The number of plastic bags used by the Zero every year to deliver its papers in plastic bags.
No wonder the Zero editorialized in favor of the plastic bag ban.
The daily  newspaper of record is exempted from the ban. For now.

Q: I use my plastic bags to pick up after my dog. How will I pick up dog poop?
A: Produce bags such as fruit and vegetable bags from the grocery or market will still be
available. Newspaper cover bags and dog waste bags are also options. Additionally,
customers have until January 2012 to prepare.

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Posted by BigGovernment.com, video of Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development stating openly how she deliberately discriminated against a poor White farmer, to an approving audience at a NAACP Awards banquet in March.

Fox News reports that Ms. Sherrod submitted her resignation after the video surfaced.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said,

“There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person. We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously.”

A second video at the BigGovernment.com link above, shows Ms. Sherrod, “begs black men and women into taking government jobs at USDA — because they won’t get fired.”

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Go back to Europe? Whites don’t belong in America? This is America and it belongs to Mexico?

Doesn’t this young lady know of her own ancestral ties to Europe through Spain and several other nations?

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NW Republican has it here.

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Residents of “America’s Vancouver” are probably feeling like a little more as if they’re living in some European welfare state after receiving word their mayor won’t fight tolls on the proposed replacement for the Interstate bridge. Tim Leavitt’s position represents an about face on his steadfast promise of no tolls on the new interstate bridge. It was a promised which propelled him into office. What’s worse is Leavitt’s rationale for wanting to toll. I’ll get to that in a moment.
Tim Leavitt deposed his rival, incumbent Mayor Royce Pollard, on the promise of not tolling Vancouverites, but as he’s gotten closer to the process of the Columbia River Crossing realizes that the professional planner class will nick the money from someone and he doesn’t want it to be solely residents of Vancouver. Fair enough. Leavitt’s always maintained that it’s not fair to toll Vancouverites at all because those who work in Oregon already pay income taxes and receive little or no benefit. In fact, for all their trouble, Vancouverites who take I-5 travel among the worst maintained portion of the interstate on the west coast.
But what’s worse is Leavitt’s “solution.” Leavitt proposes to tax/toll anyone who travels along the eventually improved I-5 corridor.

Leavitt is now suggesting a form of point-access tolling, which would assess a fee for any single-occupant vehicle that enters the corridor. He specifically mentioned Oregonians who drive on I-5 between Marine Drive and Hayden Island, although the same burden would theoretically apply to travel between state Highway 500 and downtown Vancouver.

The idea of throwing all taxpayers (and the businesses within the corridor) under the bus light rail choo choo for the improvements is unconscionable.
When light rail additions take up an estimated 40% of the cost of building a bridge AND those few riders who will take it will be SUBSIDIZED, it’s repulsive to consider that the unnecessary expenditure will be borne by those who by necessity or choice drive. From the Washington Policy Center:

 According to the Regional Transportation Council, the bridge carries about 3,300 transit trips per day. That means only 2.4 percent of all trips that cross the bridge are on public transit. Adding light rail to the bridge would increase costs by about $1.17 billion. This means local officials want to spend 40 percent more in order to serve 2.4 percent of total bridge crossings.

Those who would take light rail ALREADY take the perfectly adequate C-Tran.
As WPC pointed out in an 2008 op ed:

Light rail is expensive and it requires significant public assistance. On average, West Coast light-rail systems need taxpayer subsidies to pay for 73 percent of operations and 100 percent of capital improvements every year.

Light rail is far less efficient than a bus system. Attracting a new rider to light rail costs 16 to 47 times as much as attracting a new rider to a traditional bus system. And when accounting for passenger demand, West Coast light rail is 12 percent more expensive to operate than bus service.

 Don’t fall for the hype, Tim. Royce Pollard was thrown out of office for his willingness to be dictated to by Metro. Vancouver elected a leader who would represent them. This is not representation, it’s capitulation.

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The number of plastic bags used by the Zero every year to deliver its papers in plastic bags.
No wonder the Zero editorialized in favor of the plastic bag ban.
The daily  newspaper of record is exempted from the ban. For now.

Q: I use my plastic bags to pick up after my dog. How will I pick up dog poop?
A: Produce bags such as fruit and vegetable bags from the grocery or market will still be
available. Newspaper cover bags and dog waste bags are also options. Additionally,
customers have until January 2012 to prepare.

Follow

NW Republican has it here.

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Residents of “America’s Vancouver” are probably feeling like a little more as if they’re living in some European welfare state after receiving word their mayor won’t fight tolls on the proposed replacement for the Interstate bridge. Tim Leavitt’s position represents an about face on his steadfast promise of no tolls on the new interstate bridge. It was a promised which propelled him into office. What’s worse is Leavitt’s rationale for wanting to toll. I’ll get to that in a moment.
Tim Leavitt deposed his rival, incumbent Mayor Royce Pollard, on the promise of not tolling Vancouverites, but as he’s gotten closer to the process of the Columbia River Crossing realizes that the professional planner class will nick the money from someone and he doesn’t want it to be solely residents of Vancouver. Fair enough. Leavitt’s always maintained that it’s not fair to toll Vancouverites at all because those who work in Oregon already pay income taxes and receive little or no benefit. In fact, for all their trouble, Vancouverites who take I-5 travel among the worst maintained portion of the interstate on the west coast.
But what’s worse is Leavitt’s “solution.” Leavitt proposes to tax/toll anyone who travels along the eventually improved I-5 corridor.

Leavitt is now suggesting a form of point-access tolling, which would assess a fee for any single-occupant vehicle that enters the corridor. He specifically mentioned Oregonians who drive on I-5 between Marine Drive and Hayden Island, although the same burden would theoretically apply to travel between state Highway 500 and downtown Vancouver.

The idea of throwing all taxpayers (and the businesses within the corridor) under the bus light rail choo choo for the improvements is unconscionable.
When light rail additions take up an estimated 40% of the cost of building a bridge AND those few riders who will take it will be SUBSIDIZED, it’s repulsive to consider that the unnecessary expenditure will be borne by those who by necessity or choice drive. From the Washington Policy Center:

 According to the Regional Transportation Council, the bridge carries about 3,300 transit trips per day. That means only 2.4 percent of all trips that cross the bridge are on public transit. Adding light rail to the bridge would increase costs by about $1.17 billion. This means local officials want to spend 40 percent more in order to serve 2.4 percent of total bridge crossings.

Those who would take light rail ALREADY take the perfectly adequate C-Tran.
As WPC pointed out in an 2008 op ed:

Light rail is expensive and it requires significant public assistance. On average, West Coast light-rail systems need taxpayer subsidies to pay for 73 percent of operations and 100 percent of capital improvements every year.

Light rail is far less efficient than a bus system. Attracting a new rider to light rail costs 16 to 47 times as much as attracting a new rider to a traditional bus system. And when accounting for passenger demand, West Coast light rail is 12 percent more expensive to operate than bus service.

 Don’t fall for the hype, Tim. Royce Pollard was thrown out of office for his willingness to be dictated to by Metro. Vancouver elected a leader who would represent them. This is not representation, it’s capitulation.

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