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Thanks SanTan Sun News Thank you for giving me the $15 prize to Changing Hands. I would also like to thank you because you give kids a chance to earn money for their poems which I think is very generous of you. I’m happy that you chose me though because I had a great time writing the poem and going to Changing Hands. Thank you for holding this competition and I will be sure to enter next year. Grayson Peters, 85249
Great neighbor moving on After serving more than two years as the executive director of Neighbors Who Care, Leslie Lindquist is moving on. Ms. Lindquist is a tremendous leader serving with high intelligence and unwavering integrity. I have been honored to work with her these past couple of years and watch her create an organization in Sun Lakes that is strong, stable and sustainable. Not an easy achievement in these tough economic times. Under Ms. Lindquist’s leadership, Neighbors Who Care has grown and improved.
Ms. Lindquist is an experienced development professional, with a broad background in grant writing, securing major gifts, creating annual campaigns and leading high-functioning teams. A former management consultant, she made a mid-life career change to the nonprofit sector and has extensive experience in the human services environment. She has an MBA and holds the Certified Fundraising Executive designation.
I wish Ms. Lindquist all the best and thank her for her efforts in our community. She has been a true gift to Neighbors Who Care and to me personally. Ann Marie McArthur, executive director, About
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Put house back in order I have been watching various television reports about the political doublespeak now going on about trying to find a way to dramatically cut our federal budget deficit. The hang-up in not agreeing to anything seems to be coming from President Obama and the Democrats who want to raise taxes and keep spending levels close to where they are now, while the Republicans, who are resisting raising taxes in an extremely fragile economy where the unemployment rate is still above 9 percent, see the problem as an overspending one, not a revenue one. Historically, tax cuts have always resulted in greater revenues coming to the federal government, while tax increases have done the opposite. Such a tax reduction would a much-wanted increase in hiring, while, in the process, dramatically decreasing this nation’s unemployment rate.
A federal law was passed and enacted in 1974 called the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. Among other things, the Act requires the President to submit, and the Congress to pass, a budget scored by the supposedly non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). No budgets for consideration have been submitted since 2009.
The defiance of this Act by the President and his previously Democratically-controlled Congress is the primary reason for the current federal budget crisis and blamefest that has been going on for way too long. More specifically, the blame goes directly to the President and the U.S. Senate for not submitting any kind of a budget as required by the Budget Act. While their political posturing has put most business decisions on hold, the uncertainty over interest rates has also squashed any hope of a recovery in the home sales market. It’s time for all Americans to write or call their U. S. Senators and Congressional Representatives and demand they stop this childish game of chicken and get the U. S. house back in order.
Craig Speer, Redwood Estates Letters to the Editor
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