Posted on 09/09/2006 2:39:24 AM PDT by abb
Only on one side of his family. He's a semiColon. [Ducks and runs like h*ll]
Goes to show what happens when there is no real new news!!
Here's some news! Bald cop skates?!?
http://www.wral.com/news/9849010/detail.html
Sources: 2 Durham Officers Accused In Bar Assault To Be Fired
POSTED: 11:50 am EDT September 14, 2006
UPDATED: 12:10 pm EDT September 14, 2006
DURHAM, N.C. -- The Durham Police Department is expected to hold a news conference at 2 p.m. in regard to an internal investigation involving two police officers charged with assaulting a man outside a Raleigh sports bar.
Sources tell WRAL that the officers involved will be terminated.
Rene Dennis Thomas, a 29-year-old cook at Blinco's on Glenwood Avenue, told authorities that he exchanged racial slurs with at least one man that was later to determined to be an officer in the parking lot of the restaurant and was assaulted. The alleged incident happened in late July.
Four Durham police officers were initially placed on administrative leave, and the Durham Police Department launched an internal investigation.
The men had gathered at the bar, sources said, for a going-away party for the sixth man. He had resigned from the department prior to the incident in question.
BTW: thanks for the setup.
And what happens when they get to court and the Thomas says they are the wrong guys?
I don't think we've heard the end from Thomas.
I hope he has a good attorney.
Wonder if the fired cops will rat out the bald cop.
City ready to give out development grants
By Ray Gronberg : The Herald-Sun
Sep 13, 2006 : 10:29 pm ET
DURHAM -- City officials are poised to award four groups -- among them Mayor Bill Bell's employer -- $412,428 in revitalization grants it is hoped will promote new development in several downtrodden parts of Durham.
Administrators from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development briefed elected officials on the grants last week, and intend to ask them for an approval vote Monday.
The largest of the four grants -- $186,107 -- would go to the UDI Community Development Corp., a nonprofit that has orchestrated a variety of development and work force-training initiatives over the years. Bell is the group's chief operating officer.
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-769556.html
** No conflict of interest here. The mayor had the city attorneys fix that. His boss at UDI is the former chairman of the board of trustees at NCCU. Real cozy downtown. UDI has a long history of pissing away many millions of taxpayer's dollars with little to show for it. Great management. The mayor is described as a former senior engineer at IBM in RTP. We always wondered what if anything he ever engineered besides sweet deals. His expertise has certainly not helped the city with all it's computer problems. We also wonder how a kid in the city attorney's office became city manager. You would think a professional should fill that job.
Thanks for the post.
Who else is involved in the UDI group?
"The largest of the four grants -- $186,107 -- would go to the UDI Community Development Corp., a nonprofit that has orchestrated a variety of development and work force-training initiatives over the years. Bell is the group's chief operating officer."
So Mayor Bell gets a nice addition to his salary. . . this is so blatant it is almost ludicrous.
If there were not a lapdog press in Durham, there would be a major expose and a Pulitzer waiting. . .
A while ago I have attempted to research UDI Community Development Corp., a nonprofit ... no luck.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:qUP3glqZEcQJ:www.durhamnc.gov/agendas/minutes/cc_minutes_02_16_04.pdf+UDI+bell+durham&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=10&client=firefox-a
This public disclosure is in connection with the request by the City of Durham to
the Department of Housing and Urban Development to be allowed to enter into a
contract between the City of Durham and UDI, CDC a nonprofit corporation to
purchase two existing town homes from the City that are a part of the Mangum
Court Housing Community for the purpose of rehabilitating the homes for sale to
low-moderate families.
You have to wonder about how brazen or stupid they are to be doing this while many around the country have the entire Durham power elite under the microscope.
Good point. If "taking the fall" consisted of a reprimand then they might cover for the "bald cop". Losing their jobs is something else entirely.
Older article re: UDI
The News & Observer
November 21, 1998
Nonprofit gets job-finding cash
Author: ELIZABETH WELLINGTON; STAFF WRITER
Edition: Final
Section: News
Page: B5
Index Terms:
U. S. Department of Labor
employment
aid
UDI Community
Estimated printed pages: 2
Article Text:
DURHAM -- A nonprofit community development corporation was awarded $3.7 million Friday from the U.S. Department of Labor to help welfare recipients find jobs.
UDI Community Development Corp. was one of 75 operations nationwide to receive a chunk of the federal money, which totaled $273 million and was announced by U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman at a news conference in Washington. Durham county and city officials dialed into the conference.
The $273 million from Friday's grant is part of $3 billion appropriated by Congress for the 2-year-old Welfare to Work program designed to put an end to welfare.
"This is altering welfare as we know it," Herman said.
UDI, a 24-year-old nonprofit, routinely seeks federal and local dollars to build low-income housing and provide job training for residents in the county's most blighted areas. The agency serves 16,000 low-income residents.
This was the second time UDI had applied for the grant. The first time was in March, but the organization was turned down.
The nonprofit has earmarked the new money, which it will receive over two years, to form partnerships with city and county officials, the Durham Chamber of Commerce and local businesses to help people who are the hardest to employ find jobs.
With the money, UDI will be able to offer computer training and training on construction sites, two of the areas with the highest job demand.
"We think this is a way for us to expand our offerings," said Ed Stewart, executive director of UDI. "We have a lot under way, and if people want to work, they will be able to."
Stewart said 400 Durham residents can be placed in the "hard to employ" category. Nearly 2,000 Durham residents are a part of the county's Work First program.
Recipients of the grant will receive the money in January. Stewart said his nonprofit hasn't identified the first beneficiaries yet, but the grant is still good news for Durham resident Audrey Brown, who is the kind of candidate who will be eligible for the training.
Brown, 48, is on public assistance and works on and off. She has job skills, such as being able to type 50 words a minute, and she has her high school diploma. But Brown is the mother of a 5-year-old son who was born prematurely and will have lifelong complications.
Brown said she can't keep a job because her son requires around-the-clock care. If she worked, she said, she would only have money to pay for her son's care and rent.
"How am I supposed to eat?" Brown said from her home Friday afternoon. "I am very excited. Maybe this will be a way out. Every day I have to figure out how I am going to make a living with a sick child. Maybe this will help people like me.
Copyright 1998 by The News & Observer Pub. Co.
Record Number: 1998324033
http://www.prattcenter.net/cdc-udicdc.php
United Durham, Inc. Community Development Corp. (UDI/CDC), Durham, NC
http://www.nccu.edu/administration/trustees.shtml
NCCU's Board Of Trustees
Mr. R. Edward Stewart
UDI Community Development Corp.
Post Office Box 1349
Durham , NC 27707
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:NhS7RS_pa20J:www.ci.durham.nc.us/agendas/minutes/cc_minutes_03_01_04.pdf+udi+stewart+durham+bell&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox-a
City Manager Conner reported the conflict is under the federal guidelines regarding the
use of federal funds and the City would have to disclose the relationship of Ms. Bodison
being a board member of UDI of which the Mayor is an employee. The Manager noted
in order to avoid a conflict she is recommending that CDBG funds not be used, but to
change the funding source to Housing Bond funds. Also, she stated this issue has been in
discussion with the regional HUD office in terms of the recommendation on the
appropriate way to handle this matter.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:_V_z3blnTc0J:www.ci.durham.nc.us/agendas/minutes/cc_minutes_04_19_04.pdf+udi+stewart+durham+bell+Bodison&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox-a
We ought to press for a congressional oversight investigation of where our tax money has been going--
Tanner is actually the bald one, it seems.
It looks like he is bald like Gottlieb, except Tanner has recently shaved his noggin to appear totally bald.
What a joke. Why would these guys help cover up for Gottlieb? It's like - oh yeah, sure, fire me, no problem. Anything for the Sarge.
There was probably some kind of "deal" made about this. What a cesspool.
KC Johnson deserves a Pulitzer Prize, not NYT
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/060914
Two Durham police officers fired
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/486133.html
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