| May 9, 2011 In this MegaVote for Ohio's 10th Congressional District: Recent Congressional Votes
Upcoming Congressional Bills
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| Recent Senate Votes | |
| Confirmation John J. McConnell, Jr. of Rhode Island, to be U.S. District Judge - Vote Confirmed (50-44, 5 Not Voting) The Senate confirmed attorney John J. McConnell to be a district court judge in Rhode Island. Sen. Rob Portman voted NO......send e-mail or see bio Sen. Sherrod Brown voted YES......send e-mail or see bio | |
| Recent House Votes | |
| To repeal mandatory funding provided to establish American Health Benefit Exchanges - Vote Passed(238-183, 11 Not Voting) The House passed this bill to eliminate federal grants to states to set up health insurance exchanges. The grants are part of the 2010 health care bill which requires each state to establish an exchange by 2014. The bill is unlikely to advance in the Senate. Rep. Dennis Kucinich voted NO......send e-mail or see bio To repeal mandatory funding for school-based health center construction - Vote Passed (235-191, 6 Not Voting) The House passed this bill that would repeal a section in the 2010 health care bill providing funding for the construction of school-based health centers. The bill is unlikely to advance in the Senate. Rep. Dennis Kucinich voted NO......send e-mail or see bio No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act - Vote Passed (251-175, 6 Not Voting) This bill would prohibit federal funds from being used for abortions, except in the cases of rape, incest or danger to the woman's life. A similar bill has been introduced in the Senate, but it is unlikely to gain any traction. Rep. Dennis Kucinich voted NO......send e-mail or see bio Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act - Vote Passed (266-149, 17 Not Voting) This House bill would require the Interior Department to sell oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Virginia. The bill's future in the Senate is uncertain. Rep. Dennis Kucinich voted NO......send e-mail or see bio | |
| Upcoming Votes | |
| Intelligence Authorization Act, FY2011 - H.R.754 The House is scheduled to take up this bill funding intelligence-related activities for the current fiscal year. | |
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Legislative Action: 10th District and State - 05092011
From megavote.com:
Census News: Plato, Mo - The Middle of Nowhere, the Middle of Everywhere
From census.gov:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, MAY 9, 2011
Public Information Office CB11-CN.135
e-mail: <pio@census.gov>
NOAA Communications
e-mail: <nos.media@noaa.gov>
Plato, Mo. Celebrates Recognition as the
2010 Census U.S. Center of Population
PLATO, Mo. — Townspeople, elected representatives, government officials and hundreds of students today celebrated the naming of Plato, as the 2010 Census U.S. center of population. Amid music, speeches, banners and cheers, village chairman Bob Biram welcomed the crowd, saying, “We’re proud of our village. As one of our students said, ‘we’re in the middle of nowhere; now we are in the middle of everywhere.’ ”
At the event, U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves and Juliana Blackwell, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Geodetic Survey, revealed a survey disc, commemorating the national center of population as calculated by the Census Bureau and measured by the National Geodetic Survey. Each decade after tabulating the decennial census, the Census Bureau calculates the mean center of population for the country, as well as for each state and county. The national center of
population is determined as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all 308,745,538 residents counted in the 2010 Census were of identical weight.
Following the 2010 Census, the U.S. center of population is at 37.517534 north latitude and 92.173096 west longitude. This spot in Missouri’s Texas County is approximately 2.9 miles east of Plato, an incorporated village in the heart of the Ozarks with a 2010 Census population of 109.
After the 2000 Census, the center of population was situated near Edgar Springs, which is about 23 miles northeast of Plato.
“The distance between the centers of population, decade by decade, varies depending on how the population has changed,” Groves said, “reflecting the addition of territories and the movement of people.”
Since 1790, the center of population has moved in a westerly direction, with a more pronounced southerly pattern the past few decades. The new center of population now stands
873 miles from the first center in 1790, which was located near Chestertown in Kent County, Md.
NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey, the U.S. government source for precise latitude, longitude and elevation measurements, has monumented the national center of population with geodetic survey marks since 1960. This distinction serves a commemorative purpose for the community as well as a functional reference point for the nation’s mapping and charting infrastructure. NOAA Project Manager Dave Doyle noted that this decade’s mark will be the first to be set in stone, represented by a block of Missouri red granite.
“We hope everyone will visit these marks,” Doyle said. “They’re fun to find, and each one tells a unique story about our nation’s history.”
This is the fourth decade in a row the national center of population has been located in Missouri. Following the 1950, 1960 and 1970 censuses, the center of population was in Illinois. Indiana had the distinction for the previous six decades, from 1890 to 1940. Covington, Ky., was the population center in 1880, and Ohio was the centerpiece in 1870 and 1860. West Virginia was home to the center of population from 1830 to 1850, though it was still part of Virginia at the time. During the previous two censuses in 1810 and 1820, Virginia held the spot. A location 18 miles west of Baltimore was determined to be the center of population in 1800 following the second decennial census.
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Monday, May 09, 2011
CIFF Ex Dir Marcie Goodman Wins Robert Bergman Prize
From cleveland.com:
Winners of 2011 Cleveland Arts Prize announced
Published: Thursday, April 28, 2011, 12:56 PM Updated: Tuesday, May 03, 2011, 10:36 AM
John Paul MillerJohn Paul Miller won the first Cleveland Arts Prize for the visual arts in 1961. Half a century later, the celebrated 93-year-old Cleveland goldsmith is the special honoree of the 2011 Cleveland Arts Prize.
Winners of the arts prize, announced Thursday, will be honored at the 51st annual awards event on Tuesday, June 28, in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This year's Mid-Career awards were won by Paula McLain (literature), Robert Maschke (design), Yolanda Kondonassis (music and dance) and Barry Underwood (visual arts).
Marcie Goodman, executive director of the Cleveland International Film Festival, is winner of the Robert Bergman Prize, named for the late director of the Cleveland museum.
A. Grace Lee Mims, admired for 35 years as host and producer of "The Black Arts" radio program on WCLV 104.9/FM; Natalie Epstein, longtime supporter of theater programs at Case Western Reserve University; Tom Hinson, recently retired associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Cleveland Museum of Art; and Marsha Dobrzynski, executive director of Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio, have been named Martha Joseph Prize winners.
The Emerging Artist award goes to Michael Oatman, only the second playright-in-residence in the 100-year history of Karamu House. (The first was Langston Hughes.)
Winners of Lifetime Achievement Awards are Brinsley Tyrrell, sculptor and emeritus professor of art at Kent State University; and David Cerone, president of the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1985 to 2008.
The awards event June 28 will begin at 6 p.m. WCPN arts commentator Dee Perry will host the evening, which will include performances and a video tribute to Miller.
Dike 14 to Open Soon as Proposed Nature Reserve
I've been here once during the past five years or so. It is an amazing place to be.
From cleveland.com:
Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority board OKs interim opening of Dike 14 Nature Preserve
The Dike 14 Nature Preserve will soon be open to the public for one or two days a week.CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Eighty-eight lakefront acres where most people have never set foot will soon be open to the public.
For the past decade, a barbed-wire topped fence has skirted the Dike 14 Nature Preserve. A locked gate prevented entry to the naturalized dredge disposal site surrounded on three sides by Lake Erie, and located on the northern terminus of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
But today, board members of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, which oversees the land, committed the agency to opening Dike 14 to the public for one or two days a week, and eventually on a daily basis.
"Ultimately, we'd like to see a manager take it over, such as the Cleveland Metroparks or the Ohio Department of Natural Resources," said Port Authority CEO William Friedman.
"I'm excited about it. It's something that needs to happen."
Eventually, the dike will acquire a new name -- the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve -- and a relocated gate with a turnstile for people to pass freely into and out of between dawn and dusk.
Prying open the dike has been a prolonged quest of birders, hikers, bikers and environmentalists.
"It's a big step in the right direction," said Harvey Webster of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and a leader of the Dike 14 movement. "This port administration has been outstanding to work with, and understands that this is a community asset."
Now that success is in sight, the celebration has begun.
"We've been talking about this for years," said Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman. "It's one of the most beautiful vistas in the city that everyone can see but nobody can get to.
"People shouldn't have to get on State Route 6 and drive an hour to visit a beautiful preserve like the Holden Arboretum. This will be accessible to everyone in the city."
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Census News: Mother's Day 2011
From the Census Bureau:
The driving force behind Mother's Day was Anna Jarvis, who organized observances in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. As the annual celebration became popular around the country, Jarvis asked members of Congress to set aside a day to honor mothers. She finally succeeded in 1914, when Congress designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
2
The total fertility rate or number of births per woman in the U.S. in 2009, a decline of 4 percent from 2008 (based on current birth rates by age).
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
Estimated number of mothers in the United States in 2008.
Source: Survey of Income and Program Participation, 2008 Panel Wave 2, unpublished tabulations.
54%
Percentage of 15- to 44-year-old women who were mothers in 2008.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/
82%
Percentage of women 40 to 44 who had given birth as of 2008. In 1976, 90 percent of women in that age group had given birth.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/
2.6
The total fertility rate or number of births in 2008 per woman in Utah (based on current birth rates by age), which led the nation. At the other end of the spectrum is Vermont, with a total fertility rate of 1.7 births per woman.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
94%
Among the 37.8 million mothers living with children younger than 18 in 2004, the percentage who lived with their biological children only. In addition, 3 percent lived with stepchildren, 2 percent with any adopted children and less than 1 percent with any foster children.
Source: Living Arrangements of Children: 2004 http://www.census.gov/prod/
4.13 million
Number of births registered in the United States in 2009. Of this number, 409,840 were to teens 15 to 19 and 7,934 to mothers 45 to 54.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
25.1
Average age of women in 2008 when they gave birth for the first time, up from 25.0 years in 2006 and 2007. The increase in the mean age from 2007 to 2008 reflects, in part, the relatively large decline in births to women under age 25 compared with the small decline for women in the 25-39 age bracket.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
40%
Percentage of births that were the mother's first in 2008. Another 32 percent were the second-born; 17 percent, third; and 7 percent, fourth.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
18,986
Number of births in 2008 that were the mother's eighth or more.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
42,746
Number of births in 2008 that did not occur in hospitals. Of these, 28,357 were in a residence (home) and 12,014 were in a freestanding birthing center.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
32.6
Number of twin births per 1,000 total births in 2008, the highest rate on record.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
6,268
Number of triplet and higher order multiple births in 2008, the lowest number reported in more than a decade. The 2008 triplet and higher order multiple total included 5,877 triplets, 345 quadruplets, and 46 quintuplets and higher order multiples.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
July
The month with the highest number of births, with 375,384 in 2008.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
Tuesday
The most common day to deliver, with an average of 13,415 births taking place on Tuesdays in 2008.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
Jacob and Isabella
The most popular baby names for boys and girls, respectively, in 2009.
Source: Social Security Administration <http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/
71
Number of births in the past year per 1,000 women 15 to 50 with a graduate or professional degree. These women have a higher fertility rate than those with any other level of education.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/
18,509
Number of florist establishments nationwide in 2008. The 89,741 employees in floral shops across our nation will be especially busy preparing, selling and delivering floral arrangements for Mother's Day.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
The flowers bought for mom have a good chance of having been grown in California. Among the 15 surveyed states, California was the leading provider of cut flowers in 2009, accounting for 75 percent of domestic flower production ($269 million out of $359 million at wholesale value) in those states. (The data pertain only to operations with sales greater than or equal to $100,000.)
Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.
11,715
Number of employees of the 107 greeting-card publishing establishments in 2008.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
14,027
The number of cosmetics, beauty supplies and perfume stores nationwide in 2008. Perfume is a popular gift given on Mother's Day.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
26,683
Number of jewelry stores in the United States in 2008 -- the place to purchase necklaces, earrings and other timeless pieces for mom.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
5 million
Number of stay-at-home moms in 2010 -- down from 5.1 million in 2009 and 5.3 million in 2008 (the estimates for 2010 and 2009 are not statistically different). In 2010, 23 percent of married-couple family groups with children under 15 had a stay-at-home mother, up from 21 percent in 2000. In 2007, before the recession, stay-at-home mothers were found in 24 percent of married-couple family groups with children
under 15.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements
http://www.census.gov/
Table SHP-1 http://www.census.gov/
Compared with other moms, stay-at-home moms in 2007 were more likely to be:
-- Younger (44 percent were under 35 compared with 38 percent of mothers in the labor force).
-- Hispanic (27 percent compared with 16 percent of mothers in the labor force).
-- Foreign-born (34 percent compared with 19 percent of mothers in the labor force).
-- Living with a preschool-age child (57 percent compared with 43 percent of mothers in the labor force).
-- Without a high school diploma (19 percent versus 8 percent of mothers in the labor force).
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2007
http://www.census.govnewsroom/releases/archives/
61%
The proportion of mothers with a recent birth who were in the labor force increased from 57 percent in 2006 to 61 percent in 2008. Among states with higher than average levels of new mothers who were unemployed, the highest proportions were in Alabama (10 percent) and Michigan (9 percent), along with several states in the southeast United States.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/
777,817
Number of child care centers across the country in 2008. These included 74,920 centers employing 884,235 workers and another 702,897 self-employed people or other businesses without paid employees.
Many mothers turn to these centers to help juggle motherhood and careers.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
and Nonemployer Statistics http://www.census.gov/econ/
9.9 million
The number of single mothers living with children younger than 18 in 2010, up from 3.4 million in 1970.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements http://www.census.gov/
5.6 million
Number of custodial mothers who were due child support in 2007.
Source: Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2007 http://www.census.gov/hhes/
38%
Of the 4 million women 15 to 44 years old who had a birth in the last year, 1.5 million (38 percent) were to women who were not married, who were separated, or married but with an absent spouse. Of those 1.5 million mothers, 425,000 (28 percent) were living with a cohabit ing partner.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/prod/
Mother's Day: May 8, 2011
The driving force behind Mother's Day was Anna Jarvis, who organized observances in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. As the annual celebration became popular around the country, Jarvis asked members of Congress to set aside a day to honor mothers. She finally succeeded in 1914, when Congress designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
2
The total fertility rate or number of births per woman in the U.S. in 2009, a decline of 4 percent from 2008 (based on current birth rates by age).
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
How Many Mothers
85.4 million
Source: Survey of Income and Program Participation, 2008 Panel Wave 2, unpublished tabulations.
54%
Percentage of 15- to 44-year-old women who were mothers in 2008.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/
82%
Percentage of women 40 to 44 who had given birth as of 2008. In 1976, 90 percent of women in that age group had given birth.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/
How Many Children
The total fertility rate or number of births in 2008 per woman in Utah (based on current birth rates by age), which led the nation. At the other end of the spectrum is Vermont, with a total fertility rate of 1.7 births per woman.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
94%
Among the 37.8 million mothers living with children younger than 18 in 2004, the percentage who lived with their biological children only. In addition, 3 percent lived with stepchildren, 2 percent with any adopted children and less than 1 percent with any foster children.
Source: Living Arrangements of Children: 2004 http://www.census.gov/prod/
Moms Who've Recently Given Birth
Number of births registered in the United States in 2009. Of this number, 409,840 were to teens 15 to 19 and 7,934 to mothers 45 to 54.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
25.1
Average age of women in 2008 when they gave birth for the first time, up from 25.0 years in 2006 and 2007. The increase in the mean age from 2007 to 2008 reflects, in part, the relatively large decline in births to women under age 25 compared with the small decline for women in the 25-39 age bracket.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
40%
Percentage of births that were the mother's first in 2008. Another 32 percent were the second-born; 17 percent, third; and 7 percent, fourth.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
18,986
Number of births in 2008 that were the mother's eighth or more.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
42,746
Number of births in 2008 that did not occur in hospitals. Of these, 28,357 were in a residence (home) and 12,014 were in a freestanding birthing center.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
32.6
Number of twin births per 1,000 total births in 2008, the highest rate on record.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
6,268
Number of triplet and higher order multiple births in 2008, the lowest number reported in more than a decade. The 2008 triplet and higher order multiple total included 5,877 triplets, 345 quadruplets, and 46 quintuplets and higher order multiples.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
July
The month with the highest number of births, with 375,384 in 2008.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
Tuesday
The most common day to deliver, with an average of 13,415 births taking place on Tuesdays in 2008.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
Jacob and Isabella
The most popular baby names for boys and girls, respectively, in 2009.
Source: Social Security Administration <http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/
71
Number of births in the past year per 1,000 women 15 to 50 with a graduate or professional degree. These women have a higher fertility rate than those with any other level of education.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/
Mothers Remembered
18,509
Number of florist establishments nationwide in 2008. The 89,741 employees in floral shops across our nation will be especially busy preparing, selling and delivering floral arrangements for Mother's Day.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
The flowers bought for mom have a good chance of having been grown in California. Among the 15 surveyed states, California was the leading provider of cut flowers in 2009, accounting for 75 percent of domestic flower production ($269 million out of $359 million at wholesale value) in those states. (The data pertain only to operations with sales greater than or equal to $100,000.)
Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.
11,715
Number of employees of the 107 greeting-card publishing establishments in 2008.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
14,027
The number of cosmetics, beauty supplies and perfume stores nationwide in 2008. Perfume is a popular gift given on Mother's Day.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
26,683
Number of jewelry stores in the United States in 2008 -- the place to purchase necklaces, earrings and other timeless pieces for mom.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
Stay-at-Home Moms
Number of stay-at-home moms in 2010 -- down from 5.1 million in 2009 and 5.3 million in 2008 (the estimates for 2010 and 2009 are not statistically different). In 2010, 23 percent of married-couple family groups with children under 15 had a stay-at-home mother, up from 21 percent in 2000. In 2007, before the recession, stay-at-home mothers were found in 24 percent of married-couple family groups with children
under 15.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements
http://www.census.gov/
Table SHP-1 http://www.census.gov/
Compared with other moms, stay-at-home moms in 2007 were more likely to be:
-- Younger (44 percent were under 35 compared with 38 percent of mothers in the labor force).
-- Hispanic (27 percent compared with 16 percent of mothers in the labor force).
-- Foreign-born (34 percent compared with 19 percent of mothers in the labor force).
-- Living with a preschool-age child (57 percent compared with 43 percent of mothers in the labor force).
-- Without a high school diploma (19 percent versus 8 percent of mothers in the labor force).
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2007
http://www.census.govnewsroom/releases/archives/
Employed Moms (and Moms-to-Be)
61%
The proportion of mothers with a recent birth who were in the labor force increased from 57 percent in 2006 to 61 percent in 2008. Among states with higher than average levels of new mothers who were unemployed, the highest proportions were in Alabama (10 percent) and Michigan (9 percent), along with several states in the southeast United States.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/
777,817
Number of child care centers across the country in 2008. These included 74,920 centers employing 884,235 workers and another 702,897 self-employed people or other businesses without paid employees.
Many mothers turn to these centers to help juggle motherhood and careers.
Source: County Business Patterns: 2008 http://www.census.gov/econ/
and Nonemployer Statistics http://www.census.gov/econ/
Single Moms
9.9 million
The number of single mothers living with children younger than 18 in 2010, up from 3.4 million in 1970.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements http://www.census.gov/
5.6 million
Number of custodial mothers who were due child support in 2007.
Source: Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2007 http://www.census.gov/hhes/
38%
Of the 4 million women 15 to 44 years old who had a birth in the last year, 1.5 million (38 percent) were to women who were not married, who were separated, or married but with an absent spouse. Of those 1.5 million mothers, 425,000 (28 percent) were living with a cohabit ing partner.
Source: Fertility of American Women: 2008 http://www.census.gov/prod/
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