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Happy Birthday, Henry Heimlich (and a look at some choking stats!)
Friday, February 05, 2010
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This week, Phil Heimlich wished his father, Henry Heimlich of “Heimlich Maneuver” fame, a happy 90th birthday. The pride in Phil’s typing is almost tangible as he boasts that his father has saved the lives of over 50,000 people. That’s no small feat, right? This story line would have us believe that choking deaths decreased after the introduction of the Maneuver in 1974. After all, if there were no change, or an increase, then how could the Maneuver be credited with anything?
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Sunday, February 07, 2010
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We are relatively familiar with the performance of Cincinnati Public Schools on the school and system level. In 2008-09, 3 out of 4 CPS schools failed to meet their adequate yearly progress targets under No Child Left Behind. And 11 of 59 CPS schools have been in No Child Left Behind “improvement status” for five or more years.
What’s new in this report is data that compares the percentage of students who meet state learning standards in third grade with the percentage that meet state learning standards in fifth grade.
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Spotlight: Alex Triantafilou getting it wrong again and again (Part III)
Saturday, February 06, 2010
In Hamiclton County GOP leader Alex Triantafilou’s latest post he calls the Extreme Supreme Court’s recent ruling which allows corporations to spend an unlimited amount of money into our political system “a victory for free speech” and that the “landmark ruling “struck a blow FOR the First Amendment””. He calls Obama’s verbal shot at the court “unprecedented”, but Triantafilou is wrong.
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Editorial
Enquirer takes on “Who Dat,” misses the point entirely
Saturday, February 06, 2010
This week, The Cincinnati Enquirer took on the “Who Dat” issue, and its connections to our very own “Who Dey” chant—and in so doing they ignored the documented racist history of both phrases. This is troublesome because Paul Daugherty presents his piece as a researched and documented exploration of the phrase. Is it possible he doesn’t know the truth of the phrase, or is he willfully jamming certain details down the memory hole to appease his audience and/or advertisers?
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County Commission News
Saturday, February 06, 2010
The Hamilton County Democratic Party Nominating Committee met Thursday night to interview three candidates for the County Commission seat: Hubert Brown, Jim Tarbell and Cecil Thomas. They decided not to make an endorsement.
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Where’s the “Liberal Media Bias”? CBS, Ms. Tebow and their right to choose
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Most people have probably heard about-the latest blow to the “liberal media bias” myth-CBS’s controversial decision to run a pro-life commercial during the Super Bowl after they’ve refused to run other issue advocacy commercials. The ad features a story about Pam Tebow’s opportunity to choose not to have an abortion.
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A Cincinnatian’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Monday, February 08, 2010
The Columbus Dispatch gave a nice-straight to the point-review of a new book by University of Cincinnati professor Mark A. Lause, The Antebellum Crisis & America’s First Bohemians. The Dispatch describes it as an introduction to a clique of pre-Civil War New York writers, artists, musicians and actors—radical in both lifestyle and politics—dubbed themselves “bohemians” and exerted an influence on American society that has long been underappreciated.
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