akbar's two hundred seventy five thousand dollars to settle a legal dispute that arose after her job was eliminated amid questions about her financial oversight the city and walkouts barnes attorney announced monday as part of the settlement the city apologized for any know who was in charge of her position said martin a court employee at no vox clothing store on broad street and if she were encountering problems in administrating the city finances nicola wondered aloud why w barnes didn't report the problem to her supervisor who in the last several years of her employment was city manager mark miller if i'm busy here i'd call the boss and i say i'm busy i need help calling added most of us know the true inside story said jamie bill easy on or an empire music on broad street all we know is what we don't know the real story all we know is that she didn't collect all water sewer and business license revenue this and that's what she was hired to do but it also sounded like a power struggle had existed between city manager mark and what color believed she added it sounds like a fair equitable settlement to me just believe she said what cox i just filed a two million dollars wrongful termination lawsuit in april two thousand and seven after city leaders eliminated hers office operations supervisor position in april two thousand and six that move came after auditors discovered city had failed to collect nearly four hundred thousand dollars in utility bills and business stollery owner of toad hall books said the city treated wilcox barnes unfairly she was used as a scapegoat to shift the blame for all inequities said gary stollery owner of told hall books yup i can understand her place in the lawsuit but there is plenty of blame to go around all the way around lookouts barnes was placed by several people including finance director katrina and is consultant lawyer diane lane and city employee corey shaver who assume many of willcox b responsibility said katherine jones the city clerk's lawyer my client was never interested in bankrupting the city john said we took a lot less money than we could have received the government prevents that type of action from being taken against someone else jones said as part of the agreement travelers insurance company will pay wilcox barnes to two hundred seventy five thousand dollars the monetary settlement was strictly a business decision on the part of the insurance company based on prior primarily on significant anticipated legal costs to bring the matter to trials in nevada city attorney jim anderson in a statement the city will not dip into its general fund for the settlement but higher insurance premiums are possible i think it's more probable to go up after this councilwoman sheila stein who serves on the city finance committee the city pays fifty three hundred fifty five dollars annually for its insurance which is up for renewal july first city council members would consider going to a different carrier if these deemed the cost too high but he didn't anderson didn't know whether insurance costs would increase it's behind us now said mer sally harris it's the reason we have insurance for those kind of things the settlement agreement states increasing workload and lack of staffing and resources led to operational problems that cannot all be attributed to wilcox b the city acknowledges the route and recognizes that the elimination of the office operation supervisor position was not as it's a bull unary proceeding against wilcox pons the city also apologized for any implication that wilcox bars was being disciplined for not performing her job can competently the city agrees that if internal investigations of employee or specific job positions are conducted in the future the employee or the person holding the position being investigated will be given an opportunity to respond to the allegation before an investigative report is issued if that department was run by mr wilcox barnes then who else should be held responsible for anyway if not a county residents still recovering from the ups and downs of the holidays and the devastating new year storms have less than a month to prepare for february fifth primary election that will narrow the pool of presidential candidates and will limit state legislative terms in office proposition ninety three would shorten overall term limits for state legislators from fourteen to twelve years but would increase the allowable amount of time served in the state assembly and state senate seats if the constitutional amendment passes to somebody really keen could run for another three year term putting the van a county district two to supervisor sue horn out of the assembly race if it's approved that certainly changes the whole makeup of the race horn said monday calling the ballot measure a self serving scam by democratic lawmakers that waste one hundred ten million dollars of taxpayer dollars more and said she wouldn't run for a third term as supervisor monday marked the first day voters would fill out absentee ballots and some of voters showed up to reregister at the county elections office the same day election office staff busily began mailing out bulk more than thirty thousand absentee ballots more people than ever have requested to vote permanently by mel this year said susan german assistant county clerk recorder during the november two thousand and four general election nineteen thousand six hundred forty two people requested permanent vote by mail status out of sixty five thousand six hundred twelve registered voters so far this year thirty one thousand one hundred thirty six voters have asked to vote permanently by mail compared to fifty eight thousand four hundred thirty six registered voters in the last six to eight weeks a mass mailing drive by the election office resulted the addition of five thousand county voters who switched to at home voting which indicates that people are paying attention germans had voting by mail services county significant dollars while offering convenience to voters there's just more flexibility for the voter official voter information guides begin turning up in voter mailboxes last week sent by secretary of state offices in out the pros and cons of seven ballot measures besides casting votes for presidential candidates in legislative term limits voters also will decide on constitutional amendments that would change general fund borrowing of transportation funds and funding for community colleges plus amendment referendums for four indian gambling compounds there's four different tribes involved in january twenty second last day to register so are you people get out there and vote voters who change their names residence are part party affliction sense the last time they voted are required to reregister the final day to register is tuesday january twenty second all declined to state voters who want to vote for a particular party candidate must register in that party with the exception of the american independent party and the democratic party which are allowing louay nonpartisan voters to request ballots and vote for their party at election time within th county nineteen thousand four hundred sixty people are registered democrats twenty five thousand three hundred ninety one are registered republican and eleven thousand one hundred thirty three have declined to state a party affiliation according to clerks of record registrar of voters gregory d tuesday february fifth the presidential primary election polls open at seven a m and close at eight pm final day to register is again tuesday january twenty second for research change their names residence or party village and must reregister all declined to state voters who want to vote for party candidate in the primary must register in the party unless they're voting for american independent party or the democratic candidate so you know there's a couple more here we'll see any registered voter may vote on  elections and get in there and get ready to vote to fourteen pounds where they raise chinese ring their present presence to sell to game preserves and hunting clubs great hope they can skate we lost twenty five hundred three thousand birds its thirty said ten dollars apiece that adds up to thirty thousand lost been amazing they've been here since friday nonstop not far away at the mon tessa rolls cool on wolf road lucky steward was helping to clean up a couple of trees that had knocked out a power pole and he smashed porch railing the parent and enlarging business so i thought i'd help out seward said out lake of the pines there were big there was a big old mess said michael mann draw up of empire landscape services who was cleaning them up there's lots of trees down today for new hampshire's democratic and republican primaries every major pena poll indicates senator barack obama will beat senator hillary clinton just as he did five days ago in iowa over the last three decades every president who won in both iowa and new hampshire has gone on to win the party's nomination the republican race appears to be much closer fight between senator john mccain and former massachusetts governor mitt romney on monday hillary clinton made headlines after she momentarily choked back choked up with tear filled eyes when discussing why she was running for president senator barack obama is continuing to enjoy a wave of new support from across the country following his victory in iowa obama is expected to pick up a major endorsement in the battle later this week from the largest union in the state to call an area workers union nevada holds its primary on january nineteenth during a campaign stop in lebanon new hampshire obama vowed to help lead the fight against global warming he also said in one day's time we have a chance to break the lock the big oil has on our economy and on our foreign policy we know what to do and if we increase oil fissions the standards to forty or forty miles per gallon we save the quadrant of all the oil we import from the persian gulf we know that climate change is real and that we have to cap emissions of greenhouse gases on the republican front mitt romney has shifted the tone of his campaign and is now presenting himself as an agent of change he was has repeatedly questioned whether senator john mccain could beat barack obama in november he also said this is going to be a time of choice for our party we are going to have someone as a nominee who can stand up to barack obama who i think would very well be the nominee he'll stand up and talk back about change he hasn't ever done it but he'll talk about change and he'll be able to stand up as he has right now against long serving u s senators w talk about their experience and he just blows them away tensions between the united states and iran appear to be creasing after the incident on sunday when three u s warships were approached by iranian boats in the straits of her mosque off the iranian coast the u s claims five iranian revolutionary guard speed boats came within five hundred yards of the u s warships and threatened to blow them up iranian boats backed away before the american warships opened fire the pentagon described it as a serious problem cation this is state department spokesman who said this sean mccormick the incident occurred just prior to president bush's trip to the middle east which includes his first visit to israel and the west bank as president israel is planning its largest security operation since the pope's visit in two thousand security force of more than ten thousand officers will be on duty to protect president bush police say the presidential hotel  fort knox on monday president bush said he wants to help push talks between israel's prime minister the hood and others president bush also said as i already said there is going to be a time table one time table is the departure of george w bush from the white house not that i'm a great you know heroic figure but they know me and they're comfortable with me and i'm a known quantity and therefore the question is will they decide to make their efforts necessary to get the deal done while i'm president as opposed to maybe the next person one agree to the two state or maybe the next person will take a while to get in pakistan the party of the slain pakistani opposition leader benazir bhutto is calling for a united nations she also said it is very important not just for pakistan's stability but the region stability that the united nations intervene we ask for that it will be larger than a police investigation we want the events that led up to the end and to be investigated we want to sponsors find answers organizers and perpetrators of this crime this is the u n language in the u n doesn't of being when there is fundamental violation and grave violation of fundamental human rights and there is no bigger violation of our rights have agreed to begin the goetia actions to break the political stalemate following last month's disputed presidential election on monday the top u s african envoy today a phrase or urged both sides to talk fraser said it's obviously clear that some kenyans don't feel that they have been treated fairly they haven't had their fair share of power and wealth and so addressing these grievances is necessary so those are the areas that we think if a dialogue is to help to transform kenya into prevent future crisis like we see today these areas probably need to be part of the agenda but that's the united states perspective gender will need to be decided by kenyans themselves about five hundred kenyans have died in violence following the lichens another two hundred fifty thousand have been displaced and out of kentucky royle roy engler's the state has no obligation to do guarantee a pain free execution but kentucky does everything in his power to ensure to bring about a pain free execution when he stated according to the new york times the opponents of the lethal injection made little headway monday in their effort to persuade the court that the constitution requires states to change the way they carry out executions since september when the high court agreed to hear this case there has been a de facto national moratorium of executions by lethal injection on wednesday the supreme court is scheduled to hear arguments on indiana's voter id law new jersey  as b come the first northern state to officially apologize for slavery the state assembly and senate passed a resolution declaring that slavery shattered the fundamental values of africans legislators in alabama maryland north carolina and virginia have also passed resolutions apologizing for civil slavery the city of baltimore is suing wells fargo bank contending that its lending practices discriminated against african american borrowers and led to a wave of foreclosures that has reduced city tax revenues and increase cost according to the lawsuit in two thousand and six wells fargo made holocaust loans to sixty five percent of its black customers in baltimore but to only fifteen percent of its white customers in the area the wall street journal is reporting the food and drug administration is preparing to declare that meat milk from cloned animals and their offspring are safe to eat joseph mendelson of the center for food safety warned about the dangers of cloned livestock and not some said once the f d a says these products are safe and if they are out there it's very hard to turn it back and in labor news the golden globe ceremony has been canceled after actors said they would not cross picket lines in support of striking writers to writers guild of america has been on strike since november last night jon stewart and stephen colbert returned to the airwaves of comedy central but without their writers and that's a wrap today for our world news that's right down for the police blotter pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but use for a visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday twelve thirty seven p m call from a store parking lot on the six hundred block of freeman lane reported s center row of the parking lot police could not locate the people involved but would follow up one twenty seven p m a call from a business on the one hundred block of west mcknight way part of the custom returned in a radio possibly one used by the personnel police returned the radio to the owner five twenty two p m a call reported a person was stolen from a shopping cart in a store in one thousand block of certain way there were several prescriptions in the purse police took a woman while he was crossing in mill street east main street said he was in a crosswalk while police were talking to the man the woman entered the lobby and said she did not see him she offered to take the man to the hospital the man said the woman needed to get her eyes checked he declined medical attention and walked out at eight forty four pm police arrested a twenty four year old person in a parking lot of south church street on suspicion of public drunkenness one of five am an eight year old woman on suspicion of violation of probation and climbing trees without a permit seven twenty two am a caller from business on the three hundred block of where we have now reported a possible commercial burglary that happened sometime during the night police took covered in blood deputy determined there was a small amount of blood on the mail inside the mailbox but there was no evidence of any crime by one p m a caller from red dog wrote a party to a t v s were spinning out on private property and were headed at eight thirty four p m a call from the highway twenty reported seven juvenile males got into a fight with two adult male officers who were on the lookout for men and took a report from assault at two thirty a m on monday a caller from hamley drive that's right it's time for the police blotter to 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