Cash-strapped taxpayers got unwelcome news this week when officials speculated solid waste assessments may go up - and even double - because of delays to the expansion project at the county landfill. ...more

March 13, 2009

When the newly christened business and economic development standing committee sits down to meet Tuesday, member Jim Adkins won't be there. ...more

March 13, 2009

County workers voted by a 3-1 margin Wednesday night to join Teamsters Local 79. "It's been a long time coming," said Jim "J.D." Worley, a seven-year employee who works at the county's landfill. "We look forward to a long and prosperous relationship with the union." ...more

March 6, 2009

Economy, streamlining cited as impetus to unionize ...more

March 4, 2009

Civic activist Janey Baldwin drove home her point at Tuesday's debut of the budget and finance standing committee that the entire affair was a waste of time. ...more

March 4, 2009

Japanese Uncover Global Warming Fraud Chalk one up for dissent. Japanese scientists were smart enough to find the fraud in the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis and then had the guts to publicly disagree with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about it. ...more

March 4, 2009

The members of the county's new budget and finance standing committee meet for the first time Tuesday and, if the agenda is any indication, they will hit the ground running. ...more

March 1, 2009

The county is scrambling to financially prop up its embattled fleet department. ...more

February 26, 2009

The other shoe has dropped. Trying to figure out what the county's new organization, or "leadership team," has in store for the local taxpayer, I've spotted a rather unnerving twist: County Administrator David Hamilton is grabbing as much power as possible to his own office. ...more

February 21, 2009

If an early leave incentive to trim the county workforce doesn't pan out, the next step could be an adjustment in pay for some 750 government employees. ...more

February 19, 2009