Dalton Gardens carves path to stay open as workforce shortage threatens shutdown
Nearly 300 Dalton Gardens residents showed up to City Hall on Monday night, all while the threat of a de facto municipal shutdown loomed.
Credit: Craig Northrup
From left, City Council members Carrie Chase, Aaron O Brien, Mayor Dan Edwards, Robert Wuest and Ray Craft listened as hundreds of citizens came forward, asking for resignations. While none resigned, Councilman Aaron O Brien admitted Monday night that he had given the matter serious consideration amid council dysfunction that has led to workforce shortages and acrimony. Author: Craig Northrup (Coeur d Alene/Post Falls Press)
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from our studios in new york, bill moyers. moyers: welcome to the journal . once upon a time, a whole lot of just plain americans woke up to realize the economic system was working against them. they had believed in it; they worked hard to make it work for them. they knew its shortcomings but saw in it the way to a decent return for their labor and a better future for their families. then, one day, calamity struck: the system turned on them. and they discovered that they had been betrayed, bamboozled, by the people at the top. but they didn t hang their heads and turn tail, like a dog whipped by its master. they organized and fought back millions of them in a grassroots movement for democracy. what they did became known as the populist moment, an extraordinary time in our country s history. but, the bamboozled returned with a vengeance in our time the monied interests and political mercenaries who connived to bring on a calamity that lost 11 million americans their job
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