I wrote about restaurants yesterday, mostly chain steakhouses. It shouldn’t go unremarked that the patriarchs of two of Fort Wayne’s most well-known restaurants (and, as it happens, a couple of my favorites) died last week within a couple of days of each other. On Monday, Hartley McLeod died at 81. On Wednesday, Evangelos”Von” Filippou died at 87. Both stories should have been Page 1 news, but they got — well, buried in the obits.
Hartley was a Komet from 1954 to 1958, then went on to be an IHL lineman for years before opening Hartley’s Place in 1983, perhaps the city’s most highly regarded homegrown, high-end restaurant. When my mother was still alive and most of my family still lived in Fort Wayne, we went there once a month, and I never had a bad bite of food there, let alone a bad meal or experience. Hartley’s success is all the more remarkable for its location, in a too-small building with hardly any parking, in the middle of a neighborhood on South Fairfield in the wrong part of town.
Filippou came here from Greece in 1952, after the unpleasantness with the Communists, and opened Nick’s Rib Bar (later Nick & Von’s) with his partner Nick Stamenis in 1958. What can I say about the Rib Room that I haven’t said before? I’ve spent so many Friday nights there, with my shrimp cocktail and rib basket and fries, helping Sam Filippou, son of Von, plot the secret plans of the Midwest chapter of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy.
I won’t ry to convince you of the delights of the dining experiences of Hartley’s or the Rib Room if you’ve never been to either of them. We all find the places we like for whatever reasons we have. But those two places, like a handful of others, are uniquely Fort Wayne. No other city has a Hartley’s or a Rib Room. They were created by people who came here and liked the place and made it better with their visions and hard work. Praise be for the Steve Gards and the Noelle Reiths who keep hanging in there.
Have you seen those CleanAirForce commercials urging us all to do our part? There’s one where the Goody Two Shoes Brigade on Bikes (think back to high school) harangues a guy who is just trying to get his yard mowed. And then there’s the one (featured below) where they drag this poor woman out of her car and force her on the bus. Don’t you just want to grab those smarmy idiots and shake them till their teeth rattle, then throw then under the bus?
The way the economy has been struggling, you’d think this wasn’t the time to lauch a “national branding” for an emerging chain of high-end steakhouses, esecially one originating in Fort Wayne, Ind. But more power to the folks at Eddie Merlot’s:
Eddie Merlot’s is taking the next step, or perhaps 11 smaller steps, in creating a national brand.
The Fort Wayne-based steakhouse and seafood chain, which opened the doors to its first restaurant in 2001, plans to add five locations next year and six in 2010, giving the budding business a total of 15. Eddie Merlot’s currently has locations in Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Columbus, Ohio, and Cincinnati.
Despite a downturn in the economy that has taken a toll across the restaurant industry, Merlot’s has managed to keep growing. Finding a niche customer base or new market may be the key for those looking to expand, those in the business say.
Love a good steak. I used to eat out several times a week. These days, I seldom do, which is probably why I don’t mind hitting one of those high-end places when I do dine out. I haven’t been to the Eddie Merlot’s here, but I’ve tried the one in Indy, and it is wonderful. So is St. Elmo’s. One of the best steaks I’ve ever had, though, is the New York strip at Bravo!, an Italian restaurant (part of another small chaine) on 86th Street in Indianapolis. Has anyone tried Ruth’s Chris? I keep hearing ads for them on WOWO, even though we don’t have one here.
If you’ve done a lot of cooking, you might know the French phrase mise en place, defined by the Culinary Institute as “everything in place.” It means to have everything you need to prepare a meal — utensils, main ingredients, spices — lined up precisely so that there’s no searching or fumbling around once the actual cooking starts.
For some reason, I thought of the term earlier this week when I first heard the phrase “age in place.” It was used by representatives of Parkview Hospital, who dropped by to talk to us about their plans for the old Randallia campus and the new Regional Medical Center. More operations might stay at Randallia than previously envisioned, they said. One of the reasons was hospital officials’ growing awareness of the need for elder care in the area because of the “age in place” phenomenon. More people want to stay and grow old in the houses — or at least in the neighborhoods — they raised families in. Notice all the new assisted-living and skilled-nursing facilities along State Boulevard, for example.
I’d not encountered the term before, but our social-services reporter Jennifer Boen had, so I googled it. It’s not just an identifiable and quantifiable phenomenon. There are even government funds and grants aimed at making the process possible. And of course there are specialists:
According to the Journal of Housing for the Elderly, aging in place is not having to move from one’s present residence in order to secure necessary support services in response to changing needs. Aging in Place has grown in popularity and celebrated by the National Aging in Place Week and the National Aging in Place Council that promotes the positive outcomes of seniors having a choice in their care and living arrangements.
There are now Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS) specialists to fill the growing need in this service model for seniors. Communities are now fully engaged and committed to exploring ways to better serve seniors by developing action plans that address the future needs and ensure that the services are in place for seniors.
This is all very enlightened and caring, I know, but as I get ever closer to advanced years myself, it’s a little depressing, too. My house is OK, but I’m not that attached to it. As long as somebody else is paying for it, the French Riveria would suit me just fine.
We just got a tip that the Indiana coalition is one of the finalists in the bid for the Lincoln Museum. That’s good and unexpected news, although the cynic in me wonders if we were included just to soften the blow when the exhibit is awarded to one of the more famous national brands.
Anybody have any sympathy for Judge Kenneth Scheibenberger, who now faces formal charges of judicial misconduct before the Indiana Supreme Court? I have some:
On November 30, 2007, Judge Scheibenberger suspended his court session and proceeded to the courtroom of Judge Frances C. Gull, Allen Superior Court, for the purpose of observing a sentencing hearing of a defendant in Judge Gull’s court. Judge Scheibenberger sat in the gallery wearing his judicial robe while the man was sentenced for a weapons violation.
As the sentencing hearing concluded, Judge Scheibenberger moved to the front of the courtroom, approached the deputy prosecutor, and created a disturbance during which he told the deputy prosecutor that the defendant was a drug dealer and declared, “Upstanding citizen, my ass!” in reference to a comment he heard during the sentencing. Judge Scheibenberger then turned to the man’s parents, who were seated in the front row. He said to them, “Are you related to that piece of shit? Upstanding citizen, my ass! He’ll get his!” or words to that effect.
Judges perhaps more than any other professionals are supposed to leave their personal lives at the door. They’re charged with maintaining the dignity of the court and its neutrality. They’re supposed to be impartial, logical and free of passion. When we think of actually getting justice from the criminal justice system, we look first to the judges. So the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications can’t be faulted for taking the actions it did.
But Scheibenberger let his grief as a parent overwhelm his judicial sensibilities. He believed the man had dealt drugs to his son, Sam, who died in August. A few years ago, he got an admonition from the commission because he got into his son’s file on a misdemeanor arrest and delayed the case, a clear use of judicial power for personal interest.
I’m not saying the Supreme Court should be lenient with the judge, or even arguing about how good a judge he has or has not been. It’s just easy to understand what anguish the family has been going through over their son.
Well, this is interesting. “Shortbus” is an unrated film with sexually explicit scenes. It’s the kind of movie some would call obscene and some would not. In 1973, the Supreme Court more or less gave up on obscenity and decided it should be based on what an “average person” would consider “community standards.”
The movie came up in Fort Wayne two years ago when a man complained about the Allen County Public Library having a copy. The library decided to keep the copy and defended its decision. Now a patron of the Bloomington library has complained about the movie, and the result was different:
Bloomington Public Library patrons looking to rent the movie “Shortbus” on DVD won’t find it on the shelves.
A customer complained the movie was pornographic and a library committee decided to remove it.
I wouldn’t have guessed that the “City of Churches” would have the more tolerant standard. And I doubt if the Supreme Court realized it could be library directors rather than county preosecutors determining what communities’ standards are.
This seems like a sensible policy, but how is it going to be enforced? Will it be on the honor system, or will there be spot checks of the odometers? “Monitored very closely” could mean almost anything and usually begins to slip after awhile:
Beginning in early August, officers who live in Fort Wayne will pay $25 each pay period if they use their take-home cruisers for personal reasons while off duty. Officers who live outside Fort Wayne will pay $30. The fees will not apply to officers who drive take-home cruisers for police use only.
“We’re asking officers who use their vehicles other than back and forth to work to help offset the cost of gas,” said Police Chief Rusty York. “We’re going to get every officer a copy of this new policy so everybody understands what the changes are, and it’s going to be monitored very closely.”
When the take-home cars are used for personal business, they stop being just “crime prevention” and start becoming a job perk. And even if we buy the argument that having the cars parked in neighborhoods deters crime, Councilman Hines is right that the argument is meaningless for the 20 to 25 percent of the 460 officers who live outside Fort Wayne. Why should city taxpayers help subsidize the safety of outlying areas that are mostly pretty safe to begin with?
UPDATE: Here’s a letter from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association that I found on the Indiana NewsCenter site. It gives some pretty good arguments in favor of the take-home policy.
Representatives of Indiana Michigan Power visited with the editorial board yesterday to argue for their proposed rate hike, and I’ve gone into a mini obsessive state over what electricity costs:
1,000 watt-hours is a kilowatt-hour (kWh). For example.
One 100-watt light bulb on for an hour, is 0.1 kWh (100/1000)
One 100-watt light bulb on for ten hours is 1 kWh (1 bulbs x 100W x 10h= 1000Wh = 1 kWh)
Ten 100-watt light bulbs on for an hour, is 1 kWh (10 bulbs x 100W x 1h= 1000Wh = 1 kWh)
Ten 50-watt light bulbs on for an hour, is 0.5 kWh
Ten 100-watt light bulbs on for 1/2 an hour, is 0.5 kWh
Running a 3500-watt air conditioner for an hour is 3.5 kWh.
Take a moment to understand the difference between kilowatts and kilowatt-hours. The former is the rate of power at any instant. The latter is the amount of energy used A light bulb doesn’t use 60 watts in an hour, it uses 60 watt-hours in an hour.
Electricity now costs the average customer here about 7.2 cents a kilowatt-hour, the I&M representatives told us, and would cost us about 8.7 cents a kilowatt-hour if the increase is approved. I’ve been going around the house and looking at all the lights I leave on when they don’t need to be on — four 100-watters I leave on in the living room, even when I’m at work; a 100-watter in the basement and three 40-watters in the kitchen that are on all the time. It’s relatively easy to do the lightbulb math and calculate what a wastrel I am. If I start trying to figure out what my air conditioning, computers and appliances cost to run, I’ll know I’m really obsessed.
Since we’re deep into festival season, and Three Rivers is right around the corner, I thought you’d appreciate this list of the seven unhealthiest carnival foods. I’m happy to report that chili dogs and elephant ears are not on the list. And you know what’s No. 1 — the unhealthiest of all. Yes, you do, you know you do. But don’t worry. Like restaurant food, vacation food and food eaten over the sink, it really doesn’t count.
The city and county may end up in court over who has the obligation to maintain bridges inside city limits. City Attorney Carol Taylor says it’s the county, and state law says so. The county says it ended the obligation when it abolished the cumulative bridge fund. Judt reading the state law should help us decide who is right, right? Well . . .
IC 8-16-3-1says that in those counties in which a cumulative bridge fund has been established, “the county executive is responsible for providing funds for all bridges,” including those in municipalities, within the counntis except those bridges on the state highway system.” That’s all. It doesn’t say the county has to maintain the bridge fund forever. It doesn’t say whose obligation the bridges become if the bridge fund is eliminated. In this case, state law seems to be a lawsuit waiting to happen.
The county’s preferred option, rejected by the city, is for a wheel tax increase, which requires County Council approval. But the money would go to the city, and before the county approves the increase, it wants the City Council to promise to give the money to the county for bridge maintenance and repair. Anybody notice a leadership gap here? We all know the bridges have to be maintained and repaired — and we need Peter and Paul to stop worrying about getting robbed and start working together.
For what it’s worth, I think the county has the greater obligation to figure this out. It was the one that stupidly ended the cumulative bridge fund, and if this goes to court, it will have to explain being the only county in the state (so far) to abandon what has been traditionally seen as a county obligation.
Just a reminder that if you want to see the Lincoln Museum, you’d better do it before Monday. And don’t count on any of the collection being in Fort Wayne for very long, despite the best efforts of a lot of people:
Among the powerhouses of historical preservation hoping to divvy out the collection, according to today’s Washington Post, are the Library of Congress, Ford’s Theatre, the National Museum of American History and President Lincoln’s Cottage, all based in Washington, D.C. The organizations have jointly submitted a proposal to assume ownership of the collection.
“The field will be narrowed as early as a month from now. … I would say within the next several months. They hope to narrow it down to three finalists,” Moser said of the process that is involving a private consulting firm and the board.
With bidders like that, what are the chances of the museum being awarded to a Fort Wayne group? And there’s really no logical reason for the museum to be here, except that it always has been and we want our city to continue to have an attraction that cool. Something of such historic interest and significance deserves to be seen by as many people as possible. There’s a better chance of that with one of the big Washington, D.C., players than here in a modest Midwestern city. I know, I know, Abraham Lincoln stuff in the nation’s capital! Whatever are they thinking?
The Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at IPFW did a poll asking Hoosiers how much they respected 10 well-known figures, mostly politicians. Please, don’t be too shocked, but the politicians didn’t come out on top:
The most respected out of the list of 10 figures was Mother Teresa - the late Nobel Peace Prize winner for her humanitarian work - with Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy following closely.
Probably if they’d put Princess Di on the list, Mother Teresa wouldn’t have done nearly so well. When they died nearly together, it was, Di, Di, Di, woe is us, Di is dead, oh, God, how can we live without her? And, oh, by the way, Mother Teresa kicked off, too.
It is also interesting that, 1) In this Republican state, Barack Obama and John McCain were very close in the respect given them and, 2) Oprah Winfrey and George Bush were also together, at the bottom of the barel. If anybody knows what the hell those results mean, congratulations — you are the smartest person on the planet.
Good thing so many people are used to driving to Indianapolis to catch their planes, eh?
Fort Wayne International Airport is among regional airports at risk of losing service, according to an analysis from the Business Travel Coalition and AirlineForecast LLC.
On the coalition’s Web site, www.savemyairport.com, the interest group ranked the top 100 regional airports at risk for losing service because of rising fuel costs and failing airlines. Fort Wayne International, South Bend Regional and Evansville Regional airports were identified as at risk.
The News-Sentinel’s Reggie Hayes, writing about the possible name change for the Fort Wayne Wizards baseball team, brings up only to dismiss rather flippantly a worthy suggestion:
Today, we’re talking team names, a topic both frivolous and essential. It’s frivolous because it doesn’t affect the way a team plays and primarily serves as a marketing tool. It’s essential because fans have to feel a sense of pride in their team’s name. No one wants to wear a T-shirt that says Fort Wayne French Impressionists.
But let’s consider the merits of a team called the Fort Wayne French Impressionists. That would marry the most precise of sports — what would the game be without its states? — with one of the most abstract styles of painting. We can show the whole world that Hoosiers can be sports fans and aware of art forms not involving three chords or Quentin Tarantinto. There would be some cool opportunities for colorful uniforms, not to mention team memorabilia. And we shouldn’t have too much trouble coming up with a mascot.
Oh, hey, wait. Let’s go all the way and really impress people: The Fort Wayne Fauvists. Much more colorful uniforms.
Two people are seeking the Fort Wayne Community Schools Board seat being vacated by Carol Coen, and last night, the board interviewed them at a public meeting:
Donald Schaab, an at-large board member from 1999-2002, and John Peirce, a driving force in the district’s bid last summer to make $500 million in building renovations, interviewed Tuesday for the District 2 post. Coen, who is vacating her seat next week after 16 years, no longer lives in the district she serves.
During the nearly half-hour interviews, Schaab and Peirce were asked their stance on the building project, how they would close the achievement gap, why they were seeking the seat and more.
“It’s pretty obvious 500 million (dollars) was not the right number,” said Peirce. “I think we need to do some things to gain the trust of the community.”
It’s a pretty easy call for me — one of the candidates led the drive for what would have been the largest publicly financed project in local history, and the other one didn’t. All but one of the current board members voted to seek the bond issue, so it’s not like we need that point of view on the board. But that’s probably why they’ll choose Peirce instead of Schaab. People like to be around like-minded people.
Actually why don’t they decline to fill Coen’s seat? It’ll be on the November ballot, and filling it now would just be giving the chosen one the advantages of incumbency when he runs. Let them both go before the voters on an equal footing.
Fort Wayne Controller Pat Roller came to Tuesday night’s City Council meeting to explain a $285,000 contract the city quietly signed with a company co-founded by former Mayor Graham Richard.
After an hour or so, council members ran out of questions, but not all came around to endorsing the deal or the way it was slipped in in December, at the close of Richard’s second term in office.
Roller said continuing Richard’s eight years of government efficiency and cost savings was so urgent that she felt compelled to cut the contract with the High-Performance Government Network, which fell just below the financial threshold that requires City Council’s approval.
On the other hand, the “expertise” the city didn’t want to lose was the operation of Six Sigma, which promises practices that promote government “efficiency.” The contract entered into was for $95,000 a year instead of $100,000, which would have required council approval. And it was done in the waning days of the Richard aministration — no need to bother the incoming mayor with the pesky details of something he has to live with for three years. Certainly was efficient!
A minor league sports team can become a local institution — revered, beloved. The Komets are sort of like that. One way to tell a team has not reached that status:
The Fort Wayne Wizards will play their baseball games next season at a new downtown ballpark, and they’ll likely have a new name, too.
Fans can go online to www.HarrisonSquareFortWayne.com and suggest a new name for the minor-league team that’s been in Fort Wayne since 1993.
Tear down its stadium. Move the team downtown as an economic development strategy. Change the name. How about the Fort Wayne Pawns?
I guess they’re having a naming contest to create a sense of team spirit or something. That didn’t work out too well the last time. More than 20,000 people entered the contest, and the choice of Wizards was instantly and almost universally despised. Better luck this time.
So, after the suck-the-air-out-of-your-lungs heat wave and the hide-in-the-basement thunderstorms and the head-for-high-ground flooding, yesterday afternoon presented us with perfect weather: warm but not hot, low humidity, a slight breeze, white puffs of clouds that threatened to turn into nothing else. If we want that kind of weather more often, we’d have to go to California:
Not only is San Luis Obispo, California rated one of ”The Best Places to Live” AND Safest in the USA, but it has arguably the most moderate weather in the world, all year around.
There is a certain body of thought that says we can appreciate the good only by having the bad to compare it to. If we lived someplace like San Luis Obispo, where the weather is always nearly perfect, we would get bored and soon long for the howling winds of winter and the blistering sun of summer.
Looks like Councilwoman Karen Goldner and I have our first official disagreement:
Everyone on council supported the city doing business with local vendors, but opponents said the measure, introduced by Councilwoman Karen Goldner, D-2nd District, would unnecessarily complicate the process for vendors and city employees alike.
[. . .]
The administration of Mayor Tom Henry, a Democrat, opposed it, however. Jim Howard, the city’s director of purchasing, and City Attorney Carol Taylor argued against it during Tuesday’s council meeting.
Appearing before council, Howard said complying with the ordinance would require hiring an additional staff member and, probably, more training for the rest of the purchasing department. He estimated that would cost an additional $58,000 yearly in salary and benefits for the position, plus perhaps $30,000 for new software and maintenance.
Even if the provision didn’t complicate the process or require additional staff, it would be of dubious worth. Buy-local is protectionism on a small scale and has the usual effects of such plans: more cost to the taxpayer. And public officials’ first duty is to provide the taxpayer with the best value for the money possible. If local vendors want the city’s business, they should be as capable as any outside vendor of learning and following the city’s requirements. Let the city (and the state, too, Gov. Daniels) buy where it can get the best deal, whether it’s down the the street or across the country.
Perhaps limiting the items that can be put on hold to five is too strict, and the Allen County Public Library is being unreasonable. But wasn’t the previous policy of allowing an unlimited number of items to be put on hold a little too generous? Home-schoolers don’t think so:
A change in policy at the Allen County Public Library is causing concern among home-schoolers - and, as a result, the Allen County Commissioners.
The commissioners said Monday people who are teaching their children at home have objected to the library’s new policy of limiting the number of books and other items that can be placed on hold to five - making it more difficult to assemble classroom materials.
Am I wrong to object on philosophic grounds to what the home-schoolers want? The parents are able to send their children to public schools and choose not to (and considering the success of home-schooled kids, it’s hard to argue that they get a bad education). That’s their choice and their financial burden to bear. But they want me (and you) to help pay for it.
I already help pay for public schools through my tax dollars. My taxes go for library services, too, including the extra costs associated with the unlimited-hold policy. We all pay for public transportation. If I want to pay extra to take a taxi instead of the public bus, that’s my call and my bill to pay. We all pay for police protection. If my neighborhood association also wants to hire a private security firm to patrol our streets, that’s not your financial responsibility.
I was hoping Fort Wayne would be the first in Indiana to show some common sense, but it looks like Indianapolis might beat us to it:
Several U.S. cities have changed their airports’ names to honor hometown heroes, and Indianapolis might be next.
The Indianapolis City-County Council voted 25-3 Monday night to approve a proposal to recommend that Indianapolis International Airport be renamed to Indianapolis Weir Cook International Airport when the new terminal opens later this year.
Council President Bob Cockrum said in a statement today: “Weir Cook gave an incredible service to our country, fighting in both World War I and World War II. Combining the Airport’s old name and new name honors not just Weir Cook, but all veterans who have served our country and serve as role models for future generations.”
I know I’ve said this before, but I’m going to keep saying it. It’s fine that Fort Wayne wants the “international” designation for its aiport, but if there can be an “Indianapolis Weir Cook International Airport” and an “O’Hare International Airport,” there can be a “Baer Field International Airport.” Paul Baer was a war hero, too. He was a 16-victory ace in World War 1 who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre. After the war, he opened mail routes in South America.
Allen County has its own channel at YouTube, though it’s not exactly scintillating viewing so far. There are seven clips there now, and five of them are about . . . drum roll, please . . . septic tanks!
A couple of weeks ago, I did a post about The News-Sentinel’s Jeff Wiehe getting grief from the bareheaded brigade when he noted in a story about two motorcycle fatalities that the victims were not wearing helmets. Now, Jeff has done a story about the terrible hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a nurse on her way to work at Parkview Hospital. In that story, he observes:
She was not wearing a seat belt, according to the Allen County Coroner, and died from blunt-force trauma of the head.
I can almost promise that Jeff won’t get any grief over that. People who don’t wear motorcycle helmets are an interest group sticking up for the right to be dumb. People who don’t wear seat belts are just people who don’t wear seat belts. They don’t have meetings about how the press and government are conspiring to shred the Constitution.
We don’t have Don Schmidt on City Council anymore to watch those pennies for us (which have a way of adding up to dollars). But Liz Brown, R-at-large, and Karen Goldner, D-2nd, may be on the way to becoming a fiscal-watchdog tag team. They displayed their spending skepticism (with maybe a wee bit of sarcasm) Tuesday night, when a proposal to spend $340,000 to a consultant for rain gardens came up:
Also Tuesday, the council:
♦Strongly criticized a plan to pay a consultant $340,000 to help publicize and manage the city’s promotion of residential rain gardens, which is required as a part of a consent decree with the Environmental Protection Agency. The consent decree requires the city to spend at least $420,000 on its rain-garden initiative, which aims to have 1,000 homeowners build rain gardens to help retain stormwater runoff on their property. The city is setting out on a $240 million program to reduce combined-sewer overflows as part of the consent decree. Currently, stormwater runoff goes into the sewers and excess is pushed into the rivers.
Councilwomen Liz Brown, R-at large, and Karen Goldner, D-2nd, were especially critical of the proposed contract with international consultant Black & Veatch. Under the contract, the consultant would have developed educational materials for schools, how-to manuals for homeowners and development standards for use in residential and commercial constructions. It also would have designed 16 rain gardens and would have helped run community meetings to promote rain gardens. The council issued a “do not pass” recommendation and told City Utilities staff to work out another proposal.
Good job. Because the city deals with millions of dollars, something that costs “only” $340,000 can be looked upon as just routine keep-the-wheels-going spending. But, if nothing else, doggedly questioning the smaller stuff can keep council members sharp and in practice for the big stuff. The trick, as Schmidt knew and Brown and Goldner are probably learning, is to not simply be against everything and get a reputation for being an obstructionist.
The consultant would have gotten all that money for how-to manuals, conducting meetings and “designing” 16 rain gardens. You have any idea what’s online? I googled “rain garden how-to manual” and found several. Here’s a very nice one from the University of Wisconsin in a handy pdf format. Tell you what. I’ll print off a thousand copies and set up a meeting to hand them out, and I’ll only charge the city, oh, say, $150,000. Quite a bargain, wouldn’t you say?
