Indiana and Ohio State are scheduled to start at noon in Columbus. Stay tuned to this thread for updates.
Fourth trimester
FINAL: Ohio State wins 56-14.
Kyle McCord is quarterback for Ohio State.
TOUCH OHIO STATE: Stroud to Kamryn Babb for an eight-yard touchdown. A six-play, 75-yard drive. Ohio State leads 56-14.
ATTACKING INDIANA: Williams finds Donaven McCulley for an 18-yard touchdown pass. An 18-yard touchdown in two plays. Ohio State leads 49-14.
McCulley in the end zone and 6 points for @IndianaFootball pic.twitter.com/sfLYwSczaV
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 12, 2022
Bryson Bonds recovers a fumble and IU is set up with the ball at OSU 18.
TOUCH OHIO STATE: Xavier Johnson weaves through the entire IU defense for a 71-yard touchdown run. A unique 71-yard drive. Ohio State leads 49-7.
Third quarter
End of the third quarter: Ohio State leads Indiana 42-7. IU ball with 2nd and 11 alone 9.
TOUCH OHIO STATE: It’s Stroud at Stover again, this time from 12 yards. A drive scored in 3 plays and 52 yards. Ohio State leads 42-7.
TOUCH OHIO STATE: The Buckeyes quickly capitalize on the punt block on a pass from CJ Stroud to Cade Stover from one yard out. A two-yard two-play practice. 35-7, Ohio State leads.
James Evans’ punt is blocked and recovered by Ohio State at the IU two-yard line.
Emery Simmons takes a 44-yard backhand on IU’s first play after scrimmage. The Hoosiers walk to open the second half, but practice stops and OSU wins the ball.
Half time stats
Columbus halftime stats. Obviously, it’s not pretty for Indiana, but Ohio State is really good and significantly better. I felt embarrassed at first, but the IUs have shown some life since Williams arrived. They *have* to improve on third downs, though. #iufb pic.twitter.com/oRWwG9E6YC
— Seth Tow (@SethTow) November 12, 2022
SECOND QUARTER
HALF-TIME: Ohio State 28, Indiana 7
A pair of bags pushes IU out of reach of the baskets.
Dexter Williams leads IU’s two-minute attack on the pitch. The Hoosiers have the ball at OSU 29 with just under 30 seconds left in the first half.
Indiana’s Dasan McCullough stops at 4th and 1st. The Hoosiers take over at their own 18th.
Ohio State running back Miyan Williams is off the field with an injury. Williams starts in place of TreVeyon Henderson today.
Dexter Williams couldn’t find a complete pass on Indiana’s latest drive, but threw a pair of relatively impressive misses, including a perfectly placed deep ball to Donaven McCulley that was interrupted by an OSU defender.
TOUCH OHIO STATE: Miyan Williams breaks free for a 48-yard touchdown run. A scored drive in three games for 57 yards. Ohio State leads 28-7.
IU makes three and three on her first drive of the second quarter. The Buckeyes are set up with the ball by themselves 43.
FIRST QUARTER
End of the first trimester. Ohio State leads 21-7 with 1st and 10 on their own 33.
AJ Barner hooks it up and @IndianaFootball take one! pic.twitter.com/Xr1SSuLZni
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 12, 2022
ATTACKING INDIANA: Dexter Williams finds AJ Barner at 3rd and Goal for a 7-yard touchdown pass. A six-game, 75-yard practice. Ohio State leads 21-7.
Dexter Williams is quarterback for IU. Williams had a 16-yard first down and found Andison Coby for a 49-yard gain through the air.
TOUCH OHIO STATE: Marvin Harrison Jr. scores on the first drive play, a 58-yard reception. A 58-yard drive in one play. Ohio State leads 21-0.
After three drives, Indiana’s offense has a net 15 yards and no first downs.
A true freshman and Ohio native, Carter Smith is at the right tackle for the Hoosiers.
OHIO STATE TOUCHDOWN: Running back Dallan Hayden stays intact for a 14-yard touchdown. An 8-play, 78-yard practice. Ohio State leads 14-0.
OHIO STATE TOUCHDOWN: CJ Stroud finds Emeka Egbuka at 3rd and Goal for a 6-yard touchdown pass. A 6-play, 65-yard practice. Ohio State leads 7-0.
IU and Ohio State trade strikeouts and punts to open the game. It looked like an OSU player could have hit James Evans’ punt as he rolled, but a Buckeye jumped on the ball before the IU players could reach it.
Indiana won the toss and will postpone. Ohio State will have the ball to open today’s contest.
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The Daily Hoosier is live at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati for Indiana (3-0) against Cincinnati (2-1)
Join us for live updates throughout the day and participate in the discussion thread below.
The match will be televised on ESPN2 and will begin at approximately 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Refresh the page for pre-, during- and post-game updates and stay tuned for post-game coverage.
FINAL – Cincinnati 45, Indiana 24. The Hoosiers fall to 3-1 this season.
TOUCH CINCINNATI: The Bearcats capitalize on a short field and put the game away. 3 plays, 2 yards. 45-24 UA, 1:20 remaining.
Cincinnati with the ball less than five minutes remaining, still leading 38-24. Indiana uses its timeouts.
IU met the punter who gave UC another round of downs, but IU stopped the Bearcats in 4th place at IU 38, where the Hoosiers will take over with 6:46 to go. Always 38-24 UA.
1st and 10 UC, single ball 47. 10:31 remaining in the game.
The Indiana defense forces another punt, but IU will start their next drive at their own 10. 11:21 remaining. 38-24 UC leads.
ATTACKING INDIANA: Shaun Shivers goes 47 yards for a touchdown. UC 38, IU 24, 14:01 left. 3 plays, 58 yards.
The quarter starts with Cincinnati having the ball at its own 8, 2nd and 7.
Indiana beat Cincinnati 103-32 in the third quarter, but they only reduced 7 of the huge 28-point halftime deficit.
Indiana goes there for the 4th and the goal and comes back empty. Cincinnati ball to its own 5,: 58 second left in the third, Bearcats 38-17.
Still 38-17 with 2:39 to go. Indiana driving, 1st at UC 28. The IU defense has delivered three straight 3-and-outs.
Indiana’s defense has responded so far, with a takeout and then two straight three-and-outs. 7:42 left in the third, IU ball to their own 25. 1st down.
ATTACKING INDIANA: Bazelak to Shivers for 2 yards. 38-17 UC, 10:23 to go in the third. 11 plays, 51 yards.
INTERCEPTION by INDIANA: Tiawan Mullen with the pick on Cincinnati’s opening drive. 1st and 10 Hoosiers at 49
Cincinnati leads 38-10 at halftime. Here are the stats at the break:
TOUCH CINCINNATI: Strip sack, scoop and a 14 yard score for the Bearcats. 38-10 UC, : 22 seconds left in the half.
TOUCH CINCINNATI: Bryant to Scott. 7 plays, 80 yards. 31-10 UC, : 32 left.
TOUCH CINCINNATI: Another big pass play, Bryant to Scott for 34 yards. The Bearcats play 7 plays, 75 yards. 24-10 UC, 4:33 left.
ATTACKING INDIANA: Bazelak to Henderson for a 19-yard TD pass. 4 plays, 39 yards. 17-10, UC, 8:06 left.
Indiana with the ball 1st down at UC 39. Critical drive ahead with 9:11 left in the quarter. Drive set up by a sack by Lance Bryant and a 3-and-out by the Bearcats.
TOUCH CINCINNATI: The Bearcats play 6 plays, 64 yards. 17-3 UC, 12:36 to go in the half. The score was created by another big mistake in the defensive backfield as Tre Tucker went behind safeties for a 45-yard pass play.
Indiana finishes the quarter on a 3-play, -20-yard drive and will punt from their five to open the second.
TOUCH CINCINNATI: The Bearcats are rushing for 75 yards in one play. A coverage error in the defensive field set up Ben Bryant’s bomb to Tyler Scott. 1 hour remaining.
INDIANA GROUND GOAL: The Hoosiers play 16 plays and 66 yards to set up a 27-yard field goal from Charles Campbell. It’s 3-3 with 1:15 to play.
CINCINNATI GROUND GOAL: Indiana stops the Bearcats inside the 10 and forces a 24-yard field goal. It’s 3-0 UC with 8:00 to go.
INTERCEPTION by CINCINNATI: Knockdown by Connor Bazelak in double coverage gives UC the ball at IU six. First and goal.
Similar first training for UC, they run 29 yards and pin IU at their own 10. 0-0, 8:38 to go.
Indiana picks up 33 yards on its first drive and is able to pin Cincinnati inside its 10 after punting.
Cincinnati won the toss and carried over to the second half.
The Daily Hoosier’s Patrick Felts is on the court for the pregame.
Indiana wears all white uniforms today.
NOW IS NOW!@cjones1_ | #IUFB pic.twitter.com/zHlb7Y3yWU
— Indiana Football (@IndianaFootball) September 24, 2022
NOTES ON INJURIES
Some injury notes as the players take to the pitch:
To note: Because Indiana is on the road, they have a limited travel squad and so most injured players stayed home.
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Leaders of the Orange County Green Energy Agency continue to defend themselves against concerns over a lack of transparency as they engage ratepayers in expensive power purchases and also automatically opt in to nearly a third of county residents in the new electricity agency.
On Tuesday, members of the Orange County Power Authority’s board of directors took formal action to challenge a grand jury investigation that found the agency must work on transparency when it comes to informing the public in a timely manner when important decisions are made.
At the same time, board members approved more than $200 million in power purchases with virtually no public discussion or purchase details, which were announced just before the holiday weekend.
The OC Electricity Agency has been grappling with concerns about a lack of transparency since its inception, with questions from residents and elected officials about why much of the agency’s work takes place at behind closed doors.
[Read: OC Businesses and Public Agencies Left in the Dark As Power Authority Rolls Out]
These questions have only intensified as the agency nears its October launch for residents of Irvine, Huntington Beach, Buena Park and Fullerton, who will pay a slightly higher price for electricity in exchange. more renewable energy.
The authority was also directly challenged for its lack of transparency in a grand jury report released earlier this year titled “OC Power Authority: Come Clean.”
“No matter the mission of a public agency, the ability to see how that agency operates and uses public funds is of paramount importance,” the jurors wrote. “The OCPA has made significant improvements in terms of transparency…while the (grand jury) applauds these improvements, some critical changes have not taken place.”
To read the full report, Click here.
In their response to the grand jury’s findings, which encouraged the agency to open its doors and hire more qualified staff, board members disagreed with nearly all of the findings, arguing that they were already sufficiently transparent or that they had already implemented the jury’s request.
Huntington Beach Board Member and Councilman Dan Kalmick made a brief comment at Tuesday’s board meeting before approving the recommended response, saying that even if he did approve the response, the board would continue to take steps to increase transparency.
“It reads differently than one would personally answer, but we have to assert the authority of the electrical authority to operate,” Kalmick said. “I think (the answers) address the Grand Jury’s concerns, but I think going forward we should work within the spirit of the Grand Jury’s report to make some changes.”
Yet while board members pledged to a higher standard of transparency going forward, at Tuesday’s meeting they approved two power contracts worth more than $200 million combined. without any questions from the board.
The only reason there was a discussion about the contracts came after Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan asked the staff to provide a brief public explanation on one of the contracts and thanked the staff for the private briefings that board members received on contracts prior to the meeting. .
Most of the details of those contracts also remained confidential, with the agency’s chief legal counsel, Ryan Baron, saying that under state law, those contracts contained information that could be kept secret until further notice. at three years old.
“Things like price, quantity, unit location and other trading conditions are considered sensitive market information,” Baron said during the meeting. “It’s a standard process, all (community choice energy programs) do it.”
On the heels of the grand jury report, county supervisors also announced they were considering pulling out of the agency altogether unless they get an open-book audit of its operations.
[Read: County Demands Investigation of OC’s New Green Power Agency, Under Threat of Withdrawing]
In a response published on TuesdayAgency directors asked the county not to re-audit, but said they would help if the county still wanted to move forward, adding that some information still had to be kept confidential.
Supervisor Don Wagner, who is the county’s representative on the board, said he thought the response was appropriate.
“A full and open response is not thwarted by what we see here, the idea that certain information must necessarily be kept confidential according to state law,” Wagner said during Tuesday’s meeting. “This response should convince the oversight board that this agency’s board is as transparent as reasonably possible.”
Exact details of who will carry out the audit or its scope are still pending.
County supervisors are expected to discuss this in the near future, with the promise that they will decide whether or not to jump ship by the end of the year.
In a Tuesday afternoon phone interview, County Supervisor Doug Chaffee, who chairs the OC Board of Supervisors and originally voted to join the electrical authority, questioned how an audit would be effective without all the necessary information.
“If they tell me they can’t say how much they’re paying for electricity, it’s not very transparent,” Chaffee said.
Chaffee also said he didn’t know what the electricity authority’s end goal was.
“One of the curious things for me is what is the purpose of this kind of power authority,” Chaffee said. “If they’re just trading electricity that would have been sold by someone else, they’re not really creating more green power.”
It’s also unclear what it would cost the county to pull out of the program now, with agency staff saying there’s no way to separate costs between members.
Residents who don’t want to participate can opt out and stay with Southern California Edison, or upgrade to a cheaper tier with the agency that provides less renewable power.
So far, the only notification most residents have received is a flyer in the mail, which some local leaders say may not be enough to let people know what’s to come.
At their Tuesday meeting, CEO Brian Probolsky, who has an outstanding whistleblower complaint against several board members, told the board that agency staff have attended many community events over the past few years. weeks to prepare for the official launch in October.
“We’ve had thousands of customer interactions,” Probolsky said. “The staff have been out in the field a lot.”
Noah Biesiada is a Voice of OC reporter and a body member of Report for America, an initiative of Groundtruth. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter @NBiesiada.
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The Palestine Independent School District is holding two meetings this week, a meeting called at 12 p.m. Monday and a regular meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Both meetings are held in the administration building at 1007 East Park Ave.
A grievance filed by Mélissa Firmin is the subject of the meeting called for Monday. The school board meets behind closed doors to hold a hearing on the former teacher and tennis coach’s Level III grievance and meet with legal counsel.
The Board of Directors will meet in open session following the closed session to address the grievance.
The regular meeting begins Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in camera and meets in the meeting room of the PISD administration office at 6:00 p.m.
The superintendent’s report includes the announcement of upcoming school events, schedules, and meetings. The annual Junior Service League Back-to-School Fair takes place from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, August 6; The call is at 8 a.m. on Monday, August 8; Meet the Teacher is from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, August 9; The first day of school is Thursday, August 11; Meet the Wildcats is at 6 p.m. on Monday, August 15.
Upcoming board events include a regular meeting on August 22 and a meeting called for a date to be announced.
The Chief Financial Officer will report on district finances, the 2022-23 budget workshop, and share the proposed tax rate for the 2022-23 school year.
Consent items include approval of June 20 and July 6 meeting minutes, paid bills for June, financial, monthly investment and tax collection reports, donations, and appointment of a responsible for the tax calculation rate. Other elements of consent include a schedule for student credit per exam, specialty courses approved for University Interscholastic League eligibility, and campus start and end times.
The board will also hear a report from the director of school safety and accept the hiring of professional staff.
Points for discussion and action include electing a delegate and an alternate to serve on the assembly at the Texas School Boards Association convention on Sept. 24 in San Antonio.
School board executive sessions are closed to the public and authorized by state law for discussion of personnel, discussion or implementation of a safety plan, and/or discussions regarding real property or plans future.
For more information on Palestine ISD, visit www.palestineschools.org.
]]>JEDDAH: Have you always wanted to know what the songs of Abdulmajeed Abdullah, Dalida, Amr Diyab, Fairuz or other Arab artists would sound like if they were in a video game?
The answer? Watch the creations of Saudi digital artist and music producer Emarati Moath Bin Hafez, who reimagines popular Arabic songs in video game settings.
For the 50th UAE National Day, Hafez came up with the idea of creating an 8-bit chiptune version of the UAE national anthem, which was his pilot project.
“Since Instagram is primarily a visual platform, I made a simple animation of the United Arab Emirates flag being hoisted in the Super Mario universe,” he told Arab News.
“To my surprise, the video game got a lot of attention and became my most watched video within days,” he said.
Following his success, he decided to focus on making chiptune remixes of Arabic pop music as there was clearly an “appetite” for this type of content.
• For the 50th National Day of the United Arab Emirates, Hafez had the idea of creating an 8-bit chiptune version of the national anthem of the United Arab Emirates, which was his pilot project.
• For one of his works for the 2000s game show “Man Sayarbah Al-Malyoon” (Who Will Win the Million), he used the famous Las Vegas scene from Street Fighter II.
• He chiptuned Fairuz’s song “Habaytak Bisayf” (I loved you in the summer), which is about loneliness and longing, with visuals of empty landscapes to match the lyrics
“With modern software, you can emulate the sound of those older chips, but without having to learn anything about programming, so you just focus on the creative side like instrumentation, arrangement and such,” did he declare.
“I’m a kid of the 80s, so I played a lot on my Sakhr (MSX) and NES. For me, the music was always the most memorable part of those old games.
He said the sound chips in those old consoles were very primitive, so the composers worked around the limits by being really creative with the composition and the techniques they used.
“The idea of working with limited tools to fuel your creativity resonates a lot with me,” he said.
In terms of music, Hafez has said electronic bands Daft Punk and Justice are his biggest inspirations.
Video games have changed so much over time, but his favorite is “Donkey Kong Country 2” from the classic generation and the “Fallout series” from the modern generation.
“I juxtaposed the singers with mostly fighting game backgrounds like Street Fighter II and the King of Fighters series. They’re very dynamic and often have animated characters staring at them,” he said.
“I try to match the background with the way the music sounds and with the way the singer appears to me,” he said.
He explained that for one of his works for the 2000s game show “Man Sayarbah Al-Malyoon” (Who Will Win the Million), he used the famous Las Vegas scene from Street Fighter II.
“It’s really crazy and above the level with the dancers and the spectators betting because I feel like it matches the greatness of this show in the Arab world,” he said.
Highlighting his work on Lebanese singer Fairuz, he chiptuned her song “Habaytak Bisayf” (I loved you in the summer), which is about loneliness and longing.
“It made sense to scroll Fairuz through empty landscapes through different seasons to match the lyrics and emphasize loneliness and isolation,” he said.
]]>WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) — The controversy over the health curriculum in the Wausau School District has students and parents speaking out. The Wausau Education-Operations Committee met Monday evening to discuss possible changes. Parents and students are angry and afraid that the Wausau School District is changing its sex education curriculum. The district said there was nothing to worry about.
Concerns about the future of the Wausau School District’s sex-ed curriculum led to a packed school board meeting Monday night. Many parents and students believe the district is pushing for an “abstinence-only” program.
“We need comprehensive sex education, which is currently on offer, but with these doors open, it could lead to a lot of unforeseen circumstances,” said Megan Marohl at Wausau East High School.
The concern comes from policy manual fulfillment and human development policies, document submitted to the municipality by Neola, an educational consultancy firm. In the document, he emphasizes the value of sexual abstinence. There is also a crossed out section that originally talked about the use of contraceptives. This particular wording worries some people.
“They [Wausau School District] would not have discussed the proposed changes without planning to make changes. This opens many doors to possible abstinence-only changes,” Marohl said.
The school district said the reason it’s written that way is because the language is more in line with state law. Superintendent Dr Keith Hilts said despite this they were not changing the program.
“We will continue to teach a broad, comprehensive curriculum of human growth and development, including contraception and all those we have taught. Again, this is a board approved program and we would not change this program without board approval,” Hilts said.
He said the reason this is being discussed is to meet state requirements. The state’s new requirement says school districts must teach students that they can bring newborns to health care centers or law enforcement if they don’t have the ability to take care of the child.
“There is nothing going on behind the scenes, the board has no secret agenda, we will continue to give students the skills they need to succeed,” Hilts said.
At Monday’s meeting, the committee decided to adopt the consulting firm’s language, while adding the play that teaches students about the use of contraceptives and other barrier methods.
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]]>With the demand for a moratorium looming, the Tama County Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) moved from a point of discussion to a point of action at the last Supervisory Board meeting on Monday.
The local Tama County Against Wind Turbines coalition – which formed over a month ago in opposition to Apex Clean Energy’s proposed Winding Stairs Wind project in the county – was present in the audience as it was during of the supervisors’ meeting every Monday since April 25. , filling the hall to capacity in order to hear what the overseers had planned.
Supervisor Larry Vest opened the 10 a.m. agenda item “Reconsideration of Amendment Number 1 to Zoning Ordinance VI.1 of 2010”.
“We spent a lot of time working on it and thinking about it. We met our lawyer [Carlton Salmons, Heartland Insurance Risk pool attorney]Region Six and a few other organizations and reviewed our [WECS] prescriptions and thought they were fine. I cannot and do not want to risk financial loss. I would move to reaffirm our ordinances on wind energy conversion,” he said.
Vest’s motion to reaffirm the WECS ordinance was seconded by supervisor Bill Faircloth and then unanimously approved by the board.
The board action was met with a swift response from members of Tama County Against Turbines, including Richard Arp and Kathy Krafka Harkema.
“The audience is very disappointed and our band is very disappointed with what you just did,” Arp said.
“Tama County Against Turbines wants to publicly state that it strongly opposes your decision today,” Harkema said. “We are extremely disappointed that you did not listen to the more than 800 people who signed our petition calling for the Tama County ordinances to be updated. You admitted that the ordinances were first written in 1998 , then approved again in 2010.”
Vest then cut Harkema.
“Bad,” Vest said.
Harkema then continued with his statement.
“That’s right Larry, we understand they were first created in 1998 and you re-approved them in 2010 and you re-approved them today without public consideration,” Harkema said. . “You admitted that you didn’t do any research on other [counties’ WECS ordinances]. We have provided you with examples… We are volunteers and we conduct our research in the best interest of the public safety of the people of Tama County. Yet you cannot accept the request of the public to even take the time to consider making changes to the ordinances, and the first thing you do when you walk into that public meeting, you make a motion and you [Faircloth] accompany it with your signed easement and your conflict of interest.
Vest pushed back against the notion of conflict of interest, referring to the fact that Faircloth did not sign to have a turbine on his property but signed an easement with the company behind Salt Creek Wind Farm – currently under development in the central parts of the county and separated from Apex – for its phase two project with other landowners in the area.
At last week’s board meeting, Vest explained that the board had sought advice from his attorney, Salmons, on whether Faircloth’s easement with Salt Creek constituted a conflict of interest.
Salmons informed council that this would only be considered so if Faircloth was the only landowner to sign such an easement.
“How do you live with yourself, and how can you look at all these people in the room who are going to look this in the eye online and say you’re doing the right thing for all citizens?” Harkema asked the three council members.
“We didn’t carry that out,” said chairman Dan Anderson – a response quickly met with several “yes, you did” comments from members of the public in attendance.
Anderson said board members spoke with several people about the wind moratorium request, including Tama County Zoning Administrator Todd Apfel.
Despite Tama County’s repeated pleas against the turbines, Apfel has not attended any of the supervisors’ meetings since the first meeting the coalition attended on April 25. Anderson said the board did not ask Apfel to attend the May 16 meeting because the board did. not feel that it was necessary for him to be there.
“Our coalition is growing and we will continue to do what is right for the people of Tama County,” Harkema said. “This is a defining moment in the history of Tama County that will affect all of us here in this room now. [and] for the rest of our lives and future generations. You can be assured that we will do everything legally possible to defend the rights of Tama County taxpayers – for their public health and public safety.
After thanking the supervisors for their time, Arp provided the coalition’s final comments: “As a landlord who doesn’t want a wind tower, I continually hear you say you need to protect my property rights. I don’t feel like you are protecting my property rights, representing me, and doing the right thing for me.
Arp’s closing statement was met with several “and me!” responses from the audience.
Revelations of the working session
Prior to the official 9:30 a.m. start of the May 16 board meeting, an hour-long working session took place in which Arp, Harkema and fellow coalition member Kathy Wilson sat down. are addressed to supervisors from the public for their continued demand for a moratorium on the winds.
Anderson began the working session with a statement that supervisors would allow comments on WECS orders during the working session rather than as an agenda item due to the coalition not was not called to be on the agenda on time – a fact that Tama County members against the turbines disputed.
The three coalition members spent considerable time trying to discern what the 10 a.m. agenda item set for later in the meeting would entail.
“Stick around and we’ll discuss the [WECS] prescription,” Anderson replied at one point.
Arp then asked if Tama County District Attorney Brent Heeren would be present during the agenda item, to which Anderson said no.
It was later revealed through Arp’s continued questioning that Heeren had recently received a letter from a law firm representing Salt Creek.
“We received a letter sent through Brent Heeren to the Supervisory Board of a West Des Moines law firm representing Salt Creek. [The letter indicated] if [we] go forward [with a wind moratorium]we’ll see you in court – I summed that up,” Vest said.
Vest further explained that the company threatened to sue the county if it enforced a moratorium, but the letter made no mention of what would happen if the county tried to update the WECS ordinance itself without implement a moratorium.
Supervisors then told coalition members that they had received a few calls and letters in recent days in support of Apex’s Winding Stairs Wind project. Coalition members went on to point out that their group – opposed to further industrial wind development – currently numbers in the hundreds.
“We have repeatedly indicated and the public has agreed that Tama County ordinances need to change. Many things have changed [since first written]”Wilson said.
“As far as property rights are concerned, it is essential to ensure that wind turbine setbacks are measured from a property line, not just a house. This is important to help protect the rights of non-participating landowners,” Arp said before asking council to consider the increased height of modern turbines since the WECS order was written.
Wilson asked Vest if in the 27 years he had worked as Tama County Supervisor, if he had ever seen so many people attend their meetings since Tama County Against Wind Turbines first asked a wind moratorium on April 25. Vest replied no.
In response to a request for comment, Chris Behrens of Tama County Against Turbines provided the following statement: “Nothing changes. We will continue to educate the public about the dangers of living in an industrial turbine factory. We will also continue to lobby the county government to change ordinances that protect the rights, health and safety of everyone – not just the pocketbook of a small group.
Much of the conference and panels in this three-day meeting took place at The Penguin Room at Whitehall Mill. Friday, the final day of the event, will feature prominent players in Baltimore’s tech economy.
Tomorrow’s panels begin at 9 a.m., beginning with:
Amplify 2022’s closing day also includes the second annual crab tank pitch competition, which offers a $25,000 grand prize and a $2,500 people’s choice prize. The finalists are:
Contest judges include RareBreed Ventures founder macconwell and 410 laboratories founder David Troyamong other local business leaders.
The future of a 61-cent property tax slated to drop off the books in 2024 was the focus of discussion at a St. Joseph School District finance committee meeting on Monday.
The conversation centered on two options: raise the tax to 81 cents, with a sunset clause, to go toward teacher and staff salaries or keep the amount at 61 cents but eliminate a sunset clause to make it permanent. The St. Joseph School Board may decide to take the issue to voters in August. No final decision has been made on what to present to voters.
Doug Van Zyl, superintendent of St. Joseph School District, said having too many options on a ballot creates confusion and generally discourages voters. He encouraged the council to come to a conclusion on a tax proposal, without leaving the two to public debate.
Board of Education member Kenneth Reeder and Gabe Edgar, who is expected to become the district’s next superintendent this summer, jointly discussed other tax-related issues, including school closures and consolidations, noting that more the public is able to quickly vote on the tax. , the sooner these problems can be resolved.
“For me, that’s the reason to race in August. We have to start those conversations, we have to lead them,” Edgar said when asked what his priorities were to discuss with the community. “If this passes in August, these conversations have to start on August 4, or whatever the day after.”
When talking about a tax increase, board members wondered whether or not the community would buy into it and vote for it.
Committee members also discussed the option of asking for the 81 cents initially and, if the public votes against, going back to the 61 cents as a compromise.
An overwhelming concern centered on “when” to vote on the issue. Edgar stressed that it is in everyone’s interest to present any changes to the tax to the community as soon as possible.
“We’re releasing it in August because, as you know, we have a lot to do and we’d rather start those conversations now,” Edgar said. “Because if you start them in April 2023, guess what? You’re already in ’24, ’25 before you can do anything… So that’s our selling point.
The committee disbanded after an hour-long discussion with Edgar taking talking points from the meeting to the full board and getting sample ballots with the two proposed tax amounts to split. with the group.
The board will vote to move forward with a decision later this month. Otherwise, the committee will hold a special session to revisit the conversation.
After 2024, not extending the tax could result in a wage freeze and about $8 million in budget cuts.
As the economy begins to recover, the typical American is spending $765 more each month than they were last year, according to a recent poll performed by MassMutual. To put that in perspective, it’s a significant rise over the typical full-time worker’s weekly take-home pay before taxes ($990).
In March, nearly half of the 1,000 respondents questioned by insurance and financial services business MassMutual said they were motivated to spend more this summer by what they saw on social media. Millennials and Gen Zers, driven by FOMO (fear of missing out), attend more events and spend more money. According to the poll, spending by each age group increased by more than $1,000 per month compared to the previous summer.
MassMutual’s study of Gen Z-ers revealed that virtually all of them 90 percent believed that social media influenced their summer spending.
Dining out and vacationing are the two most popular ways Americans spend their extra money. Some 33% of those polled said they had increased their spending on such areas this year after avoiding them throughout the summer. Survey results are corroborated by statistics showing an increase in restaurant sales of roughly 2 percent in the previous month. U.S. airports have seen a dramatic increase in passengers in the last year.
As more people travel, vacation rental costs rise, and hotel prices touched an all-time high last month. According to Airbnb, revenues are up significantly compared to the previous year, indicating that passengers are upbeat and confident about their upcoming vacation plans.
However, not all investors are confident in the trend’s continuation, such that Airbnb’s stock price plummeted following its results call earlier this month. It has also been noted by credit card firms that the emergence of the Delta variation may be preventing some Americans from booking flights shortly.
The epidemic made the United States a saver country, but recently, that tendency seems to be reversing. According to a study conducted by MassMutual in April, just 36 percent of individuals asked said they had saved less than $500 in the last three months.
That’s a dramatic shift from a few weeks ago when consumers splurged on gadgets and online shopping.
Shockingly, stimulus funds fueled consumer expenditure on necessities that might be used at home during the epidemic. They’ve recalculated things now. Home Depot had seen a decrease in the number of consumers lately when before the epidemic, they were going on shopping sprees for home improvement projects.
Analysts believe that spending on services like restaurants and tourism will likely continue to trend away from purchasing products.
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