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When you try something new, it pays to go with the pros!
That's what more than thirty newcomers recently discovered when they signed up for the ODFW'S "Crab Class;" a course from the agency's menu of adventures called Outdoor Skills.
Instructors, biologists and volunteers teach and assist students in the varied Outdoor Skills courses.
Crabbing is a popular recreation that requires some skill and knowledge, so the agency developed the daylong course to encourage participation.
ODFW spokesperson and instructor, Mark Newell, said that the students get all of the gear and assistance that they might need for a day of fun and excitement at Yaquina Bay in Newport.
"We want people to care about the environment and the only way to get them to do that is to get them out enjoying it. That's what 'Crab Class' does for many students."
Mike Hoge and his son, Jerrad Hoge, came all the way from Silverton to pick up pointers on the crabbing recreation.
"I did it a little bit as a kid," noted Mike. "But I didn't really have any instruction, so I thought some good lessons would help and I'm glad we came today."
The students kick off the affair at the South Beach State Park Activity Center, just south of Newport.
Instructor Brandon Ford presented the basics of crab biology and explained the trapping techniques, the rules and regulations of the sport.
The session was followed by a short drive to Yaquina Bay Marina where the hands on action began.
The first order of business was how to place the bait inside the crab trap or rings. The bait of choice for the day's adventure: chicken!
Jennifer Erickson said that she didn't mind the tradeoff of chicken for crab.
In fact, she her husband, Steve Erickson, traveled from Portland for the chance to learn something new about a seafood they really enjoy eating for dinner.
"It's really fun to go out with experts," shed noted. "To be coached and helped along the way before doing it on our own just seemed to make a lot of sense to us. Plus, crab is so tasty – that's a bonus."
Once the students were comfortable with the gear, it was time to toss the traps from atop Yaquina Bay Pier that juts hundreds of yards into the bay.
The pier is open to fishing and crabbing anytime.
Students learned how to measure a crab to make certain it's legal (only 12 male Dungeness crabs are allowed and they must be 5 ¾ inches across the back) and how to tell the difference between the two species of crab that are present in Yaquina Bay called Dungeness Crabs and Red Rock Crabs.
"We show them how to crab from the pier," said Ford. "But we also take them out on the bay in boats to drop traps in several places that our biologists have scouted. We try to take folks to the best places in the whole bay."
The traps were checked, crabs counted and then it was time to cook; a fine way to round out the day's adventure.
Each student in the class must purchase an ODFW Shellfish License.
The course costs $40 for adults, $10 for kids under 18. Students are provided with instruction, plus all of the gear including bait, traps and pfd's.
"It's a real good deal, added Ford. "Especially at lunchtime because no one goes away hungry from the class."


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RALEIGH — The Carolina Hurricanes could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars by the NHL because of a scheduling conflict with N.C. State University over event dates at PNC Arena, Hurricanes president and general manager Jim Rutherford said Friday.
Gale Force Holdings, which owns the Hurricanes and operates the arena, has been at odds with the universitys athletic department for months over scheduling. A June 1 deadline for N.C. State to free up possible dates for the hockey games as well as concerts, pro wrestling and other events likely will not be met, Rutherford said.
We do not have the dates, he said Friday. We have to have the dates (to the NHL) by June 1 or we will be fined for each date that we later change.
The NHL releases its schedule in early July. If the dispute with N.C. State forces the Hurricanes to change game dates after the schedule is set, the league could fine the Canes $100,000 for each date that must be changed.
Under its agreement with Gale Force and the Centennial Authority, which oversees the arena, N.C. State has priority on scheduling dates in the arena. The Wolfpack plays its mens basketball games in the arena, and football games at Carter-Finley Stadium necessitate the use of the shared parking lots.
Rutherford, in a May 14 letter to authority chairman Thomas McCormick, said the university was holding out 129 dates in a 214-day span for 23 basketball and football games. He said the new restrictions that N.C. State is attempting to impose severely limits Gale Forces ability to book events.
In another letter, Rutherford noted N.C. States stance had caused the loss of one event, which would have netted about $170,000 for the arena.
An exchange of letters in the past few months, recently released by the Centennial Authority, reflects the tension between the Hurricanes and Wolfpack.
Rutherford, in a Sept. 24, 2012 letter to McCormick, said Gale Force had received a Sept. 6 letter from N.C. State athletic director Debbie Yow and basketball coach Mark Gottfried. He said N.C. States position was that we must grant them 100 percent priority over all dates at PNC Arena, without regard to the reasonableness of what is best for the Authority, the City, County, State, Gale Force, the Hurricanes or fans that wish to attend events.
On Jan. 11, Rutherford wrote N.C. State chancellor Randy Woodson about the letter from Yow and Gottfried. He noted McCormick had met with Gale Force and N.C. State about the scheduling issues, and that PNC Arena general manager Davin Olsen had met with Yow and other athletic department officials.
Rutherford wrote in the letter that Yow had sent an email that day to Olsen that said further attempts to resolve this issue with the Athletic Department will be futile.
Rutherford wrote that Yows stance, as stated in the email, could negatively affect the viability of hockey in this market. He wrote that Gale Force absorbs any operating deficits in the arena, noting that it had been $1 million to $2 million a year, saying N.C. States position could raise those costs by an additional $10 million a year.
Woodson replied in a May 9 letter to McCormick, saying N.C. State had made a number of significant concessions to Gale Force in 2013 and other years, such as freeing up dates each February for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Giving up that time frame, he said, results in a competitive disadvantage for the Wolfpack, in that it would play two or three consecutive ACC road games.
Woodson had said the university has little additional flexibility because of the realities of college basketball scheduling, noting decisions made by television partners.
Woodson noted another concession made by the university was changing the starting time of the Wolfpacks April 20 spring football game. He said it was moved up to 1:30 p.m. and a planned autograph session canceled so that the parking lots would be freed up by 3:30 p.m. for the Hurricanes 7 p.m. game.
On May 14, Rutherford wrote McCormick saying, Moving forward, because we have been told by the N.C. State athletic department that it will not be as flexible as previous administrations, the number of events will be significantly reduced as more shows will skip PNC Arena due to the lack of available dates.
Yow, contacted last week, declined to comment on the scheduling conflicts. She said the letter sent by Woodson to the authority outlined the universitys position.
Woodson said Friday night before N.C. State's NCAA regional baseball game, I feel confident we'll work this out. We always have. The chancellor said N.C. State's problem was that the school had not received its basketball dates from the ACC. We're in a holding pattern because we do not know what our schedule is, he said.
Of the university's working relationship with Gale Force and the Hurricanes, Woodson said, It's been good. We've shared the facility for 13 years. McCormick could not be reached Friday.
Rutherford said he has met with Woodson, saying it was a very good meeting. He said he is hopeful such issues can be avoided in the future.
Were hoping to reach a reasonable understanding, he said.
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March 8, 2012 | Vol. 39, No. 10
Petersburg Municipal Power & Light has purchased a new stand-by diesel generator that will assist in high-energy demand cycles, when the city is cut-off from its main power supply, Tyee.
Petersburg City Council on Tuesday approved a bid from ASCR McGraw Constructors for $724,000, for the construction of a concrete platform, the construction of a control shack and installation of underground wiring.
"It is a stand-alone unit that is to be used in case the city is ever cut off from Tyee," said PMPL Superintendent Joe Nelson in a phone interview.
The bid was $174,000 above the engineer's estimate, but the project is under-budget by $343,425, according to Nelson.
According to Nelson, the current diesel generator system is not adequate to act as a back-up on its own. The new generator is a series 4000 V20 Cylinder, 3673 Brake Horsepower(BHP) system coupled to a 2000KW continuous, 4160V Marathon Generator. It's being assembled and shipped from Enercon Engineering Manufacturing, in Arizona.
"It's a portable unit. It doesn't need to be in a building," Nelson said. The generator will be housed in Scow Bay, not in town with the other diesel generators, Nelson said.
The project is scheduled to be completed near the end of summer, Nelson added.
The City Council approved the "authorization to enter into a professional services agreement" with PND Engineers on several projects including the design of the Landfill Slope Stabilization Project 2 , which is budgeted at $43,330. Engineering services for the Rasmus Enge Bridge Evaluation Project, Task 1, were approved for a budget of $27,020. The North Harbor Reconstruction Project, Concept 6, Tasks 1—5 was also approved for an estimated $502,187.
The City Council also approved to amend the Professional Services Agreement with PND to add Design Services for Wastewater Pump Station 5.
In all instances Councilman Rick Braun offered to recuse himself from voting due to his ties with PND, but the remaining councilmen approved his eligibility to vote.
The City Council also passed a resolution to allow the City Manager to get the ball rolling on a program to secure a $200,000 grant for fixtures, furnishings, and equipment for the new public library.
A Resolution in Favor of SB 171 (Base Student Allocation) the Petersburg School District Board of Education had requested the Council join them in supporting the Senate Bill. SB 171 provides predictable and stable funding for school districts over the next three fiscal years.
And the council approved a resolution against HB 145 (Parental Choice Scholarship Program). The school board is also opposed to the House Bill, which would remove funds from local school districts to provide funds for private school options.
Don Koenigs was the lone dissenter to the vote on HB 145. "I think the individual parents should have the right to choose," Koenigs said.
A discussion sparked by a resolution of a Sales Tax Free Day in the City of Petersburg for May 5, 2012 was tabled. The Council asked for another meeting to discuss the best time of year for a Sales Tax Free Day, citing that May 5th may be too busy of a day to pass-up sales tax revenues.
"You can't get much bigger than May 5th, with so much going on," said Councilor Susan Flint.
The Council also recognized John McCabe for his $12,040 endowment with the Alaska Community Foundation to fund arts education at the Petersburg Public Library. Interest earned from the fund (about $400 annually) will be available for arts programming at the library, according to the Council.
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CARY — The town of Cary has won dismissal of a lawsuit that alleged the Cary Police Department mistreated a hostage in a fatal stand-off at a Wachovia Bank in 2011.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused the Cary Police Department of mistreating a hostage in a fatal stand-off at a Wachovia Bank in February 2011.
Lee Everett, then 55, was among the first people freed from the western Cary bank during the hours-long incident. In his lawsuit, Everett claimed that he was then thrown to the ground and forcibly restrained and dragged by three Cary police officers.
The hostage-taker, Devon Mitchell, 19, later emerged from the building, appearing to police to hold a gun to a woman's head, and was shot to death by law enforcement officers. It soon became clear that Mitchell held only his hand beneath a cap.
Everett's lawsuit, filed in January 2012, requested compensation, disciplinary action against the officers involved, and changes to Cary police policies. The lawsuit also alleged that Everett was mistreated because he is black.
On Monday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway granted Cary a "summary judgment," dismissing each of the plaintiff's claims "with prejudice." The lawsuit can continue now only if Everett and his Chapel Hill lawyer, Alan McSurely, successfully appeal to the N.C. Supreme Court.
Ridgeway also found that McSurely had not properly submitted some of the plaintiff's evidence, and that some of the materials were "rife with non-relevant, unauthenticated, hearsay, and otherwise inadmissible evidence."
District Attorney Colon Willoughby also has sided with the town, finding last June that Cary police officers forced Everett to the ground only because he failed to comply with their commands.
In a written release, Police Chief Pat Bazemore said her department had investigated Everett's claims and found them meritless, while Town Attorney Christine Simpson said the local government had unwavering faith in its officers.
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KU once again to study G.C.'s diversity
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Because of its diversity, Garden City will be the focus of a research study conducted by the University of Kansas, beginning in January.
KU researchers recently were awarded a grant that will allow them to study the impact 30 years of continuous population changes in Garden City have had on local schools, and what that could teach educators in other communities nationwide.
"Garden City was at the forefront of that changing demographic and has been an exemplar, not only of what has happened, but what will continue to happen," Don Stull, KU professor of anthropology, said. "Schools are one of the places in any community where everyone comes together. That's not necessarily true of work, recreation, religion or similar institutions. We'll be able to look at that intersection of school and community and learn a great deal."
Stull has done research about Garden City for the past 25 years, contributing to his expertise about the impact meat and poultry industries have on communities.
"I'll be going back to a very familiar community and one that I'm deeply committed to and engaged with," Stull said.
Since Iowa Beef Processors (IBP) opened in December 1980 in Holcomb (now Tyson Fresh Meats), immigrants from Latin America, southeast Asia and, more recently, Somalia, Ethiopia and Myanmar have relocated to Garden City.
The $40,000 grant awarded by the Spencer Foundation will allow professors Stull and Jennifer Ng, KU associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies, to conduct interviews with teachers, administrators, parents and students, to see how they have approached the cultural shift in terms of meeting the educational needs of Garden City's migrant and refugee students, who collectively speak 21 languages other than English.
"The Spencer Foundation research will afford me the opportunity, along with Jennifer, to spend quite a bit of time in Garden City, focusing specifically on the schools and how administrators, teachers and other staff — how they really are dealing with that growing diversity," Stull said.
The professors' research will enable them to compile and share data with other communities in the nation and Canada that are experiencing similar change.
"Other people have a lot to learn from the insight that will come, so we plan to present aspects of our research at professional conferences that will be attended by practitioners and researchers from across the country. And then we also plan to publish results from the research in academic journals and that's how it will reach policymakers and educational researchers," Ng said, adding that it also is their hope that the research findings will be beneficial to Garden City and its schools.
Stull called Garden City a "micropolitan" community.
"Micropolitan communities are rural, small towns, based largely on agricultural economies, but they experience the kind of social and cultural challenges that metropolitan areas face. So one of the attractive things about Garden City, to researchers like myself, is that there are a lot of really interesting things happening, but they're happening on a scale small enough that you can kind of get your mind around it, you can see it," he said.
Stull said that while their main focus will be on the public school system, they also will work with Garden City Community College and other organizations that work closely with migrant families.
Hector Martinez, Adult Learning Center director at GCCC, said he thinks the research will show that Garden City is progressive when it comes to diversity.
"And it will be great to export that information to other communities across the state and across the nation — that you can accept multicultural diversity to the growth of your community," Martinez said.
Janie Perkins, USD 457 supplemental programs coordinator, said that over the years, the district has employed several programs aimed at helping teachers communicate with second-language learners, who comprise about half of the total student population in the district.
"I think we're very fortunate here. Our school district, we're very prepared. We've had second-language learners for many, many years and our staff has a had a lot of development, as far as second-language learners, and so I feel like we're well prepared to serve different populations," Perkins said.
Additionally, Perkins said the district has the aid of local agencies, such as Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS), as well as GCCC, to help it meet the diverse needs of its students.
"We work very closely with the community college that also provides assistance in translating Somali and other languages we may not have in the district," she said, adding that USD 457 also employs translators and a large number of bilingual teachers. "We really try to make our best effort to communicate with the parents as well, so that they can understand, too."
Additionally, Perkins said that through the district's tuition reimbursement program, teachers are encouraged to obtain English as a Second Language (ESL) endorsements, through which they are taught how to communicate with students from other cultures.
"It's so they have a better understanding about the student's background, learning methods," Perkins said.
Perkins said she thinks Garden City's ability to adjust to the influx of multiple cultures over the past three decades has been a community effort.
"I think we're very fortunate that in Garden City, everybody works together really well, all the local agencies. We're all working with the same families, so not only is it a benefit to the families, but it's a benefit to the whole community," she said.
Stull said that in contrast to many other demographically similar communities that he has studied, Garden City is one of only a few that views diversity as something positive.
"Not everybody is happy about it, certainly, but Garden City, as a whole, has met those challenges head on and has seen the growing cultural and linguistic diversity as something to be valued and celebrated," he said.
Stull and Ng will begin doing research in the early part of January, and will make visits to Garden City throughout 2013.


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One of the most amazing things about students at UGA is that I have never heard one person say they don't like being here. UGA and Athens have so much to offer in so many different categories, that there really is something for everyone. The positive energy of 30,000 people who are happy to be here is captivating, and something you will instantly want to be a part of. It will not take long before you regard Athens as your second home, and after about a week, most students forget how big a school it is.
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I'm sure you have, by now, heard the news. Hostess Brands, the company that gave us such remembered childhood treats as Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Devil Dogs and other baked foodstuffs that have fallen into disfavor in our more gourmand age, announced today that it would be closing for business, effective immediately.
More than a few observers say they know who to blame for the demise of the iconic company: the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International union, which represents thousands of striking Hostess Brand workers who have refused to accept a new contract that would do everything from slash their salaries to their retirement benefits.
Time for a reality check.
Hostess has been sold at least three times since the 1980s, racking up debt and shedding profitable assets along the way with each successive merger. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2004, and again in 2011. Little thought was given to the line of products, which, frankly, began to seem a bit dated in the age of the gourmet cupcake. (100 calorie Twinkie Bites? When was the last time you entered Magnolia Bakery and asked about the calorie count?)
As if all this were not enough, Hostess Brands' management gave themselves several raises, all the while complaining that the workers who actually produced the products that made the firm what money it did earn were grossly overpaid relative to the company's increasingly dismal financial position.
Watch - Twinkies Talk: Hostess Isn't Hopeless
So now an estimated 18,500 workers will join the nation's unemployment rolls. But while Hostess Brands might soon become a forgotten name from the past, it's unlikely such a fate awaits such signature products as Twinkies. Company executives have already asked for bankruptcy court permission to begin the process of selling off their famed product lines to other companies.
Finally, a personal note: A few years ago, my husband picked our children up from a playdate at a home where, he said, it seemed like more food was banned than allowed, there was no television, and it was all too politically correct in the way all too many middle class childhoods are today. My husband's response? Before bringing the boys home, he stopped in at a local grocery and introduced our ecstatic children to fine products of Hostess Brands. "Yodels," he told me, "never tasted so good."
Addendum: Since this has come up in the comments, I need to remind everyone that Hostess Brands acquired Drake's Cakes in one the many of the misbegotten mergers it was involved in.
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From other sites, I've gleaned that Hostess tripled its CEO salary and increased management salaries by 80% before the last bankruptcy filing.
It doesn't look like much consideration has been given to improving the product line or building the brand for many years.
The unions had almost no choice but tos strike and the company was on its last legs anyway.
What does this even mean? How do you have no choice but to drive 18000+ of your members into unemployment?
kevinalexander – Put yourself in the place of a worker in this situation. Your company is screwing the retirees. Your pay has been dropped by 40%. The company is owned by a couple of hedge funds. There is no product innovation so there is no hope of a sudden turnaround in sales. Meanwhile, the upper management keeps giving itself raises.
Now management is demanded another 8% pay cut.
If you weren't in a union, you'd bide your time and quit.
But since you are in a union, and there's a strike vote, how are you going to vote? If you've got any pride at all, you'll vote to strike.
And while you're on strike, you'll look for a job with a viable employer.
Why should you agree to deprive your family so that the owner/managers can rake off more money?
When you're on a ship and it's taking on water, follow the rats.
It's been said already, but it just goes to show that what makes a company successful to begin with will never be what keeps it successful. Companies need to be fluid, agile, and adapt according to cultural trends and needs.
Even if the product itself didn't necessarily need to change (I think it did) innovative distribution methods (hey, what about Twinkies at baseball games?) and clever marketing exercises to change negative perceptions about the products AND capitalize on existing brand awareness would have helped.
It's amazing that with all the ownership changes and the amount of time the company had to adapt, it simply failed to do so.
I still think that Wonder Bread can't be beat. & knock offs killed twinkies & ding dongs. Similar products for less money. Hostess failed to be competitive enough to make it in wallys (wal-mart) world.
So their management stunk? Who cares? Of course this closure is the fault of the unions. Real unemployment is still close to a fifth of the country and you think people wouldn't have taken jobs as scabs, given a chance? Another 20000 out of work, and how much did that union help it members with their hard line stance? It helped them right onto the gov't teat.
Management may have been idiots, but even idiots can limp along where people are willing and free to work for pay. Creative destruction is great in the long run, but maybe the time to wreck your union member's careers is not in the middle of a double dip recession?
I don't understand why they needed a union to negotiate for them. There probably would have been people who would have rather had a job, than no job. If the management bleeds the company dry, eventually there will be no company. If you don't like working for their wages – find a different job. If the company wants to survive, and all their employees are leaving because of poor working conditions, they will be forced to improve to keep people. Put two non-union companies next to each other, and they will be forced to compete for labor, which is only good for the wage earner. I don't know what management was doing, but I know there were probably a few of those people who needed that job – no matter what…
I reviewing the many comments it appears that even Forbes browers are evenly divided between Capitalism and Socialism, take care of yourself or demand others take care of you and yours.
Very poor management in all the various entities. Too much focus on short term activities and deals, too little on running an effective business. Far too often the type of management that corporations have.
For all the folks crying about how the union 'killed the company': Some creditors question Hostess pay raises approved in late July.
Brian Driscoll, CEO, around $750,000 to $2,550,000.
Gary Wandschneider, EVP, $500,000 to $900,000.
John Stewart, EVP, $400,000 to $700,000.
David Loeser, EVP, $375,000 to $656,256.
Kent Magill, EVP, $375,000 to $656,256.
Richard Seban, EVP, $375,000 to $656,256.
John Akeson, SVP, $300,000 to $480,000.
Steven Birgfeld, SVP, $240,000 to $360,000.
Martha Ross, SVP, $240,000 to $360,000.
Rob Kissick, SVP, $182,000 to $273,008.
Venture (vulture) capitalists) already had taken control of Hostess, and in the same manner as the many companies Bain gobbled up, were in the end stages of gutting them and hanging them out for the rest of the vultures to pick over the corpse.


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Gates Goes All In on Biden Criticisms: 'Frankly, I Believe It'
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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates isn't backing down from his searing indictment of Vice President Joe Biden, saying in an interview Monday that he wrote that Biden has an abysmal record on foreign policy because "I believe it."
"On a number of these major issues ... I think he had been wrong," Gates tells NPR's Steve Inskeep, listing Biden's stances against aid to South Vietnam, the first Persian Gulf War, and President Reagan's defense buildup, among other issues, to explain his reasoning.
Gates also blames Biden for "stoking the president's suspicions of the military" during debates centered on the war in Afghanistan.
Gates's long, expansive, and frank interview also has the author of the controversial new book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, defending himself against early media reviews last week that he believes oversimplified his relationship with and opinion of President Obama. He attempted to dispel reports that his memoir portrays Obama as going along with the military surge in Afghanistan despite personally believing it would not succeed, explaining that Obama was led to believe the surge would fail by Biden and members of his Cabinet.
"I felt he came to have doubts about whether his own strategy could succeed, and I think that some of the early reporting suggested that he made the decision in December or November of 2009 believing it wouldn't work. I don't believe that for a second. President Obama would never do that, in my view. I think when he made that decision in November of 2009, he believed that strategy would work."
Gates added that despite media portrayals of him critical of Obama, "the truth is, we had a very good personal relationship." He also confides that he faced more frustrations with Obama's staff than the president himself, offering: "Let's just say that the way it worked under—in the Obama White House—was not anything like I had seen before."
Gates is especially critical in his interview of Obama's National Security Council, which he charges with "going outside of the chain of command" by being "in direct contact with combatant commanders."
Gates's soon-to-be bestselling 640-page memoir, due out Tuesday, was thoroughly covered last week for its lacerations of the Obama White House, including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But if Gates reupped on his criticism of Biden during his NPR interview, he largely retreated from suggestions that he thought the potential 2016 presidential hopeful's foreign policy decisions were motivated by political calculus:
"I will say this about Hillary: In the two and a half years that I served with her as secretary of State, I never once saw her let domestic politics affect her positions on issues. And maybe there's a difference between, you know, a senator who's running for political office and somebody who actually has responsibility, but I just—I never heard Secretary Clinton once bring domestic politics into the discussion as a factor during the two and a half years we served together and when she was secretary of State."
Gates is in the early stages of promoting his book—and defending what he wrote in it. Also on Monday, Gates charged that his book had been "hijacked by people along the political spectrum to serve their own purposes, taking quotes out of context" during an appearance on NBC's TODAY show. On Friday, he wrote a lengthy op-ed in The Wall Street Journal arguing that he became an "outsider" in the Obama administration and lambasting the "unfamiliarity of both [Obama and Biden] with the American military culture."
His new comments might not come to any relief for Biden, or the extremely Biden-defensive White House, but at least one possible 2016 contender can sleep a bit better.
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Caterpillars are the larvae of butterflies and moths, which belong to the order Lepidoptera. Sawfly larvae look similar to caterpillars, but are an entirely different kind of insect. Sawflies are related to bees and wasps, and belong to the order Hymenoptera. Like caterpillars, sawfly larvae usually feed on plant foliage.
How can you tell the difference between a sawfly larva and a caterpillar? Count the prolegs. Caterpillars may have up to five pairs of abdominal prolegs (see parts of a caterpillar diagram), but never have more than five pairs. Sawfly larvae will have six or more pairs of abdominal prolegs*. Another notable difference, though it requires a closer look, is that caterpillars have tiny hooks called crochets, on the ends of their prolegs. Sawflies don't.
Another, less obvious difference between caterpillars and sawfly larvae is the number of eyes. Caterpillars almost always have 12 stemmata, 6 on each side of the head. Sawfly larvae usually have just a single pair of stemmata.
This distinction between sawflies and caterpillars is of particular importance if you are trying to rid your garden of a plant-eating caterpillar pest. Some pesticides (such as the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis) work only on Lepidopteran larvae, and will not affect sawfly larvae. Before you apply any pesticide for a caterpillar problem, be sure to count the prolegs and identify your pest correctly.
* There are, of course, exceptions to every rule. Caterpillars of the family Megalopygidae, the flannel moths, are unusual in having 7 pairs of prolegs (2 more pairs than any other Lepidopteran larvae). Some sawfly larvae are stem borers or leaf miners; these larvae may have no prolegs at all.


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Right now, one of the 30 best shortstops in the game, coming off a championship season - who should be earning a multi-million dollar salary and starting on a daily basis - is cooling his heels without a team. Other, inferior players occupy starting spots on teams across the league, including, most obviously, the Twins.
By now, most folks are aware of the circumstances that have forced Stephen Drew to sit out the opening part of this season. His signing is attached to a draft pick
That's the line I am setting for the number of Twins who are traded away before the next 24 hours elapse. I was going to set it at 1.5, but I think this line is more, well, in line.
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House Bill 483 was a reasonable, middle-of-the-road effort to ensure that no woman makes this unalterable decision without being fully educated about it. The "pro-choice" left rose up as one to crush it.
The bill would have required that 24 hours before any abortion, the doctor must provide the patient with "medically-accurate information that a reasonable patient would consider material to the decision of whether or not to undergo the abortion, including (1) a description of the proposed abortion method; (2) the immediate and long-term medical risks associated with the proposed abortion method including, but not limited to, the risks of infection, hemorrhage, cervical or uterine perforation, and danger to subsequent pregnancies; and (3) alternatives to the abortion;
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"(e) The medical risks associated with carrying her child to term."
Opponents denounced the bill as "theological," a deliberate mischaracterization. They absurdly claimed that every woman seeking an abortion already knows everything she needs to know. Does that sound like the argument of people who have women's best interests at heart?
The "pro-choice" left cares nothing for choice. It cares only about the political power it accumulates by being perceived as pro-choice. Offer women options and information that might turn them ever so slightly from the pro-abortion political machine, and watch it tighten its grip.
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With the abundance of squash that we'll have throughout the season, I thought we'd do something a little bit different this week and actually demo a recipe.
You're probably noticing all of the pretty little squash you're finding in the market or in your CSA box, but you might not be exactly sure how to use them. Something I like to do is to roast them whole, stuff them, and serve them as a side dish. It makes a really pretty presentation, and it's actually elegant enough to serve at your Thanksgiving meal.
For this recipe, you can really use any kind of squash. What I have here are two little acorn squash, and what I've done is I've cut the bottom off to make it stable so that it's flat. I've then taken my knife and cut around the top. Just like if you're carving a pumpkin, and you cut the top off. And if you open it up, you'll see all the little seeds. We're actually going to roast them whole. We'll put them in the oven on a baking sheet with parchment paper at about 350 degrees for an hour. If you don't want to use small squash for individual plates, you can also use a large squash, any squash will do. Just do the same preparation, cut the top off and then we're going to roast it whole. Obviously, for a larger squash it's going to take more time, so turn the oven down to about 325 degrees and check it after about an hour, it might take about 90 minutes.
What we have here are two little sweet dumpling squash that I've already roasted. When the come out of the oven, you'll open them up and just take a spoon and scrape away the seeds. You'll do the same with the interior, but be careful not to scrape away the flesh, because that's actually a part that we're going to eat. When they're finished, they'll look clean and hollowed out.
For the stuffing of our squash, we're going to sautee some apples, onions and shallots in a pan. We're going to start with a little bit of olive oil, just make sure it's covering the bottom of the pan. We're going to season with a little salt and a little pepper and let those get nice and brown.
If you saw in one of our former episodes when we blanched our chard, we're going to use that today in our recipe. If you don't have any frozen chard, you can certainly use frozen spinach, that will work just as well. We're just going to un-crumble this and add it to our pan, and mix it in.
Once our chard is sauteed, we're going to fill our squash. Once our mixture is in, we're going to garnish with pomegranate seeds for color, you could also use dried or fresh cranberries. We'll also garnish with some toasted almonds, which you can substitute with pine nuts or walnuts. Then we'll put our tops on, and they're ready to serve!
Stuffed Squash
Serves 4 as a Side Dish
4 sweet dumpling squash, roasted and seeds removed*
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 apple, peeled, cored and diced
1 small yellow onion, peeled and diced
2 shallots, peeled and minced
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 bunch Swiss chard, roughly chopped and blanched
4 tablespoons pomegranate arils or dried cranberries
4 tablespoons toasted almonds, walnuts or pine nuts, chopped
In a large sauté pan, heat 2 Tbs olive oil over medium-high heat. When the oil is hot, add the apple, onion and shallot, season with sea salt and ground pepper and sauté until browned.
Once browned, add the Swiss chard and stir to combine. Remove from the heat.
Divide mixture between the four squash. Garnish with pomegranate arils and chopped nuts.
Serve warm.
Bon Appetit!
*Any small squash may be substituted for this recipe, such as acorn or pie pumpkins.


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March 12, 2013
Will fines increase?
By James Beaty
Senior Editor
McALESTER —
Among the things the McAlester City Council will consider during its next regular meeting is an increase in a number of city fines — and a new $25 fee for "technological maintenance and improvements."
An item on the agenda calls for assessing an additional $25 fee on everyone who is convicted or who pays for a ticket, to go toward establishing a "technology fund."
Both items are among those on the agenda for the next regular meeting of the McAlester City Council set for 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Council Chambers at City Hall.
If the measure passes, the additional $25 fee will be "assessed in addition to any other costs or fees assessed on every citation disposed of in the municipal court, except for those that are voided, declined for prosecution or on which the defendant is acquitted," according to the proposed measure.
Revenues generated by the fee shall be deposited in an interest-bearing account, according to the amendment.
"Expenditures may be made from this account only for technological maintenance and improvements for the city," the proposed measure reads.
Asked about the $25 fee, Stasiak said "That's something new that's popping up all over the state." He said computers and other equipment that is utilized wears out.
Asked if the funds derived from the fee would be used for technological purposes throughout city government, Stasiak said it would be earmarked for the police department and criminal investigations."
Told that the proposed ordinance makes no mention of earmarking the funds strictly for the police and criminal investigation departments, Stasiak said the intent had been to do so.
Meanwhile, the proposed increase in the fine schedule covers several areas, while other fines would remain the same.
Asked about the proposed increases, Stasiak said many of the increases are for alcohol-related offenses.
The proposed new schedule includes:
• All school zones violations — $325.
• Reckless driving would increase from $325 to $500.
• Fleeing, resisting, or attempting to elude officer would increase from $325 to $500.
• Leaving the scene of accident would rise from $325 to $500.
• DWI, driving while impaired, would increase from $325 to $500.
• DUI, driving under the influence, would rise from $325 $500.
• Actual physical control would have a minimum of $100 and a maximum of $325.
• Speeding would include:
1-10 mph in excess of speed limit — $50.
11-20 mph in excess of speed limit — $73.
21-30 mph in excess of speed limit — $125.
31 mph and over in excess of speed limit — $200.
• Transporting open container of intoxication beverage (beer) — $125.
• Transporting open container of intoxication beverage (liquor) — $200.
• Driving under suspension of license would rise from $325 to $500.
• Careless driving — $98
• Operating vehicle without license plate (having paid all taxes due state) — $98
• All other weapons violations — $325.
• Parking in fire lane — $73.
• Fire zone and all other parking — $73, except handicap parking, with a minimum of $150 and a maximum of $250.
• No proof of liability insurance, minimum $200, maximum $325.
• Failure to appear — $75.
• All other traffic-related violations — $98.
• False Identification —$325.
The proposed measure also includes an emergency clause, "declared to exist for the preservation of the public
peace, health and safety," which will allow the new schedule to take effect immediately, if passed.
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Didn't see any posts regarding the topic, although I thought I would post my two cents anyways.
2011 Silverado LT Ext Cab, aftermarket Sony double-DIN head unit.
Wanted to install a sub as well as aftermarket speakers, but I didn't know where I was going to put the Amplifier seeing as how there's no real flat surface to screw it into.
The rear passenger seat was the perfect spot for a bit of plywood to be attached underneath the pipe outline for the seat, with the cushion off. I started with a 3'x3' piece of plywood from Home Depot.
With the seat in the upright position and the cushion cushion OFF (unhook the two plastic snap clips, one on the back rear of the seat, the other on the inside area, between the other seat), I took the plywood board, and holding it 1" from the bottom pipe drew an outline of the pipe seating and cut out the template with a gerber saw.
I used some double sided tape on the bottom of the piping to keep the vibrations down, and a ton of Zip ties to make sure that sucker goes nowhere. The holes for the zipties are drilled about 1" from the edge of the board.
You don't want the plywood to go all the way to the edge of the piping near the bottom of the seat (when upright), this will make the fit too tight to reapply the plastic snap locks on the back and side of the seat when putting the cushion back on.
Now, BEFORE you put the cushion back on, you have two options. You can predrill the holes for the amp which will make re-finding those holes difficult when the seat cushion is on, OR you can finish installing the cushion and just hand tighten the screws into the particle board. I did the second method, because I wanted the screws tight in the plywood (and it makes it easier to mount regarding the floor space)
Below is the finished product.
That looks great! I've never seen an amp mounted that way under the seat, nice job.04 ECSB Custom silver & grey, Soft 8's, BFG KO's, ReadyLift Leveling Kit, Hellwig front sway bar, K&N filter, DeeZee EZ-Down, Rhino liner, Alpine CDE103BT, Rockford 6.5's, 12" V.A.T. Hammer Pro in a Subthump box, Alpine PowerPack amp, Hifonics amp, BackRack w/ 55w 5000k HID KC Daylighters, KC light bar with 4 KC Slimlites, UWS toolbox, Shaved Antenna mod, Black Bowtie, LED backup, license plate, dome lights & 3rd brake light
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Well done! I built my own box and mounted mine upside down over the hump in the middle."The best things in life aren't things"
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Very Nice !! My box didn't allow me to do that so I just threw mine under passenger seat ! I really like the way it looks very clean !!
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Warren E. McBurney, 84, of Oskaloosa, died Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, at the MHP Hospice Serenity House in Oskaloosa.
He was born July 10, 1929, in Oskaloosa, the son of Charles and Mabel Brown McBurney. He graduated from the Cedar High School with the class of 1947. Shortly after high school graduation, his father passed away and Warren took up the reins of the farm and his farming career began. On Feb. 18, 1950, he was united in marriage to Evelyn Mika at the Central United Methodist Church in Oskaloosa. Together they raised crops and livestock on their farm southeast of Cedar. In 1996, they retired from farming and moved into Oskaloosa. He enjoyed traveling, spending winters in Weslaco, Texas, and camping at the Iowa State Fair. He was a member of the Cedar United Methodist Church and the Central United Methodist Church after moving to Oskaloosa. He had also served on the Cedar School Board. Warren delighted in being with his family and being on the farm.
His family includes his wife of over 63 years, Evelyn McBurney, of Oskaloosa; three children and their spouses, Gary and Dana McBurney, of Owasso, Okla., Terry and Patricia McBurney, of Cedar, and Denise and Scott Johnson, of Oskaloosa; five grandchildren, Kendra (and Jim) Gelinas, Cory (and Liz) McBurney, Ashley McBurney, Jessica Johnson and Jadra Johnson; three great- grandchildren, David Gelinas, Kate Lynn McBurney and Natalie McBurney.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a grandson, Andrew McBurney, and a brother, Orville McBurney.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 10:30 a.m. in the Central United Methodist Church in Oskaloosa with the Rev. Tom Boomershine officiating. Burial will be in the Forest Cemetery in Oskaloosa. The Bates Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will begin Monday morning after 10 a.m. in the Bates Funeral Chapel and the family will be at the funeral chapel from 5-7 Monday evening to greet friends and relatives. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to MHP Hospice Serenity House or Central United Methodist Church.


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Services for Liddie Lee Grayson will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at Glad Tidings Pentecostal Holiness Church, with the Rev. Leslie Aucion officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens with James F. Webb Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Grayson, 92, of Meridian, died Thursday, March 7, 2013, at Infinity Hospice in Marion. She was a devoted wife, a loving mama, and a wonderful nanny. She loved God and her family, and was loved by all who knew her. She attended Glad Tidings Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Survivors include her daughter, Patricia Reeves and husband, Hubert; daughter-in-law, Brenda Grayson; grandchildren: Candy Proctor and husband, Steve, Leslie Patrick and husband, John, Bill Grayson and wife, Nina, and Scott Grayson; great-grandchildren: Brandon Grayson and wife, Debbie, Gunner Grayson, Gage Proctor, Morgan Proctor, Maddox Proctor and Jonathan Patrick; and special niece, Mary Gibson.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Colon Wesley and Mary Ann Robinson; her husband, W.M. Grayson; a son, Marion Lee Grayson; brothers: Bill, Clarence, and Jessie Robinson; and a sister, Ethel Rainer.
Pallbearers will be Sammy McInnis, Howard Gibson, Tommy Donald Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Dewitt Singleton and Lynn Latham.
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Update: Late last night, Abington Police announced that the mentally- challenged woman who had been missing since Sunday was located.
Son Mi Song, 31, was found, safe, in a treatment facility in Norristown, according to police.
Abington Police Deputy Chief John Livingood said this morning that there wasn't a lot more he could add, but said that Song had been in the hands of the treatment facility prior to her mother contacting police. Livingood said that Song had initially given staff at the treatment facility an incorrect name.
Song was last seen at her residence in the 100 block of Old York Road in the Jenkintown section of Abington; she was new to the area, having recently moved to Abington from Maryland.
Abington Police Deputy Chief John Livingood said today that there are few details in the case of a missing woman from the Jenkintown section of Abington.
Son Mi Song, a 31-year-old mentally-challenged Korean woman, has been missing since Sunday. Song was last seen at her residence — the Colonade apartment complex in the 100 block of Old York Road. Song had recently moved to the area from Maryland.
"The details are few and far between and we're trying to get more information," Livingood said.
Livingood said the apartment complex, including all of its common areas, were immediately searched.
"As soon as we hear about a missing person he or she is entered into the National Crime Information Center," Livingood said. "We put the flyers out and started the investigation immediately."
Song is 5-foot-1, weighs 110 pounds and has black hair. She was last seen wearing black pants and tennis shoes.
Livingood said Song's mother reached out to police via an interpreter.
Song is believed to speak some English, but it is unknown how much. Song has no money, purse, phone, credit cards or means of transportation. She may be lost and disoriented.
Anyone with information on Song's whereabouts is asked to call Abington Police or 9-1-1.


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Barbara Anderson
Newburyport Daily News
---- — If you consider summer to be the three months of June, July and August, we are smack in the middle of it. Now, with Congress and the Legislature on vacation, even political activists can relax and enjoy the season.
Wait! The 2014 state budget, for the fiscal year that began on July 1, isn't finalized yet.
The budget has been late before, usually when there is a fiscal crisis; in the past, late budgets have led to income tax hikes. And in fact, Gov. Patrick, along with liberal activists, wants an income tax rate increase from the present 5.25 percent to 6.25 percent, as well as gas and cigarette tax hikes and a new tax on Internet services.
The Legislature, while passing the latter three, has fortunately made it clear that the income tax hike is not on the table. So, the governor wants an even bigger gas tax increase; last Friday, he vetoed $417 million in transportation funding from the $34 billion budget because his transportation bill doesn't have enough new revenue to cover it.
I have to admit I've never seen anything like this year's process. There are two bills pending: the budget and the transportation tax package that increases the gas tax, but not enough, according to the governor, to fund all the transportation spending in the budget. For some reason, the transportation bill increases cigarette taxes and creates the new tax on Internet services, neither of which has anything to do with transportation.
There was also a Fiscal Year 2013 supplemental budget that passed earlier this month. As the electronic benefits (EBT) scandal unfolded, some House members tried to put language in the FY 2014 budget to reform the welfare system; instead, there is language in the supplemental FY 2013 budget from the governor to study the issue. He has also stated that he'll be looking for money in a FY 2014 supplemental budget to fund a photo ID requirement for welfare benefits. Remember that the original FY 2014 budget hasn't passed yet.
Trying to follow our state government's timeline: For some reason, the budget was sent to the governor before the Legislature sent him the bill to fund some of it. He vetoed the budget because it wasn't balanced and also sent back the funding bill because it wasn't big enough. Somewhere in there, he cut some local aid, which is sacred to many legislators, to pressure them to support more taxes.
The House and then the Senate were expected to take up this mess this week, either to override the governor's vetoes or give in on a higher gas tax, or restore the local aid either way. No one yet understands the impact of the Internet tax on our small businesses.
Could we elect a governor with management skill next time? But good news: After state Rep. Shaunna O'Connell, R-Taunton, paid the Patrick administration $800, it released information on how many EBT cards are carrying surpluses (nearly 1,800, with one account topping $12,000). Full disclosure: I and the other two Citizens for Limited Taxation staffers each sent her a personal check for $25 to help reimburse her political fund. Taxpayers need to know how much their generosity is being abused.
State Rep. Brad Hill, R-Ipswich, reports that legislation has passed requiring the taxpayer-funded MBTA retirement payments be posted, so we can better understand why we need transportation revenue hikes. It's not all about keeping fares reasonable, folks.
Meanwhile, in Washington D.C., our federal government is still arguing about immigration reform. This week, the Black America Leadership Alliance led a rally Monday demanding that "our leaders reject amnesty, enforce immigration laws as written and support policies that put black U.S. citizens back to work." Speakers included Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Elbert Guillory (R-La.) and former Florida Congressman Col. Allen West.
I just mention this since we're told that those of us who oppose amnesty are racists.
Meanwhile, ObamaCare is falling apart, with the business community getting a delay in the mandatory tax and unions finally noticing it's costing them full-time middle-class jobs.
Another political "duh" moment. Tell them there'll be a new tax and lots of paperwork on companies who have more than 50 employees and suddenly companies lay off a few, don't hire the 51st, divide themselves into two companies, share part-time employees with other similar companies. You could work at one fast-food restaurant in the morning, another in the afternoon, no benefits.
So far this year, the number of part-time jobs in the country has climbed by 557,000. The number of full-time U.S. workers fell by 240,000 in June.
Ongoing government "duh" moment. As the economy continues to drive in low gear, both federal and state Democrat politicians want to increase the minimum wage. Incredibly, according to the Washington Post, the City Council of Washington, D.C., just passed a local law requiring Walmart to pay $12.50 an hour; the company is threatening to pull out of three planned sites for their stores, which would anchor malls servicing the low-income residents of that Democrat-run city.
Overwhelmed by politics, we must ask: Where are the lazy, hazy days of summer we used to sing about and enjoy?
Barbara Anderson of Marblehead is executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation.


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DEAR EDITOR: There is such a simple solution to all these school shootings: Put prayers back in schools.
The Supreme Court is favoring the 14 percent who don't believe in God and don't want the name God spoken in schools where their children go. If they don't want their children to have to hear the name God, take them out of that school and move to a country where there is no praying and the name of God is not spoken.
This country was founded by men who believed in God. The constitution was written by them with the thought that God would help us along the way.
I received an email recently that was a letter to God. It went this way: "Dear God, why do you allow these shootings in our schools?" The answer was: "I am not allowed in schools," signed God.
If this doesn't made sense to reasonable people, I feel sorry for them.
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TO THE EDITOR: The Westport Central School Wall of Distinction Committee would like to acknowledge and extend gratitude to the sponsors who helped to make our golf tournament this past October a success.
Thanks to the Westport Country Club, Why Knot Pizza, Camp Dudley, Everybody's Market, The Bessboro Shop, Ernie's Market, K&D Deli, Flower Designs by Tracey, The Deport Theatre, Weichert Realtors, Chazy & Westport Telephone Co., Bradamant Realty, Westport Board of Education, Westport Veterinary Hospital, Westport Education Association, John Gallagher, Egglefield Ford, Arsenal Inn, Wells Communication, Conroy, Boulerice, Telling & Trombley, P.C., Deer's Head Restaurant, Bub's Pizza & Deli, Boquet Liquor Store, Adirondack Auto, Cobble Hill Inn, Loreman's Engraving, Elizabethtown Sunoco, Westport Sports Recognition Club and Adirondack Physical Therapy.
Also, a special thanks to the Westport Hotel for hosting our first Wall of Distinction Induction Ceremony.
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Town budget
TO THE EDITOR: The Nov. 19 Letter to the Editor entitled "$6 million explained" from Town of Plattsburgh Deputy Supervisor Marty Mannix has so much "hot air" his statements have added to global warming and subsequent climate change.
For someone whose held a council seat more than 23 years and boldly states the town will "not kick the can down the road," he should have added the word "again." In 23 years, he must have done a lot of "kicking," especially since he painted such a bleak portrait of our town's infrastructure: "50 percent of town infrastructure is depreciated — $400M of $800M." Reflects good Planning? Not.
Is it seriously malfunctioning? Or, is it an accounting term used to inflate needs and scare us into believing the town really needs all the surplus $6.5M? No; it's a not-so-subtle "bullying" tactic. The actual value of the town infrastructure, per valid audit, is $71M. Conclusion: Just more "hot air."
Cumberland Head Taxpayer Association Inc. is a team of active and retired business professionals who spent four months analyzing official budget data. Our conclusion: Freeze the budget.
For the record, we know there is more than enough cash in accounts to operate effectively without increasing 2013 taxes and even giving back the $3.8M sales tax to the county, which incidentally causes taxpayers to be taxed twice by the town's taking it. To live in a zero-growth budget would take skill sets of a professional manager or anyone managing a household in today's recession economy.
It's time to demand transparency and accountability and end excessive spending. It's your money, too.
Learn more at our website: www.CumberlandHeadta.org. Join with us.
Cumberland Head Taxpayer Association