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The Coffee County Commission authorized chairman Tom Grimsley to enter into an agreement with the Alabama Department of Transportation for the purpose of resurfacing Coffee County Road 537 during its Jan. 13 meeting.
Theres a small section of that road that doesnt qualify for federal funds, Coffee County Engineer Randy Tindell said. We have budgeted county funds to complete it all the way out to Bethlehem Church.
Tindell said the county would pay about $100,000 for its portion of the resurfacing.
In other news, commissioners approved a new contract with Trawick Gardens and Landscapes, LLC.
The New-Brockton-based business will perform landscaping and lawn maintenance at the Enterprise Courthouse and the Coffee County District Attorneys office.
County Administrator Rod Morgan said a monthly rate would include basic lawn care services such as soil testing, weed eating, replacing pine straw, clearing leaves, applying herbicide, mowing and edging.
Any additional work will cost $75 per hour for a three men crew plus the costs of any materials needed.
In other business, the commission agreed to extend its current liability fund contract with the Association of County Commissions of Alabama.
Because the measure was approved before March, the commission will receive a longevity bonus for staying with its current plan.
The new contract will begin in January of 2015 and will run through Dec. 31, 2017.
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Democrats plan to demagogue income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year's elections. Most of what's said about income inequality is stupid or, at best, ill-informed. Much to their disgrace, economists focusing on measures of income inequality bring little light to the issue. Let's look at it.
Income is a result of something. As such, results alone cannot establish whether there is fairness or justice. Take a simple example to make the point. Suppose Tom, Dick and Harry play a weekly game of poker. Tom wins 75 percent of the time. Dick and Harry, respectively, win 15 percent and 10 percent of the time. Knowing only the game's result permits us to say absolutely nothing as to whether there has been poker fairness or justice. Tom's disproportionate winnings are consistent with his being either an astute player or a clever cheater.
To determine whether there has been poker justice, the game's process must be examined. Process questions we might ask are: Were Hoyle's rules obeyed; were the cards unmarked; were the cards dealt from the top of the deck; did the players play voluntarily? If these questions yield affirmative answers, there was poker fairness and justice, regardless of the game's result, even with Tom winning 75 percent of the time.
Similarly, income is a result of something. In a free society, for the most part, income is a result of one's capacity to serve his fellow man and the value his fellow man places on that service. Say I mow your lawn and you pay me $50. That $50 might be seen as a certificate of performance. Why? It serves as evidence that I served my fellow man and enables me to make a claim on what he produces when I visit the grocer. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are multibillionaires. Just as in the case of me serving my fellow man by mowing his lawn, they served their fellow man. The difference is they served many more of their fellow men and did so far more effectively than I and hence have received many more "certificates of performance," which enables them to make greater claims on what their fellow man produces, such as big houses, cars and jets.
Brin and Page and people like them created wealth by producing services that improve the lives of millions upon millions of people all around the globe. Should people who have improved our lives be held up to ridicule and scorn because they have higher income than most of us? Should Congress confiscate part of their wealth in the name of fairness and income redistribution?
Except in many instances when government rigs the game with crony capitalism, income is mostly a result of one's productivity and the value that people place on that productivity. Far more important than income inequality is productivity inequality. That suggests that if there's anything to be done about income inequality, we should focus on how to give people greater capacity to serve their fellow man, namely raising their productivity.
To accomplish that goal, let's look at a few things that we shouldn't do. Becoming a taxicab owner-operator lies within the grasp of many, but in New York City, one must be able to get a license (medallion), which costs $700,000. There are hundreds of examples of government restrictions that reduce opportunity. What about the grossly fraudulent education received by so many minority youngsters? And then we handicap them further with laws that mandate that businesses pay them wages that exceed their productivity, which denies them on-the-job training.
Think back to my poker example. If one is concerned about the game's result, which is more just, taking some of Tom's winnings and redistributing them to Dick and Harry or teaching Dick and Harry how to play better? If left to politicians, they'd prefer redistribution. That way, they could get their hands on some of Tom's winnings. That's far more rewarding to them than raising Dick's and Harry's productivity.
WALTER WILLIAMS, a Washington Examiner columnist, is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
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Listen and learn about Kings legacy
If youre less into volunteering and more into listening and learning, theres still lots you can do in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The fourth annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast comes to Clark College, beginning at 9 a.m. Jan. 20 at Gaiser Hall. The subject is violence and the keynote speaker is Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia, a doctor and psychiatrist who is an expert in addiction medicine and healing trauma. Tickets start at $30.
Washington State University Vancouvers Jan. 20 Day of Service event features interactive morning workshops and a lunchtime talk on Women and Poverty: Dispelling the Myths and Breaking the Cycle by associate professor of English Desiree Hellegers. She is the author of a book about homeless women in Seattle. RSVP to Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
The Bahais of Vancouver will host Beyond the Dream, a showing of videos of Kings lesser-known speeches. That takes place at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 20 at 4016 East 13th Street. Refreshments will be served after the program. Its free.
Clark College hosts Lee Mun Wah, a Chinese American educator and filmmaker, speaking on diversity issues at 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 22 at the Gaiser Student Center. There will be a 1 p.m. student dialog with Wah, and at 5:30 p.m. a showing of Lee Mun Wahs film If These Halls Could Talk, an unflinching look at racism on college campuses, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. Gaiser Student Center, with light refreshments served.
Next weekend, you may notice big groups of your neighbors roaming the landscape, performing good deeds. You wouldn't want to miss that fun, would you?
What started out as the Martin Luther King Day of Service has evolved, here in Clark County, into an extra-long weekend of opportunities to pitch in and make your world a better place. Clark County, the city of Vancouver, Clark College and Washington State University Vancouver have teamed up to coordinate many activities, from planting trees and painting walls to yanking weeds and building trails..
It's all in honor of slain civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was born on Jan. 15, 1929. His birthday became a federal holiday in 1983. It took another decade for a federal law to create the King Day of Service, which is always the third Monday in January. This year, it's Jan. 20. "Make it a day on, not a day off," is the slogan.
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Posted: 1:22 pm Mon, January 13, 2014 By NancyCrotti Finance and Commerce Tags: AECOM, HGA Architects and Engineers, James Corner Field Operations, James/Snow Architects, Julie Snow Architects, Julie Vandenberg Snow, Louis Kahn, Midway Stadium, Mike Veeck, Museum of Russian Art, Phillips Plastics Corp., Robert Cervenka, Ryan Cos. US Inc., Saints ballpark, St. Paul Saints, Vincent James 1:22 pm Mon, January 13, 2014
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Julie Snow, who unveiled the design for the St. Paul Saints ballpark in December, has been involved in designing the 7,000-seat stadium for seven years, long before it came to the publics attention. (Staff photo: Bill Klotz)
Architect Julie VandenBerg Snow has designed homes and private office buildings, restaurants and federal customs stations.
She has also put her stamp on such divergent spaces as the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis and the new St. Paul Saints ballpark.
The winner of numerous awards for her restrained and minimalist designs, Snow elicited this comment in 2011 from an American Academy of Arts and Letters awards jury: She and her studio make the marvelous happen. Elegance balanced by pragmatism she is a ballerina who can dance in work boots.
The founding principal of Minneapolis-based Julie Snow Architects likes to work collaboratively. Its a philosophy she adopted as a young woman studying architecture at the University of Michigan in the early 1970s.
Youre going to be hanging out with the guys and theyre your colleagues, said the Grand Rapids, Mich., native. The real challenge is whether or not there are really great talents in your studio.
If youve got really talented, energetic people, I dont think who you are or where you came from (matters). Youre getting pushed by other people with ideas. To me that was more interesting than gender issues.
Snow has spent her career in Minneapolis, working at HGA Architects and Engineers from 1974 through 1987, when she left to form James/Snow Architects with architect Vincent James. In 1995, she formed her current firm, which also provides interior design services, custom furnishings and furniture specifications. Eighteen people work for the firm.
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Trumpet honeysuckle, or Lonicera sempervirens, attracts hummingbirds; it?s a native counterpart to the invasive exotic Japanese honeysuckle, and is cold hardy to Zone 4. (Carol A. Heiser/Newport News Daily Press/MCT)
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Blue mistflower, or Conoclinium coelestinum, is a native species that helps pollinators, and is cold hardy to Zone 5. (Carol A. Heiser/Newport News Daily Press/MCT)
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Eastern sweetshrub, also known as Carolina allspice, or Calycanthus floridus, is an attractive flowering shrub that?s native to Virginia and southeastern states to Zone 5. (Carol A. Heiser/Newport News Daily Press/MCT)
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Common milkweed, or Asclepias syriaca, is an important pollinator that benefits fritillary and tiger swallowtails, and is cold hardy to Zone 4. (Carol A. Heiser/Newport News Daily Press/MCT)
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Native shrubs Virginia sweetspire, or Itea virginica, and oak leaf hydrangea, or Hydrangea quercifolia, bloom early spring; both display colorful fall foliage. Both are cold hardy to Zone 5. (Carol A. Heiser/Newport News Daily Press/MCT)
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