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RAIN: Holiday Update 12/22/01



There are 7 stories in this posting

The Tennessean 12/22/01
E-mails from Metro officials sought in lawsuit
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/11/11570445.shtml?Element_ID=11570445

by Kirk Loggins
A motorcycle mechanic and the Metro government are scrapping in court over access to e-mails between Mayor Bill Purcell's office and the Police Department.
Mechanic Brad Lewis hopes the e-mails will help him in his defamation lawsuit against WTVF-Channel 5, over a news story suggesting that his then-brother-in-law, former Police Maj. Carl Dollarhide, kept Lewis from being arrested when he was stopped in a police roadblock in 1998.



Ann Arbor News 12/22/01
Hamburg documents available; but fee not ready
http://aa.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20011222a750brewer22.frm

by Tom Tolen
HAMBURG TOWNSHIP - A Whitmore Lake man has access to 172 pages of Freedom of Information Act documents regarding conflicts between the township police department and clerk - 47 days after he filed FOIA requests for them.
But Realtor-developer Dale Brewer still doesn't know how much he'll have to pay for the information.



New York Times 12/22/01
Here's a big surprise for Boss Tweed, wherever he may be
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/arts/design/22TWEE.html

by Mel Gussow
The newly renovated former New York County Courthouse - generally referred to as the Tweed Courthouse - opened its doors yesterday for a celebratory ceremony, as Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani welcomed the building's new tenant, the Museum of the City of New York.
The museum is not scheduled to move from its home at 1220 Fifth Avenue to the new space, on Chambers Street just north of City Hall, until the spring of 2004. By then another $40 million will probably be spent to adapt the building to its new purposes, above the estimated $85 million that the current renovation has already cost.



Mobile Register 12/22/01
DA seeks jail's food fund records
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/10090161131738227.xml

by Steve Myers
The Mobile County district attorney has subpoenaed Sheriff Jack Tillman's records of the Metro Jail's food fund and the records of a company that sells meat and other products to the jail.
The records being sought include those documenting a substantial sum of money that Tillman says belongs to him -- state funds provided to feed prisoners.



Ann Arbor News 12/22/01
She rescued a piece of U-M's history
http://aa.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20011221ac1burck21.frm

by Don Faber
For 20 years, Anita Burck was a familiar figure in the surgery department at The University of Michigan Hospitals. From 1971-91, she made the lecture slides that every resident and doctor used for instruction in one of the world's foremost research and teaching hospitals.



Detroit Free Press 12/22/01
State tries to find person who changed Kilpatrick's address
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw47004_20011222.htm

AP
DETROIT (AP) -- The Secretary of State's office is investigating whether someone used a computer link to state records to get information to change mayor-elect Kwame Kilpatrick's driver's license address.
An electronic inquiry was made into Kilpatrick's records sometime before Dec. 12, when phone caller who identified himself as Kilpatrick asked that the address be switched, the Detroit Free Press reported Saturday.



New York Times 12/22/01
The unforeseen disruption of moving ahead
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/arts/22TECH.html

by Edward Rothstein
It is lonely at the top, but it also seems secure. The view is intoxicating. Every potential challenge is visible. The perch seems to guarantee invulnerability.
But then, from an unexpected direction, comes an almost insignificant challenge, one that at first can seem a minor annoyance, hardly worth concentrated attention. And then unexpectedly the leader is toppled.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va