said hastert could not be reached for comment in an interview with the union in august hastert contended some properties funded through his company were in foreclosure because borrowers defaulted on payments not because the loans were under funded grass valley police the d a s office state officials the f b i and the california department of real estate and california bar association have been investigating the house start since january we have the ulti people come forward to complain faulty real estate investments in unpaid real estate loans conducted by hastert and his business long since run wired added most of the investor best years were elderly people trying to invest a retirement money roy crain of grass valley told authorities he lost one hundred thousand dollars when he invested in a construction loan to hastert this is only the tip of the iceberg as mr hastert has caused many people to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars many of them train wrote in a july twenty sixth letter to the california real estate commission in state bar association i feel he has committed fraud larceny and embezzlement he has used his position as an attorney to gain trust with people and encourage them to invest their money september september third according to the grass valley police in august hastert blamed the foreclosures of his home on the failing real estate market and a fifty percent drop in the number of investors who funded loans since loans pastored began to dig into its own pockets for long payments when the pool of investors shrank he told the union after timeouts to accept ninety percent of the loans his company issued were paid off for current in payments but ten properties were in foreclosure because barr w payments astrid contended the ten foreclosures were never caused by underfunded loans he said hastert said he continued to issue new loans and was confident the investments were secure most loans are successful most loans perform astrid said at the time it's going to take a while for the forensic auditors from the california department of justice to analyze the financial records collected from masters office police everyone doing business with  loan sense is there as a borrower or investor who has had financial loss to call detective cola nelson or sergeant doug wren at the grass valley police department at four seven seven four six zero zero that's four seven four six zero zero and then another story the debate in the proposed reopening of the i don't know marilyn mind heated up again this week as citizens out of their comment to a long list of environmental worries expected to be addressed by spring when i first heard the plan i thought the mine was a really good idea area resident elease hodgson said thursday nights of special meeting that love build an economy park but then i thought it's in the city but that's the wrong location and won't work while many had concerns about the mine's potential impact like hodgkins some went beyond those concerns and specifically said they didn't want the mine reopened in grass valley other speakers said mining as part of the city's history and reopening the gold mine in use in operation ways for ceramic tiles could add new high paying jobs that could help the younger residents from three main the area it's good the public  opportunity to have input into the project david watkins president vice president of operations of the closed mind said friday but all issues brought up by the citizens of this would have been stated as environmental concerns by the consultants thursday session wasn't a give and take with money and officials out there or their consul to consultants that discussion is expected to follow next year and culminate in a potential final project vote by summer anticipated traffic conclusiveness problems that could affect well water significant energy usage and air pollution top the concerns of numerous citizens thursday night the main thing is traffic it's unrealistic to reopen the mine and think the new business wouldn't cause more traffic some said the truck traffic could clogged roads during busy travel times winding officials already proposed several traffic changes including creating a truck staging area at the mine were truckers would only depart during non peak hours and extending the sentinel sentimental drive to intersect that he's been a road people also worry about neighborhood wells will drain in the mine shafts of our local water security sanjoy wheat in case of water shortage what will be the alternatives rick frederick king told the audience he disagreed with many concerns from weight and others about the proposed mines environmental impacts the lab the relatively small surface impact frederick being said most of the activity is going to be underground tom grundy with the local alternative energy nonprofit alliance for the post the trolley and local economy and see question the possible energy usage no natural gas services exist in the old mine site and a better county may not have enough total pipeline capacity he said  marston shelves wondered about high water usage resulting from wind gust you're going to have a lot of dust in this area child say weaver i don't want truck dealership across from the proposed mine you know operation would use a lot of water washing dust off their cars why new leaders anticipate opening the minute operation in twenty ten or twenty eleven if the process moves ahead as they h and now our newest segment in the new this is around the town intertainment each day of the week we will bring one event into the news and our new data is assumed to be out loud with complete review of all the events each week by directed by john tracy gary wright has written an intriguing play concerning the last eight years of edgar allan poe's life which ended eighteen forty nine at the age of forty two these years contain much joy and tremendous personal pain for paul he shared care caring for his beloved wife with his mother in law and at the same time he battles his work demons and creative genius both at home and office he shared with dr rufus griswold a strange him literally literary art has lost one of its most brilliant most erratic stars performance times have been about a theater main stage preview night on thursday september twenty seventh at seven p m opening night friday september that's right it's time for the police blotter pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only in grass valley police department on friday at twelve twenty eight p m a caller from north down highway forty nine near brunswick world report that someone in a blue jeep was driving erratically at one fifty eight p m a caller from three hundred block of pleasant street reported someone had knocked over a flower pots and could find the callers back yard two twenty four p m a caller from cambridge court reporte man had sat in his car smoking marijuana before driving away four fifteen p m caller from south down highway forty nine near highway twenty accident reported to degrees an exit ramp was causing a traffic hazard and five sixt and now for the world knows in that admissions arnold schwarzenegger out gordon leaders from eighty nations converge on the u n on monday for us somewhere on earth and what to do about it the president admitting comes just days after the u s scientists reported the melting temperatures this summer shrank the arctic ocean ice cap to a record low size expect a meeting on monday to express a sense of urgency in terms of negotiating progress and needs to be made said un climate chief evolved abor president who has long opposed negotiated limits on the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming will not participate in the days meeting but well attend a small dinner monday evening at a gathering of key players hosted un secretary general ban ki moon on thursday and friday bush will host his own two day climate meeting in washington limited to sixteen major emitter countries first in a series of such gatherings that environmental us fear may undercut the global human negotiating process has been discussed under the un embroil is an effort focused on december annual climate treaty conference in bali indonesia to launch negotiations for an emission reduction agreement to coyote coyote protocol two thousand nine hundred ninety seven toyota pac which the u s rejects requires thirty six industrial nations to reduce carbon dioxide and other high trapping gases emitted by power plants and other industrial agriculture and transportation sources by an average of five percent by two thousand and twelve that breakthrough is absolutely essential at bally to advance uninterrupted from cotto to the new deeper cutting regime the board told reporters monday's event here designed to build political momentum for the valley talks will feature california governor schwarzenegger as one of the opening speaking speaker representing local governments worldwide the republican governor and his democrat led  legislature have pioneered state level greenhouse gas caps in the united states with a law phase in in mandated thirty percent cuts in vehicle carbon dioxide emissions starting in two thousand and nine gore the climate campaign democratic vice president will be a lunch in keynote speaker and such international leaders as germany's chancellor angela merkel and french president nicolas sarkozy will address sessions on such topics as ways to cut emissions and how to pay for that the u n summit and ballet conference will cap year in which a series of authority reports by you when your scientific work warns of temperature rising by several degrees fahrenheit by twenty one hundred and drastically change the planet from rising seas drop and other factors unless nations rein in greenhouse gases what is particularly significant is that acceleration of the increase of temperatures in recent years indian c administration is shown no sign of it in its opposition to international mandated targets under a binding treaty which has said he believes style mandates would damage the u s economy and they should have been imposed on fast growing poor countries such as china and india as well as other developed nations the us administration has instead urged industry to reduce emissions voluntarily and it promotes research into clean energy technology as one answer secretary of state  that will interfere with that serious discussion of the limits the board the un climate chief sounded a more positive note pointed out that the washington session will involve china and india nations that all sides agree must eventually accept emission limitations this  ive of president bush when taken back to the larger you want process can make a very valuable contribution he said but the u s would have to accept commitments to he said or a bally breakthrough would prove very difficult to achieve let's hope the nations in the world can convince to us to follow along now can our island in michigan republican presidential candidate can't be more clear president bush is welcome on the campaign trail competing to succeed in the top g o p candidates really going on all mitt romney fred thompson and john mccain barely utter bush's name they essentially ignore the lame duck president or give him only passing credit as they rail against the status quo and promise to fix problems he hasn't solved we all know americans want change the mccain and arizona senator explain in a version to align with bush i give him credit for a number of things but i think the fact is that americans are turning the page including our republican primary voters the candidates are walking a fine line they are trying to tap into the deep discontent those voters feel about the state of the country without eliminating any who hold bush in a high regard at the same time they have a counter to democrats powerful argument for a new direction how can i do the eight hundred pound elephant in the room now could have implications beyond the primary  from nevada county's officials privately republican strategist agrees their nominee will lose next fall if the general election is a referral on bush they say g o p candidates are wise to distance themselves from the president now given hi unpopular parity and long public at large asked last week whether he is an asset or a liability in republican candidates bush replied strong asset to be sure none of the cattle just want to be attached to bush's legacy afraid to doing so will make them sitting ducks for democrats who can blame them for the unpopular iraq war has gone down his presidency his party is in an uproar over out of control spending on his watch and embarrassing scandals among g o p officeholders his job performance rating is at a law thirty three percent according to the recent associated press poll poll only twenty eight percent think the country is moving in the right direction half of the republicans and g o p leaning fredrick was and so were a million different reasons overall he lost touch she said he's kind of lost his way unfortunately wilson said he started strong and then his office affected him and these are has settled on a candidate for two thousand  need to get back to our roots i think george bush started he was gone but he was led astray and his legacy is not going to be terrific despite such deep frustrations publicans on the whole still like bush and don't like those who beat up on him that prompted g o p hopefuls to tread delicately they rattle off problems and propose solutions seeking to make the case for change without going too far as to bash bush at least not openly repeatedly invoke beloved conservative ronald reagan bush was hardly mentioned all laid out challenges facing the country from nation security to immigration reform and health care and are going to there are a lexers for what ails  republicans bored just as much of the blame as democrats are fairly recent washington such as runaway spending and ethical lapses in his own party he claimed he was best suited to lead a dispirited g o p in a new direction he gave bush some praise for keeping the united states safe and restoring integrity to the oval office when pressed romney refused to lump bush in with the very republicans he was criticizing i'm not pointing fingers romney  reporters in one breath only to say in the next we have strayed a little far from our principles and vision and i think that's happened over the last several years the clinton years to speech to channel rig comparing  not gone well rudy giuliani skirted bush entirely set up an us against them scenario with democrats on just about every issue in our going to country would not go backwards not forwards under their leadership he received perhaps the most heartily applause with this long direct reference to the president for tax cuts in two thousand and one in two thousand and three giuliani said they helped put more money back into the private sector as for thompson the former tennessee senator painted a bleak picture of the future if changes aren't made particularly on the economic front saying we are an unsustainable path and be mourning their responsibility of leaders who haven't solved looming issues though they've had years to do so we've got to send a message to politicians in washington that they are better we are better than that because statements like those there's little doubt the president hasn't gotten the message what's amazing is that so many americans voted for bush to begin with if the democrats had put up someone other than kerry in the second go around maybe our course would have already been changed but as polls show republicans w still back republicans even if their white house has left them in the dust and out of concord new hampshire a federal judge has driven around was receiving a hard boiled egg in a mail from a prison inmate protesting his diet court judge james moore had reached for dr seuss green eggs and ham for inspiration after getting from an inmate charles worth i do not like eggs in the filed in your head wrote i do not like them in any style i will not take them fried or boiled i will not take them poached or boiled i want not take them soft or scrambled despite an argument well rambled then ordered eggs destroyed welfare i am of the egg at hand destroy spiritual and medical needs officer in a ten to twenty years for sexually assaulting a seven year old has girl his lawsuit was filed august two thousand and six and is scheduled for trial in june two thousand we told him if you don't like the eggs don't need to set assistant attorney general andrew liveris house who also received an e mail that's not good enough for him and now our weather breaking up to clouds near sacramento and some showers in the north and east as the lol that moved through yesterday continues instruct east look for a chance of showers during the morning hours mainly north and east of sacramento all portions of sierra have seen a rain snow mix this morning in sacramento stock then in modesto today look for clearing conditions into the afternoon with highs in the low to the mid seventy's the foothills will deal with showers tapering off and clear in the afternoon highs there mainly in the sixty's th has a chance of showers and rain snow mix in through this afternoon but clearing should take place as we end the weekend highs near top hole in the lower fifty's the week ahead looks much more improved from this week's weather let's hope so high pressure should give us valley eyes in the eighty's again with sunny skies and just a few passing clouds t v t v news would like to thank the union truckers sun tribune you've been at penn valley wire associated press amy goodman eleven broadcasters on monday supply the a three pm and seven thirty pm daily watch out for our new weekend update with entertainment segments 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