thank our underwriter christopher's case for party get togethers in the union story written by david morality smokers this way who were hit with a double whammy california sales tax increase by one penny on the dollar on wednesday and the federal government raised taxes on a pack of cigarettes by sixty two cents on tuesday they have become used to the tax hikes but that doesn't make it fair they say wednesday i just think we have a smoking problem but we've got an eating problem too said jennifer quinn of nevada city we're causing people problems with all of our bad habits quit blaming us i want to quit but i don't believe in selectively picking on people they shouldn't be picking on the lowest hanging fruit she says to me most of us money admits he works in a business that sells wares right many call but the owner of the cigarettes cheaper store on certain way is grass valley in grass valley also wondered whether an additional burden on smokers is a fair way to pay for a federal program to help children from the poor families get health insurance i guess i'm used to it now money said i'd like to see tax fast food bill matthew executive director of the embattled county economic resource council said the sales tax increase won't be helped in nevada county since all of the additional revenues will go to the state people will buy it in addition the hikes this week californians are likely to see an increase in vehicle license fees and personal income taxes the measures are part of a forty two billion dollars plan to close massive deficit some me twenty seven years old say he understands he's a prime target for tax increases but he and other smokers wondered whether the federal government is unfairly targeting some of the lowest wage earner earners to fund critical programs i worked pretty hard to come up with a business plan and i'm very grateful to have it ossama he says but if they want to give me another loan for another business that would be nice course so all of own stationhouse convenience store in grass valley said smokers have been paying the higher prices since march when suppliers realized there would be an increase in the floor tax to the store keep tobacco to keep tobacco products those higher prices were then passed on to the consumer in most cases at his store about twenty percent of his revenues come from cigarettes which he said have a profit margin of between fifteen and eighteen percent in addition to the taxes that have been have to be paid it's one of those commodities that no matter how much it costs people will buy it says this on the money i mean smoker sharing web cam to bill said she tries to reduce the effects of the cost of cigarettes by buying one pack at a time i think it's outrageous she says that cigarettes the cheaper store where the poorest people and they target why don't they target the rich in another story written by laura brown emergency responders are preparing for possible wrecks in western nevada county as culture and diverts big rigs and buses around the major construction project on interstate eighty eight on to dark narrow and winding stretches of highway twenty and forty nine nevada county consolidated fire district has contingency plans to deal with the mass casualty incidents trucks carrying hazardous materials and an increase in break buyers and big rig rollovers it's pretty much inevitable we're going to have big rigs crashing because of the sheer volume of the trucks on the roads it's not a route truckers are used to it's very windy the first day of the detour which started tuesday evening went without incident fire crews from the vatican from nevada county consolidated often are the first on the scene to respond the highway calls through a road on highway forty nine to bear valley on highway twenty in recent history big rigs rolled over on three previous occasions when traffic was rerouted from i eighty to highway twenty but fires are common occurrence on i eighty and predicted that they could become equally frequent along the three mile grade on highway twenty between harmony ridge and about a city a stretch that offers no place for drivers to pull over and brakes cool down if you've driven on highway twenty you probably noticed brake fires can quickly extent onto the cargo department of the truck as part of emergency preparedness is identifying the closest available helicopters and from the surrounding counties in the event of a collision involving numerous injuries helicopters can land at the white house cloud ranger station at bear valley on highway twenty if the patient needs to be airlifted to hospital trucks traveling uphill on the rule roadways could slow emergency vehicles response times to traffic accidents and encourage pressure to drivers a passion or eagles to pass unsafely there's just  not that many good passing places i know that for sure bike is coordinating with the county's transit department to use county buses to transport an injured passengers of tour buses if a crash occurs the bus load of people will include the detour from interstate eighty onto highways twenty and forty nine will be from seven p m to seven a m sunday night through friday morning through october large trucks buses and recreational vehicles are detoured between i eighty and the highway twenty interchange and at how a forty nine or bell road in auburn vehicle traffic is detoured from the secret town exit on i eighty and highway one seventy four so appreciate the warm reception from people who are involved in gauge and enthusiastic about making positive change in their community amy and david goodman look at who w the greatest power and image in america ordinary citizens who take a chance to stand up for what they believe in the goodmans hope that the examples they share in their talk and in their book standing up for madness will inspire ordinary people to become active in preserving their county's values as they explain in their introduction great change begins with small steps taken at home a computer was stolen from a vehicle and south church street parking lot two zero two pm caller from seven hundred block of freeman line reported someone collapsed at the bus stop an ambulance was called three thirteen pm caller from brunswick road reported the woman was learning her words who had alcohol on her breath and was driving a vehicle of the woman was found and she was a passenger in a vehicle for a way pm caller from two hundred block of dorsey drive reported someone was smoking marijuana and was not seating workers caller said it was federally funded building that does not recognise medical marijuana prescriptions for fourteen pm caller from two hundred block of south church street reported theft of mail and at seven ten pm a man from brighton street reported being assaulted by another man he said his face was swollen and he was going to the emergency room the suspect was cited and released on suspicion of battery eight sixteen p m caller from a business one hundred block of south church street party guest had been drinking all day and had been yelling out the door the person was advised to keep the noise down ten o dried as he had been drinking ten thirty four pm caller from two hundred block of l street reported hearing a fight that had been physical an officer located a couple and found everything was ok let him sixteen home she is separated slammed her leg in a door he called to report she was trespassing she wanted to file an assault charge ten forty nine a m call from thirteen thousand block of misty me lane reported a burglary and eleven seventeen a m a woman from the ten thousand block of kidney lane reported receiving fraudulent check as part of an e bay scam and their loving forty two am a caller from twenty thousand block of scot flat road reported identity theft using a credit card and at twelve o eight p m a caller from fourteen thousand block of lodestar place reported a missing two year old boy last seen ten to fifteen minutes earlier with a roll yorkshire terrier he was located six minutes later and was ok twelve eighteen pm a caller from twelve thousand block a black berry reported credit card fraud and at twelve twenty three pm a man from eighteen thousand block of message place reported an ongoing issue with his neighbor yelling and screaming obscenities at him he said he was also has pickles trespassing on his property the neighbor said he was upset that the man was raising llamas yamaha's depending on where you're from on the property the neighbor admitted drive reported someone vandalized the home car windows were broken g p s detectors and stereos were moved from three the calls for p m call from sixteen thousand block of any drive reported death registration sticker and a four forty p m caller from the eleven thousand block foot crossing road reported theft of a firearm sometime in the last three months and at five thirty seven p m it woman from seventeen thousand block of alexandria way reported her mother refused to return her social security card clothes baby bottles and baby toys the woman said her daughter charged more than three thousand dollars on a bank card without authorization and at five thirty nine it woman from the ten thousand block of stop avenue reported an argument with a tenant who was jumping up and down refusing to return or medicine the tenant returned the medicine seven twenty three p m the man from twelve thousand block of woodside lane reported his son broke items in the house and was drunk he left on a bicycle a twenty four p m an elderly man woman from swallow court called nine one one and wanted to know if nine one one was the correct number to dial an emergency she did not happen emergency and wednesday twelve eighteen a m a far worse reported twelve thousand block of brittany springs road seven seventeen a m a woman from eleven thousand block of orient way reported her stepfather grabbed and shook her it was mutual combat situation and neither wanted to press charges and the valley city police department on tuesday at nine nineteen p m the woman from the two hundred block of commercial street reported a man had been standing there to wonder staring at her when she walked two am he was trying to open a door when she asked what he wanted he left then returned and house for a exact pay caps seven hundred forty two thousand private sector jobs lost in march and auto says workplace safety programs failed to protect workers and justice department to drop stevens wrote the us on the banks was one man involved was a protest died after collapsing in the street meanwhile the sidelines of the summit president obama joined russian president depth and david david with everything else to announce a new round of talks on lowering nuclear arsenals president obama said i believe what we've begun today is a very constructive dialogue that will allow us to work on issues of mutual interest but a reduction of nuclear weapons in the streets in a bar nonproliferation treaties our mutual interest in dealing with terrorism and extremism and threatens both countries our mitchell interest in economic stability restoring growth around the world amid your interest in promoting peace and stabilizing stability in areas like the middle east obama is scheduled to visit moscow for a summit in july u s military the senate armed service committee general petraeus said there will be nothing easy about the way ahead in afghanistan or pakistan or in many other tasks in central command area much hard work lies before us but it's clear that  the objectives of these missions is vital and it is equally clear that these endeavors will require a sustained substantial commitment and unity of effort among all involved if o approves the request this fall the u s occupation of afghanistan would increase to some seventy thousand troops meanwhile the obama administration also said wednesday it's preparing to ask congress for three billion dollars you know with a b in military aid for pakistani government over the next five years in afghanistan at least thirteen people were killed and another fourteen wanted in an attack on a government office in kandahar it taliban spokesperson claimed responsibility for the attack meanwhile the leader of the taliban's pakistan wing is threatening to attack areas in the united states in response to american drone attacks that have killed hundreds of people that t made the threat as he took responsibility for an attack on a police academy in lahore meanwhile in this country a group of nevada peace activists have launched daily vigil to protest u s attacks  pakistan their group ground with drones is gathering daily outside creech air force base in indiana springs nevada because some people just don't know what you are in israel and occupied territories the minister avigdor door lieberman said and helpless the government of israel has never was has never ratified not the government of israel not the knesset the parliament of israel and now and that was never land saying those who wished for peace should prepare for war in occupied territories palestinian cabinet members so meir abdulla called on the obama administration to pressure israel to respect prior agreements and he also said we are awaiting difficult times in this government and we hope that the international community and all parties which invested in peace process and the united states that initiated the in the process and hosted it should deal with israel as it dealt with other countries which turned its back on  international legitimacy and to the will of the international community if you bomb administration has yet to respond publicly to lieberman's remarks in guatemala it television reporter has been killed in a camera operator seriously wounded in an apparent targeted shooting rolando santos of tel central thirteen was on his way to an interview on a group of assailants fired on his vehicle the unnamed camera operator is in critical condition and the private military company blackwater is being sued for allegedly killing three security guards working for state owned iraqi media the new lawsuit filed on behalf of surviving relatives say the guards were shot on february seventh two thousand and seven at a traffic circle in baghdad some twenty blackwater employees who witnessed the shooting allegedly refused to cooperate with iraqi police and destroyed key evidence the suit names blackwater which recently changed its name to z it's x along with several other companies controlled by blackwater founder erik prince and on capitol hill the house has approved a  cap executive payments at bailout firms to measure follows movement senate democrats to squash last month's much trumpeted house measure that would have imposed a ninety percent tax on bonuses the new house measure limits the scope of bonuses that can be considered excessive and gives a charity greater leeway in oversight i think it's something about the barn door closing after the countdown hour or so whenever economic news a new report says u s private sector lost more jobs last month and previously so not so great company d p employer services says private firms cut seven hundred forty two thousand jobs in march up from previous estimate of seven hundred six thousand and i new international on it has found government programs to improve worker safety has failed to do its job labor department investigators say the occupational safety and health administration failed to collect data carried out incomplete inspections and missed out on identifying hazardous work places because it misspelled companies names and didn't realize to subsidiaries had the same owner report also criticizes bush administration's move to restrict the number of companies subjected to special attention saying better oversight might have improved workplaces where fifty eight workers lost their lives and the bomb administration has announced it will drop all charges against former republican senator ted stevens of alaska stevens los it in november just days after being convicted of federal ethics charges but on wednesday justice department lawyers said there uncovered new evidence of prosecutorial misconduct called the case in the question turn