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:: 10.03.2003 ::
Ahhhh Fark. What a great resource. I realized yesterday that I hadn't checked it in weeks! Here are a few gems lifted from today's list: Visit from Bush? Send the bill to the GOP
SECURITY, CROWD CONTROL, STREET CLOSINGS ADD UP
By John Cheves
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
Starved for cash and faced with political fund-raising visits by President Bush -- with the usual demands for security, crowd control and street closings -- a few cities are starting to tally up their expenses and send a bill to Republican organizers.
Will Lexington follow suit?
Bush is scheduled to visit downtown Lexington at rush hour Thursday to raise money for the Kentucky Republican Party and its nominee for governor, Ernie Fletcher.
The event should be lucrative for Republicans -- who suggest donations of $500 to $10,000 on invitations -- but not for Lexington taxpayers. They will supply extra police protection at Blue Grass Airport and the Lexington Center, and a rolling traffic block along Versailles Road for the presidential motorcade.
These costs add up: Having played host to Bush twice and to Vice President Dick Cheney once, for fund-raisers, the city of Portland, Ore., wants $145,000 in reimbursement, mostly for police overtime.
Senate aide fired for offensive Web site
Bond spokesman ran site named after Carnahan crash
Friday, October 3, 2003 Posted: 12:40 PM EDT (1640 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missouri Republican Sen. Kit Bond on Thursday fired his communications director for running a political Web site named for the tail number of a plane that crashed in 2000, killing the state's Democratic governor.
"The actions of a member of my staff in using official computers to make hurtful personal attacks on public servants were totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated," Bond said in a statement issued Thursday.
A Daytime Fireball Over South Wales
Credit & Copyright: Jon Burnett
Jon Burnett, a teenager from South Wales, UK, was photographing some friends skateboarding last week when the sky did something very strange. High in the distance, a sofa-sized rock came hurtling into the nearby atmosphere of planet Earth and disintegrated. By diverting his camera, he was able to document this rare sky event and capture one of the more spectacular meteor images yet recorded. Roughly one minute later, he took another picture of the dispersing meteor trial. Bright fireballs occur over someplace on Earth nearly every day. A separate bolide, likely even more dramatic, struck India only a few days ago.
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