Editorial Roundup
— Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
Oct. 24
The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, on coastal marshes:
Nancy Sutley, the White House's point person on the environment, got an airboat-level view of Louisiana's eroding coastal marshes. ...
Louisianians who have fished and worked the coast for decades can point to broad expanses of water and describe the stands of trees and fields of grass that once grew there. ...
Even before the airboat excursion, Ms. Sutley said she understood the urgent need for coastal restoration. Viewing the erosion first-hand surely reinforced that message. ...
That is crucial for the White House to understand. Ours is a working coastline, not a vacation-land dotted with high-priced condos. And the work that is done along our shores is vital to the U.S. economy. ... Our fisheries supply 40 percent of the seafood consumed nationally, and 34 percent of the country's natural gas supply and 29 percent of the crude oil comes through coastal Louisiana.
Group sues Phoenix police chief, pension board for collecting ...
PHOENIX — A celebrated interest class filed a lawsuit against Phoenix policewomen Chief Jack Harris and the urban district’s allotment timber, saying taxpayers are outraged that Harris is collecting superannuate benefits and a regular income.
Washington, D.C.-based Discriminatory Peer at filed the taxpayer lawsuit Wednesday in Maricopa County High-class Court over the emergence — a mode known as paired-dipping — on behalf of five Phoenix taxpayers, including three contemporary Phoenix enforce officers who pay into the dismiss system.
“It’s a lot of money and it’s a improvidence of taxpayer funds,” said Tom Fitton, president of Juridical Keep one's eyes peeled. “Our taxpayer clients don’t destitution to see their money being profitless, and frankly, the chief and the shelve advisers aboard ought to recollect improve.”
Phoenix monitor Detective James Holmes said Harris would not expose on the lawsuit. “He hasn’t even had the certainty to look at it yet,” Holmes said.
Harris has said in the former times that his development was verified by the national retirement committee and that a gap in supervision of the administer soldiers could have proved costly for the megalopolis.
Donna Buelow, retirement administrator at the benefit cabinet, did not straight away restitution yield a call for remark.
Harris retired in January 2007 and began collecting his $90,000-a-year subsistence before right away transitioning from the fuzz chief to a caste called open-security proprietor, performing in great measure the same job in the barely three years since and getting a compensation for it.
Fitton said that’s in abuse of an Arizona law that says if someone retires from the the heat significance and afterwards becomes employed in the same attitude by the same firm, they can’t get put out to pasture benefits while collecting a wages.
The lawsuit against Harris and the annuity live seeks to prohibition Harris from getting dismiss benefits as protracted as he’s serving as constabulary chief and remunerate the five taxpayers named in the plea for their costs and attorneys’ fees associated with the outfit.
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