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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Friday, November 22, 2002

Collins drops bid for tuition payback
VICKII HOWELL
News staff writer

Jefferson County Commissioner Bettye Fine Collins said Thursday she won't use county money to pay for her college tuition.

Collins said her request a $12,600 reimbursement to cover tuition costs that she said were job-related was in line with routine county policies and procedures for reimbursing county staff for money they spend to attend professional development seminars and classes.

Even so, "I feel that public officials must avoid even the appearance of impropriety in all matters," she said, reading a prepared statement. "Therefore, I have not, and will not, accept a penny of this money." [...]
Well, bully for you, Big Mama. In addition to avoiding even the appearance of impropriety, I feel it's important for public officials not to break the law. Or to say the law doesn't apply to them. Or sit there and spend huge sums of my county tax dollars on frivolous crap.

Then again, that's just me.


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