and black music at certain times you know union story by david mark thomas grass valley possible sale draw reactions from civic leaders in and around the city where the company's base while the company noted that there could be potential suitors for all or part of the had a city its there big boy if that goes away and a better city could be here the really bad no decision has been made as to how or one of the company would be sued thompson officials said this week indicating they have there have been several offers of interest for the company the company was started nine hundred fifty nine in grass valley it was once known as the grass valley group and employs about two hundred and eighty people tops in grass valley makes routers switchers and video production equipment for broadcast networks you couldn't n b c and it's also providing video equipment for sunday's super bowl broadcast the best scenario is to get somebody who wants to buy it or manage the company matthew added it will be a predict predicated on who buys it from our standpoint it's neither negative or positive he said it doesn't make me nervous as long as there's a good market for what they're making and as long as a product is grass valley is one of the bad as city's top twenty five producers of sales tax revenue according to an analyst prepared and an analysis prepared by h d l companies which provides nevada city with reports on its sales tax revenue is projecting collecting just over one million in sales tax revenue through the fiscal year two thousand and eight which bans june thirtieth it has collected nearly four hundred thousand dollars this year according to city records exact amount of sales tax revenue generated valley is not in for michel generally released to the public said nevada city's finance direct katrina and matthew said he will be attending the national association of broadcasters convention during the first week of april grass valley is the dominant name in that show it will be interesting to see what the buzz will have to say the map the company's impact on the local economy is significant thompson grass valley and its employees purchased about four million dollars annually in goods and services on any given week he said contractors busy times in grass valley help fill local hotel rooms so as thompson grass valley products also contribute to major s a ha cent sales tax approved by nevada city voters in two thousand and six to repair city streets i feel pretty safe to say that they were too close to if they were to close their doors it would have a huge impact on city's general and ability to fix our streets forming a better city councilman steve patrol said there will be some anxiety for the next few months bars of all or part of the company should be coing should be whatever of collective skills of local boys which should be an important factor in retaining the business and keeping it in nevada city councilwoman sally harris said i am not sure that a number of these employees are very significant assets and they have to be very again as we would never have employees that whomever might buy them would keep employees here she said whomever buys the company would be purchasing intellectual capital and skills that can be readily found in businesses such as manufacturing said harris who has worked in the human resource and financial segment of intel oracle and macromedia technology companies losing these people means losing skills and knowledge not easily replaced anyone that's going to think of buying the company they've they'd want to keep the experienced people harris said i am consciously help with whomever would buy this we keep this here another union story written by lives keller and sixty nine year old man was in custody early friday after he allegedly was shining a spotlight in a cars and businesses on east mean streets and i don't hold maryland road grass valley police officers responded at about four fifty five eight am and stuck david elden klein who was driving a vehicle the driver became agitated in china his spotlight on them said captain david brown alive when officers searched the vehicle they found a loaded shotgun from alike at a client also had shotgun rounds on his person klein was uncooperative he did not provide an explanation for the spotlight our last story written by liz keller and erratic county couple was in jail friday on connection with an estimated forty area burglaries after deputies chased them on foot and their vehicle late thursday office estimate they can connect chelsea rose cam twenty two and jason michael bianco she twenty four to more than twenty five burglaries evidence found at pet men's home also connects them to five cases in grass valley in ten burglaries in placer county and officer on routine patrol pulled behind long's drug store on colby road near midnight thursday and found pet cam sitting in a parked vehicle deputy and started running the deputy chased bianchi east then towards highway forty nine before catching him and taking him into custody meanwhile pecan drove away but was followed by a lake of the pines security anybody who recently has been a victim of previously unreported theft from their vehicle or home is urged to contact the sheriff's office major crimes unit at two six five one four seven one that's two six five one four seven well it looks like a couple of days of no police blotter so it's time for a little rant is so good to see that individuals might have been caught for many many burglaries in nevada county and beyond nothing worse than cvs you take your partner diadems sneaking around like rats in the dark if you listen to the police blotter you hear about car house business burglaries on a regular basis what's up with that maybe somebody can design a big trap like the would you catch feral cats and he could be used to catch burglars like this little rat trap here maybe we should bring back to stocks in downtown in the downtown square and when you catch these tours you put them on display just be on the lookout if you see a couple of hooty characters you bring down your street at night and call the police is time the batek out to get tough on this type of animal behavior maybe one force met will start taking fingerprints on these type of incidents and persuade the rats to go somewhere else to get their che removed from office and unanimous impeachment an israeli peace offer would maintain two hundred thirty thousand west bank settlers in israel israeli foreign minister promises maximum settlers  accuse informant of in our first story today president obama has signed his first piece of legislation into law reversing a supreme court ruling the black woman from filing pay discrimination lawsuits the lily live better fair pay act is named for female employee of good and rubber company who was paid forty percent less than male colleagues doing the same job lead better lost her suit against goodyear after the court ruled she did not follow a complaint on time president obama said this is only the beginning i know that if we stay focused as well we did and keep standing for what's right absolutely did we will close that pay gap and we will make sure that our daughters have the same rights the same chances in a city of greed and to pursue their dreams as our sons i guess that would work if they have a job meanwhile president obama has criticized wall street following news financial executives received an estimated eighteen point four billion in bonuses last year the average crowd amounted to one hundred twelve thousand dollars he also said when i saw an article today indicating wall street bankers had given themselves twenty billion dollars worth of bonuses the same amount of bonuses they gave themselves in two thousand and four at a time when most of these institutions were teetering on collapse and they're asking for taxpayers to help sustain them and when taxpayers find themselves in difficult position that we don't provide help that the entire system could come down on the top of our heads that is the height of irresponsibility if you see all those bonuses declined from two thousand and seven thirteen point four billion he would quoted the same amount paid in two thousand for it equal that meanwhile here there in new york and i'm not really there major league baseball new york mets are facing calls to cancel a four hundred million dollars stadium name naming rights deal with citi group congress member dennis kucinich of ohio and ted poe of texas are demanding doesn't know much of a contract named for the new man has found a lobby industry call in record amounts last year the center for responsive politics says special interest groups paid lobbyist three point two billion in two thousand and eight the most ever on record and thirty percent increase from two thousand and seven t amount to be more than seventeen million for every day congress was in session last year more on lobbying and more and some other time probably the senate has passed a measure expanding government health insurance and low income children the thirty three billion dollars state children's health insurance program measure would be funded in part by tax increases cigarette packs the house passed its version of the c s c h i p expansion earlier this month former shortly after blagojevich ended his boycott on the proceedings and tried to plead his case he said there is no evidence before your body here that shows no evidence zero that there were to see any wrongdoing by me as governor and again if you give me a chance to be able to bring witnesses in i can show you not only that i didn't do anything wrong i can show you that i did a lot of things that were mostly right and that some of the things that have been said about me are simply aren't true illinois lieutenant governor pat quinn has taken over because of it as illinois governor and israeli government has admitted it's mostly recent peace offer to the palestinian goshi asia would still leave more than two hundred thousand jewish settlers in occupied west bank the offer was made in talks between israelis prime minister who had omar and palestinian president mahmoud abbas in meetings with u s envoy george mitchell both olmert and abbas confirmed that israel offer would remove just sixty thousand settlers of the two hundred ninety thousand on the west bank three many two hundred thirty thousand would stay in the large settlement blocks that nearly cut the west bank in half not a single palestinian refugee would be granted the right to return to their former home in israel palestinians were offering an equal amount of israeli land in return and shared sovereignty over parts of east jerusalem but the settlements are widely considered illegal under international law and a nonstarter for many palestinians palestinian negotiators reportedly refused to a demand to sign off on a deal that would then be handled by the winner of the upcoming israeli elections and former israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is leading the polls and has rejected any territorial concession to the palestinians and even though the offer would still ensure israel's control over key settlement blocks his opponent israeli foreign minister tzipi livni has distanced herself from the proposal as being too generous she said i will advance only an agreement that represents our interest maintaining imagine a settler settlers and places mitchell said to be successful in preventing the illicit trafficking of arms into gaza there must be a mechanism to allow the flow of legal goods and there should be a part participate tape participation of the palestinian authority president  has also underlined our commitment to a better future for all palestinians whose legitimate aspirations for an independent and viable state should be met mitchell's visit comes at mr reports the israeli government has deliberately hidden its own data showing rapid construction and west bank settlements this really newspaper herat reports an internal government survey from the construction in three out of four settlements was conducted without proper permits and in many cases in private settlements are the main obstacles to peace he also said for israel to continue their settlement activities and at the same time continue to try to separate between the west bank and gaza because we believe that the israeli attacks and aggression against gaza one of the objectives is to keep the west bank separate from gaza and this cannot stand the west bank the gaza strip and east jerusalem are a single territorial unit that's the territory of the palestinian state and we will spare no effort as president a from mutual respect and mutual interest we say the gate to this relationship with our arab and islamic world is from palestine from the palestinian cause and from the need of a change in the u s policy when it comes to palestinian moon spoke from a gathering gathering of business leaders in davis switzerland and he said the population has already or is already involved role because of so many months of severely restricted supplies that is why the humanitarian special appeal for gaza that we are now in today is so timely and so important with the help of the six hundred thirteen million dollars appeal the united nations and other aid agency can jump into action to help the one point four million civilians in the gaza strip to recover you know their news from davis turkey prime minister recep tayyip erdogan walked out of the panel discussion thursday after a heated exchange with it is not a problem for us we have never started we have never started fire and when they fired against us we replied but after the great restraint and thousands of people were killed too they weren't killed in a concentration manner so what does it matter tried to respond but was cut off by debate moderator washington post reporter david ignatius yes but he later angrily continued his response and he and he said you killed people i remember the children who died on the beaches and i remember two former prime ministers in your country who said they felt very happy when they were able to enter palestinian territories in tanks and they felt very satisfied with themselves i find it very sad to see that people applaud what you have said because there are been so many people who have been killed and i think that it is very wrong it's not humanitarian to applaud any actions that have had that kind of result and in iraq the state department is searching for placement to the program military company blackwater worldwide iraq announced this week it won't renew blackwater's license to guard u s personnel and installations the u s says it will comply with the order and has already spoken to the corp international and triple canopy five blackwater guards were charged last month for the september two thousand and seven mass shooting of seventeen unarmed civilians in baghdad the source square and in france more than a million workers took to the streets nationwide in a general strike against the french government's response to global financial crisis the strike was the largest in western europe to date since the crisis unfolded last september critics say french president nicolas sarkozy thirty three billion dollars recovery program has favored banks over workers and then brazil the ninth world social for continues to an amazon city of bil'in on thursday a panel of latin american presidents criticized the u s for its role and financial crisis in this double standards in allowing massive state intervention in financial markets ecuadorian president economic can only the most powerful people on the planet have united to find a therapy for the dying they're getting together and the central bankers the representatives of the large financial firms the people primarily responsible for the crisis brazilian president louis initial lula da silva is also attending the forum chosing to boycott the gathering of business leaders and davis so it's like and back in the united states suicides among u s troops have increased to three decades high going to go on a future say at least one hundred twenty eight soldiers took their own lives last year the final tally would be higher as more than a dozen other guests are still under investigation it's the highest total since record keeping