on randy hansen and in today's local knows a stalled budget bill in sacramento i was kept schools in nevada county and around california in limbo about how much money they'll receive from the state in the new school year which starts this week in the meantime schools continue to operate with money they receive every month based on last year's budget local administrator said the law requires us to adopt a budget by june thirtieth and we have done that based on the most reliable information we had at the time said karen cinerama assistant superintendent for business with the nevada joint union high school district the state allows the schools to continue to collect the state money and event of a budget delay the administrator said we are operating under that budget at this time soon i'm added for cashflow purposes we still receive under the education code a regular appointment based on last year's allocation so we don't see too much of an impact although it would be nice to know exactly how much money we are going to get for this year the high school district has budgeted conservative and would probably make up for any possible budget cuts soon ram added observing recent legislative activities we don't expect any significant cuts to education due to the budgets delay however local schools will not get payments from the state for categorical and restricted money such as transportation said to rina many many associate to superintendent for business at the nevada county superintendent of schools office the delayed budget is not affecting sarah college in terms of its program and services said we'll al be dean of the college grass valley campus most of our portion funding comes from property taxes that are transferred to sierra college in may and december of each year so we have little cash being transferred to the college from the state each month the college board of trustees also has a very healthy reserve which will enable us to get through the budget crisis in sacramento albi added community colleges that don't have a secure reserve like sarah college however will be impacted and may have to borrow money to meet their operating and payroll and spence's fourteen oh sorry about that next story fourteen republican senators have refused to cast their votes on the budget though democrats hold a majority in the legislature two of the fifteen republican senators must vote with the democrats on the budget for it to pass only one republican senator has broken party ranks so far senator sam an instead republican to grasp is one of the fourteen senators still holding out the senator hasn't voted for the proposal proposed budget because it's simply unbalanced said paul de niro chief of staff for and it spends seven hundred million dollars more than in revenue as we will have if this budget is accepted will have an operating budget of six billion deficit so what we have now is a structural deficit problem where we are spending more than we take in revenues if we were a family the state of california would be bankrupt and instead is very concerned about the state's inability to pay its bills while the budget delay goes on giro added not withstanding the potential problems of not having a budget the senator believes it it is more important for the state to get its fiscal home in order and to start address the fiscal issues of next year which is reduce spending by six billion the budget before the senate does not do that and out of the fair of this we can do a large crowd gathered saturday night around a vast fast moving vortex ride in nevada county fairgrounds when the ride clipped a carnival worker in the head then transported to the hospital by helicopter the vortex spinning at about fifteen mph smacked worker gerardo raise above the left eye and knocked him unconscious for about two minutes for official said as with many head vatican county sheriff sergeant rich ray's was flown to sutter roseville medical center raises doing fine you said and he was due to be released from the hospital today they gave him some stitches and kept him observation he's very lucky raised thirty a carnival worker for four years had just turned on the ride when he bent down to pick up a plastic cover that had fallen off one of the rides lights parent lit the carriages moving lower raise had estimated i don't know what he was thinking more your say carnival workers are trained to avoid dangerous situations and actions such as raise are rare on the fair circuit raise has probably learned his lesson he said no disciplinary action will be taken and workman's compensation will pay for ray's treatment the carnival group will not leave without raise more said and his coworkers are hoping for a speedy recovery and on thursday night aug sixteenth at eight p m that cons of conservationists and rehabilitator patricia winters will return to lake tahoe to present her program on when flyers are the night at the lake of the sky amphitheater this is a free program are you afraid of bats you think bats are scary or not sure about the many myths relating to bats then come to the special program and the that will explore the mists and the realities of the bats discover why bats don't get headaches from hanging upside down and why you don't have to worry about bats getting tangled in your hair learn that one bad can eat six hundred insects or more an hour only about one in one thousand bats will contact ribs it's about the same as other wildlife that's are the only significant hunter of night flying insect pests learn why back populations are  declining and what you can do to help the program will include an audio visual presentation and feature live bands of several species for viewing and discussion this superstitions and misconceptions about these highly beneficial mammals will be us will be replaced with factual information about the ecological importance of bats patricia winters has been giving talks on bats for many years and educated thousands on the ecological importance of bats together with a travel travelling rehabilitation bats that can't be released back into the wild patricia will change your mind forever regarding these marvelous creatures of the evening skies this program is sponsored by the four services lake tahoe basin management unit and heritage foundation the foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the environmental education programs conducted by the forest service in the  for more information on this program and other programs offered by the forest service contact visitor center at taylor creek at five three zero five four three two six seven four that's five four three two six seven four that right it's time for the police blotter in the pictures in the blotter not from the actual events but use for visual aid only grass valley police department saturday at nine thirty one a m call from the night way at highway forty nine reported a possible downed police arrested the fifty three year old man on suspicion of public drunkenness at eight o eight p m police stopped a vehicle on north school street and richardson street and arrested a forty seven year old man on suspicion of drunken driving and at nine thirty four pm a caller from south church street reported the bearded man was driving an electric chair in the southbound lane of the street at eleven twenty eight p m police stopped a grey ford focus on east main st and i rested a sixty five year old man on suspicion of drunken driving and sunday at twelve twenty six a m call from the school on the three hundred block of south school street reported hearing glass break in about four juveniles run towards town police determine a window at the school had been broken and they were took a port for vandalism and at one fourteen a m a man called from the rica street and main street report a woman in her twenty's who had asked him to call police and asked them to pick her up police contacted twenty six year old woman who had been drinking and was not from the area she had been in a fight with her boyfriend and wanted to to go jail because she had nowhere else to go police gave the woman  ride to the police station and she stayed in the lobby at two o three a m police contacted people fighting in front of a bar on neal street can you believe that police arrested a twenty three year old all callers were referred to the california department of fish and game at six o five p m then called from the love you block of newtown road to reports a neighbor's dog came into his property again on a restraining order the man trapped one dog in a seven twenty eight p m a caller from the ten thousand block of pleasant valley road reported a drug deal just took place a person in a red honda accord handed a bag containing a white powdery substance to a person in a blue dodge van deputies arrested a on suspicion of assault and on sunday at nine eleven a m a caller from ten thousand block of west drive reported a farmstand was burglarized friday night a deputy took a report from burglary of city police department on saturday at nine fifteen pm man called from two hundred block of commercial street to report several men were walking in camping on a rooftop and officer spotted but made no arrests and now it's time for the police the fire of the water and a more serious note to grass valley fire department responded to sixty six calls for service between august first  including days responded to as part of a joint operational relationship with the nevada county consolidated fire district and the nevada city fire department the following is a sample of those calls and we're sure glad we have you guys around extinguished the fire before it could gain momentum it wayward skirl was determined to be the cause at ten o three p m august second d responded to an emergency medical service call for an laceration on freeman lane as seen emergency personnel found the patient with a large cut to the arm and significant blood loss the patient was immediately treated with oxygen and pressure bandages to control bleeding f d responded to a hazardous condition involving possible smell of gas inside an apartment on south auburn street at scene firefighters meant the occupants were led to the department where there was an odor of an electrical fire the fire was found to be a faulty electric water heater for personal secured appliance and ensured overheating had not extended beyond the appliance that's it for our bloggers today and now for around the world news president bush's top adviser karl rove has an he will step down as white house deputy chief of staff on august thirty first rove's resignation comes while he is at the center of several congressional investigations last month senate judiciary chairman patrick leahy subpoenaed rove to congressional hearing on the alleged improper use of white house aides of republican national committee e mail accounts rove told the wall street journal that he is resigning in order to spend more time with his family for the past nineteen years old worked as george w bush's closest political advisor first in texas and then and watched during the time he earned a nickname bush's brain iraq's most senior sunni politician has accused shiite militia waging an unprecedented campaign of genocide against iraq's sunni population adnan al do law my limey said sure i swear on the brink of total control in baghdad he wrote an email to the associated press it is a war that has started in baghdad and will not be stopped there but will expand to all arab lands he kills to iran's iran of directing our arming and supporting the militia the seventy five year old al de la me heads the iraqi accord malaki cabinet is not allowed to participate in its meetings on sunday al malaki called for an emergency summit to end the political deadlock nouri malaki said we must search for solutions to these political problems that we are suffering from i have to call the main political leaders in the country for reading to discuss the main issues in the political process the first meeting may happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow with parties to look first at all the political process and strategic problems that face the government and the rebuilding of the country we will then go on to look at the question relating to implementation of what we agreed for the government's agenda this officials have described the meeting as a make or break moment for the iraqi government then another story meanwhile in the u s military is claiming that it has arrested thirteen armed smugglers in baghdad allegedly linked to iran in a statement to military said it carried out a raid and solders city to capture or kill weapon facilitators with connections to the iranian revolutionary guard corps force in iran last week mcclatchy is newspaper report ported vice president dick cheney has urged president bush to direct come from iran by l airstrikes at suspected iranian training camps inside iraq local residents and solders said he described the u s raid said they tied our hands and made a stand against a wall and gave each of us a number written on our show was and after that they entered the house and searched it thoroughly they took away with them one million iraqi dinars seven hundred fifty five thousand then you're ours and they arrested three of our sons one of my nephews whose father is dead and my brother and his son meanwhile residents of the southern iraqi city of the one in say they fear and all out war among rival shiite factions after the local governor and the police chief or assassinated to two fishes died on saturday with a powerful roadside bomb hit the three of their bodyguards were also killed many residents say they believe the men were assassinated by fellow shiites reports the shiite dominated south has become increasingly restless as factions vying for control of the oil rich region often pitting police draft general douglas lute says i think it makes sense to certainly consider it and i can tell you this has always been an option on the table but ultimately this is a policy matter between meeting the demands of the nation's security by one means or another  t general lute made the comments in an interview with the national public radio president bush picked lute in mid may as a deputy national security advisor was responsibilities for ensuring efforts in iraq and afghanistan are coordinated with policymakers in washington and in political news former massachusetts governor mitt romney won presidential straw poll among republican voters in iowa this weekend only about fourteen thousand voters took part the turnout was fifty percent lower than eight years ago romney won with about thirty one percent of the vote former arkansas governor mike huckabee placed second was eighteen percent former wisconsin governor tommy thompson announced he would drop out of the present  after placing sixth former new york mayor rudolph giuliani and senator john mccain did not take part in the straw poll and in somalia two prominent radio journalists were assassinated within hours of each other on saturday and mogadishu both journalists were leading figures in a radio station born afric and one also a freelance correspondent for the mcclatchy newspapers mohamed el me was had just returned from elmis funeral colleagues said they were assassinated in retaliation for broadcast criticism goal of somalia's pro u s interim government the somali government has reportedly cracked down on independent media outlets that air critical reports in june authorities briefly forced the closure of one africa and two other radio stations that it kills of supporting terrorism one friday on friday police stormed  the radio station and held several journalists for hours and a us based women's rights group is accusing the filipino government of preventing three of its members from returning home to los angeles the woman from the network traveled to the philippines last month to attend the women's international sort of affair the chair of the organization and was blocked from traveling home on august fifth and told she was victims in bangladesh when it towns remain cut off by flooding and president bush is on a pace to break the new presidential record for taking vacations c b s news is reporting bush has spent all or part of four hundred  eighteen days of his presidency at his estate in crawford texas his heading there today for a two week vacation the presidential vacation time record holder is late ronald reagan who tallied four hundred thirty six days in his two terms with seventeen months to go in his presidency bush is expected to be daddy's president bush spent this past weekend and can bunk port maine at the bush family compound on saturday he met with new elected french president nicolas sarkozy when a reporter asked president bush if he could say something in french bush replied no i can't i can barely speak english and in news from latin the story of the neoliberal globalization was a private was to privatized because that would bring big investments that is a lie now we have to bring investments technology and we are going to look at the gas that lives inside the bolivian home the chip cargo council of global affairs has cancelled an upcoming speech by two prominent critics of the pro israeli lobby and washington john mayer shimer and stephen walt were scheduled to speak on september twenty seventh to discuss their upcoming book the israeli lobby in the us foreign policy the wall street journal reports the president of the chicago council marshall button canceled the event under pressure from critics who were uncomfortable with the academics argument and not a sad note los angeles merv griffin who never stopped working not even tell the and when he entered a hospital months ago he was working on his first week production of a newly syndicated game show called merv griffin's crosswords my father was a visionary his son tony griffin said in a statement sunday after a two year old's death from prostate cancer he loved business and continued his many projects and holding jeevan while hospitalized for over half a century merv griffin entertained america said president bush in a statement he was a man of innovation and energy who greeted challenges with laughter and determination we shared he and his wife laura were saddened by his death