That's what ETers are?

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

aretha never disappoints.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

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The longer I covered the town, the more this turned into a sore spot for me. Residents constantly complained about how high their taxes were yet seemed unable to comprehend the very high level of service the city provided. Aren't the nice sidewalks, big parks, and good schools the reasons they moved to the suburbs? I was reminded of that when I read that Colorado Springs and its tax-averse citizens are about to see what taxes actually pay for:

More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops -- dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.
The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.

Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that.

Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero.

Colorado requires a referendum to raise taxes, and the voters of Colorado Springs recently rejected a proposed property tax increase that would have helped cover a budget gap, after the recession lowered sales tax revenue by $22 million since 2007. So now, voters will see how good individuals are at protecting the common good.

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It was a telephone call so urgent that it echoes across borders. In early December, Honduran human rights activist Walter Trochéz was kidnapped while walking near his home in the capital, Tegucigalpa. Since the June 2009 coup in his country, Trochéz had documented a pattern of disappearances and killings of 15 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community leaders. His call to U.S. colleagues was to alert them he had nearly joined the list.

They send me an email telling me that domain privacy is turned on, which means that they - er - can't send me an email.

This email goes straight to my address.

I send them an email saying they can forward everything to me because I'm the domain contact.

Now they've sent me an email via contactprivacy, asking me to turn privacy off again, so they can - oh yes - email me again.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has added a search interface to its online Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) to improve the public's ability to find and obtain NRC documents.

"This is another example of the efforts the agency has underway to be as open and transparent as possible," said NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko.

The Web-based "ADAMS PUBLIC" interface replaces access to the Publicly Available Records System (PARS) that required downloading additional software. The original Web-based PARS interface introduced in 2003 remains available.

•  U.S. Companies Cut 22,000 Jobs in January, Fewest in Two Years

•  U.S. Economy May Lose 824,000 Jobs on Employment Data Revision

"CH is only 7.9 hours behind on today's work, far less than the 12.6 hours most analysts predicted."  Even after the revision, i'll still be only 9 hours behind, that must be good.  and believe me, the markets will react joyously.

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