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  Charlie Luken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luken served as mayor of Cincinnati from 1984 to 1991.
Luken, however, discouraged the board from its inquiry, stating that it would be bad for the city if he had no opponent for re-election, as the Republican party had failed to field a candidate for the office of mayor.
Mallory was elected Luken's successor on November 8, 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlie_Luken   (724 words)

  
 Luken 'where he belongs'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Luken, a junior at Bowling Green State University, will return to school later today but first will join her family in celebrating her father's successful return to politics after six years as a Cincinnati television news anchor.
Luken's wife, was to join the party but was held up at a Kids Voting event at the Hamilton County Board of Elections downtown.
Luken abruptly announced that he was not running for a second term, a move that greatly agitated his father, who had assumed a person named Luken could hold that seat for life.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/11/03/loc_luken_where_he.html   (522 words)

  
 luken110101
Luken's backers play down the primary as an aberration, noting that the fact that it occurred on Sept. 11, the day of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, sent turnout plummeting to a dismal 14.8 percent.
Luken, who finished second with 38 percent, professes confidence that on Tuesday he will reverse the finishing order of the primary to become Cincinnati's first directly elected strong mayor in three-quarters of a century.
The son and nephew of former Cincinnati mayors, the 50-year-old Luken was introduced to politics at an early age by his father, Thomas A. Luken, whose lengthy career took him from the Deer Park solicitor's office to Cincinnati City Hall and on to seven terms in Congress.
www.cincypost.com /2001/nov/01/luken110101.html   (1707 words)

  
 Jim Luken | Vitae
Luken, J.O. An index of invasion for the ground layer of riparian forest vegetation.
Luken, J.O. Population structure and biomass allocation of the naturalized shrub Lonicera maackii in forest and open habitats.
Luken, J.O. Cultivating new populations of Venus’ fly trap at Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve (South Carolina).
www.coastal.edu /biology/luken/vitae   (929 words)

  
 Wilkinson: Luken an unpredictable act, as always
Jim Luken was dying of cancer, and many in the Democratic Party saw Charlie Luken as the natural candidate to take his place.
It was a fight that split the Luken family and Democratic Party - Thomas Luken wanted his son on the ticket; Jim Luken wanted his former council aide, Florence McGraw.
In August 1992, Luken threw the Democratic Party for a loop when, three months before the election, he announced he was withdrawing as a candidate.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/08/03/loc_loc1alukenx.html   (775 words)

  
 CityBeat: Burning Questions (2001-07-05)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Luken is the scion of a political dynasty that once actually fought for causes.
The mayor's father, Tom Luken, went to Washington on the wave of post-Watergate reform.
The Cincinnati Enquirer quoted Luken in the 1999 race: "I have never seen the kind of chaos and disorganization that you can see if you watch a council meeting on TV." Two years later, the chaos is far worse.
www.citybeat.com /2001-07-05/bq.shtml   (683 words)

  
 Jim Luken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luken was a local leader of the Milk Driver's Union, a subsidiary of the Teamsters.
Luken served in the Ohio House of Representatives and on the Cincinnati city council before becoming mayor.
Luken's brother and nephew, Tom Luken and Charlie Luken, both served as U.S. representatives and mayors of Cincinnati.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Luken   (173 words)

  
 rfk0604
Jim Luken was head of the Milk Driver's Union, part of the Teamsters.
Kennedy frequently and publicly praised Jim Luken, saying on nationwide TV in 1959 that Luken was ''one of the few Teamsters who have had the courage to openly oppose James R. Hoffa.''
Tom Luken said Bobby Kennedy also made the Cincinnati U.S. attorney's office his headquarters for the Senate committee's fight against organized crime in Northern Kentucky.
www.cincypost.com /news/1998/rfk060498.html   (699 words)

  
 Tom Luken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Andrew Luken (born July 9, 1925, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a politician of the Democratic Party from Ohio.
From 1955 to 1961, Luken served as solicitor for the city of Deer Park, Ohio.
Tom's brother, Jim Luken, was a labor leader and also served as a Cincinnati mayor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Luken   (355 words)

  
 ENN: Environmental News Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The most-accepted theory is winds and water over thousands of years carved out the depressions and gave them their elliptical shape, said Jim Luken, a biology professor at Coastal Carolina University.
Luken drives through the preserve, pointing out how the landscape seems to change around every bend.
Luken still marvels that in his four years in South Carolina he has studied Carolina Bays as hard as anyone and has been out to the preserve hundreds of times.
www.enn.com /today_PF.html?id=9037   (922 words)

  
 Politics Extra: 11/27/2005 - 12/03/2005
His brother, James T. Luken, was a chain-smoking old union boss who rose to international prominence when, as head of the Milk and Ice Cream Drivers and Dairy Workers Local 98, he rebuffed a takeover attempt by the Teamsters' Jimmy Hoffa.
Then, as Jim Luken was dying of cancer, nephew Charlie Luken -- Tom's son -- ran for City Council, beginning a political career that would later lead him to become the longest-serving mayor in the city's history -- a stint that ends today.
She said she was caught off guard by Luken's announcement in August 2004 that he would not run again, and thought she deserved to be kept in the loop on his political plans.
frontier.cincinnati.com /blogs/gov/2005_11_27_default.asp   (5515 words)

  
 NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Search old newspapers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
There s that lugged 38-year-old Jim Luken, the only Teamster leader left in the broad land who still tells Jimmy Hoffa to go jump into the Potomac or the Ohio River here if Holfa has any preference.
Testi- fying before the McClellan commit- tee, Luken revealed that the worst of the harassments came when one of his colleagues in the crusade was charged with rape in court.
She said she was paid by the 'Great White Father in Washing- ton.' Luken told the committee.
www.newspaperarchive.com /newspapers1/na0001/598114/6767352.html   (4316 words)

  
 newsletter
Dale Horton and Jim Lukens gave presentations at the annual meeting.
Jim Luken's daughter, Allison, has been awarded an academic scholarship by the state of Arkansas.
Jim is very proud of her and amazed the state offers such a scholarship.
www.ncat.org /newsletter/archives/2000/apr/newsletter.htm   (2379 words)

  
 ATSDR - PHA - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Fairborn, Greene County, Ohio
Jim Shoemaker to ATSDR during the September 14 to 18, 1998, site visit.
Luken, J. Personal communication with Jim Luken, Greene County Department of Health, January 7, 1999.
Shoemaker, J. Personal communication with Jim Shoemaker, Environmental Scientist, Department of Water, City of Dayton, January 7, 1999.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/wright-patafb/wpa_p2.html   (1630 words)

  
 Race won't determine this race - Cincinnati Business Courier:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Luken, Jim Tarbell and Todd Portune were the area's top vote-getters in the 1999 City Council campaign.
Neighborhood leaders say Luken supporters generally cite Fuller's lack of experience, while Fuller's supporters have a variety of complaints against Luken, including downtown development woes and the curfew Luken ordered after a jury acquitted Police Officer Steven Roach on charges stemming from the April shooting death of Timothy Thomas, which sparked three days of riots.
Beaupre thinks Luken has done a better job than Fuller in recent weeks courting white Democratic voters.
www.bizjournals.com /cincinnati/stories/2001/11/05/story1.html?page=2   (712 words)

  
 Cincinnati.Com: Obituaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rose Marie Lipps, RSM, Richard Lipps, Marietta (late John) Yunker, Donna (Jim) Hengehold, Sharon (Don) Holtz, Janet (Ron) Goldsberry, Bernadette Lipps and the late Don (Faye) Lipps.
Teresa claimed him as one of hers as soon as she was old enough to know him.
He will be missed by all and remembered in prayer often by all of us.
dunes.cincinnati.com /announce/default.aspx?id=2153   (226 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Forgotten Among the Lilies: Learning to Love Beyond Our Fears: Books: Ronald Rolheiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jim Luken's delivery is unfailingly clear and professional.
Since author Ronald Rolheiser moves among many topics, addressing everything from existential aspects of the human condition to the nature of sexuality, Luken's clarity is useful.
Rolheiser repeatedly engages his topics personally, writing about deeply emotional issues and going out on somewhat of a limb as he speaks from his experience as a priest and the challenges he's faced when dealing with pain or sexuality.
www.amazon.com /Forgotten-Among-Lilies-Learning-Beyond/dp/0385512317   (1835 words)

  
 Haitian Children in Bondage - July 2001 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online
Jim Luken and his wife, Jeanette, spent 10 weeks in Haiti in the winter of 1999.
They live in Sheffield, Vermont, where he is a manager of a low-income senior living community.
Luken is currently narrating his long history as an antiwar activist in a full-length memoir.
www.americancatholic.org /Messenger/Jul2001/Feature1.asp   (2849 words)

  
 UNIDO - 10th Anniversary UNIDO - UNEP Cleaner Production Centres
Volume 12, Issue 3, (April 2004) edited by R.A. Luken, R. Richardson and R.
According to the journal editorial, the special issue "is devoted to reviews of the progress made in enhancing the implementation of the CP concepts and approaches in many developing countries.
A key recommendation adopted at the ESID conference was the introduction of measures that would minimize waste generation and increase recovery of materials.
www.unido.org /doc/43546   (1043 words)

  
 Cincinnati 'Main' Street Seeks New Image (phillyBurbs.com) | National   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But as the unrest and anger settled, Mayor Charlie Luken made it a priority to clean up Vine Street in Over-the-Rhine.
Jim Franklin, Luken's point man on the Vine Street project, knew he had a big job the first time he sized up the situation.
They had really taken control of the street," Franklin said.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/1-05272003-96620.html   (786 words)

  
 May 7 Council Minutes
Also present were Bret Heim, City Attorney; Phil Merkel, Fire Chief; Shane Smith, Police Officer; Loretta Roberts, Ambulance Director; Lori Evans, City Clerk; and Mike Stodgell, City Superintendent.
Lee Roberts, Robin Boyer, Carrie Boyer, Harold Balding, Larry Lillard, Richard Luken, Jim Mueller, and Debra Merkel were visitors attending the meeting.
Councilman Houk moved to approve the minutes of the regular council meeting held April 2, 2001.
skyways.lib.ks.us /towns/Moran/may01.html   (1941 words)

  
 RFK, Hoffa, Salinger
Threats, abuses, bribes, trumped-up charges - Jim Luken and his followers have faced them all and have not yet been beaten in their fight against Jimmy Hoffa and William Presser.
Luken stands alone as a Teamsters leader who stood up to be counted against Hoffa, and survived.
But he believes that labor union democracy is worth fighting for.
www.orwelltoday.com /rfkhoffasal.shtml   (3938 words)

  
 Blogs @ Cincinnati.Com: Fountain Square
He was down-to-earth, so down-to-earth that he stumbled over several words that he had to read just like the rest of us would if we were up there emceeing.
I think the word eclectic is so overused; however, that is a fitting word for this event: Bootsie Colllins in his lovely purple hat, outfit and sparkling sunglasses, the dapper Mayor Mallory, ex-Mayor Charlie Luken and Jim Tarbell.
Nikki Giovanni reading a poem that was a bit shocking in parts (wow, she said how she feels and how a lot of us feel!).
frontier.cincinnati.com /blogs/news   (1788 words)

  
 Atlanta,Georgia,11Alive,ATLANTA,News,Weather,Doppler,sports,events
He says he feels his “personal feelings and opinions” would create a conflict of interest in his attorney-client relationship with the city.
Mayor Jim Luken says Huff has served the city well for several years and that he admires Huff’s professionalism in taking steps to avoid any potential conflict of interest.
Huff has been Watkinville’s attorney for almost 15 years.
www.11alive.com /news/news_article.asp?storyid=81868   (203 words)

  
 April 1998 Trip to Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In April 1998, Bill (Jr.), Marj, and Bill (III) Luken travelled from New York to Cape Coral, Florida to visit Bill's parents, Bill (Sr.) and Catherine Luken.
Deedee did not join us because she had to stay in Boston for classes and hospital work.
We arrived in time to see Bill's brother Jim and Jim's wife Ellen, along with their daughter Josie and their Swedish foreign exchange student Emma.
home.earthlink.net /~wmluken2/1998/April1998.htm   (188 words)

  
 Forgotten Among the Lilies: Learning to Love Beyond Our Fears, Ronald Rolheiser; Read by Jim Luken ( )
Forgotten Among the Lilies: Learning to Love Beyond Our Fears, Ronald Rolheiser; Read by Jim Luken ()
Forgotten Among the Lilies: Learning to Love Beyond Our Fears by Ronald Rolheiser; Read by Jim Luken
Forgotten Among the Lilies shows us the way to contentment and joy in our lives: trusting in God's grace and loving care.
catalog.americancatholic.org /product.aspx?prodid=A16714&affid=col   (153 words)

  
 Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ACP: Give thanks for the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), The Most Rev. Peter Jasper Akinola, Primate.
July 25th – Pentecost VIII: ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH, ST. JOHNS-BURY, Jeanette Tweedy and Jim Luken; Elsa Ph.Walberg.
ACP: Give thanks for the Church of Pakistan (United), The Most Rev. Alexander John Malik, Primate.
www.dioceseofvermont.org /Resources/PrayerCycle04.html   (2610 words)

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