Skywalk Bridges Grand Canyon Edge In $30 Million Plan
The Hualapai tribe fastened a 1.07 million pound glass bottom Skywalk to the canyon edge as part of a $30 million tourism complex. Public access starts soon with a $25 ticket plus entry fees, aiming to attract visitors to a cowboy town and Indian village. Elders caution over sacred land and burial sites as construction neared completion.
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Phoenix
Grand Canyon
Outback
Charlie Vaughn
Frank Mapatis
Colbert City fires police chief again and shakes up dept
Colbert council fired Police Chief John Polston for a second time and named Wes Crank interim chief. Two officers were dismissed, including one who stopped a council member last week for a suspended license. Crank notes the department will run with two officers, plus a school officer.
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Colbert
John Polston
Wes Crank
Calbert
Crank
Michelle Weger
Polston
Convicts pressed into farm work in Colorado plan
Convicts may labor on Colorado farms to fill migrant worker shortages as officials weigh an experiment. Farmers facing crop losses due to the crackdown on illegal immigrants would pay the state hourly for inmate labor, with wages supporting housing, food, transport, and guards. Strong activist opposition cites plantation image and slave labor concerns.
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Vineland
Colo
Phil Prutch
Colorado
Pratch
Ricardo Martinez
Denver
Larry Gallegos
State Labor Department
FEMA selling off trailers sparks dealer price fears
FEMA is auctioning thousands of Katrina and Rita era trailers at fire sale prices. Dealers fear a flood of cheap stock could depress prices, as some buyers prefer used FEMA units to new ones. FEMA says it buys to house victims and wants to cut storage costs, with about 60,000 trailers in storage nationwide, many never used.
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Little Rock, Ark
Gale Crews
Diamond State Mobile Home Sales
Hope
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Debbie Wing
PEMA
Gulf Coast
Catoosa Schools consider layoffs over pay raise costs
Catoosa Public Schools began layoff procedures citing state mandated teacher pay raises raising payroll costs by more than 250000. Six certified staff face hearings with potential layoffs for 21 support staff. Superintendent Larry Cale noted the pressure of bills exceeding income and the need to cut costs after an auditor’s finding.
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Catocsa
Tulsa
KOTV-6
Larry Cale
Cale
Catoosa Public Schools
Ings
Catoosa
Shelly Hickman
State Board of Education
Keith Ballard
Oklahoma State School Boards Association
Pastor Lonnie Latham Acquitted Of Lewdness Charge
Oklahoma City AP A judge found former Baptist leader Lonnie Latham not guilty Wednesday of offering to engage in an act of lewdness. The 61 year old was arrested Jan 3, 2006 outside Habana Inn on an allegation he propositioned an undercover officer. The ruling did not rule on constitutionality of the law.
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Oklahoma City
Lonnie Latham
Habana Inn
Roma M. McElwee
Oklahoma
Latham
Mack Martin
Supreme Court
Martin
David Prater
Prater
South Tulsa Baptist Church
Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma
Southern Baptist Convention
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