| Dave Freeland annnounces upcoming retirement plans
District Ranger Dave Freeland announced his plans last week to retire from the U.S. Forest Service on Oct. 3, capping a 34-year career in public service. For the last seven years Freeland has been been responsible for the Kern River Ranger District on the Sequoia National Forest. “I'm excited. I've been considering this for about a year," Freeland said. “I know I've been driving my wife, Debbie, crazy with the back and forth of 'Should I retire or shouldn't I?' But I remember a friend once told me when you start to feel that 'tug' it's time to retire. “Emotionally, it's hard. I'm going through withdrawls," Freeland said. “But now that I've made the announcement, it feels like a huge weight has been lifted from me. This isn't a job or a career; it's a lifestyle.
County surveys businesses to gauge trucking restriction impacts
Humboldt County officials want to know how U.S. Highway 101 restrictions, which prevent national industry standard trucks from venturing north of Leggett, are impacting area businesses and the economy. The Humboldt County Community Development Services' Division of Economic Development began soliciting input from area industry leaders last week to help quantify the economic effects of the restrictions. The federal Surface Transportation Assistance Act passed in 1982 allows trucks larger than California's laws permit to travel the nation's interstate and other primary routes, but restrictions on U.S. Highway 101 and Highway 299 are keeping the trucks out. The online survey targets industry leaders, but Jacqueline Debets, economic development coordinator with the Economic Development Division, said the restraints affect not only retailers and manufacturers, but anyone who ships anything in or out of the North Coast.
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But I've also appreciated Fred's unwillingness to be somebody he is not. He will not respond like a puppet when a debate moderator tells him to raise his hand to signify a childishly simplistic approval or disapproval of a certain policy. He will not be goaded by interviewers into saying things he doesn't feel comfortable saying. He won't divide us with class envy or pretend we can be friends with rogue regimes or terrorists. He does not promise a chicken in every pot or pander to liberals on global warming. {{{{{He will not otherwise tailor his positions to suit the demands of particular constituencies. For example, he has the courage to preach that Social Security is in trouble, but unlike most others, he doesn't surrender to the oppressive populist seduction to urge government fixes for it or for health care.
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Tour de France runner-up and 2007 ProTour Champion, Cadel Evans, has already experienced racing in Beijing in August after winning the time trial at last year's test event. "There is really not much you can do to combat the heat and humidity but we will be preparing in the European summer so that will help," said Evans, who will race the Tour de France that finishes two weeks before the first Olympic Games road cycling event. "It's a case of being cautious to make sure you don't get sick and to look after yourself in terms of the way you train and how you recover in the hot, humid conditions." The shadow squad for the Beijing Olympics include: Alan Davis (Unattached), Ben Day (Toyota-United), Matt Lloyd (Silenc-Lotto), Michael Rogers (Team High Road), Adam Hansen(Team High Road), William Walker (Rabobank), Matt Hayman (Rabobank), Baden Cooke (Barloworld), Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto), Simon Gerrans (Credit Agricol), Oenone Wood (Team High Road), Sara Carrigan (Lotto-Belisol), Olivia Gollan (Menikini Gysko), Bridie O'Donnell (Unattached) and Rochelle Gilmore (Menikini Gysko).
Women’s Center calls Zeta Psi’s behavior ‘inexcusable’
Imagine, if you will, a winter night at Yale. A group of Caucasian students, perhaps intoxicated, perhaps just seeking good times, have gathered in front of a campus cultural house. They are pledges of the Yale chapter of a nationwide, all-white organization. According to plan, one whips out a digital camera. Another proudly clutches a type-written sign. Thrilled, the pledges crowd around the sign and smile lasciviously at the camera. They pose. A picture is taken. The building: the Af-Am house. The sign: “WE LOVE YALE N-GGERS." If this happened, would an apology suffice? This analogy is imperfect. It is only a crude attempt to portray the emotional and psychological violence of hate speech. The gentlemen of Zeta Psi have apologized to “YALE SLUTS" — but only for what they thought they'd been caught for.
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