Posted on 06/08/2004 6:57:24 AM PDT by chambley1
Tuesday June 8, 2004
County Open Friday
Arlington County offices will be open Friday, June 11. Federal offices will close in observance of the national day of mourning for former President Ronald Reagan.
Arlington County Board
countyboard@co.arlington.va.us
VA 8th district Congressman Jim Moran, once relected, will try to change name of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport back to National Airport.
I taught at a small private college that chose not to observe King day because it would have thrown a holiday in the second week of the semester.
Thanks......they just got email from me.
Almost the identical reply I posted to some thread yesterday. Better yet, just rename all of them AFTER REAGAN!!
Sent a flaming email to Rep MORON and several other idiots there. What can one expect from a county swarmed over by non-American citizens? Arlington Co looks like downtown Tehran everytime I have to go there.
One upside, however: this cannot POSSIBLY help Moran in the polls, just now... :)
The company I work for will be open for business. What better way to honor a champion of free enterprise than to make some money? We shouldn't get bent out of shape about this.
VERY TRUE! The guy is a freaking crackpot. It will be a celebration when he goes down in flames. My eight year old son could do a better job.
Today Moran is going up against someone named Rosenberg in a democratic primary - - while I know Rosenberg is a young, flaming liberal - - I would suggest since it's an "open" primary, that Pubbies play too.
yes, it is the Islamabad of the US down there. I was acosted by a taxi driver one day who decided to cut in line for his coffee.
He was loud rude and hands on. I called him a raghead and threated to kick his arse and demanded to see his green card in front of his 5 friends.
Of course, like most Arabs, he wanted nothing to do with me...you know they prefer to attack women and children.
Anyway, this rudeness out of NVirginia, with all of its' federal booracrats does not surprise me in the least...and my wife is a fed.
"like most Arabs, he wanted nothing to do with me...you know they prefer to attack women and children."
LOL! Very true. In a related story, I was on watch over in Saudi, for Gulf War #1 and an Arab put his hands on a female Marine! She of course, knocked the piece of crap into next week, and then drug him into the duty hut. I nearly pissed my pants laughing! The Saudi cops showed up and started laughing when they heard the story.
How many other state/county offices will be open in addition to Arlington County, VA?
Thanks for the email address.I just sent them a "DOOZEY"!!!
No day off for Ohio government on Friday
http://www.enquirer.com/reagan/loc_reaganclosing08.html
No day off for state, county
By Gregory Korte
The Cincinnati Enquirer
State and county offices won't follow the federal government's lead and declare a holiday for President Reagan's funeral Friday.
It's about cost, not respect. Holidays mean overtime pay for police and other emergency workers.
Federal offices will be closed and there will be no mail delivery. But in Cincinnati, where few issues are simple enough that they don't get a full airing in City Council chambers, it's still open to debate.
Under the city's administrative code, city employees automatically get the day off any time there's a federal holiday - unless City Council takes action to rescind the holiday.
Mayor Charlie Luken will introduce an ordinance to do that on Wednesday. He said certain city employees - notably, police and firefighters - have to work anyway and would be entitled to overtime.
"We simply cannot afford a day off," said Luken, who met Reagan when he was mayor in the '80s and said he was struck by his charisma. "I don't think this is a statement about our grief over the death of President Reagan, who we all acknowledge was one of the great leaders of the 20th century."
But Pat DeWine, the ranking Republican on City Council, said the city should honor the 40th president with a holiday.
"We should keep an eye on the cost, but I certainly would like to see the city take steps to honor Ronald Reagan," he said. "I don't know that there's too many people who have had the impact he had on the nation and on the world."
Would he vote to declare a holiday for President Clinton? "That's not a good comparison," DeWine said. "But if FDR died while I was alive, I would do the same thing."
There are two Republicans on the nine-member council.
The exact cost of a holiday isn't clear, but a report from City Manager Valerie Lemmie estimated it at $525,000 the last time the issue came up, on the Friday after Christmas last year. Lemmie was out of the country Monday and could not be reached.
At the county building, a Republican stronghold, employees are to show up for work on Friday. As administrative units of state government, most counties are following the lead of Republican Gov. Bob Taft, who has declined to declare a state holiday. Taft has ordered all state flags to fly at half-staff for 30 days and will attend the funeral in Washington.
Even Hamilton County Commissioner John Dowlin, who led the effort to name the Cross-County Highway after Reagan a decade ago, said he didn't think a day off was appropriate.
"It would probably cost us over $1 million," Dowlin said. "That seems like the wrong way to honor a president who was a fiscal conservative."
Independently elected county officials such as the sheriff, clerk of courts and engineer could still elect to give their employees the day off. So far, no suburban governments have announced plans to declare a holiday.
As one commedianne pointed out "Irony is naming the airport in Washington D.C. after the president that fired all the air traffic controllers."
I suppose it was meant as a dig at Reagan, but it was still a funny observation.
Well, see then? There you go. It's not just me. Honor the dearly departed by doing something positive for which they stood.
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