welcome to give you t v news i'm randy hanson in today's local headlines supervisors blast state over union election who's contributing to what in local races fairgrounds treat street is getting a make over and spring illegal and should be held again the board did not promise a new election grand juries report also question to conduct of the county's human resource director but to supervisors placed the blame my studio lection officials instead the board chose to table the formal response to report for two weeks but the bulk of the recommendations in a draft letter were left intact county attorney donna williams and urged caution in any language changes that should indicate their personal feelings about the outcome of the election supervisors who horne and other board members wanted some of the mind which change to show concerns about not posting election in a timely manner they also wanted to further address concerns about the county human resources director gail such well being asked to sign an affidavit that said she personally illegal it was legal for such well to delegate her authority to other office workers to post election though the document said she had personally posted the election material he did not discuss the ethics of the action however when asked why she signed affidavit said the election process was handled by last week and i followed his direction in signing the affidavit beyond that the board left language intact that said grand jury did have not have jurisdiction over the election among the chief findings of the proposed response one of the main complaints from the county workers about election was that it was not held five working days after it was posted but instead was done in three the response sedlacek posted the lection on august ninth the day before  billy adding a day he also said it was legal to count the day of the election and the five day requirements that's very faulty thinking one said who added that the board should send a letter to the mediation service about their concerns supervisor johnson pincer said the next union election within the county let's do what we can do mass a mass posting so everyone knows the election is coming up in the august two thousand and seven election for some counties workers a majority of them were voted to join the union others objected afterwards protesting the economic aid of the union fees and the way the election was handled in general the election was appealed to the state mediation service which rejected it and the power of the election last september and another local political news more campaign finance reform for local races were filled this file this week of finance forms i'm sorry and window at the candidates campaign is even before the signs of slogans are rolling out in a three way race for district two supervisor seat being vacated by sue horne land use attorney robert joiner could receive twenty three thousand three hundred twenty nine dollars of contributions generous through march seventeenth compared to twenty three thousand eight hundred forty five for alan kilborne twenty one hundred for fairgrounds board chief at school field school field got a late start is to a point it's not joining the race until february fifteenth large chunk of the money comes from loans made to the candidates by themselves ten thousand each for contributions are expected to grow as the june thirtieth nears joint has received five hundred from grant contain zero co founder citizens concerned about traffic and one hundred from john app order of asia video among others he has also received non monetary contributions of video production city city council race later this week though the filing deadlines late as monday night all the information has been compiled for release depressed cement want treat street made a charming scroll through nevada county fair grounds for most people but those in wiltshire as using walkers and pushing strollers faced challenges of the need for the service so one affair board members approved installation of new water pipes along the path of the also decided to replace the cobbled cement with breast concrete workers tore up the street this week and expect to have it finished by independence day celebrations lifeforce planning for eighty seven thousand five hundred dollars what's improved in this mean paid partly out of fairs capital improvement budget fair deputy manager sandy woods said tuesday seventeenth district agricultural association  as the fair is formally known also has applied for a grant to supplement the project from the california division of fairs and expositions she added we're also trying to put more shade trees so as people are standing in line they have more protection from the heat in the sun funds raised at the food boost along tree street eight year round support for community organizations that staff the bills during the fair and other large events the pairs theme this year is barnyard buckaroos and fair will run from obviously eight six through the tenth books detailing the categories of the fair interest will be available june first if you want to get an early start pick up a copy last year's fair book at the main office at one one two two eight mccourt new road gate one in grass valley the category should be the same it mean to farm in the vatican mostly it's remarkably predictable we don't have to keep an eye on the horizon for funnel clouds and might run into a path of random destruction through the center of our fields or is so much done that brings rain at the rate of several inches an hour and watches our soul into the creek hailstorm of last june certainly set us back a couple weeks but would have been laughed off by midwestern farmers using a golf used to golf ball size torrents they could convince a person of the existence of a wrathful deity with no respect for the labor of us mortals the ground yet we work hard to get what we gain as the saying goes we work half time the other twelve hours a day we rest and it's a seven day a week occupation that can inspire a certain jealousy to us when our friends tell us that they did what they did on the beach in mexico during their vacation but if you stand in the center of our growing field surrounded by all the abundance of nature brings a feast of your defeats your eyes on the tended rose plants reaching skyward loaded with produce of all colors and shapes and flowers i mean with bees you think it's kind of a heaven on earth it does get hot but it's heat and dryness and some of that we just want to have less just fine right tomatoes and might spoil your shirts with him dribbling juice but if you aren't careful we give them more ice or they need but they don't get spoiled by unpredictable rain that's wasn't cracks their tender skin you couldn't ask for better conditions for nectar filled melons and our ambrosia are ambrosia on the tongue we grow one sweet to town pepper that we've come to call ms my god pepper because it's inevitably people say that when they try one for the first time you don't get these flavors and cooler weather climate which really made a difference for us as local folks we meet through our want another one another and life was all the best has to offer to sustain for another day given in taking the sharing of sesson into breaking a bread is a community of a kind of bridges most differences and brings us all within the circle of real life that's real life is a life that requires work in our best efforts at a time to get some modest but brings with it an earnest and simple pleasure of knowing that we give something of value and meaning and pleasure and we are sustaining in the ways that keep us moving ahead for another season we'll be inviting you this year though these monthly columns to share in the progress of the our season they'll be ups and downs successes and failures days filled with song tears as you will see the day shift from the  hope and pleasure of spring to the un healing pace of getting it all done you'll meet some of our customers and come to know us a little too as we can ensure that nevada county keeps its beauty in working farms and ranches while  changes are a must and that's it for today's look in today's world headlines iraqi crackdown on saturn as well issues in basra spreads to other shiite areas and workers sue k b r for toxic exposure in iraq and supreme court ways plight of u s prisoners challenging iraqi sentences palestinian authority denies israeli influence over security forces and us suggests ending public debate on israel powerless dean issues at the u n and afghan donor money wasted on salaries and profits u nucular parts mistakenly sent to taiwan defense minister comments reignite colombia ecuador roll and lebanon to boycott arab league summit and chavez says mccain is a man of war and supreme court rejects world court jurisdiction and global warming might behind massive and arctic ice collapse and tobacco company funded lung cancers study but before these stories clashes between us back iraqi forces and rival shiite militia have spread to several areas around iraq at least fifty five people died more than three hundred have been wounded since iraqi government watch you know fancy against my daughter solders mahdi army in the southern city of friday deadline to hand in their weapons on tuesday sattar aid has ms regime vowed national civil disobedience campaign in response to the crackdown he said if they were iraqi government will not respond to the demands of the wreckage people the second step will be stage of civil revolt if the government will not respond the third step will be issued soon offensive could end sutter seven month old cease fires seen as a major factor behind the recent drop in violence in iraq and other iraq news nine former employees are suing the war has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax by hiring workers through a shell company based in the cayman islands lawyer plans to argue k b r forms that tax status excludes it from protection in their federal law and face more charges omar meanwhile was detained by u s forces at his baghdad home he's been accused of harboring insurgents and in israel and the occupied territories israeli government says it has authorized a new deployment of six hundred palestinian police officers to the west bank town of jenin palestinian authority officials say israel is not deciding where to base palestinian forces previously involvement of the israel and u s and palestinian security operations has led to allegations of attempts to widen the palestinian factional divide and provoke civil war meanwhile at the un the bush administration is suggesting the security council and other bodies and public debate on the israeli palestinian conflict on tuesday u s ambassador zalmay khalilzad told the security council that discussions has become futile he also said if these types of meetings do not contribute to that effort or worse if they feel the tensions that impede constructive engagement then we need to ask ourselves whether the public form out of deep to new york truly helped create the environment necessary to facilitate the pursuit of the two state solution the u n general assembly annually passes resolutions calling for the end to the israel occupation of the west bank and gaza and afghanistan a coalition of charities on the ground  saying a large part of the international aid is being wasted and exploited for donor gain in a new report the agency coordinated body for afghan relief known as ackbar says as much as forty percent of the aid to afghanistan has been sent back to the donor countries in the form of corporate profits in consultant salaries some foreign contractors in afghanistan make as much as half a million dollars per year the average consultants are is two hundred thousand two hundred times the annual to him take of the afghan civil servant report also f donor countries for failing to meet their pledge donations the bush administration has dispersed only half its ten point four billion commitment to afghanistan typical corporate rip off the pentagon has admitted he made it to mistakenly shipping nucular parts to taiwan on tuesday military officials said for fuses for new nuclear missiles were accidentally sent in the fall of two thousand and five air force marines might well z is air force secretary michael wine fifty two bomber loaded with five nuclear warheads across parts of the united states each of the five nuclear warheads was about ten times the destructive force of tom a bomb dropped on hiroshima josef syria and see on of the ploughshares fund says the latest incident shows warlike she also said the declaration of the colombian defense minister are absolutely aggressive absolutely warlike and not just in respect to ecuador but to the entire continent to say to affirm that they are going to continue to carry out these types of missions wherever that may be is nearly a declaration of war from them and lebanon has announced it's boycotting the upcoming arab league summit in syria information minister and egypt also expected to boycott the arab summit and then soil and president hugo chavez in the news again has weighed in on the u s presidential race on to see chavez said he fears mccain presidency could be more dangerous than president bush calling mccain he man up for venezuela president hugo chavez said mccain also seems to be a man of war he said yesterday that bush has been very tolerant with your vast metronet became his travel to iraq to offer more weapons and more dollars and more war chevys went on to say he hopes the conciliation between the u s and venezuela after president bush leaves office and back in the states the supreme court has ruled international court of justice has no jurisdiction over the u s judicial system and a six to three decision the court said neither president bush nor the world court can order texas to reopen a death penalty case in a foreign national in a dissenting opinion stephen justice stephen briars a decision contradicts the constitution which causes international treaties the supreme an environmental news scientists are blaming global warming for the collapse of a massive chunk of ice in antarctica british and arctic survey says the area is about seven times the size of manhattan it began breaking off late february after being there for perhaps fifteen hundred years scientists say the rest of the wilkins ice shelf is maintained only by narrow beams of thin ice and may collapse entirely and the new york times of your field cigarette company vector helped fund a widely publicized two thousand and six study that claimed more than three quarters of lung cancer deaths could be avoided through c t scans the well cornell medical college study was published in the new england journal of medicine researchers were supported by a charity called foundation for lung cancer itself almost entirely underwritten by more than three point six million and grassroots care factor own saline group which makes five different brands of cigarettes maybe you should just quit smoking that right time for the police blotter and the pictures in the blotter not from d's actual events but use for visual aid on grass valley police department on monday twelve fifty p m offices arrested a fifty two year old man in an intersection just a drive in mountain drive for burglary and book to mandan about a county jail three twenty seven p m officers cited in released a thirty six year old man at the intersection in st louis three for allegedly driving on a suspended license his vehicle was impounded for a period of thirty days for forty nine pms officers i didn't release a twenty seven year old man on the eight hundred six hundred block of keith hayes street for driving on a suspended license five twenty p m a woman called from two hundred block of chapel street reported a man from thirteen thousand block of ridge road reported his home was broken into friday but nothing was still three zero eight pm a caller from the one ten thousand block of bridge avenue reported finding a boy knife in some bushes call it didn't know who owns the kni last seen with on alexandria when lawrence way his picture with glasses little to see two thirty five a m man from thirteen thousand block piper hill drive reported that he was assaulted during a party at the residen e nevada city police department nine forty seven p m call from one hundred block of perseverance my court for the theft of the tenants dryer a report was taken that's it for the blotter today and now for our lovely weather report if you was friday's mostly cloudy throughout the weekend and maybe more showers tuesday highs in the high fifty's and lows in the high thirty's think positive spring is here and don't forget the trip gadfly documentary show and i live in baghdad a real look 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