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Sorry Neil Gorsuch — American judges are just as partisan as everyone else
Washington Post | Features paper by political scientist Maya Sen (joint with Adam Bonica of Stanford), "The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Politicize the Judiciary." Sen, a political scientist, is an assistant professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Trauma: How Violence Warps Childhood Friendships in Chicago
New York Magazine—Science of Us | A look at new research by Mario Luis Small (joint with Anjanette M. Chan), now out in Sociological Science. Small (Ph.D.'01) is Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology at Harvard.
Carrie Conaway elected president of AEFP
Association for Education Finance and Policy | Alumna Carrie Conaway was elected president of AEFP at its 42nd annual conference in Washington, D.C. Conaway is the chief strategy and research officer for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. She was recently appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences.
Minority Neighborhoods at the Bottom of L.A.'s Economic Ladder Tend to Stay There
L.A. Weekly | Jared Schachner, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy, discusses findings of a new study co-authored with Harvard's Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, and Robert D. Mare of UCLA. Their article, "Urban Income Inequality and the Great Recession in Sunbelt Form," appears in a new RSF Journal issue on "Spatial Foundations of Inequality."
Navigating Our Shameful, Maddeningly Complex Student Aid System
The New York Times | Quotes and cites research by Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. '09), Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Columbia University Teachers College, and Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan) showing that lower-income students suffer disproportionately from inefficient complexity in financial aid.
What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?
The New York Times | "Another academic discipline may not have the ear of presidents but may actually do a better job of explaining what has gone wrong in large swaths of the United States and other advanced nations in recent years," argues Economic View columnist Neil Irwin. Features Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont and highlights the lessons about poverty that Matthew Desmond's Evicted has illuminated.
Three Harvard Experts Explain How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines
Harvard Business School | Discusses a new article published in Science by Assistant Professor Ariel D. Stern (Ph.D. '14) of Harvard Business School, Associate Professor Brian M. Alexander of Harvard Medical School, and Amitabh Chandra, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
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The Increasing Significance of the Decline of Men
The New York Times | Women have fared better than men in adapting to a changing labor market. Cites David Deming (Ph.D.'10), Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and his work on the growing importance of social skills in the labor market. Also quoted: Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics.
No, The CBO Was Not 'Way, Way Off' On Scoring Obamacare
TPM: Talking Points Memo | Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendor and other budget experts assess what the CBO got right and what it got wrong in its 2010 projections for the Affordable Care Act. Elmendorf served as director of the Congressional Budget Office from January 2009 to March 2015.
The Congressional Budget Office, explained
Vox | CBO's score of Republicans' health plan is out, and it looks grim. Here's why the agency has such influence, explains Vox. Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2009 to 2015 and now Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, is among those interviewed.
The Left Might Have A Hard Time Replicating The Tea Party's Success
FiveThirtyEight | Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, provides perspective. Skocpol is co-author with Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), now a fellow at the Brookings Institution, of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Crime and the Adolescent Brain
The New York Times | Editorial cites "a 2016 report by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, [which] found that raising the age for adult prosecution produced sharp reductions in arrests, court caseloads and incarceration costs. Sixteen-year-olds who are tried as juveniles are less likely to be rearrested than those tried as adults. And arrests for people under 18 dropped by an astonishing 68 percent while the crime rate has continued to decline."
Lael Chester (Research Fellow) and Vincent Schiraldi (Senior Research Fellow) of the Malcolm Wiener Center's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management authored the report.
Tips from history in an age of Trump, protests
Boston Globe | Four books with lessons for today's protestors, including Daniel Schlozman's When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History (Princeton University Press, 2015), winner of the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the ASA's Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section. Schlozman (Ph.D. 11) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
FDA Official Under Bush Is Trump's Choice to Lead Agency
The New York Times | Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, comments on the possible nomination of Scott Gottlieb to head the Food and Drug Administration. Carpenter studies the FDA.
The political lexicon of a billionaire populist
Washington Post | Quoted: Bart Bonikowski, Associate Professor of Sociology.
'Superstar Firms' May Have Shrunk Workers' Share of Income
The New York Times | Discusses a new study by David Autor (MIT), David Dorn (University of Zurich), Lawrence Katz (Harvard), Christina Patterson (MIT), and John Van Reenen (MIT), forthcoming in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.
"What's different about new superstar firms is they don't have the cadre of middle-class jobs for nonelite workers," said Mr. Katz, an economics professor at Harvard. "That's very worrisome," he said, adding that "the trend is going on in country after country."
Government Performance Lab Awards Technical Assistance to Three States
Harvard Gazette | Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy and cirector of the Government Performance Lab at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses new projects with state governments in California, Connecticut, and Illinois that aim to alleviate poverty, increase family stability, combat recidivism, and improve higher education.
On Race and Meritocracy in Academia
Pop Matters | Deep dive into Natasha Warikoo's new book, The Diversity Bargain and Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Warikoo (Ph.D. '15), Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
How to Beat the Robots
The New York Times | Quoted: Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics. Also cites research by David Deming (Ph.D. '10), "The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market." Deming is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.
17 cities across the US have discovered a clever way to lower student absence rates
Business Insider | Cites research by behavioral scientist Todd Rogers, Associate Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School (joint with Avi Feller, UC Berkeley).
Law and Society John Hope Franklin Prize: Matthew Clair and Alix Winter
Awardees | The Law and Society Association has awarded Matthew Clair, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, and Alix Winter, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, its John Hope Franklin Prize for the best article on race, racism, and the law published in the past two years. The article, How Judges Think about Racial Disparties: Situational Decision-Making in the Criminal Justice System, "reveals that judges who routinely impose sentences with a differential racial impact sometimes intervene to mitigate the effects, and in many cases, justify decision making that continues to perpetuate disparities," in the words of the award citation. In so doing, "this article provides valuable new insights into the legal consciousness of elite actors and their thinking about the discriminatory impact of their decisions."
Torben Iversen elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Awardee | Torben Iversen, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, is one of 228 newly-elected members to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, membership in the Academy recognizes "some of the world's most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, as well as civic, business, and philanthropic leaders."
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Matthew Desmond wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Evicted'
Awardee | Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. The award citation lauded Desmond's book "as a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty." Desmond is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.
Natasha Warikoo awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Natasha Warikoo (Ph.D. '05), Associate Professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is one of 173 scholars, artists, and scientists announced today as 2017 Guggenheim Fellows. "Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise," this year's class was selected from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Guggenheim Foundation's 93rd annual competition.
Warikoo will spend her fellowship year working on a book about racial change in suburban America. "She is studying how the settlement of the nation's most successful immigrant groups in privileged, previously predominantly white communities shapes the nature of racial boundaries, beliefs about success and achievement, and youth cultures," notes her Guggenheim Fellow profile (Read more).
Vera Institute of Justice names Khalil Gibran Muhammad to Board of Trustees
Vera Institute of Justice | The Vera Institute of Justice announced today the appointment of Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School to its board of trustees.
The Tobin Project Spring 2017 Fellows: Sarah James
The Tobin Project | Sarah James, PhD candidate in Government & Social Policy, has been named a spring 2017 graduate fellow with The Tobin Project, which will support her research titled "Identification of and response to policy failure in state governments."
The Tobin Project Spring 2017 fellows: James Biblarz
The Tobin Project | Jimmy Biblarz, PhD student in Sociology & Social Policy, has been named a spring 2017 graduate fellow with The Tobin Project, which will support his research titled "From Integration to Resource Fortification: Ideology and America's Second Reconstruction."
Margot Moinester awarded American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellowship in Law & Inequality
American Bar Foundation | Margot Moinester, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, has been awarded a two-year doctoral fellowship in Law & Inequality from the American Bar Foundation, the nation's leading research institute for the empirical study of law. ABF doctoral and postdoctoral fellows spend their fellowship tenure in residence at the American Bar Foundation's headquarters in Chicago.
Tom Wooten awarded NSF doctoral dissertation research grant
National Science Foundation | Tom Wooten, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, has been awarded an NSF doctoral dissertation research grant (NSF-DDRI) for his PhD dissertation, "The Transition to College Experience of Low-Income Students." Learn more about Tom's work at his homepage:
tomwooten.com
Nathan Wilmers awarded NSF doctoral dissertation research grant
National Science Foundation | Nathan Wilmers, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, has been awarded an NSF doctoral dissertation research grant (NSF-DDRI) for his PhD dissertation, "Market Concentration, Skill Segregation, and Rising Wage Inequality." Learn more about Nathan's work at his homepage:
nathanwilmers.com
'Evicted' honored with 2017 PEN New England Award
PEN New England | Sociologist Matthew Desmond's Evicted has won the 2017 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction. Earlier thiis year, Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, was named the recipient of PEN America's John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.
'Evicted' wins National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction
Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, was recognized tonight with the 2016 National Books Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
"Just a few books have reframed the national conversation about poverty: How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis, The Other America by Michael Harrington, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz," wrote NBCC board member Elizabeth Taylor.
"With his ground-breaking book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond now forcefully shapes our understanding of poverty. His focus is on the dynamics of poverty, and with remarkable clarity explains why solutions directed at joblessness or low wages reflect a misunderstanding of the problem. He eloquently argues: poverty is a product of exploitation, and that eviction not just a condition of it but rather a cause of it."
Stefanie Stantcheva wins NSF CAREER Award
Awardee | Stefanie Stantcheva, Assistant Professor of Economics, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, an NSF-wide initiative "that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty." Stantcheva will investigate "Taxes and Innovation: Optimal Taxation and the Effects of Taxes on Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Firms' Innovation."
Teachers College Convocation 2017 Medalists Announced: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Awardee | Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, has been selected to receive Columbia University Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service, the highest honor it bestows. Muhammad will be honored and address the graduates at TC's doctoral hooding ceremony on May 17.
2016 Discover Great New Writers Awards: Matthew Desmond
Awardee | The winners of the 2016 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards in fiction and nonfiction were announced today in a ceremony in New York City. Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City took first place in the non-fiction category. Desmond is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.
Maya Sen named a Stanford CASBS Fellow for 2017-2018
Awardee | Political scientist Maya Sen, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, has been selected to be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University for the 2017-2018 academic year. Sen's research examines issues in the political economy of race relations, the American legal system, and law and politics.
Learn more about Sen's work:
scholar.harvard.edu/msen
Danielle Allen named 2017 SSRC Democracy Fellow
Social Science Research Council | The Anxieties of Democracy program announced that its 2017 Democracy Fellow will be Harvard's Danielle Allen, James Conant Bryant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. As Democracy Fellow, Allen will spend November 2017 in residence at the Social Science Research Council headquarters in New York, where she will participate in a series of "Democracy in the City" public talks and debates, as well as a series of in-house Democracy Seminars. The theme of her residency: "Democracy and Justice."
L.A. Times Book Prize Finalists Announced
Los Angeles Times | The finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced today, including Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City in the current interest category. The prizes will be awarded on April 21, the evening before the L.A. Times Festival of Books begins on the USC campus.
PEN/John Kennedy Galbraith Award for NonFiction: Matthew Desmond
PEN America | Matthew Desmond's Evicted has been named the winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a biennial award for a distinguished work of nonfiction "possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues." Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard, will be honored at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony in NYC on March 27.
William Julius Wilson to receive 2017 SAGE-CASBS Award
One of the nation's most accomplished scholars of race, inequality, and poverty will deliver a public award lecture in June at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
SAGE-CASBS | SAGE Publishing and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University are pleased to announce that William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard, is the 2017 recipient of the SAGE-CASBS Award.
Established in 2013, the SAGE-CASBS Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the behavioral and social sciences that advance our understanding of pressing social issues. It underscores the role of the social and behavioral sciences in enriching and enhancing public policy and good governance.
Past winners of the award include psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, sociologist and education rights activist Pedro Noguera, and political scientist and former U.S. Census Bureau director Kenneth Prewitt.
Column: How much do the poor actually pay in taxes? Probably more than you think.
PBS NewHour | By Vanessa Williamson (PhD '15), for PBS NewsHour's 'Making Sen$e series. Vanessa Williamson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and the author of Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017).
The Rights and Wrongs of Economics
Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast | Twenty years ago, Dani Rodrik predicted that too much globalization could lead to social disintegration and weakened democracies. Dani Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School.
Challenges To Reducing Discrimination And Health Inequity Through Existing Civil Rights Laws
Health Affairs | By Amitabh Chandra, Michael Frakes, and Anup Malani. Chandra is Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. This issue of Health Affairs (June 2017) is devoted to 'Pursuing Health Equity.'
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How far we've fallen from the Marshall Plan
Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor. This column is adapted from Allen's keynote address at a 70th anniversary celebration for the Marshall Scholarship, June 3, 2017, at Harvard University.... Read more about How far we've fallen from the Marshall Plan
How "the community" undermines the goals of participatory democracy
Work in Progress | By Jeremy R. Levine (PhD '16), Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies, University of Michigan. Discusses the findings of his academic research, "The Paradox of Community Power: Cultural Processes and Elite Authority in Participatory Governance, published earlier this spring in Social Forces. 'Work in Progress' is a public blog of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for 'short-form sociology' on the economy, work, and inequality.
Can 'The Boston Basics' Help Close the Achievement Gap?
WBUR Radio Boston | WBUR talks with Ron Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University and creator of The Boston Basics. The Boston Basics Campaign is partnering with hospitals, community health centers, childcare providers, libraries, and early learning centers across Boston to close skill gaps that emerge in early childhood, in the critical first years of brain development.
Race, class, politics, and the disappearance of work: a rejoinder
Ethnic and Racial Studies | By William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard. For its 40th anniversary special issue, Ethnic and Racial Studies is revisiting classic articles in context, including William Julius Wilson's "When Work Disappears" (1999). Here he responds to Harvard political scientist Jennifer Hochsdhild's review essay.
Race, class, politics, and the disappearance of work
Ethnic and Racial Studies | By Jennifer L. Hochschlld. For its 40th anniversary special issue, Ethnic and Racial Studies reexamines classic articles in context. Here Harvard political scientist Jennifer Hochschild revisits "When Work Disappears" by William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor.
Neoliberal Social Justice: From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama
SSRC items | Leah Wright Rigueur, as part of the Social Science Research Council's "Reading Racial Conflict" series, critically engages with the career and the writings of Edward Brooke in a reflection on the arguments for and limits of capitalism to uplift African Americans out of poverty. She also deploys Brooke, the first popularly elected black senator in US history who served in the 1960s and 1970s, as a window onto how Barack Obama connects racial inequalities to access to the market.
The Republican Health Care Debacle: How Not to Make Public Policy
Foreign Affairs | By Douglas W. Elmendorf. "The development and passage of the ACHA is a case study in how not to make public policy," writes Elmendorf. Douglas Elmendorf is Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy. He served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from January 2009 through March 2015.
Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute Conference
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, joined the inaugural conference of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute, where he spoke in the opening panel on segregation and inequality. Putnam and Harvard economist Lawrence Katz both serve on the Institute's Board of Advisors.
Why Opportunity and Inclusion Matter to America's Economic Strength
Lael Brainard of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors delivered the keynote address, highlighting issues of employment, household financial health, the geography of opportunity, and affordable housing. She also drew attention to insights generated by the Boston Fed's Workng Cities Challenge.
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Earlier this spring Governor Brainard delivered the 2017 Malcolm Wiener Lecture in International Political Economy in the JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School.
Investigating the Causes and Consequences of Inequality
Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast | Professor David Deming (PhD '10) sits down with PolicyCast host Matt Cadwallader to talk about his new Harvard Kennedy School course, The Causes and Consequences of Inequality (SUP-206). If traditional jobs like manufacturing aren't coming back, how can the economy adapt? How can the American education system better prepare the next generation for the needs of the modern economy? Deming's research grapples with these questions.
Harvard Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging: A Discussion with the Co-Chairs
Harvard Gazette | This past fall, Harvard President Drew Faust convened a University-wide task force to examine ways to help Harvard thrive as a place where all members of its increasingly diverse community feel that they truly belong. The task force is co-chaired by James Bryant Conant University Professor Danielle Allen, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics; Harvard Kennedy School Academic Dean Archon Fung, the Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship; and Vice President for Campus Services Meredith Weenick.
The task force's co-chairs recently sat down with the Harvard Gazette to discuss this report, their first year, and what's next for this important work.
The State of Social Capital in America
U.S. Congress Joint Economic Commitee | Professors Robert D. Putnam and Mario L. Small (PhD '01), joined by Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute and Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs, testified before the Joint Economic Committee on the potential role for social capital in addressing U.S. economic and social challenges.
Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, focused on two generational concerns: why social capital matters in narrowing the opportunity gap among today's children, and what a boomer generation "aging alone" portends for U.S. eldercare costs in the years ahead.
Read Robert Putnam testimony
Mario Small, Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology, discussed the evidence that "early education and childcare programs may be an especially effective venue to help low-income parents generate social capital,"..." that this social capital is beneficial, and that there is reason to believe that targeted interventions may help such programs maximize these benefits."
Read Mario Small testimony
How Massachusetts provides education policymakers with research insights: An interview with Carrie Conaway, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Gov Innovator Podcast | Andy Feldman (PhD '07) interviews Carrie Conaway (AM '01), Chief Strategy and Research Officer for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Conaway was recently appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences. Feldman is currently a visiting fellow with the Center for Children and Families at the Brookings Institution.
Research: The Rise of Superstar Firms Has Been Better for Investors than for Employees
Harvard Business Review | By John Van Reenen (MIT) and Christina Patterson (MIT). Discussion of their new working paper, co-authored with David Autor (MIT), David Dorn (University of Zurich), and Lawrence Katz (Harvard), "The Fall of Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms."
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Citi Global Markets said risks such as intense competition, which had seen it maintain a cautious outlook on the stock for more than 15 months, have now materialised and factored in the current price.
Citi says based on the popularity of Okoa products, which is an emergency credit for airtime and data, demand for the new overdraft is likely to be strong.
This is expected to significantly improve yield on Lipa na M-Pesa transactions for Safaricom, further supported by onset of presumptive taxes.
Citi Global Markets has revised Safaricom #ticker:SCOM stock from 'neutral' to 'buy' status, tipping the new overdraft features on M-Pesa and growing e-commerce to push the net earnings above Sh61 billion.
Citigroup's investment banking division said risks such as intense competition, which had seen it maintain a cautious outlook on the stock for more than 15 months, have now materialised and factored in the current price.
"We see new overdraft features, e-commerce and AgriTech as structural factors that could drive M-Pesa growth beyond our current assumptions (based on usage growth)," said Citi.
"The changes to SME taxation, effective from 2019, we think, could become an important driver for faster adoption of digital payments by small merchants," says Citi.
Based on the recent signals from the Communication Authority of Kenya, Citi says the much-awaited report on dominance is unlikely to be highly negative for Safaricom.
It also does not expect the report to affect M-Pesa, given that wallet interoperability is in place.
Safaricom has been battling claims of market dominance especially from rivals.
Citi says Safaricom stock is currently trading close to historic lows and has the potential to rise going forward. On Monday, the share changed hands at between Sh23.25 and Sh23.65.
"Our bull case assumes upside of 49 per cent. We upgrade the stock to Buy from Neutral with a price target of Sh27," it says.


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Death penalty pro bono and Lincoln for dinner
by NZ Lawyer07 Mar 2016
Chapman Tripp partner Tim Smith tells NZ Lawyer about working pro bono on a Supreme Court death penalty case in the US.
What made you decide to become a lawyer?
In my case there wasn't any particular moment of decision. At University I studied law and chemistry, and eventually came to the realisation that I wasn't suited for laboratory work: a "safe pair of hands" in my case works best as a metaphor.
How long have you worked at Chapman Tripp and what brought you to this position?
I have been at Chapman Tripp since 2005, aside from one year which I spent in the United States studying. Prior to 2005 I was working as a judge's clerk at the Supreme Court, which had then only just been established. The first case argued before the Court, was argued by Jack Hodder, and I was sufficiently impressed that, when my term as a clerk ended, I applied for a job in his team at Chapman Tripp.
What's the strangest case you've ever worked on/been involved with?
When I was studying in the United States, I worked pro bono on a Supreme Court death penalty case. What was particularly strange to my New Zealand sensibilities was that the case was not about whether our client should be sentenced to death, but whether the particular combination of drugs to be administered constituted "cruel and unusual" punishment. In the absence of a majority to declare the death penalty unconstitutional this strategy made good sense to delay his execution, but my preference would be, as Justice Blackmun said near the end of his judicial career, not to "tinker with the machinery of death".
If you could invite three people for dinner, dead or alive and excluding family and friends, who would they be and why?
I have a keen interest in the political history of the United States, so a dinner of former presidents would be my idea of a good time. The choice of only three is limiting, but I would probably start with Lincoln, LBJ and Obama – each representing epochal moments in the long arc of at least that part of the moral universe comprising the United States.
You're based in Wellington – where's the best place to go for a drink and/or dinner after work?
I have a three year old son, so dinner at my house is the best place to be, picking up Tans Takeaway in Ngaio on the way home.
What's the best piece of advice (work or personal) you've ever been given?
Always to find something interesting about every matter that you work on.
Do you have any hobbies/interests outside of work?
Aside from United States political history, I am a fan of theatre. It follows that I am also currently religiously listening to the soundtrack to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.
Complete this sentence: If I wasn't a lawyer, I would be…
Working on Hilary's election campaign or Elizabeth Warren's staff.
What do you think will be single biggest issue facing the legal space in New Zealand in 2016?
The challenges of the global economy are likely to continue to be the biggest issue for the profession: how do New Zealand businesses respond to weakening growth in China, Europe and America, and how can lawyers best assist them to do so.
If you had John Key's job for one day, what would you do?
One day would probably not be enough time to accomplish much.
What do you love about your job?
I love almost all aspects of my job – I get to work with great people, clients and colleagues alike, on a range of interesting matters. However, my favourite part of my job is the privilege of getting to talk to experts on a wide range of different subjects, from electricity market operations to geotechnical engineering, from petroleum engineering to telecommunications network design.
What would you change about your job right now if you could?
Not much: I really like it!

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Florida Statute Section 893.13(1)(a), prohibits a person from possessing any controlled substance "with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver" the controlled substance. Depending on the type of substance possessed, the crime can be charged as a third degree felony or a second degree felony.
Law enforcement officers often over charge a simple possession of a controlled substance offense to the more serious charge of possession with intent to sell or delivery. Although it is easy for the officer to write up the more serious offense, it can often be more difficult for the prosecutor to prove the charges at trial beyond all reasonable doubt.
After an arrest for an intent to sell charge, the prosecutor will review the charges within the first 21 days after the arrest. In many of these cases the prosecutor will elect to file only less serious charges for possession. In cases in which the more serious charges are filed, a criminal defense attorney may be able to file a motion to dismiss the allegation of intent to sell.
Defenses can also be asserted when the search or seizure of evidence was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Your attorney can explore the legality of your initial stop, detention, search and seizure. If the officer made any mistakes, your attorney can file and litigate a motion to suppress the evidence because of that misconduct.
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The defendant possessed a certain substance with the intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver the substance;
The substance was a controlled substance as defined in Section 893.03, Florida Statutes;
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the types and quantities of drugs involved.
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Prattville Council denies Club BTS license
August 19, 2009 admin 20 Comments
Hiro Koda watches intently as the decision is made - Photo by Marc Parker
Prattville – The Prattville City Council denied a local businessman a lounge liquor license voting down the resolution 2-5. Council chambers were filled to capacity for Tuesday nights meeting.
After delaying the vote for two weeks and meeting with the ABC Board in a work session, the Council deliberated and concluded that the license should not be issued.
Councilman Bill Gillespie and Councilman Nathan Fank voted in favor of the resolution. Council President Dean Argo, Councilman Tom Miller, Councilman Willie Wood, Councilman Ray Boles, and Councilman Mike Renegar all voted against granting the lounge liquor license.
Hiro Koda, owner and operator of Club BTS, was attempting to bring a restaurant and entertainment complex featuring live acts, comedy, stunt shows, karaoke, and Hollywood memorabilia to the city.
Several pastors and private citizens spoke in opposition of granting the license. Concerns shared were primarily of a safety nature. Dr. George F. Seier spoke on this issue.
"I am with the Cobbs Ford Pet Health Center and I've been here for a number of years. I'm a very short distance from this establishment," remarked Seier. "I am convinced that this is going to attract people who use drugs."
Residents were also worried that having the lounge on the city's main thoroughfare would bring in an undesirable element and increase the number of alcohol-related incidents.
Pastor Travis Coleman sharing his concerns with the Council - Photo by Marc Parker
Pastor Travis Coleman, of the First Baptist Church in Prattville, has lived in the community for about twenty years, and shared his feelings with the Council.
"I am very concerned that the lounge would affect the "family-friendly" atmosphere of the city," Coleman said.
There were also a few people who spoke on behalf of the lounge liquor license, including Koda's mother, Gwen Koda, who has lived in this area for thirty years. She stated that her son was honest and full of integrity and also addressed citizens' issues concerning underage drinking.
"We live in an area where alcohol is legal, so please just look at the person," Mrs. Koda stated. "This will be a smoke-free facility and no one will even be admitted in the front door who is under 21."
Sam Golson, an employee of Club BTS, spoke regarding the issue of security.
"Most of the security staff at Club BTS is ex-military. We have been trained to know exactly how to handle different situations," said Golson. "We know what we're doing."
Councilman Miller remarked that the entire issue was difficult for him because many elements had to be considered before a decision was made; however, a couple of issues were the deciding factor for his voting against the resolution.
"Well, it was the location, also the public safety issue… you know, the health and welfare of the community," Miller said.
Crowd looks on as Council votes - Photo by Marc Parker
Councilman Fank cited legal issues as the reason for his affirmative vote.
"I didn't see where we legally had… we didn't have a legal argument or legal justification for not allowing the permit," stated Fank.
Late Tuesday night, Koda released a press statement to Our Prattville. In it he stated his frustration, feeling that he was being punished for trying to do the right thing.
"Today the Prattville City Council rejected our request to become a part of this community," he said in the press release.
"A lounge alcohol license is what the law clearly prescribes for our type of establishment, even though the word lounge doesn't at all describe what it will be. We were advised by state alcohol regulators to pursue this license because that's what the law says. Essentially, we are being punished by the City Council for following the rules."
Koda remarked that Club BTS would have been a source of pride for the community and felt that the Council did not vote according to the law.
"Prattville is blessed to still have that unique hometown atmosphere, but as we grow it's okay to have more venues of entertainment for young, responsible people to enjoy. Club Behind the Scenes is designed to be a fresh, exciting, but also tasteful establishment that Prattville would have been proud of. That could only have happened if the City Council had put politics aside and followed the law," said Koda.
Koda suggested that the people on hand did not properly represent the majority of Prattville's citizens regarding the licensing of his venue.
"It felt like the Council let 60 people speak on behalf of the thirty-five thousand residents in Prattville. Club BTS would have brought more than thirty jobs to the city as well as additional tax revenue during a time of economic hardship," Koda said.
"It felt unfair that the Council used the opportunity to allow a second public discussion to give all the uninformed naysayers who were not at the assigned public hearing a chance to give their personal opinion," he continued.
Koda expressed gratitude to Councilmen Gillespie and Fank for voting to approve the license.
"We would like to compliment the two Councilmen who voted in favor of our license request. We want them to know that we are sincerely grateful for their standing behind the state law as it is stated. – Thank you for doing your elected duty," he stated
Koda has no definite plans at this time, but may begin to seek out another location for his club in the near future.
"For the question of what's next for BTS, we are conferring with legal counsel and will start looking at nearby markets that will welcome a destination establishment located in their area," Koda concluded.
Article by Melissa Parker
© 2009 Our Prattville. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the express written consent of the publisher.
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20 thoughts on "Prattville Council denies Club BTS license"
He should sue the city.
Gerald Duncan says:
Well Prattville has done it again. Let's not let an honest upstanding person open a business. Let's go the other way and destroy the city with stupid politics. BRAVO, and SCENE! Millbrook AL will be glad to allow you a lounge.
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Eric F says:
It's pure discrimination is all I can say. The Blue Iguana offers the same thing to a lower quality clientele. Marchelles now offers live music ,but do they have a lounge license? I think not. Their was no legal reason to deny the license. I hope Mr. Koda sues the pants off the City. Tons of restaurant in the area serve alcohol. Some folks prefer to hang out in an adults only establishment. I would have come to support this passing but I never thought it would not pass or need supporting. Shame on the council memebrs who voted no.
Branding101 says:
Its a shame, no doubt.
Prattville or Smallville? Preferred Community or Mayberry?
RTF has a lounge..in fact, they wouldn't commit to prattville unless Sunday Beer sales was allowed. (ok, as long as it's not DRAFT!)
Who has more decision making power here? The publically elected officials or their church congregation? My church believes in a loving god, not a vengeful one. This is 2009, not 1969.
The Fact of the matter is that the Council dropped the ball. Let us keep in mind that a True Conservative is one who follows the law, not changes it as they see fit.
Once again the city fathers vote along political and personal lines instead of following the law of not only the federal but state agencies that monitor drinking establishments. What a joke. And this is for you Mr Boles, I thought based on your last campaign that you would be an injection of level headed, responsible, law based voting into a council that has constantly voted more with its personal feelings than law based facts, I guess I was wrong. Councilman Bill Gillespie and Councilman Nathan Fank, i salute you. Mr Gillespie, as a resident of your district I would just like to say that you did your elected job and Im proud for that.
I grew up in Prattville, and I left Alabama the minute I was 18 and had a job, like many other people that prefer to be surrounded by opportunity and common sense. Keep in mind Pastor(s), you live in the same state voted against an education lottery when your education system was ranked 49th in the country. At some point during the development of your spirituality, you have to be able to recognize what a blessing is. Jobs, and tax revenue are a blessing to your community. I would love to have a place to meet my old friends when I come back to visit, maybe see a comedy show or something, but instead, I'll probably be spending my money in another community. I really hope this discriminitory attitude dies along with your generation.
bill.gillespie@prattvilleal.gov and nathan.fank@prattvilleal.gov (voted for)
The following against:
willie.wood@prattvilleal.gov ,dean.argo@prattvilleal.gov
tom.miller@prattvilleal.gov, mike.renegar@prattvilleal.gov
and ray.boles@prattvilleal.gov
Let them know how you feel.
It was my understanding that he had several big name hollywood celebrities coming to the grand opening. Chances are if you have seen a movie in the last decade, you have seen a movie that he has worked on. Same goes for television. Do your research before you bash someone you don't know. Nonetheless, 5 councilmen let us down. Maybe they should have listened to their own children instead of their parents.
The comments on this site speak for themselves…. WOW is all I can say. Nobody wants the type of adult entertainment that I'm sure the council is scared of in Prattville. This type of establishment, similar to a Planet Hollywood in larger markets, would have been the exact opposite. A family-friendly, entertainment-based venue that was upfront enough about wanting to cross every T and dot every I that they took a risk and actually applied for the CORRECT license – unlike many other establishments in our city who continue to ignore the law and operate under the radar. Hey, as long as they don't have a lounge license….. I guess they don't have anything to worry about.
I am dissapointed in last night's outcome. The council held 2 public hearings, which I believe is not what last night was, but I may be wrong. NOT! I am shocked that Blue Iguana is still able to operate in the city with their Midget Wrestling events and the bikini boob contests. I know that almost everyone who spoke last night was NOT at the first public hearing, nor the work session. No, they decided to get up and speak because the Montgomery Advertiser wrote a negative article on Monday and got the over zealous citizens all fired up. The uninformed citizens didn't even know the business plan for Club BTS. Shame on the council. Last time I checked, the Blue Iguana is on Main Street! – that is for the lovely lady who spoke last night! The city council needs to be thankful that new business wants to come to Prattville. Boy, they are selling that Highpoint Tower on Cobbs Ford like crazy, yea right! I hope the city council gets what they deserve, and I am sure they will. There goes our surplus tax dollars out the window paying off a justified lawsuit. Thanks a bunch!
I couldn't agree more with these comments. It is unbelievable to me that people who had no idea what his plans were would come and speak out against it. And the reasons for opposing the business like if it opened people would break into a vet clinic and steal drugs was just ludicrous! I hope he does open his business close by and I am sure he will be very successful. The 5 elected officials who opposed should be embarrassed.
Big Mone says:
Prattville gains a thousand traffic lights down main street and no where worth stopping. Incredible.
Ron Warner says:
I recently moved to Prattville from Kansas City, Missouri. Watching this play out has been interesting and most humorous. If the City Council only understood how bacward hick like they are making Prattville, AL look. Most towns in Missouri would not only welcome a Club like this, but would help them get it started (the tax revenues from a place like this are awesome). It's all about jobs and revenue and getting people to come to Prattville and spend spend spend. And just a footnote, I love it here in Prattville, Thank You for welcoming my Family to your Community
Dan B says:
Yep! Thats why you people in the south are so far behind the rest of the world. Take a look at the middle east and you'll see what life is like when you allow the church to rule the people. Time for you to rise up and overthrow the radically opressive southern baptist's who control your lives. Why would you allow the church to even speak on matters that do not concern them. They need to mind there own business and you people should keep seperate church and state business.
Once again our little area is made to look like a bunch of bible thumpers stuck in the 1800s. As much as I love it here, I'm very disappointed in this decision as I think this business would bring a lot to the area. I do understand not wanting trashy places in our area, but this place promises to be of a higher caliber with owners that actually know what they are doing and can make it successful. Sad.
Wine brands that can't be sold because a breast is on the label. Now this. How long do we want to continue being the laughingstock of the country? Sounds like a very responsible, nice guy was shot down in his attempt to bring a quality entertainment facility to the area.
I'd actually get out once in a while if someone would bring name bands and other real entertainers to Prattville. But no, let's not do anything that would help the area grow. We don't want to offend the hypocrites.
WB says:
What was the first miracle performed by Jesus? Yes; you're correct, he turned the water to wine! Keep in mind this was done at a Wedding Party where they actually danced! What does the bible say about those elected as Deacons or Elders in the church? Not mere members but the Deacons and Elders? It says amongst other things: Should not be a man of much drink! It doesn't say you can't drink, it says should not be a man of much drink! The problem with Prattville is there are too many people who are actually more religious than Christ! Not more Christian, but simply more religious!
JDR says:
This just reads to be absolutely absurd. At least Mr. Fank & Mr. Gillespie have their wits about them. I hope that in the future, the rest of the council hears our outcry and develops better judgement. Otherwise, I hope that they are not re-elected. Perception is Reality.
lizzoop says:
Amen, to that!
SomeOneWhoKnowsTheKodaFamily says:
Amen to all the logic! For shame to the truth behind the stereotypes that have long kept the south in the back of everyone's minds and the butt of the nation's many jokes. Such an embarrassment and Amen to all the TRUE comments spoken by all those concerned enough to respond. Hiro was, as he stated, punished for being honest and following the law. I get the same backlash daily – and often wonder why I even bother speaking the truth anymore. At what cost is one's integrity. The very same thing these archaic prejudicial under informed subjective pseudo-representatives of the community claim they are in favor of (honesty and integrity) is the one thing that cost Mr. Koda the vote in favor of the lounge liquor license, how sad. These people made a mockery of the system on that day.


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Visual Arts	By Charles Donelan	| Sun Aug 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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INTO THE WILD: With its trendy restaurants, pricey coffee shops, and high-end food trucks, Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice supports a vibrant ecosystem dominated by yoga mat–toting hipsters. Yet just a few steps above the impressive street scene, in the G2 Gallery at 1503 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, another set of urban carnivores are on the prowl, but these animals are not looking to party. Through the stunning wildlife photos of Barry Rowan, on view through September 16, a family of bobcats living in Goleta is making a powerful appearance. These large-format images bring the usually invisible denizens of our complex network of local wildlife and broken habitats into the light, and, in the gallery at least, they are irresistible.
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Rowan's shots, especially those that capture bobkittens at play, are striking. Bobcats are big, beautiful animals, and apart from their distinctively bobbed tails, they resemble ordinary housecats to a remarkable degree. In these images, a female bobcat living in the hills of Goleta can be seen leading her two kittens around their habitat and watching as they learn the stalking and pouncing behaviors that will allow them to survive on their diet of small rodents. As detailed in the story we ran last December, "Where Do All the Bobcats Go?", ecologists and ordinary residents have been aware of the bobcat presence for years now, although recent efforts by the scientists at UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) represent an unprecedented level of commitment to making their lives possible despite our ever-expanding urban presence in their territories.
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by Xin Lu
The government of central China's Henan Province issued a directive this year that demands to investigate imams serving in mosques and order those hailing from other provinces to leave Henan. An official from the Religious Affairs Bureau in one of Henan's cities told Bitter Winter that only the imams who have unquestionably submitted to the government's management and proactively promoted the policy of "sinicization" are exempt and can remain in the locality they serve for the time being.
But even those who have been allowed to stay for now are not safe. Imams' personal information should be recorded on the government's files, and they are to be put under intensified surveillance and subjected to annual inspections. Those imams who are found to be violating rules and regulations, especially if they falter in implementing the religion "sinicization" policy, will be ordered to leave the province.
"Before the order was issued, seven out-of-province imams worked in the area. Now, six have been driven away, and the remaining one is under constant government scrutiny," said the person in charge of a mosque in Sanmenxia city in western Henan.
In some localities, the new policy has resulted in no imams left to handle religious affairs in mosques and the daily lives of Muslims, such as officiating weddings and funerals, causing much inconvenience to the local Hui population.
An imam from the northwestern province of Shaanxi, who has worked in Henan for more than 20 years, was told in April by the China Islamic Association to leave his mosque.
"As older imams are retiring, the government does not allow the mosques to cultivate new imams," the imam told Bitter Winter. "In various areas, only a few officially-cultivated, CCP-controlled imams are left. They are not enough to serve the demands of congregations. Now that even the imams from other provinces are told to leave, some mosques will be left without anyone to lead them."
In order to stay in the province, some imams have tried transferring their household registrations from their places of origin to Henan. The imam said that his friends had suggested him to do the same. But he knows that it is not an easy thing to do. "If out-of-province imams are being driven away on orders by the government, it will not approve our applications for household registration transfers," the imam added.
To receive imam credentials in another province, one must go through a lengthy procedure. It includes, but is not limited to, getting an identity certificate and personal assessment from the local Religious Affairs Bureau, proof from the police that the person doesn't have a criminal record, and alike. Even having gone successfully through these bureaucratic procedures, a favorable outcome is not guaranteed.
"An imam I know applied for a certificate in another province half a year ago. He is still waiting," the imam said.
The person in charge of a mosque in Puyang, a prefecture-level city in north-east Henan, told Bitter Winter that he had petitioned the local United Front Work Department on several occasions to allow imams from other provinces to stay by transferring their household registrations to Henan. But to no avail: officials took a firm stand, claiming that they were following a national policy, so imams have to leave.
"Last year, the government launched the nationwide 'four requirements' campaign in mosques, many have been transformed, losing their Islamic symbols. This year, imams are being driven away. The CCP would not cease its persecution of Muslims," a Hui man from Zhumadian city in Henan's south commented. "Nobody talks to us about the Quran anymore. If this continues, our belief will gradually be weakened and even disappear. The next generation will know nothing about our religion; we'll just be called 'the Hui people who do not eat pork.'"
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