Hold on, you say? That's not fair? Sidewalks are funded by the capital budget and the Fire Department is funded via the Operating budget? Hmm, that's crazy Streetcar talk! Everyone knows that via magical (and illegal) means, the City could violate the law and use that Sidewalk money to save cops jobs! We all know that, right? Right???
The four Republicans on council wouldn't vote to spend money $16.8M to fund sidewalks to promote a private endeavor when that money could be spent on saving police and fire jobs, would they? Especially when that endeavor is gambling. Isn't that a sin in Charlie Winburn's eyes?
Is my snark getting through to everyone? Yes, today the city is set to approve spend $16.8M in funds to build street and sidewalk construction around the new casino and if the committee vote there is no one against it. Only Chris Bortz is questioning where the funding is coming from, which is a fair question. The Republicans on council are not questioning it, yet they play into the lies that anti-Streetcar forces put forth, claiming that capital funds in the budget could be used to prevent police or fire layoffs (or "brownouts".) For the record, I am for the new streetscape, but I would like the source of funding of it to have some help, like from the State. The people of the State of Ohio voted to put the Casinos in, so if there is public funding needed for any part of it, the State should pony up for it, not just the localities.
None of the those anti-streetcar forces are screaming about $16.8M in street work that will actually redirect traffic. They I guess like to gamble and are not doing anything to prevent the city to spend money on the Casino. Again, COAST (the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes) seems to be rather subjective on the "Spending" part of their name. I've seen others call them "COA T" in comments on other blogs and on the Enquirer's website. Well, here's another example to fit the hypocrisy of that group. It fits well with all of the lies they spew.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
More COAST Bigotry
Are we just numb from the bigotry and veiled racism that flows from the people behind COAST? I starting to think we are heading that way, but Kevin Osborne of CityBeat has a strong blog post outlining what the latest incident entailed. The surprising source of the bigoted graphic came from a black UC student who, according to Osborne, has volunteered on local GOP political campaigns, including Council member Amy Murray.
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