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US DEFEATS RUSSIA IN OLYMPIC SHOOTOUT, SPORTS B1 LEESBURG, FLORIDA Sunday, February 16, 2014 www.dailycommercial.com WEEK TO REMEMBER: Volunteers shower MIDEAST: All sides warn Syrian community with hope and love, A3 peace talks remain in doubt, A6 Hagel orders ‘moral courage’ in US military ROBERT BURNS of the problem. Associated Press Last month the Air WASHINGTON — Force revealed it was Defense Secretary investigating wide- Chuck Hagel wants spread cheating on military leaders to in- proficiency tests ject more urgency among nuclear mis- into ensuring “mor- sile launch officers al character and mor- in Montana, and nu- al courage” in a force merous senior offi- suffering a rash of cers in all branches of ethical lapses. the armed forces have Hagel has been been caught in em- worried by a string of barrassing episodes of scandals that has pro- personal misbehav- duced a wave of un- ior, inside and out- BRETT LE BLANC / DAILY COMMERCIAL side the nuclear force. A truck passes the penny sales tax sign on Lakeshore Drive in Mount Dora on Wednesday. welcome publicity for the military. But The Air Force also is in light of new dis- pursuing a drug use closures this week, investigation, and a including the an- massive bribery case Penny sales tax becoming in California has en- nouncement of al- leged cheating among snared six Navy offi- senior sailors in the cers so far. nuclear Navy, Hagel At the same time, contentious issue for Lake hundreds of soldiers on Wednesday de- LIVI STANFORD | Staff Writer manded a fuller ac- and others are under [email protected] PENNY SALES TAX BREAKDOWN counting of the depth SEE HAGEL | A2 The penny sales tax is split evenly between the cities, county and school district, ver the last 10 years, many with each receiving a third. In 2013-14, each received $11.6 million, with the cities projects have come to fru- having to split that $11.6 million between the 14 municipalities. O ition in Lake County, from CITIES Court rulings hammer the construction of the new n Construction, renovation and Emergency Operations and COUNTY remodeling of facilities n Communications Center, to the n Roads and transportation Public safety facilities n Public safety facilities and and equipment gay-marriage foes manufacturer of the new Cl- equipment n Roads and transportation n Utilities, drainage ermont Community Center, to n Construction, RACHEL ZOLL remodelin g of improvements Associated Press the rebuilding and moderniza- facilities Examples: CDBG tion of Tavares High School. n Parks and sewer forcemain project on Highway Shows how far a penny will recreation JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Opponents of n Other 50 in Mascotte. same-sex marriage are scrambling to find ef- go. infrastructure These projects are all exam- Examples: Judicial fective responses, in Congress and state legisla- center expansion, SCHOOL tures, to a rash of court rulings that would force ples of how revenue from the fleet operations center, EOC DISTRICT some of America’s most conservative states to one-cent sales tax for infra- n historic courthouse Construction, accept gay nuptials. structure is spent. It added up renovation, and renovation and sheriff’s vehicles. remodeling of facilities Some gay-marriage foes are backing a bill re- to a total of $34.8 million in to- Examples: Eustis Heights tal revenue last year that was di- Elementary and Umatilla cently introduced in both chambers of Con- vided between the cities, school Middle remodeling. gress that would leave states fully in charge of their marriage policies, though the measure SEE PENNY | A2 SOURCE: Sales Surtax Oversight Advisory Committee WHITNEY WILLARD / STAFF GRAPHIC SEE FOES | A2 UAW drive falls short amid culture clash in Tennessee TOM KRISHER Workers voting against happened to us.” Associated Press the union said while they Jarvis, who hangs doors, CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. remain open to the cre- trunk lids and hoods on — The failure of the Unit- ation of a German-style cars said workers also were ed Auto Workers to union- “works council” at the worried about the union’s ize employees at the plant, they were unwill- historical impact on De- Volkswagen plant in Ten- ing to risk the future of the troit automakers and the nessee underscores a cul- Volkswagen factory that many plants that have tural disconnect between opened to great fanfare on been closed in the North, a labor-friendly German the site of a former Army he said. company and anti-union ammunition plant in 2011. “Look at every compa- sentiment in the South. “Come on, this is Chat- ny that’s went bankrupt The multiyear effort to tanooga, Tennessee,” said or shut down or had an is- sue,” he said. “What is the organize Volkswagen’s worker Mike Jarvis, who DAN HENRY / AP only U.S. plant was defeat- was among the group in one common denominator with all those companies? Retired circuit judge Sam Payne, left, announces that Volkswagen employees ed on a 712-626 vote Fri- the plant that organized voted to deny representation by the United Auto Workers union as Frank Fischer, day night amid heavy cam- to fight the UAW. “It’s the UAW. We don’t need it.” Chairman and CEO of the Volkswagen Group of America, center, and Gary paigning on both sides. greatest thing that’s ever SEE UNION | A2 Casteel, UAW Region 8 Director look on, Friday in Chattanooga, Tenn. INDEX DIVERSIONS E5 OBITUARIES A4 Vol. 138 LEGALS C5 SPORTS B1 TODAY’S WEATHER CLASSIFIED C5 No. 46 $1 MONEY D1 VOICES C1 Detailed forecast 69˚/45˚ COMICS INSIDE 5 sections CROSSWORDS C3 NATION A5 WORLD A6 on page A8. Plenty of sunshine all day Call Our Experienced Physicians For Family Medicine Podiatric/Foot Careand Chiropractic Treatment 357-8615 ~ www.lakehealthcarecenter.com 910 Mt. Homer Rd. ~ Eustis Paul Austin, MD Victor M. Torres, DPM Randy Glisson, D.C. John Heiligenthal, D.C. 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Workers were of bills — some intended the plant, which rep- Afternoon ..........................................2-1-4 to protect gay-marriage Gov. Jay Nixon after he or- suspicious that Volk- swagen and the union resents both blue col- PLAY 4 .............................................6-1-9-4 bans, others to assert a dered his administration lar and salaried work- right, based on religious to accept joint tax returns might have already Afternoon .......................................3-1-1-1 reached “cost contain- ers. But to do so under freedom, to have nothing from same-sex couples U.S. law requires the es- FEB. 14 who were legally married ment” agreements that to do with gay marriag- tablishment of an inde- FANTASY 5 ......................... 10-20-29-33-34 in other states. The Re- could have led to a cut es should those bans be pendent union. Several MEGA MONEY ........................ 2-20-28-37-3 publican House leader has in their hourly pay rate struck down. to that made by en- workers who cast votes yet to schedule the mat- MEGA MILLIONS .............. 20-28-35-71-72-7 In Utah, Oklahoma, try-level employees against the union said ter for public hearings, but Kentucky and Virginia, with the Detroit Three they still support the idea some GOP sponsors insist federal judges have void- automakers, he said. of a works council — they they are serious. just don’t want to have to ed part or all of the bans The concern, he said, THE NEWSPAPER OF CHOICE FOR LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES SINCE 1875 “The people put it in on same-sex marriage was that the UAW “was work through the UAW. 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