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Letter to the Editor~by John Bronson |
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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 05/01/2011 08:55 AM
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| Arnold, CA....Our family is a huge fan of the SPCA (Calaveras Humane Society) thrift store in the Big Trees Center. We donate to it, and are customers of its excellent quality, yet reasonably priced merchandise. In conversations with management and staff at the store, it is obvious it is enthusiastically run and well managed And of course we are pleased knowing we are supporting the SPCA is its mission of helping animals in need. And we note the heavy amount of traffic that it brings to the Big Trees Center. Our one concern is the tiny space it occupies. When there are ..... |
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Local 8th Grader Headed to State Science Fair.....Still A Little Short of His Goal |
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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 04/24/2011 04:13 PM
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Calaveras County, CA...Update 4/28/11: Michael has received some very generous donations from our viewers! The family is so thankful! "I am so excited for him, what a wonderful opportunity he has before him and with his drive to do the best he can, hopefully he will place during the state competition. He is going to go back to the IGA in Copperopolis again tomorrow with his project to answer questions and share what he has discovered. Hopefully by the end of the day he will have reached his goal , he has a baseball game on Saturday morning" States Michael's Grandmother, Cindi Bent.....Local 8th grader, Michael Legge is headed to the State Science Fair! Michael won 1st place at the Calaveras County Science Fair in his division with his project "Mysterious Bacteria vs. Evil Tobacco." Michael is a student at Mark Twain Elementary and needs our help! Here is a letter from Michael: "Hello my name is Michael Legge and I am an 8th grade student at Mark Twain Elementary School. Mark Twain doesn't require students to do science fair projects but I went out and did one on my own. .....
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And Now, The Rest of the Story…from CUEA |
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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 04/21/2011 10:22 PM
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In response to the outcry by CUSD certificated and classified union members to the April 13 article “CUSD chief says no to salary hike” [sic], the Calaveras Unified Educators’ Association (CUEA) wishes to clarify some potential misconceptions. Salary Concession: Superintendent Campbell “turned down a raise that he was due during the 2011-12 school year” only after nine months of pressure from CUEA, the California State Employees’ Association (CSEA), and local community members who placed signs along Highway 26 in Valley Springs in the fall of 2010 criticizing his planned salary increases during tight financial times. Let’s be clear, Mr. Campbell didn’t willingly “give up” his 2011-12 four percent raise - he yielded to pressure......
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Letter to the Editor~by CUEA Executive Board |
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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 03/31/2011 01:14 PM
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Open Invitation to the Public from the Calaveras Unified Educators’ Association. The Calaveras Unified Educators’ Association (CUEA) is extremely concerned with the deep cuts to education for our local students. We are asking parents and community members to take a more active role in influencing the scope of those cuts for the 2011-2012 school year by attending Calaveras Unified School District (CUSD) Board Meetings for the remainder of this school year......
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The FEMA Scheme ~ By David Tunno |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 03/28/2011 11:50 AM
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Valley Springs, CA...At the request of Rancho Calaveras residents Bob and Char Stanton in early January of 2011, I was asked to look into the actions by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in preparation for a meeting with FEMA representative Kathleen Schaefer and others on January 26th at the County offices and to represent the Stanton’s in that meeting. My investigation of the facts surrounding the Stantons’ example and others in the County revealed what appears to be a massive fraud on the part of FEMA, not just on Calaveras residents, but on potentially millions across the U.S...
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Letter to the Editor~by Al Figone |
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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 03/18/2011 06:02 PM
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"To: Lonald Lott
From: Al Figone
Re: Critique of the Candy Rock Quarry Target Shooting Neutral Assesment
Authored by Lonald Lott and Austin Mcinerny
Center for Collaborative Policy
California State University, Sacramento, CA
Dear Lonald:
After reading, and re-reading the above assessment, it is my distinct opinion that your assessment is clearly biased and slanted in such a calculating manner, that it leads me to believe that you predetermined your conclusions and then “fit” your interpretation of the facts to fit your conclusions.....
NOTE: Link to Assessment.... |
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What’s CalPERS Really Going to Cost Us? ~By David Tunno |
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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 03/14/2011 05:42 PM
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| Prompted by the growing awareness of the financial impact of public employee retirement plans, the Calaveras County Taxpayers Association has sought data from the County with which to calculate the growing debt created by those plans and the keeper of those retirement funds, CalPERS. Thus far, according to CCTA President Al Segalla, the County’s disclosures have come up far short, including a response CCTA received to a request for information on the CalPERS criteria for determining County retirement contributions. “You are asking for information not documents. The county is in no position to ..... |
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Letter to the Editor~by Michelle Plotnik |
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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 03/14/2011 09:15 AM
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| Dog Lovers Attention, Because of my involvement with Murphys Irish Day, each year I get calls from people asking if it is o.k. to bring their dog to the event. I tell them there are no restrictions but to please consider the circumstances. There is a huge crowd so people walk very close to each other, and a lot of families have strollers with small children...... |
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What’s CalPERS Really Going to Cost Us?....2nd Edition~By David Tunno |
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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 03/07/2011 12:46 PM
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| Prompted by the growing awareness of the financial impact of public employee retirement plans, the Calaveras County Taxpayers Association has sought data from the County with which to calculate the growing debt created by those plans and the keeper of those retirement funds, CalPERS. Thus far, according to CCTA President Al Segalla, the County’s disclosures have come up far short, including a response CCTA received to a request for information on the CalPERS criteria for determining County retirement contributions. “You are asking for information not documents. The county is in no position to ..... |
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Is Collective Bargaining a Right?~By Al Segalla |
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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 03/07/2011 10:13 AM
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| With the huge public sector retirement dilemma, most of the media and practically all unions now express the collective bargaining process as a “right”. However, the unions themselves used to disapprove of collective bargaining in the public sector. As an example, Arnold Zander, the Wisconsin union organizer who became the first president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, wrote in 1940 that AFSCME saw .... |
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