Kerby calls for overhaul of Bluefield budget system
Bluefield City Manager Shale Kerby urges a redesigned budget aligned to departmental structure with major fund categories and six year capital plans. He argues for salary schedules, encumbrance tracking, and limited check-signature authority to streamline purchasing and finance.
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Shale Kerby
Bluefield Board of Directors
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Police Say Prowler Outside Window Turns Out to Be Skunk
In Newton Kansas a woman reported a prowler outside her window in the early hours. Two officers arrived and found the prowler but did not arrest anyone. The animal was a skunk.
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Science for You shows Rolling Cans experiment
Two coffee cans with nails placed near center and near rim are released from an incline. The can with nails near the center accelerates faster and wins on the incline, while the rim-nails can rolls farther on level ground due to greater rotational inertia and slower start. Rotational inertia resists changes in motion.
FAA withholds airport aid from West Virginia projects
Washington AP reports the FAA rejected back ing of several West Virginia airport projects due to budget tightness. An 8.8 million jetport plan for Kanawha County near Guthrie was denied, along with bids for Tri-State Huntington Logan Pineville Richwood and Spencer airports. FAA said only one of seven applications is approved now and urged Charleston and Huntington to unify jetport plans reflecting long-range needs.
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Federal Aviation Agency
West Virginia
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Pineville
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Tington
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Vocabulary Shifts and Clarifications Across Languages
Reader questions explore minion usage from noble to official roles, lonely versus lonesome nuances, bye in sports leagues, caboose origin from Dutch terms meaning cabin house, and its American railroad adoption for the last train car with British term brake van.
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Pittsburgh
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Nomadic fan roots for many teams across leagues
A man displaced by corporate moves feels he has to support every hometown team in all leagues and sports, creating a broad, unstinted allegiance across multiple communities.
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