scene race for district two and even with nevada county officials bending the state is slashing budgets big time but before these stories give you t v news would like to thank our underwriters keep the t v news broadcast monday through friday on and see t v channel eleven on comcast at three pm and seven thirty p m check guide for weekends we also have news seven days a week grass valle hundred fifty dollars for business cards and two hundred six dollars for plaques honoring citizens ripple in a normally placid discussion occurred when harris jones control for questioning whether the city should pay for council members to attend a dinner as a trying to use following last week's economic developments on the dinner is not a necessary expense for any of us and not a nickel of taxpayers money should be spent patrol in a pitted piece of the union last week from where i sit i believe it is fundamentally wrong too for taxpayers to buy social dinners for office holders harris said she was personally offended by controls opinion piece for contending that expense was illegal she also criticised for not raising his objection with council members before  contro responded that he did not state that having the city pick up the twenty nine dollars dinner expense was illegal just inappropriate i never said it was illegal he said i stand by every word i said some of the other council members of the dinner was beneficial to them too in attendance came from from the audience to address the council and support harris's position former mer paul mattson and downtown association head jim mccon business cards had been prepared in a house for harris for less money than what could cross spent using outside printer so the plots were not official city business councilwoman sheila stein help control pick up the blacks and it's done said she didn't understand why the expenses was not reimbursable after this article was posted on the union's website thursday controls in an e mail to the paper complaining about what he called a dog and pony show orchestrated straighted last night referring to the council meeting according to control he had sent a confidential email to miller about the two unpaid bills on nov eighth and began on january twenty second inquiring why neither had been paid but that miller never responded to either one patrol supplied copies of the e mails as well if there's a problem please let me know so i can help remedy it according to one of them dated november eighth two thousand and seven if there is no problem could you please see to it that the printer is paid according to control miller expressed total silence and then last night offered a number of lame belated reasons why he'd had paid for miller said thursday he had never received the emails he said he hadn't been so on speaking terms with control for a long time at the end of the meeting the city council agreed on one thing the city needs a policy that's more clearly spells out city reimbursements give you t v news would like to point out that you can get business cards on old grass valley man died after trying to drag a strange wife out of her home and shot himself just before the police arrived thursday to check on him to commotion reported by neighbors police said this could have been a lot worse grass valley police captain rex marx said thursday could be talking about potential homes so i will suicide i don't know if this was a plan or e if he even had a plan and several residents called nine one one shortly before midnight wednesday reporting sean palmer thirty nine years old and his thirty eight year old wife were having a fight in their home in the one hundred block of solid driving grass valley nevers told police that before they heard the gunfire palmer was trying to drag his protest the wife out of the house through the front door and route to the call we learned from additional callers that shots were fired marc said adding that only one shot had actually been fired prior to officers arriving at the scene palmer had taken his own life with one shot with a handgun to the head palmer's forty caliber semiautomatic handgun had been fully loaded mark's addy palmer's wife was not hurt but was taken to the hospital as a precaution the couple were married but separated the nature of the argument was a no on thursday police found the couple just inside the homes front introns fire personnel determined palmer was dead at the scene according to the police there was no indication the drugs or alcohol were a factor in the shooting police have no history of contact at the solo drive address before this incident this was an isolated incident he said unfortunately it rose to this level so and in another local story nevada county fair chief executive and schofield is retiring from his post in running for his supervisor seat being vacated by sue horne his retirement will be effective december two thousand and eight when laura duncan dropped out of the race and looked at the other candidate johnny i felt perhaps i had a more moderate view schofield told the union he called it a quick decision after reading about gen x candidacy in the paper last week fellow fair board member jeanette roy is helping with his campaign others who are running include businessman alan kilborne and joining a member of the rural county coalition schofield is a nevada county native and has been working in the public sector for more than thirty five years he is a former grass valley city council member and has served as a past president of the grass valley nevada county chamber of commerce and rotary international of grass valley  president of the western fair association and schofield has run the nevada county fair event for years and is well qualified to help run this county g o p t v news endorsers him in his run for this position and out of sacramento california lawmakers are expected to approve a package of emergency c spending cuts today that would freeze a half a billion dollars in funding for schools cut payments to doctors caring for the poor in vacuum upon hundreds of millions in unspent funds for projects for the rest of the year the package comes under the state's first fiscal emergency declaration which governor arnold schwarzenegger issued last month when he announced following state tax revenues have left california facing an estimated fourteen point five billion shortfall the fiscal emergency declaration required legislation to begin addressing the budget problem within forty five days rather than waiting until the new budget year that begins in july democrats and republicans on the assembly budget committee on thursday unanimously supported the proposed cuts their counterparts in the senate approved and identical plan a day earlier on a partisan vote however senate republicans said they intended to vote for it when it comes before the full senate were in exactly the same place said as simply speaker fabian nunez a democrat from los angeles on thursday predicting both houses and both parties would approve the package this is an issue of cash flow that's why we're doing this but the assembly and the senate have scheduled votes friday morning on the package it is an approved with bipartisan support as both democrats and republicans have predicted it would pass with the two thirds majority needed to take effect immediately it would also give governor arnold schwarzenegger the power he sought to freeze thousands of payments to schools and local governments over the summer if the state doesn't delay those payments until september so it's a negative budget director has said the state could face a cash shortage bipartisan support for the spending cuts also would allow the legislature to effectively leave s fiscal emergency declaration active allowing lawmakers to revisit the budget and make additional cuts on any given day if the state's fiscal picture deteriorates that may be necessary as soon as next week to states nonpartizan fiscal watchdog will issue a report wednesday expected to show california's economy has worsened since the governor's issued his deficit projection so it's a nigger said last month that governor the california faces a three point three billion deficit visit for the remainder of the current fiscal year which ends in june and on eleven point two billion dollars shortfall for the budget year that begins in july the combination gap between june two thousand to two through two thousand and nine is fourteen point five billion to close the gaps which in your has proposed a ten percent across the board cuts on the most state programs coves would mean slashing over four billion for education or hundreds of dollars in classroom spending for every california student cuts also would require releasing twenty two thousand state prison inmates before the end of their sentence in closing nearly one of five state parks the package the legislature is scheduled to vote on friday does not address those measures rather it begins to tackle the deficit by inducing billions in borrowing to cover the shortfall and making about one billion in other deficit reducing maneuvers the largest would freeze over five hundred million in payments intended for schools that the state has not yet made democrats who crafted the plan said it would not hurt districts because they wouldn't have to return money they already received this is asian in california school administrators and other education groups disputed that saying districts had already budgeted for the funds would have to make cuts to compensate the package also would reduce medical provider rates by ten percent for a series of five hundred forty four million although those cuts wouldn't begin until july in addition the package gives largely symbolic support for swartz a neighbor to borrow the remaining three point three billion in bond money that voters approved to cover shortfalls in two thousand and four and to reduce payments to cover other past  in all the legislature's budget negotiators estimated the package would leave the state with the remaining budget gap of less than eight billion to soft before july and that's it for our local news today you know where defiance the white house democrat house leaders are refusing to pass a new surveillance law before it expires on saturday the bill would make permanent an earlier major expanding government authority to eavesdrop on international telephone calls and e mail messages of u s citizens without warrants ho democrats say they want more time to resolve a congressional dispute over provisions granted immunity for telecommunications companies that helped the government spying the white house is pushing for approval of the senate version which includes the minute on thursday president bush said he would the lives of many americans depends on our ability to monitor terrorist a communications intelligence professionals are working day and night to keep us safe and they're waiting to see whether congress will give them to tools they need to succeed or tie their hands by failing to act the white house as failure to pass along will severely limit u s spying efforts at home democrats accuse the bush administration of fear mongering and tell a new law is passed the national security agency will have to obtain a court warrant if they want to spy and in other news from washington the house has overwhelmingly endorsed contempt citations you can see two white house aides for their refusal to testify in the u s attorney firings scandal white house chief of staff joshua bolten and former counsel harriet miers ignored a subpoena after president bush claimed because it could prove privilege protects them from testifying the two twenty three to thirty two vote mark the first ever contempt of congress citation to gives presidential aides before the vote was held all but three republican congress members walked out of the chamber in protest in illinois a gunman opened fire in a classroom at northern illinois university thursday killing six people and wounding fifteen others before turning the gun on himself one of the wounded just reported in critical condition the gunman was a former graduate student at the university it was the fifth school shooting in the united states in a week on the campaign trail sen barack hussein  obama has picked up an endorsement for the united food and commercial workers one of the nation's largest unions another labor giants of service employees international union is expected to follow suit taken together the two units represent three million workers meanwhile senator hillary clinton has been declared the winner of super tuesday is new mexico caucus results were held up for over a week to count provisional ballots the vote was so close clinton also will be obligated fourteen delegates with a bomb a taking the remaining twelve on republican side former hopeful mitt romney threw his weight behind front runner john mccain on thursday giving the arizona senator a new boost as he seeks to look up lock up the nomination mitt romney said even when the contests were close in our disagreements were debated the caliber of the man was apparent this is a man capable of leading our country out of difficult  senator mccain understands the war we are in the necessary necessity for victory and the consequence of surrender romney and mccain were bitter rivals until romney dropped out of the race last week again welcome his new endors said there were ours pacific issues that governor romney and i may disagree on we share a common philosophy a common goal a common set of principles that have guided our republican party less government lower taxes less regulation strong national security we have differences on specific issues but there is never any ever doubt about the common philosophy principles and dedication to the party of abraham lincoln theodore roosevelt and ronald reagan that we share the pentagon says it plans to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite before it falls into earth charon potential lethal gas thirsty general james cartwright said the military will try to hit the satellite before it reaches the atmosphere he also said once it hits the atmosphere it tumbles it breaks apart and it's very under predictable and next to impossible to engage so what we're trying to do here is to catch it just prior to its last minute so it's at its lowest possible outside the atmosphere so that the debris that comes down as quickly as possible the pentagon says it's not trying to protect classified information on a satellite nor showcase its military make a state visit next month the trip would mark the first ever visit to iraq by the iranian president's announcement came in iran said it's postponing the planned meeting with u s officials in iraq security issues in syria earlier last week on thursday mass rallies spoke of video link to a mass funeral in beirut and said today i will say one word about this crime at this place this time and man you zionist if you want to be at war with this kind after a large crowd held a separate rally in downtown beirut marking the third anniversary of the killing of the former prime minister in venezuela protests continued for a second day thursday against oil giant exxon mobil exxon one court rulings last week freezing events where the state oil companies foreign houses and bank accounts as part of an attempt to recoup an investment in a nationalized venezuelan exxon mobil who has very strong links to the far right of north america is one of the most powerful companies on the planet they are trying to damage us as a nation they are trying to turn our national company into an oil hostage they are trying to commit judicial terr venezuela says it's close to reaching an agreement with another oil giant conoco phillips which will was also involved in the oil project before it was nationalized and the bolivian government says it's accepted us explanations of an appearance by a tent by the embassy official assistant regional security officer vincent cooper route reportedly told a group of peace corps volunteers to spy on the cubans and events ones they came across and poli his instructions were disclosed after a fulbright scholar living in bolivia came forward bolivian president evo morales said that while he except u s assurances the incident was still have  from the moment that it's discovered that people are spying on the cubans on the vents wayland's and on bleedings their president and presidents who visit well because of one of us official i think that all north american citizens will be seen as intelligent agents who are spying and environmental news a new global study says human activities are changing every ocean across the globe this study was led by the national center of ecology analysis and synthesis and published in the journal science researchers found rising temperatures are having major effects on nearly two dozen marine ecosystems a study also found human effects are even reaching far off remote oceans underscoring the strong consequences of human activity way documents inside the bus were complaining of pain paramedics would respond to check on the occupants at two eleven pm a call from carriage lane reported the theft of the king's tickets and off the concept of the caller who was not allege from the store in a one hundred block a mill street reported two women and a man stole liquor in two separate incidents caught on tape police took reports ten thirty six p m police arrested a twenty year old man in south operates reading winchester st on a local warrant the man asked for police to drop him off his personal pay to a forty three year old man in a motel up the street police arrested the forty three year old man on a local warrant there is d twelve twenty three street reported a man was pounding on the front door and was attempting to get inside the house he went around the back and was trying to open the sliding glass door dispatch you could hear the man pounding on the door again police checked the area extensively and were  able to locate the man a hairy man to nevada county sheriff's office wednesday nine twenty seven a m a caller reported seeing a man dump brown liquid out of a fifty five gallon drum into sleep hollow creek steep pollo creek the man suspected of dumping was driving in a newer black chevrolet pickup with another man farmhouse was notified deputies took reports for the department of fish and game was in hunting located by the owner five twenty one p m a call from your in st reported a man who appeared to be very drunk back in his car into a tree next to a highway he started transporting the man to jail and  vehicle and that's it for the blotter today now for our lovely weather weather is going to be great for the next few days with lots of some science so enjoy it while you can