Suckered
Dear Suckers:
The DC Sports and Entertainment Commission, on behalf of Mayor
Williams and his administration, is negotiating two big and costly deals
in secret, one to provide public financing for a stadium for the
Billionaire Boys Baseball Club (the Washington Baseball Club), and the
other to provide public financing for a new soccer stadium for DC
United. Major League Baseball wants a new baseball stadium because it
has become addicted to shaking down cities for giveaways and subsidies
for new stadiums every few decades. DC United wants a new and smaller
stadium so it can shake down its fans for higher ticket prices, as team
president Kevin Payne admits: “When there is a scarcity of tickets,
they become a much more valuable commodity. People buy in advance, you
can charge higher prices. . . ” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43190-2004Apr1.html).
But why would the Sports Commission and the Williams administration
insist upon negotiating the public's business with wealthy sports
promoters in secret? The reasonable likely explanation is that they are
such incompetent and lousy negotiators, by comparison with other cities,
that they are embarrassed for the public to see the poor deals they cut.
If the negotiations ever became public, the public would see how badly
they were being taken to the cleaners by sports promoters. The Sports
Commission still refuses to release the contract that it negotiated for
the money-losing Grand Prix auto races. In the stadium deals, the city
is essentially negotiating how much of the taxpayer's money and land
they will give away to the promoters -- not how much the promoters will
give back to the taxpayers. For a stark contrast, read Daniel Gross'
article in Slate about the deal that San Diego negotiated for its new
baseball stadium, Petco Park, http://www.slate.msn.com/id/2098064.
Gross dismisses the discredited and outdated economic argument for
public financing pushed by the Sports Commission and Williams; he points
out that, “most stadiums have flopped as economic development
strategies,” and that “community elders who approve public cash for
stadiums frequently end up looking like chumps. . . .”
But San Diego actually got something in return for further enriching
already rich sports promoters. The city financed about $300 million of
the stadium's cost, but the owner of the San Diego Padres agreed in
return to invest $300 million in new hotels, commercial, and residential
properties in the surrounding run-down neighborhood -- enough new
construction so that the hotel occupancy taxes and property taxes would
be enough to finance the city bonds that were sold to help build the
stadium. Forced to make an investment in the baseball park's
neighborhood, the development company run by the Padres' owner, Gross
quotes from a construction trade publication, "either
self-developed or engaged others to develop $593.3 million of hotel,
residential, retail, and parking structures." In other words, San
Diego actually got a return on its money, while the suckers preparing to
give away our land and our money to DC's sports promoters will come away
empty handed. No wonder they don't want us to know what they're doing.
For more on government secrecy, see Dorothy's article in today's Washington
Post, “Kept in Dark in the District,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48267-2004Apr3.html.
Gary Imhoff
themail@dcwatch.com
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Schools Challenge
Jeffrey S. Hops, Dupont Circle, jeffhops@yahoo.com
I am an enthusiastic supporter of both the Mayor and our school
board. Everyone involved brings to DCPS the potential for making DC
Schools the best in the nation. However, as highly qualified as I think
the school board is, I would be willing to give the mayor a chance,
provided that he can produce, before city council moves forward: 1) some
kind of analysis of what is wrong with the school system that is
addressable by its governing structure; 2) a cogent explanation of why
the current school board structure (as opposed to merely its current
personnel) cannot by its very nature produce results (without ad
hominem attacks); 3) a policy strategy that addresses the
substantive issues raised in point 1; and finally, 4) a commitment to
address (preferably with an action plan attached) the endemic
corruption, "emergency" and noncompetitive bidding procedures,
sinkhole budgeting, and general commitment to cronyism and back
scratching within DCPS that has made it a model for corrupt public
administrators across the country.
When our elected officials run for office, we ask them to identify
issues and propose solutions. The mayor is running, in his own fashion,
for an additional office. We wouldn't hire an employee merely on the
promise that we could fire him if he didn't work out; he needs to tell
us what his skills and vision are and what he brings to DCPS. I am
confident he can do the job, but, like any candidate, we the electorate
need to put him through his paces first.
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Mayoral Control of DCPS
Michael Bindner, mikeybdc at yahoo
Historically, DCPS was a separate entity and was the first part of
the DC government to be popularly controlled. While it has its failures,
especially regarding central office administration, it also has its
successes. The best way to reform the system is to increase parental
control, rather than making the Mayor education czar. Regardless, I have
a modest proposal for the Mayor if he wants to run the school system.
Resign as Mayor and apply for the job as Superintendent of DCPS.
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I'd like to second the concern of James Treworgy [themail, March 31]:
“I am curious as to why we should be surprised that WASA is increasing
rates, especially in light of the problems as of late. In my
neighborhood I am already seeing streets torn up as water supply lines
are replaced, and as we know the cost of this project across the city is
in the billions of dollars. Who would we expect to pay for this other
than us, the consumers, WASA's only source of revenue?”
There's got to be a better way to safeguard our city's health than
throwing away our tax dollars on a fait accompli. Have we looked
at the experiences of other large, old cities with failing
infrastructures? How are they fixing their services?
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None of Their Damn Business, Revisited
Phil Greene, pjg1161@yahoo.com
In the March 31 edition of themail, Mary Boland expressed her
agreement with Paul Penniman's objections to Washingtonpost.com's
registration requirements, noting that her chief complaint is the fact
that they require an E-mail address. “I don't need any more junk
messages clogging up my E-mail, and if the is requiring my address, I
figure they want it to use it. Other newspapers do not need such
information, and if the Post does, then I'll get my news from
other sources.” Notwithstanding what other papers do, or her
complaints about the loss of privacy in general, there's an easy way
around the problem if you want to avail yourself of something but don't
want to offer up your E-mail address. Set up a straw-man E-mail account
at Yahoo.com or the like. It's free and it takes about two minutes; just
go to Yahoo.com, click on mail, then follow the prompts. Make up a
fictitious name, have a ball. Maybe Mary could be
MayaOwnbiznis@yahoo.com.
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Re: None of Their Damn Business
Richard Layman, rlaymandc@yahoo.com
It's a small price to pay, to provide your E-mail address to get
access to the online Washington Post. The writer said other
newspapers don't require this. It's not true. The New York Times, LA
Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Austin
American-Statesman, Providence Journal-Bulletin, Dallas Morning News,
among others (these are just papers that I use online) require that you
register in order to access archival content. Many other newspapers
require that you be a paid subscriber for access to online content or
for access to particular sections such as the LA Times Calendar
section. The Post does not do this.
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Washington Post
Registration
Mark Sutton, msutton@phoenix.seabrook.usra.edu
I don't understand what's the problem about providing information for
a free service. Since they don't validate any of the information, and
apparently don't validate the E-mail address often (or at all), I just
give them bogus information all around (except for zip code, which may
help them in their marketing research). Be sure to not check the options
for receiving E-mail stuff. Big deal. The same holds for grocery cards.
You are not obligated to provide any real information, and, in the
grocery store case, they are obligated by law to give you a card.
That the information isn't validated at the Post does make me wonder
if the people designing the registration process actually think any of
the data they collect really has any statistical validity. Some news web
site will send you a password via E-mail, and you get around that by
setting up a free Hotmail or similar account. A no-brainer. I enjoy
saving a few trees by reading the Post online, not dealing with a
problematic newspaper carrier where I live, and have set up bookmarks to
make it easy to get to sections I wanna read. I still buy the Sunday
paper, though; love to spread it out. Some habits die hard.
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (Even from the
Post)
John Whiteside, johnwhiteside at earthlink. dot net
Regarding Mary Boland's complaint about the Post web
registration process: you never get something for nothing. The Post
is giving you a ton of content; in return they want demographics, which
they use to target the ads that appear on the site. (That's right, you
and I see different ads when we visit their web site; the ads are served
up by third-party servers that pick ads according to your demographics.)
I think it's a pretty good deal, considering the depth and quality of
what's on their site.
There's nothing unusual about it; you have to supply as much or more
information to get to everything on the New York Times or Los
Angeles Times web sites. The Post is very good about privacy;
I have never received an E-mail from them since registering. You're
going to get more spam by posting to the themail, since issues of
themail are archived on a web site, where spiders — programs that
scour the web for E-mail addresses to add to spam lists — will find
your address so you can get offers for new mortgages and Viagra. You'll
also get more spam by virtue of being a Hotmail user; large
consumer-oriented services like Hotmail are the subject of a variety of
kinds of spam attacks, including those that send to randomly generated
addresses at the service. Really, the Post should be the least of
your worries.
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Check It in themail
Charlie Wellander,
Charlietm57(at)csx1(dot)mailshell(dot)com
A recent poster to themail states [March 31]: “The US Postal
Service, with little public notification, has imposed a 12 cent
surcharge on any non-letter sized envelope (even those that weigh less
than one ounce).” There are a couple of things wrong with this
statement. This surcharge for extra-large, one-ounce-or-less,
first-class envelopes has been around at least since 1979 (when it was 7
cents). The public is currently notified at http://www.usps.com/consumers/domestic.htm,
plus by every postal clerk that I have ever asked, or presented such an
envelope to for mailing.
In addition, the DC Tax folks helpfully reminded us on page 6 of this
year's D-40 booklet, “Postage on the return envelope is 49 cents for
the first ounce, 60 cents for two ounces and 23 cents for each
additional ounce.” Note that this “nonmachinable surcharge”
applies only to oversize items weighing one ounce or less, not “even
those that weigh less than one ounce.”
Both the USPS and the DC Government provide plenty of real failures
for us all to grouse about. Let's not blame them for our own ignorance
of quarter-century-old regulations.
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Don’t They Have Better Things to Do at the
DC School of Law?
Paul Michael Brown, pmb@his.com
I see [themail, March 31] that the DC School of Law recently teamed
up with an outfit called the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human
Rights to “present a briefing on Liberia by a panel of experts, a
reception, and a film entitled 'Liberia: the United States'
Stepchild.'” When I was in law school we studied subjects like
contracts, torts, or equitable remedies. And if there was an
extracurricular function, it focused on the American legal system rather
than African politics. No wonder so few graduates of the D.C. School of
Law pass the bar exam. How many of our tax dollars are spent on this
nonsense?
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Re: Another Stadium Scheme, Same Secrecy
Danilo Pelletiere, dpelleti@gmu.edu
Ed Delaney is absolutely right to let folks know about the stadium
being considered by Anschutz Entertainment to house DC United and host
other events. He is also right to say the public should be involved. I'm
not sure how correct he is, however, that this has been going on in
secret or that it is a “scheme"” A couple points: 1) The
stadium is planned for a site that has existing and similar development;
indeed there is a chance that a smaller stadium might replace RFK. Today
there are games and concerts that occur there. 2) The AWI and city
plans, including those of NCPC, have long seen the redevelopment of the
site along these lines for sport or a similar use such as an Aquarium.
3) DC United has long stated their desire to have a smaller soccer
specific stadium (SSS), preferably at the RFK site. The news has been in
the Post and elsewhere often. 4) In most cases SSS have been built with
little direct public subsidy (there is always some subsidy in these
projects, in infrastructure etc.).
Any of this may change, and the project should be heavily
scrutinized, or (if it ever advances beyond plans) even scrapped if
there are significant flaws in the plan, costs to the city and the
environment, or citizen opposition to its placement. Still, there are
distinct benefits to an in-town stadium, near Metro, on a site with
existing infrastructure, which is a “brownfield.” Need I mention the
fiasco of FedEx field for the region? (Obviously an SSS is a smaller
proposition).
Since the Club and the city have both published their plans, there
have been numerous articles in the Post and elsewhere (including
neighborhood and soccer boards) on the subject, and to date there has
been no mention of giveaways to DC United, it is not secret or a scheme,
as yet. But we should make sure it stays that way. Full disclosure, I am
a DC United Fan, a DC Sierra Club leader (identification purposes only),
and a resident of the Lincoln Park neighborhood that borders Kingman
Park, which in turn borders RFK.
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When your supervisor calls a new mature female employee an “old
hen,” what is he saying to her?
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CLASSIFIEDS — EVENTS
Fair Budget Coalition Training, April 6
Susie Cambria, scambria@dckids.org
There is still time to register for the Fair Budget Coalition's
training on April 6, “What in the Mayor’s Proposed FY 2005 Budget
Impacts Human Services?” The agenda will include a review of human
services’ budgets (health, human services, etc.), current challenges
and the need for greater budget transparency, and strategizing and
messaging. Susie Cambria (DC Action for Children) and Ed Lazere and
Idara Nickelson (DC Fiscal Policy Institute) will be the lead presenters
at this training. Attendees will receive copies of key budget documents
and other materials that make advocacy a little easier (including tips
for testifying, a list of hearing dates).
The training is being held on April 6 from 9:00-11:00 a.m. (9:00-9:30
is registration) at the True Reformer Building, 1200 U Street, NW.
Reservations are requested – we want to have sufficient materials and
food for everyone. To register, send the following information to
Martina Gillis, Fair Budget Coalition, c/o Washington Legal Clinic for
the Homeless, 1200 U Street, NW, WDC 20009: name, organization, address,
phone, fax, E-mail. Registration is $8 for members of the Fair Budget
Coalition, $12 for nonmembers. Waivers are available for residents. If
you send a completed Fair Budget membership application with payment
along with this form, you can take advantage of the member price of $8
per person. Applications are available at http://www.legalclinic.org
and by calling Martina Gillis, FBC Advocacy Coordinator, 328-5513. Make
checks payable to the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.
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Children’s Budget Forum, April 5
Susie Cambria, scambria@dckids.org
Register today for the DC ACT budget forum, “What’s in the Mayor’s
FY 2005 budget for kids?” The event is being held on April 5 from
10:00 a.m.-noon in the 7th floor conference room at 1616 P Street, NW.
Confirmed agencies that will be present are the Department of Parks and
Recreation, Department of Human Services, and the Department of Mental
Health. We are still trying to confirm the presence of the Child and
Family Services Agency; Department of Health; and the Deputy Mayor for
Children, Youth, Families, and Elders. Following agency presentations,
there will be a Q&A period.
We will make available copies of agency budgets and other materials
that will be useful to the community to advocate during this budget
season. Reservations are required (we need to have sufficient materials
for attendees). Please send the following information to dcaction@dckids.org
and bring payment with you ($10 per person): name, organization (if
applicable), address, phone, fax, and E-mail.
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DC Public Library Events, April 7, 13
Debra Truhart, debra.truhart@dc.gov
Wednesdays, April 7-28, 12:00 p.m., Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial
Library, 901 G Street, NW. Showing of the Public Broadcasting System
(PBS) film series Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns, in honor of Jazz
Appreciation Month. Public contact: 727-1285. Wednesday, April 7, 1:00
p.m., Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. D.C. Public Library
staff will read their favorite poems on the first Wednesday of each
month. Public contact: 727-1281.
Tuesday, April 13, 6:30 p.m., Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial
Library, Main Lobby. John C. Burnam, Master Sergeant, US Army (ret.) and
author will discuss his book, A Soldier’s Best Friend: Scout
Dogs and Their Handlers in the Vietnam War. Copies of the book will
be available for purchase and signing by author. Public contact:
727-1161. Tuesday, April 13, 6:30 p.m., Cleveland Park Neighborhood
Library, 3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW. Come see Mel Gibson’s 1960
version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Hamlet. Public
contact: 282-3080.
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Gay Marriage Teach-In, April 9
Joe Libertelli, jlibertelli@udc.edu
Please join us at noon on Friday, April 9, as UDC David A. Clarke
School of Law Professors Laurie Morin, Susan Waysdorf, William Robinson,
and Will McLain speak on the state of gay marriage “today.”
("Today" is defined as April 9. Who knows what the status will
be then?)
This Teach-In is sponsored by UDC Clarke Law chapters of OUTLAW and
The American Constitution Society. No charge. Please feel free to invite
friends & colleagues. Building 39, 2nd Floor, UDC David A. Clarke
School of Law, 4200 Connecticut Ave., NW. Metro Red Line, Van Ness/UDC
Station. R.S.V.P to JLibertelli@Udc.edu.
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JAM on U - Jazz Appreciation Month (April) hits U Street: historic U
Street, in the heart of Washington, DC, where jazz legends of the past
and present play and perform, is celebrating a month jam-packed with
jazz events at multiple businesses and venues. Come out and experience
the shops, restaurants, attractions, and clubs of 14th and U Streets and
see live performances, photographic exhibits, relive memories from the
past, and experience a special recognition of the history of U Street on
Easter Sunday during the Easter Stroll. This is part of an effort
launched by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to
dedicate one month a year to the celebration and education of jazz as
part of America's cultural heritage. A full calendar of jazz events and
exhibits in and around U Street will be featured throughout the month of
April.
An Easter stroll will be held on April 11. Remember when the family
would stroll the north side of U Street after services on Easter Sunday
or shine up the car and cruise slowly down U Street on their way to
brunch or dinner? This Easter, U Street is once again the place to be
seen, as the Second Annual Easter Stroll begins at 12:00. Vintage Cars
will cruise down U and 14th Streets and then circle back to the African
American Civil War Memorial at Vermont and U to be showcased, while live
music, Sunday brunches, special exhibits and an Easter Bonnet review
will be occurring at various locations along U Street.
The finale celebration concert will be on April 29. What better day
than U Street's own Edward “Duke” Ellington¹s birthday to celebrate
the close of Jazz Appreciation Month with a concert? Where else would
you hold the concert than at the Lincoln Theater? Enjoy a full day of
events culminating in a special concert with an array of performances
and features that celebrate the past month and announce future projects
aimed at re-elevating U Street to the national and international
spotlight in jazz history as a place where jazz is recognized,
celebrated, and cultivated. JAM on U is produced by the 14th & U
Main Street Initiative and the 14th & U Business and Arts Coalition.
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National Building Museum Events, April 12-13
Brie Hensold, bhenhold@nbm.org
Monday, April 12, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Smart Growth: Better Communities,
Government Permitting. One of the barriers to better communities is an
extensive permit process that favors conventional suburban-style
development. Daniel Slone of McGuire Woods LLP will provide lessons on
how to make better communities without being "exceptions,"
discussing the important steps of land assembly, permitting, and
construction, as well as the creation of design codes and community
governance. Free. Registration not required.
Monday, April 12, 7:00-8:30 p.m., Richard Haag lecture. The designs
of landscape architect Richard Haag, FASLA, have focused on the
redemption and reuse of forgotten landscapes. Recipient of the
prestigious 2003 ASLA Medal, given by the American Society of Landscape
Architects, the Seattle-based designer will discuss his career.
Following the lecture, he will sign copies of his book Richard Haag:
Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park (Princeton Architectural Press). This
lecture is being held in conjunction with National Landscape
Architecture Month. $12 Museum and ASLA members and students; $17
nonmembers. Prepaid registration required.
Tuesday, April 13, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Frank Lloyd Wright's Auldbrass
lecture. Among his 1,000 buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright designed only one
southern plantation, Auldbrass, located in Yemassee, South Carolina.
David De Long, professor of architecture at the University of
Pennsylvania, will discuss how Wright reconfigured an entire building
type, seeking to revitalize a lost lifestyle. After his lecture, De Long
will sign copies of his book Auldbrass: Frank Lloyd Wright's Southern
Plantation (Rizzoli International). $10 Museum members and students; $15
nonmembers. Registration required. All events at the National Building
Museum, 401 F Street, NW; Metro red line, Judiciary Square station, NBM
exit.
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Washington Storytellers Theater's "Speak Easy Season 03/04"
presents Cutting the Cord: Stories About Passing into Adulthood. “At
sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was
wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am
stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that
maturity is only a short break in adolescence?” — Jules Feiffer.
At HR-57, 1610 14th Street, NW (between Corcoran and Q Streets), on
Tuesday, April 13, at 8 p.m. $5 admission. Featuring Sherry Geyelin,
Carolyn Rapp & Howard Zucker. Doors open at 7:30. Show up early to
get your name on the open mic list. Listen to some of the area's best
storytellers and then get up on stage to tell us your story. Because no
one else can.
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Woman’s Democratic Club Kickoff for the
March for Women’s Lives, April 15
Tamara O'Neil, toneil@democraticwoman.org
Come hear Gloria Feldt speak and sign her new book, The War on
Choice: The Right Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back,
Thursday, April 15, 6:00 p.m., at the Woman’s National Democratic
Club, 1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW. Cosponsored by Planned Parenthood
of Metropolitan Washington. Reservations: Patricia Fitzgerald, 232-7363,
pfitzgerald@democraticwoman.org.
$20 WNDC members, $25 non-members, $15 students.
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Artists/Crafters Needed for Glover Park Day,
June 5
Judie Guy, gpgazed@aol.com
On Saturday June 5, the Glover Park Citizens Association will sponsor
its 15th Annual Glover Park Day on the grounds of Guy Mason Rec Center
at Wisconsin and Calvert Streets, NW. We have space for talented artists
and craftspeople to exhibit and sell their work. Fee for space is
inexpensive and you keep all your profit. We get a great crowd in each
year, because we have live music all day (11 to 5), prize drawings, food
from local restaurants, kids' activities, a big flea market, and, of
course, unique arts and crafts for sale. If you're interested in selling
your art or craft at Glover Park Day, contact Judie Guy at gpgazed@aol.com.
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CLASSIFIEDS — HELP WANTED
UDC Law School Development Director
Joe Libertelli, jlibertelli@udc.edu
The UDC David A. Clarke School of Law is seeking a detail-oriented
and highly organized development director who is passionate about the
public interest and willing to go the extra mile to assure maximal
support for our diverse student body and unique clinical law program!
The new director will work directly with Dean Shelley Broderick and our
alumni director (yours truly!) to evolve effective fundraising
priorities and strategies, to develop and maintain a donor database, and
to create fundraising materials and systems to evaluative our
fundraising efforts. S/he will also directly solicit gifts, contribute
to publications and our web site, and help plan and manage
funding-related events.
This position will demand excellent and fast writing, a high degree
of computer literacy, and a high level of personal organization and
attention to detail. An undergraduate degree is required. Fundraising
experience, especially for higher education, and familiarity with the
D.C. funding community, are highly desirable. (We would, however,
consider hiring a fundraising rookie with otherwise outstanding skills
and references.) We would like the new Director to start ASAP, but can
wait if an otherwise ideal candidate cannot begin absolutely
immediately. Therefore, candidates are asked to please specify their
availability in their cover letter. Serious candidates should visit http://www.law.udc.edu
before applying. They should not bother sending us a form letter! The
application deadline is Friday, April 23, close of business.
While this is a temporary position, a permanent candidate will be
competitively selected in the near future and the successful candidate
for the temporary position will be expected to apply for the permanent
position. The salary is 48-54K depending upon experience. Please send
resume, cover letter, and references to Shelley Broderick, Dean, UDC
David A. Clarke School of Law, 4200 Conn. Ave., NW, 20008 or via E-mail
to Joe Libertelli: jlibertelli@udc.edu.
I am happy to try to answer questions about the School of Law or this
position via E-mail at JLibertelli@udc.edu.
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CLASSIFIEDS — SPACE
Warehouse Space Needed for Not-for-Profit
Joan Eisenstodt, jeisen@aol.com
Heart of America, a wonderful local foundation, is in need of
warehouse space to store about 30,000 donated books that they in turn
will donate to local schools. Anyone on this list have any extra storage
space they'd like to donate or rent at a really low rate? Please contact
Angie Halamandaris at heartofam@aol.com
or by phone at 347-6278.
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CLASSIFIEDS — RECOMMENDATIONS
Bryce Suderow requested someone to repair his two computers [themail,
March 31]. Capital PC User Group (CPCUG, www.cpcug.org)
is a more-than-twenty-year-old nonprofit whose motto is “users helping
users.” CPCUG has a monthly magazine, classes, free meetings, and two
resources directly relevant to Bryce's request: a HelpLine —-
organized by topic/hardware/software — listing hundreds of people
volunteering to help CPCUG members, and numerous free discussion lists.
One, the Consultants and Entrepreneurs list, is chock full of computer
consultants giving free advice. Or making for-fee house calls, if
necessary. Access this list and others from the CPCUG web site.
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