budget doesn't solve structural imbalance in an artist paints with passion for nature but before these stories t v t v news would like to thank our underwriters t v t v news this is broadcast manami said the truck traveled about one hundred feet before crash he said it was unknown are fast the truck was moving it appears some medical event happened to the driver mellor who was reaching towards driver side when they ran into the tree she was wearing a seat belt impact caused a belt to cause internal injuries the accident occurred about two p m may eighth on six thousand block of south virginia street at neal road now in brooks had traveled to reno to look at a trailer they were interested in buying money said brooks was pulling out of a parking on a new road when he experienced a medical problem while neck no money and no me declined to specify what brooks condition was he said it was not a heart attack alcohol was not a factor in the accident according to the reno police department no our breaths were transported to reno one medical center where miller died during surgery make them on they said brooks remains in stable condition at the hospital blunt force trauma to the chest was the cause of wednesday now there was a very outgoing wonderful person alice said miller had worked at the restaurant for at least eight years two of miller sisters so work it was the sisters of taking time off from work since the accident and  not known wednesday whether they would return to work many of the employees at the restaurant are like a family to each other and have worked through more than twenty years good work there for more than twenty years so many customers are asking about miller alice said she was always happy no matter what and she always cheered up everybody who came in contact with her militia family and friends are waiting to plan a memorial service for another  her remains are returned from nevada in another local story jeanne al bought will be around about a city for a while late wednesday city council members hired alba as their city manager saying they were pleased with his performance as in term city manager since march replaces mark millar who resigned in february to take a job with the county council members also commended miller and ten thousand for his service of six years council member said they were delighted to keep we think you're a great fit and glad to have you met sally harris added to the applause of about twenty people in the audience i told the council when i heard about this they've made a good decision now by replied with i'm just thrilled that jean is going to stick around miller added i was confirmation came effective wednesday for the post pain ninety five thousand dollars a year boss said he'll stay at least two years possibly three as in term city manager earn bar and fifty dollars an hour for thirty hour work per week the former nevada county administrator also received three hundred dollars in monthly transportation allowance for his commute from auburn it was unclear late wednesday if that alarms would continue our boss stepped right into that chair like either already been here for a year harry said before the meeting the advertisement for the position listing the starting salary as between eighty five thousand and ninety five thousand a year miller has was earning around eighty five thousand anneli when he accepted a job in nevada county's director of sanitation a position that pays one hundred  seven thousand seven hundred eighty here is a long term area resident who lived in western nevada county in and governor arnold schwarzenegger proposed wednesday to remedy california seventeen point two billion dollars budget shortfall by borrowing fifteen billion from private investors and paying them back with state lottery revenues over the next three years but a local  criticized the governor's proposal saying it doesn't solve the state's budget underlying structural imbalance hundred fourteen acres proposal part of the borrowed fifteen billion would be used to establish a rainy day fund that will get california off the broken budget roller coaster ride once and for all the governor's official website says the proposal to leverage the lottery would require voters approval of november if that fails the governor has proposed increasing sales tax by one cent assemblyman rick keene republican from chico criticized the lottery idea saying voters either are going to go out there and leverage the lottery or pay more sales tax the proposal doesn't solve the structural imbalance we have talked about for years teams that i don't i think it's fiscally responsible to say we want to encourage people to gamble more so we can solve our budget problems team called the plan carriers because we don't know what the revenues from the lottery are going to be in future years abandoning controversy in his revised budget to governor has however dropped some controversial suggestions from his january budget such as spending school funding guarantees under proposition ninety eight releasing prison inmates early and closing state parks but the governor proposes adding his surcharge to all residential and commercial property insurance state based on the level of risk the property faces an average of twelve dollars and sixty cents per household in high risk areas and an average of six dollars and seventy five cents per household in low hazard zones the governor's office said other highlights from the governor's revised budget including school funding to increase by honored ninety three million per people spending to increase more than one hundred dollars to us eighty six hundred  ten dollars in two thousand and eight no nine funding for three hundred thirty six fire engines with eleven hundred firefighters and twenty six new fire engines in the first year of the five year plan to acquire and maintain one hundred thirty one new engine reality she said her one story house in grass valley is packed with her work ranging from a life size porters and her father standing in a nice garden in mississippi to dainty winter landscapes in nevada county painting is my passion in life making said it cheers me up when i paint i can think by myself i can be by myself and not think about the outside world connect with my painting and forget all my troubles i think most artists feel that way she said thirty seven water colors by making are on display a nevada city winery throughout this month painted mostly of flowers and sea shells over the years making has had more than sixty want to solo exhibitions in california alaska arkansas louisiana mississippi and tennessee macon finds much inspiration in western nevada county how can you not be inspired living here we can said i've been to the uber river mountains snow scenes flowers bridgeport bridge and the buttermilk trail making is a prolific artist who can work for as long as eight hours a day she said a new studio stands in her backyard filmmaking confesses she is accustomed to painting in around us when i first began drawing i used call me can said i've used almost all the main mediums i started studying want to colors in the bay area in one nine hundred sixty four and it became my passion i gave up all the other mediums he concentrated on water colors today making offers watercolor workshops a few times a year to adults it is center for the arts in grass valley and on every first saturday from may through october she teaches art to children for free at the growers market at the fairgrounds macon was born in mississippi and spent nearly thirty seven years of her life in various southern states she studied art at the memphis academy of arts in memphis tennessee and after columbus school of fine r c columbus georgia her forty one year old son lives in my gallery galeria california and her forty four year old daughter great stuff and that's it for our local news today thanks a lot for watching up to two point five million people are in desperate need of aid said we can't simply force people to accept what we'd like to do them to do and that's the problem we're grappling with and it's also the reason why we're trying to work particularly closely  as e a n and other neighbors who may have better bilateral influence on mind of mars and better bilateral links to mine a mark that any particular multilateral organizations do increase the pressure on them to accept what is clearly not in need and everybody agrees is needed a greater willingness to accept international help the burmese hunter continues to come under criticism for do lame and hoarding international aid meanwhile in china's state media is now reportin toll from this week's earthquake in such one part province has reached nearly twenty eight thousand the number is expected to soar with an estimated twenty six thousand trapped beneath rubble collapsed buildings and roads best bitter to have been hampered by poor weather  officials say that is little hope of finding many survivors and in iraq at least twenty people were killed and dozens wounded in suicide bombing west of baghdad the victims were attending a funeral meanwhile the ongoing u s led assault insider city continues to claim iraqi a catastrophe hundreds and thousands of palestinians lost their homes during the war around israel's creation in one nine hundred forty eight israel celebration of its sixtieth anniversary began last week in accordance to the jewish calendar president bush is in israel taking part in the festivities on confiscation of our national right that's what he's made while marking its sixty's in jerusalem bush praised israel as a model of middle east democracies he also said you know here we we are in the heart of thriving democracy and yet that democracy as are other democracies are being challenged by extremists and terrorist people who use violence to try to advance their dark vision of the world i happen to believe it's an important role of the united states to stand with democrac and to stand strong against terrorism violence continues to flare around the gaza strip and wednesday at least fourteen israelis were injured when palestinian rockets hit the mall in an israeli town of government has rescinded two for measures targeting the shia group his ball of that led to the worst in them and domestic violence since the end of the fifteen year civil war dozens have been killed since the lebanese government outlined his balls telecommunications network and dismissed the head of the airport security for his alleged ties to that party and on the campaign trail former north carolina senator john edwards has endorsed senator barack obama and the democratic presidential race obama and senator hillary clinton had and he said there is one man there is one man who knows and understands that this is a time for bold leadership there is one man who knows how to create change lasting change and you have to build from the ground up as one man who knows bomber said for the last eight years they've been told you've been told and there's nothing this country can do to help you that the best we can do is keep giving more and more of those with the most intelligent one else to fend for themselves that's what george bush has done for the last eight years and that's what john mccain is offering the next four well john edwards and i believe in a different america hillary clinton believes in a different america but you know he gave her credit the democratic party believes in different america decision is based on three findings first sea ice is vital to pull a better survival second to polar bears sea ice habitat has dramatically melted in recent decades third computer models suggest sea ice is likely to further recede in the future because polar bears drawing the boat to this loss of habitat they are in my judge likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future in this case twenty five years the move marks the first time the danger species act has been invoked to protect an animal mainly threatened by global warming but despite acknowledged seen that thread kept on stresses stressed the move will not open the door to policy changes in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases course not kept on the endangered species designation will only translate to bans on hunting polar bears greenpeace climate expert kurt davies criticized the bush administration's stance he said there basically took the teeth out of the law we know that they could have done better a different administration might have done better with this law and the notion that there's no way there is no way that the government the us actions on global warming can affect the arctic is also ridiculous because the us has twenty five percent of global emissions and the thought that nothing we can do in this country will positively affect the polar bear is out for eight years endangered species designation came one day before the court ordered deadline in a case brought by environmentalists to force the white house to take action on the poor bear survival in our last story here out of washington with veto proof margins congress on thursday sent president bush a bill boosting farm subsidies in money for food stamps to help the poor deal with the disagreed with both chambers passed the measure by well more than two thirds majority needed to override a veto the senate voted eighty one to fifteen a day after the house approved it with three hundred eighteen yes votes about two thirds of the bill would pay for domestic nutrition programs such as food stamps and emergency food aid for the needy an additional forty billion is for farm subsidies while almost thirty billion will go to farmers to idle their land and to other environmental programs the bill also would boost your treatment programs including food stamps emergency domestic food aid by more than ten billion over ten years it would expand program to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to school children  to buy surplus sugar and sell it to ethanol producers producing mixture with corn cut eight per gallon ethanol tax credit for reporters from fifty one cents to forty five cents credit supports the  often corn based additives more money would go to sell all so sick ethanol made from plant matter require that maids and other fresh foods carry labels with their countries of origin and stop allowing farmers to collect subsidies for multiple form businesses reopen a major discrimination case against agricultural department dozens of black farmers who missed a deadline would get a chance to file claims alleging they were denied loans or other subsidies pay farmers for weather related farm losses from a new three point eight billion dollars disaster relief fund and provide the first ever infusion of federal farm dollars more than four hundred million to clean up the chesapeake bay the bill also includes a few home state provisions inserted by lawmakers including tax breaks for kentucky resource owners and additional aid for salmon fishermen in the pacific northwest duties are called remarks despite the overwhelming vote the bill does have some farm state critics indiana senator richard lugar a former republican chairman of the senate agriculture committee voted against the bill he said i do not believe our nation is best served by this farm bill that continues to make payments thank you for a commonsense snubs our trading partners and balloons taxpayers for the police blotter in the pictures in a blogger not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on tuesday at ten thirty nine am fifty four year old woman called from mill street and threatened suicide by gun woman was under the influence of a controlled substance or mental health was evaluated at a hospital police arrested her on suspicion of violation of probation and a ten forty six a m police arrested a woman on south orange street on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia and viol and the eleven o four a m a caller from store on western night way reported tennis shoes were stolen twenty four year old man turned himself in at the police department he was cited and released on suspicion of shoplifting and violating  drive reported a person was looking into vehicles in harriet police contacted the person who was delivering newspapers nevada county sheriff's office on tuesday at nine o five involved in a twelve nineteen a m call from seventeen thousand block indian springs road reported he could hear his neighbors screaming out using vehicles the car said someone may have been hit with a vehicle to please check the area downs of telephone lines on north bloomfield road near cooper road workers from eight hundred eighty responded repair the phone line and that's it for today's blotter foggy mountain music block parties coming in june first so first rolling clinic remember mark it on your calendar it's a 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