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VIDOR — City councilmembers opted to hold off on making decision to increase the police chief's salary at its most recent meeting.
Vidor City Council held a specially called meeting Thursday to discuss items such as the city tax rate and the city budget, but council also met in executive session to consider a request for a salary increase for Chief Dave Shows of the Vidor Police Department.
Shows was hired as the Vidor Chief of Police in November 2010 following the departure of his predecessor, Chief Eric Foerster in October 2010. He previous request for a raise in early 2012 was partially accommodated as council approved an increase of $500.
Mayor Ken Crawford said council has decided to hold off on any decision, whether to approve or deny a salary increase, at this time.
"We're not taking any action right now," he said. "We told (Shows) we would like to look at (the salary request) again around budget time."
Shows has provided stability to the Chief of Police position during his nearly two years on the job, and he has had a more visibility within the community through police investigations and town hall meetings.
"Council would like to sit down with the chief and throw out some suggestions we have for goals and get some ideas on where things are heading and what his plans are," Crawford added. "We'll probably talk about this more at our next meeting."


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Cranford Teen Organizes Fundraising Flea Market and Festival July 21st and 22nd
Cranford, NJ - Local Cranford High School graduate Mary Kate Mueller is one of 80 Global Citizen Year Fellows of 2012-2013. A musician and aspiring abmbassador, Mary Kate is thrilled to embark on this adventure, where she will travel on a scholarship to Brazil to advocate for women's rights and youth development. In order for this program to continuously change lives of our future generations, Mary Kate is organizing a summer campaign to help out future potential "Youth Ambassadors." Mary Kate is hosting a fundraising flea market and arts festival on July 21st and 22nd in Cranford at 56 Burnside Avenue from 8AM to 8PM each day, with the flea market during the day and performances in the late afternoon and evening.
The "Fundraising Festival Extraordinaire" features a flea market and art show from 8AM – 4PM. The flea market will include furniture, instruments, baked goods, local cuisine, clothing, jewelry, and everything in between. The art show will be spotlighting local artists' and photographers' work.
Then, from 4PM-8PM there will be live music and dance performances. Dance performers include Shea Jenning's Irish Dancers (Saturday) and the IDance team from Maplewood (Saturday and Sunday). On Sunday, Debra Biderman from New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will be performing. Aspiring local teen dancers and musicians will also take the stage throughout the weekend. Entry fee for the performances is $4.00 for a day pass and $7.00 for a weekend pass. Full schedule available on website.
Donations can be made here as well, please list "Mary Kate Mueller" as the fellow you are donating on behalf of:

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Husker Recruit #14 Is Imani Cross: Nebraska Continues To Close The Deal. Get ready for an exciting finish to this class.
And Corey Whitaker Makes #13: The 2012 Nebraska Husker Recruiting Class Gains Momentum. Spots are going fast..
Leroy Alexander Becomes Husker Recruit #12. All aboard future Huskers. This train is picking up steam...
Avery Moss & Jared Afalava Are "N: Nebraska Nets Commitments #9 & #10. The Huskers recruiting class grows by 2 - does the Moss commitment get us any closer with Andrus Peat??
Commit #9 - Mohammed Seisay is "N". The Husker 2012 class explodes to 9 with a huge CB commitment.
The Road To Signing Day 2012: Where Does Husker Recruiting Stand? Love us you 18 year old kids, LOVE US!!! No, no, not like that!
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Marcellus and Utica Shale-related drilling and leases are polka-dotting the landscape of Lawrence County.
Several local government entities, including school districts, are considering or have entered land lease offers, and at least three drilling companies are pursuing leases and planning to establish drilling sites throughout the county.
They include Shell Oil Co., Hilcorp Energy of Houston, Texas, and REX Energy of State College, Pa.
According to the Lawrence County Register and Recorder's office, 1,642 leases were signed in Lawrence County between Jan. 1 and March 19. An additional 1,877 leases were signed in 2011.
Local school districts gave leasing status updates this week but attempts to reach superintendents in Laurel and Neshannock about any leasing potential were unsuccessful.
The Ellwood City Area School District has no land to lease, according to superintendent Frank Aloi.
Below are some of the activities currently involving local government groups:
The Wilmington Area School Board has called a special meeting for 7 p.m. Monday in the high school library to consider two proposals for shale drilling on district-owned land.
One is from Shell Oil, and the other from CoExprise, a company that seeks and negotiates leases to help the landowners get a fair deal.
District superintendent Dr. C. Joyce Nicksick said the district has 73.35 acres to lease.
An email she received from Shell Oil Co. she said, indicates that Shell is interested only in district-owned properties in Pulaski and Plain Grove townships where the district owns school buildings and a total of 21.009 acres.
Shell has offered $3,250 per acre and 18 percent royalties, Nicksick said. In its email, Shell urged the school board not to sign with companies that only negotiate and do not drill.
Nicksick said she intends to invite representatives of Shell and of CoExprise to Monday's meeting, and noted that while Shell is interested in the Plain Grove and Pulaski properties, CoExprise expressed interest in leasing all of the district's acreage. This includes the school properties in New Wilmington Borough and in Wilmington Township, Mercer County.
The school board members on Monday took a straw poll to see if there is interest in entering any leases, before it set the a special meeting.
"I don't want it," board member Dr. David Swerdlow declared.
But the majority of the members attending said they are willing to consider it. Dr. Bo DiMuccio was absent from the meeting.
Nicksick told the board that CoExprise will finish its leasing activity in the county by March 31.
The Shenango Area School Board already has signed a lease with Shell Oil for 44.62 acres owned by the district. There will be no drilling on the district land, according to Mike Schreck, assistant superintendent.
The board approved the agreement Dec. 6, and is to receive $3,250 per acre plus 18 percent of royalties.
The district anticipates receiving $145,015, not including any royalties. Schreck said any money received will go into the district's capital reserve fund.
The Mohawk Area School District has held off signing a lease for drilling, waiting for the best possible arrangement, according to Superintendent Kathleen Kwolek.
"Our district has not acted on the lease agreement regarding Marcellus Shale," she said in an email this week.
Kwolek said the district was officially approached by Shell but is still seeking an agreement for items it wants to include in an addendum.
The Mohawk district owns about 100 acres.
Ellwood City Borough Council on Monday signed leases with Shell Oil for 131.64 acres, included in six parcels of borough-owned land. One parcel is located near Woodside Avenue in the borough. The other five are along Connoquenessing Creek in Wayne Township, according to borough manager Dom Viccari.
The borough will receive $427,830, plus 18 percent royalties on any gas removed. Shell is leasing the borough's mineral rights for $3,250 per acre.
Viccari said the borough signed with Shell Oil Co., but it emphasized in the leases that there is to be no drilling on borough-owned land.
"There will be no surface mining, no pads and no wells on any of our properties. That was a condition we insisted upon," he said, emphasizing, "On any of this property there will not be a well head built."
Rather, the borough leases gave Shell "a big footprint" to begin looking for a big well head site, he said. He said he has no idea when or where Shell will be drilling in the area.
Viccari said Shell had approached the borough about a lease.
"We've been talking about this now for six or eight months," he said.
Some of the leased land is property the borough bought from Penn Power in 2006.
"This was a pick-and-choose deal," Viccari said.
Some of the property to be leased involves recreational land next to Rock Point Park in Wayne Township and in Ewing Park in the borough.
He said any money derived from those parcels would have to be used for recreational purposes.
The borough also is trying to negotiate with Shell to sell effluent from the borough's wastewater treatment plant to the company to use for fracking purposes.
"We're discussing that with them now," Viccari said. "There's a lot to be done in that aspect yet, but I'm hopeful."
Right now drilling companies are drawing 800,000 to 900,000 gallons of water per day from Slippery Rock Creek.
"If they would buy our water, they won't have to take it out of the stream. It would be good for the environment and good for us.
"Our water is superbly treated," Viccari added.
He keeps a jar of the treated wastewater on his desk next to a jar of tap water for comparison, and one cannot tell the difference, he said.
Once Ellwood City receives the money from its lease, the borough officials will sit down and determine its priorities.
"I'd like to put part of it away for a rainy day," Viccari said. "I'm a big believer in not spending it all. You never know when you are going to need it."
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BEIJING -- Officially, the Chinese government has nothing at all to say about Edward Snowden.
But unofficially, it is only too happy to dump on the United States.
After days of silence, state media have let loose with a barrage of criticism concerning Snowden's allegations of a massive electronic surveillance program by the United States. The English-language China Daily ran a large cartoon of a shadowed Statue of Liberty, holding a tape recorder and microphone instead of a tablet and torch.
In an editorial dripping with indignation, the Communist Party-run Global Times demanded an explanation on behalf of the Chinese government.


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The patient before me in an exam room was symbolic of the challenges facing the uninsured. She had been diagnosed with cancer after a mammogram detected a mass in her breast; her illness was complicated by the fact that she had no health insurance. By a cruel stroke, her husband had previously been stricken with leukemia and disabled from employment. She was herself unemployed and, with a cancer diagnosis, had no hope of obtaining health insurance.
This story is more common than it should be in the worlds wealthiest nation. As health insurance is largely tied to employment, those with prior illnesses or employers who do not provide insurance benefits are often out of luck. A 2009 Harvard study found that nearly 45,000 people die in the U.S. each year one every 12 minutes largely because they lack health insurance.
As we emerge from a government shutdown sparked by the controversial Affordable Care Act, is there any confidence among the medical community that the law will effectively address the problems facing our health care system? Generally, physicians remain as ambivalent as the public regarding the ACA. Several polls show a majority of physicians have an overall negative view of the legislation. However, there are components of the legislation that strike most physicians as sensible and long overdue.
Access to care: Roughly 48 million Americans remained without health insurance in 2012. The ACA provides several solutions. It allows young adults to stay on their parents insurance plan until age 26. It forbids insurers from denying health insurance to individuals with pre-existing medical conditions. By way of the individual mandate, it requires all Americans to carry health insurance or face a financial penalty. Finally, health care exchanges administered by the states and federal government provide cost assistance to individuals purchasing insurance.
Quality of care: Though the U.S. spends far more on health care than all other industrialized nations, our health outcomes are much worse than countries that spend less. Even prior to the new law, physicians and the health care system recognized this paradox. As a result, movement was already underway within health care to reward physicians for quality of care and improvement in health outcomes. The ACA prescribes less reimbursement for hospitals with high patient re-admission rates or higher-than-average rates of hospital acquired infections. The law also encourages hospitals and physicians to create Affordable Care Organizations to coordinate care for patients. If these ACOs meet quality targets tied to patient health, the parties will receive higher reimbursement rates from Medicare.
Cost of care: According to government statistics, total health care spending in the U.S. is expected to reach $4.8 trillion in 2021, up from $2.6 trillion in 2010. This means that health care spending will account for a staggering 20 percent of the U.S. economy by 2021. While critics point out ways in which the law may cost the system (and taxpayers) more money, the law addresses cost containment in several ways. For example, insurers are required to provide preventative care services for their customers in the hope that such individuals will be less likely to suffer chronic health conditions that could end up costing the system much more down the road.
At the end of the day, what are physicians to make of this polarizing, complex piece of legislation? Is it the death knell for the health care industry or a panacea for all our health care ills? Obviously it is neither but there are still many reasons to be optimistic about the future of American health care.
The ACA has prompted providers to develop creative ways to reward those who provide lower cost, higher quality care for their patients. Broader coverage of preventive services for all Americans gives physicians an opportunity to help keep patients healthier and prevent costly hospital stays. Finally, the controversy surrounding the legislation itself has brought to the forefront a new generation of physicians committed to reforming our convoluted and costly system. No one sees the ACA as a perfect solution, but we should at least view it as a starting point for needed reform.
Charles Williams, M.D., is a family physician in Clayton and co-founder of Project Access of Johnston County, a nonprofit providing free health care to underserved residents.


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The Idaho Department of Commerce is seeking reports from businesses affected by the Beaver Creek and Elk Complex wildfires this summer.
If at least five small, non-farm business submit reports, the small Idaho businesses will be eligible to receive federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Businesses in Ada, Blaine, Boise, Butte, Camas, Custer, Elmore, Gooding, Owyhee, Lincoln and Minidoka Counties can submit reports detailing their property damage caused by the wildfires.
Farms aren't eligible for SBA loans but can apply for assistance from their county U.S. Department of Agriculture office.
The reports are available at the Idaho Department of Commerce website. Forms can be printed and faxed to 208-334-2631, emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or mailed to:
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