of commerce has revealed to citizens during a meeting monday night that a city has never conducted to just study second residents opinions in its vital because of the flight in local and national economy he said kirk valentine head of the chambers marketing committee an owner of nevada city classic cafe the most is down in the survey result is the number favoring closing up the streets valentine said the survey revealed eighty nine percent favored closing off the streets for a walkable marketplace one was one of about twenty who turned out for monday night's presentation at city hall the study also found the tourists and visitors to nevada city are not big spenders despite their high higher than average income the former communications based on the responses for solve the loitering problem expressed the sentiment to temporarily close the streets provide a broader range of commercial establishments and include more choices in music a there was a clear complaint of the lack of basic living need products and establishments in downtown nevada city the survey said this included higher quality foods and basic products a farmer's market a basic service such as a bakery pharmacy and related stores which were lacking but for filling my outline shopping in grass valley and close by shopping malls respondents also expressed a strong desire to limit offices of professional services including real estate home loans and title companies others complained about too many cars and congestion lastly not to be dismissed was a strong contingent of people that wanted no change whatsoever the report said the survey dubbed the great  nevada city survey captured four hundred forty seven respondents with three digit addresses in the city limits to fort twenty and forty people in the ninety five ninety five nines it go to nevada city an additional three hundred thirty responses from outside these reg for a total of nearly one thousand the group said it was hoping for only three hundred responses at best an estimated twelve thousand people live within a nine five nine five nine zip code in the better city visitors on a side nevada city were presented with a slightly different survey directed more towards consumer spending we wanted to determine where the customers are really coming from valentine said typically in many cities surveys elsewhere get two percent or one percent of its residences to respond while the response rate nevada city was higher the survey cost between fifteen hundred dollars and two thousand in out of pocket expenses and the chamber city and the vadra city downtown association shared the cost and the raise from nevada county's district to supervisor spot got harder monday when allen kilborne sixty two announced his candidacy last friday nevada county planning commission chairwoman linda laura duncan i'm sorry fifty seven  announced she was running for the south county spot the position is no held by sue horne was running for state assembly district three seat allen is an outstanding community member in the south county board said we hold a lot of similar views on property rights and limited government the supervisor said she was not endorsing either candidate this time however to the polls and you know a little too late i want to make a to see a lot of issues like i will be forty nine sewer plant problems with my background i thought i might be able to help out i'm not against growth but if we don't control it we're going to be sorry points that the nine years south county resident called himself a financial conservative and an announcement he is now training management for the rockland police department in training or no he's training manager he's a board member of the county's l seal the solid and hazardous waste commission in law enforcement and fire protection council kilborne a marine veteran who served in the vietnam war is a member of the nevada county all veterans honor guard with the marine corps  he has been a bear river booster club president and is a board member of the friends ship club and hagen's dickens line club kilborne lives in lake of the pines with his wife thirty five years barbara they have two adult children a county planning commission chairwoman laura duncan i know it's friday when she is running for district two supervisor in southern nevada county to former u b city administrator will try to fill the shoes of city district to supervisor sue horn who pointed her to the commission in two thousand the current supervisor is seeking the republican nomination for california's third district simply seat into june two thousand and eight primary is now held by r of chico was reached his term limit warren said friday that means she will not run a third term as supervisor sue had shared with me that she was running for assembly said duncan fifty seven year old about her decision i would not run against her for reelection as supervisor laurie's been a very competitive and dedicated plenty commissioner for south county and all of the about it county one said i'm excited about someone coming up behind i think turn over is good and brings new ideas safety from wild far solid raise disposal and water supply are major topics that don't concede she wanted to tackle for nevada county she said the county and in nevada irrigation district need a partner on future water supply issues as water wells dries up with girls in our partnership we need a good working relationship to let relationship to let them know that what about a county needs  the majority of an i d s water originates in the better county but much of it is used in the portion of the district includes bumi placer county prior to her appointment as planning commissioner duncan served as chair and as a public member representative to the l a f c e o with my background and experience running for supervisor seems the next logical step to take duncan said good things happen when you have a vision to embrace all the possibilities they can make for an even better about a county to new candidate attends u c berkeley and has been deputy director of redevelopment of deputy city manager and deputy city manager for u b city the new candidate and her husband peter have lived in as he was falling through the front doors of the san francisco detox center was oh my god then the lights went out the now very sober news man from the fork a v m our has since become the voice of the recovery community but that morning twenty years ago he had awakened in a park a war she's own blood wondering what hit him he realized his face had been smashed for something wouldn't he batter maybe a two by four because a piece of it was still stuck in his mouth i had been beaten and first as a leader of the lovett recovery center residential drug and rehabilitation facility for the past thirteen years he has been with k v amar as a board member and then as in a job that involved evolved from disc jockey did news director it wasn't that much of a jump even when he was a kid running through the rough streets of chicago around wrigley field and using drugs just about anything i could get my hands on jordan has educated himself he recalled i cut school but i'd hang out at the museum of natural history and i watch p b s all the time talk instead culture despite sware walking in an abusive environment he was growing up in with no parent involvement but his lifestyle seemed caught up with he was marched out of high school in handcuffs he remembered i was already a drunk and a drug addict that led to several years with the illinois youth commission the juvenile prison system for the state it was incredibly abusive someone said they would make you walk around the gym and when you fell out they kicked the bleep out of you when you got out he returned to chicago where you continued to self medicate with other troubled people in the streets injecting drugs almost daily i was never a hard criminal but i wasn't a model citizen either through and said i knew some generally bad people realize in chicago was getting him nowhere thornton stepped onto a bus and got off in carson city he worked in can see us for a while then began wandering to long beach sacramento and back to chicago he wandered up in san francisco kind of a homeless drug addict and win and said that's when he got into the fight to lead him into the detox center he got sober there then entered an alcohol program and got it turned his life around a man named bill smith took a liking to thornton and began to teach him how to get along i had no idea what it was like to leave its sober life storm said the state department of rehabilitation also helped out with education services and thorton began attending drug counseling classes in sacramento state i've been clean and sober ever since that and said he worked in recovery programs in gold and sacramento i was good at it i had a lot of practical experience thornton said center i'm real proud of what we did we made it a safe place for people who needed it but after ten years in the death of a close colleague richard night i was getting burned out on set i got to a point where i was faking it and it was stressful that's when thornton turned to radio he was playing a weird mix of hardcore punk and hip hop and eventually i got a midnight to four a m shift on friday morning when no one else was here i even got a play misty for me phone call he also got a chance he did an interview with guitarist adrian belew who played with king crimson and frank zappa among other gr it was during his talk show days the thorton began to travel he's done some reports for a consortium of community radio stations around the country in two thousand and five you travel to the middle east syria and lebanon on the road one day he realized he stuck out like a sore thumb is six foot two inch white man with arms covered in tattoos walking he also visited a palestinian refugee camp and met an official of hezbollah the islamic fundamentalist militia active in lebanon he said if we attacked iran we'll have a war we won't believe someone said the news man is planning to return to the middle east at the end of the month to provide coverage for the corporation for public broadcasting who also work on a documentary on stories that have not yet been told news has also taken door to south america and cost down to st quentin prison where he witnessed an execution moved him deeply and pushed him to take a stand against capital punishment everybody particularly people for capital punishment should go see one then tell me what you think jordan said i'll tell people you go to one and then we'll talk much of kavi mars audience is not mainstream and jordan's understands that but we're more balanced than you think you said they don't want to hear rush limbaugh but we let john do e have his say conservative viewpoints would get on k b r more more often if those sources would speak to him certain said they say no the stations too liberal but i think i have a reasonable good reputation as a journalist in this community and if they want to say something all they have to do is call me instead to relaxed and plays because john a drum like wooden box from africa he is single has a girlfriend and lives a very private life i'm a regular guy tartan said put a dime in me and i start talking i don't know when to shut up that's it today for our local news violence in gaza thirty thousand birds killed in oil tanker sinking in the black sea somalia government shuts down two radio stations but before these stories we'd like again to thank o beadle also said he's not likely or pakistan people's party would boycott the january parliamentary elections there were reports that at least fifteen hundred me sheriff appoints had been arrested overnight this comes as for next year from the commonwealth britain and its former colonies are threatening to suspend pakistan from the organization unless general musharraf lifts the state of emergency commonwealth secretary general don mckinnon said a decision would be made on november twenty third united nations secretary general ban ki moon he's also calling for general musharraf to lift martial law he said i would hope that the pakistani government would do more including the lifting of emergency measures as well as releasing detained political leaders and particularly the special route but told rapoport of the united nations i urge the pakistani leadership to meet the expectations of the international community and realizing that margaret dies aging process of pakistan meanwhile the associated press reports that the bush administration has concluded is not legally required to cut or suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to pakistan despite general musharraf imposition of martial law and crackdown on opposition and independent media u s has given pakistan nearly ten million dollars since two thousand and one new study by congressional democrats estimates the total economic cost to the united states and the wars in iraq and afghanistan now approximately one point five trillion dollars could be could really as the studies estimate the hidden cost of the conflict including our oil prices and expense of treating wounded veterans in interest payments on the money borrowed to pay for the wars the washington post reports this man has nearly doubled the eight hundred billion the white house has spent or quested to wage the wars through two thousand and eight we poor estimates that the war in iraq and afghanistan has does for cost average u s family of four more than twenty thousand dollars the washington post is reporting the pentagon is seeking one hundred million dollars for weapons to help fight battles from space as part of the four hundred sixty billion dollar military appropriations bill the pentagon seeking to funds for a proper global strike program that could deliver a precision guided six ton warhead anywhere in the world within two hours according to the post of warhead would be launched into space on a rocket fly on its own to a target deliver its payload return to earth the warhead would be fired at hypersonic speed of course greater than the speed of sound pentagon is also seeking seven million for an often said counter space program which would give united nations security council is preparing to vote to extend a mandate for the u s and other foreign forces to stay in iraq but according to the website alter net the security council is poised to cut the iraqi parliament out of the decision in june a majority of iraqi legislators passed a resolution opposing renewed the mandate must conditions are placed on it such as a timetable for the departure of american troops but according to sources within iraqi delegate gaging to the united nations resolution has never been distributed to the security council members as it is required under the u n resolution that governs the mandate amnesty international is urging nato forces to in afghanistan to stop any prisoners to afghan security services because it puts the prisoner at risk of torture and other ill treatment amnesty says scores of prisoners handed to afghans intelligence service have been subjected to torture and other bits including being whipped exposed to extreme cold deprived of food earlier this year a group of prisoners in afghanistan said they were subjected to beatings and electrical shocks after canadian troops handed them over to afghan officials the wall street journal reports that a long sought suspect in this line of american journalist daniel before being turned over to the pakistan's only last year in april memon was done badly injured and winless and eighty pounds in front of his karate home he died less than a month later one human rights activist said his body looked like a six year old boys he had completely lost his accused each other of starting the violence meanwhile israeli forces have detained another homeless member of the palestinian parliament miriam so lay about half of these seventy four hamas led just like yours are currently in israeli jails so so they is the former palestinian minister of one its affairs and in russia more than thirty thousand birds and countless fish have been killed since sunday where an oil tanker broke apart in the black sea scientists are calling the situation an ecological catastrophe the european human rights panel has accused the united nations and the european union of using totally arbitrary methods to determine who is on terrorism blacklist are used to freeze assets and ban individuals from traveling the council of europe europe's legal committee is original and over all of international regulations on blacklist in order to allow suspects step access to evidence against them rights of a fair trial an impartial view the committee said current methods violate the fundamental principles of human rights and rules of law proximately three hundred seventy individuals and sixty organizations worldwide have been blacklisted by the un security council or the european union world news today that's right don for the police blotter pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday ten thirty a m officers cited and released a thirty eight year old man on the six hundred block of freeman lan on suspicion of shoplifting at two fifteen p m a caller from the st grass valley reported a homeless person camping inside a green garbage container behind a store on the one hundred block of bank street the caller requested x a patrol in the area seven thirty p m a man called from the one hundred block of south auburn street seen his ex wife failed to bring their children to the custody exchange he was advised to contact  orders and on monday at twelve a m officers arrested a forty nine year old man an intersection on highway forty nine and i would twenty on suspicion a drunken driving and driving with a suspended license and booked him into the nevada county jail at eight thirty one a m the woman called from the one hundred block of south auburn street saying she was driving south and i was forty nine and east mistreatment a person in a golden chevrolet tried to run her off the road the woman said the person shot her the woman came to the blob in the police department the person she had reported about also came in officers found no crime had been committed and there was no gun the two were separated and the matter was referred to california h event a county sheriff's office on sunday eleven twenty nine a m one call from the thirty thousand block of burma road to report her boyfriend was threatening to come to her residence and take away her cash and all her belongings she said she would call if there was any problem with the key and on monday at ten fourteen a m a call from thirty doesn't block a mystic mind road reported her daughter was out of control and lock yourself in the a city police department on monday twelve o nine p m call from three hundred block of pine street reported receiving annoying telephone calls every night there you have it for the blotter today yours for our sources of our news you can watch t v t v news monday through friday it's three o'clock and seven thirty on channel eleven and see t