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Uber Can Now Predict Where You're Going Before You Get In The Car
Uber's data team created a model that can choose your exact destination 74% of the time.
[Photo: Flickr user Magdalena Roeseler]
By John Paul Titlow 2 minute Read
It's no secret that Uber is powered by data. The ridesharing service is built on analytics and famously encourages passengers and drivers to rate each other. But data scientists at the company aren't just focused on the service's core functionality. They often delve into some pretty nitty-gritty details of how passengers use the service–and they can dig up some unexpected insights in the process.
Using Bayesian statistics, Uber's data team showed how it's been able to accurately predict the destination of its users three out of four times. To do this, they built an algorithm designed to figure out specific destinations–not just the intersection or another rough approximation, but exact addresses–and then tested it against the actual behavior of 3,000 anonymous Uber riders.
Not just the intersection or another rough approximation, but exact addresses.
In an exceptionally wonky, math-laden post, Uber's Ren Lu breaks down the specifics of how their formula works:
We took the riding patterns of over 3000 unique riders in San Francisco earlier in 2014 (anonymizing the data to protect privacy.) Each of these trips had been "tagged" by the rider: when requesting an Uber, the rider had filled in the destination field. We assumed that this represented the true destination the rider wanted to go, creating a gold standard against which we can compare the predictions of our model.
Uber's formula looks at three key factors: the history of the user, the behavior of other users, and the general popularity of specific places. It mathematically blends all of these "priors" (in statistical parlance) and factors in other bits of logic to determine whether a user is going to a particular nightclub or the coffee shop down the street. This is no easy feat in densely populated cities like New York City or San Francisco, which is why the traditional method of reverse-geocoding the drop-off coordinates or pinging a publicly available location database wouldn't cut it.
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Where has this person gone in the past? Do they frequent a certain bar? Where do other Uber users go? What businesses are popular generally? These are the basic questions the algorithm asks. On top of that, it smartly considers factors like time of day (people don't typically go to night clubs at 11 a.m.), distance (people aren't likely to get dropped off too far from their actual destination) and even the Zip code of each destination (Sketchy neighborhood? They probably didn't want to walk far, so the destination is likely near the drop-off point).
Extensions of this project involve building more complex priors and likelihoods.
Why does this matter? Like any modern company, Uber has a lot to gain by better understanding its users. "Our rider destination model is one way the #UberData Team is working on improving the Uber ride experience," writes Lu. "Extensions of this project involve building more complex priors and likelihoods."
In other words, it's not just your final destination that Uber wants to be able to predict. Thanks to experiments like this and the models they use, Uber's ability to see into your future will only get more refined with time. Presumably, so will your ride.
John Paul Titlow is a writer at Fast Company focused on music and technology, among other things. Find me here: Twitter: @johnpaul Instagram: @feralcatcolonist


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Iowa man sentenced to federal prison for $247K 'check-kiting' scheme that put a trucking company out of business
This week, a Cedar Falls man was sentenced to prison for a bank fraud scheme that caused a trucking company to go bankrupt and close shop.
On January 24, Nolan Otto DeWall, 39, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Iowa.
The prison term is to be followed by two years of supervised release.
Authorities say that DeWall was a manager and shareholder at a Black Hawk County grain cooperative as well as a part owner of a trucking company based in Dike, Iowa.
The U.S. Attorney's Office describes the scheme:
In May 2018, DeWall devised a so-called "check-kiting" scheme in which he transferred large amounts of funds by check during a short period of time between accounts of the grain cooperative and the trucking company, as well as other accounts. The checks had no legitimate business purpose but were instead designed to falsely and temporarily inflate the balances of the accounts to benefit the grain cooperative, which was in financial distress. DeWall also forged the signature of one of the partners in the trucking company on a check. When the check-kiting scheme collapsed, the trucking company's account was left with a negative $247,000 balance.
Due to the negative account balance, one of DeWall's partners in the trucking business was forced to file for personal bankruptcy. Another partner had to use personal funds and a loan to pay the negative bank balance.
Ultimately, the trucking company was forced to sell off its assets and became defunct, authorities say.
DeWall has also been ordered to pay $217,441.96 in restitution to his partners in the trucking business.

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Ukraine Pushes for Membership in European Blockchain Partnership
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Activists and lawmakers in Kyiv are urging the EU to accept Ukraine as a member of the European Blockchain Partnership. They believe the recently adopted law "On Virtual Assets" opens the way for the country to become a blockchain leader on the Old Continent.
Kyiv Officials Hope Blockchain Technology Can Help Post-War Reconstruction of Ukraine
Members of the "Virtual Assets of Ukraine" public union and Blockchain4Ukraine, an inter-factional association of Ukrainian lawmakers, are lobbying for Ukraine's full membership in the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP). Representatives of the two organizations have urged EU institutions to allow their country to participate in the initiative.
Letters with the appeal have been sent to President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the head of her cabinet, Bjoern Seibert, and Anthony Whelan, who works as a digital policy adviser to the executive body in Brussels, the crypto news outlet Forklog reported.
The authors of the correspondence say that blockchain technology can significantly contribute to the reconstruction of Ukraine by facilitating the provision of cross-border services, after the military conflict with Russia ends. "EBP will accelerate this recovery, as well as support the further integration of Ukraine and the EU," they have been quoted as stating.
Ukraine, a leader in terms of crypto adoption in Eastern Europe, was on the path of comprehensively regulating its crypto space when the Russian Federation launched its military invasion in late February. The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed the bill "On Virtual Assets" earlier that month. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed it into law in mid-March.
The Ukrainian government has been relying on cryptocurrency donations to address defense and humanitarian challenges. The officials behind the initiative to join the EBP are also convinced the new legislation will allow Ukraine to become a "European blockchain leader" in the future.
Last summer, Bjoern Seibert announced that the EBP member states were ready to explore granting Ukraine observer status. However, the full membership, which the Ukrainians insist on, would link the country to the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) that provides access to broader cross-border electronic services.
Do you expect the EU to accept Ukraine as a full member of the European Blockchain Partnership initiative? Tell us in the comments section below.
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We know that events are a vital part of encouraging inclusiveness through collaboration and that they have the power to carry important messages and deliver a vision to a wider audience. It is these qualities, amongst many others, that give events the potential to promote and create equality in opportunities and improve sustainability within the economy, so we are keen to explore specific ways in which events can achieve these goals.
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Weddington Sets Class Record, Charlotte Catholic Wins North Carolina Girls 3A State Championships
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08 February 2019, 06:24pm
The 2019 North Carolina High School Girls' State Swimming and Diving 3A State Championships took place on Friday, February 8 at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary, N.C.
Charlotte Catholic earned the team title with a final score of 267, edging out Weddington (263) by four points. Weddington's 4×50 free relay also set a new 3A mark. Marvin Ridge's Ellie VanNote was named Most Outstanding Swimmer for her two-win performance.
1. Charlotte Catholic – 267
2. Weddington – 263
3. Marvin Ridge – 215
4. Cuthbertson – 177
5. Northern Guilford – 135
Charlotte Catholic's Madeline Menkhaus (26.67), Mattie McFee (30.66), Victoria Dichak (26.09) and Olivia Rhodes (23.91) opened the meet with an excting and close win in the 4×50 medley relay, combining for a time of 1:47.33. Weddington took second in 1:47.56 and Cuthbertson was third in 1:47.85.
Chapel Hill's Clara Tate dove to first on the 1-meter board, finishing first with a total score of 418.64. S Guilford's Katelyn Cook finished second with 404.60 points while N Guilford's Jessica Paul placed third with a score of 398.95.
VanNote cruised to first in the 200 free, winning the event in 1:48.65 as the only swimmer in the field under the 1:50 mark. JH Rose's Madeline Smith raced to second in 1:50.76 and N Guilford's Maura Schoppa finished third in 1:52.10.
Weddington's Maddy Flickinger powered home to a win in the 200 IM, taking gold by four seconds with a final time of 2:02.23. Silver went to Menkhaus in 2:06.17 and TC Roberson's Grace Reeder grabbed bronze in 2:07.09.
Weddington's Katie Corbi led the charge of the top three swimmers under the 24-second barrier, finding herself on top of the podium in a quick 23.56. Charlotte Catholic's Alina Stout (23.72) and Olivia Rhodes (23.85) rounded out the top three.
For the second time of the day VanNote found herself with the gold medal, this time in the 100 fly in 53.92. Her time was just shy of the 3A record of 53.84 set last year. Menkhaus again took second in 55.58 and third belonged to Cuthbertson's Jordan Browning in 56.23.
After placing second in the 200 free, Smith redeemed herself for the win in the 100 free, powering home to the gold in 50.83. Not too far behind her was Corbi in 50.95 while Stout finished third in 51.58.
Eastern Alamance's Sophia Lange grabbed a win in the 500 free with a final time of 5:02.02, a 13-second drop from her seed time. St. Stephens' Nina Turcanu was close behind in 5:02.98 for second and Charlotte Catholic's Sophia Gornet wound up third in 5:04.46.
Weddington's Flickinger (23.21), Kylie Yoder (23.65), Kelsey Tolchin (24.20) and Corbi (23.33) combined to win the 4×50 free relay in 1:34.39 in record-setting fashion: the relay quartet broke the 3A state record of 1:35.00 set back in 2013 by Charlotte Catholic.
Right after helping her relay team to victory and a new class mark, Flickinger was back in the water to claim her second individual win of the day in the 100 back. Her wining time of 55.05 was ahead of Piedmont's Ava Yandle (56.12) and Browning (56.78).
Parkwood's Kaylee Hamblin got her hands to the wall the fastest in the 100 breast, stopping the clock in 1:02.79. Isabelle Gaskey of Central Cabarrus (1:04.91) and Kenzie Cresci of South Iredell (1:05.19) finished second and third, respectively.
Weddington's Flickinger (50.95), Ashley Martinson (53.78), Yoder (51.92) and Corbi (50.91) concluded the meet by winning the 4×100 free relay in 3:27.56. Charlotte Catholic was second in 3:29.63 and Marvin Ridge was third in 3:34.32.
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Coach Fahey: "Heading into her senior year, Mollee is more determined than ever to rewrite the backstroke recordboard for a third time. Arguably the best backstroker in the history of the program, these four years have flown by. Also a co-captain, her leadership will be noted in and out of the pool."


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Technology-based investment startup, Cube Wealth has raised mid-series funding of $500,000, led by founder Satyen Kothari, along with existing investors Singapore-based venture fund Beenext and Japan-based Asuka Holding participating in the round. The funds will be used to expand its engineering as well as growth marketing teams.
Cube Wealth has also launched a new cross-border SaaS service and marketplace called Cube Cloud to help fund managers in India and South East Asia track capital from investors across 50 countries. Part of the current funding will also be used by the startup to market Cube Cloud. In the coming months, Cube Wealth
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Launched in June, 2018 by fintech veteran Satyen Kothari, Cube Wealth is a digital wealth management service that offers busy professionals investment options on its app along with expert advice. The app also helps guide investors to create an investment portfolio and provides anytime assistance from dedicated wealth coaches. The platform uses gamification to help users invest through the app and provides investment options across asset classes, including mutual funds, foreign equities, digital gold and stock trading to help users diversify their investment.
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'Hit and run coward' who allegedly ran down and killed 'gentle giant dad' before fleeing the scene in a getaway car is arrested after three-day manhunt
Driver of a Holden allegedly drove into two road workers at Carrum Downs
He then fled the scene in a black Hyundai SUV that tried to ram police officers
Police describe act as 'cold, callous' and that of 'a coward' at press conference
44-year-old Timmy Raikei was killed and 37-year-old colleague in hospital
By Aidan Wondracz For Daily Mail Australia
A man has been charged and another arrested over a hit-run collision in Melbourne's southeast that left one man dead and another seriously injured.
Father-of-four Timmy Rakei, 44, was working as a traffic controller in Carrum Downs on Tuesday morning when a Holden Commodore allegedly struck him. He died at the scene.
His 38-year-old workmate suffered severe leg injuries and was released from hospital on Thursday.
Timmy Raikei, 44, was killed and his workmate severely injured when a red Holden Commodore struck them in Melbourne about 7.15am on Tuesday
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A three-day manhunt ensued after the driver of the car allegedly fled the scene and was picked up by a Hyundai SUV nearby.
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Top Ten Scoreboard for March 2020
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The top score for the shortened month of March at Trivia Club, belongs to Ajulmah who won the fourth annual Trivial Awards night at Farside with a score of 190 points on March 4th! Ajulmah are also known as The Man with the Candy, who competed at Hitch, and won their fifth overall Golden VHS on the night as well to join the Five Timers Club at the Trivial Awards!
The Fighting Mongooses made their return to Trivia Club, for the first time since their fifty-eight consecutive appearance streak at Hitch that ended with a win at the One Last Round finale event at what was our longest-running location, and had the highest score for a team who did not win the Golden VHS on the night as they finished with the runner-up spot as the Super Mongoose Bros. at the fourth annual Trivial Awards with 166 points at Farside on March 4th!
Cookiefaced are not only the only team to make multiple appearances on the Monthly Scoreboard for March 2020, making multiple appearances for the second straight month, they also gained the third thru fifth spots on the Top Ten for the month! Their winning score for the last event of the month at The Rec Room Roundhouse on March 10th of 151 points is the top score at The Roundhouse for March, with their winning score the week before on March 3rd 144 points is the fourth highest score, and the fifth highest score of 138 points is their third place finish in their first appearance outside of The Rec Room at Farside, just one day later on March 4th.
Four of the Top Ten High Scores come from teams competing at Farside, specifically the fourth annual Trivial Awards on March 4th, with three of the scores coming from The Rec Room Roundhouse in Toronto, two from The Rec Room Avalon in St. John's, and one from The Rec Room Square One in Mississauga.
We have a three-way-tie for seventh place, with The Rec Room Avalon in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador responsible for two of those 132 point totals on March 3rd, as the location saw their first tie to end the night! Jejunum and the Small Intestines would break the tie and win the night against #bringbacksineflu! One week later Let's Get Quizzical would also score 132 points at The Rec Room Square One in Mississauga, on March 10th!
Also outside of Toronto, the top score at The Rec Room Deerfoot in Calgary, Alberta came from the Cunning Chimeras who scored 117 points on March 3rd. March 3rd also saw the high score of the month at The Rec Room Masonville in London, when Last Week's Winners scored 105 points to become the second-winningest team at the location, and when Operation Can't Take Us Out Anywhere scored 103 points at The Rec Room South Edmonton Commons! On March 10th, with the top score at The Rec Room West Ed Mall, Quizzers of Oz scored 54 points!
The highest score for a team juuuust outside of the Scoreboard goes to The Questionables who got the eleventh highest score of the month with 126 points on March 3rd at The Rec Room Roundhouse!
Cookiefaced make their fourth consecutive appearance on a Monthly Scoreboard, while Matt Smith sees his three consecutive appearance come to an end. The Fighting Mongooses see their consecutive appearance streak grow to three, and the Cunning Stunts are the only other repeating team from last month!
The Mean Team, the team with the high score closest to the Scoreboard average for March of 145 points are Cookiefaced who scored 144 points on March 3rd at The Rec Room Roundhouse!
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Black & Paulson
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Two leading men on The Street, billionaires Leon Black and John Paulson, joined forces on two highprofile deals for Harrah's Entertainment and Realogy, home to Century 21. WARNER BROS / Ronald Grant Archi
Call them Wall Street's new BFFs.
Leon Black and John Paulson, two fifty-something billionaire New York natives who have each mastered tens of billions of dollars worth of deals — many of which involved betting that loans would default — but who until recently never were partners on one, have teamed up on two transactions.
Paulson came aboard with Black's Apollo Management to save two of its biggest deals — Harrah's Entertainment and Realogy, the parent company of Century 21, ERA, and Corcoran. In both cases, Paulson bought the debt of a troubled Apollo-owned business with the option of converting it into equity.
A person close to Paulson, a 55-year-old Queens native, and Black, 59, who went to grade school in The Bronx, say the two are forming "a very good relationship."
The latest Paulson-Black dance developed last week when Paulson, the head of Paulson & Co. hedge fund, helped give Black a second shot at Apollo's Realogy by repossessing it.
Apollo acquired Realogy in April 2007 in a $7 billion leveraged buyout. Black's firm put down $1 billion, had co-investors kick in another $900 million and had the business borrow the rest.
When housing sales plummeted, Realogy's earnings fell and, even after deep cuts, the equity in the business became nearly worthless, as did the debt when the company nearly defaulted on its loans.
With Black's investment at risk, he started buying up the discounted debt so he would have a say in a potential bankruptcy filing. He bought more than $1 billion of Realogy's most subordinated debt for an average price of about 20 cents on the dollar, or around $250 million. Months later, Paulson and Marc Lasry's Avenue Capital started buying the discount loans as well.
This week the trio, including the new best friends, got approval from enough bondholders to swap the subordinated debt for new junk bonds with a later maturity that can convert into an equity stake.
If the economy recovers enough and Realogy improves, Apollo will be able to convert its new junk bonds into a 61 percent stake in Realogy, giving it and its fund investors a chance to recover their money.
By converting, the bondholders, too, would be reducing the company's outstanding debt from $6 billion to roughly $4 billion.
However, the co-investors in the Realogy buyout would lose their $900 million. "They are [nearly] wiped out," the source said.
Such risks help explain why the loan-to-own strategy in your own company is controversial, even within the distressed debt community.
"This is easier to pull off if you control the board," as is the case for Apollo in Realogy, the source said.
"Is it funky? Does it smell? Yeah!" said a manager of a large fund that buys troubled corporate loans.
Apollo found it easier to convince fellow bondholders to swap their notes because bondholders Paulson and Avenue Capital were partners.
Apollo and Paulson declined to comment.
jkosman@nypost.com
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Cooking great food for weather emergencies
Author CREWTorontoPublished on August 1, 2017
People who live in the St James Town apartment towers in Toronto's inner city don't have air conditioning. But if the power goes out, they'll suffer more than most. Many residents are seniors or use mobility aids to get around. As the most diverse neighbourhood in North America, language can be a barrier, social connections may be weak, and most residents don't have incomes that allow them to store extra supplies of food, water and cash. ...continue reading Cooking great food for weather emergencies
York University Design Challenge
Author CREWTorontoPublished on May 4, 2017 May 4, 2017
In January 2017, Professor Elizabeth Hobart (Zab) challenged her York University students to design campaign visuals for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW). Deliverables were married to the course requirements. Excited about working on a socially meaningful project, students were free to select their target audience for their extreme weather emergency preparedness campaigns. ...continue reading York University Design Challenge
Published on May 4, 2017 May 4, 2017
Making it rain in Toronto
Author CREWTorontoPublished on March 26, 2017
It didn't just rain at the Toronto Annex Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) on Wednesday March 8, it poured! Floodwaters rose—and this was inside the building where about 90 people had gathered to play Resilientville Canada. Fortunately the rain was brightly coloured confetti and the floods were round blue mats. But the work was very real: the day's objective was to demonstrate through role playing the importance of neighbourhood level response to natural disasters. With that happily achieved, participants turned their attention to innovative thinking around local disaster risk response and the future job opportunities and career paths for youth that climate adaptation will deliver. Because extreme weather events are coming with rapidly increasing frequency and severity. ...continue reading Making it rain in Toronto
Building Resilient Communities in Hamilton
Author CREWTorontoPublished on February 16, 2017 March 26, 2017
The Art of Resilience
On February 8, 2017, while Toronto battled extreme weather warnings and freezing rain, participants gathered on an unusually mild morning in Hamilton for a Resilient Hamilton workshop. Hosted by CLARION (Community-Led Action to Resilience in Our Neighbourhoods), Environment Hamilton, and Faith & the Common Good, the day's project was to identify and support the social capital that's critical to effectively responding to, withstanding and recovering from adversity. ...continue reading Building Resilient Communities in Hamilton
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Telling a neighbourhood resiliency story by reading the data
Author CREWTorontoPublished on January 9, 2017 March 26, 2017
When Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) decided to pilot a neighbourhood resiliency map for Toronto's Wards 13 & 14 it asked Jose A. Lao and Santessa Henriques for help. Resiliency is the ability of a community to cope with extreme stressors, make the very best of them, and bounce back afterwards. It sounds straightforward but measuring it is not so simple. ...continue reading Telling a neighbourhood resiliency story by reading the data
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DEMSA teams up with CREW Toronto and U of T Engineers Without Borders to offer high school youth emergency exercise
Author CREWTorontoPublished on June 13, 2016 March 26, 2017
Originally posted on demsa.info.yorku.ca
By: Hurania Melgar (DEMSA Logistics Coordinator) and Catherine Kenny (DEMSA Academic Liaison), MDEM Candidates, York University
Students map resources in Resilientville.
A few weekends ago, Catherine Kenny and I represented DEMSA and the MDEM program, and volunteered our afternoon to help out with the Social Change and Youth Leadership Challenge (SCYLC) run by the Engineers Without Borders—University of Toronto Chapter. We volunteered with the community organization Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) to help facilitate a live exercise and dialogue with high school students, where they developed strategies for community disaster mitigation and engaged in thoughtful reflection on the communities we all live in and share. ...continue reading DEMSA teams up with CREW Toronto and U of T Engineers Without Borders to offer high school youth emergency exercise
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Local faith community buildings can be extreme weather resiliency hubs.
Author CREWTorontoPublished on June 2, 2016 March 26, 2017
Extreme weather events are no longer once-in-100-years occurrences, thanks to climate change. Take the City of Toronto; it has experienced three super storms in the last 12 years alone. But extreme weather impacts are predicted to increase and government clearly can't do it all. So what happens to the vulnerable residents of our communities? Here's where faith groups are stepping up and exploring how they can be of service within their neighbourhoods. ...continue reading Local faith community buildings can be extreme weather resiliency hubs.
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How to mobilize 100 volunteers during a holiday ice storm
Author CREWTorontoPublished on March 28, 2016 November 15, 2016
"I thought, someone has to do something!
And then I realized that the someone was me."
- Lisa Levin
At the height of the December 2013 ice storm Lisa Levin was in charge of the north Toronto Circle of Care office, covering for staff who were on Christmas holidays. Her regular job is VP of Community Relations and Communications. She knew that conditions outside were treacherous—so when the United Jewish Appeal offered help she immediately asked for salt. Circle of Care is responsible for 8,600 vulnerable seniors and its meals and transportation teams were slipping and sliding on ice as they continued to do their jobs. The city was out of salt, but Lisa knew that UJA had two campuses and must have stockpiles. They did, and so the first wave of collaborative community response was launched. ...continue reading How to mobilize 100 volunteers during a holiday ice storm
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Green maps build stronger communities
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When Mariko was about 13 years old she saw a video on global warming and it had an impact that's helped to shape her life. Now she's pursuing a Ph.D. in civil engineering that's focused on the resillience of neighbourhoods to climate change. It's a field that's moving as fast as climate change and she's in a hurry to get her work published. ...continue reading Green maps build stronger communities


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A new education pack is being launched for Scottish secondary schools to help pupils learn the lessons of a mass genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s.
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A 10-year-old asylum seeker would be put in grave danger if he is deported back to the country of his birth, it has been claimed.
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Former SARTA employee faces more legal trouble in new case
Ed Balint
CANTON Kristy Williams' voice shook with emotion and became weak as the former SARTA employee expressed remorse for swindling the public busing agency out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The 38-year-old Stark County woman said she deserved to be released early from prison after betraying the public's trust by improperly using gift cards, tuition reimbursements, business travel and other perks from her old job as human resources director of the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority.
"I'm sorry to you and all the taxpayers of Stark County for my actions that caused me to be here," Williams said Monday through a video link in the courtroom broadcast from the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville.
"I've suffered every minute that I've been here ... and I just want to repay my debt to society," she said during a hearing in Stark County Common Pleas Court.
Judge Frank Forchione granted her early release because she met the terms of her plea agreement.
But Williams won't be enjoying freedom, at least not yet.
She faces new but unrelated felony charges in a similar theft case in Cuyahoga County. Williams will be released this week directly from prison to the Cuyahoga jail, said Tyler Sinclair, public information officer for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley.
Williams then will remain in the Cuyahoga County jail until her arraignment on the new charges; a bond will be set at that hearing, Sinclair said Tuesday night.
Forchione's decision for early release was made independently of the Cuyahoga case.
During Monday's hearing, Williams said she's been attending virtual counseling sessions "to address some of my underlying issues."
"I truly learned my lessons and changed my life," she said of her eight months of incarceration, noting she sought out programming and self-help books.
Williams was sentenced in May to four years in prison after she had pleaded guilty to aggravated theft, forgery, insurance fraud and theft in office.
Stark County Assistant Prosecutor Beau Wenger said the plea offer was made prior to learning of the investigation in Cuyahoga County.
Probation terms
Forchione placed Williams on three years probation.
Conditions of her release include undergoing mental health and substance abuse assessments and following any recommendations. Victim awareness programming also must be completed.
"You made a serious mistake here," Forchione said. "You certainly damaged the taxpayers of Stark County.
"You have paid the price and now you have a chance to redo your life. I don't think anyone likes to have their lives judged on their worst day, so we're going to give you the opportunity to make your life productive."
Cuyahoga County charges
Williams' legal troubles are far from over.
The Cuyahoga County case stems from allegations she committed fraud and theft at Hy-Tech Controls in Oakwood.
She faces charges of theft, unauthorized use of property and identity fraud, all second-degree felonies. Williams also has been indicted on third-degree felony charges of telecommunications fraud and tampering with records.
She was hired at Hy-Tech after she had been fired from SARTA but before she was indicted in the Stark County case.
Between October 30, 2019, and April 24, 2020, Williams made numerous unauthorized changes to her employer's (Hy-Tech Controls) payroll system in her position as the company's human resources manager, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office.
She manipulated payroll account records to change one retiring employee's direct deposit account number, redirecting his final paycheck to an account of her own, said Sinclair, of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office.
Williams is also accused of creating fraudulent accounts for four temporary employees (who are paid by the temp agency directly) in order to funnel additional money into the same personal bank account, Sinclair said.
Stolen funds totaled more than $58,000, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office.
If convicted of the new charges, Williams faces up to 34 years in prison, Sinclair said.
The Stark County-related charges stem from various schemes, including those involving health insurance and college tuition reimbursement fraud; inappropriate travel expenses; improper salary because she falsely claimed to have a master's degree; and fraudulent claims by Williams for heating assistance for low-income residents.
Her SARTA-related thefts amounted to roughly $400,000, according to the Stark County Prosecutor's Office.
Still unresolved is the restitution amount she owes.
Kirt Conrad, SARTA's executive director and CEO, said Tuesday the insurance claim "is in process and it should be resolved soon."
Forchione set a restitution hearing for Feb. 22.
Wenger said restitution will be offset by roughly $50,000 deducted from the defendant's public employee retirement pension.
Reach Ed at 330-580-8315 and ebalint@gannett.com
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var searchBuilder = _indexProvider.CreateSearchBuilder("Search");
var x = searchBuilder.WithField("Price", 200000).Search().Count();

I not sure why the results are not being returned. Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

A: It is an int serach.
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About Solidarity
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Dan La Botz is a member of Solidarity and of the Socialist Party USA running for Ohio Senate. The interview below originally appeared in Columbus Examiner.
Find out more, donate or get involved in the campaign at DanLaBotz.com
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Dan La Botz, 64, a native of Chicago who lives with his wife and children in Cincinnati and teaches Spanish at a local elementary school, has his own reasoned view of socialism and reasons for entering the race.
La Botz said he's running in the senate race for many reasons, one of them being it gives him a chance to talk about domestic and foreign policy issues including what he sees as an environmental crisis and "these terrible wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan."
He believes the nation, at this particular moment, has a "sense of the crisis" and is "searching for answers" to them. For these and other reasons, La Botz said he "wants to be part of that debate."
So far for La Botz, who graduated high school in San Diego County in southern California and who worked at various vocations including truck driver, journalist and community organizer before he started a career as teacher, the only coverage or inclusion by media in Ohio has come with an article in the Cincinnati Beacon and a candidate questionnaire that ran in the Warren Hamilton Tribune newspaper.
Columbus Government Examiner: What's your working definition of socialism? Do you think Americans have a good/bad view of socialism, and why? How does this answer help/hurt your campaign?
Dan La Botz: The Republican's battle against the Democrats' health care plan has had a surprising result. The conservatives accused Obama of being a socialist because of that plan. This has led many to draw the conclusion that if they believe in health care for all, then they must be socialists. So overnight, millions of people have become open to thinking about the socialist alternative.
We live today in a country where capitalism and the corporations provide the model for life: selfishness, competition, greed, and disdain for others. It's a poor model, violent, and destructive.
Socialism means conducting the political and economic life of our nation the way that—at least ideally–we conduct the lives of our many, varied sorts of families. We hold our wealth in common. We work hard to provide for all: young or old, healthy or sick, weak or strong. We create bonds of solidarity through our common efforts. We make decisions democratically through a process of give-and-take.
So too, we as a people should take collective, social control over the largest industries and corporations in our country. We should democratically elaborate a plan to use our wealth to provide a decent life for all. Most Americans, I believe, share this vision of a just society. We might make our nation one where we take care of each other, where we insure that all are taken care of. We might in that process, create a nation where one loved one's neighbor as one's self.
CGE: Why isn't the mainstream media in Ohio writing about you?
Dan La Botz: Socialist candidates, because they challenge corporate power, including the power of the corporate media, find it difficult to get coverage in the mainstream media. Corporations like CBS, General Electric, Hearst, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom and Walt Disney own most of the mainstream media, and they are in business to make a profit—not to provide news, much less to present the truth. CNN, FOX and Clear Channel radio present rightwing programming aimed at keeping the American people under the sway conservative politicians and the corporations. Fortunately within the mainstream media there remain some committed editors and journalists, and now we also have independent news sources on the Internet. We will get through to the mainstream media, but only when the social and labor movements become strong enough to forces its way in and get a fair hearing.
CGE: You say you've "come to know that none of the problems facing this country can be dealt with unless we end the domination of banks, insurance companies and multinational corporations over both major parties and over our political system" and that "our economic system needs to be changed." Changed to what? What's' the first step in that direction, and how do you sell it to voters in Ohio?
Dan La Botz: Today ten or twenty men meeting in a mahogany room can vote to close a factory or some other workplace and destroy the economy of a town, putting thousands out of work. Similarly, they can bankrupt an industry and destroy the economy of an entire state, as we have seen happen in neighboring Michigan. We need end this system where a small minority makes decisions that affect the lives of millions who have no voice or vote in that process. I think the working people of Ohio know that such a system is unjust. No small group should hold such power. We have to end such a system.
We have lost since the peak a few years ago 650,000 jobs in Ohio and people need jobs now. We have seen no serious effort to put people in Ohio back to work. The people of Ohio want alternatives, they want answers, and they want action now. The Republicans ushered in the crisis, the Democrats have since overseen it, but neither party proposes to create jobs here now.
The Stimulus Bill was not enough and not aimed at the right target: creating jobs for all. The Stimulus Bill's extension of unemployment benefits, assistance with health care, aid to low-income workers, and help for the very poor were necessary—but they were not enough. And the tax cuts for big business and tax money flowing to private corporations, however, put our tax money in the hands of the rich. We can do better.
Take Wilmington. DHL destroyed the economy of that town by closing its facility. The government let a viable economic center and an entire community collapse. Our tax money could have created a publicly owned logistics center—warehousing and shipping—run democratically by workers and consumers providing jobs for 8,000 workers. The government could take over and keep operating other logistics facilities in the country. We could integrate these into a revamped and revitalized U.S. Postal System. With our tax support, the workers' know-how, and consumer in-put, we could build a logistics system to compete with and beat DHL, FEDEX, and UPS. Rather than temporary unemployment benefits, we should create jobs at living wages. I will fight to create permanent jobs not temporary handouts.
CGE: You say Democrats, Republicans and Tea Party types are not "prepared to tackle the real problem which is corporate domination of the political system." How do you propose to take power away from the very corporate culture you say dominates America's two majority political parties?
Dan La Botz: The corporate domination of American politics has to be challenged by both movements and a political party. We need both the rebuilding of the unions and the social movements and the development of a political alternative with a vision of a democratic socialist society. We see the labor and social movements developing unevenly and the independent political alternative similarly waxes and wanes. And the two, the movements and the political alternatives, seldom become coordinated.
We have seen during the last decade enormous progressive social movements appear and then sometimes disappear: the environmental movement, the gay and lesbian movement, the immigrant rights movement, and the anti-war movement. Unfortunately the movements have often been captured by the corporate-dominated Democratic Party where once it enters the movement often dies while its program is watered down or evaporates altogether.
Similarly we have had progressive independent political movements, most important the Green Party and the Nader campaigns. But the independent movements seldom become the expression of the movements. We cannot change American politics until the labor and social movements become strong enough and until they also break away from the Democratic Party.
The economic and social crisis that we are now suffering has begun to break up the political and ideological logjam. Working class people, middle class people have begun to go into motion, for example around the issues of health care for all, and also to seek political alternatives. We must work now then to build and to begin to coordinate the social movements and the political alternative.
Change in America will come as it always has—as it did in the creation of the industrial unions in the 1930s, as it did in the civil rights movements of the 1960s, as it did in the environmental movement of the 1970s, and as id did in the gay and lesbian movements of the 1980s, and the immigrant rights movement of the 1990s—through massive social protest and confrontations with authority. What is crucial is to provide the growing movements with a political alternative to escape the trap of the two-party system, to break and move beyond the Republicans and Democrats to a progressive alternative on the left.
CGE: Is there anyone else you had to beat out for this spot? What are the basics — funding, staffers, etc. of the Socialist Party in Ohio? Does the party have a member who's been elected to any Ohio office, from township trustee, up?
Dan La Botz: I have been a socialist since the late 1960s, active in small socialist organizations committed to working in the labor unions and the social movements. I joined the Socialist Party and chose to run as the candidate of the Ohio Socialist Party, part of the Socialist Party USA (http://socialistparty-usa.org/) for several reasons. First, because I believed that the crises we now face—the economy, the environment, and war—can only be solved by turning to democratic socialism. Socialists have an understanding of the root cause of our problems.
Second, I chose the Socialist Party because it represents the American socialist tradition once so strong in Ohio, the party of railroad worker Eugene V. Debs and Presbyterian minister Norman Thomas, its standard bearers in the presidential elections in the early to mid-twentieth century.
Third, the party's principles and platform today represent the vision of socialism and the program which the American people need at this time if we are to work our way out of the economic and environmental crisis, end war and enter into a path of peace on the planet.
While the organization remains small in Ohio and has not in recent history elected anyone to local or state office, it is part of a growing socialist movement across the country. The party welcomed my candidacy without opposition. Since my nomination I have received many emails, phone calls, and visits to my home from people anxious to help in one way or another. With such volunteers, we will build a state-wide organization and campaign to win a significant vote for socialism and win in November.
CGE: What's your campaign funding report going to look like, if you 've raised enough to have one to report, because the quarter deadline just ended?
Dan La Botz: As the Ohio Socialist Party candidate running on an anti-corporate program, I can't expect to be—and wouldn't want to be—funded by the corporations. My opponents in both the Republican and Democratic Parties will get much, perhaps most of their campaign contributions from the very wealthy, from the corporations and corporate executives, from lawyers and lobbyists. Who pays the piper calls the tune, and those parties will dance to the tune of the corporate pipers.
My campaign contributions will come from working class people, from middle class people who believe that we need to build a movement and raise a progressive political alternative. We have just begun fundraising, principally through my webpage (DanLaBotz.com) and have been delighted with the donations that have come in, some as little as $5 and some as much as $100, but mostly $25 donations. As a first step, we are looking for 1,000 people who will give $25 to support a socialist senate campaign in Ohio, and when we make that goal, then we will set a higher one.
CGE: Had you been in the U.S. Senate now, explain your vote on the recently passed health care reform bill? If you win and you're faced with voting yea or nay on bills for jobs, climate change, and immigration, none of which [let's presume] will reflect your concerns given your axiom that corporations control political systems, will you vote with the majority Democrats or the minority Republicans?
Dan La Botz: We have to begin to rethink the role of our representatives who should be in Congress not simply to debate and to vote, but principally to organize and mobilize among the American people to pressure the Congress to respond to the will of the working class majority. If I had been a Senator during this recent period, first I would have spent every possible movement traveling throughout Ohio organizing and building a movement for "Medicare for All!" I would have urged Ohio residents to march, demonstrate, sit-in in government buildings, and to create the sort of civic rebellion that could not have been ignored. We could have built a movement that would have eclipsed the Tea Party and would have won over some its supporters.
Every issue has its own particulars, but the method is the same. If immigrants and their allies really want to pass an immigration bill that will legalize the immigrants living and working her and building our communities without onerous penalties, then immigrants need to use their power. When in the spring of 2006 immigrants held mass demonstrations in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and scores of other communities, some of the larger demonstrations of up to one million people became virtual general strikes.
Those demonstrations revealed the power of the immigrant movement—and at precisely that moment the Catholic Church (but not all Catholic churches), the Democratic Party, and the labor unions backed away from the opportunity and the challenge. If America's immigrants struck for immigration rights, they could paralyze the economy in many big cities and force the politicians to recognize their rights. What can a Senator do—become the voice of that movement, serve as an organizer for that movement, carry that movement's demands to the media and to Congress. Such a movement would spark a larger working class rebellion that could begin to turn the tide for labor.
CGE: Bernie Sanders, the longest serving independent in the Senate, caucuses with the Democrats. Where do you differ on any key issue with Sanders' view? Would you remain an independent, or would you do as Bernie has done and huddle with Democrats?
Dan La Botz: The question is not how you vote on the last day, but what you do in the days leading up to the vote, what you do to make sure that the American people get what they need. In Congress I would have sought out Bernie Sanders, the independent and self-proclaimed Socialist, and would have urged him to join me in building a "Medicare for All!" block in the Senate and among the representatives. I would have worked to strengthen the will of Representative Dennis Kucinich so that he would have stuck with his convictions. Working to build a national movement for Medicare for all to put on the pressure from below, we could have brought others into our camp.
As a socialist in Congress, there will be moments to join with some Democrats to pass measures that will benefit the American people. What is most interesting, however, is how one Socialist in Congress might be able to use that one vote to force important changes in bills under consideration—and think what we could do with a block of half a dozen Socialists, with twenty, with fifty.
CGE: Has Barack Obama been good/bad for America?
Dan La Botz: The election of Barack Obama has had both positive and negative impacts on the American people. For African American people and for all of us who oppose racism in American society, Obama's election represented the fulfillment at one level of the civil rights movement and the demand for equal civil and political rights—often symbolized by the notion that anyone including an African American might become president. Certainly too, Obama's election demonstrated a rejection of all that was worst about American politics, as represented by the Bush-Cheney presidency. The defeat for the right was important. And the Obama campaign raised the hope and inspired a desire for progressive change in the American people.
Unfortunately, the hope in Obama and the Democratic Party and the belief that they would bring about progressive change was largely misplaced. Following Bush's lead, Obama saved the banks by giving them 13 trillion dollars. He saved them but didn't save us, didn't save small business, homeowners facing foreclosure, and people losing their jobs. Obama saved the auto companies, but not the workers who faced loss of health benefits and the bosses' demands for wage cuts. Obama passed a health program regulates insurance companies and provides coverage for more Americans, and that's good. It's fundamental result, however, is to save the health insurance companies by forcing 30 million Americans to buy their policies—but which doesn't give us Medicare for All and still leaves millions without health insurance coverage. Obama has opened up the East Coast seas to oil, good for the oil companies, but bad for the planet and for people. Obama—whose election was in large measure a referendum on U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan—has not ended those wars, but, rather, continues to expand them. Many of Obama's supporters must be disappointed in these developments.
CGE: Who will Ohio voters elect governor, Strickland or Kasich, and why?
Dan La Botz: Just as climate change has led to volatile weather and sometimes severe storms, so too in our current crisis we see a volatile political atmosphere and sudden changes in conditions. The Democratic Party's success in passing the health care reform has led to a sudden rise in support for Democrats. Strickland, therefore, despite the state's disastrous economy and his failure to provide jobs, seems, therefore, likely to defeat Kasich, a nine-term Congressman completely identified with the Bush-Cheney years, and at the same time undistinguished and unknown.
CGE: Outline your campaign going forward.
Dan La Botz: During the next eight months, I will be speaking and organizing throughout Ohio and building up a state-wide campaign organization. We will be using electronic communications and social networking to build up our base of supporters and to put them in touch with each other. Part of our goal, after all, is to build and strengthen the progressive movement. We will have a Committee to Elect Socialist Party Candidate Dan La Botz in every major city and many towns in Ohio, and on the college campuses. We will look for opportunities to support workers fighting for jobs and living wages, African American communities fighting for equality and economic justice, immigrants fighting to win immigration reform, and gay and lesbian groups fighting for dignity and respect. We will join those fights, as we always have, not because we want their votes, but because we want them to build the movement we need to bring justice and fairness to our society. We will join them because the most important thing is to build a movement to challenge the corporations and the two major parties.
CGE: Which Ohio policies/programs have been good/bad for Hispanics?
Dan La Botz: The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicle's new policy (since the end of last year) requiring Hispanics to show proof of U.S. residency unfairly discriminates against these residents. We have in our state and throughout the United States millions of immigrants, who live, work and contribute to our communities, but who do not have documents. Because we have failed to provide enough visas for those who come to work here, they have come without visas. These immigrants came here to work, raise families, and have built communities that enrich our state economically, socially and culturally. We must move to pass a national immigration reform bill which will give these immigrants legal rights. We can begin, as several states have at different times in our history, by permitting immigrants who can provide proof of identity in the form for example of a passport or consular identification card, to register their vehicles and obtain drivers licenses. Many police departments support such a policy because at present we have many unlicensed cars, unlicensed drivers, and people without insurance on our highways.
CGE: Are unions, broadly speaking, winning or losing in Ohio?
Dan La Botz: Unions and workers have been losing and it's time to fight back. As government, corporate and union studies over decades have shown, when workers have labor unions they earn more money, have better health benefits and pension benefits, have more job security, and have protection from unfair firing. Most workers, when given the opportunity and when not faced with employer threats, will choose labor unions. For thirty years, however, the U.S. government and the corporations have worked to weaken the labor movement. Federal laws, court decisions, corporate anti-union campaigns and union-busting law firms have severely weakened the labor movement.
Here in Ohio labor unions and workers have over the last twenty years seen a dramatic decline in membership as well as economic and political power. In 1989, 21.3 percent of Ohioans belonged to labor unions, while today just 14.2 percent are union members. The combination of the economic crisis and the weakness of unions help explain why per capita personal income in Ohio shrank by 1.4 percent last year. Ohio's workers have lost 640,000 jobs, lost health benefits or been forced to pay more for them, and have faced wage cuts. Yet unions have not mounted a serious fight back.
Too many union leaders wait for the Democratic Party to bail them out—but, of course, the Democrats, while they take the unions' money and use their volunteer campaign organizers, inevitably fail to do much for workers. The unions wanted the Democrats to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) which would have allowed a simple majority of workers signing cards to create a union—Obama and the Democrats let it die. Many of the unions wanted an immigration reform law—the Democrats left it on the back burner. Many unions and workers wanted Medicare for all—the Democrats passed a much weaker health reform bill.
If unions and the working people of Ohio and of the nation are going to improve their situation, we must have a working class uprising in the form of organizing campaigns and strikes to force employers to negotiate and to pay higher wages. We cannot do this without a combination of strategic organizing ideas, solidarity between unions and among workers, and a grassroots rebellion that draw the line and says, "No more concessions. Fight back now!" We may have begun to see the beginning of such a change with the Ford workers' recent votes against concessions. Maybe the Ford workers will lead the next workers' rebellion against the corporations.
CGE: What should public sector unions be happy or afraid about?
Dan La Botz: Public employees stand in danger of layoffs, furloughs, wage and benefit cuts and must be on guard and prepared to fight back.
Government employees who provide so many of our essential services—from teachers and social workers to fire fighters and police officers, from librarians and nurses to water workers and garbage collectors—face a difficult situation. The economic crisis which led to the collapse of some banks and corporations, and to layoffs at others, has meant that federal, state and local governments have lost funding. So the crisis quickly spread from private industry to public employment with disastrous results. State and local governments have been forced to use rainy-day reserves, to lay off employees, or to cut back on hours.
Ohio public sector workers have a stronger position than private sector workers, because more than 45% of Ohio's public employees are represented by labor unions. On the other hand, those labor unions do not enjoy the same right to strike as other unions, and the members' political rights are also limited. Public employee unions and their members must pay attention to politics, because it is federal, state and local budgets which ultimately decide hiring policies, wages and benefits for those workers. Many of these unions rely on the Democratic Party, but the Democrats are unreliable allies, and often let them down. Workers in both the private and the public sector need both to rebuild the power of the unions and create a new independent political party for working class people.
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Lowering commute times, reducing vacants are key for improving Baltimore.
With his plans to improve mass transit (Baltimore Link) and to fund the demolition of vacant houses (Project CORE), Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has picked two of the most important things that could be done to improve life in Baltimore.
There's a third thing he could do — use his influence as a popular governor and businessman to encourage the development of more affordable housing throughout the region — but targeting millions in state funds for better bus routes and urban renewal puts Hogan on the same page with University of Baltimore researchers who've used deep-dig data to come up with a prescription for a better city.
A new report from the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (BNIA), based at UB's Jacob France Institute, makes three recommendations for improving life in the most distressed city neighborhoods, and not one involves sending in more police.
Reduce the number of vacant houses, reduce home-to-work travel time and increase housing opportunities for low-income families with children — those are the things most likely to improve the quality of life in the city and the region, the report says.
The recommendations are based on years of research into all kinds of indicators of neighborhood health, everything from the number of teenagers having babies in a particular community to the number of housing permits being issued. The BNIA was a rich source of information for journalists who examined the city's long-festering problems following the death of Freddie Gray and the related unrest in West Baltimore.
"After the events of last spring, many people from around the world took a look at our data to better understand the neighborhood context that might have spawned such civil unrest," said Seema Iyer, the institute's associate director. "We put this report together to show that there are real issues in the places we live that impede healthy life outcomes."
Take commute time, for instance. You would not think to list that among the biggest threats to a stable city neighborhood — the thing that causes people to leave it. "Most people and the media attribute [population] loss to high crime rates or poor quality education," the report says. But BNIA research shows that a long commute to work is the leading reason for a neighborhood's distress, especially when it comes to population loss. "The percent of commuters in a neighborhood traveling more than 45 minutes to get to work has the strongest, negative relationship with population change," the reports says. Some people move away to reduce commute time; others become discouraged and lose their jobs. Neither is good for a neighborhood.
Also correlating strongly to a distressed neighborhood — its unemployment rate and the percentage of vacant houses.
The Baltimore neighborhoods that grew between 2000 and 2010 had vacancy rates at below 4 percent, the report says, while the poorest neighborhoods on the east and west sides of the city showed the highest concentrations of vacancy. "For some neighborhoods, the problem has become overwhelming," the report says.
In the Sandtown-Winchester and Harlem Park area, some 1,800 properties would need to be knocked down or renovated to achieve a vacancy level more in line with neighborhoods that thrive. In Oldtown and Middle East, the number is close to 450, and in Upton-Druid Heights, the report said, 640 properties would need to be demolished or rehabilitated for those neighborhoods to see growth again.
So Hogan's Project C.O.R.E (Creating Opportunities for Renewal and Enterprise), a pledge of $75 million to ramp up Baltimore's vacant house program, will be a substantial contribution to the city's most distressed neighborhoods. Add millions more in redevelopment incentives, also pledged by the Hogan administration, and we might even see some growth in the most distressed inner-city neighborhoods before the start of the next decade.
As for reducing commute times, Hogan's Baltimore Link plan is just $135 million, and it's hard to see how that limited state investment can be "transformative," as the administration claims. It's certainly no substitute, in terms of immediate job creation and long-term investment opportunities, for the multibillion-dollar Red Line project that Hogan killed last year.
Still, it shows Hogan, acting either on common-sense instincts or good data, has settled on two key ways to help the city.
The third piece of this, says the BNIA, would be an increase in housing diversity throughout the region. The most stable neighborhoods around here have housing for a range of incomes and a moderate level of government vouchers (a median of 20 per 1,000 housing units) that help low-income families relocate to better neighborhoods. Do more of that, the report says, and we'll have a stronger housing market, and a strong housing market correlates with better educational results for children. "If we truly want to end the cycle of racial and poverty isolation," the report says, "we must eliminate the disparity that exists between neighborhoods by promoting housing diversity everywhere."
Supporting that last recommendation would give Maryland's Republican governor a Baltimore trifecta.