| IDs released on two ice-related deaths; Knox on 2-hour delay
The second fatal wreck of the day happened a little less than three hours later in Loudon County. Barbara A. Lynch, 52, of Lenoir City died when her 1997 Mercury Cougar ran off the road and hit a utility pole, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Lynch was driving south on U.S. Highway 11 near the corner of Muddy Creek Road around 9:50 a.m. when she apparently lost control of the car, Trooper Cory Snow wrote in a report. She didn't wear a seatbelt, and the impact hurled her partly out of the car, Snow wrote. The weather caused hundreds of other wrecks around the area, including more than 350 smashups in Knoxville and Knox County alone. Knoxville police worked 232 wrecks from 6:30-10 a.m. when the black ice was at its worst, Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said.
III. Obstacles to Reform
For the Indonesian government to end military self-financing, it will have to overcome several challenges. Alongside needed measures to confront military businesses and eliminate the TNIs other economic activities, the government also will need to find ways to appropriately finance the armed forces from budgetary funds. To do so will require improvements to financial controls on the military. As part of that effort, it will be essential to clearly address a number of misconceptions about military economic activity that are often cited as excuses to scuttle reform. This chapter addresses these issues in turn. It begins with a critique of the current system of military finance control. Next, it addresses three myths about military business activity. It finds that the challenges, while difficult, are not insurmountable.
McCain, Romney slug it out in Florida
McCain aired radio commercials criticizing Romney, and his campaign Web site has an ad superimposing Romney's face on the image of a windsurfing Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. The Romney campaign also reported numerous negative phone calls, accusing him incorrectly of supporting taxpayer-funded abortions, opposing President Bush's tax cuts and favoring direct talks with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The McCain campaign said it was not responsible for the calls. .
Bradford man looks to rev up interest in Soap Box Derby
All drivers, interested families, supporters and sponsors are welcome to attend."We're looking for as many people as possible who we can get involved in this," he said.Mr. Feldman, who owns the Byllye Lanes bowling center in Bradford, said he has been interested in starting up a Soap Box Derby since moving to the area from New York state a number of years ago. He said another organization in town had proposed to sponsor the derby a few years ago but wasn't able to follow through. .
Local online advertising to grow in next five years: JupiterResearch
Local display and search advertising are among the leading online advertising categories marked for significant growth within the next five years, according to JupiterResearch's US Online Local Advertising Forecast. According to the report, display and search advertising are expected to grow by 18% and 16%, respectively, from 2007 to 2012. Local advertising, overall, is expected to increase by 13% in this time period, while online advertising as a whole is expected to grow by 12%. Internet users are getting savvier when it comes to searching for local businesses online, the forecast stated. In addition, search engines are working to increase the quality of their local and zip-code-specific results. This growth should not discount traditional media, JupiterResearch warned.
Opa-locka's city attorney
Allen Quinn Jones III, the one-time Miami city attorney who had been Opa-locka's city attorney for the past seven years, died Monday night after a long struggle with cancer. He was 56. Jones, of Lauderhill, spent 15 years at the city of Miami, six as city attorney. He came to Opa-locka full-time as its community development director in 2000 and became city attorney that year. The Opa-locka commissioners were eager to rely on his advice, given his prior experience. ''He would say that citizens may not understand [certain issues] in the short term, but they will when they see the benefits in the long term,'' said Mayor Joseph Kelley. SENSE OF HUMOR Kelley appreciated Jones' sense of humor. Whenever a controversial issue was coming before the commission, Jones would whisper to the mayor, 'Boy, I'm glad I'm just the attorney.' Just like that, he would soften the mood.'' Jones helped Commissioner Timothy Holmes craft the city's infamous baggy pants ordinance and cautioned commissioners against votes that might get them in trouble, such as rejecting a building permit for a church because the city had too many.
M’Ville Panel Divided On Expansion
Professors Saskia Sassen, Ester Fuchs, and Randall Reback discussed the place of the Manhattanville project in the historical context of American urbanization to a crowd that packed into 507 Hamilton Hall. “This face of global capitalism is profoundly unjust," the sociologist Sassen said, emphasizing Columbia's moral responsibilities towards the Manhattanville community and the need to provide affordable housing. But political science professor Fuchs defended the University, explaining that Columbia “has a right to be in this area and develop." Fuchs, who has served as Special Advisor to Mayor Bloomberg for Governance and Strategic Planning, also questioned the legitimacy of self-appointed community representatives, saying that although electoral democracy may be imperfect, elected officials are the only genuine representatives of their areas.
Maria Felix-Ortiz
The distinction between a veteran and a military-retiree veteran is important because funding and responsibility for health care is different for each. Anyone who serves in the military fewer than 20 years is a veteran, and is supported by the Veterans Administration. Anyone who makes a career of the military and retires after 20 or more years of service is a military-retiree veteran, and is supported by the Department of Defense budget/funding. Several years ago, a law was passed that transferred funding for military retiree veterans to the Treasury Department. For some reason, this transfer never occurred. DOD continues to complain they cannot buy enough guns, bullets, etc. because of funding military-retiree veterans health care — which they really don't have to do. According to the Air Force Sergeants' Association Newsletter: "Last year, (DOD) sought, but failed to get approval to double or triple the cost of Tricare Prime, establish a Tricare Standard annual enrollment fee, increase the annual Tricare deductibles, and increase the cost to beneficiaries for prescriptions.
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