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• The United Memorial Medical Center could face a tough road ahead in getting its construction projects financed. "Organized labor," writes Dan Fischer, is blocking the state legislature's renewal of a law that allows non-profits to borrow from Industrial Development Agencies at low finance rates. The unions insist that the law include a provision that says projects funded through IDA financing must pay "prevailing union wages," which could put costs too high to manage. (This seems like a complex story. I would like to find out more about it. Such as: How can the labor unions block the law? And why wouldn't IDA-funded projects already be required to pay prevailing union wages?) UPDATE: Found more information here at the Buffalo News.
• A deck of playing cards illustrating 52 (unsolved) homicides and missing persons cases from around the state will be issued to prisoners across the state, including those at Genesee County Jail. Inmates may call a toll free number printed on the card if they have information.
• The Genesee County Legislature will meet tonight at 7:00pm at the Old County Courthouse.
The playing card idea is
The playing card idea is great. I wonder how I can get myself a deck or two for my next home game?
You are kidding right?I
You are kidding right?I thought it a bit strange.Unfortunatly i have had the opportunity to spend time there gcj.I really don't think the majority are really honest.I wonder if they want to find the one who killed ann griffith,Ann k lee.She was a human being too.Shes buried in the batavia cemetary way in the back.Sometimes the boys and i go there and read gravestones theres alot of history there.And we just love going to see the civil war reinactors in the fall.I like the big carved tree of a civil war vet.
I don't know. I like the
I don't know. I like the idea. Finding creative ways to help solve serious crimes seems like a smart thing to do.
Why limit distribution to just the prisons?
Here's an idea -- the state should build a web site with one page devoted to each card and crime ... that would help build the publicity behind solving the crimes. It would get some attention. They could sell, or not, the cards, but the funds could go toward helping to pay for these investigations.
Almost certainly, packs of cards will start showing up on Ebay the week they're release.