| N.M. Environment Department proposes limit to truck idling
SANTA FE—The state Environment Department is considering limiting the amount of time long-haul truckers can leave their vehicles idling at truck stops. The department plans four hearings around the state this month about the proposed rule. The proposal is a result of Gov. Bill Richardson's executive order to reduce the state's greenhouse-gas emissions to 75 percent below 2000 levels by 2050. The new regulation would apply only to commercial trucks weighing at least 16,001 pounds. No time limit on idling has been proposed. Drivers power the heat and air conditioning in their truck sleeping berths by letting the engine run while they rest. Those idling engines—even in cleaner new models—produce thousands of tons of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and other pollutants, according to the Environment Department.
Judge reprimanded for 2006 election contributions, claims
The letter of reprimand also said Glover accepted one corporate contribution during his 2006 campaign and two for his 1998 campaign, which are not allowed under state law.
Glover returned those contributions.
Information from: The Tennessean, http://www.tennessean.com .
The Winchester Star
Winchester — A Winchester man convicted of killing a city police officer plans to appeal the decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals made last month to uphold his death sentence. Edward Nathaniel Bell, 42, is asking the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to put its decision on hold while he petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case. On Jan. 29, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond denied Bell’s petition for a panel rehearing. Bell, who was appealing his death sentence for the Oct. 29, 1999, capital murder of Winchester Police Sgt. Rick L. Timbrook, was asking the court to reconsider its Dec. 4 decision that he was not entitled to a new sentencing hearing. Bell’s attorneys had argued before a three-judge Court of Appeals panel on Oct.
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Santorno's academic justification at last week's school board meeting was weak (the claims made are nothing a community school wouldn't do 10 fold) and her analogy to her own children was disappointing. I don't think of a junior cheerleader as the kind of mentoring a middle school male needs to stay focused. Yikes. If this is such a good idea, why isn't anyone doing it elsewhere? It looks like, smells like, and acts like costs saving masquerading as student benefit. Why wasn't a plan to give Sealth a Taj Mahal of their own created? Certainly the architectural lack of merit of their building must have at least whispered a tear down at which point cost would be contained by new building construction costs. This is in striking contrast to the complexities and astronomical costs of remodel associated with projects like Roosevelt, Garfield, and Hamilton which I guess from the era they were built gives them something warm and fuzzy to hang onto and go to the bank with.
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