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| An outrage is afoot in Nevada County. Rick Haffey, County Executive Officer, is attempting to turn the running of our public libraries over to a private, for profit, corporation out of Maryland. Not only will this affect our librarians, if they are... more... |
| Nevada County is buzzing with the news that privatization may be on the horizon for our wonderful county library system. I am stunned that you would even consider such an irrational move. We have a wonderful system in the county and to tinker or change... | |
| A recent article about the Board of Supervisors requesting proposals for our six community libraries to be run by private, for-profit companies concerns me greatly. | |
| I started volunteering at the Madelyn Helling Library over a year ago. On a summer day with the library packed with people and overflowing carts of books to be re-shelved, I thought it looked like help was needed. I was gladly welcomed and given lots to... | |
| I can't imagine how hard it is, each day, to clean up the animal carnage on our roadways. A recent count between Nevada City and Auburn, were six deer, one fox and numerous skunks. This job, done by Caltrans maintenance, animal control and public... | |
| As a volunteer at the Madelyn Helling Library in Nevada County for the past four and a half years, I am very concerned with possible outsourcing of our county libraries. | |
| Just recently, after seven years of devoting her heart and soul to a job supplied by one of the big corporate title company giants, my wife was dumped. Not because of ineptitude, lack of skills, or dishonesty but because she was a non-income producing... | |
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Here is a list of what we, the people, need to do to turn the mess in Washington, D.C., around: Perhaps these measures would slow down the current mess that our lawmakers have created. |
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| Thanks to Jeff Ackerman for his well-written column regarding health care. Our family's circumstances could very well be another of the cases that you described so well. | |
| Jeff Ackerman's column on health care insurance (Nov. 10) was well written as usual, except for one “thing” — which is the amount of money health insurance companies and pharma- ceutical companies are spending lobbying against the... | |
| A new peer-reviewed academic study in the nation's leading public health journal suggests that nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with a lack of health insurance. One American dies every 12 minutes from lack of health care insurance,... | |
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To the Nevada County Board of Supervisors and to Supervisor John Spencer: I am writing to urge you to oppose the privatization of our Nevada County Library system. |
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| Privatization of the county libraries seizes on the historical, educational and cultural values of the broad range of people the libraries serve. All aspects of the effect of this pending decision must be investigated and be fully disclosed to the... | |
| Grass Valley's City Council took a big step backwards recently. The submission of carefully crafted housing ordinance by Chauncy Poston and Jan Arbuckle was mugged in full public view by the local building industry and their toadies. | |
| When you see the price of gas as $3.19 9/10, do you think the price is $3.19 or $3.20? | |
| I am writing this letter in response to the fallacious comments made by Susan DeHaan in Tuesday, Oct. 27's letter. | |
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