Shared radio frequency eyed as Ottawa fire and ambulance look ahead
Ottawa fire and Franklin County Ambulance increasingly rely on a common radio band. Ted McCurdy, ambulance director, warned commissioners they may need separate frequencies as calls rise. Fire Chief Jeff Carner noted some congestion but not yet affecting response times. both services continue to grow. See RADIO, Page 10.
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Ottawa Fire Department
Franklin County Ambulance
Ted McCurdy
McCurdy
Fire Department
Ottawa
Jeff Carner
Carner
Erin McFadden
Franklin County Emergency Communications Center
Ted’McCurdy
McFadden
Ottawa sets 2004 goals including new police chief and utilities upgrades
Ottawa City Commission outlines New Year resolutions with a search for Police Chief Jeff Herrman’s successor under way and a focus on utilities. Key items include constructing a sewage treatment plant with 2005 completion goals, a study of utility rates, adding a second substation, and considering more generating capacity. A transportation master plan is also planned to guide street rebuilding.
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Ottawa City Commission
Weldon Padgett
Padgett
Jeff Herrman
Jim Bradley
City Utilities
Ottawa
Conservatives grow wary of Bushs spending increases
Conservatives grow wary as President Bush decides his election year budget. Spending has surged 23.7 percent over three years, the fastest in a decade, to about 2.31 trillion for the budget year. Discretionary spending has risen 31.5 percent since he took office, with major additions to Medicare, farm aid, veterans payments, and defense.
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Alan Fram
Press’ Washington
Bush
Clinton
Afghanistan
Iraq
Congress
Air Force
Ex-Iraqi soldiers protest turns deadly in Basra
In Basra, police opened fire on hundreds of former Iraqi soldiers demanding monthly stipends from the U.S.-led coalition. At least four protesters were shot, including a 40-year-old non-commissioned officer named Abbas Kadhim. British forces arrived to quell the unrest as protesters besieged the Central Bank seeking payments of about $50 monthly since September. Hospital reports list three wounded. authorities cite ongoing attempts to calm demonstrators outside the bank.
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Basra
Iraq
Abbas Kadhim
Coalition
Dominic d’Angelo
Central Bank
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