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Indian reservations: Environmental refuge or homeland?
The West's Indian reservations need help in building sustainable economies if their wildlife and landscapes are to be preserved, along with their tribal rights.by Daniel Mccool, Apr 10, 2000
Book Reviews
An industry booster becomes a supporter of Western land
Alvin Josephy's memoir, "A Walk Toward Oregon," describes his journey from "Time" journalist to Western historian and environmentalist.by Ed Marston, Apr 10, 2000
Book Reviews
Tax-averse Wyoming hurts itself
The Equality State Policy Center, a nonprofit public-policy group, says taxes are an overlooked source of revenue and offers suggestions in its report, "Putting Together the Pieces... Wyoming's Budget Crisis."by Robyn Morrison, Mar 27, 2000
Book Reviews
Oh, give me a home...
A new documentary, "Subdivide and Conquer: The New West," takes a sobering look at the rapid development and sprawling subdivisions in the West.by Catherine Lutz, Mar 27, 2000
Shadows out West
"Maria," an illegal immigrant, is only one among the many thousands whose work keeps the West going, even as the workers live in fear of deportation.by Daniel J. Mcgill, Mar 13, 2000
A new town hits the skids
After a 14-hour hearing packed with anti-growth activists, Garfield County Commissioners vote down Sanders Ranch, a huge development that would create a new town between Glenwood Springs and Carbondale.by Catherine Lutz, Mar 13, 2000
Uncommon Westerners
Tom Watkins has left us, but his Western dream remains
T.H. Watkins is remembered as "a writer and teacher and concerned citizen and father and husband and consummate agitator" whose literature and life revealed a deep love for the West.by Todd Wilkinson, Mar 13, 2000
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Impressions of Nature, an Internet photography exhibit and auction
American Land Conservancy presents an Internet art show on-line, March 3-31.by Staff, Feb 28, 2000
A prof takes on the sacred cow
At the University of Wyoming, Prof. Debra Donahue's book, "The Western Range Revisited," with its criticism of grazing, has provoked fury among ranchers and raised questions about academic freedom.by Katharine Collins, Feb 28, 2000
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'We still have a ways to go'
Colette Kostelec of the Jefferson Land Trust talks about trying to save land on the Olympic Peninsula near Port Townsend, Wash.by Michelle Nijhuis And Ali Macalady, Feb 28, 2000
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Burgers bolster Colorado open space
The Yampa Valley Beef Corp. seeks to protect land near Steamboat Springs, Colo., by selling locally raised beef in the area.by Brenda Biondo, Feb 28, 2000
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'The growth wasn't organic'
Wendy Fisher of Utah Open Lands talks about how her land trust group began in booming Park City.by Michelle Nijhuis, Feb 28, 2000
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'We have a stake in the place'
Wendy Ninteman of the Five Valleys Land Trust in Missoula, Mont., talks about the experience of her land trust.by Michelle Nijhuis And Ali Macalady, Feb 28, 2000
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'Our first focus is the landowner'
Lynne Sherrod of the Colo. Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust talks about how ranchers save open space. Rancher Jay Fetcher came up with the idea of a cattleman's land trust when his family began to look for ways to preserve their Yampa Valley lands.by Michelle Nijhuis, Feb 28, 2000
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San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis is officially inactive for Sunday's game against the Indianpolis Colts. Defensive end Aldon Smith is listed as active and will be playing.
Davis suffered a hamstring injury in last week's loss to the Seattle Seahawks. He was optimistic about playing this week, but didn't practice on Friday and was considered a game time decision. The 49ers decided to shut him down after warmups. Davis has nine catches for 118 yards and two touchdowns through two games.
Smith's game status was in question after getting arrested for a DUI on Friday morning. He's expected to face league discipline for his second DUI in as many years, but the 49ers will not immediately punish him. It's unknown how much he will play in this game, but the team wants his pass-rushing talent for the game. Smith has 3.5 sacks in two weeks and recorded 19.5 last season.
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In the 80 years since The Dorchester first opened its doors, the hotel has welcomed a constant stream of celebrities and royalty. Its guests expect nothing but the best and the woman responsible for making sure that they are never disappointed is executive housekeeper Eliette Machold.
Having worked in the front office of a hotel in Asia, Machold fell into housekeeping when she discovered it was more than just cleaning bathrooms. 'What surprises people is how versatile my day-to-day job is,' she says. 'There is a whole spectrum that goes way beyond the bedroom and nobody sees it.'
Aside from making sure the Dorchester's 250 bedrooms are all set for guests, Machold works closely with event organisers, preparing the 10 function rooms for anything from press junkets to weddings. On top of that she is heavily involved in the hotel's frequent refurbishments, preventing the designers from getting carried away with far-out ideas and concepts.
'They often go for look and "wow" effect,' Machold explains, 'but I have to remind them that the rooms must be as good in two years' time as they are new. So, for example, having leather on the bathroom floor isn't going to work as I can't clean it properly.'
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Despite her fulfilling a number of different roles in the hotel, it is the housekeeping team's happiness that is a priority for Machold, who devotes much of her time to making their jobs easier. 'When we switched from sheets to duvets my team weren't happy as they said they would take too long to change,' she says. 'So I put holes in the corner of the covers to speed it up for them, and we had races to see who could make up a bed the quickest. Some can do it in three minutes now.'
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DENVER — Unbothered by the freezing weather, Matt Prater set an NFL record with a 64-yard field goal and Peyton Manning threw four more touchdown passes Sunday, lifting the Denver Broncos to a 51-28 victory over the Tennessee Titans.
The temperature was 14 degrees when Prater kicked his record-setter to close the first half and pull Denver within 21-20.
Manning opened the third quarter by leading the Broncos on a pair of touchdown drives and the Broncos (11-2) easily wrapped up a playoff spot.
Denver's quarterback set a franchise record with 39 completions and finished with 397 yards.
Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 172 yards for the Titans (5-8), who went 73 yards in five plays to score on the game's first drive and led 21-10 in the middle of the second quarter.
PHILADELPHIA — LeSean McCoy ran for a franchise-best 217 yards, including touchdowns of 57 and 40 yards, and the Eagles overcame two TD returns by Jeremy Ross in a blizzard.
Ross returned a punt 58 yards for a score and ran a kickoff 98 yards. But McCoy sprinted 57 yards up the middle for a tying TD and Nick Foles connected with Riley Cooper on the 2-point conversion. Foles sneaked in from the 1 and Chris Polk had a 38-yard touchdown run to cap a 28-point fourth quarter for the Eagles (8-5).
Snow began falling two hours before kickoff and intensified after the game started. Workers used shovels and handheld blowers to clear off yard lines. Conditions were so poor neither team tried a field goal; there were 2-point conversion attempts after seven of the eight TDs.
The Eagles, looking to go worst-to-first in the NFC East, won their fifth straight game and took over sole possession of first place. Dallas can make it a tie for the top spot with a victory at Chicago on Monday night.
The Lions (7-6) have a half-game lead over the Bears in the NFC North.
BALTIMORE — Joe Flacco threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to rookie Marlon Brown with 4 seconds left to ice the win. Brown's catch concluded a 5-play, 80-yard drive that took only 41 seconds.
It came after Matt Cassel threw a 79-yard touchdown pass to Cordarrelle Patterson with 45 seconds remaining. Just before that, Baltimore's Jacoby Jones took a kickoff 77 yards for a score, which followed a 41-yard touchdown run by Toby Gerhart, who had replaced an injured Adrian Peterson (ankle) for Minnesota (3-9-1).
The zaniness began when Flacco threw a 1-yard, fourth-down pass to Dennis Pitta with 2:05 go to for a 15-12 Ravens lead.
Baltimore (7-6) has its first three-game winning streak of the season and the inside track for the second AFC wild card.
SAN FRANCISCO — Phil Dawson kicked a 22-yard field goal with 26 seconds remaining and the Niners held off the nemesis Seahawks, denying Seattle a chance to clinch the division at Candlestick Park.
Frank Gore broke a 51-yard gain with just more than four minutes left to set up the go-ahead 11-play, 76-yard drive as the 49ers (9-4) kept the playoff-bound Seahawks (11-2) from grabbing away the West in San Francisco.
Dawson's fourth field goal of the day gave him 20 straight converted field goals, a franchise record topping Joe Nedney's 18 consecutive in 2006-07.
Russell Wilson threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to Luke Willson and Marshawn Lynch ran for an 11-yard score for Seattle, denied a franchise-best sixth road victory.
The 49ers are unbeaten at home against the West since losing to the Seahawks on Oct. 26, 2008.
LANDOVER, Md.— The Chiefs scored on their first four possessions in the snow, sacked Robert Griffin III five times and Kirk Cousins once and returned both a punt and a kickoff for a touchdown.
The score was 17-0 after the first quarter and 38-10 at halftime. Quintin Demps immediately answered the lone Redskins' touchdown with a 95-yard kickoff return that resembled at times a winter stroll, part of a stunning tally of 321 return yards by Kansas City in the first half alone.
Jamaal Charles ran 19 times for 151 yards for Kansas City.
The Chiefs (10-3), who lost two to the Denver Broncos sandwiched around a defeat to the San Diego Chargers after starting 9-0, beat up on a bad team. The Redskins (3-10) certainly qualify: Sunday's game was their fifth straight loss and coach Mike Shanahan appears increasingly likely to be gone after a third losing season in four years.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Carson Palmer completed 27-of-32 passes, 12 of them to Larry Fitzgerald, and the Cardinals ended an 8-game losing streak against NFC West foes.
Palmer, questionable for the game with a sore right elbow, threw for 269 yards and a touchdown as the Cardinals (8-5) won for the fifth time in six games.
Arizona's Karlos Dansby returned an interception 23 yards for a touchdown and John Abraham tackled Kellen Clemens for a safety.
Tavon Austin's 56-yard run set up the only touchdown for the Rams (5-8), a 1-yard run by Zac Stacy. Austin injured his left ankle on the play and didn't return.
The Cardinals lost rookie safety Tyrann Mathieu in the third quarter with a left knee injury.
PITTSBURGH — Charles Clay caught two touchdown passes, including a 12-yard strike from Ryan Tannehill with 2:53 remaining.
Daniel Thomas ran for 105 yards and a score. His zig-zag 55-yard burst at snowy Heinz Field set up Clay's winner. Tannehill completed 20-of-33 passes for 201 yards and three scores for the Dolphins (7-6). Miami won for the third time in its last four games.
Ben Roethlisberger passed for 349 yards and three scores but the Steelers (5-8) lost their second straight game. Antonio Brown raced into the end zone after a series of laterals on the final play but officials ruled he stepped out of bounds before scoring.
The Steelers snapped the ball at their own 21 just before the clock hit all zeros. Emmanuel caught a short pass from Roethlisberger, starting a flurry of laterals that included getting the ball into the hands of 330-pound tackle Marcus Gilbert. Gilbert flipped it to Roethlisberger who then appeared to throw it forward to Brown. No flags were thrown, however, as Brown raced down the sideline before touching the sideline.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Matt Flynn threw for 258 yards and the Packers' struggling defense forced a key fourth-quarter turnover to snap a five-game winless string.
Mike Neal's sack forced Matt Ryan to fumble. Defensive lineman Johnny Jolly scooped up the loose ball and celebrated with a little belly dance at chilly Lambeau Field.
Four plays later, Flynn found Andrew Quarless for a 2-yard go-ahead score with about 12 minutes left for the Packers (6-6-1).
The score completed a comeback from an 11-point halftime deficit and whipped the fans swathed in parkas and knit caps into a frigid frenzy. It was 9 degrees when the game started, with a wind chill of minus-1.
Matt Bryant missed a 52-yard field goal with 6:42 left for Atlanta (3-10).
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Geno Smith threw a touchdown pass and ran for another score as the Jets set a season high for points and stopped a 3-game skid.
Chris Ivory had a touchdown run, Nick Folk kicked three field goals and Antonio Allen blocked a punt and returned it for a score to help the Jets (6-7) in the AFC playoff hunt. Smith ended a miserable stretch that included getting benched last week by throwing his first touchdown toss since Week 7.
The Jets also prevented the first four-game losing streak under coach Rex Ryan.
Matt McGloin threw two touchdown passes and fullback Marcel Reece, starting because Oakland was down three running backs, had a 63-yard TD run for the Raiders (4-9).
Oakland has lost three straight overall and 13 consecutive in the Eastern time zone.
SAN DIEGO — Philip Rivers found rookie Keenan Allen for two of his three touchdown passes and the Chargers kept alive their long-shot playoff hopes.
Manning dropped to 0-3 against San Diego since 2004, when the Chargers took him with the No. 1 overall draft pick and then sent him to the Giants for Rivers and a handful of draft picks. The Giants (5-8) were knocked out of playoff contention.
Manning was picked off twice, the first time when Donald Butler came up with a deflected pass midway through the first quarter. Three plays later, Allen caught a 43-yard pass and lunged for the pylon for the score.
Allen had three catches to push his season total to 61, breaking LaDainian Tomlinson's team rookie record of 59 in 2001.
TAMPA, Fla. — Mike Glennon threw two touchdown passes and Bobby Rainey scored on an 80-yard run on the second play of the day. The Bucs (4-9) intercepted EJ Manuel four times en route to their fourth win in five games following an 0-8 start.
Manuel, Buffalo's first-round draft pick out of Florida State, was sacked seven times and doubled his interception total for the season.
The Bills (4-9) are assured of finishing without a winning record for the ninth straight year and also are likely to extend the NFL's longest current playoff drought to 14 consecutive seasons.


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Suns Strokes: Balanced offensive effort keys win over Nuggets
Sure, you could read the box score and know who won, but we all know that won't tell you everything that happened in a basketball game. So, we will give you Suns Strokes providing you with the analysis, quotes and notes from the Suns' 110-100 win over the Denver Nuggets on November 12. Final Score: Suns 110, Nuggets 100
The Good:
The Suns placed a season-high seven players in double figures, including all five starters; and committed a season-low six turnovers to end a six-game losing streak to the Nuggets. It was the Suns third straight win at US Airways Center as they have opened the season 3-1 at home for the first time since 2009-10, the team's last playoff campaign.
The Bad:
The Suns allowed the 20th-best shooting team in the league to make better than 50-percent of its field goals in each quarter, including 57.9% in the first quarter. Denver, which came into the game shooting 42.6%, made a season-high 53.9% of its shots.
He said it:
"It's a good win," head coach Alvin Gentry said. "We've obviously struggled with that team over the past couple of years, so to be able to get a win against them and be able to get a win at home was really important. I thought we played well, we had a lot of guys that stepped up and I thought did some good things."
� Goran Dragic, who led all scorers with 21 points, is the only Suns player to score in double figures in every game this season.
� The Suns have trailed by 10 or more in seven of eight games -- including all four games at home, this season.
Up Next:
The Suns (4-4) complete this mini two-game homestand with a visit from the Chicago Bulls (4-3) on Wednesday, November 14.
- Report: Phoenix Suns reach out to Minnesota Timberwolves about an Eric Bledsoe-Kevin Love trade
- Phoenix Suns don't have a point guard in top ten of WARP projections
- Phoenix Suns 2014 preseason schedule released
- The Pulse: Most say Eric Bledsoe and agent Rich Paul are at fault for contract standoff with Phoenix Suns
- Phoenix Suns single-game tickets now on sale
- Chris Sheridan- sheridanhoops.com - Tuesday August 19Chris Sheridan believes there is one team that could easily make a max contract offer to Eric Bledso
- Who impressed/who depressed - Monday August 18Dan and Vince look back at who impressed and depressed them over the weekend.
- Adrian Wojnarowski- YahooSports NBA writer - Tuesday August 12Adrian Wojnarowski says Eric Bledsoe has backed himself into a corner.
- Bickley Blast - Tuesday August 12Now that Donald Sterling is gone, who is the worst owner in sports?
- Jerry Colangelo, Managing Director of USA Basketball - Friday August 8Jerry Colangelo talks about the Paul George injury and Kevin Durant's departure from Team USA.


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The Trial of Conrad Murray
The King of Pop is Dead
To an outsider, it seemed like Michael Jackson was once again on top of the world. Although he had long been a fixture in the tabloids and his long-standing financial problems were well known, Jackson's "This is It" comeback tour in London seemed perfectly set up to put the King of Pop back in the public eye for all of the right reasons — and earn him millions of dollars for the 50 sold-out concerts.
A June 24, 2009 rehearsal went well by all accounts, Jackson was energetic and focused. As his security team dropped him off at his rented mansion in the Hollywood Hills, Jackson seemed happy and healthy. However, at roughly noon on June 25, 2009, Jackson stopped breathing. A security guard called 911. Paramedics were on the scene in minutes and tried desperately to revive Jackson. Eventually, he was transported via ambulance to UCLA Medical Center, where further life-saving efforts proved fruitless. His personal doctor, Conrad Murray, had been with Jackson all night — treating the singer's insomnia with a combination of drugs that police would conclude caused his tragic death.
Who is Conrad Murray?
Conrad Murray, a cardiologist with clinics in Las Vegas and Houston, ran a successful practice and was very popular with his patients. Outside of work, his actions were a little more suspect — although he was married, he visited strip clubs, carried on affairs, and fathered several out-of-wedlock children.
Since 2006 he served as Michael Jackson's personal physician. He met Jackson when the singer was living in Vegas with his three children, Prince, Paris, and Blanket, and the entire family came down with a respiratory virus. A member of Jackson's security team was a patient of Murray's and referred him to the singer. Murray and Jackson hit it off, and Murray continued to treat Jackson over the ensuing years.
When Jackson signed on with the entertainment company AEG to do the long concert series in London, Jackson asked that Murray be brought on as his personal doctor for the tour. After some negotiation, Murray agreed to close his practice and take Jackson on as his sole patient — for the sum of $150,000 per month. Sadly for Murray, the contract had not been signed by all parties at the time of Jackson's death. Murray, who had been living in Los Angeles and treating Michael Jackson since April 2009, never got paid.
Murray is Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter
Jackson's death was suspicious from the beginning — he was a fantastically wealthy and relatively healthy 50-year-old man. How he died so suddenly while under the care of a personal physician was a mystery. The coroner concluded that Jackson died from an overdose of propofol — a powerful anesthetic used in hospitals to sedate patients for surgery. This was not a drug that could be procured by the average person via prescription — it was only available to medical personnel.
When police sat down to speak with Conrad Murray two days after Jackson's death, the personal physician admitted that he had given Jackson propofol to help with the singer's insomnia. When the investigators found that Murray had ordered an incredible amount of propofol (over four gallons altogether) while caring for Jackson, and that Jackson had traces of two other sedatives in his blood stream, prosecutors deemed that Murray's gross negligence was a direct cause of Jackson's death. But because Murray had not intentionally caused the singer's death, he was not charged with murder. Instead he was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter — a crime that could put the doctor behind bars for up to four years. And if convicted, he would surely lose his medical license and his livelihood.


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A POST office in Holland-on-Sea has been robbed by armed raiders for the second time in three months.
The masked robbers, armed with baseball bats and a stun gun, escaped with up to £25,000 from the Stratford Road post office at about 9.45am.
They took the cash after threatening a security guard, before fleeing the scene in a silver Ford Escort car.
It was later found abandoned in Madeira Road.
The men were both about 5ft 8in tall and of stocky build. One was wearing a grey hooded jacket and the other was wearing a dark blue or black hooded jacket.
The same post office was robbed of £3,300 in October. Two men were earlier this month jailed for three years for the robbery and an 19-year-old was sentenced to a young offenders' institution for three years.
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The House Committee on Science, Technology and Energy held hearings on five measures with the potential to slow or kill the project.
Northern Pass Transmission LLC, a project headed by Northeast Utilities, wants to construct a 190-mile, high-voltage transmission line to bring power produced by HydroQuebec in Canada from Pittsburg to Deerfield for connection to the New England electrical power grid.
The consortium has been unable to apply for the needed governmental approvals because it doesn't yet have ownership or easements on land needed for the power lines.
Opponents of Northern Pass tried to nudge the debate away from give-and-take over that specific project Tuesday, recasting the proposals some viewed as aimed at Northern Pass as "technical changes" needed in the state's rules for approving electrical transmission facilities.
Environmental concerns
The hearing drew fewer than 100 people, many of them lobbyists or union members who back the project.
A single spokesperson testified on behalf of a range of conservation groups. Susan Arnold, of the Appalachian Mountain Club, told the committee she spoke for a number of conservation groups, including the Audubon Society of New Hampshire, the Conservation Law Foundation, Conservation New Hampshire and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, which have opposed the transmission line.
Arnold never mentioned Northern Pass in her remarks, focusing on what she suggested was an immediate need for comprehensive legislation regarding energy projects in the state.
"Recently we have seen a number of proposals for new energy facilities, specifically wind farms and transmission lines, that will have an important and lasting impact on our state," Arnold said. "The number of bills before the committee testifies to the public concern."
Arnold said the Legislature should act quickly on a bill giving the SEC a broad range of authority in considering proposed facilities.
Five bills
Legislation before the committee Tuesday included a one-year moratorium on authorizing new electric transmission facilities, a requirement for elaborate economic impact studies, requirements for burying the transmission lines, and a requirement that the power lines run only along existing transportation rights-of-way, chiefly highways and railroad beds.
Current state law establishes a Site Evaluation Committee (SEC) to grant permits for new energy facilities. The law requires the SEC to seek "a balance between the environment and the need for new energy facilities" while avoiding "undue delay in the construction of needed facilities."
Arnold said a bill should be crafted to give the SEC authority to regulate transmission lines based on "public benefit, impact, regional and state energy needs, public participation and transparency and the impact on municipalities during the approval process."
She called on the committee to draft a bill to do all of that at once, and to draft it quickly.
"This shouldn't happen piecemeal; we would really encourage the committee to put together a single vehicle to address all of these many issues," Arnold said. "We believe the legislation ... should move forward this year."
While not mentioning Northern Pass, Arnold said new legislation should "reflect a more rigorous review of transmission facilities that are elective by design - that are not required for system reliability."
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Supporters of the transmission line were more direct. A contingent from Franklin, where a converter station would be built for the project, included the city manager, a former mayor and the president of the local bank.
Town Manager Elizabeth Dragon challenged the committee to view the bills as being aimed squarely at Northern Pass.
"Unlike the previous speakers, I believe most of these bills are crafted to stall or kill - let's just say the name - Northern Pass," Dragon said. "Most of these bills, if not all of them, were designed to create roadblocks to the Northern Pass project."
Several business groups also spoke in opposition to the legislation, as did members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents line workers.
One of the bills before the committee would require burying high-voltage transmission lines. It was sponsored by Rep. Laurence Rappaport, R-Colebrook, who argued that overhead lines will cost people in the North Country some of their net worth.
"Transmission lines are a theft of homeowner value," Rappaport said. "If transmission towers impede my view, my holdings are reduced in value and I receive absolutely no compensation."
Northern Pass requires a variety of federal environmental and energy permits and licenses, state Site Evaluation Committee approval of its route and equipment, and formal designation as a public utility.
Michael Licata, vice president for public policy at the Business and Industry Association, which represents businesses in the state, said the intent of the bills heard Tuesday was clear.
"This bill would have long-range and wide impacts, but it certainly appears that it is focused on one specific project," he said.
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Christmas tree-t for troops flying from Brize Norton
5:20pm Saturday 15th December 2012 in News
FLYING out to Afghanistan for a tour of duty is never easy for any soldier, but especially difficult at this time of year.
Now a garden centre has tried to create a little seasonal magic by donating a Christmas tree to Brize Norton air base.
Boyd Douglas-Davies, owner of Hilltop Garden Centre, in Ramsden, presented the tree, which will brighten up the journey for thousands of troops this Christmas.
Wing Commander Angela Baker said: "This is fantastic, it improves the environment in the terminal for all the passengers travelling overseas at Christmas."
The tree is a Nordman fir, which has travelled 530 miles from Inverness, in Scotland.
Mr Douglas-Davies said: "We just thought if they had a tree at the base it would be a nice thing for everyone."
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