our news just to underwriters we reach thirty thousand households in nevada county or bronx and get us in all three zero four seven seven three three zero nine the bad accounting needs nearly twenty thousand dollars more to help drug addicts modern care needs plans to increase a contract of forty four thousand five hundred ninety from twenty four thousand nine hundred ninety come from the state's drug court program which remains controversial the addiction is more entrenched for these people  also offers ninety day stays receiving prison beds this way carver said drug courts are a collaborative effort between the probation department county court public defenders office district attorney's office and the behavior health department more than two thousand drug courts are in existence or planned nationwide according to the national drug court institute drug courts a relatively young judicial program remains controversial proponents argue they reduce the chances of a less of a relapse and are less costly than locking up an offender critics question the so called recidivism rates quality of the screening process and the cost benefits worrying about the revolving door of offenders contract increases the supervisors is on the crew supervisors consented genda meant to for advice to be approved with no discussion since increase is an amendment to a county contract supervisors need to prove the change and  continues artworks by students from across the country all the kids and about a county deserve a gallery to show their art mulatto said a big part of teaching art is displaying art i'm glad the watercolors of my students have been displayed the consistently produce they consistently produce wonderful pieces of art guided by marjorie miller their art instructor from venetian masks with peacock feathers to paper collages on endangered species to drawings inspired by to showcase their artistic side to the public local educator said it's a powerful feeling to see one's art on display said eileen blodget an art doc and at seven hills middle school it gives students that sense of pride bludgers class has created a paper pro prototype of a quote inspired by hospitality house a local nonprofit serving the homeless the students are now about to begin printing on fabric to create the actual quilt blodgett said once completed the quote will be auction to a benefit to benefit the hospitality house other interested art pieces to roots in or include photographs in focusing on the use of perspective by its creators at grass valley charter pay you can cream baskets woven by fourth graders in nevada city high school of the arts and bear flags while hanging is inspired by buddhist prayer flags by students of grizzly hills school we take our kids to the exhibit exhibition on a field trip said george rogers third grade teacher union hill school they get to see all the art projects which inspires them they also take pride in what they do rogers class made vin the nation vention the nation mass out of her feathers when we teach science and the students learn about birds that makes these mass and they learn the different  no avail mayor mark johnson said the grass valley city council subcommittee of johnson and councilwoman jan arbuckle met with developers last week or both sides reiterated concerns discussed in last month's council meeting so far i've heard they can't make changes johnson said the developer in terra development partners of gold river and the subcommittees are slated to discuss possible design changes on thursday at the february twenty sixth council meeting council members narrowly rejected an appeal questioning proposed traffic improvements but continued to a design appeal so the subcommittee could negotiate potential changes with the developer the subcommittee is expected to report back in april eighth at that council meeting the proposed has been a lightning rod for people interested in making the basin a more pedestrian friendly area the city designed guidelines don't require new ground book based in buildings to be located next to the street with parking in the rear are on the side of the cit general plan favors the more pedestrian friendly design interiors development plan calls for a fourteen thousand five hundred fifty square foot building to eight hundred square foot building for commercial buildings on the site where the shuttered gym carlisle chevrolet dealership sits the dealership will be torn down to make way for the project if approved the pharmacy will join the wrongs in writing drugstores which are nearby adding solar panels to the two proposed retail buildings in allowing only a right turn into a certain way out of the walkways also we discussed they don't even want to do solar on those buildings johnson addie the developers concerned about receiving calderon's approval for transportation improvements also was discussed so we'll keep you posted to see what happens more than two hundred women and a few men back to grass valley veterans all this weekend seeking inspiration from each other and new perspectives in fandom and feminine leadership we literally have to turn women away said marilyn neigbor the organizer of saturday's gather the women of nevada county event the event in its sixth year locally is designed to get women to educate and strengthen their resolves speakers included a domestic violence victim who works at a shelter and a woman offering nonviolent communication methods many people said i can do that or i am doing that my brother said of the intended as responses to various speakers gather the woman festivities were held nationally and internationally saturday as part of the international women's day now borg is a co founder of the gathers the women global matrix the national umbrella group for the local nonprofit saturday's event also featured music and art show by local women artists and a variety of food and the federal economic stimulus package is offering relief to nevada county residents with very large home loans and an adjustable interest rate the new conforming loan limit for single family residences in their county recently was raised to five hundred sixty two thousand five hundred dollars up from four hundred seventeen thousand brings a large dose of first aid to homeowners with large adjustable rate loans or those who have combined a fixed rate first mortgage with an adjustable rate second mortgages and if the higher limits bring security investors back into the market it could result in lower interest rates the new mortgage limits are derived from median home prices in each county and will benefit approximately three hundred housing markets around the country and time to take advantage of them as short a time limit expires december thirty first unless congress makes them permanent large loans called jumbo loans to people who carry a much higher rate of interest roughly half of jumbo mortgages are held in california so this new package will have a particularly strong and positive impact on our state hoping to help in existing mortgage holders and new buyers the loan ceiling also applies to federally insured f h a loans with higher limits and bigger savings with the conforming loan limits previously at four hundred seventeen thousand buyers of the brightest year homes had three options bring in a very large downpayment carry a first mortgage it to conform and level and make up the difference with a second mortgage often at a higher rate or obtain a jumbo loan and accept a higher interest rate under the regime a person buying a six hundred thousand home six hundred thousand dollar home with twenty percent down payment would need haven't needed a loan of four hundred eighty thousand that is thirty year fixed rate the scenario would push the buyer into one of those three options the fire could come into escrow with more money down to obtain a conforming loan of four hundred  seventy thousand where the buyer could get a first mortgage of four hundred seventeen thousand make up the difference with a second mortgage is sixty three thousand or the buyer could get a jumbo loan one surpassing the federally established conforming loan limit at a higher general interest rate of six point eight seven five percent the monthly payment would be it's really one fifty three under the new regime higher conforming limit the same four hundred ninety thousand men would qualify for a thirty year fixed rate conformant monads lower interest rate if the same wires conforming loan interest rate was five point seven five percent on a four hundred eighty thousand the mortgage would cost two hundred eight hundred one dollars a savings of three hundred fifty two dollars one of the goals implicit in the stimulus package is the new conforming loan limits will bring liquidity back to the mortgage world the hope is that since these laws are backed by fannie mae and freddie mac investors would be inspired to return to the mortgage backed security marketplace making money more readily available and bringing the rates down and that's it for a local news today and dems one seat in long on g o p district and bush in december two thousand and two war was inevitable and britain to use my own mines weapon disposal money to fly military jets in iraq and blackwater drops plans for california three thousand jobs in february mortgage giant countrywide investigated for security filings and inspectors of the f a a stymied southwest airlines safety probe you an investor fault us on beatings forcing sexual acts and to prove that provision of food water or medical care in his weekly radio address bush said ben of these practices would harm national security you also said the fact that we we have not been attacked over the past six and a half years is not a matter of chance it's a result of good policy in determining the efforts of individuals carrying them out we owe these individuals our thanks we owe them the authority they need to do their job effectively we have no higher responsibility than stopping terrorism attacks and this is no time for congress to abandon practice that has proven track record to keep america safe democrats and human rights groups roundly criticized the veto house democrats say they'll try to override it with the next vote next week and on the campaign obama defeated hillary clinton on the wyoming caucuses saturday bomb his campaign says they went ads to delegates to his slightly delp slight delicate lead vamos leading polls in mississippi which holds its primary tomorrow meanwhile he senior foreign policy adviser to obama has resigned after he is quoted calling hillary clinton a monster divisors samantha power was speaking to this gusman a scotsman newspaper power called clinton a monster who is stoop to anything to win his statement power apologized and said her comments were inexcusable she had widely been seen as a pick for a senior position in the obama white house power also caused controversy last week when she appeared to downplay obama slated commitment to a timeline for pulling troops from iraq in an interview with the b b c power called obama's withdrawal plan a best case scenario that could change conditions on the ground were different different by the time he took office a republican congress member is coming radical islamists and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on september eleventh i don't want to disparage anyone because of their race their ethnicity their name one over their religion or their father my father might have been i'll just say this that when you think about the optics of a barak obama potentially getting elected president of the united states and i mean that does what does this look like to the rest of the world and you know i'm always democrat challenger bill foster is one special election for the congressional seat vacated by the former rebel republican house speaker dennis hastert foster defeated dairy company tech leave james otherwise with fifty three percent of the vote foster winds come in a traditional republican district was the longest serving republican speaker in history before stepping down in two thousand and six after twenty one years now has one of the key architects of the iraq war has revealed new information on the run up to the invasion and the book defending the war and his own role in planning it former undersecretary of defense douglas beth quote president bush is telling a national security council meeting that summer two thousand and two that war is inevitable the statement comes weeks before you weapon inspectors reported their findings in iraq in the months before bank bush delivered his ultimatum to saddam hussein live in a country or face invasion face also criticised former secretary of state colin powell for publicly cultivating an image as a war skeptic without ever expressed in any private opposition the senate intelligence committee is expected to release a long awaited report this week on bush's administration intelligent claims in the run up to invading iraq and britain has admitted planning on using funding earmarks for weapons disposal and landmine removal to pay for flying military jets in iraq the british newspaper the guardian first unveiled the plans of government memo cited the guardian proposes defensive news briefs to counter anticipated public criticism the private military firm blackwater worldwide is aban plans for a massive training camp ground near san diego following a groundswell of local opposition last december residents of the town of patro voted out all five members of the local planning group who backed the backwater training camp in their area the proposed blackwater west and in israel and the occupied territories israel has announced the construction of hundreds of new homes in a jewish only settlement in the west bank it's a third time israel's have openly announced new settlement building since renewing u s backed peace talks with the palestinian leaders last november israel agreed to freeze settlement construction under the u s backed road map but it now says the freeze only applies to those settlements it doesn't want to keep colombia venezuela and ecuador have to resolve their dispute over colombian military attacks inside ecuador they killed at least twenty four fork rebels last week at a regional summit in the dominican republic colombian president of arrow you read apologized and said his government is respect will respect other country's borders ecu president rafael correa excepted deposits to visit he still push for an investigation cory also said i'm going to turn it over to the judicial system in a political opposition and with that as a country this grave incident that has caused so much damage to our against terrorism what are you talking about you want to obligate me push me let's respect each other for us they are not terrorists but insurgent forces can really forces first you have to recognize that then look for a path to peace the un stop human rights official has announced she's stepping down high commissioner for human rights louise arbor has been openly critical of the bush administration's so called war on terror during her four year term arbor says she wasn't pressured to resign but wants to should have made a difference your relentless endeavor and personal commitment to have been addressed and geared primarily towards those in need wherever in the world this may be i thank you for giving a voice to the voiceless during iran arbor has angered leaders of the countries including us israel china russia and zimbabwe for criticism of their policies back in the united states the department of labor has announced u s economy lost sixty three thousand jobs last month the most to five years on friday president bush said he thinks the u s economy is in a downturn but not a recession federal investigators have opened a criminal probe into the mortgage giant countrywide financial country right holds one in six home loans in the united states the justice department says it's looking  whether countrywide gave misleading information on its financial condition in the company security firms bank of america announced the purchase of countrywide last month pending regulatory approval and the federal aviation administration is being loud company to skip critical inspections to inspectors will reportedly intimidated to drop their investigation of southwest practices and a top u n expert has criticized us for its policy of immigration in a new report u n investigator jor he says u s immigration jails are overused and suffer from poor living conditions and substandard means of appeal the immigration jail population has tripled over the past nine years to two hundred thirty thousand bustamante says the u s should focus on alternative measures to manage incarceration and improve detainees legal rights and living conditions and in texas a federal judge has ruled homeland security secretary michael chertoff violated federal law in his efforts to build a massive wall along the u s border with mexico really intense you adequately negotiate with homeowners before the file to be filed suit to condemn their land and allow building efforts to begin and that is a wrap for world news that's right it's time for the police blotter pictures in a blotter not from these actual events big used for visual aid only grass valley police department on friday at twelve fifty p m a call from south church street parking lot reporting scene for juveniles who appeared to be smoking from the blue glass pm police arrested a forty one year old man and a twenty year old man and mistreat an out of county warrants and on saturday two thirty nine pm a man from the seven hundred block of doors drive reported three letters are stolen from his front yard a man subsequently found one of the letters but not together seven fifty two p m a call from the church and neil street reported about ten juveniles appeared drunk most fallen over police were unable to locate the juveniles that had a county sheriff's office on friday at eight twenty one am a caller from the thirteen hundred block now our weather should stay sunny through wednesday and thursday partly cloudy some showers friday cloudy and saturday showers hope everyone i remembered set the clocks and forward one hour in spring is around the corner t v t v news would like to thank t