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THE INENANAPOLIS RECORDER

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State democrats sent most diverse delegation ever to LA Hoosier Democrats have fanned out across Indiana after taking the state’s most diverse and accessible delegation ever to the Democratic National Convention. The Indiana delegation to THE convention at Los Angeles had record-setting participation by minorities. This achieved a goal established by state party leaders. While national Democratic rules sought six AfricanAmericans within the 88-person Indiana delegation, Hoosiers had 19 African-American delegates. Five delegates were Hispanic, even though national Democratic rules called for only one Hispanic delegate. The delegation was balanced for gender, as national Democratic rules sought. But within the delegation, each of the 10 congressional district delegations also was balanced for gender. In addition to being diverse, the delegation was also accessible. In Los Angeles, journalists and other non-del-egates attending the convention were invited to the daily breakfast business meetings of the delegation. Journalists and friends of the delegation were also invited to nearly every other event conducted by the Hoosier delegation. Gasoline sales tax

BRIEFS Continued from A1 suspension set beyond Labor Day weekend Governor Frank O’Bannon said he will continue Indiana’s suspension of sales taxes on gasoline until September IS and that he won’t hesitate to suspend the tax again if crude oil shortages cause high prices to return and create an unfair burden on Hoosier people and businesses. In the past 60 days, Hoosiers have saved more than $22 million in taxes at the pumps across Indiana due to the suspension of the sales tax. An additional $6 million is expected to be saved over the 21 additional days of the extended suspension. A precise calculation of how much they have saved due to the entire price decline can’t be made. But for the past several weeks, gasoline prices in Indiana have been among the lowest in the nation. Grants set to revive 'brownfields’ in enterprise zones At best, they’re underused eyesores. At worst, abandoned industrial tracts with toxic contamination. They’re brownfields, and Governor Frank O’Bannon today took the first step toward turning nine such sites throughout Indiana from dreary liabilities

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into productive assets. The governor awarded $219,560 in the first grants from the state’s new Urban

Enterprise Zone Brownfields

Program. They will support

revitalization efforts by urban enterprise associations in East . Chicago, Fort Wayne, ^

Hammond, Indianapolis,

Lafayette, Michigan City, New 4 j Albany, South Bend and Terre

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“This new program is an important redevelopment tool ' for our urban areas,” O’Bannon" said. The grants support re- ^ search, background and site ' 1 visits (Phase I) and ground and', water sampling for contaminants (Phase II) at vacant or underused industrial sites. These assessments determine whether an environmental cleanup is needed and, if so, how extensive it would be.

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“So many women live pay-check-to-paycheck and reiy. heavily on credit cards or what I call’Plastic Crack.’ Plastic Crack like powdered crack, makes you feeMHe something you are not,” writes Yetunde. ' •• • v « The book shecalls a “two-houif attitude adjustment” is intende4 for the millions of women who make decent salaries, but will probr ably not be able to support them; selves in retirement. Yetunde identifies the cultural, political and social influences that discourage African-American women from dealing with their money matten and participating in wealth-build-ing activities. Both books are published by a Black women-owned publisher based in Oakland, Calif. “We call our books financial/self-help books because they are for the reader who may have bought, but - never really read a financial book,”

states Tracey Scott, Marabella Books founder. “There is an untapped market of potential and passive investors who need to make financial decisions. Beyond 40 Acres is the fim one tfcey read to ■ get 1 them ready and The Inheritance n more instructional yet entertaining.” You can hear Pamela Ayo Yetunde on Monday, Aug. 28, at University United Methodist Church in a talk co-sponsored by Eastern Star Church. On Tuesday evening, Aug. 29, she speaks at Barnes & Noble Keystone Crossing. On Thursday, Aug. 31, she is one of several speakers at the Everywoman’s Money Conference, a free one-day conference for women sponsored by state Treasurer Tim Berry, held at the Convention Center. Both books are available at local bookstores or directly from Marabella Books at www.smartsisters.com.

Court of Appeals

strikes down school’s drugtesting policy The Indiana Court of Ap-

peals struck down a school • .o policy of performing drug test&.t on students participating in ’ >t athletics and other extracurricu-" lar activities but not suspected of using drugs. ..n Although some similar . ;n policies have been upheld in federal appeals courts, the a* Indiana court ruled that the <:/ state’s constitution provides • -

greater protections against

invasions of privacy. ^ Itsaidthepolicy of North- ,b western School Corp. in av Kokomo “does not propose a direct correlation between drag use and its need to randomly ,]< test the majority of students for

drags.”

The policy, which aiso t <',t applies to students who drive tpr school, became effective in January 1999. It was adopted > after two students died of drug.;, overdoses and a recent graduate was killed in a car accident ; jinvolving the use of inhalants. ;> The Court of Appeals said a. the school corporation was : -1, more concerned about prevent-j ing future tragedies than combating an existing drag a.

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