Archive - 2013

Date

February 7th

but he was the only man I ever knew who could be picked out from a crowd because he was the one crabbing about something.

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Hillbilly had the cure all. “It just needs a good Kentucky licking

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he’d boast


he was the second hardest man on equipment it’s ever been my pleasure to know. On any given job we might employ any or all of a half dozen small gas engine tools: a sod cutter to lift the strip of grass before trenching

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small electric generator for hand tools


Walkin'

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Holes, I dug them all as a lineman for the Illinois Bell Telephone Company.
I dug big ones – twice or even three times the size of a grave – so that two men could sit comfortably on stools on either side of the ends of two cables coming together to be spliced. The splicer and his helper would carefully peel back the outer shell of the cables and begin the process of pairing up wire to wire based on an elaborate color-coding scheme. A cable could be as small as 200 pair servicing one block of a development or it could be 2,000 pair or more of the hair thin copper wires.


Guest Opinion

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 2:21pm

Whereas the taxpaying working residents of Johnson County already pay some of the highest Federal ($16,100+ per family), State ($2,300+ per family), and County taxes ($1,940+ per family) of any county in the U.S.A.,
And
Whereas increasing taxes in a time of significant economic recession is not good for either the consumers or the economy overall,
And
Whereas a Sales Tax is regressive, hurting the poorest of us the most (+1 percent sales tax = +$16.9 million dollars a year in taxes paid in Johnson County),
And


Amtrak to Chicago? IC Area Chamber to host community meeting Thursday, March 12

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IOWA CITY (March 3, 2009) - The Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce will host a community information meeting to discuss Amtrak passenger train service connecting Iowa City to Chicago through the Quad Cities at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 12 at the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce, 325 East Washington Street, Iowa City.


but this category would most likely have been more competitive had Ledger not passed away. Josh Brolin (“Milk”) and Robert Downey Jr. (“Tropic Thunder”) deserve much praise for their nominated roles

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they go to cry about something other than their financial straights

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making this annual celebration of film all the more rewarding and important.

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in the county in which the work is being performed. Currently

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