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Creating Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Centers
□ Changing Lives Through Entrepreneurship (The New Coalition,
08/01/2005)
July 23,
2004
President Emphasizes Minority
Entrepreneurship at Urban League
□ NIUE
testimony before congressional subcommittee condemning enforcement actions against
small business and entrepreneurs
□ The African American Consumer Needs More Business Big
and Small
□ A Real World Model in Stimulating Private Enterprise in
the Inner City (Spring 2001)
"We must revive America’s culture of
entrepreneurship and encourage individuals who have the wherewithal to do so
to create jobs for themselves and for others. At that point, we will see
people create their own prosperity and move away from government reliance.
New jobs and economic self-sufficiency begin with the entrepreneur." Patricia Lee, Chicago Defender, October 24, 2000
"We believe there’s so much innovation in the inner city that hasn’t
been tapped." Patricia Lee, Minority
Business Report, WGN – TV,
Chicago, May, 2000
 
□ December 25, 2005 Do not forget our neighbors on the Gulf Coast. They are in need of housing solutions. See New
York Times article, “Silent
Nights on the Gulf Coast”
December 15, 2005 (The heat is on the SBA
regarding Katrina small business loans. (WASHINGTON) U.S. House
Small Business Committee Chairman Don Manzullo (R-IL) gave his remarks during
a news conference providing his analysis of the U.S. Small Business
Administration’s disaster assistance to hurricane victims along the Gulf Coast ….”Total
losses for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were estimated at $140 billion, of
which $40 to $67 billion was insured. It is estimated there were a
total of 145,000 businesses employing 2.4 million workers in the most
affected counties (77 counties), about 1.9 percent of total U.S.
employment. One million people were displaced. Mike McDaniel, Secretary
of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, says in New
Orleans alone, 140,000 to 160,000
homes may have to be leveled, and at least 110,000 additional are damaged.”…
□ Katrina underscores the need
to be prepared (Wednesday Journal, One View)
 
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Amicus
Brief by National Institute for Urban Entrepreneurship & NAACP National
Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons/National Institute for
Urban Entrepreneurship Amicus Brief (Norwood)
□ Ohio Supreme Court 2006 eminent domain case information
□ Amicus
Brief by National Inst. For Urban Entrepreneurship & Other Community
Organizations in Kelo v. New London, CT (Supreme Court case)
Pennsylvania
Senate Passes Eminent Domain Reform December
7, 2005 -the Pennsylvania Senate became the latest legislative body to tackle
reform of its state’s eminent domain laws, responding to the U.S.
Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London and the
widespread abuse of eminent domain throughout the state. In a unanimous
vote, the Senate took this historic step by passing S.B. 881, the Property
Rights Protection Act. The bill, introduced by State Senator Jeffrey
Piccola, prohibits the use of eminent domain for commercial development and
considerably tightens the definition of blight (declaring a property “blighted”
is a prerequisite for condemning it and transferring it to another private
party). Unfortunately, at the last minute, exceptions were inserted to
exclude existing blight designations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia (as
well as Delaware County), where
many of the abuses occur. The exceptions, which expire after seven
years, do not apply to new blight designations in those places….
“This is the most comprehensive reform bill in the
country,” said Dana Berliner, a senior attorney at the Institute for
Justice. “S.B. 881 completely changes Pennsylvania law,”
said Steven Anderson, Coordinator of the Castle Coalition, the Institute’s
grassroots advocacy project. “It explicitly prohibits using
eminent domain for private gain and significantly tightens the definition of
blight while allowing government to take objectively harmful
properties. If ultimately passed, these overdue reforms will go a long
way in making sure home and small business owners in Pennsylvania keep what
they’ve worked so hard to own.”….
December 5, 2005 (Court Declares Taking of Property Without Personal Notice
Unconstitutional) 2nd Circuit Victory Against N.Y. Eminent Domain
Abuse, Arlington, Va.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed small businessman
Bill Brody a victory in his five-year, nightmarish struggle against eminent
domain abuse.
The court ruled that the Village of Port
Chester violated his 14th
Amendment right to due process of the law by condemning his property for
private development without even giving him personal notice of his one
opportunity to challenge the condemnation. That lack of notice meant,
under New York law,
that Brody forfeited all legal rights to challenge the taking of his property
before he even knew he was losing anything.
The Village’s only notice to Brody was a fine-print classified ad in
the newspaper that failed to even mention his property individually.
The Court held that, at the very least, individual notices must be mailed to
property owners and that notices must mention the 30-day period property
owners have to challenge the taking or lose their legal rights. Writing for a
unanimous 3-judge panel, Judge Richard C. Wesley declared, “Given the
constitutional significance of the public use requirement and the brief
period allowed for reviewing the condemnor’s public use determination,
we believe that due process requires more explicit notice than that given to
Brody.”
□ None of the topics are laughing
matters (Hilltop, 11/03/05)
December 19, 2005 Holiday Update from National Center for Neighborhood
Enterprise (NCNE) “Kids Get
Reward for Good Behavior”: 100 young people
from the Benning Terrace area of Southeast Washington, DC got a surprise Christmas
present when the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE) marshaled
donors to give them a four-day excursion to Orlando to see the Pop Warner
Super Bowl. The youths—from ages seven through 15—are part of a
program led by Charles Penny and his Benning Terrace Youth Opportunities
organization. They are coached by volunteers from the community. The program
was born after a truce between warring youth factions in Benning Terrace was
negotiated by NCNE and the Alliance of Concerned Men in 1997. Now some of the
young men who had been involved in negative behaviors are giving back to
their community. The result has been a well-organized youth program with four
football teams from Benning that have competed against other city and
regional teams. Although the four teams (65, 85, 105, and 125 pounds) went to
the local championships, they did not win but had a wonderful time as
spectators in Orlando. The Benning Terrace program is about far more than
sports. The coaches require the kids to maintain a 2.0 average in school, and
to bring them a “good conduct” card signed by teachers.
Site at 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue chosen for the new National
Museum of African American History and Culture!
(November 17, 2005) Smithsonian Institution’s
Board of Regents seeks comments on location of the African American History
Museum
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In January 2006, the
Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents will select one of four
sites to build the new National Museum of African American History and
Culture. Only one of the sites is on the Mall and could accommodate
a new building. That site is the Monument Site at 14th
Street and Constitution
Avenue, NW. The Monument
site is highly visible from the Washington Monument,
across the street from the National Museum of American History, and
readily accessible to public transportation. This site was intended
to feature a monumental building under both Pierre L’Enfant’s
original plan for the city and the 1901 McMillan Commission plan.
Please let the Smithsonian and the Council for the National Museum of
African American History and Culture know your preference for the site
for the new museum. For more information on the new museum, visit
its website http://nmaahc.si.edu/.
January 17, 2006 Sidebar
reference and listing enrevanche blogsite, with
these words “This is a link collection
that I've been meaning to pull together for some time. It's a grab-bag of
organizations and publications covering a wide range of issues: civil
rights, property rights, economic
freedom, privacy issues (especially medical privacy), drug policy, school
choice, and so on, usually but certainly not always from a
libertarian-conservative perspective. I don't agree with everything on
every one of these sites, to put it mildly, but these are my "usual
suspects" when I'm doing issue or policy research; many of these
sites also boast useful link collections of their own. In the coming weeks, we'll likely be
visiting quite a few of these sites on the blog, and pointing out some
useful resources and thought-provoking articles.”
MidCounty Sparkler Newsletter
December
12, 2005 Press Release National
Bar Association
Washington, DC (Monday, December 12, 2005) –
We are saddened to announce that National Bar Association (NBA) Past
President Clyde E. Bailey, Sr. died today. Mr. Bailey was elected
President-elect of the NBA in July 2002 and served as the Association’s
61st President from July 2003-August 2004. He served the NBA and
the legal profession with great distinction and honor. He will be
deeply missed by us all. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his
wife Jean Bailey and the Bailey family. (From the Executive Director, John Crump, JD., CMP, CAE)
December 9, 2005
This archived story truly brings back memories of high school dances on
the original Soul Train show produced in Chicago. In
the 1970’s, Don Cornelius created this start up Chicago
production and according to this historical piece, Don Cornelius received
no salary in the beginning. Three cheers for Don Cornelius and persistence!!! See,
the full story.
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