The 40th anniversary of the Civil Service Reform Act a signature accomplishment of President Jimmy Carter fittingly falls during LGBT History Month. When Carter signed the bill into law on Oct. 13, 1978, he hailed the civil service reorganization for putting “merit principles into statute” and, critically, for defining “prohibited personnel practices.” Discrimination in the civil service on the basis of race, creed, sex, national origin, age and disability were prohibited.

Commissioner Hardesty planning on introducing amendments to budget this afternoon to make police cuts amounting to $15.6 million. Though there has been a spike of infections in the county, Multnomah County Health Officer Jennifer Vines said there will be “no perfect time” to reopen, and called the decision “a matter of tradeoffs and balances.” As of today, positive cases of coronavirus in Oregon have increased by 178 since yesterday (a new high). Multnomah County is just behind Clackamas which is leading the pack..

“It would take time for the exhausted troops to realise that they had survived and would be returning home. But for many Australian soldiers, it would be months before they saw familiar shores. And many would find that, although they had left the battlefields behind, they had brought the horror of what they had lived through home..

Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. Non subscribers can read and sort comments but will not be able to engage with them in any way. In November, the council tossed out a “compromise” leaf blower ordinance hammered out over a two year period by Prado, Assistant Police Chief Lynne Johnson and local gardeners. Gardeners would have been permitted to use only blowers with noise level ratings below 65 decibels, and they would have been encouraged to use machines below 62 decibels by 2003. Gardeners also would have been required to take a mandatory “leaf blower etiquette” class on proper use of the machines..

Shit happens. The controller probably had a “deal” because of it and was required to give him a brasher warning to cover his ass for why two planes lost separation. Often a pilot deviation and brasher warning is just a verbal coaching with the controlling agency.

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