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T HE P RESS D AKOTAN THE DAKOTAS’ OLDEST NEWSPAPER | FOUNDED 1861 Yankton Media, Inc., 319 Walnut St., Yankton, SD 57078 Thursday, 9.11.14 ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net VIEWS PAGE: [email protected] PRESS DAKOTAN PAGE 4 views OPINION | OTHER THOUGHTS Employment Figures Are No Surprise God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. Job 30:19. Portals of Prayer, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis FROM THE BIBLE By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, September 11, the 254th day of 2014. There are 111 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On September 11, 2001, on America’s single-worst day of terrorism, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al- Qaida members hijacked four passen- ger jetliners, sending two of the planes smashing into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in western Pennsyl- vania. On this date: In 1714, the forces of King Philip V of Spain overcame Catalan defenders to end the 13- month-long Siege of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. In 1814, an American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812. In 1857, the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place in present-day southern Utah as a 120-member Arkansas immigrant party was slaughtered by Mormon militiamen aided by Paiute Indians. In 1936, Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) began operation as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydro- electric generator. In 1941, groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon. In a speech that drew accusations of anti-Semi- tism, Charles A. Lindbergh told an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” were pushing the United States toward war. In 1954, the Miss America pag- eant made its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Meriwether, was crowned the winner. In 1962, The Beatles completed their first single for EMI, “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You,” at EMI studios in London. In 1974, Eastern Airlines Flight 212, a DC-9, crashed while attempting to land in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 72 of the 82 people on board. The family drama “Little House on the Prairie” premiered on NBC-TV. In 1984, country star Barbara Mandrell was seriously injured in an automobile accident near Nashville that claimed the life of the other driver, Mark White. In 1989, the exodus of East Ger- man refugees from Hungary to West Germany began. In 1994, actress Jessica Tandy died in Easton, Connecticut, at age 85. Ten years ago: Parents and grandparents of those lost on Septem- ber 11 stood at the World Trade Cen- ter site and marked the third anniversary of the attacks. Spc. Armin Cruz became the first Military Intelli- gence soldier convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal as he admitted abusing inmates and received a lighter sentence in return for his testi- mony against others. Svetlana Kuznetsova overwhelmed Elena De- mentieva 6-3, 7-5 in the first all-Russ- ian U.S. Open final. Mike Leigh’s “Vera Drake” won the Golden Lion for best picture at the close of the Venice Film Festival. Lyricist Fred Ebb died in New York City; he was 76. Five years ago: On his first 9/11 anniversary as president, Barack Obama urged Americans to come to- gether in service just as they united after the terrorist attacks. Anti-abortion activist James Pouillon was shot to death near a high school in Owosso, Michigan. (Harlan James Drake was convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of Pouillon and the owner of a gravel pit, Mike Fuoss, and sentenced to life in prison.) Death claimed Holly- wood writer Larry Gelbart at age 81 and poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll at age 60. One year ago: A car bomb tore through a Libyan Foreign Ministry building in the eastern city of Beng- hazi on the anniversary of a deadly at- tack on the U.S. consulate there as well as the 2001 terror attacks in the United States. More than 1 million people showed their support for Cata- lan independence by joining hands to form a 250-mile human chain across the northeastern region of Spain. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Betsy Drake is 91. Former Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, is 90. Actor Earl Hol- liman is 86. Comedian Tom Dreesen is 75. Movie director Brian De Palma is 74. Rock singer-musician Jack Ely (The Kingsmen) is 71. Rock musician Mickey Hart (The Dead) is 71. Singer- musician Leo Kottke is 69. Actor Phillip Alford is 66. Actress Amy Madi- gan is 64. Rock singer-musician Tommy Shaw (Styx) is 61. Sports re- porter Lesley Visser is 61. Actor Reed Birney is 60. Singer-songwriter Diane Warren is 58. Homeland Security Sec- retary Jeh Johnson is 57. Musician Jon Moss (Culture Club) is 57. Actor Scott Patterson is 56. Rock musician Mick Talbot (The Style Council) is 56. Actress Roxann Dawson is 56. Actor John Hawkes is 55. Actress Anne Ramsay is 54. Actress Virginia Mad- sen is 53. Actress Kristy McNichol is 52. Musician-composer Moby is 49. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is 49. Business reporter Maria Bartiromo is 47. Singer Harry Connick Jr. is 47. Rock musician Bart Van Der Zeeuw is 46. Actress Taraji P. Henson is 44. Ac- tress Laura Wright is 44. Rock musi- cian Jeremy Popoff (Lit) is 43. Blogger Markos Moulitsas is 43. Singer Brad Fischetti (LFO) is 39. Rapper Mr. Black is 37. Rock musician Jon Buck- land (Coldplay) is 37. Rapper Ludacris is 37. Rock singer Ben Lee is 36. Actor Ryan Slattery is 36. Actress Ariana Richards (Film: “Jurassic Park”) is 35. Actress Elizabeth Henstridge is 27. Actor Tyler Hoechlin is 27. Country singer Charles Kelley (Lady Antebel- lum) is 33. Actress Mackenzie Alad- jem is 13. Thought for Today: “This will re- main the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” — Elmer Davis, American news com- mentator (1890-1958). ON THIS DATE YOUR LETTERS MANAGERS Gary L. Wood Publisher Michele Schievelbein Advertising Director Tonya Schild Business Manager Michael Hrycko Circulation Director Tera Schmidt Classified Manager Kelly Hertz Editor James D. Cimburek Sports Editor Beth Rye New Media Director Kathy Larson Composing Manager Published Daily Monday-Saturday Periodicals postage paid at Yankton, South Dakota, under the act of March 3, 1979. Weekly Dakotian established June 6, 1861. Yankton Daily Press and Dakotian established April 26, 1875. 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No wait, my kids are upset when I say that. I’m getting older. They can’t deny that. And when you are getting older, dealing with change is challenging and even sometimes overwhelming at some point. After I had my knee surgery, I faced several facts about life as I had known it. I couldn’t have come home without Bob. The first few weeks were very dif- ficult and I even had to surrender some of the fine points of living I had learned at my mother’s side. Take, for instance, making a bed from sheets up. I was always taught to make crisp corners and smooth cov- ers. After surgery, getting into bed with an immobilizer on one leg was interesting. But for Bob, it was simple, pull that sheet and blan- ket out from the corner of the mattress. It made life so much easier but I kept seeing my mother beside me, getting that corner just right. It took me a while but I got used to it. We even let it loose still on both sides of the bed and only an- chor it in the center. Bob is a happy man — more freedom and it seems such a silly thing. I gave up a lot of idiosyncrasies I learned at my mother’s side. I don’t iron handkerchiefs or much of anything anymore. I still remember bringing the sheets in from the close line, smelling their sweet freshness, and watching mom plop them on the ironing board for either her or me to iron. What was the sense of that? You were going to mess them up when you went to sleep, right? When I moved into my own home, I never ironed one sheet. I seem to be obsessed with sheets! I will move on. In early spring I learned my hairdresser of 30-plus years was selling their house and closing shop. Shear panic! Her hus- band retired and the city life was beckoning along with grandchildren. What would I do? Both Bob and I used her haircutting in-home business and we slowly counted the days until they left their rural home for town an hour away. We all went to school together. Bob was in a band with her brothers. She al- ways knew how to cut that cowlick I seem to have. She cut all my children’s hair. Yep, shear panic! Of course, one can’t discount the psychological relationship one has with beauticians, barbers and bar- tenders. All the stories told are ab- solutely confidential and secrecy is sworn forever. And why do we spill our guts to someone chopping our hair off with sharp instruments in these postage-stamp salons? What’s the at- traction? Trying to be reasonable, I don’t hold it against her husband. I realize there is a time for everything and also a place. A new beautician was out there somewhere. Bob and I watched our hair getting longer and eventu- ally broke down to make an appointment. We pored over telephone books and grilled friends about their cutter. I needed to make an informed decision but Google could not help me this time. We finally found what we thought would be a suitable candidate and made appointments. Guess what? It turned out great. Sight unseen, she cut and trimmed so all hairs fell into place — tada! Maybe it wasn’t about how well our old beau- tician cut our hair but more about the time spent with an old dear friend. It was quality time and that is hard to find these days. So good luck, old friend! Here’s to all the great and enjoyable conversations about the old days, our husbands, our children, our grandchil- dren, our hopes, dreams and tragedies in life. May you find someone else you can share with for the rest of your beautiful life. Writer’s Block Rollin’ With The Changes Linda WUEBBEN BY ROBERT B. REICH Tribune Content Agency Detroit is the largest city ever to seek bank- ruptcy protection, so its bankruptcy is seen as a potential model for other American cities now teetering on the edge. But Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they’d otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans. Judge Steven W. Rhodes of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern Dis- trict of Michigan is now weighing De- troit’s plan to shed $7 billion of its debts and restore some $1.5 billion of city services by requiring various groups of creditors to make sacri- fices. Among those being asked to sacri- fice are Detroit’s former city employ- ees, now dependent on pensions and health-care benefits the city years before agreed to pay. Also investors who bought $1.4 billion worth of bonds the city issued in 2005. Both groups claim the plan unfairly burdens them. Under it, the 2005 investors emerge with little or nothing, and Detroit’s retirees have their pensions cut 4.5 percent, lose some health benefits and do without cost-of-living increases. No one knows whether Judge Rhodes will ac- cept or reject the plan. But one thing is for cer- tain. A very large and prosperous group close by won’t sacrifice a cent: They’re the mostly white citizens of neighboring Oakland County. Oakland County is among the 10 wealthiest counties in the United States with populations of a million or more residents. In fact, Greater Detroit, including its suburbs, ranks among the top financial centers, top four centers of high-technology employment, and sec- ond-largest source of engineering and architec- tural talent in America. The median household in the County earned more than $65,000 last year. The median house- hold in Birmingham, Michigan, just across De- troit’s border, earned more than $94,000. In nearby Bloomfield Hills, still within the Detroit metropolitan area, the median was close to $105,000. Detroit’s upscale suburbs also have excellent schools, rapid-response security and resplen- dent parks. Forty years ago, Detroit had a mixture of wealthy, middle class and poor. But then its middle-class and white residents began fleeing to the suburbs. From 2000 to 2010, the city lost a quarter of its population. By the time it declared bankruptcy, Detroit was almost entirely poor. Its median household income was $26,000. More than half of its chil- dren were impoverished. That left it with depressed property values, abandoned neighborhoods, empty buildings and dilapidated schools. Forty percent of its streetlights don’t work. More than half its parks closed within the last five years. Earlier this year, monthly water bills in Detroit were running 50 per- cent higher than the national average, and officials began shutting off the water to 150,000 households who couldn’t pay the bills. Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn’t know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oak- land County — except for a small sign that tells you. But boundaries can make all the difference. Had the official boundary been drawn differently to encompass both Oakland County and Detroit — creating, say, a “Greater Detroit” — Oakland’s more affluent citizens would have some respon- sibility to address Detroit’s problems, and De- troit would likely have enough money to pay all its bills and provide its residents with adequate public services. But because Detroit’s boundary surrounds only the poor inner city, those inside it have to deal with their compounded problems them- selves. The whiter and more affluent suburbs (and the banks that serve them) are off the hook. Any hint they should take some responsibility has invited righteous indignation. “Now, all of a sudden, they’re having problems and they want to give part of the responsibility to the suburbs?” scoffed L. Brooks Patterson, the Oakland County executive. “They’re not gonna talk me into being the good guy. ‘Pick up your share?’ Ha ha.” Buried within the bankruptcy of Detroit is a fundamental political and moral question: Who are “we,” and what are our obligations to one an- other? Are Detroit, its public employees, poor resi- dents and bondholders the only ones who should sacrifice when “Detroit” can’t pay its bills? Or does the relevant sphere of responsibil- ity include Detroit’s affluent suburbs — to which many of the city’s wealthier resident fled as the city declined, along with the banks that serve them? Judge Rhodes won’t address these questions. But as Americans continue to segregate by in- come into places becoming either wealthier or poorer, the rest of us will have to answer ques- tions like these, eventually. Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. His new film, “In- equality for All,” is now out on iTunes, DVD and On Demand. The Bankruptcy Of Detroit Robert REICH Tabor Celebrates Tabor Chamber of Commerce Thanks to everyone who volunteered and helped with the 125th South Dakota State- hood Wagon Train program, meal, facility preparation and any other aspect in preparing for this event in Tabor. We were honored to host the wagon train on their first night of travel. A special thanks to the St. Wenceslaus Altar Society for preparing and serving the Czech meal, the Legion and Auxiliary and all others who helped prepare and serve the breakfast and to Father Steven Jones for a special blessing. Appreciation is also given to Alison Carda, the Alexa and Ashley duet, the Bon Homme Colony girl singers and Loretta Kortan and the two rings of Beseda Dancers for providing the entertainment, and to Den- nis Povondra who coordinated the program. Thanks also to Joe Sy- rovatka for use of the hay meadow, the Tabor Fire Depart- ment for supplying water, the Tabor Blue Birds and the Bon Homme School for use of equipment, and the Town of Tabor for use of its park and as- sistance. We hope you enjoyed the festivities showcasing our local area and will come back to visit us again. PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE (Sept. 8): August job figures re- leased by the U.S. Department of Labor late last week showed a pallid increase of 142,000, the lowest since last December. Unem- ployment dropped 0.1 percent to 6.1 percent, due largely, how- ever, to people dropping out of the workforce. The percentage of Americans working, 62.8 percent, fell also. The jobs and workforce figures are disappointing, but perhaps not surprising in light of another report released by the Federal Reserve to the effect that during the years since the recession started America’s rich have continued to get richer and the in- comes and wealth of the middle class and poor have continued to drop. For the top 10 percent of American families, incomes rose by an average 10 percent between 2010 and 2013. For the other 90 percent, incomes did not rise or actually fell. For the bottom 20 percent, incomes fell by an average 8 percent. For the top 10 per- cent of families, wealth grew to $3.3 million per family. President Barack Obama, citing the negative impact on the U.S. economy of income inequality, called it “the defining challenge of our time,” but has done almost nothing about it except talk. In the meantime, the share of wealth in America held by the top 3 per- cent of the population rose to 54.4 percent in 2013, from 51.8 per- cent in 2007. One means of fixing this problem, an increasingly significant drag on American economic growth, would be a courageous ap- proach to tax reform on the part of the president and any mem- bers of Congress not owned by wealthy campaign donors. It is hard to be optimistic about prospects for such action. It is in the category of change Americans can’t count on. WRITE US n Make your feelings known! Write to the PRESS & DAKOTAN on a topic of the day, in re- sponse to an editorial or story. Write us at: Letters, 319 Walnut, Yankton, SD 57078, drop off at 319 Walnut in Yankton, fax to (605) 665-1721 or email to [email protected].
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OPINION | OTHER THOUGHTS
Employment FiguresAre No Surprise
God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust andashes. Job 30:19. Portals of Prayer, Concordia Publishing House,St. Louis
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By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, September 11,
the 254th day of 2014. There are 111days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: OnSeptember 11, 2001, on America’ssingle-worst day of terrorism, nearly3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida members hijacked four passen-ger jetliners, sending two of the planessmashing into New York’s World TradeCenter, one into the Pentagon and thefourth into a field in western Pennsyl-vania.
On this date: In 1714, the forcesof King Philip V of Spain overcameCatalan defenders to end the 13-month-long Siege of Barcelona duringthe War of the Spanish Succession.
In 1789, Alexander Hamilton wasappointed the first U.S. Secretary ofthe Treasury.
In 1814, an American fleet scoreda decisive victory over the British inthe Battle of Lake Champlain in theWar of 1812.
In 1857, the Mountain MeadowsMassacre took place in present-daysouthern Utah as a 120-memberArkansas immigrant party wasslaughtered by Mormon militiamenaided by Paiute Indians.
In 1936, Boulder Dam (nowHoover Dam) began operation asPresident Franklin D. Rooseveltpressed a key in Washington to signalthe startup of the dam’s first hydro-electric generator.
In 1941, groundbreaking tookplace for the Pentagon. In a speechthat drew accusations of anti-Semi-tism, Charles A. Lindbergh told anAmerica First rally in Des Moines,Iowa, that “the British, the Jewish andthe Roosevelt administration” werepushing the United States toward war.
In 1954, the Miss America pag-eant made its network TV debut onABC; Miss California, Lee Meriwether,was crowned the winner.
In 1962, The Beatles completedtheir first single for EMI, “Love Me Do”and “P.S. I Love You,” at EMI studiosin London.
In 1974, Eastern Airlines Flight212, a DC-9, crashed while attemptingto land in Charlotte, North Carolina,killing 72 of the 82 people on board.The family drama “Little House on thePrairie” premiered on NBC-TV.
In 1984, country star BarbaraMandrell was seriously injured in anautomobile accident near Nashvillethat claimed the life of the other driver,Mark White.
In 1989, the exodus of East Ger-man refugees from Hungary to WestGermany began.
In 1994, actress Jessica Tandydied in Easton, Connecticut, at age85.
Ten years ago: Parents andgrandparents of those lost on Septem-ber 11 stood at the World Trade Cen-ter site and marked the thirdanniversary of the attacks. Spc. ArminCruz became the first Military Intelli-gence soldier convicted in the AbuGhraib prison scandal as he admittedabusing inmates and received alighter sentence in return for his testi-mony against others. Svetlana
Kuznetsova overwhelmed Elena De-mentieva 6-3, 7-5 in the first all-Russ-ian U.S. Open final. Mike Leigh’s “VeraDrake” won the Golden Lion for bestpicture at the close of the Venice FilmFestival. Lyricist Fred Ebb died in NewYork City; he was 76.
Five years ago: On his first 9/11anniversary as president, BarackObama urged Americans to come to-gether in service just as they unitedafter the terrorist attacks. Anti-abortionactivist James Pouillon was shot todeath near a high school in Owosso,Michigan. (Harlan James Drake wasconvicted of first-degree murder in thekilling of Pouillon and the owner of agravel pit, Mike Fuoss, and sentencedto life in prison.) Death claimed Holly-wood writer Larry Gelbart at age 81and poet and punk rocker Jim Carrollat age 60.
One year ago: A car bomb torethrough a Libyan Foreign Ministrybuilding in the eastern city of Beng-hazi on the anniversary of a deadly at-tack on the U.S. consulate there aswell as the 2001 terror attacks in theUnited States. More than 1 millionpeople showed their support for Cata-lan independence by joining hands toform a 250-mile human chain acrossthe northeastern region of Spain.
Today’s Birthdays: Actress BetsyDrake is 91. Former Sen. DanielAkaka, D-Hawaii, is 90. Actor Earl Hol-liman is 86. Comedian Tom Dreesenis 75. Movie director Brian De Palmais 74. Rock singer-musician Jack Ely(The Kingsmen) is 71. Rock musicianMickey Hart (The Dead) is 71. Singer-musician Leo Kottke is 69. ActorPhillip Alford is 66. Actress Amy Madi-gan is 64. Rock singer-musicianTommy Shaw (Styx) is 61. Sports re-porter Lesley Visser is 61. Actor ReedBirney is 60. Singer-songwriter DianeWarren is 58. Homeland Security Sec-retary Jeh Johnson is 57. MusicianJon Moss (Culture Club) is 57. ActorScott Patterson is 56. Rock musicianMick Talbot (The Style Council) is 56.Actress Roxann Dawson is 56. ActorJohn Hawkes is 55. Actress AnneRamsay is 54. Actress Virginia Mad-sen is 53. Actress Kristy McNichol is52. Musician-composer Moby is 49.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is49. Business reporter Maria Bartiromois 47. Singer Harry Connick Jr. is 47.Rock musician Bart Van Der Zeeuw is46. Actress Taraji P. Henson is 44. Ac-tress Laura Wright is 44. Rock musi-cian Jeremy Popoff (Lit) is 43. BloggerMarkos Moulitsas is 43. Singer BradFischetti (LFO) is 39. Rapper Mr.Black is 37. Rock musician Jon Buck-land (Coldplay) is 37. Rapper Ludacrisis 37. Rock singer Ben Lee is 36. ActorRyan Slattery is 36. Actress ArianaRichards (Film: “Jurassic Park”) is 35.Actress Elizabeth Henstridge is 27.Actor Tyler Hoechlin is 27. Countrysinger Charles Kelley (Lady Antebel-lum) is 33. Actress Mackenzie Alad-jem is 13.
Thought for Today: “This will re-main the land of the free only so longas it is the home of the brave.” —Elmer Davis, American news com-mentator (1890-1958).
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BY LINDA WUEBBENP&D Correspondent
I am getting old. No wait, my kids are upsetwhen I say that.
I’m getting older. They can’t denythat.
And when you are getting older,dealing with change is challenging andeven sometimes overwhelming atsome point.
After I had my knee surgery, I facedseveral facts about life as I had knownit. I couldn’t have come home withoutBob. The first few weeks were very dif-ficult and I even had to surrender someof the fine points of living I had learnedat my mother’s side.
Take, for instance, making a bedfrom sheets up. I was always taught tomake crisp corners and smooth cov-ers. After surgery, getting into bed withan immobilizer on one leg was interesting. Butfor Bob, it was simple, pull that sheet and blan-ket out from the corner of the mattress. It madelife so much easier but I kept seeing my motherbeside me, getting that corner just right. It tookme a while but I got used to it. We even let itloose still on both sides of the bed and only an-chor it in the center. Bob is a happy man — morefreedom and it seems such a silly thing.
I gave up a lot of idiosyncrasies I learned atmy mother’s side. I don’t iron handkerchiefs ormuch of anything anymore. I still rememberbringing the sheets in from the close line,smelling their sweet freshness, and watchingmom plop them on the ironing board for eitherher or me to iron.
What was the sense of that? You were goingto mess them up when you went to sleep, right?When I moved into my own home, I never ironedone sheet. I seem to be obsessed with sheets!
I will move on. In early spring I learned myhairdresser of 30-plus years was selling theirhouse and closing shop. Shear panic! Her hus-
band retired and the city life was beckoningalong with grandchildren. What would I do?
Both Bob and I used her haircutting in-homebusiness and we slowly counted the days untilthey left their rural home for town an hour away.
We all went to school together. Bobwas in a band with her brothers. She al-ways knew how to cut that cowlick Iseem to have. She cut all my children’shair. Yep, shear panic!
Of course, one can’t discount thepsychological relationship one haswith beauticians, barbers and bar-tenders. All the stories told are ab-solutely confidential and secrecy issworn forever. And why do we spill ourguts to someone chopping our hair offwith sharp instruments in thesepostage-stamp salons? What’s the at-traction?
Trying to be reasonable, I don’thold it against her husband. I realize
there is a time for everything and also a place. Anew beautician was out there somewhere. Boband I watched our hair getting longer and eventu-ally broke down to make an appointment. Wepored over telephone books and grilled friendsabout their cutter. I needed to make an informeddecision but Google could not help me this time.
We finally found what we thought would be asuitable candidate and made appointments.Guess what? It turned out great. Sight unseen,she cut and trimmed so all hairs fell into place —tada!
Maybe it wasn’t about how well our old beau-tician cut our hair but more about the time spentwith an old dear friend. It was quality time andthat is hard to find these days.
So good luck, old friend! Here’s to all thegreat and enjoyable conversations about the olddays, our husbands, our children, our grandchil-dren, our hopes, dreams and tragedies in life.May you find someone else you can share withfor the rest of your beautiful life.
Writer’s Block
Rollin’ With The Changes
Linda
WUEBBEN
BY ROBERT B. REICHTribune Content Agency
Detroit is the largest city ever to seek bank-ruptcy protection, so its bankruptcy is seen asa potential model for other Americancities now teetering on the edge.
But Detroit is really a model forhow wealthier and whiter Americansescape the costs of public goodsthey’d otherwise share with poorerand darker Americans.
Judge Steven W. Rhodes of the U.S.Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern Dis-trict of Michigan is now weighing De-troit’s plan to shed $7 billion of itsdebts and restore some $1.5 billion ofcity services by requiring variousgroups of creditors to make sacri-fices.
Among those being asked to sacri-fice are Detroit’s former city employ-ees, now dependent on pensions andhealth-care benefits the city years beforeagreed to pay. Also investors who bought $1.4billion worth of bonds the city issued in 2005.
Both groups claim the plan unfairly burdensthem. Under it, the 2005 investors emerge withlittle or nothing, and Detroit’s retirees havetheir pensions cut 4.5 percent, lose some healthbenefits and do without cost-of-living increases.
No one knows whether Judge Rhodes will ac-cept or reject the plan. But one thing is for cer-tain. A very large and prosperous group close bywon’t sacrifice a cent: They’re the mostly whitecitizens of neighboring Oakland County.
Oakland County is among the 10 wealthiestcounties in the United States with populations ofa million or more residents.
In fact, Greater Detroit, including its suburbs,ranks among the top financial centers, top fourcenters of high-technology employment, and sec-ond-largest source of engineering and architec-tural talent in America.
The median household in the County earnedmore than $65,000 last year. The median house-hold in Birmingham, Michigan, just across De-troit’s border, earned more than $94,000. Innearby Bloomfield Hills, still within the Detroitmetropolitan area, the median was close to$105,000.
Detroit’s upscale suburbs also have excellentschools, rapid-response security and resplen-dent parks.
Forty years ago, Detroit had a mixture ofwealthy, middle class and poor. But then itsmiddle-class and white residents began fleeingto the suburbs. From 2000 to 2010, the city losta quarter of its population.
By the time it declared bankruptcy, Detroitwas almost entirely poor. Its median householdincome was $26,000. More than half of its chil-dren were impoverished.
That left it with depressed property values,abandoned neighborhoods, empty buildingsand dilapidated schools. Forty percent of itsstreetlights don’t work. More than half its parksclosed within the last five years.
Earlier this year, monthly waterbills in Detroit were running 50 per-cent higher than the national average,and officials began shutting off thewater to 150,000 households whocouldn’t pay the bills.
Official boundaries are often hardto see. If you head north on WoodwardAvenue, away from downtown Detroit,you wouldn’t know exactly when youleft the city and crossed over into Oak-land County — except for a small signthat tells you.
But boundaries can make all thedifference. Had the official boundarybeen drawn differently to encompassboth Oakland County and Detroit —
creating, say, a “Greater Detroit” — Oakland’smore affluent citizens would have some respon-sibility to address Detroit’s problems, and De-troit would likely have enough money to pay allits bills and provide its residents with adequatepublic services.
But because Detroit’s boundary surroundsonly the poor inner city, those inside it have todeal with their compounded problems them-selves. The whiter and more affluent suburbs(and the banks that serve them) are off the hook.
Any hint they should take some responsibilityhas invited righteous indignation. “Now, all of asudden, they’re having problems and they wantto give part of the responsibility to the suburbs?”scoffed L. Brooks Patterson, the Oakland Countyexecutive. “They’re not gonna talk me into beingthe good guy. ‘Pick up your share?’ Ha ha.”
Buried within the bankruptcy of Detroit is afundamental political and moral question: Whoare “we,” and what are our obligations to one an-other?
Are Detroit, its public employees, poor resi-dents and bondholders the only ones whoshould sacrifice when “Detroit” can’t pay itsbills? Or does the relevant sphere of responsibil-ity include Detroit’s affluent suburbs — to whichmany of the city’s wealthier resident fled as thecity declined, along with the banks that servethem?
Judge Rhodes won’t address these questions.But as Americans continue to segregate by in-come into places becoming either wealthier orpoorer, the rest of us will have to answer ques-tions like these, eventually.
Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor ofPublic Policy at the University of California atBerkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Centerfor Developing Economies. His new film, “In-equality for All,” is now out on iTunes, DVD andOn Demand.
The Bankruptcy Of Detroit
Robert
REICH
Tabor CelebratesTabor Chamber of Commerce
Thanks to everyone whovolunteered and helped withthe 125th South Dakota State-hood Wagon Train program,meal, facility preparation andany other aspect in preparingfor this event in Tabor. We werehonored to host the wagontrain on their first night oftravel.
A special thanks to the St.Wenceslaus Altar Society forpreparing and serving theCzech meal, the Legion andAuxiliary and all others whohelped prepare and serve thebreakfast and to Father StevenJones for a special blessing.
Appreciation is also given to
Alison Carda, the Alexa andAshley duet, the Bon HommeColony girl singers and LorettaKortan and the two rings ofBeseda Dancers for providingthe entertainment, and to Den-nis Povondra who coordinatedthe program.
Thanks also to Joe Sy-rovatka for use of the haymeadow, the Tabor Fire Depart-ment for supplying water, theTabor Blue Birds and the BonHomme School for use ofequipment, and the Town ofTabor for use of its park and as-sistance.
We hope you enjoyed thefestivities showcasing our localarea and will come back to visitus again.
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE (Sept. 8): August job figures re-leased by the U.S. Department of Labor late last week showed apallid increase of 142,000, the lowest since last December. Unem-ployment dropped 0.1 percent to 6.1 percent, due largely, how-ever, to people dropping out of the workforce. The percentage ofAmericans working, 62.8 percent, fell also.
The jobs and workforce figures are disappointing, but perhapsnot surprising in light of another report released by the FederalReserve to the effect that during the years since the recessionstarted America’s rich have continued to get richer and the in-comes and wealth of the middle class and poor have continued todrop.
For the top 10 percent of American families, incomes rose byan average 10 percent between 2010 and 2013. For the other 90percent, incomes did not rise or actually fell. For the bottom 20percent, incomes fell by an average 8 percent. For the top 10 per-cent of families, wealth grew to $3.3 million per family.
President Barack Obama, citing the negative impact on the U.S.economy of income inequality, called it “the defining challenge ofour time,” but has done almost nothing about it except talk. In themeantime, the share of wealth in America held by the top 3 per-cent of the population rose to 54.4 percent in 2013, from 51.8 per-cent in 2007.
One means of fixing this problem, an increasingly significantdrag on American economic growth, would be a courageous ap-proach to tax reform on the part of the president and any mem-bers of Congress not owned by wealthy campaign donors. It ishard to be optimistic about prospects for such action. It is in thecategory of change Americans can’t count on.
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