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2011 - CONGRATULATIONS TO GREENVILLE'S NEW LIEUTENANTS
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Greenville Fire Department promotes three
By Bob Rhoades
After years of trying, the Greenville Fire Department now has
lieutenants. Originally the department had a Chief and a Captain for
the three shifts. Besides their duties as the shift commander,
each one of the captains was charged with another major area, like
maintenance, inspections, etc. As time went on and standards went into
place... Read More. See More News.
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DARKE COUNTY PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
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Photo Club Holds May Meeting
This month’s theme “Shallow Depth of Field” On Tuesday, May 17, 2011,
the Darke County Photography Club held its May meeting at the Shawnee
Prairie Nature Center. The club will hold a fun photo Scavenger Hunt
open to the public on Tuesday, August 9, 2011, from 6 – 9 PM.
Anyone wanting to participate is to meet at the Shawnee Prairie Nature
Center at 6PM to be divided into groups, given the list of photos to be
taken, and given the rules. All... Read More. See More Events.
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OBSOLETE COLD WAR WEAPONS... $100 BILLION
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How to Cut the Federal Deficit
By Delbert Blickenstaff
Almost all Americans want to cut the federal deficit. There is an easy
way to accomplish this. The bipartisan deficit commission found that
$100 billion a year could be saved from the Pentagon budget by getting
rid of obsolete Cold War-era weapons. So why doesn’t congress do
something about this? In my opinion the military-industrial complex,
about which President Eisenhower warned us, has done a very
effective... Read More. See More Opinion.
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| SECRETARY OF STATE JON HUSTED
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Husted releases New Business Filings...
Filings up in April and First Quarter
(COLUMBUS) – In the month of April, 7,737 new entities filed to do
business in Ohio, according to data released today by Secretary of
State Jon Husted. The numbers are up slightly from April of 2010, in
which 7,258 new entities filed with the Secretary of State. So far in
2011 (January, February, March and April), the Secretary of State’s
office has assisted with 30,172 new business... Read More. See More News. |
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POST OFFICE RUNS OUT OF MONEY THIS YEAR
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Dayton Business Journal...
U.S. Postal Service spent $1B on vehicles last year
By Barton Eckert, DBJ Contributor
The U.S. Postal Service may not be able to pay to maintain its vehicle
fleet, according to a new report. In the red and saying it expects to
run out of money in September, the United States Postal Service spent
$1 billion in the last fiscal year to maintain its fleet of vehicles
and to buy fuel. A new report from the Government Accountability Office
goes on to say for the... Read More. See More News. |
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CALIFORNIA? THIS IS A SHOCKER!
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Townhall...
California Bill Respects Authority of Parents
By Marybeth Hicks
I have to confess my initial reaction to the headline was to roll my
eyes in contempt for yet another government entity that I assumed was
trying to legislate good parenting. After all, it’s a trend that has
gained traction of late. Some states are mandating the content of
school lunches. Others have laws about how old kids... Read
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WALKER? KASICH? IS THERE A MOLD?
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Human Events...
Why Scott Walker Drives Liberals Crazy
by John Hayward
When Scott Walker arrived in the Wisconsin governor’s mansion, he found
that every window had a commanding view of the state’s enormous budget
gap. Wisconsin was $3.3 billion in the hole. Governments
usually try to fill such holes by finding a shovel and a big pile of
taxpayer money, but Wisconsin’s economy was already buried... Read
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| NOTES
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EDITOR - TODAY IS TUESDAY, MAY 24,
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Why
lieutenants in the Greenville Fire Department? Bob Rhoades explains…
and watch for story and photos of a recent controlled burn exercise
Wednesday. Check out the two Home Page blogs… California is a shocker;
and Wisconsin’s Walker? Change a few words and the author could be
talking about our own Kasich. Also in News:
Bills would allow drilling for oil and natural gas; House speaker calls
for updating Ohio Constitution; and Poll shows Senate Bill 5 will be
repealed. Events: Hope in Recovery… Extra Care & Understanding. Blogs: Coverage pool; Blackmailing Taxpayers; and Oil Company Profits Are the Solution, Not the Problem. Obituaries: Virginia R. Metzcar, Elsie Irene Dershem. For
Yesterday's Home Page Click Here.
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