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The allocation of the proceeds received will alleviate the gap in funding from previously appropriated funds and the actual cost of the truck’s full replacement with proper outfitting of equipment, according to the order. A note from Airport Manager Randy Marshall to the mayor and council says the airport’s plow truck was destroyed last winter and insurance in the amount of $15,400 and the appropriation of Airport Business Park funds totaling $15,950 would not cover the cost of the replacement truck and plow equipment. A deficit of $2,683 is anticipated, according to Marshall. Councilors also will consider taking part in a cooperative purchasing program for winter road salt sponsored by the state Department of Transportation, and approving a recommendation to buy salt from New England Salt Co., of Bangor, at a unit price of $51.06 per ton, for a total of $137,862 for 2,700 tons. Amy Calder — 861-9247 [email protected] Twitter: @AmyCalder17 < Previous Four rescuers and a helicopter get hiker with broken ankle off Bigelow Mountain Next > Gardiner City Council to consider bids on mobile home park filed under: Related Stories Latest Articles Nation & World Local & State img width="250" height="250" src="https://multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shutterstock_755086714-250x250.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt srcset="https://multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shutterstock_755086714-250x250.jpg 250w, https://multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shutterstock_755086714-32x32.jpg 32w, https://multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shutterstock_755086714-50x50.jpg 50w, https://multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shutterstock_755086714-64x64.jpg 64w, https://multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/shutterstock_755086714-96x96.jpg 96w, https... (ash bag contract renewal, airport truck and land lease on Waterville council agenda)
If someone’s new cabinets are going in on Thursday, for instance, we want to make sure our crew is there on Tuesday or Wednesday so there isn’t a big gap. We schedule everything to be most convenient for the homeowner.”Omaha Habitat ReStore locations: 1003 S. 24th St., Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and 10910 Emmet St., Monday-Saturday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.Information: General, 402-934-1033, habitatrestore@habitatomaha.org; deconstruction, 402-884-7462.#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... (Omaha World-Herald)
Kenny Vaccaro said. "When you need to play outside leverage, be outside leverage. When you need to be in a certain gap, be in a certain gap. It's just all over the tape."A few of those mental mistakes have been obvious. Broken coverages that leave receivers wide open. Ten men on the field to start the season in Minnesota; 12 men on the field too long against New England, long enough for Tom Brady to notice and take advantage of the free play. A few of the other mental mistakes are harder to see in real time.But they stick out like a sore thumb when the defense starts watching film of the game the next day. “I want to say it was more mental again, and those are things that we have to continue to improve on," linebacker A.J. Klein said. "I can’t sit here and sugarcoat stuff. We had mistakes and mental mistakes again, but we've got to move forward."For both Vaccaro and Klein, who entered the season optimistic after the way the defense played throughout training camp, the defense's start to the season has come as something of a shock."I’m a little surprised, but at the same time it’s self-inflicted wounds," Klein said. New Orleans is still breaking in a young defense, the product of three seasons drafting to replenish the depth on that side of the ball. Seven of the top 11 defenders in terms of snaps played have three years or less of experience, but the Saints have been quick to point out that veterans have made their fair share of mistakes, too. "You can attribute that to a lot of things," defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins said. "To sum it up in few words as possible, we just aren’t exe... (The Advocate)
CNNMoney got a tour of the collection during one of the rare chances when the public was allowed to see it. Everyone's mouths were agape at the treasures on display. Molina loves to show it off. He stops by the 99th Street garage a few times a week to clean and rearrange items. But he hopes when people see all the stuff they realize how wasteful we are. "We throw away too many things," Molina says. "New Yorkers need to recycle more and waste less." Related: Starbucks cups aren't recyclable. Here's the solutionThe secret to finding treasure in the trash Over the years, Molina a developed a knack of knowing whether a trash bag contained something of value. He said it had to do with the way items poked out of the bag, or by the weight and sound the trash made when he picked it up. He claims he can tell the difference between a vase and a wine bottle just by the "ping" it makes when a sanitation worker tosses the trash sack in the truck. "I have these sensors that go off," he jokes. A lucky few people get a chance to tour "Treasure in the Trash" in March 2017. Molina reckons he found a few things every single day during his 34 years. At first, he put items on top of the lockers in the men's dressing room. When that area filled up, he covered every inch of a vacant room. Today the collection fills almost an entire warehouse floor. He groups things together by theme, much like exhibits at a regular museum. Point to any item and he can tell you roughly when and where he found it. The day CNNMoney interviewed him, Molina sat on a chair he found two weeks before. It was soaked from the rain, but he took it home and put it next to his boiler to dry it out. It's easy to imagine an upscale shop that may have displayed the wooden chair, which has ornate carvings. "These are things people could donate to someone, but they just put it in a box or a bag and threw it out. They didn't want to waste the time," Molina laments. --CNNMoney's Melody Jiang contributed to this report. (CNNMoney)
The original program pushed by then-L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attempted to address the affordability gap by requiring trucking companies working at the ports to hire the drivers as employees, rather than treating them as independent contractors. The trucking companies would then be responsible for buying and maintaining the new rigs; drivers would paid by the hour, not by the trip, and would be eligible for benefits.The labor and environmental groups behind Villaraigosa’s plan argued that the mandate was the only way to ensure that already low-paid truckers didn’t get stuck with the huge expense of clean-truck transition. Critics derided Villaraigosa’s plan as a Teamster-backed attempt to force march the industry from independent contractors to unionized employees. The American Trucking Assn. sued, and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the requirement.A decade later, many drivers say the Clean Trucks Program worsened the already poverty-level wages they earned as independent contractors. Because many drivers couldn’t afford to buy their own trucks, they entered into lease-to-own arrangements with trucking companies that bought new vehicles. In some cases, the leases heavily favored the trucking companies. In an investigation published last week, USA Today found that the arrangements often left drivers with little money after paying for the truck lease, fuel and other expenses. The newspaper uncovered contracts that allowed companies to fire truckers at will, keeping both the truck and the payments that had been made.Many drivers will eventually pay off the leases and own their trucks, but they worry that they’ll soon be back in debt as the ports require ever-cleaner vehicles.The ports should not back off their clean-air goals. But leaders in L.A. and Long Beach also cannot proceed without finding a way to help drivers manage the transition to zero-emissions vehicles — for example, by offering grants or low-cost loans to help drivers buy clean trucks. The Teamsters union, which launched its 15th strike in four years of trucking companies and warehouses this week, is pushing the ports to deny access to trucking companies that have labor violations. (The California Labor Commissioner’s office has ruled in 376 cases that drivers were misclassified as independent contractors and owed more than $40 million in back pay and penalties, according to the Teamsters.)The labor strife and pollution problems at the port are complex, made all the more challenging by the fact that L.A. and Long Beach are competing for trade customers with ports across the country. So far, however, there are few signs that city leaders are taking truckers’ concerns seriously or thinking about how the next generation of clean-air goals will impact their livelihood.Follow the Opinion section on Twitter @latimesopinion and Facebook... (Los Angeles Times)
