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MagicValley.com Geologists plan LUCKY FLIP geothermal test In tie-breaker, Christopherson sites in M.V. wins coin toss, will be Stimulus to also pay for HOW FUNDS Blaine Co. school retrofits AWARDED next Wendell mayor By Nate Poppino FROM U.S. Times-News writer RECOVERY By Blair Koch Times-News correspondent Federal stimulus money, it ACT WILL appears, will soon literally be put WENDELL — Since Tuesday’s down a hole. BE USED inconclusive election results were But researchers say two particular Utah St. Univ. announced, Wendell’s residents holes, near Kimberly and the wondered who their next mayor Kimama area in Lincoln County,will $4.6 MILLION will be. help them test ways to evaluate Drill two mile-deep A tumbling Congressional geothermal reservoirs under vol- boreholes near coin slightly larger than a canic plains and learn more about Kimberly and the half-dollar piece provided the the Snake River Plain in the process. Kimama area to eval- answer Thursday: Brad Geologists led by Utah State uate geothermal Christopherson. University plan to spend $4.6 mil- reservoirs under vol- After both incumbent Mayor lion over two years to drill the mile- canic plains. Rick Cowen and Christopherson deep boreholes and then study the received 215 votes in Tuesday’s core samples and other data pro- election,the mayoral hopefuls met duced. The work will advance geot- Blaine Co. at the beginning of Thursday’s City hermal research, provide valuable School Dist. Council meeting to learn their fates. student opportunities and benefit Christopherson, seated with the the economy in the process, said $4 MILLION audience, smiled and shook nervously John Shervais, professor and head of Retrofit schools in while Cowen sat in the mayor’s seat Utah State’s Department of Hailey, Carey and with the council, looking stoic and Geology. Bellevue with geot- tense. “We know it’s going to be hot, but hermal systems. Heads it’s Cowen; tails it’s nobody’s ever drilled that deep in Christopherson. flicked her these areas,”Shervais said Thursday. City Clerk Mickey Walker explained wrist and the The award is part of $338 million Boise St. Univ. the rules and asked if the contenders coin flickered from the American Recovery and $1.55 MILLION wanted a closer look at the coin. slightly in the fluores- Reinvestment Act that will be used Christopherson left his seat and made cent overhead lights while turn- coin as he bit for exploration and development of Digitize and upload his way to the front of the room. ing end over end, descending to the his lower lip. He’ll remain on the geologic data into the Cowen remained seated, saying, floor. council until Christopherson is seated See GEOTHERMAL, Main 2 national data system. “Toss it and tell us what it says.” Someone announced “Tails!” and in January. He peered over the council podium the room erupted into applause. while the room became silent. Walker Cowen’s gaze remained fixed on the See COIN TOSS, Main 2 Brad Christopherson, sec- Holdbacks hammer ond from left, takes a seat in “People have spoken up the crowd after the coin toss … and they’ve always that he won Thursday state’s natural evening to determine had an interest in what Wendell’s next mayor. After Tuesday’s election ended in goes on in City Hall. resource agencies a tie between Christoph- erson and incumbent Mayor Now it’s just my turn to IDWR to prune programs; WHAT’S Rick Cowen, the candidates BEEN LOST met for a coin toss at represent them.” DEQ reduces monitoring City Hall to determine the — Wendell Mayor-elect By Nate Poppino Dept. of Water town’s new leader. Times-News writer MEAGAN THOMPSON/Times-News Brad Christopherson Resources Idaho has always been noted for its 16 jobs lost in last natural resources. month; 11 vacant But as state budgets sag, the agen- positions frozen Animal control question still on city’s plate cies tasked with managing and pre- serving those resources have been By Ben Botkin council members are being gathered includes sands of dollars by out- among the hardest hit by the latest Dept. of Times-News writer exploring whether hiring a numbers of calls with cita- sourcing that to someone,” round of general-fund holdbacks, private company is a cheap- tions, the types of calls, and Heider said. “We could get announced in September by Gov. Environmental The long-term future of er route. what time of day animal that down for a whole lot C.L. “Butch” Otter. animal control in Twin Falls The Twin Falls City control calls are most less than what everybody A new round of layoffs reported Quality — and who will do it — Council last week, with a frequent, said Travis else is thinking.” this week, combined with past cuts, 10 jobs lost in last remains an unresolved 4-3 vote, rejected the coun- Rothweiler, assistant city There’s also the argument seem certain to hamper the state’s month; 25 vacant question. ty contract, questioning its manager. that having sworn county oversight of water issues, resource positions frozen City staff is preparing cost. Councilman Lee Heider officers is beneficial preservation and other environmen- more information to justify For now, the Twin Falls said he thinks the city could because they can write cita- tal duties. Agencies charged with a proposed $114,000 annual County Sheriff’s Office has save money with a private tions. Heider said he would such work were all ordered to slice 7.5 Dept. of contract with Twin Falls agreed to continue provid- company that provided its need to see more informa- percent from their current appropri- County before making ing animal control services own vehicles, uniforms and tion and numbers before ations; only the Department of Fish Lands another presentation to the in the city until a final deci- insurance. weighing that argument. and Game, which relies on fees and 4 full-time, 2 tempo- council, which could come sion is made. “I think the city literally rary jobs lost in last this month.Meanwhile,two Additional information could save tens of thou- See CONTROL, Main 2 See AGENCIES, Main 2 month Army: 12 dead, 31 hurt in attack at Fort Hood Facing deployment,mental health doctor opens fire,captured ARK. N.M. By April Castro and Devlin Barrett stable condition under mili- ing undergo medical screen- Dallas Associated Press writers tary guard, said Lt. Gen. Bob ing, “a horrific outburst of LA. Cone at Fort Hood. “I would violence.’’ TEXAS FORT HOOD, Texas — An say his death is not immi- “It’s difficult enough Multiple Army psychiatrist set to be nent,’’ Cone said. Col. Ben when we lose these brave MEXICO shootings shipped overseas opened fire Danner said the suspect was Americans in battles over- at Fort at the Fort Hood Army post shot four times and was in seas,’’ the commander in Hood Army base Thursday, authorities said, a critical condition. chief said. “It is horrifying rampage that killed 12 people The man was identified as that they should come under 36 and left 31 wounded in the Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a fire at an Army base on Fort Hood worst mass shooting ever at 39-year-old from Virginia. American soil.’’ Army base AP photo 116 a military base in the United President Obama called There was no official word Sgt. Anthony Sills, right, comforts his wife as they wait outside the 317 States. the shooting at the Soldier on motive. Hasan had trans- 0 7 mi Killeen 190 The gunman, first said to Readiness Center, where ferred to Fort Hood in July Fort Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas, on Thursday. The Sills’ 0 7 km 35 have been killed, was soldiers who are about to be 3-year-old son was still in day care on the base, which was in lock- SOURCE: ESRI AP wounded but alive and in deployed or who are return- See FORT HOOD, Main 4 down into the evening following a mass shooting earlier in the day.
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Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT MORE INSIDE library, 1300 Miller Ave., 878-7708. Pat Marcantonio Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary public Friends of the Jerome Public Library semi- dance, 8 p.m., DAV Hall, 459 Shoup Ave., For detailed coverage of today’s annual used book sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., • The Friends of the Hansen. There’s a $2 cover. Twin Falls, $2 donation, 734-5208. Library Community Room, most books Jerome Public Library • Or for a country beat, arts and entertainment all $2.50 or less, home-baked goods also avail- used-book sale runs from Diamond Rio performs at 8 BENEFITS AND FUNDRAISERS around south-central Idaho, able, all proceeds to projects for Jerome 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and and 10 tonight and Library, 100 First Ave., 324-1403. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Saturday at the Gala Magic Valley Christian School’s 14th annual check out our events calendar Family Storytime, 10 a.m., Jerome Public in the Library Community Showroom at Cactus Petes Benefit auction, includes appetizers at Library, 208-324-5427. Room. Most books are Resort Casino, 1385 U.S. 5 p.m., item showing at 5:30 p.m., and com- in the Entertainment section. Burley Public Library Storytime, with stories, $2.50 or less. Home-baked Highway 93, Jackpot, Nev. plimentary dinner at 6:30 p.m. with live rhyme, song and a small craft for toddlers, goods are also available. Tickets, which include two auction to follow, St. Jerome’s Perish Hall, a.m., Blaine County Senior Connection, 721 preschoolers and their caregiver, 10:30 a.m., Excuse me while I run over drinks, start at $30. 216 Second Ave. E., Jerome, 324-4200 or S. Third Ave., Hailey, no cost, 737-5988. Burley Public Library, 1300 Miller Ave., no there. www.mvchristian.net. Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, 10:30 a.m., cost, 878-7708. • Rock out with Have your own pick you Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 Shoshone St., Traditional Story Time, preschoolers and Armageddon, featuring want to share? Something CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS no cost, 737-5988. their parents invited for stories and songs, Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, 10:30 to 10:30 a.m., Twin Falls Public Library, 201 Bert West, from 9 p.m. to that is unique to the area Burley Lions Club, noon, Morey’s 1 a.m. tonight and Saturday and that may take people 11:30 a.m., Ageless Senior Citizens, Inc., 310 Fourth Ave. E., 208-733-2964, ext. 109. Steakhouse, 219 E. Third St. N., 878-7235. Main St. N., Kimberly, no cost, 737-5988. at the South Hills Saloon by surprise? E-mail me at Secular Student Alliance at College of on U.S. Highway 30 in [email protected]. SilverSneakers Fitness Program, innovative MARKETS AND ANTIQUES Southern Idaho, a group which encourages exercise program designed specifically for free thought for atheists, agnostics, human- Medicare beneficiaries’ unique health and Antique Show and Sale, furniture, china, sil- ists, skeptics and anyone interested in physical needs, 10:30 a.m., Twin Falls ver, art, jewelry, collectibles, folkart and learning more about these world views, YMCA, 1751 Elizabeth Blvd., no cost for shabby chic, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., The White Law Disorder... 3 p.m., in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center, Humana-insured or YMCA members and $5 House, 365 Blue Lakes Blvd. N., Twin Falls, CSI campus, Twin Falls, open to students per class for uninsured, 733-4384. 733-6119 or 543-8118. and members of the community, Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, 11 to & [email protected], [email protected], 11:45 a.m., Oakley Fire Station, 315 E. Main SPORTS [email protected] or St., Oakley, no cost, 737-5988. ... in Cassia County Active seniors pickleball group, pickleball www.secularstudents.org/csi. Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, 1:30 p.m., enthusiasts willing to teach newcomers, From Oct. 3 police reports: time (sic) hours.” front lounge, Woodstone Assisted Living 9 a.m., Adventist Hilltop School, 131 Marijuana possession: Runaway: Facility, 491 Caswell Ave. W., Twin Falls, no GOVERNMENT Grandview Drive, Twin Falls, no cost, 734- A 13-year-old Burley male was A 15-year-old Burley male on cost, 737-5988. Twin Falls County commissioners, 8:30 a.m., 0622 or [email protected]. caught with 9 grams of marijua- juvenile probation allegedly ran Celebrate Recovery, based on the 12 steps courthouse, 425 Shoshone St. N., 736-4068. na which he allegedly asked his away. and eight biblical principles, 7 p.m., Cafe friend, 14, to “hold onto during a His mom, according to the Agape, Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, TODAY’S DEADLINE volleyball game so he didn’t get report, told police that he “nor- HEALTH AND WELLNESS 960 Eastland Drive, Twin Falls, 737-4667. Registration discount deadline for Nov. 14 into trouble.” mally roams city streets, looking SilverSneakers Fitness Program at Curves of Celebrate Recovery, a place to learn life- fourth annual South Idaho Garden The boy’s dad told police that his inside unlocked vehicles to seals Twin Falls, complete cardio and circuit affirming, healthy behaviors, 7 p.m., Symposium, “Going Green in the Garden,” son received a text message ear- (sic) things.” training with resistance, state-of-the-art Fireside Room of the Nazarene Fellowship hosted by University of Idaho Extension, lier in the day “wanting to know The next day, the boy was found equipment and “Curves Smart” personal- Hall at Yakima Avenue and Main Street, includes silent auction, door prizes and if he still had weed phone num- at his friend’s house “sneaking ized coaching, 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Twin Falls Filer, 734-0557. seed exchange and noontime sandwich- ber.”The boy allegedly said he in a window.”He was given four Curves, 690 Blue Lakes Blvd. N., no cost for Al-Anon/Alateen family groups, to bring help and-salad buffet, 8 a.m. (registration) to paid $10 for the weed two days days of juvenile detention for the Humana Gold-insured or AARP provided by and hope to families and friends of alco- 3:30 p.m., College of Southern Idaho’s earlier and that it was “delivered probation violation. Secure Horizons, 734-7300. holics, hotline: 866-592-3198. Herrett Center for the Arts and Science, to his house in the night — Damon Hunzeker College of Southern Idaho’s Over 60 and Twin Falls, $25 today and $30 at the door, Getting Fit programs, a guided walking HOME AND FAMILY space permitting, 208-320-3975, 208-735- workout with stretching and gentle resist- Low-income energy assistance staff from 5396, 208-436-8989 or ance training, 9 to 10 a.m. at several Magic South Central Community Action http://extension.ag.uidaho.edu/Jerome; Coin toss Valley locations: Blaine County Campus Partnership, to assist income-eligible indi- click Upcoming Events for Gardening to Continued from Main 1 came to the meeting to ques- gym, CSI gym, Gooding ISDB gym, Jerome viduals and households with their winter download registration form. Cowen declined to com- tion the legality of the toss. Rec Center, Rupert Civic gym and Shoshone heating bills and telephone bills, 9 a.m. to ment but Christopherson is “I contacted my attorney,” High School (old gym); and 11:30 a.m. to noon, South Central Community Action, To have an event listed, please submit the looking forward to the Butler said. “I think the 12:30 p.m., CSI Burley Mini-Cassia gym, no 736-0676. name of the event, a brief description, time, opportunity to, “represent courts should determine the cost, 732-6475. place, cost and contact number to Suzanne the people.” outcome of this whole Seasonal flu vaccine clinic, appointments LIBRARY Browne by e-mail at sbrowne@magicval- “People have spoken up … thing.” full; limited walk-in opportunity, 10 a.m. to ley.com; by fax, 734-5538; or by mail, and they’ve always had an After Butler told the coun- 6 p.m., Walgreens, 1732 Washington St. N., Burley Public Library Food for Fines month, Times-News, P.O.Box 548, Twin Falls, ID interest in what goes on in cil her concerns it broke into Twin Falls, $24.99, 208-733-1166. bring can of food; reduce library fine by $1, 83303-0548. Deadline is noon, four days in City Hall,”he said. “Now it’s recess, giving city Attorney Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, 10 to 11 food goes to local food pantries, at the advance of the event. just my turn to represent Calvin Campbell an oppor- them.” tunity to review the proce- The event, which drew a dure. crowd that filled Council “In the short time I’ve had Chambers, will likely go to review state law … we’ve Geothermal down in city lore. done what we need to do,” Continued from Main 1 gram based in Potsdam, whether drilling under hole, Shervais said, likely “I had to see this,”said res- Campbell. new geothermal fields and Germany. National Science thicker portions of the starting in late spring or ident Cindy Harbaugh. research into advanced Foundation funds Shervais Eastern Snake Plain early summer. “We’ve never seen anything Blair Koch may be reached geothermal technologies. plans to apply for next Aquifer can lead to the Though actual develop- like this before.” at [email protected] or Other Idaho recipients week would bring in about same level of heat and ment of the sites isn’t his Resident Linda Butler 208-316-2607. include the Blaine County 15 U.S. universities and power that’s available top priority, Shervais said School District, which will additional international around the edges of the energy companies certainly get $4 million to retrofit support for studies of the aquifer where there’s less could capitalize on the schools in Hailey, Carey core samples. The cool water. The Kimama study’s findings if the sites Control and Bellevue with geother- University of Idaho and borehole is over a central, seem worth developing. Continued from Main 1 hasn’t seen any numbers to mal systems, and Boise Idaho State University thick portion of the plain, One Magic Valley geother- At the same time,he’s open justify the increase in recent State University, which will would also be involved, he while the Kimberly site is mal power plant already to more discussion with the years of the county’s con- use $1.55 million to digitize said. more on the edge. exists, operated by U.S. county. tract, adding that no one has and upload geologic data Rather than search for The drilling sites will be Geothermal Inc. near Raft “We really need to get questioned if the county’s into a national data system. hotspots, the researchers on public land: U of I’s River. together with the county and doing a good job. Partners in the Utah plan to compare the char- extension farm near “There’s plenty of public have a discussion at the table The county’s service to the State project also include acteristics of each site with Kimberly and a Bureau of and private land near both before they just send us a bill,” city was $17,000 in 2000 and BSU, along with Canada’s what they find under- Land Management fire sta- sites that could be available he said. “I’m not saying it’s by 2007 had increased to Uni-versity of Alberta, the ground, looking retrospec- tion near Kimama. Drill for putting in a power not the best option, what I’m $50,000 because of the need U.S. Geological Survey tively for indicators of their crews will work around the plant, should we prove the saying is we didn’t have the to hire a second animal con- and the International potential. Shervais said clock every day for three or resource is sufficient,” best discussion.” trol officer and increased call Continental Drilling Pro- they’d also like to learn four months to drill each Shervais said. Councilman Will Kezele volume. That figure jumped said he’d like to look at the to $120,000 in 2008. private sector too,adding that In 2008, the sheriff’s office a thorough consideration of handled 3,935 city animal Agencies all options, including the control calls. Continued from Main 1 county,is needed. Councilman Don Hall,who federal grants, wasn’t “I look at that as a “There’s just so many voted for the agreement, said touched. program that’s other costs associated with he thought it was a fair deal. The Idaho Department of city and government “The thing that impressed Water Resources lost 16 jobs essential. I just can’t employees,” Kezele said. “I more than anything else is in the past month, including discard it.” realize the city will push back that in the last year we have its public information offi- and say they need to be law not had one complaint about cer, and has frozen 11 vacant — IDWR Interim Director Gary officers. … That whole idea of our animal control,”Hall said. positions. The Department Spackman, on maintaining needing a law enforcement Lori Stewart, spokes- of Environmental Quality dam safety programs officer to enforce some of the woman for the Twin Falls let go 10 people, building on law would potentially be a County Sheriff’s Office, said seven layoffs last year and has since had to take up drawback to us moving for- Sheriff Tom Carter has made about 25 frozen, vacant some administrative duties ward, but I didn’t think we’ve additional information avail- positions. At the again. evaluated that enough.” able and is confident it’s a fair Department of Lands, lay- ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News With future cuts possible, Mayor Lance Clow said he contract. offs included four full-time Meribeth Lomkin, of the Idaho Department of Lands, walks along the Lands officials have priori- employees and two tempo- tized the services they offer rary fire-bureau employees. north side of the Snake River canyon rim Wednesday during a tour in advance of any future Check out what’s new online at And the Department of for the newspaper. cuts, said Patrick Hodges, Parks and Recreation has gram that’s essential,” Park in the western Magic division administrator for now dropped one-fourth of Spackman said. “I just can’t Valley. support services. Life, www.magicvalley.com its seasonal staff over the discard it.” Six of DEQ’s layoffs were health and safety issues are past year. Parks’ seasonal cuts have full-time, classified posi- at the forefront — including Only a $500,000 contri- left similar holes: Places tions, while one of the tem- firefighting work — and Circulation director Laura Stewart . . . .735-3327 bution from the Idaho with large visitor centers porary workers was an engi- endowment managers are Circulation phones open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and 6 to 10 a.m. on weekends for questions Water Resource Board pre- like Three Island Crossing neer in the Twin Falls office. working to battle sagging about delivery, new subscriptions and vacation vented further cuts to full- State Park are seeing their All full-time employees land prices and maximize PUBLISHER stops. If you don’t receive your paper by 6:30 time employees at IDWR, hours reduced, and partner must also take 32 hours of the state’s investment Brad Hurd ...... 735-3345 a.m., call the number for your area before 10 Interim Director Gary agencies are being unpaid time off in the 2010 returns. 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OKs new blower for artoonist Brian Magicvalley.com Crane has always C insisted that Earl YOU wastewater plant and Opal, the characters in his award-winning syndi- DON’T SAY By John Plestina city replaces the damaged cated comic strip “Pickles,” Times-News writer blower, Jerome would be out are based on his in-laws. Steve Crump of compliance with a permit Hazel Larson isn’t so sure. JEROME — The Jerome from the Idaho Department “I saw a ‘Pickles’ strip a DO TELL City Council agreed of Environmental Quality Varicose Veins? while back, and in the last Wednesday to spend for two to three weeks. panel it showed Opal up If it’s odd, funny, sad or between $80,000 and He said the replacement close to Earl,”said the 86- poignant and it happens in $100,000 for an emergency blower is expected to be year-old Twin Falls resident. south-central Idaho, I want repair to Jerome’s waste- more efficient, have a longer “It look just like Raymond to hear about it. Call me at water treatment plant. expected lifespan and be and Helen.” 735-3223, or write scrump@ The latest round of prob- quieter than the one that Ray and Helen Crane were magicvalley.com. lems at the facility began blew out Monday. Brian’s parents, and Hazel Monday night when a 1.5- The council, which was grew up with them in later to the San Francisco year-old membrane blower holding a rare Wednesday Oakley during the 1930s. Bay area, where he graduat- failed after 11,100 hours of meeting to canvass election Brian, whose strip is syndi- ed from high school. Crane service. returns and to authorize BOARD CERTIFIED cated in more than 300 earned a bachelor’s degree Water Works Director Mayor Charles Correll to newspapers worldwide, was from Brigham Young John Boyd said the two-inch sign a lease for the new sen- born in Twin Falls in 1949. University in 1973. blower shaft twisted and ior center, added the emer- VASCULAR SURGEON “Raymond and Helen After he married, Brian severed into two pieces and gency measure for the were going together in high moved to Idaho Falls where was not repairable. It wastewater plant to the school, and one day they he started his own freelance destroyed the interior com- agenda. were sitting on the lawn in illustration business and ponents of the blower, he City Administrator Ben David A. Johnson, M.D. F.A.C.S. front of the school,”Hazel worked as an artist and said. Marchant said it could take remembers. “She had her copywriter for Harris “I can’t tell you why it three to four weeks for deliv- The only Fellowship Trained head in his lap, and Mrs. Publishing Co., which pro- broke without sending it for ery. Schiferl, one our teachers, duces specialty and out- an analysis,”Boyd said. Ongoing problems have Board Certified Vascular didn’t think much of that. doors magazines. In 1985, He said he expects the plagued the wastewater So she called an assembly of the family moved to Reno, plant’s two other blowers to plant, some of which have Surgeon in the Magic Valley the whole school and said, Nev., where Crane worked fail eventually. Boyd said if generated odors for sur- ‘Love is a beautiful thing. as an art director for an one of them fails before the rounding residents. Don’t cheapen it.’” advertising agency. Expert Diagnosis and Treatment by a Hazel remembers a very He started pitching a Vascular Specialist embarrassed Helen being in comic strip about a retired TH ISTRICT OURT NEWS Non Surgical Endovenous Laser Treatment attendance, but she doesn’t couple to newspaper syndi- 5 D C Injection Therapy recall whether Ray was cates, and in 1990 the Twin Falls County license; Dec. 15 pretrial, $5,000 there. Washington Post Writers Wednesday arraignments bond, public defender appoint- Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques Whoever’s parents are the Group bought it. Jennifer Mondragon, 21, Buhl; ed Safely Done in the Office inspiration for the Pickles, Crane and his wife, Diana, obstructing an officer, posses- Procedures may be covered by Insurance it’s struck a chord with a lot who have seven children, sion of a controlled substance, Thursday arraignments of newspaper readers. live in the tony Reno suburb possession of paraphernalia, Jimmy Darin Stone, 45, Twin “I think there’s a lot of of Spanish Springs, where Dec. 15 pretrial, $2,500 bond, Falls; possession of drug para- Idaho in Earl and Opal,” he draws “Pickles” strips public defender appointed phernalia, fail to appear; Dec. Crane told the Times-News about two months in Ryan G. Meyer, 31, Twin Falls; 15 pretrial, recognizance in a 2001 interview.“They’re advance. driving under the influence, release, public defender Idaho kind of people.” “I never miss it,”Hazel Nov. 13 preliminary hearing, appointed Crane’s father was selling said. bond previously posted, public Adrian Jensen, 32, Hailey; pos- auto parts in Twin Falls defender appointed session of a controlled sub- when Brian was born. The Steve Crump is the Julio Alejandro Silva, 20, Twin stance, Nov. 13 preliminary family moved to Pocatello Times-News Opinion edi- Falls; leaving the scene of an hearing, $500 bond, public when the boy was 2, then tor. accident, invalid driver’s defender appointed Hammertoe Clinic Contracted Toes Toe Corns/Callouses Shoshone to cut down 25 trees Deformed Toes Infected Toes Toe/Joint Pain Toe Ulcers/Sores By John Plestina and large size of the trees are AART to his call rotation. He Timothy G. Tomlinson, DPM Times-News writer factors in the decision to said there have been times 1120 Montana Gooding 934 8829 www.twinfallsveincare.com remove them. when towing providers on his SHOSHONE — The One large tree in the same list have not been available Shoshone City Council on area fell during a recent and he has called companies Wednesday accepted a bid to windstorm and nearly dam- in Jerome and Gooding that remove about 25 trees on aged a house. were not on the list. North Elm Street, along the In other business, the In another matter, the north bank of the Little Wood council agreed to add an council canvassed the elec- River. additional towing and tion returns from Tuesday’s Crist and Sons of Jerome’s impound company to the list municipal election. Bennett $1,900 bid was the lowest the police department uses. reported that 28 percent of received. Others neared or Todd and Nancy Marshall, registered voters cast ballots. topped $3,000. City workers of Jerome, owners of AART The council also appointed will haul away the logs. Northwest, proposed adding Sonia Rangel to the Library Stumps will remain in police towing services in Board. place to provide stability for Shoshone. the riverbank. Mayor J.R. Churchman John Plestina may be City Clerk Mary Kay deferred to Police Chief Jon reached at jplestina@mag- Bennett said all of the trees Daubner for guidance. icvalley.com or 208-358- are on city property. The age Daubner said he could add 7062. Post Falls names park after prominent lawmaker POST FALLS (AP) — The Legislature, attended the Kellogg is now 91 years old. city of Post Falls has named a dedication of Hilde Kellogg She retired from the Idaho 5-acre park after Hilde Park on Wednesday.She says Legislature when she was 88. Kellogg, a longtime former she’s in awe of the honor,and She also served as a city lawmaker and local leader. though she’s proud of what councilwoman, chamber The Coeur d’Alene Press she’s done she couldn’t have president and was the first reports that Kellogg, who done it without her fellow female member of the Post served 10 terms in the Idaho northern Idaho residents. Falls Kiwanis.
ATTENTION: B.I.D. PROPERTY OWNERS A Petition to Disestablish the Twin Falls Business Improvement District
A PETITION TO THE HONORABLE TWIN FALLS CITY COUNCIL, PURSUANT TO STATE OF IDAHO CODE, TITLE 50, CHAPTER 26, FOR THE IMMEDIATE DISESTABLISHMENT OF BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT No. 1 THE UNDERSIGNED MEMBERS of the City of Twin Falls Business Improvement District No. 1 hereby petition for the disestablishment of Business Improvement District No. 1 citing legal authority for said disestablishment in State of Idaho Statute 50-2618(2), to wit, “The legislative authority shall disestablish a district if the businesses in the district which pay a majority of the assessments, petition in writing for such disestablishment.” NAME BID PROPERTY ADDRESS DUES SIGNATURE Please Include Block and Lot Numbers
Bona fide City of Twin Falls B-I-D property owners may send the completed and signed petition via U.S. Mail to: L. Scott Andrus, c/o Escape Salon, 347 Main Ave. E., Twin Falls, Idaho 83301 Main 4 Friday, November 6, 2009 LOCAL/FROM PAGE ONE/IDAHO/WEST TN Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho AROUND THE VALLEY Idaho Supreme Court hears URA case 50,000-acre watershed IDWR issues over a five- to 10-year peri- By Ben Botkin the state, including those in “For the URA to issue In an interview, Melinda curtailment od and benefit aspen, Times-News writer Twin Falls and Jerome, have bonds at this point in time, Anderson, Twin Falls eco- whitebark pine, Douglas fir, filed a brief asking the higher no further action of the city nomic development director, warning letters sagebrush steppe and The Idaho Supreme Court court to uphold the district is needed,”Armbruster said. said there is a separation Gary Spackman, interim wildlife habitat, according on Thursday heard argu- court decision in Rexburg He stressed that the city between cities and urban director of the Idaho to a press release. Forest ments in an appeal that could that rejected Hart’s argu- has no financial liability in renewal agencies. Department of Water officials would cooperate alter the ability of urban ments. the bonds. “It’s been very clear to us Resources, mailed letters to with the Rocky Mountain renewal agencies to take on Urban renewal agencies “There’s no liability on the that while the cities are the water-right holders across Elk Foundation and the debt for public projects are created by cities and part of the city to simply fol- ones allowed to create the the Eastern Snake Plain Mule Deer Foundation to without voter approval. receive funding from tax rev- low the law as the law is URAs, the agencies are inde- Aquifer this week, updating secure grants for the work. The case, heard in Twin enue generated by increased written,”Armbruster said. pendent of the city itself,” them on the odds that their Fires may be lit during Falls, involves Rexburg’s property values in their tar- Justice Roger Burdick Anderson said. water will be shut off next hunting season, but offi- Urban Renewal Agency and get area. asked Runft if the issue Anderson said she’s year. cials say they will work Kenneth Hart, a resident of John Runft, the attorney should be fixed by the unsure of what the case’s Spackman ordered the with hunters and recre- the eastern Idaho city. The for Hart, argued that the Legislature instead of any outcome might mean for the state’s first large-scale ationists to reduce prob- crux of Hart’s case questions bonds would create a liability judge. Twin Falls URA. enforced well closures in lems. if Rexburg’s URA can issue for the city of Rexburg, and Runft said that urban “I do know that it’s been recent memory last sum- Officials will spend until up to $6.3 million in bonds to as a result, requires a public renewal agencies financing difficult for some URAs mer in response to an ongo- early next summer devel- finance a public swimming vote with two-thirds projects without voter around the state to be able to ing water call by Clear oping a detailed proposed pool and recreation center approval to pass. approval amounts to a “cir- bond because the banks were Springs Foods of Buhl, an action and analyzing its without the same public vote “I’m representing people cumvention” of the state unclear about what was act later put on hold by a 5th effects on the land and the and approval that the Idaho that are crying out for their constitution’s provision for going to be the outcome of District judge. Spackman users and neighbors of the Constitution requires for right,”he said. voter approval of debt. the lawsuit,”Anderson said. warned in Monday’s letter Little Wood. Comments cities. The Urban Renewal “All of these things that depending on the from the public are Other urban renewal Agency, though, is a separate together have created a Ben Botkin may be judge’s clarification of that requested by Nov. 30. They agencies throughout Idaho entity from the city, said whole gradual shift which reached at bbotkin@magic- stay, Magic Valley ground- can be sent several ways: are watching the case. Nine Ryan Armbruster, attorney results in a circumvention,” valley.com or 208-735- water rights newer than • Mail: Ketchum Ranger urban renewal agencies in for Rexburg’s URA. he said. 3238. Aug. 11, 1990, may have to District, Attn: Upper Little be shut off again. In addi- Wood Project, P.O. Box tion, if a proposed mitiga- 2356, Ketchum, ID 83340 tion plan is not approved • E-mail: comments- after a Dec. 7 hearing, rights intermtn-sawtooth- Court: Fundraiser arrested for probation violation newer than Feb. 4, 1964, [email protected] could be shut off. • Fax: (208) 622-3923 By John Miller become a campaign liability. Lake. “But I’m not sorry for Correction will likely recom- In a separate call by a • Hand: Ketchum Ranger Associated Press writer Efforts to reach Lehosit what it will do to Idaho poli- mend he get seven days in jail coalition of canal compa- District Office, 206 Sun were unsuccessful Thursday. tics, I’m sorry for Jason.’’ and develop a new treatment nies and irrigation districts, Valley Road BOISE — A Republican Matt Rexroad, president of Jorgenson paid Meridian regime, which is standard for an extremely low snowpack campaign consultant who Meridian Resource’s parent Resources about $10,000 in a probation violation, said could shut off rights newer BLM to waive fees has been paid more than company in Sacramento, 2008, according to the Idaho Jeff Ray, an agency than March 29, 1978. But $200,000 by Idaho candi- didn’t return a call seeking secretary of state. spokesman. runoff of at least 65 percent for veterans and dates since 2008 was in jail comment. It could not be After his fourth DUI, 4th Lehosit owes his reputa- of normal won’t require any Thursday after court offi- determined if Lehosit had District Judge Thomas tion as one of Idaho’s top closures, Spackman wrote. military on cials said he violated proba- retained a lawyer. Neville sentenced Lehosit to political operatives, in part, Visit www.idwr.idaho. Veterans Day tion for felony drunken driv- In February 2005, Lehosit 120 days in jail and five years to his ability to connect GOP gov/ to read the letter. ing. lost his job as Gov. C.L. probation. He served only a hopefuls with donors he On Wednesday, the U.S. Jason Lehosit, who has “Butch’’ Otter’s campaign fraction of the jail time but began cultivating more than Forest Service Bureau of Land four DUIs since 1998, was manager following his fourth was forbidden to drink for a decade ago as a youthful Management will waive arrested Wednesday. He has DUI arrest,which came a day five years, drive a car for campaign worker during Phil proposes prescribed recreation-related fees for been drinking — a violation after his sentencing for his three years and had to attend Batt’s 1994 successful veterans and military per- of his probation — since at third DUI. four Alcoholics Anonymous gubernatorial run. fire in Little Wood sonnel, along with their least January, including High-profile GOP clien- sessions weekly. Lehosit later worked for The Sawtooth National families, for Veterans Day. “four or five times a month tele of his Meridian After a stint at a California U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, Gov. Forest’s Ketchum Ranger The annual waiver start- since July of 2009,’’ accord- Resources now include U.S. treatment center,Lehosit re- Dirk Kempthorne and Otter, District is seeking public ed in 2006 and applies to ing to 4th District Court House candidate Vaughn emerged on Idaho’s political burnishing his reputation as comment on a proposal to public recreation lands documents. Ward, who has paid the scene in July 2007 as a part- a go-to activist who could use a prescribed fire in the managed by the BLM, GOP leaders stood by the company about $9,000 since ner in Meridian Resources.In bring in cash. area of the Little Wood National Park Service, Fish 33-year-old, saying they July; Otter, who has paid a letter to Judge Neville in On Jan. 30, for instance, River Drainage to improve and Wildlife Service, hope the head of Meridian Lehosit’s company more March 2008, Lehosit said Lehosit organized a vegetation and reduce the Bureau of Reclamation and Resources tackles his trou- than $70,000 since 2008; he’d turned his life around. lunchtime event for Little, potential for uncharacter- Forest Service. bles. and Lt. Gov. Brad Little, who “I am proud to say I’m a the lieutenant governor,with istic or undesirable wild- “This is a small, but spe- Still, Lehosit’s arrest raises has given Lehosit nearly completely different per- 300 lobbyists and other sup- fires. The legal location is cial way in which we can the question of whether can- $10,000 over two years. son,’’he wrote. porters. Little, who raked in Township 3, 4 and 5, Range express our gratitude and didates from Idaho’s domi- “I’ve got to tell you, Jason Following Wednesday’s more than $6,000 that day, 19, 20 and 21 Boise meridi- our appreciation to them,” nant party will continue to is one of the brightest people arrest, however, Lehosit didn’t immediately return a an. BLM Director Bob Abbey professionally embrace a in Idaho politics,’’ said Sen. could face up to 180 days in phone call seeking com- The project would target said in a statement. political operator who could Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden jail. The Department of ment. several areas within the — Staff reports FBI refuses to talk about arrest in N.M. nun slaying By Susan Montoya Bryan neighboring com- a spokesman for the Parishioners said Bartz Associated Press writer munity. Diocese of Gallup, “I’m sure that community hasn’t been sleeping served Navajo and the sur- FBI spokesman which oversees the well for many nights.” rounding communities for a ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Darrin Jones would St. Berard parish in — Lee Lamb, a spokesman for the Diocese of Gallup decade and had success Federal and tribal law not say why federal Navajo where Bartz converting people through enforcement agents investigators were lived. remained tightlipped about about whether the crime her work. descended on a small com- not releasing any “I’m sure that details of the crime, but said could have been the result of When they talked about munity on the Navajo Indian information about community hasn’t preliminary autopsy results a robbery, if it was gang- Bartz on Wednesday, they reservation early Thursday the arrest, and Sister been sleeping well show Bartz sustained sub- related or possibly connect- spoke of her in the present to make an arrest as part of Samson Cowboy, the Marguerite for many nights. I stantial trauma, likely as a ed to a break-in at the parish tense. their investigation into the head of the Navajo think with this arrest result of a violent confronta- last month. “She makes me and my slaying of a nun whose body Nation’s public safety they’re going to have a better tion with her killer or killers. FBI investigators have family feel really safe,’’ was found in her home on department, also declined to night’s sleep tonight and feel Jones said agents were combed Bartz’s home for Arlene Deche said. church property. comment, saying only: “It’s a little safer in their homes,’’ withholding the specific evidence and a mini-SUV Deche and others said The FBI said agents a very sensitive issue.’’ Lamb said. cause of death while the she had used was transport- Bartz prayed with them in arrested one person in The FBI did confirm that Lamb said with the arrest, investigation continues. ed to Albuquerque for pro- their homes and traveled to Navajo, but refused to say the person arrested the community as well as the However, he said there was cessing by investigators. It the homes of elders on the how that person might be Thursday morning would Sisters of the Blessed no evidence to suggest Bartz arrived Wednesday with a remote reservation. She connected to the death of remain in custody for the Sacrament — the order to was sexually assaulted or sheet draped over the dri- offered advice on raising 64-year-old Sister night. which Bartz belonged — can that she was targeted ver’s side, covering the win- children, ran bingo and reli- Marguerite Bartz. The nun’s News of an arrest has focus on the nun’s funeral, because she was a nun or for dow.The FBI has said Bartz’s gious education classes, body was discovered after resulted in some relief for the the grieving process and the religious reasons. murder apparently hap- played guitar and learned she didn’t show up as sched- community in northwestern celebration of her life. Diocese officials said the pened Halloween night or the Navajo language to sing uled for Sunday Mass in a New Mexico, said Lee Lamb, Investigators also community has questions early Sunday. Navajo songs. 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uesday was a tough day to be a county sheriff in Idaho. xxxxxxxxxxxx xxBallot measures to build new jails or expand existing lockups failed in Michelle Jerome, Canyon and Kootenai coun- Malkin ties.T In Jerome and Canyon counties, voters will almost certainly be asked the same questions next Just this past weekend, Democratic Rep. Jim Moran May. Kootenai authorities, who face expiration of attacked the Republican local-option tax authority, are unsure of their next candidates for governor and step. attorney general in his state It’s not that sheriffs and of Virginia as the “Taliban mantle California’s juvenile ization strategy as Gallup But conservatives are not commissioners have much Our view: ticket.” justice system, pitting polls show conservatives demanding “purity.”They choice. In Canyon County, Before New York Times colum- minorities against police continuing to outnumber are simply abiding by officials struck a consent nist Frank Rich decried the officers and crusading to free moderates and liberals across Reagan’s own wise counsel in Jerome right’s “Jacobins” and death row cop-killer Mumia America. 1975: “A political party can- agreement with the American County “Stalinists” who he said abu Jamal. As I pointed out in my not be all things to all people. Civil Liberties Union after the joined a “putsch” by sup- Who are you calling Oct. 16 column, there was It must represent certain group sued earlier this year commis- porting Conservative Party “extreme”? never anything moderate fundamental beliefs which because of jail overcrowding. sioners put candidate Doug Hoffman Jarrett’s White House col- about Scozzafava. There was must not be compromised to That’s temporary, though. instead of ACORN-embrac- league Patrick Gaspard, no fiscal conservatism to political expediency,or sim- Only a new jail will make the the lease- ing, Big Labor-promoting, Obama’s political director balance her social radicalism. ply to swell its numbers.” ACLU go away. pro-abortion, pro-gay mar- who intervened in the race to It wasn’t merely that she was The Republican National purchase riage, tax-and-spend convince Scozzafava to “pro-choice.”She was also a Committee and National On Tuesday, 57 percent of proposal for Republican Dede Scozzafava endorse the Democratic can- proud recipient of a pro- Republican Congressional voters said yes to a $46 million in New York’s 23rd congres- didate Bill Owens after she abortion award named after Committee threw upward of bond issue; short of the a new jail sional special election. dropped out, was a top eugenicist Margaret Sanger. $900,000 down the toilet for required two-thirds approval. back on the And senior White House organizer at the militant It wasn’t merely that she a candidate whose core views In Coeur d’Alene,Kootenai ballot they adviser Valerie Jarrett told Local 1199 chapter of the favored higher government and political alliances under- County officials will continue ABC’s “This Week”that the Service Employees spending. It was also that mined conservatism’s fun- to ship inmates elsewhere — to should grassroots conservative-vs.- International Union and an she supported the stimulus, damental beliefs in limited GOP leadership battle over activist/organizer for the which every single House government from Day One. the tune of about $5 million a reconsider NY-23 showed that the New Party and the Working Republican in office It was a reckless expenditure year. Voters declined to raise the bond- Republican Party leadership Families Party — both opposed, on top of her sup- of the GOP base’s hard- sales taxes a half-cent to was “becoming more and ACORN/Democratic port for the union-expand- earned money and a bitter expand the present jail. issue and more extreme, and more and Socialists of America front ing card-check bill, on top of tuition bill for a teachable And in Jerome, a proposed regional jail more marginalized.” groups. her ambiguous statements moment on the perils of 30-year lease-purchase of a approaches. Let’s talk “extreme.” Who are you calling on the energy tax-imposing political expediency. new $13.5 million jail fell two Jarrett is the White House “extreme”? cap-and-trade bill. The days when immoder- official who bragged openly “It’s rather telling,”Jarrett Newt Gingrich, who fool- ate political operatives and dozen votes short. The dilapi- What do about recruiting disgraced sniffed, “when the ishly stood with Scozzafava feckless Beltway oppor- dated 35-year-old stockade’s Marxist rabble-rouser Van Republican Party forces out a until she threw herself under tunists could define “mod- closure is just a question of you think? Jones for the green jobs czar moderate Republican, and it the bus over the weekend, eration” by their own when. We welcome post. She lavished praise on says, I think, a great deal piously invoked Reagan and warped yardsticks without Taxpayers nowhere in Idaho viewpoints his public career and said she about where the Republican condemned the extreme pushback are over. want anything to do with pay- had followed him “for as Party leadership is right “purism” of unruly conser- ing for new jails, but these from our long as he’s been active out now.”It’s rather telling that vatives who wouldn’t keep Michelle Malkin can be in Oakland.”In Oakland, the White House persists quiet about Scozzafava’s reached at writemalkin@ three counties’ alternatives are readers on Jones was working to dis- with this pointless marginal- radical-left agenda. gmail.com. limited. In fact, Jerome and this and Canyon counties’ only realistic short-term option is the same other issues. as Kootenai’s — pay somebody LETTERS TO THE EDITOR else to house prisoners. We supported the Jerome County jail enterprise, Drivers, show common in the commentary by giving a history lesson. The the citizens? although we would have preferred a bond issue, sense by slowing down Marty Trillhaase of the writer made much to do Even some of the smallest even if the immediate cost to taxpayers were higher. Lewiston Tribune on a about Elder Oaks’ compari- towns in Idaho elect their And we believed then, as we do now, that a multi- My letter is concerning speech given at BYU-Idaho son to the voter intimida- mayors. county regional jail is a better idea. drivers who feel the need for by Dallin H. Oaks, a leader tion associated with BRIAN CRONER The commissioners should consider both alter- speed. My grandparents live in the LDS church. Proposition 8 and the voter Twin Falls natives again before a second vote, but however a on Quincy Street across Mr. Trillhaase completely intimidation of the blacks new jail is paid for, Jerome County is simply running from CSI. We were visiting missed the point of Elder during the civil rights Something was amiss them recently when we wit- Oaks’ speech given as a movement in the ’60s. It out of time. nessed an accident. A lady devotional address at the was one sentence in his in Eden election It can’t afford — as Gem County did — to run was pulling out onto the university. His talk was not whole discourse. His use of The city of Eden’s elec- eight jail bond issue proposals before one finally road, and another car came about the history of the per- this example was one of tion is corrupted! I was passes. from the light at Falls secution of the blacks or the comparison to their “effect” bombarded with phone calls The closure of the current Jerome lockup — either Avenue going an easy 30- Mormons. It was not about not a comparison of the all Wednesday morning by insurers refusing to cover the risk or by an ACLU plus mph and sideswiped gay marriage. It was a mas- degree of persecution. The with complaints from city lawsuit — without a replacement would be the her car. terful discourse on religious comparison is a fair one as residents that were unable This is a road that is twist freedom and freedom of he explains that in each to vote for who they wanted worst and most expensive contingency for the and turns all the way. We speech and the dangers incident the actions were and how they wanted. county’s taxpayers. constantly see young chil- these freedoms face in our anti-democratic. That was It seems our city clerk had dren in this area. My wife country today. Proposition the main point. told one resident she could had just gotten our 10- 8 and gay marriage were I would implore anyone not vote for William Scates month-old daughter in our used as examples to illus- seriously interested in this for City Council (four-year car and shut the door when trate his points. topic to read the talk in its term) and that James Pierce it happened. I don’t know if Mr. entirety and not rely on the was the only one she could Brad Hurd . . . . publisher Steve Crump . ...Opinion editor People need to use com- Trillhaase knows that Elder narrow interpretation of vote for for the four-year The members of the editorial board and writers of mon sense and slow down! Oaks is a lawyer and a for- some who seem to have term. Other residents have editorials are Brad Hurd, James G. Wright, Lives could be at stake. mer member of the Utah tunnel vision whenever gay stated that when asked how Steve Crump, Bill Bitzenburg and Mary Lou Panatopoulos. I also want to thank the Supreme Court and, as marriage is mentioned. It to vote a write-in candidate, two officers who responded, such, is extremely well can be found at the church they were shown a sample as they were able to diffuse qualified to discuss the Web site, lds.org/ldsnews- ballot with the names Tell us what you think the irate speeding driver Constitution and the free- room. already written in with ONLINE: Register at Magicvalley.com, and respond to any before it got out of hand. doms guaranteed thereby. I BONNIE HAMILTON James on top and Sierah of the local opinions or stories in today’s edition. DON MORTON also disagree with the head- Twin Falls Tattersal on the two-year ON PAPER: The Times-News welcomes letters from readers Twin Falls ing given by the Times- term and William at the on subjects of public interest. Please limit letters to 300 News. “Church leader’s Why don’t citizens very bottom. words. Include your signature, mailing address and phone history lesson fudges with If this isn’t manipulation number. Writers who sign letters with false names will be LDS leader was talking history.”It is obvious that elect Twin Falls mayor? or coercing then I don’t permanently barred from publication. Letters may be about religious freedom the one who wrote the I have a question: know what is. An investiga- brought to our Twin Falls office; mailed to P.O. Box 548, heading had not read Elder Why is the mayor of Twin tion needs to be done. Twin Falls, ID 83303; faxed to (208) 734-5538; or e-mailed I feel obliged to point out Oaks’ speech. Falls appointed by the City WILLIAM SCATES to [email protected]. the bias and misinformation Again, Elder Oaks was not Council and not elected by Eden
T HE LIGHTER SIDE OF POLITICS Doonesbury By Garry Trudeau Mallard Fillmore By Bruce Tinsley Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho OPINION Friday, November 6, 2009 Main 7 The best allies Curb antibiotic use for healthier U.S. n looking at health-care Food and Drug buying time for the medi- reform, Congress and Administration publicly cines we already have. Ithe Obama administra- acknowledge the human Indeed, anything that money can buy tion are missing a key reme- health risks posed by indus- undermines the effective- dy that could help keep trial farms, saying that the ness of current antibiotics n 2003, I was on a trip Americans healthy, prevent Stuart B. livestock industry should only contributes to the to Iraq and had disease and hold down Levy stop the non-therapeutic health care costs of resistant I arranged an appoint- costs. We urgently need to use of antibiotics because infections. ment in the Green Zone reduce the development of become resistant not only to the practice is causing Prevention really is the with a member of the then- antibiotic-resistant bacteria one antibiotic, but to entire drug-resistant germs to best medicine, especially in Iraqi Governing Council. Thomas that cause new and hard- classes of the medicines. develop. The American this case. It makes much Security was tight. I was Friedman to-treat diseases, and we When bacteria easily Medical Association, World more sense to reduce the with my Iraqi translator, a can start with food animal killed by the drugs die, they Health Organization, chances that new antibiot- middle-aged man who had 48 percent of the DOD work production. leave behind only surviving American Association of ic-resistant germs will once been a teacher. When force in Iraq and 57 percent For years, the federal gov- germs that can fight off the Pediatricians and many emerge than to let industrial we arrived at the council, in Afghanistan. And the ernment has warned doc- antibiotic. Spreading from other health organizations farms continue a practice after a long walk, I showed Pentagon is not the only tors and other health-care the animals, these bacteria also have warned about the that endangers public my ID to two young uni- government agency deploy- providers to administer can move to people not only link between the rise of health. The European Union formed U.S. soldiers. They ing contractors; the State antibiotics to only those through direct contact with antibiotic-resistant bacteria has banned this practice. told me to wait, went inside Department and Usaid patients with bacteria- the livestock or from being and industrial farms’ inap- We should too. and out came a man wear- make extensive use of them related illnesses. Yet regula- around someone who works propriate use of antibiotics. Legislation pending in ing civilian clothes, one of as well. Contractors provide tions still allow large-scale on an industrial farm, but The direct financial costs Congress would address the those fishing vests and an security for key personnel livestock feeding operations also just by handling or of antibiotic-resistant bac- issue, by amending the Australian bush hat. and sites, including our — industrial farms — to use consuming meat contami- teria are as bad as the suffer- Federal Food, Drug, and It was obvious that he embassies; feed, clothe and antibiotics in ways never nated with the drug resist- ing caused by this problem. Cosmetic Act to end the was a “civilian contractor” house our troops; train recommended for humans. ant germs. Antibiotic- A recent study put the costs most worrisome industrial from the logo on his shirt. army and police units; and In fact, the Union of resistant bacteria in meat of resistance in U.S. hospi- farm practices that give rise When I tried to explain why even oversee other contrac- Concerned Scientists esti- ultimately may end up in tals at greater than $20 bil- to antibiotic-resistant bac- we were there, he literally tors. Without a multina- mates that up to 70 percent kitchens, where they con- lion. Multiple doses of new, teria. Called the told me to shut my mouth tional contractor force to fill of all antibiotics sold in this taminate countertops and powerful and pricey medi- Preservation of Antibiotics until I was told to speak. the gap, we would need a country are given to food hands. As a result, drug- cines often are needed to kill for Medical Treatment Act, Then he told my Iraqi trans- draft to execute these twin animals, most of it not to resistant strains of E. coli such germs — and some it would withdraw the use lator to sit in the blistering interventions.” treat or prevent disease but and salmonella can migrate patients require lengthy of seven classes of antibi- heat while he escorted me — Or, we would need real to make the animals gain from the farm to the human hospital stays, or at least otics vitally important to the American — inside to allies. weight faster and to com- community, spreading from miss days at work or school. human health from use on see if our Iraqi interviewee I am not against out- pensate for the crowded person to person. These drug resistant industrial farms unless ani- was available. I have to sourcing, improving gov- conditions often found in This past summer saw strains can cause serious mals are actually sick. admit it: Both my translator ernment efficiency or hiring such enormous facilities. several instances of resist- symptoms, including diar- Passing this measure and I really wanted to just the best people to perform This so-called “non- ant bacteria entering the rhea, blood-borne infec- would write at least one punch his lights out. But I specialized tasks. But we’ve therapeutic use” involves food supply through tainted tion, abdominal cramps good prescription for kept thinking to myself: fallen into a pattern of out- employing antibiotics that meat. For example, in and, in severe cases, organ improving our system of “Who does this guy report sourcing some of the very are important for treating August, a California meat damage and even death. health care. to? If I get in his face and he core tasks of government — diseases and, administering plant recalled more than Furthermore, with few comes after me, to whom do interrogation, security, them at sub-therapeutic 800,000 pounds of its new antibiotics in the Stuart Levy is the direc- I complain?” democracy promotion. As levels for growth promotion ground beef because of the development pipeline from tor of the Center for That was my first more and more of this gov- in animals with no sign of outbreak of an antibiotic- the drug companies, ending Adaptation Genetics and encounter with one of the ernment work gets con- illness. Unfortunately, this resistant salmonella strain the practice of non-thera- Drug Resistance at Tufts many private security tracted and then subcon- practice can create perfect linked to the meat. But the peutic use on industrial University School of guards, service suppliers tracted — or as Stanger puts conditions for bacteria to summer also saw the U.S. farms could prove critical to Medicine. and aid workers — aka civil- it, “when money and ian contractors — who have instructions change hands since become an integral multiple times in a foreign part of the U.S. war efforts country” — the public in Iraq and Afghanistan. interest can get lost and Some were even used at abuse and corruption get Who are you calling a narcissist, Rush? Abu Ghraib to do invited in. “enhanced interrogations” In 2008, notes Stanger, had a four-hour dinner averred: “He wants to man- terms with his Oedipal of suspected terrorists. roughly 80 percent of the once with Rush age this rather than achieve demons on his own, and he Today, there is no operation State Department’s ILimbaugh at the “21” victory.” radiates a hard-won maturi- that is too sensitive not to requested budget went out Club in Manhattan, back in Asked about fellow con- ty. outsource to the private the door in the form of con- the days when I was still Maureen servative George Will’s con- W., on the other hand, was sector. tracts and grants. writing profiles as a tention that the United always running off to the As we debate how many The U.S. military is now “reporterette,”to use a Dowd States should get out of gym or going biking, leaving more troops to dispatch to proposing a huge nation- Limbaugh coinage. Afghanistan, Limbaugh the governing to his regents, Afghanistan, it might be a building project for He was charming, in a shy, seeing, as James Carville put said, “I don’t have the ben- Cheney and Rummy,or good time to also debate Afghanistan to replace its awkward, lonely-guy way. it,“six sides to the Pentagon.” efit of knowledge that incompetents like Brownie. just how far we’ve already dysfunctional government Not a man of the people. He President Obama will have George Will has, so I trust At our long-ago dinner, gone in hiring private con- with a state that can deliver arrived in a chauffeured to step it up on jobs and fixing the experts, and to me Limbaugh credited his suc- tractors to do jobs that the for the Afghan people so town car and ordered $70- the deficit if he wants to they’re the people in the cess with being “one- State Department, they won’t side with the an-ounce Beluga, block conservatives from U.S. military.” dimensional.”“I’m totally Pentagon and CIA once did Taliban. I might be more Porterhouse and 1990 stoking the anger of Even a chickenhawk like concerned with me,”he said. on their own. A good place open to that project if we Corton-Charlemagne. Americans who only see a Rush should remember how And that was way before he to start is with the had a true global alliance to But he was not a recovery on Wall Street, well that worked in Vietnam, got a contract for $400 mil- Middlebury College profes- share the burden of an Neanderthal, though he did especially given Republicans’ or in the early years of Iraq. lion, so we can only imagine sor Allison Stanger’s new effort that will take have a cold and blew his nose inroads Tuesday night. The founding fathers desig- how one-dimensional he is book on this subject, “One decades. But we don’t. in his napkin. He talked But the tactics of nated a civilian as command- now. Nation Under Contract: European publics do not about Chopin’s Polonaise Limbaugh, Palin, Cheney & er in chief for a reason. But on Sunday,he ripped The Outsourcing of favor this war, and our allies No. 6, C.S. Lewis and how Fille are more cynical: They Military brass have told the the president for having “an American Power and the will only pony up just much he loved the end of the spin certainty,ignoring their White House that this is the out-of-this-world ego,”for Future of Foreign Policy.” enough troops to get their movie “Love Story.“ side’s screw-ups, and they first time in eight years that being “very narcissistic,” Every year, more and official “Frequent U.S. Ally In those days, he called exploit patriotism, labeling they have gotten the atten- “immature, inexperienced, in more of the core business of Card” renewed. We’ll make himself a “harmless little all critics as traitors. tion and resources that over his head.”(Isn’t imma- national security “is being up the difference by hiring fuzzball.”He’s a lot less In an interview on “Fox they’ve needed in turity scoring OxyContin shifted into the hands of private contractors. harmless now.I went on to News Sunday With Chris Afghanistan. from your maid?) private contractors — much The government may columny,as my pal Bill Safire Wallace,”Limbaugh accused Limbaugh calls Obama the It gives new meaning to more than our public real- operate more efficiently called it, and Rush went on the president of trying to “man-child president.” pot, kettle and black. izes,”Stanger said to me. with private contractors. to calumny. destroy the economy — yes, The 48-year-old Obama is One big reason why we’ve And outsourcing can often As he and Sarah Palin con- the same economy that W. skinny and getting skinnier, Maureen Dowd is a been able to fight the wars deliver real innovation, duct their auto-da-fe of came within a whisker of but there’s nothing childish columnist for The in Afghanistan and Iraq especially in economic moderate Republicans — ruining. about him. He more or less Washington Post. Write to with so few allies is because development. Still, I’m old- “Moderates by definition “I have to think that it may raised himself and came to her a [email protected]. we’ve basically hired the fashioned: When America is have no principles,”he told be on purpose,”Limbaugh help. acting abroad, I prefer our his radio audience on said, “because this is just “Afghanistan and Iraq,” public services to be pro- Monday — Limbaugh is more outrageous, what is happen- explained Stanger, “are our vided as much as possible than ever the face of his ing — a denial of liberty,an ® first contractors’ wars, dif- by public servants motivat- party,as Rahm Emanuel said. attack on freedom.” Lennox Lessons fering from previous inter- ed by, and schooled in, the He’s also the mouth. Asked about Afghanistan, Scented candles do not transform air quality. We do. ventions in their unprece- common good and simple Limbaugh is right that another W.cataclysm that dented reliance on the pri- patriotism — not profits or Democrats tend to dither too has left Obama agonizing, vate sector for all aspects of private ambitions. much. They’re always won- Limbaugh stated,“I also their execution. According dering if they’re doing the don’t think he cares much to the Congressional Thomas Friedman is a right thing, indulging in on- about it.”Again suggesting Research Service, contrac- columnist for The New the-one-hand, on-the- that the president is an unpa- tors in 2009 accounted for York Times. other paralysis by analysis, triotic fop, the radio ranter
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