Driehaus weighs in on CPS construction
State Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-Price Hill, waded into a minor -- so far -- controversy regarding the Cincinnati Public Schools' schools rebuilding project today.
In a press release, Driehaus said he's opposing a proposal from CPS officials to completely rebuild the old Westwood school on Montana Ave., rather than renovate the school as originally planned. Some neighbors are upset with the plan.
“I think tearing down Westwood School would be a travesty,” said Driehaus. “Cincinnati Public Schools has to be far more sensitive in preserving the architectural integrity of our neighborhood as we move forward in the name of progress.”
In a plan described in Saturday's Enquirer, CPS believes it can save $11.5 million by rebuilding Westwood, Clark Montessori in Hyde Park and Rothenberg school in Over-the-Rhine. The plan would need approval by the school board.
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"No decision has been made," said CPS spokeswoman Janet Walsh at last night's board meeting. "The reason we went to the community was really to get their opinion. But we felt that as the new assessment indicated, a new building would provide a better environment for students in many respects for $3 million less than renovating the building, that it was at least worth considering on behalf of students and taxpayers."
Walsh's $3 million figure includes the savings if the new buildings include a gymnasium (still considered optional), and the total cost, including state funding. The $1.58 million quoted in Saturday's article only includes savings to local taxpayers and excludes a possible gym.
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at 8:08 PM, September 24, 2007 
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Post a Comment*You can tell Driehaus is running for Congress. All those years as a state rep you never heard a peep out of him. Now that he is running for Congress he keeps showing up all over the place
I know that when I decide on who I am going to vote for in Congress next year, their position on tearing down or fixing a local school building in Westwood will weigh mighty heavily.
It will be almost as important as knowing which teams they'll root for in the World Series next October.
A Day in the Life of Joe Republican
(As Kneepad Liberals see it)
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of his medications is paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, then walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
It's noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression. Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.
Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal (FDR) stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.
He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, quiche-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day.
Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of himself, just like I have."
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