a story written by dave mohler former nevada county supervisor sue horne said tuesday morning she is taking a serious look at running for assessor and june twenty ten how it made a final decision she said the idea of being able to serve again full time is something i want to take a to two thousand and one to two thousand and eight she ran for republican nomination for assembly in two thousand and eight primer and was defeated by dan loek of yuba county owens chose to endorse logue during that election instead of horne logue went on to one assembly seat in the general election another story written by dave mahler after wrestling was counted finances and fiscal turmoil for more than one year incumbent nevada county supervisors hank weston and john spencer both said monday they will run for office again in june two thousand and ten primary in separate announcements both said nevada county's economic challenges were their highest priority and they want to continue setting policies to keep county government solvent in this time of great uncertainty our only chance to navigate through this mess will come with the stability of experience and honesty spencer said in his announcement we need to position ourselves to get through these financial crisis and be on solid counties fiscal situation will only get worse and needs full diligence weston said next year is going to be bad he said based on preliminary tax revenue projections we have to tighten down and figure out other ways to do business they could mean outsourcing  county services county is currently looking at outsource the management of libraries and animal control weston added we look at everything he said we would not be doing our jobs if we don't look into every alternative possible for funding and running county government regarding private management of the financially challenged libraries other options are available weston said our library staff it has was at thirteen employees before they got the sales tax and after that it went up to thirty one what's the library now at twenty two full time equivalent positions now would be a good time to look at reconfiguring the positions i believe when it all shakes out we can get savings we'll have some cut maybe an hour's weston said he was most proud of being part of the board that kept the budget balanced he's also proud of being acce and not turning his back on any issues constituents call him the they call him about john spencer sixty two represents district three from grass valley area he moved here in seventy seven has been a professional surveyor for forty two years spencer was elected in two thousand and four general election beating linda stevens and randy hanson who backed out and supervisor drew bedwell resigned due to cancer he was reelected in two thousand and six primary beating terry lapierre we need to be very conscious of where we spend our money and how we're doing it spencer said it's what's happening right now with the library spencer has received numerous notes and library situation most of them against hiring a private company to manage them although he hasn't made up his mind on the issue i'm inclined to listen to the community he said still outsourcing is possible for other sectors of county government consolidation of services is also possible with county and cities already looking at combined fire police planning and public works services things in the future could be quite different from what they're used to used we're used to in order to save ourselves spencer added well ultimately do what we have to do to make it work getting government off back to business would also bode well for county economics he said i'm always interested in regularity environment regulatory environment which needs to be more flexible for business to be created can the regulations need to be changed to reach the goal then they should be altered projects need don't have to take so long spencer said we need to be able to cut time out of the process and a story written by michel rebels world aids day is getting attention to city was an event planned and supported by teens from peer advocates of health and local woman who is hiv positive in a woman who has visited aids stricken africa this summer will be guest speakers at an event well that actually happened last night at six p nevada city hall following the talks to teens were leading a candlelight vigil down broad street pier advocates for health is a program co sponsored by the county's public health department and the nonprofit miners clinic trains high school students to educate their peers on health issues especially reproductive health issues to get the event had began at the city council chambers at three seventeen broad street and in our last story written by dave mahler california has to cut back on government regulations to avert bankruptcies and more fiscal peril according to a number of area leaders who spoke at a special meeting friday in the better city at a regional jobs and business retention here in hosted by state assemblyman dan loeb and congressman tom mcclintock one business owner after another said corny and federal and state regulation regulations are stifling commerce how about getting some people in government who want to help us asked jeff cardini of hills flat lumber grass that's right sam it's time for the place but in the pictures and blood are not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday ten twenty one am a caller from one hundred block of park avenue reported a verbal and physical dispute between a man and woman one twenty four p m caller from north church street reported people driving through and blaring music and requested extra patrols and at seven forty two pm caller from walsh in south church three reported a man yelling at people eight o five p m caller from three and a block nor school street reported someone rang the doorbell left burning bag on a doorstep it was found to be a prank a forty one p m call from two hundred block of north church street reported someone flipped a breaker and shut off part of the property eleven twenty pm caller from two hundred block of res street toward finding a safe in the hallways under a vehicle that it county sheriff's office on sunday nine fifty eight his residence and a vehicle had been broken into during the night items were taken from the garage and the vehicle was damaged at three twenty five pm a woman from the seventeen thousand block lawsuit loop reported someone had broken into her residence last friday and again  she believes someone was in her residence when she was not there for twenty eight p m call of a man from twenty one thousand block of clifford road reported his neighbors eight or nine year old child got in its vehicle and drove into a tree the city police department sunday it was three pm caller from broad street reported woman went to the bathroom and did not come back leaving her car keys and purse on the table at eight twenty four p m the caller reported the woman had found her way home and monday twelve fifty comcast moves closer in purchasing n b c universal dozens arrested in climate justice actions across the nation senate begins debate on health care reform  supreme court overturns rule you know on torture photos iran detainees five british men on a yacht and susan rice warns of more sanctions against iraq ninety ninety and us to host twenty twelve international aids conference n reports on amy goodman canadian border detention and today's first story president obama has issued orders to escalate the war in afghanistan by sending in between well it's thirty thousand additional outline his war plans tonight while that was last night you know what he did in primetime address but he was already notified military leaders of his decision on top of the previous reinforcements sent earlier this year the troop build up will nearly triple the u s military presence in afghanistan president obama inherited that's what he inherited when he took office despite obama's plan to escalate the war white house press secretary robert gibbs or gibbs claim president has a plan to wind down u s involvement in afghanistan and said the president will reiterate tomorrow that i've said the number of times which is that this is not an open ended this is not an open ended commitment that we are there to partner with the afghans and train afghan national security forces the army and police so that they can provide security for their country and  expanded war british prime minister gordon brown said monday an additional five hundred british troops will be sent to afghanistan he said so mr speaker with the three conditions now met i can confirm that we will move a new force level of ninety five hundred extra troops will deploy in early december to thicken the k troop presence in central helmand and and from late january they will make the transition to partnering role we envision for them a strong and prime minister kevin  rudd will boost its effort to train the afghan police force and said australia takes its alliance with the united states very seriously that's why we have been with america in afghanistan for a long time and we will be with america for the long haul protests are being planned outside the west point side of obama's speech on monday representatives of thirty four and a war groups delivered an open letter to president obama strongly opposing his decision to escalate the war meanwhile in afghanistan many residents ha expressed opposition to obama as war plan abdulla khan a resident of kandahar said if they americans increase troops numbers they will bombard the houses of innocent people more and they will kill more innocent muslims they will search more houses  this is going to be bad disaster for the country iraqi officials are reporting incidence of cancer deformed babies and other health problems have risen sharply since the us led invasion in two thousand and three many suspect the cause or contamination from weapons used in years of war and unchecked pollution in the city of pollution a spike in a number of births are still born deformed and paralyzed babies has alarmed doctors pollution has was the target of two massive assaults by the us military in the city of in media news the nation's largest cable television company compound cast appears one step closer to buying television movie giant n b c universal from general electric such a deal would give comcast control of n b c network spanish language telemundo cable channels including c n b c dozens of local television stations and the universal film studio josh silver the media reform group free press said if washington allows this deal to go through comcast world have unprecedented control of the market content in three major distribution platforms internet broadcast and cable we've never seen this kind of consolidated control climate justice actions were held across the nation canada monday one week ahead of its start of climate talks in copenhagen s people were arrested in greenville south carolina after activists locked themselves in a one point five million pound generator destined for the coal plant run by duke energy and in new york a protest was held outside the offices of natural resource defense council protest organizers targeted environmental groups because of the support of a cap and trade system nasa scientist james hansen took part in a new york protest and said the effect that humans are going to have on future climate and the future for our children and grandchildren is going to have to phase out coal use and less c o two is captured and real and sequestered there is no such thing as clean coal at this time probably never will be a news from capitol hill debate began senate on the democrats plan to overhaul the nation's health care system on monday the congressional budget office issued a report saying the senate bill would significantly reduce costs for many people who buy health insurance on their own but that premiums will not substantially change for the vast number of americans who receive coverage from large employees ploy ers the c b r reports contradicts assertions by the industry insurance industry that the average family coverage would rise by thousands of dollars if the proposal became law the c b o did conclude the house payment would go up for a portion of the population fourteen million americans who buy their own coverage and earn too much to get proposed subsidies the supreme court has upheld obama administration's effort to we're told the release of photographs of prisoners being tortured and abused by u s forces on monday the supreme court vacated a lower court ruling that would have required the government to release a photograph to that merican civil liberties union or the a c l u according to a government brief some of the photo showed soldiers pointing pencils or rifles that they had to put it in and handcuffed detainees  makes it more likely that further sanctions will be sought in the security council she also said it and while we are have been and remain in constant consultation with the p five plus one partners on the way forward we have said that this is a dual track effort there has been an engagement track which we have been very actively engaged in but there is also a pressure track and as iran makes choices that seem to indicate that it's not at this stage ready and willing to take up the offers on the gauge new track then we will get greater emphasis on pressure track time is short and we are serious about implementing the fullest extent of the dual track policy and world aids day is being marked on monday secretary of state hillary clinton announced the u s will host the two thousand and twelve international aids conference mark ing the first time an event has been on u s soil in two decades on in october the white house lifted a twenty year old ban that it prevented people infected with hiv from entering the country and a coalition of global aids  africa solidarity organizations have released a report card on obama's first year in office to give him a deep plus asia russell of the health gap said we are disappointed to report that his first world aids day in office president obama has not made good on his promises to increase funding for effective lifesaving programs to fight aids around the world and i recently poured by the joint united nations program on hiv aids and the world health organization found that about thirty three million people are infected with hiv new h l v infections have been reduced by seventy percent over the past two years michelle is the executive director of the un aids and said in terms of deaths which is very important worldwide we are seeing a drop in the number new guest which is critical during the last five years only the fact that we have been able with the support of different programs to scale up treatment programs which has been increased by ten fold during the last five years we're seeing a decrease in mortality by eighteen percent justice said while the decline in mortality was due to the hiv prevention programs more is needed to be done by governments to stop the discrimination of the groups at higher risk of hiv infection including gay men and also said we are seeing elemental paul trend of criminalization of those groups of people today you have more than eighty countries with homophobic laws which are just considered to have any different sexual orientation is criminal and these countries are just arresting the its people so they are hiding themselves they are fueling the epidemic because they are discriminated because they are stigmatized in because they cannot access have access to services and they know you are peace activists marched across the brooklyn bridge monday as part of the world march for pea you can't talk about ending a war without talking about racial violence sexual violence psychological and economic violence so what we are trying to say is that there is a culture of violence and that is what we really have to transform and we and to day's headlines with an excerpt of keith olbermann show countdown last night n m s n b c he said dateline british columbia best paranoid freedom of speech suppression border guards at the peace arch of the us canadian line last week they stopped democracy now host goodman she had weapon kerry an agent search your car held her passport for a time there afraid she was going to say something dangerous in canada seriously in theory you could stop somebody who was going to advocate violence or the like but their fear as mr goodman recounted it was that she was going to speak out against the upcoming winter olympics in vancouver seriously when she said no that wasn't what she was going to talk about in canada they asked her again