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DINING: Vince and Jake’s more than steaks
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Harold Dates is CEO at
the Hamilton County
SPCA and a local TV celebrity to boot. For Dates,
it’s all about the animals.
TEMPO E1
Fat and 40?
Your mind’s at risk
By Terence Hunt
and David Espo
Touts sliding Social Security scale; vows no gas price gouging
WASHINGTON – President Bush urged Congress to
enact contentious Social Security and energy legislation
and confirm his controversial
court nominees Thursday
night, prodding lawmakers to
act on an ambitious secondterm agenda.
“I’m not surprised that
some are balking at doing
hard work,” Bush said of the
GOP-controlled Congress.
Nearing the end of a 60-day
nationwide campaign for his
Social Security proposals,
Bush told a prime-time White
House news conference that
he favored changes to tilt the
system to favor low-income
retirees of the future.
“If you work hard and pay
into Social Security your en-
tire life, you will not retire into
poverty,” he said.
Bush spoke as White
House officials issued written
material saying the type of
change he had in mind could
be accomplished with a “sliding scale benefit formula.”
That would mean lower payments for future retirees of
middle and upper incomes
than they are currently guar-
Cincode
Mayo
anteed – a fact Bush himself
did not mention in his 60-minute session with reporters.
Democrats
quickly
pounced.
“All the president did tonight was confirm that he will
pay for his risky privatization
scheme by cutting the benefits of middle-class seniors,”
said Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of
MEXICAN
CULTURAL
HOLIDAY RISES
IN POPULARITY
Being fat in your 40s increases your chance of dementia later, a large study
finds – and the fatter you
are, the greater the risk.
NATION & WORLD A2
Portman expecting
swearing-in today
Enquirer staff writer
Hamilton County’s mental
retardation agency has
been improperly charged
$500,000 a year by the
county, Commissioner
Todd Portune says.
LOCAL NEWS B1
The heart
of a runner
Congress passes a $2.6
trillion budget plan.
NATION A6
COMING
SATURDAY
One of the “Painted
Ladies” of Columbia Tusculum is a Victorian
house, yellow outside and
beautifully restored inside.
HOME STYLE
High 62°
Low 49°
A little
rain
COMPLETE FORECAST: B8
INDEX
7 sections, 165th year, No. 20
Abby .............. E2 Lotteries ......... B2
Business ........ D1 Movies .. Weekend
Comics ........... E6 Obituaries ...... B4
Editorial ......... B6 Sports ............ C1
Kids’ Corner .... B8 TV .................. E2
Classified .................................... F1-18
First Run Classified .......................... D7
Copyright, 2005, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Portions of
today’s Enquirer
were printed on
recycled paper
See BUSH, Page A4
Fernald
waste on
its way out
By Dan Klepal
Portune: Agency
was overcharged
Also . . .
California, the top Democrats
in Congress.
In opening remarks that
touched on the rising price of
gasoline as well as Social Security, Bush pledged, “There
will be no price gouging at gas
pumps in America.”
The House has approved
energy legislation, and a companion Senate measure is
awaiting action. Bush wants a
bill on his desk by summer.
Bush also urged the Senate
to take “up or down” votes on
his controversial nominees to
the appeals courts. Democrats filibustered 10 of his
first-term appeals court nominees, blocking confirmation
votes on them. Bush has renominated seven of the 10,
and Democrats have threatened to attempt to block them
once more.
Nuclear leftovers to go
to dump site in Texas
Rep. Rob Portman is expected to be sworn in today as U.S. trade representative as the Senate was
poised to vote early this
morning.
LOCAL NEWS B1
Crossing the Flying Pig
10K finish line last year,
David Beckman collapsed
with a heart attack. This
year, he’ll be running with
something to prove.
SPORTS C1
50 CENTS
Let’s get going, Bush tells Congress
The Associated Press
SPCA’s top dog
works hard
for the animals
WEATHER
FINAL NEWS/SPORTS MO
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2005
The Enquirer/Michael E. Keating
Danae Ballesteros (left), 11, and Claudia Cano, 9, practice folk dance steps for the upcoming Cinco
de Mayo holiday program sponsored by the Living Water Ministry in Hamilton.
Latinos lament what holiday has become in U.S.
By Dan Sewell
Enquirer staff writer
In Weekend
Cincy-Cinco Festival a celebration of
HAMILTON – Mexican immi- food, dance, music and art.
grants who have recently joined Online: Check Cincinnati.Com this
Greater Cincinnati and Northern weekend for a gallery of photos
Kentucky’s fast-growing Hispanic
population get a surprise this time from the Cincy-Cinco celebration.
of year: A holiday from their homedays are bigger,” says Mexicanland is widely celebrated here.
But some Mexican-Americans born Malena Cano of Hamilton,
are increasingly concerned that home of the region’s largest HisCinco de Mayo, U.S. style, is all panic population. “It seems like it’s
about the party, not their heritage. celebrated more here.”
Pam Mortensen of Catholic SoAdding to the puzzlement for
some Mexicans is that the day cel- cial Services adds that some of her
ebrated here May 5 isn’t even their Mexican friends aren’t even sure
what Cinco de Mayo is.
biggest national holiday.
“Everybody knows about Cinco
See CINCO DE MAYO, Page A4
de Mayo in Mexico, but other holi-
BY THE NUMBERS
Hispanic population
Hispanic population,
22,303 Region’s
according to 2000 Census, a
CROSBY TWP. – The
most dangerous nuclear
waste at the $4.4 billion Fernald uranium foundry should
be gone by the end of the year
– more than 16 years after
cleanup of the Cold War relic
began and after tens of
millions of taxpayer dollars
were wasted on the project
that has been fraught with delays and safety concerns from
the beginning.
Removal of the waste will
represent the biggest step forward in the cleanup so far –
and one of the last hurdles
that the government has had
to clear – because it is the one
project at the 1,050-acre site
that has faced the most uncertain future. That’s because
three previous plans for dealing with the waste have fallen
through, most recently last
April.
The U.S. Department of
Energy awarded a $7.5 million
Maps, chronology
m A history of the Fernald
operation. A4
m Fernald’s location. A4
m Map showing route that
waste will take to Texas. A4
contract Thursday to Waste
Control Specialists, of Andrews, Texas, for the temporary storage of more than
10,000 tons of the radioactive
waste with a consistency of
peanut brittle. The material
has been stored in concrete
silos at the long-closed Fernald uranium foundry since
the early 1950s and has been
the major source of safety
concerns for nearby residents
since the cleanup began in
1989.
Waste Control Specialists
has applied for a license that
would allow it to permanently
dispose of the material at its
site in west Texas.
See FERNALD, Page A4
First sighting of species in 61 years
136 percent increase over 1990. Many think
that the group is undercounted and that thousands more have arrived since 2000.
⁄3
2
The region’s Hispanic population that
is of Mexican descent.
1,566
Hispanic population in Hamilton,
one of the hottest growth areas –
a 500 percent increase from 1990. Local officials think that the current number is about
4,000 in the city.
Sources: U.S. Census, Enquirer research
Daughter’s e-mail about cooking lands pair on ‘Today’ show
Ky. mom’s not so hot in kitchen
By Ryan Clark
Enquirer staff writer
NEWPORT – Courtney
Brown has always wanted to
be on NBC’s “Today” show.
Now, poking fun at her
mom’s cooking has done it.
She and her mom, Suzi
Brown, will be one of four
families featured – chosen
from more than 5,000 entries
– in a Mother’s Day series
“My Mom’s Not the Greatest
Cook.”
After interviewing mother
and daughter separately, the
film crews taped Suzi’s cooking style.
“I chose to make sloppy
Joes, because that’s what we
had a lot when Courtney was
growing up,” Suzi said.
And, somewhere between
the sloppy and the Joe, some
bread got caught in a toaster.
That started a small fire.
“The crew thought we’d
done it on purpose,” Suzi
said. “Sadly, we didn’t.”
But the best part – or worst
– was when Courtney looked
at the expiration date on the
can of sloppy Joe mix.
Online: How is your mom’s
cooking? Share your story at
Cincinnati.Com.
Keyword: cook
Nope. The show is flying
her and her 52-year-old mother to New York City to appear
on the show May 11. The segments will air on four consecutive days beginning May 9,
the day after Mother’s Day.
“Well, I’ve never professed
that I was a good cook,” Suzi
said. “There’s been a history
of accidents in our kitchen –
some fires, some burned
food. But my daughter seems
to be having a lot of fun with
this, so I think it’s OK.”
“It expired in 2003,” she
said.
Mother and daughter
were just shocked they’d
made it on TV.
“I didn’t think anything
would come of it,” said Courtney, 22, a student at Ball State
University in Muncie, Ind. “I
thought maybe they would
E-mail [email protected].
mention us on the air.”
The Associated Press/Science journal
This painting by local wildlife artist John Ruthven shows
the ivory-billed woodpecker, once thought to be extinct.
‘Extinct’ woodpecker seen in Ark.
Like a voice from the past,
the two-note tap-tap of the
ivory-billed woodpecker has
been heard again in America.
The striking bird, last
seen in 1944, has been rediscovered in the Big Woods area of Arkansas, scientists reported Thursday. Two men
with Cincinnati ties – John
Bridgeland, founder of Civic
Enterprises, and wildlife artist John Ruthven – played vital roles in the 14-month
search expedition.
The bird, one of the largest species of woodpecker in
the world, disappeared after
large-scale logging.
NATION A7