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...teaching team also exposes children to cultural and civic interests through one-on-one tutoring, field trips to cultural institutions and community service projects...
...investigation focuses on how the mayor and the Sharpe James Civic Association spent an estimated $3 million from nearly a decade of fund-raising activities, and on a series of bank loans the mayor received. If the admission fees for James' birthday parties and other events had been spent for political campaigning, James would have been legally bound to report them to the state election authorities. If, as James claims, they went to charitable causes, the mayor has another kind of explaining to do. Since 1986, when he was first elected mayor, James has bought a $160,000 yacht...
Against that reality, questions about his wealth have cost James the support that won him unopposed re-election in 1990 and a third-term landslide last year. Contributors to his civic association clearly thought their dollars would buy influence. Says one veteran partygoer who now opposes the mayor: "I figured it would be used to support Sharpe and other candidates that he wanted to see elected. And I figured that in return for contributing, the doors of city hall would be open to me when I needed help...
James, who declined to be interviewed, has said the proceeds were used for charitable activities such as distributing Christmas baskets and turkeys in poor neighborhoods. But bank records obtained by the state election commission show that since 1988, checks drawn on the account of the Sharpe James Civic Association were used to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Committee to Re-elect Sharpe James...
...borne by state and county funds and by private donors. Yet another source of acrimony is whether the Terrace deserves to be considered a Wright design at all. A local organization called It Ain't Wright has argued that the architect's original concept envisioned a 2.8 hectare multipurpose civic center, complete with jail and railroad station, on a pristine stretch of lakeshore. The scaled-down version being built snuggles up against a cluttered Madison neighborhood. The proximity, critics say, violates Wright's central thesis that architecture should be in harmony with surrounding nature...