Denver Snow Storms

In the Denver post article by George Merritt many home owners are worried about the Colorado snow season because $19 million contingency fund this year for the first time in memory, and city officials are crossing their fingers that this season will not bring another major snowstorm. Each year, the city puts at least 2 percent of its budget into a reserve fund for unexpected events. So far this year, the city has spent nearly $11.6 million of the $18.9 million it has in reserves. Digging out from a series of winter storms ate up about $8.5 million of the contingency. This is the year we expect to spend every dollar of our contingencies," acting budget director Ed Scholz told the City Council on Wednesday. "It is the first time that anyone I've talked to can remember that that is the case." I think this concerns everyone who owns a home, or business because the government has to pay for the broken down buildings and houses if you have homeowners insurance. To pay for a new roof is very expensive and some people don't have that kind of money to spend, I can relate to this because our home needs a new roof and if the rain or snow breaks through, then our house insurance will pay for the damages to our house.

School Technonogly

In the story from 2 cents worth by Mr. Dave the governer of Pennsylvaniais trying to make many of the core subjects such as English, Math, Social Studies, & Science will receive new top-of-the-line equipment. This equipment includes one laptop per student desk, a teacher laptop, a printer/scanner, imaging software, imaging software, productivity software, a web cam, an electronic whiteboard, a projector, up to, three digital still cameras, up to five digital video cameras, wireless network servers and technical support. I it is important to have some of these things but not all of them because the money the school makes doesn’t always have to go towards all of this stuff. The money can go towards expanding on the school or a new weight training facility. It is nice to have a laptop and those things but a Math room doesn't need a video camera or imaging software because what are they going to use it for? All of this equipment is going to cost over $ 200 million dollars and I don't think most of this stuff will be used depending on what class you are in.

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In many cities and towns smoking marijuana is a little or no crime at all but growing or distributing the drug still gets you in big trouble. Growing or using pot for medicinal purposes is widely accepted but it can only be grown up to a certain amount. Most voters want police to stop arresting the casual pot smoker, but they also want the drug to still be illegial. As of now the state of Colorado has taken all laws of possesion are taken out of our law books. Thirteen states allow medical use of marijuana with a prescription from the doctor and the governer of the state.

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In this story 11 pilgrims were run over by a train. The incident happened on a railway bridge over Saryu River in the Uttar Pradesh state. Some of the pilgrims did not die by the train; some of them jumped into the river and couldn't swim so they drowned. The death tool of this incident is likely to rise because more than 300 pilgrims were on the tracks. It started by a group of pilgrims pulling the emergency stop lever to go grab buckets of water from the river. They were hit while coming back from getting the water. India has carries over 13 million passengers a day, but has the worst safety record.