and i'm randy hanson and today's local headlines chamber of commerce honors do little council pushes county branding and truck easier college campus right on schedule and schools could cut hours for some staff and callahan gets a facelift but before these stories t v t v news like to thank congressman john doolittle republican from roseville was recently recognized by the us general commerce for his support programs for legislation turn one hundred tenth congress one of only eighteen house of representative members from california to receive the spirit of enterprise award do little was recognized for his backing of key business legislation to stimulate the economy keep taxes low for american families and make small business competitive in the global economy representative doolittle has proven to be in effect allied to business community supporting legislation that helps grow the economy and creates new jobs for hardworking americans said tom donahoe chamber president and c e o in these economic times government needs to help the business community drive our county do little said all too often the best role for government in the marketplace is no role at all and culture and creativity at the edge of nature that's one slogan being tossed around as part of the branding campaign for nevada county campaign is being led by the economic resource council as it seeks to create a more unified image of the county to outsiders business leaders will meet monday to kick off the effort bred in is a phrase that becomes recognizable for a product or area said gill mouth as you head of economic council since january if i say good you know it's campbell soup that's he said he borrowed the culture and creativity phrase from nevada city downtown association if it proves successful people who would know it's the place where culture and creativity exist mathew added is just is not cast in stone but matthew was the consensus on the phrase before the group starts marketing and other business group leaders agreed including of grass valley and about a county chamber of commerce the key is coming up with the right brand that is in dictates of what we are miller said there is so much diversity within a community as to how we look and how we will grow to move the county forward business groups in grass valley nevada city and throughout the county must join together to see what role will play and what jobs will do to avoid duplicat which exists farther out in economic counts as agenda will be a workshop on internet marketing matthews hopes the workshop will occur in mid made how do you drive people to your site and how do you measure it will be the top and the new sierra college campus on top of the macgyver hill in turkey is beginning to look like a center of higher learning members of the citizen review committee charged with the financial oversight of the construction of the new campus to decide on people twenty first was kali's district officials and the reaction was positive from all who attended as a construction season starts and excavation is allowed to begin on may first taco turkey residents will see the ground work begin on state highway eighty nine excavation and underground utility work will be necessary to tie water and natural gas service to the campus site work is set for completion in october and the building should be finished in december  two committee report classes are scheduled to begin a new campus in january of two thousand and nine and in and out of the local story board members of the nevada city school district will consider reducing the hours of five non teaching positions at a special meeting at five p m april twenty eighth of to school district administrative office on eight hundred hoover lane the reduction will save the district thirty thousand in two thousand and nine school year said business manager donna fifty event a city school district is having to cut a total of five hundred seventy thousand from the two thousand and eight two thousand and nine school year due to budget cuts proposed by the governor and imposed by decline and general enrollment the board has not considered reducing non teaching staff for at least four years fifteen said we have lost forty to fifty students each year but we haven't adjusted any non teaching positions unlike most school districts in this county nevada city school district didn't have to lay off teachers to cut costs because of four retirements school districts statewide are reducing the cost to prepare for the budget cuts proposed by the governor for two thousand and eight two thousand and nine school  projected state budget deficit of fourteen point five billion governor arnold of the nader arnold schwarzenegger has proposed cutting four billion state wide from education  dark brush ridden callen and park could soon see the light on monday members in nevada city downtown business association and citizens plan to show up at nine a m with wilbur all shovels clippers rakes and other tools to clean up the controversy a little park on broad street that corner since that's the first thing people see when they come in to nevada city said davis who owns the earth store at three ten broad street callen and park is a small heavily treed lot at the corner of broadway and union street it also is a popular place for see a lot of people think the park is a little dark forebodings said mcconaughey who owns country collectibles on broad street and the group asa placer move a large push at the corner of union and to donate brick and other materials for the sign after the clean up our goal is to treat and shrug trimming and open it up and make it more interesting to till i had the city has pledged to help with the cleanup and the public works department will provide two trucks to help dispose of the brush the downtown association is planning another cleanup effort during the week of may eleventh and eighteenth when people will power wash sidewalks historic downtown and that's it for local news today and israel and the occupied territories the un has been forced to suspend aid liveries to the gaza strip the united nations relief and works agency says it's run out of fuel because of israel's blockade the un delivers aid to two thirds of gaza one point four been no diesel supplied to gaza at all not one drop of diesel since ninth of april israel has intensified its stranglehold over the gaza strip since hamas took control lies to gaza resident abu mom ahmed appealed for international intervention he also said this is the world's responsibility of the civilized and free world this u n aid is the only source for this victim nation if they stop to aid you or me we will die the aid halts come as israel has rejected hamas offer for a six month truce in the gaza strip on thursday hamas foreign minister my mind saia said the deal could not also extend to the west bank and also said we declare that the movement agrees to a tru in the gaza strip in the framework of a national consensus such that at later extends to the west bank and is fixed at six months during which egypt will work to extend to choose to the west bank gypsy's officials helped broker the offer israeli government called it a ruse to allow hamas to recover from recent military losses israel has previously rejected similar meanwhile at the white house president bush hosted palestinian president mahmoud abbas thursday bush said he assured a boss he wanted to see the creation of a palestinian state president bush said i assured the president that is a high priority for me and my administration a viable state the state that doesn't look like swiss cheese a state that provides hope is in i believe it's in israel's interest and the palestinian people's interest to have leaders willing to work towards the achievement of that state to meeting came hours after the washington post reported the bush administration may have secretly authorized his rebels expansion to jewish only settlements on occupied palestinian land this week israel prime minister even omar said president bush had okayed settlement expansions even though his so called peace plan officially calls for a freeze ariel sharon his former chief of staff dove weiss class also said the secretary of state co secretly reaffirmed white house approval of the west bank settlement expansion in the spring of two thousand and five right before israel dismantled its settlements in the gaza strip thursday and state department united region is secretive yuri with  meanwhile an israeli official has leveled israelis harshest criticism to date of the former president jimmy carter and peace efforts in the middle east on thursday israel's u n ambassador dan giller said carter has turned into what i believe to be a big government comment followed carter's meeting with eve's exiled hamas leader khaled meshaal in syria earlier this week to to discuss a cease fire with israel and a long term peace deal carter was accused israel of undermining any hopes of viable peace through its expansion of settlements and ongoing occupation of the west bank and the gaza strip in iraq at least seven people are dead following overnight clashes between u information on the readiness of iraqi troops and a new report special inspector general for iraq reconstruction stuart bowen says the pentagon's figure of around five hundred thirty thousand iraqi forces his unreliable point says the pentagon may be iraqi soldiers who have been killed or wounded and who have deserted the iraqi army on capitol hill the bush administration has presented lawmakers with intelligence it says proves north korea and syria client colluding on a nuclear facility that israel bombed in september here at teligent official said the u s believes the site was near an operational capability but the washington post reports another senior official said u s intelligence had formal declaration only low confidence the site played a role in syrian nuclear program itself a photograph publicly released a syrian and north korean officials does not appear to come from the site in question republican congress member peter hoekstra criticized the white house briefing he said he trusting environment between administration and congress does not exist i think many people believe that we are used today by the administration not because they felt that they had to inform congress because it was a legal obligation to do that but because they had other agendas in mind like taking syria and iran remember it is the legal responsibility of the administration to keep congress fully and currently informed on the issues that in ministration is dealing with earlier this week new yorker correspondent seymour hersh reported that there is no evidence the site was involved in nuclear weapons or said israel did not know what you was targeting and it was many hoping to send a message to iran the pakistani government says it's close to reaching a truce with militants in the volatile region along the afghan border you know where osama bin laden is hiding pakistan would withdraw from south wizards don and exchange prisoners in return for the end of the militant activity the deal would come over heavily objections with the u s which has opposed pakistani negotiations with militant groups militant leader but tula masood has already ordered followers to hold on to activities over the start of the year here in the u s two major food chains don't panic this week when they announced they would ration rice sales at their supermarkets on thursday treasury secretary henry paulson downplayed worries of domestic food shortage treasury secretary henry paulson said in the us i don't see food shortages let's you think we have plenty of food in the us the present food has gone up but again that won't be as significant for an average american meanwhile the new york times is reporting a record number of american families faced with energy shut off because of the record on eating costs this year state officials say millions of americans be behind on a tin and gas bills could see their power cut off with next two months  items such as energy and food have skyrocketed it's done wages for lower income americans are stagnant states including new hampshire pennsylvania and new york as the record applications for heating aid rhode island is expected to shut off power to thirty thousand families topping a record set last year national energy assistance directors association says federal energy subsidies reaching the nearly six million homes this year in the highest in sixteen years the figure would have been higher if not for rules forcing states to reduce the number of eligible supplies and that is for those nice big oil companies in california governor arnold schwarzenegger has postponed a controversial plan to spray pesticides over several northern count spraying would come part of an effort to eradicate a light brown apple monster but opponents have rallied against the plan over concerns the pesticide threatened public safety and health they're spraying will be delayed nearly three months to allow for their testing and in media news the senate commerce committee has passed a resolution of disapproval on the f c c as attempt to undo limits and do them it on media ownership if approved by congress and the president  the campaign trail republican candidate john mccain has was in new orleans thursday you were he criticized the bush administration handling hurricane katrina speaking from the lower ninth ward mccain called the government's response terrible and disgraceful invalid never again again in fact first broadcast interview since his criticism of u s government policies became a major issue in the two thousand and eight democratic presidential race the reverend jeremiah wright has come under heavy criticism from political pundits for linking the attacks of september eleventh to u s foreign have who have heard the entire sermon understood the communication perfectly the failure to communicate is when something is taken like a sound bite for a political purpose and put constantly over and over again looped in the face of the public it's not a failure to communicate those who are doing that are communicating exactly what they want to do which is to paint me as some sort of fanatic or as a learned journalist from new york times called me a what to do it's a paint me as something something's wrong with me there's nothing wrong with this country or his policy we're perfect our hands are free our hands have no blood on them that's not a failure to communicate the message that is being communicated by the sound bites is exactly what those pushing those sound bites want to communicate bill moyers asked what do you think they want to communicate and reverend wright answered i think they want to communicate that i am unpatriotic that i am un american that i am filled with hate speech that i have a cold and eternity united church of christ and by the way guess who goes to this church bombing that's what they want to communicate they know nothing about the church they know nothing about our prison ministry they know nothing about our food ministry they know nothing about our senior citizens from the know nothing about all we try to do as a church and have tried to do is to continue to do as a church believe that martin marty said the two worlds have to be together and that takes gospel jesus christ has to speak to those worlds not only in terms of the priest message on sunday morning but in a turn to living lived out ministry throughout the week where i also ask what do you think when you begin to see those various brief sound bites circulating as they did written wright said i felt it was unfair i felt it was unjust i felt it was untrue i felt that the who were doing that were doing it for some is this you rest in booked him into jail