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Reacting to Thursday's evidence at the Public Accounts Committee, Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:
"Yet again the Public Accounts Committee has offered stinging criticism of individual companies but no progress on the root cause of the problem, our broken tax system. Politicians are responsible for our hideously complex tax code and it's up to them to simplify it to ensure that everyone pays their fair share, no more and no less.
"Until the system is simplified, HMRC will always face an uphill struggle against a 17,000-page tax code, which is full of loopholes being legally exploited by those with clever accountants and tax lawyers. We need serious and comprehensive tax reform, not empty moralising."
The TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) proposed a comprehensive simplification of the tax system in the 2020 Tax Commission, a joint project between the TPA and Institute of Directors (IoD). The final report of the commission, The Single Income Tax, can be found here.
Reacting to today's National Audit Office report High Speed 2: A review of early programme preparation
Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance said:
"HS2 will saddle every family in the country with a bill for at least £1,000, but it is based on flawed calculations, assumptions and
projections and will woefully fail to deliver the economic benefits it promises.Even if the Government's wildly optimistic numbers were realistic, the project would represent poor value for money, but with hidden costs and a
shoddy economic case the line is destined to be an expensive white elephant.Ministers are squandering an incredible amount of taxpayers' money on this disastrous project, and they should be urgently reviewing their plans
before burdening future generations with such an eye-watering bill."
Councillors on Camden Council have disputed the numbers for their council in this year's Town Hall Rich List, which was compiled using the council's own accounts. This isn't unusual: every year a few councils object to the figures and they're usually mistaken, most frequently because they object to the idea of employer's pension contributions being included in the total remuneration funded by taxpayers. Employers' pension contributions should be included because it is part of the financial reward that senior staff get for their work.
Council leader Sarah Hayward repeatedly called the TPA's spokesman a liar on Channel 5 News, stating that the number should have been 16. Theo Blackwell then blogged that the "actual figure is 16 (or 24 however you count it)". Hayward then took to Twitter and suggested that the correct number could be 25. They can't get their story straight.
The remuneration report of a council's accounts is presented in two parts: a) a set of remuneration bands; b) a more detailed disclosure of senior officers' pay. When compiling the Town Hall Rich List, our researchers have to determine whether or not the remuneration bands include the senior officers subject to further disclosure or not. Many councils make it easy for taxpayers to understand how their senior staff are paid by stating clearly whether the two lists overlap or not.
For councils like Camden which don't make this clear, we have to work it out for ourselves by seeing whether or not the reported remuneration of the senior officers fits into the reported numbers in different pay bands. Bearing in mind that the numbers in the bands refer to remuneration excluding pension contributions, it was concluded that Camden's accounts did not include the senior officers for two reasons:
1. R Stoppard, Director – Culture and environment, received remuneration of £159,510 in 2011-12. The highest band for 2011-12 is 150,000-154,999.
2. In the bands for 2011/12, there are two employees listed in the £110,000-£114,999 band. In the senior officers' disclosure, we can see Assistant Director – Adult Social Care with remuneration of £111,055, Assistant Director – Housing Needs & Resources with remuneration of £110,219 and Deputy Director of Finance on £111,522. That makes three which would be in this band if the senior employees were included, but only two were reported.
We tried to call and confirm that interpretation but we were never put through to anyone who could help. With over four hundred local authorities, there are limits to the extent that we can chase up every single case and we have to rely on most council's accounts providing enough clarity for someone to read them in good faith and understand their meaning.
Camden is now claiming that the bands do in fact include the senior officers and the TPA has double counted. For this to be true, Camden must not regard "variable pay" as part of remuneration, a bizarre definition that is not used by any other local authority, at least to my knowledge. If that is the case then the correct figure will not be as high as 40. But neither will it be anything like as low as the 16 they have been claiming.
Even if this is the case, none of the three figures used by Camden can be accurate. The number must in fact be at least 26. This is because the table of staff numbers in remuneration bands lists 6 employees who received between £100,000 to £104,999 whereas the table for 'senior officers' remuneration displays only 5 within that band. That means one employee must have received remuneration within that range who does not qualify as a 'senior officer'. Meanwhile, the table detailing senior officers' remuneration lists 25 employees who received over £100,000.
Both employers' pension contributions and variable pay should be included and there are that many people making £100,000 a year in total remuneration just in the senior officers' disclosure. That means that Camden is at least still in the top 10 councils by number of staff earning over £100,000 a year.
Blackwell's blog also said that "the TPA seem to have got to their figure(s) by double counting (e.g. saying we have two Chief Execs in one year, which we did but not at the same time!)" It is very clearly explained in the report that "each entry refers to an individual not a position" and that is quite right. If there are two Chief Executives over that year and both of them manage to earn over £100,000 within that year, of course they should both be included in our list.
Hayward has demanded a correction and apology from the TPA, but she and her staff have yet to provide the coherent or consistent information that we need in order to be able to correct the report. Until they provide a clear statement with full details on all of their staff receiving total remuneration of more than £100,000 (including but not limited to employers' pension contributions and variable pay) we cannot make a correction. It would be unfair on more transparent councils if we gave Camden special treatment.
There are three important conclusions:
1. If there is an error in the Town Hall Rich List it is the result of unclear and incomplete information in Camden council's accounts. It does not imply any systematic problem with the way that the list is produced, as most local authorities make it easy to tell whether or not there is an overlap between the pay bands and the remuneration report.
2. Remuneration for senior staff at Camden council is among the most generous in the country, including a Director – Culture and Environment – who received as much as the head of MI5.
3. There should be greater standardisation in council accounts so they can't evade transparency with creative reporting.
Sainsbury's boss Justin King has criticised unfairness in the tax system, contrasting the bill for high street operators with their online counterparts. The supermarket giant's chief executive also complained that the benefit from falling rates of Corporation Tax has been wiped out by rises in other taxes:
For every £1 we have benefited from the reduction in corporation tax we have incurred more than £2 of other taxes, in particular business rates and employers' national insurance.
There is a difference between bricks and mortar retailers who pay rates, National Insurance and all the other domestic taxes that are due, and online retailers who by virtue of their lack of physical presence in the high street don't contribute in the same way.
It's not just supermarkets suffering under the weight of heavy taxes like Business Rate and employer's National Insurance. Small businesses across the country have supported our Freeze Business Rates campaign while a pressure is building to abolish National Insurance.
The Government's action on cutting Corporation Tax has been welcome. But it has been undone by their decision to close the deficit by increasing taxes rather than cutting spending. And the result has been families facing real austerity in their household budgets, companies holding back from investing and a flat-lining borderline double-dip economy where growth rates of half of a per cent are thought to be something to get excited about.
It's time for change. To add your voice to the call to stop hiking Business Rates, visit FreezeBusinessRates.org
Writing for politics.co.uk TPA Campaign Manager Eleanor McGrath argues against a 60 per cent pay rise for MPs.
It emerged over the weekend that transport minister Stephen Hammond thinks MPs deserve a pay rise of 60%.
Yes, you read that correctly. According to The Sun on Sunday he responded to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) review into MPs' pay with a call for their salaries to be increased to over £100,000.
In July last year, we revealed the substantial rise in council staff drawing pensions compared to those paying in. We also revealed in April last year the enormous black hole in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) – a gaping pensions deficit of £54 billion for which taxpayers are ultimately liable.
These figures were brought into sharp focus in Waltham Forest earlier this month at a full council meeting. In a report authored by John Turnbull, Director of Finance and Procurement, the following was brought to the attention of councillors:
The Actuary to the Pension Fund (Mercer) undertook the three year valuation of the Fund as at the 31 March 2010 in accordance with theLocal Government Pension Scheme regulations and determined that the Employer Contributions to the Pension Fund required from the Council are within the 2% annual increase assumed within the Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS). The actual increase for 2011/12 was 1.9% to 23.4%. The increase for 2012/13 is a further 1.8% to 25.2% and that for 2013/14 an additional 2% to 27.2%. Therefore the results of the 2010 Actuarial Valuation of the Pension Fund have not resulted in any additional burden on the Council's finances in excess of that assumed in the MTFS.
The next three year valuation of the Fund is planned to take place in2013/14 and it is anticipated that the employer's contribution rate will increase at a slower rate. For 2014/15 it is assumed an increase of 1.5% to 28.70%, with a further 1.5% increase in 2015/16.
Putting that into plain English, the employer's pension contributions (paid for by taxpayers) has increased from 21.5 per cent in 2010/11 to 25.2 per cent in the current financial year. At the start of the next financial year on 1 April, taxpayers will have to fund another rise of 2 per cent, and it is anticipated that in 2015/16, taxpayers will have to make contributions of 30.2 per cent towards staff pensions. It wouldn't surprise me if that figure increased again in the years to come.
We have stated in many reports that the LGPS, like all public sector pensions, is not sustainable in the long term. The public sector trade unions have hit back at us, disputing our figures, and have done their best to rubbish our reports despite the fact that they are sourced direct from council accounts, but here it is in black and white. At a time when Waltham Forest Council is having to rein in spending, the cost of providing generous staff pensions is rocketing.
If your cost of your council's pension bill is going up, please let me know. Taxpayers cannot afford to continue picking up these increasingly larger bills.
This afternoon Parliament will likely make emergency changes to welfare legislation following the fallout from the Cait Reilly Poundland case . Critics of the policy being pursued by the Government, such as Shiv Malik in this particularly misleading Guardian article, argue that the DWP is somehow seeking to strike down the Court of Appeal judgement deny claimants compensation that they deserve for being made to "work for the benefits". Don't believe this nonsense. They are adjusting legislation that was illegal because of the way it was introduced, not what it did.
Campaigners in the Poundland case sought to portray the Work Programme as modern day slavery (something that is frankly insulting to those who have experienced genuine slavery in the modern era) and a breach of claimants' "human rights". The Court of Appeal utterly rejected this argument. Whilst ruling that the legislation used in Parliament to introduce the scheme was flawed, it certainly did not reject the principle of expecting those out of work to take part in mandatory work experience in return for some of their benefits.
Pretty embarrassing for the department, yes, but not a reason to compensate those involved in the scheme at the expense of taxpayers. The principles of the Work Programme and workfare as methods of helping those looking for a job and ensuring that welfare cannot be an alternative to work should be defended robustly. Those arguing that compensation is somehow due are mistaking a technical ruling for an endorsement of their vociferous campaign against the Work Programme. Their confusion should not place an extra burden on taxpayers and undermine important steps to help people back into work.
One of the biggest ironies of the Cait Reilly case is that it is an example of the Work Programme's success. Despite her distaste for stacking shelves and sweeping floors in Poundland, Cait Reilly now works in Morrisons. So after work experience in a supermarket she now has a job in… surprise surprise, a supermarket. In this interview, Tim Watts of Pertemps, explains how her experience from the Work Programme helped his company find her work.
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Cait Reilly's now working, contributing to the taxman's coffers and off welfare. A good result for her and taxpayers. Working in a supermarket might not be what she wants to do ultimately but it should, at least, act as the first rung on the job ladder. It was this type of job I (and many of my friends) took after university. Full time employment showed to future bosses I was up to the challenge of work and left me more money in my pocket.
Of course there must be protections to ensure the programme does not act as subsided labour for firms or reduce full-time employment elsewhere. But this is unlikely anyway given, as Tim Watts pointed out, taking on candidates from the Work Programme actually poses more of a risk to the employer than if they otherwise simply hired a member of staff through the normal interview process.
Work experience demonstrates to employers that someone is capable of holding down a full-time job and has the right mindset and ethos to get on. It can be incredibly difficult to go from being unemployed for a large amount of time to re-entering the workplace. Hiring someone in that situation is also a gamble for employers at a time when they are spoilt for choice for job seekers. The Work Programme provides an important stepping stone into a competitive job market. Don't let those who oppose it remove this help from jobseekers and leave taxpayers with an even bigger benefits bill.
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Many local authorities are using the excuse of cuts in central government grants to increase Council Tax. But some are actually getting on with delivering good services without reaching into taxpayers' pockets for even more cash.
The City of Westminster has frozen council tax for the sixth year in a row. Taking inflation into account, this amounts to a 23 per cent real terms cut over six years. The freeze will give Westminster the lowest Council Tax in the country and has been made possible by outsourcing, sharing senior staff with neighbouring councils and trimming direct funding of the arts.
As Westminster councillor J P Floru said:
Why not use the greater efficiency of the private sector to deliver public services? It is a complete mystery. Westminster also achieved substantial savings by merging administrative jobs with neighbouring Wandsworth and Kensington & Chelsea – what are other councils waiting for?
When is a tax not a tax? When it's the "Bedroom Tax", which is in fact a change to housing benefit and not a tax. Campaigners, charities and Ed Miliband have thrown this term around to describe the Government's recent proposals to reclaim some of the Housing Benefit given to those claimants that have a spare room. As Guido points out, giving someone less in Housing Benefit because they have a spare room is a welfare reform or a benefit cut, but not a tax (regardless of what you think of the measure).
Just in case we're not clear what a tax is, here is how the Concise Oxford English Dictionary that sits by my desk defines a tax:
A compulsory contribution to state revenue levied by government on personal income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, service and transactions
So why has a benefit reduction, been labelled a tax? It's all about the politics of language.
These days raising taxes is seen as a bad thing by all but a few committed ideologues, so labelling something a tax is designed to inspire opposition. It is designed to make people think that the proposals will mean ordinary homeowners face higher bills. As Mark Wallace (formerly of this parish) points out, the fact that many campaigners for higher spending (and in the end higher taxes) now accept that raising taxes is seen as a bad thing is actually very good news in the long run.
So, after you've cut through the spin, we're left with the question: is reducing benefits for under occupancy the right thing to do? In principle yes, but it won't address the fundamental problem of housing shortages and there are dangers the authorities need to address. The aim of the under occupancy charge is to stop a precious resource like council houses being underused. It is right to do something about the problem of scarce council houses not being given to those who need them the most.
There are some who still believe that a council house should be for life. It is tough to ask someone to leave where they have lived for the last ten years is, but when there are families of four and five queuing up for three bedroom properties how can we justify someone living in a council house with two spare rooms? Clearly there is a balance to be struck, and people should be encouraged to move on when they can.
The taxpayers paying for the system also need to be treated fairly. For many people, the idea of a spare room seems like quite a luxury. Most people my age (myself included) need to live with housemates and rent a room, let alone afford their own place and a spare room. So why should the benefits system provide a better standard for those in receipt of housing benefit than the people paying for those benefits enjoy themselves?
There is a serious risk that undermines the incentive to work.
The under occupancy charge may make the social housing system a little fairer but it only tackles the symptoms of the problem, not the cause. The real problem we face is that we aren't building enough homes. With taxes depressing people's income as well, that makes property very hard for many families to afford. Until the Government gets serious about cutting taxes and making it easier to build new homes, these reforms will just be a sticking plaster. There is an absolute thicket of regulation that does nothing but create an administrative burden and slow development, which they could cut away to increase development.
Those opposed to this new welfare reform will campaign against it aggressively. They will find some cases where, if it is applied too inflexibly, the reform creates real hardship. That's why there should be a hardship fund which has been announced. But all those cases will show is that there does need to be some room for discretion at a local level, not that we should continue to abandon reforms that can make the whole system fairer and more affordable for taxpayers struggling to manage their own finances.
Reacting to David Cameron's speech on the economy, Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA), said:
"The Prime Minister is absolutely right that easing the heavy burden of taxes is the best way to help families struggling to make ends meet. But he needs to do more than talk about the need for low taxes. He should ease the enormous pressure on people's budgets by cutting taxes which depress their wages and increase the prices they pay at the shops.
"If staying the course means pressing on with a vain attempt to raise enough taxes to finance a public sector spending nearly half our national income, it will just mean going down with a sinking ship. The Government should be fiscally responsible, but our deficit is a result of politicians spending too much, not taxpayers paying too little."
Earlier this year, TPA research showed that the Government has implemented or planned 299 separate tax rises but only 119 separate tax cuts during the course of this parliament. You can read the full report here.
A new book by TPA Research Fellow, Mike Denham, has been published today which exposes how wasteful spending and poor public sector performance is costing taxpayers as much as £140 billion per year.
Many people enjoy hitting their local high street and spending their hard-earned cash in their favourite stores. However, rising business rates are posing an increasingly serious threat to more and more local shops.
These rates are a massive burden and are a major bill which businesses have to pay regardless of whether they are making the money to pay it.
For example, I checked out how much my little neighbourhood bakery in South London has to pay in business rates. I found via www.gov.uk that this small business gets an annual bill for over £5,000 – on top of all the other costs of running the business.
These high costs deter many from setting up their own business.
At a time when the Government is calling for the private sector to step up to the plate and help the economy return to growth, freezing business rates would be a simple way to support businesses. Freezing these rates would be a great way of letting firms grow, prosper and create new jobs.
Research published this week by the Forum of Private Business, Tax priorities for the Coalition, found around 95% of all business owners feeling that the levels of business rates are too high, while two thirds saw no benefits for the amount of money they were taxed. So what can be done to help the shops on our local high street thrive?
We are working with the British Retail Consortium to make the case as to why business rates should be frozen. The website www.FreezeBusinessRates.org has been set up to allow people to contact their MP and ask them if they are going to stick up for small businesses by calling for a freeze in business rates.
So if you want to support local businesses then please do visit the website and urge your MP to back the campaign.


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Johnny Forrest, Radio Broadcaster, Playwright and Songwriter
John R. Forrest (Johnny): Writer-performer on the Gilmore Fun Circus Radio Show, 1930, Broadcaster for Seattle Broadcasting Company (KOL), 1936, writer-performer for Lux Radio Theater, Hollywood (between 1939 and 1945), Program Director and Broadcaster (1949) at Seattle Broadcasting Company / KOL (located in the Northern Life Tower, Seattle, Washington), Newscaster, Anchorman, Sportscaster, Announcer, Disk Jockey and Department Manager at KOL (1950-1967), Newscaster at KIRO (circa 1962), Newscaster at KFKF Bellevue (1967-1970), composer and songwriter, including a hit single, titled, "Blue Tears" (Golden Crest Records), writer of two plays for CBS Suspense Theater ("Mission Completed" and "The Daisy Chain"), composer of musical productions, including "Johnny Appleseed," presented by Seattle Repertory Theater (1949), sportscaster for radio KOL's broadcast of the Seattle Seafair Hydroplane Races (broadcast from Bob Gilliam's boat, the "KOLroy"), from 1959 to 1960.
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John R. Forrest, known as Johnny (born in 1908, died in 1971), was a multi-talented Northwest celebrity. He was anchorman, newscaster, sportscaster, announcer and program director for Seattle's KOL radio, producer of a free-lance newscast on KIRO and newscaster at KFKF radio in Seattle, Washington. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California, John played repertory stock for two years and attended the Pasadena Playhouse. He broke into radio in 1930 as a writer-performer on the old Gilmore Fun Circus radio show. Former professional radio experience include KNX and KFI-Hollywood, radio plays for Lux Radio Theater, Creeps by Night and Suspense.
His achievements include two plays written for old time radio Suspense Theater; "Mission Completed," aired in 1949, starring James Stewart and "The Daisy Chain," aired (circa) 1960. A songwriter, he composed "Blue Tears" (sung by Lola Sugia) and "Weathervane" (Lola Sugia), recorded and engineered at Joe Boles Recording Studio in Seattle and released on the Golden Crest Record Label. Together, Johnny Forrest and Lola Sugia composed songs and radio jingles. (Johnny wrote musicals and songs that were never published /copyright.) One of his jingles was a long airing, catchy tune (sung by Lola Sugia) for "G.O. Guy Drugs," and a musical, produced by the Glenn Hughes Seattle Repertory Playhouse (circa 1949), called, "Johnny Appleseed." His musical review, "It's in the Air," was produced in Hollywood during the war. Johnny was also a member of the American Society of Composers and was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Johnny was also known to many Seattleits for his "Rhyming Times" (news in rhyme). For more than 25 years, he accompanied himself on the piano while announcing the day's news in rhyme. You might recall hearing John Forrest's broadcasts of the Seattle Seafair Hydroplane Races from 1959 to 1960 in the KOL boat, the "KOLroy," owned by Bob Gilliam.
John moved to Seattle from Wyoming in (circa) 1935 and was hired by the Seattle Broadcasting Company (KOL) in 1936. Sometime during the late 30's or early 40's John also worked at Lux Radio Theater in Hollywood. (During its years on CBS in Hollywood, Lux Radio Theater was broadcast from the Lux Radio Playhouse located at 1615 North Vine Street in Hollywood, one block south of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine.)
Throughout the 40's, 50's and early 60's John Forrrest remained at Seattle's KOL radio, and from (circa) 1968 through 1970 his voice was heard as the morning anchor, broadcasting on KFKF radio in Bellevue (owned by Kemper Freeman Sr.).
In 1960 Johnny married vocalist Lola Sugia, sister of well-known Northwest musician, jazz accordionist, club owner and bandleader, Frank Sugia. Lola sang with the popular dance bands and orchestras throughout the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's, including bands led by Wyatt Howard (at downtown Seattle's Town and Country Club), Max Pillar, Clyde Jensen, Don Anderson, Gordon Greene (at the Spanish Castle), Ken Cloud, Pep Perry, Jackie Souders, Frank Sugia, Curt Sykes and Norm Hoagy. Some of the musicians that Lola performed with are Dave Tuttle (father of Seattle drummer, Marty Tuttle), Marv Thomas (father of well known Seattle trumpeter, Jay Thomas), Terry King, Ralph St. John, Kenny Nelson, Ken Cloud, Dusty Kneely, Tiny Martin, Earl Taylor, Dave Stetler, Don Anderson (father of Don Anderson, Jr), Sal Carraba, Stan Keene, Red Kelly, Wayne Saxe, Bob Winn, Ronnie Pierce, John Wittwer, Mike Hobi, Dave Coleman (father of Tim Coleman and Dave Coleman, Jr.), Gene Sargent (father of Molly Sargent), Don Ober (father of Sean Dj-Dab Ober), Joe Venuti, Hayden Shaner, Dick Krafft (father of Ed Krafft, Roni Krafft and Debbie Krafft), Bob Winn, Joe Adams, Phil Odle, Frank Sugia (uncle of Maia Santell), Benny Witte, Al Turay, Carle Rising, Gordy Challstedt, Rollie Morehouse (father of Robin Morehouse), Floyd Standifer, Jack Hyde, to name a few. (It is worth mentioning that Wyatt Howard employed many musicians who otherwise would not have had steady work in those days. His band was a commercial dance band, as opposed to the "hotter" swing and jazzier feel of bands led by Vern Mallory, Curt Sykes, Don Anderson, Norm Hoagy and Gaye Jones, to name a few. Some of the many players that worked with the Wyatt Howard band are Ken Johnson (sax), Dave Larson (sax and clarinet), Tiny Martin, Gordy Challstedt Hayden Shaner and Floyd "Tebby" Tebelman. (There are many, many more!) Bandleaders Sykes, Mallory and Jones often drew side-men straight out of high school. According to Frank Sugia, the after-hours clubs were the places that musicians hung out to hear "real music" and jam with other players, strictly for the love of jazz, as opposed to their nightly gigs where musicians performed commercial music, primarily for their audience. Players couldn't wait to finish their regular gigs to listen to the best jazz, blues and swing musicians that were playing at after-hours joints like the Black and Tan, The Congo, The 908 Club, The 605 Club and the Cabbie Club, located in Seattle's International District and in Seattle's Central District. In 1969 Sugia opened his own restaurant, called "Sugia's After Five," located on Aurora Avenue North in Seattle, and he performed at some of the best known clubs around, including The Casa Villa, The Town and Country Club (the dinner set, preceding Wyatt Howard's Orchestra), Rosellini's 410, The Olympic Bowl, The Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, The Red Carpet, The Italian Village, The Sirloin Inn, The Casa Villa, The 908 Club, The Carriage Inn, The Elks, The Thunderbird (hotel chain), the Washington Athletic Club and the Trianon Ballroom, to name a few.
Some of John's notable friends and associates were Ted Bell (radio), Ken Stuart (radio), Bob Ackerley (radio), Don McCune (Seattle's "Captain Puget"), George Peckham (musician, pianist and well-known vocal coach), Howard Hall (KING host of talk show called "Telescope"), Bill Munson (KOL), Ivar Haglund ("Ivar's"), Ron Bailie (Ron Bailie's School of Broadcasting, Seattle), Pat O'day (KJR), Jerry Holzinger (KFKF), Bill O'Mara (KFKF), Frank Roberts (KOL and KIRO), Martin Tobin (KOL), Dick Stokke (KFKF), Kearney Barton (recording engineer) Joe Boles (recording engineer), Archie Taft, Sparky Taft, Jimmy Linden (audio engineer at KOL's Northern Life Tower and son of Adolph Frederik Linden), Dalton Trumbo (Novelist and Hollywood screenwriter), Larry Nelson (KOMO), Robert O. Smith (Bob Liddle, KIXI), Dick Keplinger, Bill Taylor and Dan Niles (KOL), to name a few. Johnny worked with many well known names in early radio---guys like Ken Niles, Don Isham, Reg Miller, Homer Pope, Art Gilmore, Owen Sweeten, Steve Barrett, Harold and Mabel Strong, Bob Priebe, Willard W. Warren, Will Conner, Ted Husing, Len Beardsley, Hal Wolfe, Jack Little, Archie Taft, George Yount, Ralph Jones and a realtor named Albert Balch, who was an early-day announcer and organized the first news bureau for KOMO-KJR. Others were Max Dolin, Jerry Morris, Al and Bill Botzer, Tommy Thomas, Birt Fisher, Maurie Ryder, Sam Hayes (the Richfield Reporter), Jules Buffano, Caroll Foster and Art Gerbel.
Johnny was intellectually, philosophically, politically and religiously very LIBERAL and PROGRESSIVE....a truly amazing man!
22 Feb 2013
Johnny was a friend of Dalton Trumbo! James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. Trumbo won two Academy Awards while blacklisted; one originally given to a front writer, and one awarded to Robert Rich, Trumbo's pseudonym. Early life and career: Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado, the son of Maud (née Tillery) and Orus Bonham Trumbo. His surname originated from a Franco-Swiss immigrant ancestor who settled in Virginia in 1736. Trumbo graduated from Grand Junction High School in nearby Grand Junction, Colorado. While still in high school, he worked as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for two years, working as a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and contributing to the campus humor magazine, the yearbook and the campus newspaper. He got his professional start working for Vogue magazine.
06 Aug 2011
My friend, another "radio great," Robert L. Scott (1953 to 1998). Robert L. Scott was born on October 25, 1953, in Seattle, Washington. Working in radio was Robert's childhood dream and while attending Washington Junior High School, he fulfilled that dream and landed his first radio job at the University of Washington's KUOW. At age 14 he could be heard hosting a jazz show on that station. Later that same year Robert secured a weekend position with Black-owned KYAC AM & FM and by the time he was 17 and graduating from Rainier Beach High School, he was firmly seated as the station's morning host. Robert's 30-year radio career spanned across numerous formats and positions. He was a newsman for KOMO radio, the first Black dj hired by Top-40 formatted KJR radio, and general sales manager at KKFX (K-FOX). He also logged time at KWJZ, KEZX, KIRO, KZAM, & KRIZ. Robert was most recently employed by Entercom Seattle handling sales for Classic KING FM and KNWX. At KYAC radio Robert was program, music and news director at one tome and could often be heard filling in an air-shift, or doing the news. Mentored by his life-long friend Frank Barrow, Robert became responsible for giving many aspiring announcers their first radio exposure. His frank manner and experienced leadership helped to launch and direct the careers of many local and now national personalities. Robert always pushed his staff to be their absolute best and routinely listened to each announcer's program. He would often call on the "hot line" to point out various ways they could have improved their last music set or news story.
05 Aug 2011
John R. Forrest was a librettist. He composed lyrics for musicals and operettas. John R. Forrest was a lyricist; he composed words for popular songs.
21 Jul 2011
Pat O'Day emailed me, confirming that, yes, he knew Johnny! Pat said Johnny's newscasts were state of the art!
17 Jul 2011
WOW...check out SeatacRadio.com! Thank you, Jason Remington! Now we have actual news articles about Johnny and an audio of his KOL newscast!
15 Jul 2011
Special thanks to the following for helping me "revive" Johnny Forrest: (I could not have accomplished this with you!!) Terry G. G. Salomonson (Audio Classics/ Old Time Radio), Feliks Banel, Gord Lansdell, Alex Kosper, Bill Taylor, Jason Remington, Danny Holiday, Pat O'Day, Bill Kossen, Peter Blecha, Howard Giske, John Broven, The Seattle Public Library, MOHA.....and the list is growing!
15 Jul 2011
http://www.archive.org/details/SUSPENSE9 (This is the link to John's play, "Daisy Chain." You have to click on #70 in order to hear it.)
01 Jul 2011
http://www.systemrecords.co.uk/various-artists-best-golden-crest-tall-cool-ones-p-1027778.html (This is the link to order "The Best of Golden Crest!")
01 Jul 2011
Johnny Forrest and Lola Sugia's 1959 recording of Blue Tears is now available on "The Best of Golden Crest"!
18 Apr 2010
Thank you for your comments about Johnny! Yes, he was on KOL for many years; up to the mid 60's. Then he moved to KFKF in the late 60's. He also worked on KIRO. In his "spare time" he was composing songs, radio jingles and writing plays. I sure hope his descendants stumble across this web site someday!
20 Mar 2010
Don Riggs, formerly of KMPS-FM writes in one of his blogs: ".......John Dubuque, the Chief Engineer at KFKF, and former Chief at KXA, called me and said that their morning anchor Johnny Forrest had had a heart attack, and could I come over and learn what buttons to push and start tomorrow? The format was drive-time news blocks, with music in between. Manager Kemper Freeman, Jr., liked to call his air staff "news jockeys". It was a nice fit. Bil O'Mara was there, back to doing what he should, sports. After a couple of years, the station was sold, the format changed to personality dj's, with new call letters, KBES."
06 Jan 2010
Special thanks to the following radio celebrities, historians, journalists, broadcasters and media persons for their contributions to my research on Johnny Forrest: Danny Holiday, Gord Lansdell, Pat O'Day, Bill Taylor, Jim French, Alex Cosper, Terry Salomonson, Feliks Banel, Peter Blecha, Howard Giske, Bill Kossen, Carolyn Marr and John Broven of CFG Publishing Co / Golden Crest Records.
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Want to Live a Long Life? Stay in School
Stay in school. Get an education. Knowledge is power. All of these phrases are instilled in children from preschool on. It's great advice and can definitely lead to some smart choices in life. But now it's been found that getting more education can not only improve your life, but make it last a little longer.
A study published in the August issue of Health Affairs shows that the life expectancy of those who are poor and less educated has increased only slightly over the past several decades. The research also shows that in some cases, the life expectancy for those who don't finish high school is getting shorter. Within this study, the researchers examined the trends in life expectancy from 1990 through 2008 paying special attention to how someone's age, sex, race and education affected their longevity.
Lead author of the study Jay Olshansky stated in a news release, "There are essentially two Americas. The most highly educated white men live about 14 years longer than the least-educated black men. The least-educated black women live about 10 years less than the most-educated white women." Read the rest of this entry »


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Yeah! Got my honey back!!
July 12 2012 at 9:24 AM
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Finally, after nearly six years together, I let my honey out of my sight for a long overdue movement service... now she's back... her ticking heart within COSC standards! Two weeks apart felt like two years!!
At least I wasn't left quite on my own, I had her sister to keep me company!!
Mk II "Patent Pending" DRSD (1665/2.24m) and Mk II DRSD (1665/1.76m).
As an interesting anomaly, I have noted that many Mk II DRSDs with 1.76m case numbers appear to have been released in the early 1970's and have
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- jatucka (rob) on Jul 12, 2012, 9:45 AM
Fantastic Mike:) nt
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Amazing examples Mike, congrats, I am sure you felt like ages without that beauty
- ag on Jul 12, 2012, 10:54 AM
great info....thanks, Mike
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Nice pair!
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billion of pensions, of public pensions."
He said state lawmakers aren't bad people but have "an insatiable appetite for spending" and shouldn't have increased pension payouts when California was booming.
Schwarzenegger also lamented the fact he couldn't set up a "Rainy Day Fund" before leaving office to reduce the state's budget volatility. He says every governor has an ambitious list of goals, but sometimes politics gets in the way.


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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
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May 8, 2013
It's an anthem that is usually sung with chest-thumping pride and misty eyes by British imperialists. "Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves". This jingoistic celebration of Britain's former global conquest may yet degenerate into "Rue Britannia, Britannia rues the waves".
This is because, as The Guardian newspaper reports this week, the London government has at long last been forced into recognizing compensation payments for as many as 50,000 Kenyan nationals who were victims of torture and other crimes against humanity during that country's independence struggle in the 1950s. The eventual bill for compensation could run up to tens of millions of pounds.
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Tales of the Questor
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Tales of the Questor follows the story of Quentyn, the Questor of Freeman Downs.
The comic began on November 18, 2001. Two compilations have been released at Lulu.com in both black-and-white and color editions, while three compilations are available thus far on Indy Planet in full color, and costing a bit less.
For publishing dates of individual strips and storyline titles see the Tales of the Questor Archive.
Some background material previously only available on the CD and DVD collections, the "Journals of Ennias Lonscript", are available here.
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What makes it most difficult is the same thing that I'm sure makes it most difficult for any family; the killer combination of money and time and not having enough of either… you know, the age old battle. Only for us, it feels like we have an unmatched sense of priority toward the two which makes it all the more difficult to figure out.
We're consistently at odds, trying to figure out: which is the bigger priority right now? Expense, or experience? He stands firmly on the side of money ALWAYS being the biggest priority, whereas I take an "all things in moderation" sort of stance. I don't feel like we're being bad parents by not running our savings into the ground for a family vacation all of our children won't even remember in a year and a half, but the thought of spending money just for the fun of it doesn't give me an aneurism.
I bring this up because we've been talking Disney World recently. We have three kids at 3 very different ages. Going now means that two of the three children we have won't remember most of the trip past the age of maybe three and seven. Going in even just a few years means that Mary will have forever missed the opportunity to see Disney World through "kid-colored glasses," begging the question, will it ever be fully worth it to go?
To first understand what a big deal this is for us, you have to first know something about Spencer… He's an absolute mastermind at saving money. But asking him to part with any significant amount of it, especially "just for fun" is IM-freaking-POSSIBLE.
Spencer and I live so far within our means that we're regularly made fun of for it, even by our own parents. We make a good deal more than the house we live in or the way my husband frets over every expense would lend one to believe. Spencer isn't happy unless four hundred dollars a month is being poured into a savings fund that is untouchable under any circumstances and we're paying a significant amount more than we're expected to toward the principal of the mortgage on our house. To put it gently, my husband is the penny-pinchin'est son of a mother you will ever meet in your life. And it drives everyone nuts. If it weren't for my putting up an argument about it each year, things like birthday gifts and Easter baskets would be sternly deemed a totally unnecessary expense - he takes it that far.
To be fair, him being as disciplined with our money as he is will be the reason we retire early (God willing) and the way in which we'll have the house paid off before Scarlett gets to college. It's what we have to thank for the fact that after his unexpected accident, we lived for three months without an income and had to change nothing about the way that we live. Not even Christmas. But Mother of God, it sure can be a buzz kill sometimes, too!
I love the fact that he's as responsible as he is. I do. Where our beliefs differ is in the priority that experiencing life to it's fullest extent actually is, especially when we're talking dollar signs. Is it really worth setting our retirement fund back four grand for a family vacation all of our kids will never simultaneously be at an ideal age to ever even go on? Honestly, probably not. (After all neither one of us went as kids and we're not completely dysfunctional.) But when you're dealing with someone who puts so little stock into holidays as you do that he refers to even holiday expenses like Valentine's Day as a "consumer circle jerk," it can be really hard to lend a sympathetic ear to his opinions on monetary priority when it comes to fun.
(Spencer is a very fun guy, don't get me wrong. He's just a very firm believer in the philosophy that fun should not cost a cent.)
I feel like I'm always saying, They're KIDS, for Pete's sake! Buy the damned Easter grass and stop being such a cry baby about it, would you?? While he feels like he's always saying, Why wouldn't a teenage girl want to repurpose a potato sack into an outfit for the school dance? Doesn't she feel like a sheep walking through those overpriced shopping malls with her friends?! I know I did, even at her age! (Which, bless his soul, is probably true.) In the end, both of us are left wondering why we never get through to the other when it comes to this One. Blasted. Thing.
"I want to experience things," I finally leveled with him the other day. "It's not just about the kids. Life is short… We learned a hard lesson in that this year. Look, we knew when we decided to have kids that we wouldn't be traveling the world anytime soon, but I want to look back on the time that we had together whenever it's over and say that we lived a life worth passing onto our children. If the world isn't worth exploring or enjoying, why did we ever bring our kids into it?"
Then of course, yesterday, (because that's just the way the Universe works when you put your life into writing) I was hit over the head with one of those moral revelations that put it all into perspective for me.
Yesterday my friend went into labor and invited me to be a part of the delivery. Coincidentally it was the same day that Spencer was scheduled to have a blood clot filter (or as he put it: "something that looked like a device from Total Recall") removed from the center of his body through a vein in his neck -- a follow-up procedure from his accident 6 months ago. Both events were taking place at the same hospital. After his procedure and somewhere around my very pregnant friend stalling at 3 and a half centimeters, I met Spencer for All-You-Can-Eat Tacos at Don Pablos… Just the two of us. It was one of those very, very rare occasions where the kids were at my moms until the next day, Mary was still at school (Thank You, Detention), and we actually had a little time to kill. For the first time in what felt like way too long we had a lot of exciting things to talk about beside the monopolizing stuff we can't agree on.
By the time I'd gotten back to the hospital to be with my friend, he'd rented a special movie (too scary to ever watch with me and the little ones around) for just he and Mary, his first true love, to enjoy. When I got back home around midnight, Mary was sprawled out next to her dad on my side of the bed, the two of them fast asleep.
I couldn't help but feel like maybe it was a bit of a God-Wink. A little something to remind me that the fact that we chose this path together doesn't have to mean that we'll never bond the way we could have if we didn't. Our children aren't going to grow up not knowing that we love them unconditionally because we chose to save for their college education instead of fly them first class to an Orlando resort before they hit their teens. Spencer and I haven't come to some miraculous, foolproof epiphany about how to splurge and when to save 100% of the time. But yesterday I was reminded that even if our family scrapbook is filled with more pictures of peanut butter pinecones, lunch dates over nachos, and anecdotes about a father-daughter movie-night than airplane tickets, it'll be no less worth looking back on.
There is no shame, after all, in celebrating a simple life.
(At least until we retire in Honolulu.) (KIDDING.)


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If the nations more than 3,200 public housing authorities want to have enough money from HUDs special Section 8 housing voucher fund to prevent voucher terminations, they must adhere to the departments five money-saving steps to be eligible.
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Public housing authorities are receiving operating subsidies for April -- but not in amounts anticipated. HUD says it will make up the difference during the month in a second distribution. The glitch occurs after HUD calculated the months distribution based on data
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