| Today's Feature Police Nab
Repeater.
On 04/11/2009, the Carthage
Police Department responded to a report of a
sexual misconduct and indecent exposure on the
south side of town. Jaime Hartness was identified
as the suspect. Hartness was arrested by the
Carthage Police Department on 04/15/2009 when he
returned to a store where he had committed an
identical offense earlier in the year. Hartness
has a history of previous arrests for indecent
exposure. Hartness is a registered sex offender
in Jasper County. Hartness has previous arrests
in Fayetteville Arkansas and Joplin Missouri for
similar and more violent crimes. Hartness has
connections to the Joplin, Webb City, and Miami
Oklahoma area. The Carthage Police Department
suspects that there are similar other incidents
that have taken place in the four-state area that
save gone unreported. Citizens who have been a
victims of a similar crime, should contact their
local police department.
Warrants have been obtained for
Sexual Misconduct Second Degree and he is
currently being held in the Jasper County jail on
$25,000 bond.
Mortgage Scam
and Tax Thefts.
by Sharona
Coutts, www.ProPublica.org
Yesterday President Barack
Obama outlined his administration’s plan to
build a network of high-speed rail lines along 10
regional corridors, financed in part by the $8
billion in the stimulus bill for high-speed rail.
The announcement came the day after governors
from eight Midwestern states sent a joint letter
to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood
asking him to approve the initiative.
The Associated Press throws a
bit of cold water on the effort: "By all
accounts, the $8 billion isn’t nearly enough
to transform U.S. passenger service. Just one
high-speed rail project on the drawing board in
California, for instance, would cost more than
$40 billion." But the governors hope the
stimulus money could jump-start future funding.
The Environmental Protection
Agency selected 50 of the country’s most
polluted sites to receive stimulus money for
cleanup operations. The funding will go toward
the cleanup of hazardous mining sites in
Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, removing chemicals
from the groundwater at two prominent Long Island
Superfund sites, and hazardous waste removal from
a landfill in New Jersey.
The Sunlight Foundation blog
compiled a list of executive agencies that are
disclosing their interactions with lobbyists.
Last month, Obama released a memo (PDF)
instructing agency heads to post publicly all
written communications from registered lobbyists
concerning the stimulus bill.
Vice President Joe Biden was
scheduled to speak yesterday in Jefferson City,
Mo., at a factory that makes transformers for
wind farms.
Project of the Day: Sen. Dick
Durbin (D-IL) announced yesterday that $6.3
million in stimulus money will go to Peoria
International Airport to help build a new
terminal.
Weekly Bailouts
Slow to A Trickle… for Now.
by Paul Kiel, www.ProPublica.org
Every week since mid-November,
the Treasury Department has been doling out cash
to banks throughout the country as part of its
program to bolster "healthy" banks. In
the heady days of mid-November, it was billions
more every week. Over the past few weeks, that
tide has slowed considerably – you can get a
real sense of this by scanning the very end of
our timeline. The money has been increasingly
going to smaller and fewer banks. Last Friday, a
paltry $22.8 million went out to five banks (see
below). Overall, more than 500 banks have gotten
$198.41 billion through the program.
But this would seem to be the
calm before the storm. The Treasury Department
has indicated that insurance companies will be
getting their share of bailout bucks, and given
the size of some of the insurers lining up,
it’s fair to say that might result in
several billion more out the door. And of course,
the "stress tests" regulators are
performing are just a prelude to more bailouts
for the nation’s biggest banks. Those are
expected to finish up by the end of this month.
And don’t forget Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
at the end of each quarter, they reveal their
losses and the government fills the hole with
taxpayer money. Fannie and Freddie will be
releasing their first quarter results sometime in
the next few weeks.
So, well, stay tuned.
Here are the five banks that
got money last Friday: City National Bancshares
Corporation:$9.4 million First Business Bank,
N.A.: $2.2 million SV Financial, Inc.: $4 million
Capital Commerce Bancorp, Inc.: $5.1 million
Metropolitan Capital Bancorp, Inc.: $2 million.
artCentral
ART
NOTES from Hyde House
by Sally Armstrong,
Director of artCentral
As promised, and
as we prepare the gallery for the next exhibition
of work by Joplin artist Martha Goldman, I will
tell a little bit about her style and subject
matter that is the inspiration for her art.
Martha is interested in the relevance of the
feminine--- femininity being a state that us
universally revered or reviled depending on its
context. She wants to acknowledge the power of
that which is cute, power being what is most
often denied to such. As an undergraduate, she
explored these themes by working mostly with
pastel colors in a pop art vein, and was
intrigued by the juxtaposition of cartoon
characters and colors commonly thought to be
sweet, with subject matter that sometimes tended
toward adult themes. This produced a wonderful
"double-take" effect on first time
viewers! Currently she finds that her work has
become more personal. Life experiences such as a
trip to Japan, the end of a marriage, and finding
true love are directly linked with her
inspirations. However, her work still cultivates
muses from pop culture. The icons that she finds
haunting her brain are kindred spirits, icons
that she very much identifies with. Her work is
still very connected with the ribbons and frills
of femininity, and she applies this
metaphorically and literally. She also
incorporates into her work, ribbons, lace,
second-hand jewelry, and knick-knacks—the
trophies of relationships past. She strives to
elevate these remembrances to art; which is
something she feels is owed to these forgotten
souvenirs of love! Next week--- specific pieces
will be described and identified. Martha’s
exhibition opens May 1st at Hyde Gallery here in
Carthage.
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