Duluth mayor threatens to close casino over money spat

by Dan Kraker, Minnesota Public Radio

January 5, 2012

Duluth, Minn. ? The city of Duluth laid out its strategy Thursday in an increasingly fractious dispute with the Fond du Lac Ojibwe Band.

For the past two years, Duluth and the band have been fighting over revenue generated at the downtown Fond du Luth casino.

A federal judge ruled last month the Band is no longer obligated to share slot machine earnings with the city. If upheld, that would cost the city about $6 million a year.

The city has appealed. If the ruling stands, Duluth may have another option. Mayor Don Ness said the original contract would then allow the city to close the casino.

"We become the leaseholder, and no gaming can take place on that site without the written consent of the city," Ness said. "That is the protection that we have, and we need to be ready to exercise those rights."

Fond du Lac Chairwoman Karen Diver disagrees with that assessment, and said Duluth has not reached out to the Band to try to resolve their differences.

"I'm a little dismayed that the mayor continues to keep this issue in the public eye," Diver said. "It really seems that he is trying to cultivate some racial intolerance against the Band and its members."

The mayor said he's never made the dispute into a racial issue. Rather, he said, it's simply a very public contractual disagreement.

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Northeast Community College Picks Experienced Leader

Northeast Community College has chosen an experienced administrator for its next president.

Northeast's board chose Michael Chipps after he visited campus for an interview on Friday.

Chipps has led Mid-Plains Community College since 2003. Before that, Chipps led North Platte Community College after holding a variety of positions at Central Community College.

Northeast's board president Steve Anderson says Chipps is a good fit because of his love of the state and his passion for community colleges. Chipps will start his new job this summer.

The Nebraska college's main campus is in Norfolk and has education centers in South Sioux City, O'Neill and West Point.

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Photojournalist Eve Arnold dies at 99 (AP)

LONDON ? Eve Arnold, a world-traveling photojournalist whose subjects ranged from the poor and dispossessed to Marilyn Monroe, has died, the Magnum photo agency said Thursday. She was 99.

Magnum spokeswoman Fiona Rogers said Arnold died peacefully Wednesday in a London nursing home.

Born in Philadelphia in April 1912 to Russian immigrant parents, Arnold lived on Long Island when she became interested in photography while working in a photofinishing lab.

After taking a six-week photography course at the New School for Social Research in New York, she began her career in the 1940s, working for publications including Picture Post, Time and Life magazine during a golden age of magazine photojournalism.

Her subjects included migrant laborers, New York bartenders, Cuban fishermen and Afghan nomads; celebrities such as Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor; and political figures including Jacqueline Kennedy, Malcolm X and Margaret Thatcher.

Arnold was renowned for her rapport with those she photographed.

"If you're careful with people and if you respect their privacy, they will offer part of themselves that you can use," she told the BBC in a 2002 interview.

Her most famous shots include portraits of Monroe ? both vulnerable and glamorous ? taken over a decade and collected in her book "Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation."

"Themes recur again and again in my work," Arnold once said. "I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women."

Arnold joined the Magnum agency in 1951_ the first woman admitted to the cooperative ? after her images of fashion shows in Harlem caught the attention of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Arnold settled in London in the 1960s, working for the Sunday Times Magazine and other publications. In the 1970s she photographed and filmed Dubai's ruling family for "Behind the Veil," and was one of the first American photographers to work in China.

The photos she took there were exhibited in her first solo show, at the Brooklyn Museum in 1980, and published as "In China." Other volumes of her work included "In America" and "The Great British."

Her work was exhibited at Britain's National Portrait Gallery and was the subject of a retrospective show at the Barbican in London in 1996.

Arnold was a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 1995 was named Master Photographer by New York's International Center of Photography.

In 2003 she was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, by Queen Elizabeth II for services to photography, and in 2009 received a lifetime achievement prize from the Sony World Photography Awards.

Long divorced from husband Arnold Arnold, she is survived by her son, Frank, and three grandchildren. Funeral details were not immediately available.

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NFL playoffs: Why do we need wild cards, anyway?

The NFL playoffs get underway this weekend with a slate of four wild card games. Is it just a chance to extend the season or does the presence of wild cards improve the NFL playoffs?

The NFL playoffs got underway Saturday with the Cincinnati Bengals visiting the Houston Texans, and the New Orleans Saints hosting the Detroit Lions. Sunday, Eli Manning and the New York Giants face the Atlanta Falcons, while an injured Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers journey to take on Tim Tebow?s Broncos.

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The winners of those games will move on to the divisional playoffs to face the Patriots, Ravens, Packers, or 49ers ? the teams that won their divisions and did well enough to earn a first round bye.

The Texans, Saints. Giants, and Broncos ? your host teams ? also won their respective divisions, but didn?t have good enough regular season records to avoid the division-losing Bengals, Lions, Falcons, and Steelers in the wild card round.

If you believe that a berth in the postseason should be earned in the regular season, then the concept of a wild card spot can be baffling. Why give some teams the week off, and let others, who couldn?t even win against their division rivals in the regular season, squeak into the playoffs at all? Wouldn?t it just be easier to seed the division winners and let them all in on the action at the start?

The cynic would chalk it up to money, and he wouldn?t be completely wrong.? By including wild card teams and giving others the week off, the NFL gains an extra week of television and ticket revenue. It also gives advertisers and teams time to ramp up enthusiasm for the bigger games, including America?s TV holiday, the Super Bowl. Last year?s wild card weekend was the most-watched ever, averaging 32.2 million viewers per game and thoroughly trouncing everything else on TV that weekend (The lowest rated game, Saints vs. Seahawks, beat out the highest rated nonfootball offering, and episode of ?Two and a Half Men,? by 13 million viewers).

But to take a gentler view, the wild card round is as intrinsic to NFL football as hard hits and elaborate touchdown celebrations. The league actually invented the playoff wild card round, a concept now used in some form by all of North America?s major professional leagues ? the NHL, MLB, NBA, and MLS among them.

In 1970, the NFL reorganized itself into two leagues (The AFC and the NFC) with three divisions apiece. To make the playoff rounds even, the best second place division finisher from each league also made the postseason. At first, the NFL clunkily dubbed these qualifiers ?Best Second-Place Teams.?? Presumably for the sake of? time, broadcasters began calling these teams ?wild cards,? a term the NFL officially adopted in 1975.

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Augusta State professor pens case study on downtown baseball stadium

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A new case study authored by an Augusta State University professor offers Augusta Commission members a framework for deciding whether to build a downtown stadium for the?Augusta GreenJackets. "It is my hope that the information laid out in the case can be used by decision makers in the community to make?the best decisions for the economic development of our? city," said Simon Medcalfe, an assistant professor of finance at ASU. read more ...

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