| April 23: Our readers write
The Senate committee on Science, Commerce and Transportation will have a session April 25 about the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. The committee may debate, amend or rewrite the proposed legislation and may vote on whether to send the bill to the Senate floor for consideration.Take a moment to let your senators know that you oppose S.311 and to review the facts about horse slaughter. This country and particularly Kentucky cannot afford to let emotional rhetoric of animal rights groups overwhelm reasoning. Horse processing is necessary to the horse industry. It ensures that a humane, federally supervised end-of-life option is available for unwanted horses. Here are a few reasons why: If the bill is passed, 100,000 unwanted horses a year will have no home and the animal rights groups supporting legislation have offered no solutions on how to care for them.
Commissioners award mowing, street overlay bids
Meeting in continued session on Friday, Benton City Council members approved bill payment and awarded the mowing bid to Don Montgomery.Finance and Accounts Commissioner Charles Webster reported that four mowing bids were received - two for all 30 properties and the other two for partial mowing. Montgomery submitted a bid of $630 for all 30 properties, while Ray Galloway submitted an $800 bid for all properties.Bid specifications indicate the bidder must carry $500,000 in liability insurance, must list the city of Benton on the certificate of insurance, and must carry workers' compensation insurance, as applicable. Other specifications include picking up trash and debris before mowing, mowing grass when it is four inches tall, weed eat and rake as necessary, mow ditches when applicable, and mow in a pattern to not spread clippings on city streets.
Bus company upset by bids
An Illinois company is likely to win many of the 29 contractor-operated bus routes being bid this spring by the Greater Clark County Schools, leaving longtime local operators concerned about the bidding process. "I think it's tainted," Don Tetley, a partner in K and T Inc., said after his Clarksville-based company apparently lost its five routes in the Jeffersonville area to Illinois Central School Bus Services. .
MoH to shift focus of drug bidding procurement supervision
Shanghai. March 26. INTERFAX-CHINA - China's Ministry of Health will change its management of the drug procurement system, and will focus on the use of medicines by hospitals instead of organizational aspects of the bidding process, a MoH official said Friday. .
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