Laura Franks Bexley Consumer Price Index for the 2d quarter 2014

Laura Franks reports the Bexley Consumer Price Index as of Second Quarter, 2014.

The Bexley CPI reports on the aggregate prices paid for a uniform basket of merchandise purchased at retail in Bexley and nearby retail stores.

The Bexley CPI measures the change of prices for ordinary retail purchases made by Bexley residents.

The Bexley Consumer Price Index can be compared to the price changes reported by the US Department of Labor.  The comparison can provide useful information for Bexley consumers about local price changes compared to price changes in other parts of the United States.

For the Second Quarter, 2014, the total cost of the standard market basket was $20.89.  Compared to the total market basket for the First Quarter, 2014, ($20.44) this is a $0.45 increase or stated as a percentage, a 2.5% increase.  Year-to-year comparison for the Second Quarters, 2013 and 2014 are $21.43 for 2013 and $20.89 for 2014, or a decrease of 0.54%.  As a year-over-year comparison, this is a  0.56% decrease.

Nothing exciting.

Looking at price changes for specific market-basket items, one home-office item showed a quarter-to-quarter decline of $0.58 and a common paper item showed an increase of $1.00 in its price.  This increase was attributable to an in-store coupon offered in the First Quarter 2013.

This has been a wonderful Spring in Bexley and retail prices in this little municipality are pretty stable.

Also a reminder that a radio station has bills to pay.  If you can help with a donation of money, equipment or you skills, please donate.

HELP BEXLEY PUBLIC RADIO UPGRADE ITS ANTENNA. SEND YOUR MONEY PROMPTLY. BE GENEROUS.

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Voice (614) 235-2929

Email wcrxlp@yahoo.com

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Bexley Public Radio Foundation is exempt from federal taxes under IRC Section 501(c)(3). Donations are deductible from federal income tax returns for individuals who itemize. Checks may identify the payee as Bexley Public Radio Foundation or WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM.

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Bexley Comedy Writers Guild meeting at Bexley Public Radio set for July 7, 2014.

Bexley Comedy Writers Guild meeting at Bexley Public Radio set for 3:30 p.m., Monday, July 7, 2014.

The meeting location will be announced on the prior Friday morning to individuals who RSVP by the prior Thursday.

Community residents are welcome. 

Admission is $28.00 per person.

Cash, check, money order and ID.

Please RSVP to wcrxlp@yahoo.com or voice mail to (614) 235-2929 no later than the Thursday prior to the meeting.

Bexley Comedy Writers Guild is a public  committee of

Bexley Public Radio Foundation

2700 E. Main St., Suite 208

Columbus, OH 43209

Introduction Financial Crises (1620-1920). A series of installments.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York  Liberty Street Economics  June 24, 2013 "Crisis Chronicles:  300 Years of Financial Crises (1620-1920)."   James Narron and David Skeie As momentous as financial crises have been in the past century, we sometimes forget that major financial crises have occurred for centuries—and often. This new series chronicles mostly forgotten financial crises over the 300 years—from 1620 to 1920—just prior to the Great Depression. Today, we journey back to the 1620s and take a fresh look at an economic crisis caused by the rapid debasement of coin in the states that made up the Holy Roman Empire. The Kipper und Wipperzeit (1619–23) The Kipper und Wipperzeit is the common name for the economic crisis caused by the rapid debasement of subsidiary, or small-denomination, coin by Holy Roman Empire states in their efforts to finance the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). In a 1991 article, Charles Kindleberger—author of the earlier work   Manias, Panics and Crashes and originally a Fed economist—offered a fascinating account of the causes and consequences of the 1619–23 crisis.  Kipper refers to coin clipping and Wipperzeit refers to a see-saw (an allusion to the counterbalance scales used to weigh species coin). Despite the clever name, two forms of debasement actually fueled the crisis. One involved reducing the value of silver coins by clipping shavings from them; the other involved melting the coins, mixing them with inferior metals, re-minting them, and returning them to circulation. As the crisis evolved, an early example of Gresham’s Law took hold as bad money drove out  good. As Vilar notes in A History of Gold and Money, once  “agriculture laid down the plow” at the peak of the crisis and farmers turned to coin clipping as a livelihood, devaluation, hyperinflation, early forms of currency wars, and crude capital controls were either firmly in place or not far behind. From Self-Sufficiency to Money and Markets The period preceding and including the early 1600s was marked by a fundamental shift from feudalism to capitalism, from medieval to modern times, and from an economy driven by self-sufficiency to one driven by markets and money. It is within this social and economic context that various states in the Holy Roman Empire attempted to finance the Thirty Years’ War by creating new mints and debasing subsidiary coins, leaving large-denomination gold and silver coins substantially unaffected. In a simple example, subsidiary coin might initially be minted using only silver, then gradually undergo a shift in metallic content as a growing percentage of copper was added during re-mintings, until the monetary system was effectively on a copper rather than a gold  or silver standard. This shift in metallic content created a divergence  between a coin’s nominal value and its intrinsic metal value, which led to the rapid debasement of coin. As Kindleberger notes, “Bad money was taken by debasing states to their neighbors and exchanged for good [money]. The neighbor typically defended itself by debasing its own coin.” Owing to trade and the easy circumvention of laws that forbade the removal of coin from a city, states found that early forms of capital controls were ineffective and that a large portion of circulating coin originated elsewhere. Given this porosity, individual states determined that reforming their own minted coinage by returning to a silver standard did not necessarily allow them to reform the currency circulating within the state. So states sought greater revenue through seigniorage—the difference between the cost of production (including the price of the metal contained in the coin) and the nominal value of the coin—by minting more money and by taking debased coin abroad, exchanging it, and bringing home good coin and re-minting it. The rapid debasement up to 1622 created a European boom, which turned to mania by early 1622 when average citizens turned to coin clipping as a livelihood, then hyperinflation in 1622 and 1623. Many became rich by exploiting the unknowing—typically peasants. This ultimately led to a widespread breakdown in trade as peasants, fearing that they would be paid in debased coin, refused to bring products to market, creating the spillover to the broader economy. Cry Up, Cry Down, or Call In One response to the crisis was for states to “cry up” good coins by raising the denomination or “cry down” bad coins by lowering their denomination. Another response was to “call in” coin and re-mint it. A third response was to enforce minting standards. But central authority was so weak that no one state could solve the crisis without the help and support of neighboring states. States were finally able to solve the crisis through mint treaties and by setting exchange rates, with hyperinflation subdued by a return to the Imperial Augsburg Ordinance of 1559. Because the public became so wary of clipped and debased coin, it took months to convince the masses that coin was good once it was restored. History Repeating Itself Like markets and money, crises evolve easily but lessons learned often last only a lifetime and are easily forgotten. Over the coming year, we’ll share with you how elements of this crisis were repeated during the Great Re-Coinage of 1696, the Mississippi Bubble of 1720, the Dutch Commodities Crash of 1763, and the Continental Currency Crisis of 1779, with each crisis adding a unique twist. In the meantime, as we reflect upon the states’ struggles to manage their domestic economies of the 1620s at a time of evolving money, markets, and trade, and amid pressure to finance the Thirty Years’ War, we pose the following question: Is it possible to draw any parallels between the events of the 1620s and the current objectives of the Group of Seven to meet “respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments”? Tell us what you think. Disclaimer The views expressed in this post are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. Any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the authors.   James Narron is a senior vice president in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Executive Office.   David Skeie is a senior economist in the Bank's Research and Statistics Group.

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Matuszak: Bexley's trash-picking permit idea dumped

Bexley City Council has decided to curb a proposal for a trash-picking permit, but the issue could be recycled as a ballot initiative.

Council's service committee voted 3-0 on Feb. 3 not to go forward with a suggestion from resident Robert Jessberger to change an ordinance that prohibits individuals from scavenging trash for items that can be repaired or re-sold. The recommendation was prompted by police warnings issued to Jessberger, who for years has periodically perused the city's alleys for salvageable items that he collects for charities and for profit.

Jessberger, who admitted to repeatedly skirting the law, suggested that Bexley residents could pay a $50 fee for a yearly trash-collecting permit, and that fines for violations could be raised to $250.

Police Chief Larry Rinehart has been adamantly opposed to the permit idea, that he warned could bring more people to the city's streets and alleys and add to property thefts.

A bicycle left in a driveway looks good to someone out at 2 a.m. looking for loot, according to the chief.

"The reality is, we are a city in peril," Rineheart told council, pointing out that 600 incidents of property theft were reported in 2008, and that arrests jumped by 200 from the previous year.

No other city the size of 2.5-square mile Bexley experiences this rate of crime, the chief added.

Rinheart said he is not against recycling and reusing items. "There is only thing that trumps that, the safety of the community."

Council members also stated that they did not want to discourage recycling household items, but ultimately sided on the safety issue.

Councilman Mark Masser noted that the law prohibiting trash picking was passed after Bexley began curbside recycling, which attracted those looking to sell cans and other items.

Rumpke, the city's waste hauler, makes part of its money from recyclables, he pointed out.

The anti-scavenging ordinance has not been stringently enforced. But service commitee chairman Rick Weber recommended that officers begin to issue citations to violators.

There are numerous organizations that will pick up household items for repair and reuse, including the MAP furniture bank, Masser said, and residents need to know about these options.

"The problem is the education of residents," Masser said. "That route is much better, not Mr. Jessberger's theory of Robin Hood."

Weber commented that this information could be included with quarterly water bills.

Not quite willing to dump the issue, Jessberger brought up the possibility of mounting a ballot initiative to change the law, although he said it would depend on the number of signatures he would need to collect.

In the meantime, he said he would be ending his trawling for trash.

February community advisory committee meeting.

Notice

The regular meeting of the community programming advisory committee is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. Monday February 2.

The agenda is a committee discussion of current programming schedule.

The meeting is open to the public. ID is required.

Admission is $10.00.

Notice of location and time changes: location is changed to 471 S. Drexel. Start time is delayed fifteen minutes. New start time is 4:45 p.m.

This change information is also posted on station office door.

Minutes of committee meeting.

In attendance were Mr. Fred Reister and Mr. Kurt Weiland. Mr. Weiland discussed three programming matters. The first was re-formatting of the CD (certificate of deposit) interest rate feature. The feature reports on the interest rates paid by banks in the Bexley Financial District. He also discussed production of a new feature that reports on Bluegrass Music concerts in the South. He also said that Simply Living and Bexley Public Radio Foundation are taking steps to make time available to broadcast Thom Hartmann on a regular basis.

Pianist Loren Fishman performs at Bexley public library auditorium.

Pianist Loren Fishman is a regular performer at the Bexley Public Library Auditorium and his Sunday afternoon (December 21) performance was a rewarding event.

Fishman is a 2003 graduate of Bexley High School who is now a student of Lydia Artymiw at the University of Minnesota Graduate School. Fishman is studying at Minnesota under a Berneking fellowship award.

The Bexley recital was well-attended for a cold windy Sunday afternoon in December. Sixty-five people attended and were warmed by hot tea and cookies before the performance began. The audience was typical for a Bexley musical performance. Some seniors, some middle aged, some in their twenties. The holiday visits of adult children and college students returning home accounted for most of the age groupings in attendance.

The audience was dressed for the outdoor weather. Ski coats. Wool overcoats. Gloves, caps and scarves. Colors were dark for the most part. Two members of the audience wore berets. One red, the other black. Only one man wore a tie, and that was a bow tie. Dapper.

Fishman wore a white, perhaps cream colored, blouse, loose at the waist and with a 60s Nehru collar. The fabric might have been pleated or with a stripe in the fabric.

The stage lighting in this auditorium is always inadequate and consequently it was difficult to see Fishman’s face and hands during the performance.

For listeners who have followed Fishman’s performances from year to year, Sunday’s pieces offered some familiar works and some new additions to his repertoire.

The Mozart and Rachmaninoff selections were familiar and both were performed with a maturing discipline. (W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Sonata in C major, K 330, Allegro-moderato, Andante cantabile and Allegreto; followed by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Etude-tableaux in C minor, Op. 39, no. 1, Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, no. 10, Prelude in G sharp minor, Op. 32, no. 12, Prelude in B flat major, Op. 23, no. 2.).

The pauses between the three movements in the Mozart selection were brief, almost split seconds. Much too short for my ear. Was Fishman eager to conclude this Mozart piece that he has performed so often? That can’t be the explanation. The Allegro was aggressive but not hasty in its tempo. Except for the final cord, the Andante cantabile was reflective and well-paced, with a restraint that confirmed that Fishman was performing intentionally.

The Rachmaninoff piece was suitable for the weather but needed a tormented audience to fully appreciate its movements. As usual, a Bexley audience is much too restrained. Vodka and pirogi, not herbal tea and cookies, should have been served at this recital. Fishman’s calm and detached playing of the B minor prelude offered a solace reminiscent of ice cold vodka under a full moon.

The selections that followed intermission were examples of the best of Romantic music and also the most plebian. Chopin’s Scherzo that concluded the recital gave the audience a measure to compare the Gottschalk and Ponce compositions.

The Manuel M. Ponce (1882-1948) Intermezzo in E minor and Gavota in D flat major were enjoyable pieces but sounded like background music from Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s.

In the program. the Gottschalk pieces are curious selections. These pieces were composed by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) Ricordati: Yearning romance, Op. 26, Valse poetique: The sigh, Op. 24 and Pasquinade: Caprice, Op. 59.

Gottschalk was a 19th century American composer and popular piano performer. My suspicion is that he performed in minstrel shows and early vaudeville. If he didn’t he should have.

Fishman who is usually reticent about his selections, took a moment to inform his audience that Gottschalk’s Ricordati: Yearning romance, Op. 26 has an inscription on the cover of the sheet music. For the inscription, Gottschalk (or perhaps some music publisher) selected a line from Dante’s Inferno to the effect that it is a pain to remember happy times when you are in misery.

Although Gottschalk is usually identified as an American Romantic composer, his work is largely sentimental without the intelligence of even the likes of Stephen Foster.

The best that can be said of Gottschalk is that some of his measures anticipate American Hip Hop rhythms.

What seems to have saved Gottschalk’s name from well-deserved oblivion is the general acceptance that Romantic music doesn’t need to make sense. Thus, the three Gottschalk pieces presented by Fishman are exercises well-performed that suffer from weak compositions, and even worse, compositions that bear no relationship whatsoever to their titles.

Ricordati? What does Ricordati even mean? The music that follows is certainly neither yearning nor romantic. The Valse poetique was closer to a snore than a sigh and it seemed to me that it was written in four-four time rather than the expected three-four of a waltz. Too much already said about Gottschalk, a name that deserves oblivion.

The final piece reminded all of us what excellence is in music, both composition and performance. Frederic Chopin (1829-1869) Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31.

Fishman gave his audience a gift with the Chopin piece.

One pleasure of living in Bexley is the culture available in the neighborhood. Having musicians like Loren Fishman perform here is something that makes this community a special place to live. Thank you Loren.

KHW

Bexley Public Radio Foundation broadcasting as
WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio
2700 E. Main St., Suite 208
Columbus, OH 43209
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Feng Shui and the art of listening to Bexley Public Radio

Car radios receive the WCRX-LP signal everywhere within the I-270 circle of concrete that surrounds metropolitan Columbus.

Inside houses and buildings, listeners complain about reception problems. And even no reception at all.

The usual advice for solving these problems is to buy a better radio.

Other solutions that listeners have used include adjusting the lay of the AC power cord attached to the radio. If the radio has an extension antenna, adjusting the antenna and the body of the radio also provide possible solutions.

In addition to these solutions, Lee Edmondson offers a unique approach to reception problems she experienced in her Bexley residence.

Lee’s solution is to apply principles of feng shui to connecting to Bexley Public Radio.

Lee lives near Alum Creek in Bexley and had difficulty receiving the WCRX-LP signal in her residence.

Lee is familiar with feng shui principles and decided to apply them in positioning her radio for receiving Bexley Public Radio.

She began by unplugging her radio and setting it near the center of her residence.

She then relaxed in the approximate center of her first floor and near the radio.

After achieving a calmness and becoming aware of her surroundings she concentrated on her purpose in applying feng shui.

This seemingly simple task turned out to be the most difficult part of the Lee’s exercise.

Her purpose was more than receiving an electronic signal from a distant transmitter and antenna.

As Lee relaxed and focused her mind, the list of purposes grew. Hearing the voices of friends, hearing information on local events in her neighborhood. Listening to lunch specials at Bexley lunch spots. Arranging her tasks according to cultural events scheduled near her residence. Distraction from vexatious problems. Relaxation. All these purposes came to her mind.

During this initial process, the complexity of Lee’s purposes began to resolve itself into Lee’s recognition of Ch’i.

She continued this exercise by making a mental inventory of the objects in her residence. She observed them in relationship to the geometric planes of her rooms and hallways.

She also noted the moveable objects in her yard. And, the living fixed objects, trees, shrubs and grasses were also noted.

Her awareness of stationary objects, the buildings, sidewalks, driveways and curbs, were tinctured with an understanding of their ages, purposes and condition.

Lee concentrated on each of these objects, those inside and outside. She made mental notes as to how the objects helped her achieve purposes that were connected to why she wanted to receive the Bexley Public Radio signal.

This exercise resulted in Lee identifying several objects in her house that were no longer needed and she gave them away. In particular, she understood that a table was a major impediment to receiving the Bexley Public Radio signal. She gave the table away. A simple, very ordinary charitable gesture.

Lee then moved to each of the major entrances to her first floor. At each of the doors and windows, she relaxed and concentrated on her purposes.

She also moved her location and concentration to the major openings on her second floor.

From this exercise she identified locations that were conducive to her purpose. And Lee experimented, plugging the radio into locations that were compatible with her identification of Ch’i. Her north wall parallels East Main Street was important in its relationship to Ch'i. The microwave, whether working or not, was a major impediment. A ficus tree was very compatible with Ch'i. Her plug-in clean scent was compatible with Ch'i and the aroma was helpful in Lea's mental efforts.

Outside, Lee made a concentrated effort to identify the contours of the land in her neighborhood. She also developed an awareness of the dominance of nearby Alum Creek in relation to Ch’i.

Lee began this process in late summer after the Summer Equinox and will continue the process until the Winter Solstice, making adjustments to the location of objects inside and outside her residence.

This exercise of feng shui has been successful and Lee receives Bexley Public Radio on her home radio.

The reception is still imperfect but it is real and helps Lee achieve her purposes in listening to Bexley Public Radio.

Relaxation.

Bexley Public Radio Foundation broadcasting as
WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio
2700 E. Main St., Suite 208
Columbus, OH 43209
Voice (614) 235 2929
Fax (614) 235 3008
Email wcrxlp@yahoo.com
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Bexley Public Radio Foundation broadcasting as WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM is exempt from federal taxes under IRC Section 501(c)(3). Donations are deductible from federal income taxes for individuals who itemize. Checks may identify the payee as Bexley Public Radio Foundation WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM.

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MSMIB commentary. Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs

This commentary is by the most sensitive man in Bexley, Simon Doer. The actual identity of the commentator is not disclosed.

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs.

Yes signs. Neither crop circles nor close encounters of the third kind. But political yard signs as well as many telephone calls, television, newspaper and internet ads, and ongoing political conversations. Rather political conversations going on and on.

It has been the political campaign season once again; this time the quadrennial Presidential election contributing its own set of audible and visual voter consequences.

Bexley, the city of trees, is awash in color, not only in the changing leaves of the fall season, but with the vast (or half vast) variety of national and local political yard signs, brown for Brown, for example, and patriotic red, white and blue for McCain-Palin and Obama-Biden.

This sensitive man ponders whether presidential yard signs really have the same impact that signs promoting local candidates have in helping voters to make their decision at the polls.

Well do they?? Are presidential yard signs really going to influence the vote? Do voters look at the neighbors and the volume of presidential yard signs as a criterion to make their presidential decision as opposed to decisions in judicial or other local races?

Presidential signs may simply be a "Statement!" The yard signs may also be an informal support group.

As we all likely noticed, yard signs and vehicle stickers (both bumper and window cling) have become the dramatic statement that political campaign buttons previously were to the wearer. While some of us collect the buttons few appear to wear them in the same constant display that yard signs and posted vehicle stickers enjoy. The signs and stickers have become a statement in what has increasingly become an anonymous world. We still see George W and Kerry (and even Gore and Edwards) vehicle stickers on prominent display. Neighbors who have no other contact with each other connect or disagree politically through their yard signs.

Interestingly as I travel the streets of Bexley it is surprising how many times neighbors tout the same candidate for president and how often whole blocks appear to agree or disagree on a presidential choice with a lone holdout occasionally in evidence. All without apparent violence (well perhaps a few stolen yard signs on politically hardened streets such as Parkview, but still rather tame).

This voting exercise in democracy inspired this sensitive man to vote early (but not often, which would be wrong) and he or she (gender being truly sensitive) was impressed with the diverse sea of voters, each with their individual commitment to vote, at the Franklin County Veterans Memorial as they stood in line for over an hour and a half (many more voters exercising their democratic right stood in line for four hours h or more) to cast their hand completed ballots for the 2000 election.

We often see voters in other lands (those with skies as blue or red as ours) standing in long lines and may marvel at their commitment, while we take our own for granted. We should rejoice that our field of candidates for 2008 has engendered citizens to respond by going to the polls.

It may well be an historic voter turnout as forecast by some or as an historic election as promoted by others.

On election day the atmosphere at voting precincts appears to vary by the personalities of the voting officials. While some are jovial and permissive in enforcing election rules such as electioneering voting distance from the polling place, others more strictly interpret the distance, insisting that electioneering be held on the other side of the street when the sidewalk on the polling place side of the street is a foot or two within the 100 feet rule.

This is a closely watched election and observers are out in full force. This sensitive man enlisted the observations of other voters on election day and they filed the following reports suggesting that these voters experienced an easy and efficient voting process with small lines and courteous and younger than usual poll workers.

Here are the observations of the first voter reporting to the MSMIB.

“Report on voting experience at Precinct 4A and 4E polling place at the Capital University student union.

Tuesday November 4, parking is abundantly available. There are Obama campaign workers at one parking lot entrance. No McCain workers.

My first impression based on the parking availability is that turnout is light.

I arrive at the student union at 9:10. A nice feature is that near the entrance to the student union, there is a cart selling coffee and juices to voters.

Quick count of eighteen voters and ten to fourteen poll workers. A few poll workers are mobile, going in and out of the room where the voting machines are.

Ten electronic voting machines. All are being used.

There are four lines where you identify yourself and get the little ticket for authority to vote. The longest line had five voters.

Three minutes in line, one minute to identify myself with a driver license and sign the register. I even develop a connection with a poll worker.

The poll workers are younger than usual. One third, about four, maybe five are less than twenty-five years old. One appears to be about eighteen. Poll workers, some seniors from prior years, are not present.

After receiving my authority to vote ticket and standing in two lines, my wait is still only four minutes.

The voting machines are the electronic machines from the primary. The ballot is long but I’m still behind the machine for only three minutes.

The machine is easy to use.

Easy to review your votes.

Easy to correct a mistake.

I confirm my votes on the ballot and then hit the vote button.

I leave with only eleven minutes elapsed time.

A poll worker gives me a “I voted today” sticker.

At the edge of campus near where I parked, there are two Issue 5 (payday lending) opponents encouraging people to vote.”

One voter sought a sticker explaining she teaches “new citizens” and it is important to show them that she had voted.

MSMIB comment:The “I Voted Today” stickers appear to be popular bling rewards for voting. Some have suggested they are like receiving a Cracker Jack prize. Do some citizens vote to receive the stickers?

In another report filed by a second voter for this commnetary, the voter made the effort to travel by bus from college, indicating that:

“There were only two other people voting at the time with half a dozen poll works and that the precinct was not busy at all.

The voter observed that the height and angle of voting machines were not comfortable for voters over six feet in height.

Identification process easy. Driver license.

Outside, no campaign workers in evidence. No one approached the voter.”

So, another election year shall pass and we will return to some balance of political order no matter the outcome. Yet although the yard signs and ads will quickly disappear the political conversations will surely continue the day after, with congratulations or complaints. Can you participate in those conversations.. …..Can’t you read the signs? Did you vote?

This is one sensitive man’s opinion. What’s yours?

Bexley Public Radio Foundation broadcasting as
WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio
2700 E. Main St., Suite 208
Columbus, OH 43209
Voice (614) 235 2929
Fax (614) 235 3008
Email wcrxlp@yahoo.com
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Bexley Public Radio Foundation broadcasting as WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM is exempt from federal taxes under IRC Section 501(c)(3). Donations are deductible from federal income taxes for individuals who itemize. Checks may identify the payee as Bexley Public Radio Foundation WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM.

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MSMIB continues his reflections on public protests in Bexley.

"Protesters? …Not in Our Neighborhood" by the most sensitive man in Bexley, Simon Doer

What would the neighbors think? Protestors picketing on the public sidewalks of Bexley, Ohio on issues such as abortion or perhaps labor related issues by a union or employees of a corporate executive or students picketing a professor or teacher (probably not a good idea if they are still taking the class)?

It could and did happen when protestors decided to take their disagreement to the sidewalks adjacent to a Bexley resident who served as a physician for an abortion clinic. The result was a doctor, the point of that protest, (buoyed by residents concerned they may be future objects of protest) upset enough to seek an ordinance through city council prohibiting or limiting future protests in front of an individual’s residence.

While other laws address any resulting disturbances from pickets’ behaviors, such as threatening actions, harassment, stalking or acts of violence, at issue here is whether the assembly of protestors on the public sidewalks of the city adjacent to the home of a picketed individual can be prohibited. We are not here discussing publicly owned mansions, such as the governor's on Parkview Avenue (typically hosting protesters opposed to executions) or that of the Ohio State University's president on North Drexel Avenue (not recently hosting protestors, but the potential is there if, for example, the football program was downsized in favor of increased spending on academic pursuits).

It is a delicate (and yes, sensitive) issue. The right to assemble to present grievances and to exercise free speech are guaranteed by the constitutions of the United States and Ohio. Protesters must, however, by law remain on public property, the sidewalk, and not block public entrance or exit. Leaving sticky notes on the sidewalk is not an option for protestors as littering laws are sacrosanct.

Restricting or otherwise limiting those rights cannot be taken lightly and must account, as in the above access rights, for any infringement on the rights of others. Without going into a legal discourse, suffice it to state that you cannot yell “FIRE” in the Drexel (or any other theatre [unless of course there is a fire]) or use imminent “fighting words” as you could harm and infringe on the rights of others, but you can peacefully assemble in public and use your free speech (unless it is after hours and then other nuisance and noise disturbance ordinances come into play).
So, can an ordinance be crafted and drafted to properly and constitutionally limit protesters’ assembly on the public sidewalks adjacent to a picketed Bexley residence? The residence of the pro-choice abortion physician was located on East Broad Street, should the reaction be different when the house is on a small side street like Bullet Park Place? Perhaps the answer is no to both questions.

In a July 26, 2008 article titled “Bexley considers limiting protesters,” reporter Alayna DeMartini of The Columbus Dispatch astutely observed “Bexley is not exactly the next Berkeley.“ She noted that “Upper Arlington had enforced a picketing law until 1995. An anti-abortion activist sued for the right to protest in front of an abortion doctor's home there and won. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals found the law to be unconstitutional, so the council repealed it, “ and that “Upper Arlington's former ban reads exactly like the one being proposed in Bexley: ‘It is unlawful for any person to engage in picketing before or about the private residence or dwelling of any individual.’"

Ms. DeMartini wrote that according to Lou Chodosh, Bexley’s city attorney, “the law would allow protesters to march past several houses, but not focus on any one home,” and that “Chodosh modeled Bexley's proposed law after one in Brookfield, Wis. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld it as constitutional in 1988.”
So, if protestors would annoy the neighbors as well as the targeted individual, perhaps the ordinance would meet constitutional muster?

A friend in another Ohio city placed the argument in perspective when he observed that it is more likely the neighbors of the picketed resident would be annoyed and inconvenienced than the targeted individual(s). His point was that the protesters’ target would likely avoid their home during the protest and picketing and stay elsewhere for the time. Meanwhile the neighbors would be subjected to the protestors’ chants and displays.
So from a practical perspective what are the neighbors to do if an ordinance is ineffective to restrict protestors in the neighborhood? Become creative, counter-protest. For example, neighbors could place signs on their lawns (assuming they can comply with the Bexley yard sign ordinance, which may be doubtful), so better yet stand in their own yards with signs stating, “Protestors Go Home,” “Not in Our Neighborhood,” “Protect Our Children,” “Silence is Golden,” “Heave Ho,” or any other number of counter arguments to the protestors’ displays. In this manner neighbors would not address the issue directly (with the potential for altercations), however, could show their peaceful request that the protestors move their assembly elsewhere.

On August 7, 2008, the editorial collective of this radio station reflected on the situation and proposed a compromise ordinance. The text of that comment is provided on the agenctofcurrency blog. The core idea of the editorial collective proposal, which has not yet been proposed in the form of an ordinance nor provided a reading by Council, is that when any Bexley resident attracts demonstrators and protestors, that resident would be “required to provide refreshments [such as water or more properly perhaps mineral water or champagne] and suitable facilities and accommodations for the public protestors.“ “Umbrellas should be available for inclement weather and lawn chairs provided so the protestors can rest.”

City ordinances are intended to be taken seriously and the time taken to consider them through three readings is important, ever ready for any challenge to the supreme courts. This sensitive man has not yet checked it out, but several websites refer to a September 9, 1919 Bexley, Ohio ordinance number 223 that prohibits the installation and usage of slot machines in outhouses. If the ordinance suggestion by the editorial collective of this radio station is to be considered by the Bexley City Council, we hope that ordinance number 223 will be considered as City Council sets the standards for refreshments, accommodations and suitable facilities for public protestors.

This is one sensitive man’s opinion. What’s yours?

Bexley, Ohio. Real estate tax abatements for residential restorations and repairs using authentic materials.

One of the charms of Bexley is the residential architecture of the community. Design, materials and construction work together with superior landscaping to present pleasant vistas in the twenty seven neighborhoods of Bexley.












Small pleasant cottages grace many Bexley streets and neighborhoods.

Other Bexley neighborhoods have houses that look large and comfortable, timeless with quiet, unobtrusive architectural fittings of bygone eras.

Then there are austere Bexley mansions that amaze our eyes with architectural elegance, craftsmanship and fine materials.

An important component of these pleasing domestic buildings is the materials used in the original construction. Slate roofs, copper gutters and down spouts, quarried stones, bronze fittings, wrought iron fittings and hinges. All of these are subtle attributes that compliment the architectural features and landscaping of the homes of Bexley.

Sometime on a walk, focus only on the materials used to construct Bexley residences. You will soon recognize the houses with authentic materials. These are not loud pronouncements. They are quiet nuanced fittings that whisper “quality, skill, excellence."

Many of the materials used in contemporary additions and restorations are not authentic. Brass-plated steel replaces solid brass hinges; asphalt shingles replace slate and so on.

In small increments, perhaps only infinitesimal increments, the charm of Bexley residential architecture is being eroded.

A brass-plated steel hinge is substituted for a solid brass hinge. It’s not a major change. But the substitute is a small erosion of excellence. One hinge this year, one next year and then a plastic mail box replaces the wrought iron mail box.

Does anyone care that authentic materials are disappearing?

Of course practical household finance determines some of this erosion. Authentic materials are expensive, and sometimes not available. Sometimes, repairs are practical problems that surprise a budget. More often repairs are not ocassions for aesthetic reflections and so we choose the practical solutions.

As a community, should we encourage decisions that favor authenticity? How can we encourage the use of original materials in new construction, restorations and repairs?

Should the municipality take some action to encourage a market in Bexley for authentic materials?

In Bexley, real estate tax abatements have been granted for commercial, mixed retail and multi-family residential structures. Some of the tax abatements have been granted to buildings that imitate period architecture.

These same buildings use modern materials that give the impression of authentic period materials. But a moment’s glance tells the sad story of deception that these fake materials express.

The public tax abatements did not purchase something authentic for this community.

There are advantages to the modern building materials. Obviously.

But the advantages, whatever they might be, have nothing to do with aesthetics.

And living in Bexley is all about the aesthetics of daily life. Beauty in all that is quotidian.

Is it time to to subsidize things that bring beauty to our community life each day?

When families improve their houses and pick up the expense of authentic materials, should the community offer those families real estate tax abatements for their choice to preserve the beauty and the authenticity of their repairs and restorations?

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Homer, Alaska Culture Dispatch of Joanna Tornes

Bexley Public Radio’s adventuresome culture correspondent Joanna Tornes telephoned her culture dispatch from Homer. Alaska on Thursday. She greeted listeners with the comment that it was a rainy morning in Homer, Alaska, “It’s just snow in the form of rain.”

Oil dividend check and south migration

Joanna said that the annual south migration of Homer residents is starting and it seems to be starting a little early this year.

Joanna said that at least part the early migration this year has been stimulated by the oil revenue dividend checks that Alaska citizens are receiving.

Joanna then outlined the background of the source of the dividend checks. She said the source is the Alaska Permanent Fund which was established by the Alaska state constitution in 1976 and managed by a semi-independent corporation.

Payments into the fund are made from the revenues of oil (and sometimes other minerals.)



The Alaska Permanent Fund sets aside a certain share of oil revenues to continue benefiting current and all future generations of Alaskans.

The Fund grew from an initial investment of $734,000 in 1977 to the current sum of approximately forty billion dollars.
Joanna said that annual dividends are paid to most Alaska residents who have resided in the state for one calendar year and intend to remain in Alaska.

One other qualification is that the resident have a clean record, no felony conviction.

Other than the year residency requirement there is no distinction based on length of residence in Alaska nor is there any distinction based on age of the resident.

Since it creation, the annual payments to each individual resident have varied from a low of $331.29 in 1984 to a high of $3,269.00 in 2008.



Joanna said that the unusually high payment this year included a one-time rebate of $1,200.00 as recognition of the high retail costs for gasoline that Alaska consumers are paying.

From among her friends and acquaintances, Joanna offered examples of how the oil dividend checks are being spent this year. Joanna said that one friend is using it to pay airfare for a trip to Paris. Another friend is paying the costs for ferrying her automobile to Bellingham, Washington. Others are taking shopping trips to Anchorage and Seattle.

Bush line communications

Joanna also discussed a unique form of communication in Alaska called the “bush line.’ In areas of the state where there are no telephone lines or cell towers, broadcast radio is used for personal communications. People will leave messages with the radio station. The station then broadcasts the messages and the intended recipients listen for the news. The bush line has commercial value for the operators of hunting lodges in remote areas who can learn arrival times for guests, supplies and mail Other residents listen to the bush line radio for news about who is traveling to where, their arrival times, and other normal family events including weddings, christenings and funerals.

Joanna offered the observation that Bexley Public Radio is the Bexley bush line.

Joanna then gave a sample of some light comments on Alaska Governor Sara Palin’s selection as the Republican vice presidential candidate. She also said that a tee-shirt is being sold in Homer that has a picture of Governor Palin with the text “My Governor is better looking than your Governor.”

Burning Basket on Homer Spit



The main Homer cultural event that Joanna described was the fifth annual Burning Basket Festival. This event involves a community creating a basket from found materials followed by a ritual burning of pieces of paper with messages.

Joanna noted the similarity of this ritual to the burning of paper at traditional Chinese funerals. The paper is known as joss paper, or dzi-dzat.

The burning basket event has some funding connections with the popular Burning Man event held each year in the Black Rock Desert, 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada between the towns of Empire and Gerlach.

The Homer event is directed by artist Mavis Muller and involves volunteers creating an oversize basket and sculpture in Mariner Park on the Homer Spit. The volunteers worked for five days at the Spit constructing the basket.
This year's event was labeled "Surpass: A Basket of Remembrance and Unburdening."

On Sunday Sept. 21, the volunteers who worked on the basket and others were in attendance participated in the burning of the basket at sundown. Individuals were invited to offer papers to the flames written with memories for remembrance and shame or guilt for unburdening.

A potluck on Homer Spit followed the ritual. Joanna attended both the burning of the basket and the potluck dinner.

A labyrinth, or circular walking path was also created on the Homer Spit.

Artist Muller has managed 12 burning basket enactments in Alaska, Oregon, California and Hawaii.

The Burning Basket Project has received funding support from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Rasmuson Foundation and the Black Rock Arts Foundation.

The Rasmusen Foundation was formed in 1955 by the widow of E.A. Rasumsen who was the owner of the Bank of Alaska.

The Black Rock Arts Foundation promotes community-based exhibitions of interactive art and support the artists and organizations that create it. Besides the Burning Man event in Nevada, the Black Rock Foundation prodes funding for accessible, free art to the public that invites direct action with the piece and inspires community.

The primary goal of the Black Rock Arts Foundation is to promote a revival of art's culture-bearing and connective function by removing art from its context in the marketplace and reintegrating it into communal settings.

Artist Mavis Muller can be contacted at http://www.mavismullerart.com/burningbasket.html

Homer Fashion for the Autumn Season

For a report on local fashion trends in, Alaska. Joanna discussed hip waders and chest waders available in Homer retail shops.

First she noted that it is stylish in Homer to wear hip waders with the tops folded down. The variety of manufacturers and materials is surprising. Colors are limited to tan, brown, green and forest green.



Examples of hip waders and their retail prices offered by Joanna are:

Pro Line Creek Cleated Rubber hip waders are available for $50. These waders are brown. They are made in China.

Stearns Mad Dog 3-ply hip waders are available in green, They have Thinsulate and quick release buckles and are priced at $53.

Hodgman Wadewell hip waders made in China are available for $48. These are green, three-ply and have felt soles.

The Hodgman Bantam Weight hip boots are available in tan and have rubber cleat soles, Priced at $38.

Academy Broadway branded rubber hip wader, steel shank and rubber cleated sole are available for $43. They are made in Taiwan.

Calcutta brand hip boots in tan canvas are available for $49. These are made in China.

Chest waders are also available in Homer.

Calcutta Brand chest waders in brown with cleated soles are priced at $40. These are made in China.

The Calcutta waders are endorsed by Team Calcutta, a fishing competition team.



Joanna described the Calcutta trademark logo as a skull and crossbones with a limp fish held in the jaws.

Hodgman Bantam weight boot foot chest waders are available for $50. The uppers are made from polyester and rubber. Soles are cleated and made from hard rubber. The waders are forest green.

Joanna said that the Hodgman brand of waders traces its company history back to Framingham Massachusetts in 1838.

Beside fishing waders, hot labels in clothing are Carhartt brand of work cloths and XTRA TUFF clothing. Other popular brands are Hetty Hanson of Norway and Grundsons of Sweden. Joanna noted that the Grundsons clothing line is manufactured in Portugal.

Time ran out for the broadcast and Joanna concluded her dispatch from Homer, Alaska.

Volunteers and staff of the Homer Chamber of Commerce contribute money to pay the cost of the long distance telephone charges for the Joanna Tornes culture dispatches from Homer.

The Sidewalk Debates . Bexley, Ohio.

Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of Bexley by the most sensitive man in Bexley, Simon Doer.

New York, we are not, nor are we Hyde Park, near sister city Bexley, England, yet we take sidewalk debates seriously, … even literally.

Perhaps the Englishman, William Shakespeare, said it best when Ariel, in The Tempest, lightly alludes to this even before the advent of sidewalks in the new world and to candidates being slip-shod when he replies to Prospero's command, 'Before you can say "come" and "go", and breathe twice, and cry, "so, so," each one, tripping on his toe, will be here with mop and mow.'

Okay so what has that to do with this issue and, the example of a student this sensitive resident knows, who while rushing to school with a backpack came face to face with the issue?

Bexley's City Service Department has evaluated city sidewalks needing replacement and repair and Bexley’s City Council approved an ordinance this summer to place financial responsibility on city residents for the repair and replacement of defective sidewalks. Yet, there has been constant debate as to whether the city or residents should bear the cost of fixing damaged sidewalks.

Precedent is with the city avoiding the cost of repairs as a 1948 ordinance placed the burden on each adjacent property owner to maintain the sidewalk abutting their property, until the city took over the responsibility in 2004. Concern with the infrastructure and continuing deterioration of sidewalks led to discussion of whether the city or the residents should be in charge of fixing the sidewalks.

A sidewalk is considered unsafe when there is a one-inch or more gap in between sidewalk squares that could result in someone tripping (and perhaps seeing the light fantastic at that time).

Ah, but what is a property owner to do? Legal liability could well face owners who do not take an active role in their sidewalk maintenance while cities may be able to claim some governmental immunity.

In the 2004 Court of Appeals Eighth District of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, of Bentley versus Collins, the Ohio duty and liability of a landowner abutting a public sidewalk to a pedestrian injured on it was reexamined. Under Ohio law, it is a generally accepted principle that “an owner of property abutting a public sidewalk is not, generally, liable for injuries sustained by a pedestrian. However, there are three exceptions to this general rule where a property owner may be held liable:
“(a) a statute or ordinance imposes on such owner a specific duty to keep the sidewalk adjoining his property in good repair;
“(b) by affirmative acts such owner creates or negligently maintains the
defective or dangerous condition; or,
“(c) such owner negligently permits the defective or dangerous condition to exist for some private use or benefit.”

Many joggers use the streets of Bexley rather than our sidewalks.

Is that a slap at the care we have given our sidewalks?

In April 30, 2008, This Week contributor Gail Martineau reported in an article titled “Service committee supports homeowner-funded sidewalk repairs,” that Rick Weber, council member and service committee chair supported the measure because he said the city has been falling behind on road improvements and needs to free up money.
Bexley has money coming from a 2.5-mil continuing levy passed by residents in 2002 "for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing and repairing streets, alleys, sidewalks and other similar improvements."

The levy produces a little over $850,000 each year. It costs residential property owners $56.47 per $100,000 of assessed property value; that to repair our roadways and throughfares.

Wasn’t that levy really to repair the infrastructure of Bexley’s roadways and to provide wheelchair and other access to the sidewalks, rather than to repair the sidewalks in front of property owner’s residences?

That was not the argument in 2004 when resident Nancy Duffy proposed a resolution altering the 1948 ordinance and the City agreed to repair all sidewalks.

According to the This Week reporter, City Attorney Lou Chodosh said the current debate centers on determining whether the levy was considered a tax or an assessment for city sidewalks. He said he interpreted the levy as an assessment because it was created for the specific purpose of "replacements or repairs of streets, alleys and sidewalks," rather than for the city's general fund.

In 2004, resident Nancy Duffy persuaded council to pass a resolution to pay for all sidewalk-related costs because that use was listed in the levy ballot language. She said to continue to assess residents would be double taxation.

In the same article by Gail Martineau, she referred to Cathy Della Flora, who lives on North Merkle Road, who said residents should not be responsible for repairing their own sidewalks. Della Flora said it was the city's responsibility to figure out how to pay for them.

"You cannot tax someone for something and double dip and ask them to pay for it," she said. "You overspent. It's not my problem."

Martineau wrote that Duffy said the city made poor choices in paying for repairs such as with driveway aprons, the large concrete slabs where the driveway meets the curb.

"Spending public money on private property is a very expensive decision," Duffy said.

Again according to the This Week article, Council member Mark Masser said he supports assessing residents for their sidewalks.

"We are falling further and further behind," he said. "This is one way to finally find some more money."
Martineau further reported that Frank Kass, who lives on North Parkview Avenue, said residents should fund their own sidewalks.

"I feel that the infrastructure in our city is deteriorating faster than we can fix it," he said. "It's our own responsibility to fix our property. We have to keep our infrastructure great."

Suburban News Publications’ writer Sara Johnson reported on September 5, 2008 in an article “Assessment of sidewalks gives
Bexley leaders things to think about” that according to the Service Department, employees assessed the area north of Broad Street, considered as north Bexley, to find 470 sidewalk squares and 10 driveway squares in need of repair for a total of $88,200 as the city's responsibility.

Bexley will be in charge of repairing a sidewalk if damage is the result of a city-owned tree.

Sara Johnson reported that Bill Harvey, City Services Director, identified sidewalks considered for residential responsibility included 430 sidewalk squares and 30 driveway squares for $86,300. [That is similar to the 50 50 arrangement some cities share in the repair of sidewalks with property owners.]

Sara reported that the city discovered that central Bexley, the area between Main and Broad streets, had between 1,200 and 1,300 sidewalks squares that required work and that the area south of Main Street, south Bexley, needs work on around 2,000 sidewalk squares.

She reported that the city spends around $700,000 from the budget on streets, sidewalks and alley repairs.



As to the student with the backpack, there was a double impact when tripping over a public sidewalk the backpack created a second impact with the sidewalk. So whatever the debate, this sensitive resident observes that this is more an issue about the safety of our sidewalks for the users rather than who is to pay for their repairs. Having paid $1,200 to repair all of the sidewalks squares in front of this sensitive resident’s Bexley home, without benefit of the funds of other property owner taxpayers, this writer could be callous to the pleas of the Nancy Duffy’s of Bexley, but is not.

Is this really a debate about who pays for sidewalk repairs? Don’t property owners pay one way or another, either through taxes or direct repairs? Wouldn’t direct repairs be more equitable for all property owners, each paying for the repairs for the sidewalk defects adjacent to their property?

Isn’t this really about protecting that student with the backpack? Aren’t property owners more likely than the city services department to be aware of ongoing issues with the sidewalks adjacent to their property?

The city of Bexley will still cover the cost of repairs caused by the trees they plant.

Do we really need other taxpayers to pay for our sidewalk repairs and us for their repairs? Should I cover the cost of the sidewalk repairs for a large corner lot when my frontage is in the range of thirty or fifty feet? Should all property owners provide for the repairs of the sidewalks in front of Bexley’s largest homes, which reap their market value in ultimate sales – even in this hopefully temporary declining home value market cycle?

This is one sensitive man’s opinion. What’s yours?

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