County Auditor Closes Sequim Licensing Office
Clallam County Auditor Patty Rosand closed the Sequim Vehicle and Vessel Licensing Office today. She's gathering the office's records for an audit which will determine whether or not she terminates the contract of sub-agent Karen Shewbert.
Shewbert had sought a court injunction that would allow her office to remain open while the case was being appealed.
Shewbert had sought a court injunction that would allow her office to remain open while the case was being appealed.
posted by Tom Harper at 4:20 PM
8 Comments:
Hum, well, they can renew online I guess, that's what the world is coming to anyway. Someday the PA office will be closed because of that.
Umm, what is this issue about, Billy?
" Clallam County Auditor Patty Rosand closed the Sequim Vehicle and Vessel Licensing Office today. She's gathering the office's records for an audit which will determine whether or not she terminates the contract of sub-agent Karen Shewbert."
You figure this is a "cost cutting" issue, or that the County Auditor thinks there is a problem?
What's next, teachers? The courts? Judges? Think of how much we will save when it ALL goes online, and the anti-anonomous will have true democracy.
I hope it's teachers.
Frankly, I don't care what it is about. :-)
Again, a no-brainer. Contractor didn't live up to the contract. Game over.
Online is dandy, but I still think there's a need for in person service. Bring in a new operator and the problem is solved. The sooner the better too.
Are you tired of the BS? Offered a vote for one idiot or another?
Seriously. After voting for someone on a local level, county, state or national, are you happy with the results?
How many times have you gone through this? Voted for someone who said they were going to be that "agent of change". But, once elected, the newly elected candidate becomes one of the very same people they said you should vote to remove from office!
It IS a time for change. The status quo has become corrupted, as the nations' forefathers warned us to be vigilant about.. to look for.
You can vote for Tweedle Dee, or Tweedle Dum, but the results will be the same, as you have seen.
Work for real change, for your children's future.
Anyway, our liquor store will close on Tuesday so stock up before then. It will reopen June 1st under new management.
Game Over for the Climate
By JAMES HANSEN
Published: May 9, 2012
GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.”
If Canada proceeds, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate.
Canada’s tar sands, deposits of sand saturated with bitumen, contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our entire history. If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and coal supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era, more than 2.5 million years ago, when sea level was at least 50 feet higher than it is now. That level of heat-trapping gases would assure that the disintegration of the ice sheets would accelerate out of control. Sea levels would rise and destroy coastal cities. Global temperatures would become intolerable. Twenty to 50 percent of the planet’s species would be driven to extinction. Civilization would be at risk.
That is the long-term outlook. But near-term, things will be bad enough. Over the next several decades, the Western United States and the semi-arid region from North Dakota to Texas will develop semi-permanent drought, with rain, when it does come, occurring in extreme events with heavy flooding. Economic losses would be incalculable. More and more of the Midwest would be a dust bowl. California’s Central Valley could no longer be irrigated. Food priceswould rise to unprecedented levels.
If this sounds apocalyptic, it is. This is why we need to reduce emissions dramatically. President Obama has the power not only to deny tar sands oil additional access to Gulf Coast refining, which Canada desires in part for export markets, but also to encourage economic incentives to leave tar sands and other dirty fuels in the ground.
The global warming signal is now louder than the noise of random weather, as I predicted would happen by now in the journal Science in 1981. Extremely hot summers have increased noticeably. We can say with high confidence that the recent heat waves in Texas and Russia, and the one in Europe in 2003, which killed tens of thousands, were not natural events — they were caused by human-induced climate change.
Read the rest at:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html
And look at the Tar Sands operations here: http://www.businessinsider.com/canadian-oil-sands-flyover-2012-5?op=1
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