population allowing him to bring in federal prisoners at a rate of seventy dollars a day from the state look at the number of people in our facility versus it's just cystic severus which remain constant rose said you would think to jail population would remain constant too but there's been a tremendous decrease the indications this is it something has changed with how our courts are sentencing we have a compassionate court and maybe that impacts how that means it was attributed to dip in jail inmate population to what smith smith was working at the jail one prop thirty six court was implemented in two thousand and one and said he noticed a drop in local population afterwards the criminal justice system is doing a good job a den of finding people who need these the programs according to smith we're now seeing the effects of some of those programs and roman prop thirty six court the program with the most offenders has grown since it was implemented since nevada county court executive officer sean  you do half your time two years becomes a year and must most go back willcox it according to department of corrections the majority ninety five percent return to prison within one hundred twenty days you violate parole and create a new crime a new case cycle just continues prop thirty six as a success rate of around seventy percent he said which refers to participants who graduate from the program and had their records expunged their receipt of isn't rate for prop thirty six score is pretty low compared to prisoners who violate their parole some graduation rates are lower however only one person out of fifteen graduated from the smaller adult drug court last year according to court statistics different between the jail or prison when they do not successfully complete adult drug court detractors of prop thirty six court say the program is a revolving door for many offenders grass valley attorneys and former judge candidate ray shine has said prop thirty six gives too many chances to repeat offenders although the local population is decreasing the county is funny to feasible study to expand the jail i'm not strongly advocating adding on at this point roll added but at any given moment the gun nemi could change and we don't want to be caught in a position where we could be sued in addition governor arnold schwarzenegger proposed budget cuts earlier this month that would grant early release to twenty two thousand inmates determined to be low risk with less than twenty months remaining on their sentences some of them could end up in the benteke county roil said royal said generating money by transporting federal inmates most of whom are nonviolent and awaiting transport to other facilities is a better option than cost cutting in the form of layoffs the way our jail is designed we have fixed posts he said in each pod you have so many staff working in that range and with our female population going up we're not going to eliminate those fixed post we can't reduce staff dealing with drug offenders by treating their illness is much more effective than just locking them up with no treatment prop thirty six is a good program and the future will be improved for many of those that go through this type of program when i was court prop thirty six and drug court all helped and reduction of jailing of offenders this is a good thing contrary to what ray chimes position is and it was a comment from t v t v news and if you are a grass valley resident and a dog owner time has come to purchase a dog license this is a permit to keep a gun for two thousand and eight the license of your car only if you are city residents meaning of street address as three or four numbers all dogs four months old and all that require a dog license bring proof that your animal has a current rabies vaccination t the grass valley animal shelter the license cost nine dollars for altered dogs in one thousand for an altered dogs and eleven panel eleven dollars penalty for will be added for license purchased after february second the animal shelter is located five five six b freeman lane grass valley it's open eleven a m to one p m and three p m to five p m on weekdays and nine a m to eleven a m on saturdays they can be reached at four seven seven four six three zero so don't leave your dog o fed cut interest rates again this week are offering hope to current on one is looking to refinance at a lower interest rate to lower rates also or provide an incentive for new buyers hoping to lock in lower months of cars now is a good time to buy is it a veteran real estate broker pam har who cohen's caldwell banker grassroots realty with her husband larry harley the new president of the nevada county association of realtors the prices are great interest rates are great and there are great deals out there pam harvey said those factors have prompted a little more activity at the company of several area offices some buyers are responding to the lower interest rates by offering the asking price instead of bargain on sale and just to lock in lower monthly payments or take advantage of disappearing special loan programs mortgage broker stan operatically said they don't think it's going to get any better so they're trying to get into the market said oprah roski of sierra finance corps in grass valley now i time still others are waiting on the sideline for lower prices or more interest rate cuts the fed is widely expected to cut rates again next week state wide the pace of sales continues it twenty seven months decline join the lowest level since one nine hundred eighty eight when data quick information systems of san diego began collecting information the company reported among existing homeowners who definitely see an increase in refinancing oprah russkie said most of them are looking for lower interest rates the local picture coincides with a continued decline in median real estate prices statewide according to data quote statewide median prices dropped to four hundred two thousand only down three percent from december of two thousand  in an emergency movement tuesday federal reserve chairman ben bernanke cut to central banks discounted lending rates to banks by three quarters of a point or two three point five percent in an effort to stave off recession on wednesday the prime lending rate to break banks charge to their most credit worthy customers was six point five percent the website bankrate dot com lists thirty year fixed rate loans just below four five point two percent the national overnight average listener five point three percent late wednesday despite a lower rate it could be a little too early to know if the effects to decline in interest rates could have on the local housing market said judy barley vice president of california land title in nevada count of panic county interest rates have never been a problem because interest rates have been reasonable for the last couple years probably said the problem has been the prices are too i knew point now prices are falling and so are still want the gold buyers keep thinking it's going to go lower so they wait there she's hearing reports of sales starting to pick up power i think sellers and buyers are coming to the middle of the road which needs to happen by liz said hopefully this major cut will stimulate things that's it for local news today personally i'm just going to  v news would like to thank our underwriters once again palestinians are pouring into egypt from gaza for the second consecutive day after motives just royd most to the border wall in the town of rothera gazans are rushing across the border to stock up on food fuel medicines and other basic supplies which have become scarce and affordable after months of economic isolation and the latest israel blockade hundreds of egyptian security forces have moved into the area but so far making no attempt to stem the traffic gaza residents of the egyptian supplies are critical to help the population survive one egyptian brothers to help those people who have lost eight months of their daily needs while under siege and we call on our gyptian brothers to help us and bring the foods to referee in sinai for their to enter gaza and we also ask from our brothers and arab countries the gates are open they should bring help egypt israel has again as cancelled margin sciri emergency shipments of fuel it had promised for today the palestinian energy authority says it will have to cut off its ties to gaza he said we want to stop supplying electricity to them stop supplying them with water and medicine so that that it would come from another place i was officials rejected the suggestion saying israel still bears responsibility because g remains our capacity israel says it's trying to stop palestinian militants from launching rockets into nearby israeli towns over the past ten days more than two hundred rockets and mortars have been firing into israel lightly wounding ten people meanwhile israeli army raids in gaza have killed more than forty palestinians over the same period in a democratic republic of congo go more than two dozen militia groups have signed onto an agreement seeking to end fighting in the eastern part of the country  described as a general framework that could ultimately lead to a permanent peace deal a recent report by the international rescue committee says an estimated five point four million people have died in the congo over the past decade with around forty five thousand losing their lives each month a group of former top military commanders in nato countries including the u s are calling for their government to do insist on a right to preemptive nuclear attack and a new manifesto the former army leaders including ex joint chief of staff jared general john cash he says nato should maintain that first strike nuclear option remains an indispensable instrument of the group says this is part b because they play no realistic prospect of a nuclear free world proposals likely to be reviewed at a nato summit in april the bush administration has announced plans to expand military training and equipment to pakistan over the next five years the two billion dollar package would seek to boost pakistan's intelligence service and its air and ground power our ohio a racial controversy is unfolding after police shooting of an african american woman and her infant son in a drug raid twenty six year old to recover wilson was killed earlier this month when the police burst into her home seeking her boyfriend wilson's one year old it's sincere wilson was injured and had to have his finger and pitted prosecutors are currently deciding whether to file charges against the white officers who fired their jobs and the united states placed at the bottom of  industrialized countries as new ranking of global environmental compliance researchers at yale and columbia listed the u s is the worst among the group of eight nations and thirty nine of out of the total of one hundred forty nine countries on the list  hill the bush administration democratic leaders are said to be close to agreeing on one hundred fifty billion dollars economic stimulus deal most of the money would go to towards tax rebates publicans are reporting opposing proposals to include low income americans not paying income tax in the rebate package at the white house president bush said current economic woes should encourage congress to pass through several pending through deals president bush said one way we can also send a message that we want to continue to grow is to open up markets for u s products and services we were talking about these trade votes coming up in front of congress and the importance of getting markets open up for our workers in entrepreneurs meanwhile the nation mare's have launched a new appeal for federal aid to deal with the home foreclosure crisis more than two hundred fifty members are gathered in washington d c for the united states conference of mayors conference president mary douglas palmer of trenton new jersey calls for the ri called the rise in foreclosures and economic tsunami he needed immediate attention in other news from washington democrats have failed to overwrite president bush's veto of the expansion of charles insurance for the second time nearly four months president bush has twice vetoed a thirty five billion dollar measure to expand health insurance to millions of low income children and once the supporters came up fifteen votes short to override bush's latest veto last month a government attorney who authored two of bush administration's secret torture memos has been renominated to a senior position to justice department when his tempter is the latest by the white house to promote steven bradbury to become the chief of the justice department's office a new congressional study has found u s war funding increased by more than fifty billion dollars last year hundred seventy billion total was nearly double the ninety three billion spent on average between two thousand and three and two thousand by president bush is seeking to continue up asking for more than one hundred ninety billion this fiscal year the senate as open debate on the bush administration's backed surveillance law that included immunity to the telecom companies who took part in spying on americans senate majority leader harry reid said congress will need at least another month to agree on replacing the temporary surveillance law expiring on february first was the democratic senator christopher dodd of connecticut renewed a vow to filibuster any version of the bill that includes telecom and that is a wrap for world news today twelve ten p m a call reported in an injury accident on brunswick road at east main street before bronco and a ford van collided the people involved were standing on the roadway both vehicles were towed five thirty one p a call from the business on a one thousand block of mcknight way reported two people have been shoplifting police arrested a forty seven year old woman on on a look at one and the suspicion of samplitude police also rest of the sixty nine year old woman on suspicion of shoplifting and resisting he wasn't even drink rough and ready highway reported three hundred dollars in meat products were stolen from the freezer overnight police took a report paid to forty four pm a caller from one ten thousand block a rough and ready road put it a man was driving around his property looking for old car out of the mud to tow truck driver called back later to report the landowner was shooting a firearm in the air telling him not to move another inch deputy returned took a report presidential bid he got one percent of the vote in new hampshire primary and was shut out of the iowa caucus is he did not have a devoted following because senate sixty one is facing four challenges in a democratic congressional primary march fourth and earlier this week he made an his youngest brother perry kissinger was found dead the senate said he will not endorse another democrat in the primary because cynics brought the same sense of idealism to his second run for president as he did in the first big he said he was entering the race again because the democratic party wasn't pushing hard enough to end the iraq war once dubbed the boy mare of cleveland he made an unpopular decision to refuse to sell a publicly owned utility to push the city into default drove him from office after the city's financial troubles the mare faced death threats he was forced to wear a bulletproof vest when he threw out the first ball at a cleveland indians game he barely survived a recall vote but unpopular stand against the sale of melissa block existence was praised as courageous one nine hundred ninety eight to cleveland city council issued him a commendation for having the foresight to refuse to sell it during his time in congress because senate has been one of the most outspoken liberals opposing international trade agreements like the north american free trade agreement and marching with the protesters in seattle during a meeting of the world trade organization as a presidential candidate he has proposed a damn department of peace back universal health care and supported gay marriage he also as for impeachment of vice president dick cheney at a debate last october because sinise delivered one of the night he was seeking and meet women then vie for a date with him during a contest arranged by a new hampshire political website but nothing romantic involved from because in each breakfast with the winner that's it for the day that's right it's time for the police blotter the pictures in the bottom not from these actual vans but use for visual aids only