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2011 budget prevents layoffs JAMES SPRAGUE | NEWS EDITOR Layoffs and the implementation of trash collection fees were avoided as Cincinnati City Council approved its disputed 2011 budget Dec. 30. Council approved — by a 5-4 vote — a $340 million operating budget for 2011 that dodges a $20 trash collection fee or the previously proposed layoffs of police officers,
fire fighters and other city workers to balance the city’s budget deficit. The council had been discussing the deficit since October 2010. The $54.7 million budget deficit the city incurred will be offset by eliminating yard-waste collection, administrative personnel cuts, reduced contributions to the city’s workers’ compensation and cutting police overtime pay. In addition to the budget’s
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LONG-AWAITED BUDGET Cincinnati City Council presented Mayor Mark Mallory with an approved $340 million budget for 2011. The budget avoids a proposed $20 trash collection fee along with preventing layoffs.
Burke next UC Trustee?
Protest garners charges
Fifth-year UC student cited at Va. airport
JAMES SPRAGUE | NEWS EDITOR If newly elected Gov. John Kasich and Ohio Republicans have their way, University of Cincinnati trustee hopeful Tim Burke will be one of approximately 80 appointments made by outgoing governor Ted Strickland to be blocked by the Ohio Senate. Burke, who is chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, was appointed Dec. 21 by Strickland to the nine-member board of trustees at UC. State Republicans, however, are arguing that Gov. Kasich should have the authority to make the appointments. The Ohio Senate has already rejected 78 appointments by Strickland to various boards and commissions throughout the state. It is unknown when and if 14 of Gov. Strickland’s most recent appointments — which include Burke — will take effect. Burke is a 1973 graduate of UC’s Law School and TIM BURKE currently serves on the Ohio Board of Regents. He has previously served as a trustee for the Cincinnati Zoo and a commissioner for the Cincinnati Park Board. If approved for the UC post, Burke said he will resign from the Ohio Board of Regents.
JAMES SPRAGUE | NEWS EDITOR A University of Cincinnati student was cited Dec. 30 with disorderly conduct for removing his shirt while waiting in line for a pat down search at the Richmond International Airport, said airport spokesman Troy Bell. Aaron Tobey, a fifth-year architecture student, was waiting to board a United Airlines flight to Chicago when the incident occurred. Tobey removed his shirt while in line to be pat down, revealing the entire text of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution written on his chest. The Fourth Amendment AARON TOBEY guarantees U.S. citizens against unreasonable search and seizure. The incident is not the first involving airline passengers removing clothing at security checkpoints since the implementation of stricter security measures by the Transportation Security Administration. Prior incidents include Tammy Banovac, a 52-year-old woman who cleared airport security at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City wearing nothing but her underwear, a college student in Utah who stripped to a Speedo bathing suit with “Screw Big Sis” — in reference to Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano — written on his back and Corinne Theile, a woman who was cleared through security in two separate California airports wearing only a bikini. Tobey was questioned by federal authorities and the Richmond International Airport Police after the incident, then was cited for disorderly conduct and released. Tobery’s arraignment is set for Jan. 10. He will be represented by the Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties defense group based in Virginia. The Rutherford Institute was unable to be reached for comment.
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THESE SLIPPERY STREETS Motorists tackle the snow and slush on Ohio Avenue Dec.16, 2010. Cincinnati received a record 4.1 inches of snow Dec. 16 and snowfall totals for the region were more
The Hoxworth Blood Center and the University of Cincinnati will be hosting The Original Fist Pump! campus blood drive Jan. 10 through Jan. 14. The event will be hosted from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall, with donors receiving a limited edition sweatshirt. Those who schedule their donation will also be entered into a raffle for DVD’s of seasons one and two of the MTV television series “Jersey Shore.” INSIDE
than three times the normal average for December.
Area crime continues, two arrested
Three robberies, rape in Corryville end 2010 JAMES SPRAGUE | NEWS EDITOR
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approval, council approved proceeding in future discussions with Hamilton County officials regarding a proposed merger of the Cincinnati Police Department and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office. A charter amendment will also be placed on the ballot asking voters whether the city should merge the parks and recreation departments. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) criticized council for approving the budget. Their website proclaimed the budget to be “selfserving,” “hopelessly irrational” and “fiscal insanity.”
EMMANUEL THORPE
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CPD MAKES ARRESTS Marquie Young and Emmanuel Thorpe, two suspects arrested by Cincinnati Police for robbery charges Dec. 29.
Within the last three weeks, the Cincinnati Police Department responded to reports of three robberies and a rape in areas surrounding the University of Cincinnati campus. CPD received a report of an alleged rape Dec. 11 at 250 Calhoun St. in Corryville. There was no description of a suspect, however. As of September 2010 — University of Cincinnati Police Division’s most recent report — campus authorities have seen an increase compared to 2009 in breaking and entering and burglaries as well as aggravated
assaults. Robbery, however, dropped by more than half. CPD reported an armed robbery on East McMillan Street on Dec. 27 at approximately 2 a.m. The victim was held at gunpoint and had personal property taken. No further information was available on the suspect. Two people were also allegedly robbed at gunpoint at 18 W. Daniels St. on Dec. 29. CPD arrested two suspects, Emmanuel Thorpe and Marquie Young, after a police K-9 unit tracked them to a residence in the 3000 block of Euclid Avenue. The pair allegedly used .22-caliber revolvers during the incident and face six counts of aggravated robbery.
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