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Ohio ranked No. 1 in job creation LANCE LAMBERT | SENIOR REPORTER
The Buckeye State is showing signs of economic recovery after newly released data ranked Ohio at No. 1 in the country for job creation in February. Approximately 28,300 new jobs were created in Ohio in February — transportation, trade, construction, manufacturing and government jobs accounted for the majority of job growth, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (FBLS). Ohio has ranked in the top five nationally for job creation and at the top of the Midwest for the past several months, according to FBLS data. During the span of the past 14 months, Ohio has added 83,000 jobs after losing 600,000 in the previous 10 years. The first step in economic recovery is to increase consumer spending, followed by attention placed on production by companies leading to the increase in job growth, said Benjamin Passty, research assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati’s Economics Center. “[Job numbers are] positive for Ohio’s economy,” Passty said. “[There is] only one month in recent memory when Ohio was No. 1 in job growth.”
Ohio struggled during the recession because two of the nation’s hardest-hit sectors — manufacturing and construction — are major employers in the Buckeye State, Passty said. “Over the last year, manufacturing jobs have started to come back,” Passty said. The biggest problem for the manufacturing jobs has been the increase in productivity resulting from technological advances, Passty said. Though manufacturing jobs have increased recently, the number is expected to decrease in long-term projections, Passty said. Hamilton county manufacturing jobs are expected to decrease from the 57,000 total jobs in 2008 to an expected 40,000 manufacturing employees by 2021, Passty said. Ohio still faces the issue of population decrease — primarily caused by younger people moving to more attractive states on the coasts, Passty said. But the state has made it a priority to keep young people in Ohio, Passty said. Recovery from the Great Recession is considered slow SEE JOBS | 5
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WE’RE NOW HIRING The state of Ohio ranked No. 1 in job creation for the month of February, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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CONCEAL AND CARRY A national organization which seeks to legalize carrying firearms on college campuses has found its way to the University of Cincinnati.
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STANDING THEIR GROUND Hundreds of ralliers in support of gay marriage and equality marched through downtown Cincinnati Nov. 5, 2011. Similar rallies will take place on UC’s and MU’s campuses.
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A national organization in support of legalizing the concealed carry of firearms on campuses nationwide has been making its rounds, and this week they hit the University of Cincinnati. Students for Concealed Carry (SCC), a national organization which strives to convince legislators at the state level that carrying a concealed firearm on campus with proper licensure should be legal, is hosting a demonstration on UC’s Main Campus this week. Supporters will wear empty holsters this week in honor of the protest named — “The Empty Holster Project.” SCC has more than 43,000 members across the U.S. The group states that students who are trained and certified should legally be allowed to carry concealed handguns on campus, and one UC member said he believes this would give campus police extra help in the case of an assault, rape or sexual harassment on campus. “By preventing legal concealed carry on campus, schools are telling criminals that the students SEE GUNS | 5
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The attack ended abruptly when the four men were stopped by a handful of passersby, Voegele said. After two students from the University of In response to the attack, members of Cincinnati and Miami University (OH) were attacked last month, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, UC Alliance and the Miami Spectrum, two LGBTQ support groups, are planning to host Transgender and Queer organizations from both simultaneous rallies Thursday at 5 p.m. on the campuses decided to take action. “We want to show them we support them,” respective campuses. UC’s rally will take place on the corner of said Blake Jelley, a fourth-year sociology student Martin Luther King Drive and Clifton Avenue, and president of UC Alliance. “We understand Jelley said. this could happen to any of us, and we’re tired of “We want to create awareness and get our always having to take a second look and wonder if administration to be more someone’s going to hurt us proactive in preventing if we wear this outfit or act these crimes against their too masculine or feminine LGBT students,” Jelley said. or hold our partner’s hand.” “We’re asking for a safe Adam Voegele, a thirdenvironment to work and year neurobiology student study and live in.” at UC, was walking WHEN: UC Alliance is across the Miami campus encouraging students, March 24 with THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 5 P.M. members of the LGBT MU student Michael WHERE: community, straight Bustin, when four men community, UC employees approached them, shouting MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE and the general public to anti-gay slurs. AND CLIFTON AVENUE attend the rally. Attendees “We were holding are asked to wear white hands, but it wasn’t TWITTER HASHTAG: to symbolize peace and anything intimate — we solidarity, Jelley said. #UNITEAGAINSTHATE were just being friendly,” “Too many times these Voegele said. things go unreported,” One of the men Jelley said. “We need to punched Voegele, and make sure this doesn’t when Bustin tried to interfere, he was also attacked, get swept under the rug. [Hate crimes] need to become so taboo that it doesn’t happen Voegele said. “It’s kind of cliche to say, but all these images any longer.” For Voegele, the event offers an opportunity to flashed through my head and all the stories and images of gay bashing, and it’s all kind of a blur,” he SEE RALLY | 5 said.“And you realize this stuff really does happen.”
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Ohio Senate passes telecommunications bill SAM MORREN | SENIOR REPORTER
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The communications program at the University of Cincinnati has garnered acclaim since one of its professors is ranked as one of the best in the nation. “The Best 300 Professors,” published April 3 by the Princeton Review and Random House, profiles UC adjunct professor of communication, Lisa Marie Luccioni. The Princeton Review partnered with RateMyProfessors. com, collecting data from hundreds of thousands of students to determine the list of the best 300 professors. It used the data to determine which colleges had the highest-rated professors. The analysis identified more than 42,000 professors LUCCIONI f r o m colleges the Princeton Review recognized. That number was whittled down to 1,000 professors by combining what the two organizations collected. The Princeton Review made its final choices of the best 300 after further investigation of the candidates and additional input from administrators and students was given. Luccioni has stoked a passion for communications since her arrival at UC as a student in 1986. After earning a bachelor’s degree, she sought to continue her education. While in graduate school, she became a teacher’s assistant and found she enjoyed the double role of teacher and student where she said she grew a significant appreciation for her students. “If students knew how much faith I had in their ability to enrich our world, they’d be flattered, staggered, and challenged,” Luccioni said. Outside of communications, Luccioni holds positions as a certified etiquette expert, an image professional, corporate
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As a means to modernize Ohio telecommunications, the Ohio Senate passed Senate Bill 271, which would allow companies to discontinue basic phone service and be exempt from quality standards. These standards were set in the Senate Bill 162, also known as the Ohio Telecom Modernization Act, passed in 2009. The proposed SB 271 now before an Ohio House of Representatives committee. A vote could come sometime in April as the bill is not expected to come out of the committee before the Ohio House of Representatives breaks for the Easter holiday. The bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Frank LaRose (Fairlawn) has released statements attesting the purpose of the bill is to allow companies to invest in high-speed services. If the legislation is approved by the Ohio House of Representatives, then signed into law by Gov. John Kasich, telecommunications
companies would be exempt from SB 162. As a result, telephone companies could avoid stipulations such as repairing outages within 72 hours and installation of new service within five business days. “In some ways, you realize that markets are constantly changing. Fifteen years ago the prevalence of cell phones and the fact that cell phones might replace landlines was not necessarily conceivable,” said Ohio Rep. Andy Thompson, R-Marietta. Supporters of the bill, such as Charles Moses, the president of the Ohio Telecom Association – who represents companies like AT&T and Frontier Communications – said the bill modernizes Ohio’s telecommunications law and responds to increased competition in the marketplace. However, opponents contest the bill has the potential to deny citizens in rural or lowincome areas access to basic services and emergency medical services. “We also have a concern that customers that rely on their landline service, and
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many Ohioans do, especially in the senior population and low income population, we have a concern that there may be some lack of ability to access 9-1-1 services,” said Marty Berkowitz, senior media specialist with the Ohio Consumers Counsel. The bill, as it is currently written, could force Ohio citizens to purchase more expensive services they don’t need to maintain landline service and remove some citizen’s access to phone service entirely, Berkowitz said. As is, the bill states a business must prove there are at least two other telecommunications companies providing services within the area, for a business to discontinue basic telephone service. Telecommunications companies, however, do not have to provide service through the entire area serviced by the phone company. Senior citizens are one of the groups most affected by the loss of basic landline service, according to the OCC and AARP websites. SEE CONNECTIVITY | 5