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The number of tanker and pipeline spills from the Northern Gateway project will be much higher than Enbridge has estimated if it goes ahead, say Simon Fraser University researchers in a new study.
The report, released Thursday, looked at three components of the $6.5-billion megaproject: the pipeline through B.C., the marine terminal in Kitimat and tankers.
Using an oil spill risk assessment model employed by the U.S. government, researchers concluded that the chance of a marine tanker spill is between 93 and 99 per cent over the operating life of the project, or 30 to 50 years.
That's higher than the 18 per cent estimated by Enbridge, says the study's lead author Dr. Tom Gunton, director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU.
The study also found the number of spills along the 1,160 kilometres of pipeline would be dramatically higher, up to 15 pipeline spills per year, compared with Enbridge's estimate of one spill every two years.
That data was based on Enbridge's own pipeline spill record from 2002 to 2010, said Gunton.
"What we found was there were 28 deficiencies in (Enbridge's) risk assessment model. The database Enbridge used under-reports the number of tanker incidents by between 38 and 96 per cent," he said.
"They made no attempt to correct that under-reporting."
The other problem with Enbridge's risk assessment, said Gunton, is that it fails to use the standardized model used by the U.S. government.
The U.S. Oil Spill Risk Analysis model, which was developed in 1975 by the federal government, and is used by companies around the world to evaluate offshore oil-spill risks.
Gunton said this study highlights the need for the Canadian government to follow its American counterpart and conduct its own spill assessment of large oil projects. In Canada, the project developer conducts the risk assessment, which Gunton said raises concerns of bias.
He admits that forecasting future trends is tricky, but he said risk studies need to convey the uncertainty and range of risk involved.
"One of the lessons from all of this is that we need to eliminate the potential bias and have impact assessments done by independent scientists."
John Carruthers, president of Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, dismissed Gunton's report, saying that he did not take into account new technologies such as double-hulled ships, improved ballast coating and better procedures, such as reducing speed and using tugboats. He also said Environment Canada, Transport Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of Fisheries all reviewed the methodology used by Enbridge.
"They all agreed that the methodology was acceptable," he said, adding that Enbridge didn't use the U.S. risk assessment model because it doesn't take into account all the technical advancements that mitigate risk.
"We recognized that (spills) would be a key issue," he said. "All of the conclusions that we provided (to the joint review panel) were subject to scrutiny at the hearing."
Gunton said some of the mitigation measures, such as double-hulled ships and tug escorts, are incorporated into the U.S. assessment model.
The review panel weighing the pipeline is expected to wrap up hearings in Prince Rupert this week, and final arguments will begin in June.


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DENVER -- Cubs pitcher Carlos Villanueva gave Javier Baez the "talk' shortly after he had arrived in the visitor's clubhouse on Tuesday, the 21-year-old infielder's first day in the big leagues.
There are three pieces of advice, Villanueva said. No. 1, don't be late. No. 2, don't forget refreshments for the team bus. And, No. 3, don't get noticed for the wrong reasons.
The Cubs are hoping to see all the good things Baez can do, but also are quick to caution that there may be some growing pains.
Baez, 21, made his Major League debut Tuesday, batting second and playing second base in the Cubs' first game of a three-game series against the Rockies.
"I'm happy to have him here," shortstop Starlin Castro said. "I think it's really important for him to be here. He can learn every day about how the game is here in the big leagues. I'm really happy for him."
Baez called Castro when he arrived in Denver Monday, and the two had dinner at Morton's. On Tuesday, Castro planned on taking his new second baseman shopping so he looked like a big leaguer.
"They've earned it," Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo said of Baez and rookie Arismendy Alcantara. "It's more for the guys in the Minors who should be excited about all of this. ... That should make people in the Minors hungrier."
So, who's next? Castro lobbied for Baez over the weekend in Los Angeles.
"Who, [Jorge] Soler? They have to bring him, too," Castro said. "And [Kris] Bryant. Next year, we'll have a really young team, and we can be together and prove it. You know we have a lot of talent and players who can play at this level. I think it'll be really good for us."


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With the lambing season in full swing a new report has revealed that more than 80 per cent of farmers worry about dog attacks.
The survey by the National Sheep Association (NSA) of 233 farmers showed the increased stress had a knock-on effect on farmers' family and social life.
Almost half of those questioned (46 per cent) said they had anxiety about spending time away from their farm, with 35 per cent saying this had a negative impact on their loved ones.
A total of 30 per cent said they had suffered from depression, with 24 per cent saying they had considered giving up sheep farming altogether. The single most worrying aspect of an attack was the anxiety of another attack on their flock.
Phil Stocker, NSA chief executive, said: "Highlighting and raising awareness of this issue is a major remit for NSA, which is why we have gathered this evidence.
"In no way do we want to discourage people from getting out and enjoying the countryside, but it is vital that everyone appreciates any dog is capable of carrying out an attack on livestock if it is off the lead or left to roam unsupervised."


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In 1956 Elvis Presley was booked to open for the Louvin Brothers tour, but he was rising so fast, he was the headliner before the tour was over. The late Charlie Louvin comments on these dates. Biographer Peter Guralnick also speaks about Presley's first Las Vegas shows that were not nearly as successful as his late 60s/early 70s run.
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text: Flooding in Houston, April 18, 2016. Laurence Simon/Flickr April 22, 2016 Has climate change really improved U.S. weather? Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research Extreme weather has an outsized impact on everyday life. Focusing on average weather patterns may make Americans dangerously complacent about how climate change is already affecting our lives.


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(a) The Fund shall be administered by a Board of Trustees designated by the Permittees and the Secretary as provided in paragraph (b) of this section.
(b)(1) The Board of Trustees shall be comprised of one member designated by each Permittee and three members designated by the Secretary. At least one member designated by the Secretary shall be chosen from persons nominated by the Governor of the State of Alaska. Each member shall serve for a period of three years and may succeed himself or herself. Each member shall have the right to vote. If additional persons become holders of rights-of-way, each such additional Permittee shall have the right to designate a trustee, and if any holder of right-of-way sells the interest in such right-of-way, such holder's designated trustee shall resign from the Board. The Board shall elect by a majority vote a Chairman and a Secretary annually.
(2) Where any activity of the Fund creates a conflict of interest, or the appearance of a conflict of interest, on the part of any member of the Board of Trustees, the member involved shall excuse himself or herself from any consideration of such activity by the Board of Trustees.
(c) The Board of Trustees by a majority vote shall select an Administrator to direct the day-to-day operations of the Fund.
(d) The Board of Trustees shall hold meetings every six months, or more frequently when necessary to consider pressing matters, including pending claims under § 29.9.
(e)(1) Each Board Member and officer of the Fund now or hereafter serving as such, shall be indemnified by the Fund against any and all claims and liabilities to which he or she has or shall become subject by reason of serving or having served as such Board Member or officer, or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken, omitted, or neglected by him or her as such Board Member or officer; and the Fund shall reimburse each such person for all legal expenses reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with any such claim or liability: Provided, however, That no such person shall be indemnified against, or be reimbursed for any expenses incurred in connection with, any claim or liability arising out of his or her own willful misconduct or gross negligence.
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Agency Said Manager Refused to Hire an Applicant Because She Was Pregnant
PHOENIX – In a legal victory for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal judge ruled yesterday that a Phoenix Subway fast-food restaurant violated federal law when it refused to hire a female job applicant because she was pregnant.
According to the EEOC's suit (EEOC v. High Speed Enterprise, Inc, dba Subway, CV-08-01789-PHX-ROS), Belinda Murillo applied for a position at a Subway in Central Phoenix in May 2006. Later that month, when Murillo returned to check on the status of her application, the general manager told her, "You're pregnant. We can't hire you." The general manager admitted in sworn testimony that he had made that statement.
Pregnancy discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. The EEOC filed suit against the Subway's owner, Phoenix-based Highspeed, Inc., after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
Chief Judge Roslyn O. Silver for U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona agreed with the EEOC's position. According to Judge Silver's ruling, "A plaintiff may establish her case through direct or circumstantial evidence … Direct evidence is evidence, which if believed, requires the conclusion that unlawful discrimination was at least a motivating factor in the employer's actions … [the EEOC] has provided direct evidence of discrimination."
The case will now go to a jury trial on damages. The EEOC is seeking back pay, compensatory damages, punitive damages and appropriate injunctive relief.
"The court agreed with the EEOC, without the need to go to a jury trial, that Subway engaged in intentional sex and pregnancy discrimination," said Mary Jo O'Neill, regional attorney for the EEOC's Phoenix District Office. "The court found that the defendant failed to offer any legal explanation as to why Murillo's application was denied. Now we will pursue fair damages for this discrimination victim."
EEOC trial attorney Nancy Griffiths said, "We are pleased with the court's decision. Pregnancy discrimination remains a persistent problem in the 21st century workplace. Employers cannot refuse to hire women simply because they are pregnant, and women should never be forced to choose between motherhood and their livelihood, especially in these difficult economic times."
EEOC District Director Rayford Irvin added, "The EEOC would like to remind employers that pregnancy discrimination has been illegal for decades, and violations of the law will be met with rigorous enforcement by our agency."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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Young retires a consummate pro
Former Rangers fixture leaves behind a team-first legacy
Michael Young won a Gold Glove playing shortstop for the Texas Rangers in 2008, and even if you didn't know a single other thing about him, the story behind that award gets to the essence of most of what he came to stand for among the teammates, managers and especially the fans who absolutely adored the guy.
Young announced his retirement on Thursday, saying simply that the time had come to get on with the next chapter of his life. He's 37 and coming off a season in which he batted .279 in 147 games for the Phillies and Dodgers.
He had multiple offers, including one from the Dodgers and another from the Brewers. There would have been something of a completing of the circle had he signed with the Brewers, because their general manager, Doug Melvin, is the guy who acquired him from the Blue Jays while running the Rangers.
But a combination of factors -- distance from family, playing time and perhaps changing teams again -- appears to have nudged him toward the door. He leaves as a career .300 hitter and a seven-time All-Star. He won a batting championship in 2005 and is the Rangers' all-time leader in hits with 2,230.
Between 2002 and '13, he averaged 155 games per season and never spent a day on the disabled list. He's also the only player in at least 90 years to have started 400 games at second, short and third. Which brings us back to that 2008 Gold Glove Award.
The Rangers traded their shortstop, Alex Rodriguez, to the New York Yankees at the beginning of Spring Training in 2004. In return, they got Alfonso Soriano, who they thought would replace Rodriguez at short.
When Soriano showed up at Spring Training, he made it clear he didn't want to play short. He'd been a full-time second baseman for three seasons with the Yankees and didn't like the idea of moving.
Suddenly, the Rangers had two accomplished second basemen. Before the situation had a chance to get ugly, Young showed up one morning, stepped into Rangers manager Buck Showalter's office and closed the door.
"I'll play short," he said.
He'd been the Rangers' starting second baseman for the first three seasons of his career and had played only a handful of games at short, usually in late-inning-replacement situations. To make that kind of switch would not be the easiest of adjustments.
Meanwhile, Soriano had spent most of his Minor League career at short. Young told reporters at the time he did it because he liked the challenge of playing short. Yet, what virtually every teammate -- and Showalter -- knew was something else. He did it to make the new guy's transition smoother and the Rangers better.
"Typical Michael Young," Showalter said. "He's one of those guys who'll do whatever is best for the club. You don't find a lot of guys like that."
Young poured himself into learning the position and made the first of six straight All-Star appearances that season. He won the Gold Glove in his fifth -- and as it turned out, final -- season at short.
Along the way, he established himself as the face of a franchise. Every once in a while, a guy comes along who gets it on every level. In the years after A-Rod left the Rangers, Young emerged as the Rangers' most popular and productive player. At a time when the franchise was in a 10-season postseason drought, Young set a tone in the clubhouse for professionalism, work ethic and doing things right.
He also believed that he had a responsibility to be a good citizen in the community. He and his wife, Cristina, worked tirelessly on behalf of an assortment of causes, most notably issues relating to children's health and education.
In ways large and small, Young became one of those players a franchise can measure every other against. When the Rangers finally emerged from the darkness to win the first of two straight American League pennants in 2010, Young did a pretty good imitation of the happiest man on earth.
By then, he'd been asked to change positions a couple more times. He moved from short to third in 2009 to make room for Elvis Andrus and then agreed to move here, there and everywhere when third baseman Adrian Beltre was signed before the 2011 season.
By then, he'd long since established himself in the hearts and minds of Rangers fans. They'll forever remember him as a guy who was both a tremendous player and a tremendous person, someone who thought being a Major League Baseball player was about more than simply playing.
The Rangers are far different from the club he debuted with in 2000. Their growth wasn't fast, and it wasn't always smooth. But he was there when they turned the corner, and his fingerprints are all over everything they've accomplished. In the end, that's a legacy with which he can take pride.


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Federal Reserve liabilities
The major items on the liability side of the Federal Reserve balance sheet are Federal Reserve notes (U.S. paper currency) and the deposits that thousands of depository institutions, the U.S. Treasury, and others hold in accounts at the Federal Reserve Banks. These items, as well as the Federal Reserve's other liabilities, can be seen in tables 1, 4, and 5 of the H.4.1 statistical release.
The expansion of Federal Reserve assets that has resulted from the aggressive response to the current financial crisis has been matched by an expansion of the Federal Reserve's liabilities, particularly the deposits of depository institutions.
Federal Reserve notes, net of Federal Reserve Bank holdings
Historically, Federal Reserve notes have been the largest liability on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet. A U.S. depository institution, when it needs more currency to meet its customers' needs, asks a Reserve Bank to send it more Federal Reserve notes. The Reserve Bank ships the currency to the institution and debits the institution's Federal Reserve account by the amount shipped. Thus, an increase in Federal Reserve notes outside of the Reserve Banks is matched, in the first instance, by a reduction in the quantity of reserve balances that banks and other depository institutions hold in their Federal Reserve accounts. Similarly, a depository institution that finds that it has more Federal Reserve notes on hand than it needs to meet its customers' needs generally returns the extra currency to a Reserve Bank; the Reserve Bank credits the institution's account so the liability side of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet shows a reduction in Federal Reserve notes outstanding and a matching increase in reserve balances held by depository institutions.
The quantity of Federal Reserve notes held by the public has grown over time. Absent any additional action by the Federal Reserve, the increase in Federal Reserve notes would reduce the quantity of reserve balances held by depository institutions and push the federal funds rate above the target set by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). To prevent that outcome, the Federal Reserve engages in open market operations to offset the reduction in reserve balances.
Reverse Repurchase Agreements
The Federal Reserve conducts reverse repurchase agreements (reverse repos or RRPs) by selling Treasury securities and federal agency debt securities to counterparties who agree to sell the securities back to the Federal Reserve on a stated future date. In normal times, the Federal Reserve executes occasional reverse repos with primary dealers; these transactions temporarily reduce the supply of reserve balances and thus help bring the federal funds rate back up to the target set by the FOMC when it has fallen below that target. During the fall of 2008, as part of its response to the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve executed a sequence of overnight reverse repos with primary dealers. While these transactions offset a modest amount of the increase in reserve balances that resulted from the expansion of the Federal Reserve's liquidity facilities, their more important effect was to make more Treasury securities available to private agents to use as collateral in money market transactions and thereby improve the functioning of the money markets.
In December 2009, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) conducted its first set of small-scale, real-value, triparty reverse repurchase agreements to ensure the operational readiness at the Federal Reserve, the major clearing banks, and the primary dealers. These tests were conducted as a matter of prudent advance planning and had no material impact on the availability of reserves or on market rates. Previous reverse repos conducted by the Federal Reserve were not conducted on a triparty repo basis.
Since late 2009, the FRBNY has taken steps to expand the types of counterparties for reverse repos to include entities other than primary dealers. The additional counterparties are not eligible to participate in transactions conducted by the FRBNY other than reverse repos. Information about reverse repo counterparties is available at www.newyorkfed.org/markets/rrp_counterparties.html. Subsequently, reverse repo test operations were expanded to include this larger group of counterparties, and to cover terms varying from overnight up to about four weeks.
At its December 2015 meeting, the FOMC decided that economic conditions and the economic outlook warranted the commencement of the process of normalizing the stance of monetary policy and authorized the FRBNY to conduct open market operations, including overnight reverse repos and term reverse repos, as necessary to implement its monetary policy stance. Currently, overnight reverse repos are used as a tool to help keep the federal funds rate in the target range established by the FOMC. Additional details and the results of reverse repo operations are available on the FRBNY website at www.newyorkfed.org/markets/omo/dmm/temp.cfm.
In addition, every business day the Federal Reserve also conducts overnight reverse repos with foreign central banks that hold dollars in their accounts at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. These transactions are one of the services that central banks provide one another to facilitate their international operations. Information on reverse repos with foreign official and international accounts is available at www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint/fed20. Table 1 of the H.4.1 statistical release shows the two types of reverse repos separately; tables 4 and 5 show only the total.
Deposits of Depository Institutions
More than 5,500 depository institutions maintain accounts at the Federal Reserve Banks. They hold balances in those accounts to make and receive payments or to meet reserve requirements. The total amount of balances in their accounts is shown in the line "depository institutions" under "Deposits" in tables 4 and 5 of the H.4.1 statistical release.
Many depository institutions borrow or lend in bank funding markets, such as the federal funds market. Those transactions move funds from the lender's Federal Reserve account to the borrower's account but do not change the total amount of balances that the banking system holds at the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve can change the total amount of balances available to the banking system through its lending programs or through open market operations. As discussed below, transactions with the Treasury can also affect the supply of deposits of depository institutions.
When the Federal Reserve lends, all else equal, the total amount of deposits of depository institutions increases. When a depository institution borrows directly from the Federal Reserve, the amount the institution borrows is credited to its Federal Reserve account. When the Federal Reserve lends to a borrower that does not have an account at a Reserve Bank, the Federal Reserve credits the funds to the account of the borrower's bank at the Federal Reserve. When a borrower of either type repays the Federal Reserve, the process is reversed, and total deposits in depository institutions' accounts at the Reserve Banks decline.
An increase in the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities also raises the level of deposits of depository institutions. When the Federal Reserve buys securities, either outright or via a repurchase agreement, the Federal Reserve credits the account of the clearing bank used by the primary dealer from whom the security is purchased. Conversely, the Federal Reserve's sales of securities decrease the level of deposits of depository institutions. These types of securities purchases and sales are discussed in the section on open market operations.
During the week ending August 8, 2007, before the current financial crisis emerged, the deposits of depository institutions averaged about $12 billion per day. At that point, the federal funds rate, on average, was at the target established by the FOMC. In response to the crisis, the Federal Reserve began to expand its lending. To offset the associated increase in reserve balances, the Federal Reserve sold a significant portion of its holdings of Treasury securities to drain balances from the banking system. The effect of these open market operations was to allow the Federal Reserve to hit, on average, its target for the federal funds rate.
As the financial turmoil continued, and the Federal Reserve expanded its liquidity programs, the Open Market Desk was unable to offset completely the increase in deposits of depository institutions because it lacked a sufficient volume of unencumbered Treasury securities. Subsequently, however, the FOMC adopted a near-zero target range for the federal funds rate, and so a very large volume of reserve balances is now consistent with the target range. Deposits of depository institutions have been significantly higher than historical norms since late in 2008. The increase primarily reflected the net effects of Federal Reserve policy actions to provide liquidity to banking institutions and support the functioning of credit markets.
Depository institutions earn interest on the end-of-day balances they hold at the Federal Reserve. The interest paid on required reserve balances reduces the incentive for depository institutions to use otherwise productive resources to avoid reserve requirements. The interest rate paid on excess balances gives the Federal Reserve an additional tool for the conduct of monetary policy. An explanation of the payment of interest on balances is provided elsewhere on this website.
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Directed by Michael PowellGenres - Drama | Sub-Genres - Romantic Drama | Release Date - Mar 27, 1969 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 103 min. | Countries - Australia | MPAA Rating - R
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James Mason is Bradley Morahan, an Australian artist far away from home and trying to prod his muse in the bowels of New York City. Disgusted with life in the big city, Bradley decides to return to his roots and heads back home to Australia. Once there, he decides to become a Gauguin primitive and sets up shop on a deserted island on the Great Barrier Reef. To his disappointment, however, he discovers the island is populated by a drunken old harridan (Neva Carr-Glyn) and her attractive granddaughter Cora (Helen Mirren). One look at Cora, and Bradley excitedly begins to mix his pigments, offering Cora a job as his model. Soon enough, Cora goes native and poses for Bradley in the raw. Love is, of course, in the air. But just as things seem to being going fine in every way, Bradley's old friend Nat (Jack MacGowran) appears on the island out of the blue and proceeds to rob Bradley blind. Barely recovered from the theft, Bradley must also deal with an irate grandma, who discovers that Cora has been posing nude for Bradley and has been keeping her earnings hidden from granny. Bradley's island paradise is shattered and he finds he has to deal with an old woman threatening to turn him in to the authorities for having a minor pose naked before him and his easel. The character of Morahan was based on real-life Bohemian artist Norman Lindsay, who later became the subject of John Duigan's Sirens (1994).
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DEAR CAROLYN: I am the youngest of five siblings. We lost my dad almost a year ago. My parents were married for 60 years, and my mom is lost without my dad. She has never been alone.
I am close to my mom, and talk to her every day, and now sometimes twice a day. I visit every week and usually spend the night. She lives two hours from me. I am heartbroken that none of my brothers or sisters has the time to call or visit.
I promised my dad that I would take care of my mom. I will happily fulfill that promise, but I cannot be the answer to her loneliness all by myself. I have a job and a family, just like my siblings. I do not want to have a showdown with my brothers and sisters over their lack of ... caring? interest?, but how do I get them to wake up? — SIBLING
ANSWER: They could easily be writing in to me to say that it's up to your mom, not her kids, to be the answer to her loneliness, but one sibling is pressuring them to be your mom's entire social life.
Obviously, we all need to spend time with people we love, for their benefit as well as our own — and I'm not suggesting that everyone let Ma figure it out her own darn self.
But, it's OK to give your mom some responsibility for her own happiness before you go blaming your sibs. It also would help, no doubt, if you looked at this not with a conviction that they're wrong and you're right, but instead that they have their way and you have yours. That makes your task a lot less presumptuous. Plus, if you work with their strengths, then you'll likely be much more successful.
But, again, start with Mom herself. Talk to her about what she needs, what she craves, how her arrangements at home can be adjusted to make these things easier. Ask what her hometown offers in the way of support and socialization. Ask if she wants you to look into it for her. Does she even want you doing all this?
Then, with her or on your own, figure out which sib has a strength or skill -- who's mobile, who's organized, who's plugged in, etc. — that can be leveraged to enrich your mom's life. Then, if Mom won't do it herself, you approach each sibling in a "Hey, I have an idea" way — or better, "Mom asked me to ask you if you'd be willing to [blank]," which is going to be so much better received than "I'M TAKING CARE OF MOM ALL BY MYSELF, YOU INGRATES."
As in: "Mom needs help with remembering appointments and coordinating rides. Are you willing to step in as schedule-keeper? It's doable from home." Or, "Mom said she wanted help sorting old photos. Do you have a free day sometime in the next month?" Specifics are easier for people to grab onto, especially if they're expressed in a way that takes your family dynamics into account.
Don't rule out professional guidance here, either. A geriatric social worker might yield useful ideas, and you can easily start the process of finding one at eldercare.gov.
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CINCINNATI: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will return to Ohio on Saturday morning in Cincinnati.
His campaign said he will speak at a rally at Cincinnati�s Union Terminal. Romney and running mate Paul Ryan campaigned last Saturday in central Ohio before heading to the Republican National Convention this week in Tampa, Fla.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The Numbers Game
The key to winning the game is in the numbers. Demographics.
The weakness of the kind of state that Western liberals love to set up, the one with 4-day workweeks where everyone is either in a university or a union, where no one goes to church or synagogue, where having more than 2 kids is frowned on and retirement can be had before your hair goes white, is that it demographically trends conservative. Not necessarily what most conservatives think of as being conservative, but nevertheless those retired 60-year olds who have one daughter named Inga and take four vacations a year, don't much like change. They don't like America, Israel, banks, war, monarchy and a lot of the things that the left expects them not to like; but they also form societies that lack the left's radical appetite for change.
Older societies trend conservative. And a low birth rate means that the society will be old and the growth in children will come from more traditional households. Those children can be broken down in the mandatory public education system and influenced through cultural dementia, but the long run prospects don't look good for the left. Eventually you end up with a society where everyone expects to retire at 55, even though there aren't enough younger workers to take their place, and half of those potential younger workers are getting useless advanced degrees or dreaming of moving to America, while the other half are joining some revivalist religious movement. And that's a bad deal either way.
The left's utopias are not only economically unsustainable (what else is new) but also politically and demographically unsustainable. The economics can't be fixed, but the politics and demographics can. As with all of the left's solutions, they involve finding ways of making things much, much worse. And their answer to the demographic and political problem is immigration. Bring in young people from elsewhere who will have lots of kids and vote the straight slanted ticket. Preferably the kind who won't get along with the locals and will be taught to constantly complain about racism, even though back where they're from, racism was as accepted as daylight drug deals and beheadings.
Bring them in, run their kids through the same system, add a few holidays to the calendar, enjoy the new ethnic foods and hopefully teach their kids to stop having so many kids if they want to retire at 55 and fill their house with knickknacks from their vacations in Greece and Brazil. And then fill the new gap with more immigrants. It's a plan that makes as much economic sense as the European Union and is twice as sustainable. After all lots of people in the world want free health care and a passport from a country that won't collapse into a murderous civil war when the price of bread goes through the minaret.
And if the assimilation program doesn't work, well then you only have to bring in half as many immigrants next time around, because all those countries you brought those immigrants from are now in your own country. Saves on jet fuel and coast guards. Not to mention language lessons, though it usually turns out that you need them anyway because your excellent schools no longer seem to be doing such a good job of teaching your own language and what used to be your language is now an argot composed of the languages of your immigrants and bits of your own language processed into the fake street slang of rap stars. And before you know it, you're using it too.
But it keeps the left alive. Without diversity, the left is a bunch of corpulent unions protecting their pensions while the young people look at brochures of London and Los Angeles and finish their fourth degree. Without it, the left eventually dries up, blows away in the wind and dies after running a few protests against austerity and then has to implement it anyway.
Diversity isn't a moral principle. It's oxygen for a dead movement. It's the only way that the left can stay alive long enough to fulfill the accidental mission of every parasite by killing its host. It's the numbers game and as long as the left can cobble together these coalitions built on the backs of immigrants and tied together with community associations and piles of free stuff, then it can go on squatting on a society, dipping its proboscis in the sweet nectar of wealth and power, and then when the nectar runs out, switching to sipping its blood.
The left needs immigration to run its numbers game. It needs immigration to survive. It needs immigration to force further change on societies that would be static if left to their own devices. It needs immigration to provide it with a permanently disadvantaged working class from an infinite supply of billions. It needs to make its own failed society fail in new ways by injecting other failed societies into it.
Play the diversity of numbers and the kids stop dreaming of London and LA and start hanging out at clubs where diversity seems to make life more exciting. The declining native upper class and the immigrant working class shake hands over the bodies of the native working class and the whole broken train rumbles forward into the night.
But this numbers game depends on no opposition party emerging to represent the people left out of this arrangement. And there are two kinds of opposition parties. The cheerfully capitalist party whose leaders have gone to all the right schools and are obscenely enthusiastic about bringing some fresh blood into the country. And the other kind. The ones who aren't interested in fresh blood.
The opposition party and its composition doesn't matter that much until the crunch kicks in. That is what happens when economic unsustainability begins to outrace all the imaginary numbers and the accounting tricks that involve selling debt in exchange for debt and building all the debt into a tall house of debt cards and the knives come out and the sacrifices begin. And like all cannibal feasts, it's a question of who gets cut and who does the cutting.
The unofficial cutting order on the left, after everything else has been drained, the rich have fled to their tax havens and small businesses sell things that fell off trucks on the way to the government giveaway, is native pensions, immigrant benefits and then their own salaries. The natives will howl, of course, but the question is will they be able to do anything more than howl.
The difference between the left and the right is that the left has a five-year plan and the right has a five-second plan. The left knows what it's going to do four years from now when the numbers look even worse than they do today. But what is the right going to do? Run another cheerful capitalist who promises to use his Olympics experience to fix the economy, but never really seizes those grievances and goes for the throat? That's what the left is counting on.
And until then maybe it's time to serve up some more amnesty. Because who can have just one portion of a delicious demographic treat like unsustainable economics fused with millions of free votes?
No game is unwinnable. But you have to know the odds and play to win. Demographics, like all other games, is winnable, but you have to know how to play the game.
25 comments:
- Mike Darancette said...
Why are the "Boomers" so passive? Can't they see that we are the ones to be sacrificed to pay for the Brave New America?
- 14/11/12
- jenna said...
Does anyone know the breakdown by age of the Republicans/Conservatives/Evangelicals who refused to vote in this election? Can't help wondering how many were Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964), the narcissists chiefly responsible for driving this country to the Left. It now appears that on the Right the holier-than-thou, more-Conservative-than-thou, my-way-or-no-way types were also unable to put country before self. Are they any less narcissistic than their age counterparts on the Left?
- 14/11/12
- Ron said...
67% of single women voted for Obama. This had nothing to do with ideology, or rather t he ideology had its roots in the hard wired behavior of women to seek a protector and to keep their options open for a strong male (government).
The sad reality is this: as long as women have the vote, you are never going to be able to truly limit the government, anymore than you can convince a girl swooning over her bad boy lover that her man should go to jail for shooting up a bank. They simply arent wired for it.
- 14/11/12
- Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon said...
While the right always finds problems with what the left does and the agenda and laws cranked out, they never undo any of the damage done under a leftist administration.
They may lighten it up a bit, sometimes, but they damage is allowed to stand.
The nation is the loser.
- 14/11/12
- Anonymous said...
Daniel, stop wasting your time writing these great pieces and please set up a political consulting/speechwriting firm. The dumb-brained Republicans like Boehner that want to capitulate to Obama need you!
- 14/11/12
- Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon said...
@Mike Darancette
The 'Boomers' did their bit in the 70s. Most are in their 60s and older now. As one gets older there is less ability to fight.
Why don't the younger generations stand up now?
Passivity and apathy seem to be the way of the under 50 crowd.
- 14/11/12
- Empress Trudy said...
You need to listen to Christian radio more. Without a doubt there was and continues to be a very strong anti Mormon current on the evangelical right. On some radio shows I've heard it referred to as a quote Satanic Cult unquote.
- 14/11/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Lemon, true
Anonymous, to open a consulting firm, you need to talk a lot about social media engagement and how to win the Latino vote
- 14/11/12
- Unknown said...
In boxing, the one that wins is the one that can make their opponent play into their game plan. Republicans have been playing the Democrats game plan, and because of this, losing miserably. The Democrats will push their Socialist agendas, because now they believe they have a mandate to do so. And the Republicans in the House and Senate will attempt to stop them, playing right into the Democrats hands. So when a bill proposed by the Left goes down in flames, the Democrats (both elected officials and media pundits) will claim, 'this was the one that would have fixed the economy if it wasn't for the Obstructionist Republican TEA Partiers!' And so then many people who don't realize that the NY Times, ABS, NBC, CBS are not the only media sources out there will believe that Republicans voted down a "Jobs Bill" even if the "Jobs Bill" had nothing to do with "Jobs" and everything to do with raising taxes. This is exactly how Obama was reelected and the Democrats retained the Senate.
To use another boxing axiom, Republicans need to stop walking into the Demobrats range, stop playing into their game plan, and make the Demobrats chase them. If a bill is proposed that will raise taxes, all Republicans either vote present, or stay home. IF a bill comes up that weakens the Constitution, then and only then should they oppose. Because as long as the Constitution is intact, all the damage the Demobrats cause can and will be reversed. If they implement their own game plan, this will expose the Demobrats wholes for all to see. WHEN the higher taxes cause further economic problems, and the Republicans can't be blamed for obstructing, Liberalism and Progressivism will be exposed for the hoax that it is.
Have faith people. Conservatism works every time it is applied.
- 14/11/12
- Unknown said...
@Lemon Lime- "Why don't the younger generations stand up now?"
We are, but as Daniel hit upon, there are a lot less of us than there are baby boomers so we never get the attention we would need to make an impact. Older generations always have recieved more attention because they require more assistance. A 60 something year old doesn't appreciate changes in Social Security and Medicare. Look at the Ryan plan, he had to put in a caviate that "No one under 50 will see any changes." Yet as we all know, it is all those people under 50 that are footing the bill for it.
The hard truth of the matter is that Social Security is nothing more than an award for people who achieved the goal of reaching their 65th birthday. Congrats, here's your grandkid's money!
- 14/11/12
- Anonymous said...
Dan,stop knocking your self out with this political stuff & turn to the economic issues.
The radical left are basically nihilistic;they hate whatever authority is in power at the time & seek to destroy that authority.They are very sick people consumed with hate & bile.The radical people in Obama's gov't are economically clueless,they can destroy but they can't build anything.Their programs,once they are in power,are unworkable.
One great wit said that "the Golden Rule is he who has the gold rules".The radicals now in power cannot run a functioning society without the capitalists who they seek to destroy.They will choke off business activity with their insane policies & will push society into an economic nosedive.The dangers from these policies will destroy them along with the rest of America.As of now big business & investors are hoarding 4 trillion dollars of cash that the fear to invest.businesses of all kind are shrinking or closing.what will happen will not be a replay of Germany or Russia uder Hitler or Lenin.It will more like the Spanish Republic being torn apart by insane factions inside of the government or perhaps Chile under the rule of Salvador Allende.Democracy & freedom are very important but lose their meaning in an impoverished,starving society.The present regime in Washington cannot survive because the military hates it.When push comes to shove the only way they can stay in power is with armed repression.They cannot repress the country if they have no troops!
- 14/11/12
- Passer by said...
I always wondered if socialism could gain power in a society dominated by older people. The premise always was that the working class is the majority, so it deserves to rule - The Rule of the Proletariat. Yet at some point working people will be a minority. Then what?
- 14/11/12
- mindRider said...
America has seen by it's own eyes that democracy is NOT ideal. In any discussion about which system works best for the people no one can beat the argumentation by well educated conservatives for a fiscally sound and moral society, yet it are the numbers that count, the great, bought off with mirrors and beads, educationally dumbed down, numbers that provided Obama with his victory Change the system back to that of ancient Greece, let only tax payers (or those of merit) vote and no present day type "social" democratic party shall ever rule again.
- 14/11/12
- Jimmy the Saint said...
"No game is unwinnable."
As is the case with Three Card Monte, sometimes the only way to win is to not play. Once you put money on the table, you've already lost.
- 14/11/12
- Keliata said...
Except that the 50+ Americans paid into the system already. It's their money to begin with.
- 14/11/12
- Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon said...
@ Adam Greenfield..
No The younger generation is doing squat.
Mostly they talk and whine.
Small numbers is a lame excuse.
In the 70's people protested whatever their numbers. They just got up and did it and the war came to an end because of the vocalization.
And, as Keliata remarked, Boomers have paid their dues and paid into social security and medicare for decades.
It is the liberal way to place blame on everyone else. People on the right are learning to do the very same thing now. Talk big and do nothing.
You see nothing with young people today like what occurred in the Boomer generation.
Like what they did, or hate what they did and stood for, they did something and they got heard.
They made the nightly news and it mattered.
They were passionate about their beliefs on both the left and the right.
- 14/11/12
- VA_Rancher said...
Lemon Lime Moon,
Was not OWS on the nightly news mostly young idiots crapping on police cars an calling for anarchy on their iPhones?
I would argue the youth of this country, their brains nicely washed in public school and liberal arts colleges jumped up and did exactly what their task masters wanted them to do eager for their FREE Gubmint Cheese...
I've been a senior level guy for a while, have you ever interviewed these young college grads? OMG their non-existant work ethic, their inflated false "self esteem", their need to start at VP level, I could go on, and on, and on... The death of America is written on all the empty heads of the "recent graduates" of the last 10-15 years...
The permanent Democratic/Socialist majority is pretty much aged 15 to 29 right now... They have become what they were taught to be.
When you happily send your progeny off to the enemy camp for their education because you can't be bothered to "train up a child in way he should go..." you should not be surprised when they work for the enemy and VOTE for the enemy.
America is toast without MASSIVE change.
Been nice knowing y'all.
- 15/11/12
- VA_Rancher said...
I've had a bit of an epiphany just now...
#1 - Doomsday or Armageddon, whatever name you choose is inevitable, the Bible says this is so.
#2 - In reality what is happening here is not that different from what is happening across the globe. I've been saying for at least 5-10 years the Islamic Atomic bomb is already in France? As soon as the Islamic immigrant youth of France (or whatever NATO country) is of sufficient % and voting aged, France will fall (it is in their nature) and will become an Islamic nation. The nililistic natives with their negative birthrate simply cannot overcome the invasion of babies. Just as Dan titled this essay, it is simply a numbers game.
About the time all the Islamo-Babies are ruling France, the OWS "I want Socialism" youth of America will have swelled into the ruling (drooling?) class and the burgoening Caliphate of France will roll over the other EuroTard countries either with conquest, or due to those countries OWN invasion of the Islamo-Babies.
Europe will shockingly and suddenly fall and simply become the "Middle East, Northern Division" and there will be no-one to oppose them...
Crap. This seriously sucks...
- 15/11/12
- DrTorch said...
A great essay. Excellent.
- 15/11/12
- Unknown said...
lemonlime- Name the key issue that applys to large swaths of 20-40 year olds that we can all unite on? Remeber, many from my generation have been indoctrinated from Kindergarten to Grad school by baby boomers who in the 70's were loud vocal and a large segment of the population. Baby boomers are a generation who were raised in a 4-5 kid houshold where my generation is an average of 1.3 kids per family. We are divided between the brainwashed and the less traditionally educated. But we are absolutely active. Unfortunately mostly on the wrong side. Baby Boomers were not the most active in the OWS movement. Yes they are bad and wrong, but it is activity. We also however happen to be the most active in the TEA Party as well.
Then again, maybe if I didn't work 60-70 hours a week in order to finance all the boomer's retirements, I could be more active politicaly.
- 15/11/12
- Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon said...
Adam, put on your big boy pants and stop whining before I send you to your room.
- 15/11/12
- Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon said...
Va_Rancher, yes I have interviewed them.
Yes they have no skills.
Some have heart, however and want to be trained and tutored and mentored. That is a saving grace I think.
If children are trained at home they are harder to move from side to side when they are grown.
"Train up a child etc..."
But how you teach is most important and example is everything.
- 15/11/12
- Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon said...
"We also however happen to be the most active in the TEA Party as well."
That is good to hear.
- 15/11/12
- Keli Ata said...
Many of the OWS crowd feel that Obama has turned his back on them and the working class.
They feel betrayed by him. It's understandable since many of the abuses of police power have come on Obama's watch. While they're not considered part of the Republican base some of them can be swayed.
Republicans were ridiculed for hanging on to the guns and bibles. Twenty-somethings are being subjected to heavy-handed police tactics and are being put on watch lists for protesting, the constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and speech.
The Right and the Left have things in common.
- 15/11/12
- The Sanity Inspector said...
Mark Steyn summarized these points quite nicely a few years ago:
The design flaw of the radical secular welfare state is that it depends on a traditionally religious society birthrate to sustain it.
- 18/11/12


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The "duck face." It's an epidemic across all forms of social media, and why it exists, we haven't the slightest clue. You know what we're talking about– that ultra pouty, furrowed brows, I've-got-'tude-right-now-and-you-can't-handle-it sort of expression. And yes, we've been guilty of doing it maybe once or twice in 2007. Whatever. But whether you're a fan or a facial-pouting hater, we think you'll enjoy the versions we recently discovered. Ladies and gents, say hello to 'spagging'.
A Photoshop genius recently took to Imgur and shared the greatest improvements of said duck face. Basically, the user made everyone look like they're slurping up a piece of spaghetti. Again, genius. See what we mean below.


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For six Democratic senators in rough fights for re-election in Trump states, the coming vote on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation will be a career-defining moment that cuts both ways. Roll Call political analyst Nathan Gonzales and his Inside Elections colleague Leah Askarinam explain the dynamics of each campaign.
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RenderJS is a promised-based JavaScript library for developing modularized single page web applications. It uses HTML5 to specify self-contained components consisting of HTML5, CSS and Javascript (called "gadgets"). Gadgets are reusable in different applications just as easily as linking an HTML5 page to another and can combined to build complex applications.
RenderJS Documentation
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New York, NY, July 9, 2012 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed serious doubts regarding the impartiality of the three individuals chosen by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to head up its fact-finding mission tasked with investigating Israeli settlements.
On July 6, the president of the Human Rights Council announced the appointment of Christine Chanet, a French lawyer and judge, to chair the fact-finding mission on settlements. Chanet has strongly criticized Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza. The other appointees are Unity Dow, a Botswanaian human rights activist and judge, and Asma Jahangir, a Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist.
"We have very little faith in the impartiality of those selected by the Human Rights Council to head up its fact-finding mission tasked with investigating Israeli settlements," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "The Council's decision to dispatch a mission of this nature reeks of hypocrisy, and is further tainted by the expressed biases against Israel of those charged with overseeing this latest chapter in the UNHRC's anti-Israel agenda. Two of the panelists are already on record with distorted statements and reports regarding Israel."
In 2010, Chanet publicly stated in an official U.N. capacity that "it is very difficult to have a real dialogue (with Israel)." And in 2011, Jahangir presented the anti-Israel Russell Tribunal on Palestine with an unbalanced and unduly harsh assessment of Jewish control over religious sites in Israel.
"The Council's fact-finding mission was conceived with an illegitimate one-sided mandate and the composition of the panel confirms there should be very low expectations of a fair outcome and a good chance the mission will only serve to further inflame tensions between Israel and the Palestinians," said Mr. Foxman.
In March 2012, ADL strongly condemned the UNHRC resolution calling for the formation of the fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements, and urged the United States to formally withdraw from the Human Rights Council.


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If you're a lonely soul paying attention the state budget news, you'll hear a ton of debate about whether the governor's budget or the legislative Democrats' budget is balanced. But that's a phony debate. Neither plan is balanced.
Because no budget is balanced in California. At least not for long -- since the broken state budget process is always ratcheting down revenues and ratcheting up certain types of spending.
No, the better question about a California budget -- the baseline question -- in this broken era is whether the budget is "finance-able."
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What does that mean? It means that the budget is good enough that the state can go to the markets to borrow at a reasonable rate.
California needs to borrow to pay its bills -- even in good times. That's because the cash flow of the state government varies throughout the year, with much of the money coming in during the spring tax season. So in other parts of the year, the state needs to be able to borrow at a reasonable rate to pay its bills.
So when State Treasurer Bill Lockyer declared the budget bill passed last week "financeable," that really was the end of the story. Yes, Gov. Jerry Brown and the legislative Democrats will fight over balance and welfare policy and a host of other small issues that have become tied to the budget.
But in the most important sense -- whether the document is real enough to let California borrow -- this budget is done.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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I have been coveting this chair for a couple of months now, ever since my friend Laura, half of the dynamic duo of Lismore-based chair lovers Fourish and Blume, emailed me a pic of it. They've just started a blog, documenting the transformation of their finds of musty old chairs and couches (nicked from the roadside or garnered from the iconic Lismore Tender Centre) into beautiful pieces like this. Little dynamos they are! While the process of transformation is fascinating, one of the most interesting things is the astonishing amount of stuff they find down the back of the chairs and couches - everything from ten dollar notes, pens and keys through to miniature plastic tennis rackets and embroidered kookaburras.
Have a look at their brand new blog.
And this beauuuuuuutiful bowl from ceramic artist Maria Kristofersson (found via a plate a day). See more of her lovely work here.


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California Homemade Food Act (AB1616)
AB1616, the California Homemade Food Act was signed into law on September 21, 2012 by Governor Jerry Brown and is effective January 1, 2013. This new law allow certain foods, known as Cottage Foods, to be made in private homes and sold to the public. Individuals who own and run these home-based businesses will be known as Cottage Food Operators (CFO's).
Operating a CFO business requires compliance with registration, licensing and permitting requirements. Once authorized as a CFO business, you are allowed to prepare only non-potentially hazardous foods in the home you live in. The food you wish to prepare must be listed on the State's approved list of food products. You are allowed to sell the food you prepared to the public, either directly or indirectly. The following information will help you deicde the class of Cottage Food Operation (CFO) that suits your business and what you have to do to qualify as a CFO with the local Health Department.
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Facing opposition from their governor to higher gasoline taxes, DFLers scrambled Wednesday to retool a package of funding for highways and transit.
Senate and House leaders backed away from raising transportation taxes after Gov. Mark Dayton, a fellow Democrat, made it clear that he wouldn't support raising the gas tax by 7½ cents a gallon.
"The governor believes the gas tax proposal would put an undue burden on the middle class," said Bob Hume, Dayton's deputy chief of staff. "It also isn't a large enough solution to the statewide transportation needs that Minnesota is facing. It has little-to-no support outside the walls of the Capitol."
Dayton's office repeated his support for raising sales taxes in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area for light-rail and bus transit.
"It has support both inside the Legislature and with the public," Hume said.
But his opposition to raising the gas tax for state highways has raised doubts among DFLers about the prospects of passing higher sales taxes for metro transit.
Wednesday night, the chairman of the House transportation committee canceled a hearing on a bill that called for higher metro transit taxes.
Raising transportation taxes is "difficult to do if it's not statewide in nature," said Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis. Moving forward with only a metro transit sales increase would be a "piecemeal" approach to transportation funding, he said.
Hornstein said he expects to introduce a transportation bill Thursday that resembles one in the Senate, which doesn't have any gas or sales tax increases for transit or highways. He left open the possibility of reviving a sales tax proposal for transit later in the session, but added, "We definitely will not have a gas tax."
"Things have really changed radically in the last 24 to 48 hours," he said. "We envisioned a comprehensive package, and the shifting landscape with the governor on the gas tax affected everything."
House DFLers had been considering a 7½ cents increase in the gas tax.
Dayton said in December that he didn't support a gas tax hike "at this time," but didn't rule out eventually supporting one. He said his transportation commissioner, Charlie Zelle, might need to sell the need for increased taxes to fund highways.
Hornstein said he met with the governor and "he wants to be sure the public is with us. It was helpful to know the clarity of this position."
He said he and Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, were surprised by the degree of Dayton's opposition to the gas tax hike. "We knew he had concerns, but we didn't know that his concerns were this significant," Hornstein said.
Transit tax doubts
Scott County Commissioner Jon Ulrich expressed surprise Wednesday to hear about DFLers' second thoughts on increasing the sales tax for transit. With DFLers in the governor's office and controlling the Legislature, "We were sort of working on the assumption this would happen for sure," Ulrich said.
A version favored by Hornstein would have raised sales taxes from a quarter-cent to three-quarters of a cent in Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka, Dakota and Washington counties. A three-quarter cent sales tax would have been imposed for the first time in Carver and Scott counties.
Dayton wants to impose a quarter-cent sales tax for the first time in Carver and Scott counties and to double the tax to a half cent in the other five counties.
Scott County wants assurance it will have more voice in how money raised by any transit sales tax is spent and has complained that the Metropolitan Council, which oversees Twin Cities transit, often doesn't heed the wishes of local officials.


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