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Dang: Another Budget Hearing Tonight — @ NIC

TONIGHT! 6:00 PM. In the Student Union Building, Driftwood Bay, North Idaho College. That's where you can meet some of the wonderful people also responsible for part of your outrageous property tax bill, this time for NIC. Remember that last year, the NIC board bowed to pressure from Staff to raise your property taxes to pay for higher staff wages and benefits (while your wages are going down and your benefits are being taxed away from you). We cannot let NIC's Board of Trustees kowtow to Staff again! The Trustees are supposed to represent the taxpayer, not the greedy staff. This can only happen when you show up in force and express how angry you are at them. Look: They had an $800K shortfall that President Berke fixed in almost a day by cutting a few services. So they can certainly cut more! And why did they buy an expensive piece of property in the Fort Grounds if money is so tight? These are important questions they need to be asked! And I'll be there pointing out the fallacies of their PowerPoint presentation. Join me!

Dang



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.