Burglary suspect beat by couple in Cape
(06/05/03)
It isn't clear what a suspected burglar was looking for when he broke into a Spanish Street apartment, but he left with a bruised and bloodied face. Cape Girardeau police found Kristoffer Edward Ponzar, 29, of Cape Girardeau, lying on the steps outside an apartment house at 105 S. Spanish, beaten so badly he required hospitalization...
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Stories from Thursday, June 5, 2003
Region briefs 06/05/03
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Cape bridge down to one lane for part of today Traffic on the Mississippi River bridge in Cape Girardeau will be reduced to one lane from 8:30 a.m. until noon today. Crews from Jefferson City will be making bridge repairs, weather permitting. Drivers are urged to use caution while traveling through the work zone. For more information, call (888) 275-6636...
Community Q&A 6/5/03
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Community cuisine 6/5/03
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Pork roast dinner to be held Saturday, Sunday A pork roast dinner with all the trimmings will be held at Bald Knob Cross in Alto Pass, Ill., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. A church service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. The gift shop will open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. To get to the cross, take Illinois Highway 146 east to Illinois Highway 127 north and follow the signs. For more information call (618) 532-8188...
Military digest 6/5/03
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Hotop returns from six-month deployment Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Derek N. Hotop, son of Glenda L. Hotop of Perryville, Mo., recently returned from a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf. He was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, homeported in Norfolk, Va...
Cape Newcomer's Club offers variety of activities
(06/05/03)
The Cape Girardeau Newcomer's Club can be defined in two words: at ease. Living in a new community, which for many is only a temporary residence, is the common thread shared by all. "There are no cliques here," said Carla Harold, originally from Kansas City, Kan...
Thermal cameras give local fire departments an edge
(06/05/03)
Three local fire departments have gained a technological advantage in battling flames and finding victims. The East County Fire Protection District and the Scott City and Cape Girardeau fire departments were presented three new thermal imaging cameras Wednesday afternoon at Station No. 1 in Cape Girardeau...
Cool place to be
(06/05/03)
The unofficial beginning of summer has given swimmers the cold shoulder. Only nine braved the water during the hour and a half the Jackson's city pool operated on Monday's opening day. The high temperature that second day of June was only 65 degrees...
Civic leaders experience poverty in simulation
(06/05/03)
For a few hours Wednesday morning, Nancy Jernigan lived another life, one no one ever would have chosen. In that life, Jernigan was a troubled 14-year-old, not a prominent resident and executive director of the Area Wide United Way. In that life, she was abandoned by her father, who left the family with no money and a stack of bills...
Community digest 6/5/03
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Enrollment open for Super Sitter classes Enrollment is open for the summer Super Sitter classes sponsored by Southeast Missouri Hospital. Classes are held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the following dates: June 18, June 24, July 8, July 17, July 22, July 30 and Aug. 6...
Jackson's tornado a month later
(06/05/03)
The gawkers don't come around anymore in Jackson. The volunteers who came in droves to help strangers remove debris and salvage the salvageable are seldom seen. Traffic comes and goes as it pleases. For those Jackson residents who were not directly hit by the May 6 tornado, it may appear that business is getting back to normal...
Group claims tax loopholes hurting education, health
(06/05/03)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Some of the state's largest companies are using loopholes to avoid paying taxes that could help boost education and health care, according to a report Wednesday by an advocacy group. The Coalition to Protect Education and Health Care said 98 of the 540 largest companies in Missouri -- each reporting more than $50 million in federal taxable income -- paid no Missouri income taxes...
Big increase expected in Alzheimer's cases
(06/05/03)
ST. LOUIS -- By 2030, the number of Alzheimer's patients will double or triple unless ways are found to delay onset of the progressive, degenerative brain disease, an Alzheimer's expert said Wednesday as a conference began at Saint Louis University...
Blagojevich plans to veto pay raises for Illinois officials
(06/05/03)
CHICAGO -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Wednesday he will veto pay raises for the state's constitutional officers, agency directors, judges and lawmakers as part of $22 million in cuts to the state budget just approved by the General Assembly. Blagojevich also said he will cut money, put in the budget over his objection, that would continue to fund more than 200 captains' jobs in the state Department of Corrections...
Storm-struck Pierce City gets relief from pool
(06/05/03)
PIERCE CITY, Mo. -- Some held their nose or a friend's hand. Others just wanted to get it over quickly and jumped solo. But all who plunged into the Pierce City Pool had the same initial reaction: "It's cold." While summer does not officially begin for the rest of the country until June 21, it got underway in Pierce City at 1:27 p.m. Wednesday, when the first children passed through the pool gates...
Department chiefs decry new job cuts in Missouri budget
(06/05/03)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The proposed elimination of 538 administrative positions at three state departments would have a devastating impact on their ability to provide services to Missourians, department officials told lawmakers Wednesday. Department of Social Services director Steve Roling said his office would become a one-man shop under the cuts endorsed by the House Budget Committee...
Holden, lawmakers confront one another in special session
(06/05/03)
Associated Press WriterJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- On a tense and raucous day at the Missouri Capitol, Democratic Gov. Bob Holden and Republican legislative leaders confronted one another with starkly different plans for the state's spending and taxing as hundreds of Missourians cheered and jeered them...
Bulls sold in Montana linked to diseased cow
(06/05/03)
HELENA, Mont. -- Five bulls from a Canadian herd that included a cow with mad-cow disease were shipped to Montana six years ago and have since been slaughtered, state officials said Wednesday. None of the animals showed clinical signs of the disease, said Karen Cooper, spokeswoman for the Montana Department of Livestock. What became of the carcasses after slaughter was unclear...
People talk 6/5/03
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School's out, but Osbournes are not NEW YORK -- School's out, but "The Osbournes" are back in session. Ten new episodes of the MTV reality series will air throughout the summer, starting at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. The cable music channel said Tuesday that the shows will follow Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne, and their various pets and friends, at their Los Angeles home and on the road...
Abortion ban gets passed by U.S. House
(06/05/03)
WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to ban a procedure that abortion foes call "partial birth" abortion, moving the restriction a crucial step closer to President Bush's signature. With the 282-139 vote, Congress was on the verge of ending a practice that Rep. Steve Chabot said was "truly a national tragedy."...
Dow closes above 9,000 mark for first time in nearly 10 months
(06/05/03)
NEW YORK -- The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9,000 Wednesday for the first time in nearly 10 months, soaring more than 100 points following a pair of positive economic reports. The gains were surprising given some bad news from DaimlerChrysler, which warned of a big loss in its struggling Chrysler division, and the fact that many analysts believe stocks were due for a pullback following weeks of heavy buying...
House GOP leaders pull overtime bill from schedule
(06/05/03)
WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders yanked an overtime pay bill from Thursday's schedule after failing to find enough votes for passage, a rare win for labor unions in a Congress controlled by the GOP. Wednesday's move followed a massive lobbying effort by organized labor that targeted moderate House Republicans...
Statue of Eisenhower finds place in Capitol
(06/05/03)
WASHINGTON -- It took four years to bring a statue of President Eisenhower to the Capitol, longer than it took the Allies to defeat the Germans during World War II. Dwight D. Eisenhower assumed a permanent place in the Capitol during a dedication ceremony Wednesday as congressional leaders accepted the sculpture into the National Statuary Hall Collection...
Taco Bell told to pay millions in dispute over talking dog ad
(06/05/03)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- A federal jury Wednesday ordered Taco Bell Corp. to pay $30.1 million to two men who claimed the fast-food chain stole their idea for the advertising campaign featuring a talking Chihuahua. Thomas Rinks and Joseph Shields, both of the Grand Rapids area, sued Taco Bell in 1998, saying they pitched the idea for a character called "Psycho Chihuahua" more than a year before Taco Bell began airing the dog commercials in 1997...
Killer among inmates escaping from prison
(06/05/03)
CONCORD, N.H. -- A convicted killer and two other inmates escaped from a state prison on a busy street Wednesday by cutting through two fences. Officials said the men shed their green jumpsuits soon after escaping, but would not say where the jumpsuits were found...
Space shuttle investigator surprised by foam-impact test
(06/05/03)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Columbia accident investigator in charge of a series of impact tests said Wednesday he is surprised by the incredible force with which a 1 1/2-pound chunk of space shuttle foam struck and deformed a fiberglass wing replica...
Authorities find missing infant safe, healthy
(06/05/03)
DENVER -- A 2-week-old baby was back in his mother's arms Wednesday, about 24 hours after police said a woman posing as a church worker drove off with the child. Police chief Gerry Whitman said a suspect was in custody, but wouldn't say who it was or whether police think more people were involved...
Martha Stewart indicted in stock scandal
(06/05/03)
NEW YORK -- Martha Stewart, the steely perfectionist who built a fortune by selling her vision of good taste and gracious living, was indicted Wednesday in an insider-trading scandal that could put her behind bars. Hours later, she stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer of her media empire...
U.S., Norway embassies close, citing security
(06/05/03)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The United States and Norway closed their embassies in the capital of Ethiopia on Wednesday amid heightened fears of terrorism for both nations. Police set up a roadblock on the street that passes the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy compound on the outskirts of Addis Ababa and were stopping and checking all vehicles...
Kuwaiti sentenced to hang for killing American
(06/05/03)
KUWAIT CITY -- A Kuwaiti court sentenced an Islamic extremist Wednesday to death by hanging for killing an American civilian working for the U.S. military. Sami al-Mutairi, a 25-year-old civil servant who authorities say was inspired by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, also seriously injured a second American civilian contractor in the Jan. 21 attack...
Hong Kong commemorates Tiananmen crackdown amid fears
(06/05/03)
HONG KONG -- More than 20,000 people turned an urban park into a sea of candlelight Wednesday, marking the 14th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown with hopes for democracy in China and fears about crumbling freedoms in Hong Kong. They sang patriotic songs and chanted "fight against the dictatorship," in a blunt attack on China's one-party political system. Some worry such protests will be harder to make after Hong Kong passes an anti-subversion bill in coming weeks...
Russia offers NATO help, not troops, in Afghanistan
(06/05/03)
MADRID, Spain -- Russia is offering intelligence and other support for a NATO peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan but will not send troops to the nation once occupied by the Soviet Union for 10 years, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Wednesday. Meeting his NATO counterparts, Ivanov said the offer showed the increasingly close relationship between the former Cold War foes...
Ruins of Saddam's suspected hideout searched
(06/05/03)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Using bulldozers, backhoes and loaders, U.S. Army combat engineers dug through a rubble-filled crater Wednesday, trying to determine whether Saddam Hussein died in an April 7 airstrike on the house where he was believed to be hiding...
Israeli, Palestinian leaders take first steps toward peace
(06/05/03)
AQABA, Jordan -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas launched a groundbreaking peace plan Wednesday with President Bush's encouragement, offering once-unthinkable pledges in hopes of ending decades of Mideast bloodshed...
Head-on train collision in Spain kills at least 19
(06/05/03)
MADRID, Spain -- Rescuers and forensic experts searched through twisted, smoking wreckage Wednesday from a head-on train collision in central Spain that killed at least 19 people. The state-owned rail company, Renfe, said 40 people were injured but most were treated and released...
WHO officials reporting SARS now in decline
(06/05/03)
BEIJING -- For the first time since March 28 when the SARS virus began to take hold in eastern Asia and Toronto, there were no deaths anywhere in the world from the tenacious disease, world health authorities said Wednesday. With outbreaks at all the initial hot zones either contained or coming under control, severe acute respiratory syndrome is clearly in decline, the World Health Organization said...
Oran rallies for Class 1 title shot
(06/05/03)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Trey Graviett's sixth-inning home run that nearly sailed over the left-field bullpen and out of Taylor Stadium was a sight to see during Wednesday's Class 1 semifinal. But it was the Oran senior's two-run triple in the seventh inning that finally provided the top-ranked Eagles enough breathing room to advance into tonight's state-championship final with a 7-3 victory over No. 6 Concordia...
Rare state feat lifted Lewer to first title
(06/05/03)
As far as attention goes, Nathan Lewer may have flown under radar at the recent Class 2 state track and field championship. But then again, it's possible he soared over radar. Lewer, who just finished his junior year at Kelly High School, cleared a personal-best 6 feet, 8 inches in winning a state title in the high jump two weekends ago...
Record turnout welcomes start of leagues
(06/05/03)
The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department introduced two volleyball leagues to the public about 10 years ago. This year, one of the leagues has ecscalated to record numbers. The six-on-six division, open to anyone 18 and older, has a record 152 players that began this week as the first of several summer leagues operated by the city... 
Growing into cycling
(06/05/03)
A typical child might learn how to ride a bicycle with training wheels before he learns to ride anything else. Dustin Gross, 23, of Cape Girardeau took a more unusual route. Gross was racing motorcycles before climbing onto a bike. He was 6 when he had his first high-powered race, and it wasn't until he was 7 that he straddled a bike seat...
Isringhausen set for rehab return today
(06/05/03)
ST. LOUIS -- Cardinals closer Jason Isringhausen, still recovering from off-season shoulder surgery, will make his first rehab appearance today for Double-A Tennessee. Isringhausen is scheduled to start the game and throw one inning to catcher Joe Girardi, who is rehabbing from a back injury and is close to being activated. Isringhausen is scheduled to pitch again on Sunday and could be activated after that...
Cardinals win second game against Toronto
(06/05/03)
AP Sports Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Interleague games are bringing out the best in Tino Martinez. Martinez has four hits and four RBIs in the first two games of the St. Louis Cardinals' series with Toronto, contributing with a run-scoring single and triple in an 8-5 victory Wednesday night...
Spurs finish strong to win series opener
(06/05/03)
SAN ANTONIO -- The rebound came off the rim, Tim Duncan grabbed it and fired a 60-foot pass ahead of the field to Stephen Jackson for an uncontested dunk. It was a pass that would have made Jason Kidd proud, if it had been Kidd who had thrown it. But it wasn't Kidd, it was Duncan -- and it put a flourish of a finish on a decisive third-quarter run that led San Antonio to a 101-89 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the NBA Finals...
No cork in Sosa's 76 bats tested by MLB
(06/05/03)
CHICAGO -- No cork or other foreign material was found in any of the 76 bats confiscated from Sammy Sosa's locker and X-rayed by baseball officials. The bats were taken from the Chicago Cubs' locker room during the game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Tuesday night. Cork was found in Sosa's bat when it shattered after he grounded out in the first inning of the Cubs' 3-2 victory...
Ducks go to N.J. with title hopes intact
(06/05/03)
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Talk about culture shock. As the Anaheim Mighty Ducks traveled from the comfortable confines of the Pond to the inhospitable New Jersey swampland for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals, they found themselves as far away from Fantasyland as possible...
Area digest 6/5/03
(06/05/03)
Southeast's Scott qualifies for nationals Southeast Missouri State University senior Shelton Scott has qualified in the long jump and triple jump for the NCAA Track and Field Championships June 11 to 14 in Sacramento, Calif...
FanFare 6/5/03
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Briefly Baseball
Health calendar
(06/05/03)
Today Infant massage class from 8 to 10 a.m. in Friends Lounge at St. Francis Medical Center. Call 331-5107 for information; fee is $25. Blood pressure screening from 10 to 11:30 a.m.. at Cape Girardeau Senior Center, sponsored by Generations Center at Southeast Missouri Hospital. For information, call 651-5825...
Surgery saves sight
(06/05/03)
Americans undergo more than a million LASIK procedures a year, most to correct nearsightedness. By Lauran Neergaard ~ The Associated PressWASHINGTON Consider it an ocular fingerprint: A new generation of laser eye surgery is beginning that maps subtle irregularities in the cornea before it's zapped -- in hopes of crisper vision and fewer side effects...
Shape Up Cape team results
(06/05/03)
Point averages NON-PROFITSoutheast Missouri State University President's Team 89.900 City of Cape Girardeau 86.700 Lynwood Baptist Church 48.500 Cape Girardeau Public Library 41.111 Old Town Cape 40.667 Area Wide United Way 25.500 SMALL BUSINESSWells Fargo Financial 81.000...
'Your wife is on the phone'
(06/05/03)
June 5, 2003 Dear Patty, Late some Sunday afternoons I go to the golf course to play just a few holes by myself in the setting sun. The weekend crowd has gone home to nurse their battered egos and strained backs, leaving the course almost empty. The birds chirping goodbye to the day and the golden light create a kind of magical serenity...
Virginia Gwaltney
(06/05/03)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Virginia G. Gwaltney, 88, of Sikeston died Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at Hunter Acres Caring Center. She was born Oct. 15, 1914, in Newbern, Tenn., daughter of John Thomas and Esther Dickson Griffin. She and Fred L. Gwaltney were married Aug. 30, 1969, in Sikeston. He died June 25, 2000...
Rachel Pierce
(06/05/03)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Rachel Ruth Pierce, 88, of Sikeston died Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Feb. 8, 1915, in Hornersville, Mo., daughter of Peter V. and Lora Moody Branum. She and Cheston Pierce were married July 25, 1971, in Sikeston...
Carl Hinkle
(06/05/03)
ANNA, Ill. -- Carl Preston Hinkle, 80, of Anna died Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at Illinois Veterans Home in Anna. He was born Feb. 25, 1923, in Anna, son of Francis and Lena Jackson Hinkle. He and Ruth Vowels were married Jan. 6, 1941, at Charleston, Mo...
Paul Thomure
(06/05/03)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Paul J. "Tobe" Thomure, 81, of Perryville died Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at Barnes-Jewish Medical Center in St. Louis. He was born Jan. 21, 1922, at St. Mary, Mo., son of Tobias Jerome and Eleanor Caldwell Thomure. He and Madeline R. Picou were married Jan. 21, 1941, in St. Louis. She died Sept. 25, 2002...
Mark Wheelis
(06/05/03)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Mark Steven Wheelis, 19, of Onalaska, Texas, died Monday, June 2, 2003, in a drowning accident in Onalaska. He was born Sept. 19, 1983, in Charleston, Mo., son of William Glen and Betty Ann Wheelis Jr. He was formerly of East Prairie and Chaffee, Mo...
Robert Wilhite
(06/05/03)
Robert Edward Wilhite, 80, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, June 2, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Nov. 28, 1922, in Liberal, Kan., son of Dr. John R. Wilhite and Lillian May Abington Wilhite. He and Mary Dean Johnson were married Aug. 7, 1960...
Nelda Braswell
(06/05/03)
Nelda Ruth Braswell, 87, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Sept. 28, 1915, in Jackson, daughter of Perle Otis and Ula Grace Shaner Taylor. She and John W. Braswell were married June 24, 1939, in St. Louis. He died Sept. 22, 2001...
Verna Petzoldt
(06/05/03)
Verna D. Petzoldt, 68, of Oak Ridge died Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
Births 6/5/03
(06/05/03)
CavanessSon to Michael Ray and Natalie Gayle Cavaness of Anna, Ill., St. Francis Medical Center, 7:22 a.m. Wednesday, May 28, 2003. Name, Tristan Ryne. Weight, 6 pounds 14 ounces. First child. Mrs. Cavaness is the former Natalie Casper, daughter of Gerald and Martha Casper of Cobden, Ill. She is employed in the bakery at Schnucks in Carbondale, Ill. Cavaness is the son of Walter and Annette Cavaness of Cobden. He is employed at Transcraft Corp. in Anna...
Cape fire report 6/5/03
(06/05/03)
Cape Girardeau Thursday, June 5 Firefighters responded to the following items Wednesday: At 1:59 a.m., an alarm sounding at 2852 Independence. At 9:27 a.m., a medical assist at 1115 Woodland Drive. At 12:01 p.m., an alarm sounding at 630 North St. At 12:20 p.m., a medical assist at the 99-mile marker on Interstate 55...
Cape/Jackson police reports 6/5/03
(06/05/03)
Cape Girardeau Thursday, June 5 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Emmanuel Tramez Ware, 23, of 805 S. Sprigg, Cape Girardeau, was arrested Tuesday on a Cape Girardeau warrant for contempt of court...
Out of the past 6/5/03
(06/05/03)
10 years ago: June 5, 1993 Instead of lawn mowers, whining sound of chain saws is heard throughout much of area as clean-up operations are under way in large area that was ravaged by severe thunderstorms yesterday morning; in parts of Missouri Bootheel and Western Kentucky and Tennessee, residents had to endure second round of severe weather as more storms redeveloped that night; in Southeast Missouri, line of storms cut wide swathe of damage from Lake Wappapello northeast of Poplar Bluff to Mississippi River.. ...
Jackson well on its way to restoring order
(06/05/03)
On Friday, it will have been one month since a devastating tornado ravaged Jackson, destroying homes, businesses, schools and other buildings and disrupting lives. But in the weeks since, the howls of destructive wind and crumpling wood have been replaced with something much better: the sounds of survival and rebirth...
School spending is budget scapegoat
(06/05/03)
For Missouri to lose 5,000 public-school educators, as first estimated -- or even 3,400, as later calculated -- would be a serious loss. When it comes to that, we are in full agreement with Gov. Bob Holden and a group of school administrators who are making that claim...
Wiles epitomizes best of being college professor
(06/05/03)
To the editor: I want to congratulate Dr. Charles Wiles on his new position in Southeast Missouri State University's athletic department. As a former student of Wiles, I am sure there are many other students who will agree with me that he is a superb educator who has impacted the lives of many of us who have gone on to work in a marketing or communications environment. He epitomizes what a college professor should be...
Article is proof that kindness is contagious
(06/05/03)
To the editor: In response to the article "Family's paper trail reaches happy ending": Thank you for the recent article about the recovery of Eulah Detweiler's, my late aunt's, high school diploma. Also, a huge thank you to the Dumey family of Jackson for taking the time and effort to find my mother, Dr. Myra Morris Peo, and return the diploma to her. It was my mother's bridge partner, Ann, who spotted the article and recognized the name...
Speak Out A 06/05/03
(06/05/03)
The cost of firing ON FIRING the city manager: Add up the figures to see what this costs the taxpayers -- the severance pay, the interim pay for the acting manager, the cost of advertising for a new manager, the cost of bringing prospective employees to Cape Girardeau. Something most people don't realize: when a city manager is fired, it's generally not because the council doesn't want a bureaucrat who is quick to raise objections to suggested solutions, it's because council wants a yes man... |
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