Returning life to the community 

 Nation of Islam's Salaam restaurant reopens as sign of economic independence and efforts to rebuild Black community.

 CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - After a 12 year hiatus, the “Palace of the People” is back and better than ever. The rebirth and reopening of Salaam restaurant, the $5 million newly-renovated Nation of Islam built facility, generated excitement and buzz that was only surpassed by the delicious cuisine on the menu.

For a city experiencing a surge of violent crimes, high unemployment and bleak outlook, the resurrection of the Salaam in the heart of the Black community is right on time, said residents and leaders. 

Salaam shines like a jewel in the night. Photos: Richard B. Muhammad

The opening is not just a physical renewal but also symbolizes a spiritual renewal for Auburn Gresham, the 98 percent Black southwest side community where the restaurant sits on the corner of 79th St. and Union Ave.

Local community leaders, clergy, politicians and business professionals joined the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for pre-grand opening events, including an ecumenical prayer luncheon June 27 and a special evening of elegance July 1. The restaurant fully and officially reopens the weekend of July 6 and 7.

  Hall of Fame basketball star and entreprenuer Magic Johnson addressed the reopening of the Salaam restaurant via video link.

While business people hesitate to invest and develop in low income areas, the Nation of Islam and Min. Farrakhan, in following the teachings and example of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, did not hesitate in opening the world class facility in the middle of the “hood.”

“I have been criticized by well meaning people for putting such a beautiful place in the heart of the so-called ghetto. I was told, ‘A place as beautiful as this should be located downtown,’ ” said Min. Farrakhan. “We love our people and the best is not good enough so we put the Salaam exactly where we wanted it to be. We wanted it to be a Palace for the People and it is just that.”

  Min. Farrakhan greets Willie Barrow during Salaam reception. Photo: Dbarge.com

The Rev. Willie Barrow, a longtime community leader and Rainbow Push board member, spoke strongly to the crowd invited to celebrate, about the necessity of building and backing Black businesses. She called the Salaam an example of the type of development Black neighborhoods need. The word must spread far and wide that the restaurant is open, said Rev. Barrow. And with the challenges facing Blacks, including foreclosures on churches as parishioners go through hard times, economic cooperation is a must, she added.

“This is not just about a place for Muslims to be but this is something that is directly for the community. And when I think about that I think about economic development. I think about some of the youth that’s out there on the corner, young men and women that’s looking for work. I think that this is a place that they can come to apply to,” said Elder Hildred Taylor from The Church of the Living God in Maywood, Ill., who attended the reception.

“This is great timing that the Salaam is reopening and that the Nation is kind of reinvigorating the section of the community that has long been key,” he added. “I look at it not just as the reopening of the Salaam but resurrecting the whole Nation of Islam campus. What we’re going to do as a community development corporation is give as much PR, we’re going to add many stories to our website, to our local Auburn-Gresham portal. I mean we’re really going to beef this up not just as a great thing that the Nation of Islam is doing but a great thing that’s happening in our community by one of our strong community partners.”

Rev. Dr. Michael Pfleger of the Faith Community of Saint Sabina, Prince Asiel Bin Israel and other clergy offered prayers for success for the Salaam at an earlier weekday ecumenical brunch that was also was packed. Muslims, Christians and Hebrews celebrated and exuded pride in the restaurant comeback and its importance as a symbol and substance of Black entrepreneurship with a higher purpose.

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The Salaam Restaurant: 'The Palace of The People'

I understand that there are tortoises that live over 400 years, and there are trees that live 1,000-1,200 years. Well, Isaiah the prophet promised us that we would be like the “planting of the trees,” and in the Book of Isaiah it teaches even in that day a baby will die at 100. However, when someone gets to be 100 years of age, you may think, “Oh, that man been here a long time”—but if you get there, see how “short” 100 years is!

We don’t live long enough… And as one of the pastors said, “Getting old gets a little inconvenient,” but it wasn’t “inconvenient” for Abraham! He was an old man making babies. And his wife Sara was way up in age; who laughed and doubted God when He said that she will give birth to a child. And she did bring forth a child, but you “die too young”; your eggs die too young. So when the scripture teaches, “I came that you may have life, and have it more abundantly,” then this means someone has to teach us “how to eat to live.”

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Some of you wonderful preachers that came from Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, you know why we left! After we came North, we never wanted to see land anymore. “Don’t even tell me Grandpa left some land. I’m sick of that place down there”—because sharecropping is hard when you’re working like “you know what” for somebody else, and he lies and tells you that you owe him after you worked for him.

You know what we’ve been through, but let’s do it one more time. This time, let’s do it for ourselves! It’s going to take not “one” of us, but it’s going to take all of us with The Vision, pooling our resources, and learning how to trust one another so that you know that you’re not going to put your money with somebody who is going to rip you off.

We have to learn how to really be Christ-like, because Christ was a strange kind of man in a world like this! Imagine a man making a blind man see, and then asking for nothing; a deaf man coming up to him, and he touches his ear, and the man hears; raising Lazarus from the dead … Jesus healed, and all he asked was for us to give God The Glory.

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Tyler Perry Brings Attention To Case Of Missing Florida Man

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Terrance Deon Williams
Case Type: Endangered
Date of Birth: January 17, 1976
Missing Date: January 11, 2004
Age Now: 36
Missing City: Naples
Missing State: Florida
Case Number: 04-1610
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Complexion: Light
Height: 5’6″
Weight: 160
Hair Color: Brown
Hair Length: Shoulder length
Eye Color: Brown
Wear Glasses or Contacts: No

Location Last Seen: Williams was last seen in the vicinity of 111th Ave. and Vanderbilt Dr. in Naples, Fla. He was possibly sighted later that day at a convenience store in the vicinity of Wiggins Pass and US 41.

Circumstances of Disappearance: His vehicle, a white Cadillac, was found on Vanderbilt Beach Rd. in Naples, Fla., on January 12, 2004. According to news reports, Williams was last seen with Cpl. Steven Calkins, a nearly 17-year Collier Sheriff’s Office veteran.

According to a report in the Naples Daily News,  the officer was “fired from the Sheriff’s Office in August 2004. Eight pages in the Sheriff’s Office internal probe outline Calkins’ “lies and inconsistencies about what happened.”

The officer was the same man last spotted with Felipe Santos, a 23-year-old Mexican laborer, who disappeared just three months before. Williams’ mother was notified by the Mexican Consulate about the similarity in Santos’ case and that of her son’s. The officer says he dropped both men off in locations that were about four miles apart.

2 adults, 7-year-old boy found shot to death in bloodbath at Brooklyn apartment

Cops believe carnage was double murder, suicide 

Joe Marino/for New York Daily News

Police outside apartment building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where the bodies of a man, a woman and a child were found shot to death.

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Fans Howl After Weather Site Buys Out Rival

The announcement on Monday that the Weather Channel Companies, owners of television’s Weather Channel and weather.com, would buy one of its rivals, Weather Underground, set off howls of displeasure on social media platforms and around water coolers across the nation. The purchase price was not disclosed. 

In the eyes of Weather Underground’s ardent fans, the Weather Channel appears to represent the wrong kind of weather information: personality-driven sunniness and hype, they say, rather than the pure science of data. As Mike Tucker, a computer professional in New Hampshire, put it on Facebook, reacting to news of the deal: "Nooooooooooooooooo! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Insight: Florida man sees "cruel" face of U.S. justice

MIAMI (Reuters) - Quartavious Davis is still shocked by what happened to him in federal court two months ago.

"My first offense, and they gave me all this time," said Davis, a pudgy African American with dreadlocks who spoke with Reuters at the Federal Detention Center in Miami. "Might just as well say I'm dead."

Davis was convicted of participating in a string of armed robberies in the Miami area in 2010. His accomplices testified against him, saying he carried a gun during their crimes and discharged it at a dog that chased them after one of their burglaries. But Davis was not convicted of hurting anyone physically, including the dog.

Father, son arrested after indoor marijuana plants found


 

The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office arrested a father and son after marijuana was found on their property Friday.



According to Sheriff Leroy Ravenell, Narcotics Investigators were investigating marijuana plants being grown inside a Neeses home.

After observing a strong odor coming from an outdoor shed and other items associated with manufacturing marijuana, officers obtained a search warrant for 217 Greatview Road, Neeses, the report stated.

Officers say they located 20 marijuana plants being grown in the outdoor shed on the property.

According to investigators, the shed was equipped with grow lights, insulated rooms, exhaust fans and air conditioners, various fertilizers, and manicured plants.

FDA approves first over-the-counter home use HIV test kit

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, the first over-the-counter, self-administered HIV test kit to detect the presence of antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and type 2 (HIV-2). HIV is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

 

The OraQuick In-Home HIV Test is designed to allow individuals to collect an oral fluid sample by swabbing the upper and lower gums inside of their mouths, then place that sample into a developer vial, and obtain test results within 20 to 40 minutes. A positive result with this test does not mean that an individual is definitely infected with HIV, but rather that additional testing should be done in a medical setting to confirm the test result.

 

Similarly, a negative test result does not mean that an individual is definitely not infected with HIV, particularly when exposure may have been within the previous three months. The test has the potential to identify large numbers of previously undiagnosed HIV infections, especially if used by those unlikely to use standard screening methods.

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV infection. About one in five are not aware they are infected. There are about 50,000 new HIV infections every year. Many of these new infections are transmitted from people who are unaware of their HIV status.

 

“Knowing your status is an important factor in the effort to prevent the spread of HIV,” said Karen Midthun, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “The availability of a home-use HIV test kit provides another option for individuals to get tested so that they can seek medical care, if appropriate.”

 

Clinical studies for self-testing have shown that the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test has an expected performance of 92 percent for test sensitivity, the percentage of results that will be positive when HIV is present. This means that one false negative result would be expected out of every 12 test results in HIV-infected individuals.

 

Clinical studies also have shown that the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test has an expected performance of 99.98 percent for test specificity, the percentage of results that will be negative when HIV is not present. This means that one false positive would be expected out of every 5,000 test results in uninfected individuals.

Quick At-Home H.I.V. Test Wins Federal Approval

A new H.I.V. test for home use that gives quick results was approved on Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration, giving Americans the first chance in the epidemic’s 30 years to learn in the privacy of their own homes whether they are infected.


The test, made by OraSure and called OraQuick, uses a cheek swab and gives results in 20 to 40 minutes, so it is as easy to use as a home pregnancykit.

Previous over-the-counter H.I.V. test kits allowed users to swab their own cheeks or prick their own fingers, but the sample had to be mailed to a lab.

Three Ways States Screwed Up On The Stimulus Food Assistance Program

Whispers has the June audit of the Emergency Food Assistance Program, and it's not pretty.

The program, which used stimulus funds to provide states with food for Americans in need, is revealed to have wasted food, inaccurately reported jobs created, and operated with a conflict of interest, according to the audit.

California bill could allow more than two parents per child

When adults fight over parenthood, a judge must decide which two have that right and responsibility — but that could end soon.

Emirate's New Boom Is Hotel Rooms

Silvia Razgova for The Wall Street Journal

Tourists are flocking to Dubai, drawn by its numerous five-star hotels, beaches and accessible glamour.

Make Money On Companies That Gouge You

Special Ed. Students Get a Spot on the Team

Unified Sports track team members, from left, Shekirah Marzett, Christon Watkins, Elijah Hall and Lamija Spahic enjoy a light moment before practice at Overland High School in Aurora, Colo. Unified Sports teams partner nondisabled student athletes with teammates who have intellectual disabilities. The program has had a recent surge in participation: More than 2,000 schools in 42 states have Unified Sports teams.

—Nathan W. Armes for Education Week

NAEP Scores Still Stalled for Native American Students

In a year of growth for many student groups on national tests, students of American Indian and Alaskan native descent are in an academic rut, according to a new study of the National Assessment of Education Progress.

But the study also identifies progress for those students in Oklahoma and a few other states that researchers say may point to ways states can better support students of Native Alaskan or American Indian heritage.

Grandma On The Run After Granddaughter Died Eating Pills From Candy Dish

Andy Griffith dies at 86

Beloved TV star Andy Griffith died at his home in Manteo, North Carolina, on Tuesday morning. He was 86.

Former University of North Carolina President Bill Friday confirmed the passing of his close friend to WITN News.

Griffith became a household name for his portrayal of a small-town sheriff on "The Andy Griffith Show," which aired from 1960 to 1968. His character, Andy Taylor, was a widower in the fictional town of Mayberry, N.C., which was thought to be modeled after Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, N.C. His character encountered daily drama from his sidekick Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts) as well as his young son, Opie (Ron Howard).

Ruling lets S.C. students earn credit for religion classes

In a ruling that advocates called "a tremendous victory for religious education," a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of a school district to award high school credit for religious courses, as long as they meet secular standards.

TD Bank to ramp up hiring in SC in August

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hiring for TD Bank's expansion plans for South Carolina is ramping up as its Greenville customer call center opens next month with 70 people.

The call center is part of the bank's plans for a regional hub, announced last November. Bank officials say the center will employ about 260 workers by year's end and 550 employees once fully staffed.

They are among the 1,600 jobs the bank expects to add in South Carolina by 2016 — 1,400 at its expanded corporate offices off Interstate 85 and 200 jobs at a technology center in Lexington. The bank currently employs 1,465 people statewide. That's about 120 more than last year, as the bank added tellers and other branch employees to accommodate longer hours.

Despite safety concerns, more golf carts hitting the road to save owners some green

They may be called golf carts, but these rides aren’t spending as much time on the greens as they used to.

“These will probably never see a golf course,” says Bob Miller, a salesman at Graham Golf Carts in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina about a few of the carts in his showroom.

And who could blame someone for choosing a fun, fuel efficient vehicle to get around town over a gas-guzzling, traffic inducing car?

Owners in South Carolina are especially pleased because in May, Governor Nikki Haley approved a bill that allows golf carts to be driven up to four miles from their homes, starting in October – instead of the two miles that had previously been the law.

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Small Farmers Creating a New Business Model as Agriculture Goes Local

Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times

Radishes are among the many vegetables grown at Alm Hill gardens near Everson, Wash., where produce is sold locally.

SEATTLE — The cultivated rusticity of a farmers’ market, where dirt-dusted beets are status symbols and earnest entrepreneurs preside over chunks of cheese, is a part of weekend life in cities across the nation as the high days of the summer harvest approach.

Grandma On The Run After Granddaughter Died Eating Pills From Candy Dish

 It’s been nearly one year since 2-year-old Destiny Riddick died after allegedly ingesting some pills from her grandmotherKimberly Artis’ (pictured left) candy dish.  Now police are hunting for Artis who ran away after being brought up on murder charges for her granddaughter’s death, according toNewsChannel 3.

On July 17, 2011, Destiny reportedly thought she was eating candy from a dish that had been ordinarily filled with sweet treats in her grandmother’s Suffolk, Virginia, home. Instead, the little girl had swallowed the potent drug suboxone, which is used to treat heroin addictions.

When Suffolk police were summoned to the scene, they found that the child was not breathing. Destiny was then immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Babysitter Allegedly Kills Baby Then Hides Body At Cousin’s House

Marquita Burch of  Cincinnati, Ohio stands accused of killing 1-year-old William Cunningham while she was babysitting him, WKRC 12 reports.


Burch has been charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter, two counts of endangering children, abusing a corpse and tampering with evidence in the baby’s death. According to the Hamilton County Prosecutor, Joe Deters, the boy died of “subdural hematoma, or a collection of blood on the brain.”

Teacher Charged With Having Sex With 12-Year-Old Ex-Student

Keshia Shaw of Tacoma, Washington is accused of having sex with a 12-year-old former student she taught five years ago, television station KIRO 7 reports.

Shaw, who taught at Grey Middle School, has been charged with five counts of second-degree child rape. She has not entered a plea. The boy, now 17, recently told his mother about the alleged acts and was inspired to speak up after hearing a sermon about molestation during a church sermon.

 The BET 2012 Awards: A Loving Whitney Houston Tribute [VIDEO]

Food stamp requests rise on Long Island

Food stamp requests are surging in Nassau and Suffolk counties, creating lengthy delays in getting assistance to families.

Photo credit: Newsday / Danielle Finkelstein | Joseph Bonilla, of Freeport, said he reluctantly applied for food stamps after being laid off from Nassau County's probation department. His wife, a dental assistant, also lost her job, and the couple were concerned about providing for their two children. The family was turned down for making too much in unemployment. (April 17, 2012)

Food stamp caseloads have more than doubled since 2008 -- to 37,500 in Nassau and 53,400 in Suffolk -- because of the recessionand state efforts to streamline applications and encourage participation in the program, officials said.

Numerous Long Island families now are waiting beyond the 30-day federal limit for determinations about whether they're eligible for food stamps.

Child Services Investigator Charged With Sexual Abusing Teen He Was Suppose To Protect

Jean LaCroix (pictured), an investigator for Florida’s Department of Children and Families, has been accused of having sex with a 17-year-old he was suppose to be protecting from abuse, the Miami Herald reports.

South Carolina preschool teacher who threw teen sex, pot parties avoids jail time 

Audrey B. Grabarkiewicz was given 3 years of probation in a case in which she and another teacher were accused of having sex with several students after plying them with booze and marijuana.

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Audrey Grabarkiewicz, 46, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

A former South Carolina preschool teacher who threw booze- and pot-fueled sex parties for local teens was spared jail time and sentenced to probation instead.

Audrey B. Grabarkiewicz, 46, will avoid a prison cell as long as she stays out of trouble during a three year period and serves 120 hours of community service, a judge ruled on Thursday.

Grabarkiewicz, a mom of three, and another former teacher, Sarah Jane Lindsay, were busted in September 2010 after police discovered they were hosting summertime sex gatherings for middle school and high school students, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal reported.

Prosecutors said the middle-aged pair plied the teens with booze and pot and had sex with several of them.

Grabarkiewicz, who taught preschool at Lake Bowen Baptist Church, faced 10 counts of corrupting a minor.

Lindsay, 44, who taught 4-year-old kindergarten at Boiling Springs Elementary, faced nine counts of the same charge, as well as the more serious charge of having sex with someone under 14.

The age of consent in South Carolina is 16.

TD Bank to ramp up hiring in SC in August

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hiring for TD Bank’s expansion plans for South Carolina is ramping up as its Greenville customer call center opens next month with 70 people.

The call center is part of the bank’s plans for a regional hub, announced last November. Bank officials say the center will employ about 260 workers by year’s end and 550 employees once fully staffed.

They are among the 1,600 jobs the bank expects to add in South Carolina by 2016 — 1,400 at its expanded corporate offices off Interstate 85 and 200 jobs at a technology center in Lexington. The bank currently employs 1,465 people statewide.

TD Bank President and CEO Bharat Masrani said the ‘‘real activity’’ in hiring will be at the end of this year and next year.

Son Files $21M Lawsuit In Father’s Death At Hands Of Police

 NEW YORK — The son of a 68-year-old man who was shot and killed by suburban New York police is filing a $21-million lawsuit.

Hitting, slapping tied to later mental disorders

Study links physical punishment to later mental disorders

Spanking Kids Leads to Adult Mental Illnesses

Tiger Woods win Sunday sends TV rating soaring

By Debby Wong-US Presswire

Whatever you think about Tiger Woods, there's no arguing with this: He can still move TV ratings -- big-time.



BET 2012 Awards: A Loving Whitney Houston Tribute [VIDEO] 

The tribute was incredible!  You've got to watch it . . . you will NOT be disappointed!

NJ eyes SC site for radioactive dirt

300 railroad cars of dirt would be dumped in a landfill near Bishopville, raising concerns

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The mega Lee County Landfill rises like a mesa on the horizon near Bishopville as seen in this Sept. 2010 file photograph.

- Tim Dominick /tdominick@thestate.com

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A company wants to send 300 railroad cars of radioactive dirt from New Jersey to South Carolina for burial in a mega garbage dump near Bishopville, rather than dispose of the waste in the Northeast.

The shipments from Sayreville, N.J., to South Carolina would be unprecedented for the mountainous waste dump, a nationally known landfill designed to bury household garbage instead of toxic waste.

Many questions remain unanswered about the disposal plan, but this much is known: dumping the soil would require extra precautions at the Lee County landfill. The radioactive soil poses threats to public safety not normally found in household garbage, records show.

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Columbia Hits 109 Degrees for 2nd Straight Day

Detroit toddler found dead beneath pile of clothes in grandmother’s closet  

Babysitting uncle arrested after 17-month-old is discovered after more than 12 hours missing. Family initially feared the girl kidnapped. Autopsy results will take weeks.

 

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Zyia Turner, 17 months, was missing for more than 12 hours before police dogs found her body in her grandmother's closet.

A baby girl in Detroit was discovered dead beneath a pile of clothes in her grandmother’s closet on Saturday morning, police said.


 


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The toddler's body was found beneath a pile of clothes in this closet.


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Con Ed locks out 8,000 employees, managers take over system as talks with union break down

Talks broke down about 1 a.m., officials said. Discussions centered around wages, pension and other benefits.

 

MARCUS SANTOS/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Con Edison command center in New York.Some 5,000 managers will now be running New York's power system.

Negotiations broke down early Sunday between Consolidated Edison and its unionized workers, prompting the lock out of about 8,000 employees, utility officials said.

“We remain far apart,” said Michael Clendenin, a Con Edison spokesman.

Talks broke down about 1 a.m., officials said. Discussions centered around wages, pension and other benefits.

Clendenin said the system would be run by about 5,000 managers. Customers shouldn’t expect any adverse effects, officials said. About half of the managers have experience on the ground — making repairs and running the power grid.

The contract between the power company and Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers of America expired at midnight Saturday.

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Coroner: Possible Heat Related Death Being Investigated At Easley Nursing Home

Some states trim use of planes in speed traps

NEW YORK (AP) - Highway signs throughout New York warn that when it comes to catching speeders, the long arm of the law extends even into the sky. "State Police aircraft used in speed enforcement," they say.

Actually, lead-footed drivers hitting the interstates for the Independence Day holiday can keep their eyes on the road. The New York State Police, who once routinely used planes to clock motorists, haven't written a single ticket in that manner since at least 2005.

"It hasn't been entirely eliminated," Sgt. Kern Swoboda, a state police spokesman, said of the signs. "We still have the airplanes."

But in these budget-conscious times, he said, launching aircraft to catch speeders just isn't fiscally prudent.

New York is one of several states to scale back the use of aircraft for traffic enforcement in recent years because of budget cuts or concerns about cost-effectiveness.

Other states have come to the opposite conclusion.  Read the article in its entirety to learn more.