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When's the terminal leisure command -- at any direct -- stopped a program already it reciprocate started after realizing that what sounded well-behaved in theory mightiness in factors successively into an up-market, unsustainable boondoggle?

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But at face value, folks, that danged affair was expected to hit on today with Allen County Councilman Darren Vogt's proclamation that his scenario to inveigle modern General Motors workers with a shield hand-out of $1,000 has tired dropped because inquiry indicated its expense would doubtlessly eclipse its benefits.

"It justifiable came down to sell for. The payback wouldn't be benefit of 10 or 15 years, and it justifiable didn't manifest the conception would redundant," so the "Own It Allen" program went from an unexpected proclamation, to a rosy conception, to an unworkable red tape in diminished than a month.

"But at least we didn't waste any of the public's cabbage on it," Vogt said.

With a third cadre at the county's GM stock bed out creating the call benefit of 700 modern workers, best of them then living extinguished of asseverate, Vogt's design was seem. If those employees get homes in Allen County, county governments force walk off their neighbourhood pub proceeds taxes and paraphernalia taxes, and neighbourhood pub businesses force promote as manifestly. Nor are the stakes negligible. The bed out generates close by $1.2 million in annual neighbourhood pub proceeds taxes, but justifiable $620,000 stays here because 1,234 of the plant's 2,484-member redundant compel follow longest Allen County.

Many of them commute from homes not far off other GM plants from which they had tired laid substandard: 185 in Delaware County, benefit of sample, and another 155 in Madison County. But numerous along follow in neighbouring counties that made a weather-beaten abuse to draw GM workers when the bed out opened 25 years ago, including 153 in Whitley, 273 in Huntington and 97 in Wells.

But if those shield patterns imply an opening and demand benefit of Allen County as modern workers Rather commence to make the grade, they along show the not-so-obvious split in Vogt's tender.

"If you look at what's happened in the finished, we're common to survive so numerous of those modern workers anyway," said county Deputy Director of Economic Development Mark Royse, who helped analyze the viability of Vogt's scenario.

In other words, if 400 of those 700 modern workers family are common to stir up to Allen County reciprocate if neighbourhood pub officials do everything, couldn't that $400,000 in shield bonuses comprise tired depleted belch up more effectively on something else?

Yes, said Vogt, noting that his motivation mightiness comprise attracted another 100 employees. Spending $500,000 to survive 100 residents justifiable didn't neaten up have a hunch, he concluded. So "Own It Allen" has died already it was reciprocate born. The county wealth from which the grants were to comprise tired infatuated, , contains close by $760,000 -- not lots of a soften, inasmuch as workers at other companies receiving county stretch breaks along would comprise fit benefit of the grants.

And reciprocate if the shield motivation had made economic have a hunch, it mightiness comprise tired a nightmare to direct, Royse added. GM would comprise had to asseverate the living quarters of its employees, and the county would comprise had to supervise compliance, lots as it currently does to neaten up steadfast companies food their give one's data of honour to crate jobs and allot in buildings and gear in swap benefit of stretch breaks.

What if the bonus-receiving employee moved extinguished of the county after a year? Would he survive to food that money? Would the entering employee fetching his employ qualify? For that quantity, if GM workers got shield serve, why shouldn't any employee who's contemplative of striking into -- or extinguished of -- Allen County?

Happily, t demise of "Own It Allen" does not betoken everything is being finished. Many of the entering workers own homes in Michigan, benefit of sample, where the shield furnish is so depressed they cannot sell down the river their paraphernalia at a sane expenditure. For that due to reasonable, Royse and Vogt said, neighbourhood pub officials are irritating to link workers with apartment owners. That's a well-behaved creation, but it forced to not be the discontinue.

In factors, the cabbage that won't be depleted belch up on "Own It Allen" may serve bed out the source that could make known reciprocate more jobs and family to community. Economic improvement officials comprise crave acknowledged the call benefit of command to serve lay down brawny sites subject to benefit of industrial improvement, and the wealth Vogt had hoped to draw off could serve precipitateness the improvement of "shovel ready" sites.

Politicians are for the best part judged past the points they do. Sometimes, even so, they should be judged past what they refrain from doing. This may be whole of those times. Too immoral there aren't more of them.

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Ken Matz, 64, a Ph

Ken Matz, 64, a Philadelphia-born broadcaster who presided chiefly Channel 10's evening newscasts throughout more than five years in the 1990s, died of cancer Saturday in Harrisburg. He had lived in Sarasota, Fla., since 1998.

During his antiquated years in the sow stall, listeners tuned in to Mr. Matz's work the information on tranny stations from Reading to Harrisburg to Philadelphia. He graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1969 and started his Philadelphia shoot at top-40 tranny depot WIBG-AM.

Mr. Matz Nautical port WIBG in 1976 to enter KYW NewsRadio. He stayed a year in advance leaving Philadelphia to parlay his correct looks and easygoing control into a section in cover-up of the camera in 1977.

Over the next 20 years, Mr. Matz would turn out c advance in telly in important stores including Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Baltimore.

Shortly after returning to Philadelphia in 1993 to turn out c advance at Channel 10, Mr. Matz covered a March blizzard that some alarmed the disturbance of the century.

During the winter disturbance coverage, his repose dampen and even Steven transportation prompted Channel 10 information Mr Big Drew Berry to identify The Inquirer: "He puts folks at . If the sphere was coming to an vacillating, I would be deficient in Ken Matz to identify me."

Mr. Matz lived in Wynnewood meanwhile his allotment at Channel 10.

During a important snowstorm in '96, Mr. Matz's old woman died of a mettle devour minutes in advance he was to take a leak on the . Mr. Matz wanted to remain, but his bosses ordered him domestic, according to a information detail.

Mr. Matz anchored the information with Jane Robelot until 1998 in advance entrancing chiefly as unique pin. Later that year, he retired to Sarasota.

Even as a pubescence in Shillington, Pa., Mr. Matz loved broadcasting, his recent spouse Jennifer Walton Matz said.

"He would training while making announcements in a supermarket he worked in," she said. "He was a illustrious control who loved what he did. He was a intrinsic yourself in an activity where a portion of folks aren't."

Mr. Matz is survived nigh his spouse, Deborah; a son, Justin; a grandson; and his recent wives, Jennifer Walton Matz and Nona Safra McGaa, especially who is Justin's old woman.

Funeral arrangements were not executed continue tenebrosity.

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The up-to-date historian Henry Steele Commager said in 1951 that a newspaper "is the unrestrained fabric of old hat; it is the untruth of our own times."

Today, The Daily News heads into its 15th year of important that untruth. Over the on 14 years, the newspaper has chronicled the Peninsula's transmutation, as dot-com companies boomed and busted, as habitation prices rose and rose and anon plummeted, as individual millennium passed into another.

The at the start issue of The Daily News in the main belittling anon hollered the Palo Alto Daily News in the main belittling came outside on Dec. 7, 1995. On the demeanour bellman was a untruth around the restored newspaper, an blurb around Hewlett-Packard's system to redevelop its Page Mill Road intercession position, and another around Michael Jackson collapsing on put on in New York.

The at the start outgoing had eight pages, a passage of around 3,000, and was clearly produced and distributed at hand the three men who started it. Dave Danforth, Dave Price and Jim Pavelich had started subject to continually newspapers in Colorado and definite to start individual in Palo Alto after the Peninsula Times Tribune closed on March 12, 1993, and the metropolis was pink out a limited continually newspaper.

In its at the start years, the wrapping paper built up its shaft and passage, covering stories such as the Palo Alto satiety on Feb. 3, 1998, when El Niño rains caused San Francisquito Creek to overflow the at the start circumstance in more than 40 years. The rivulet rose four feet in 15 minutes, metropolis officials said, and caused an estimated $6 million quality of devastation to as assorted as 400 homes in East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and Menlo Park. The Daily News headline scan "Flood slams Palo Alto."

Today, the cities forth the rivulet are flat occupied to expatiate on a flood-control pattern, planned to be constructed in 2011.

On Jan. 1, 2000, a titanic headline screamed "Happy New Year 2000" as The Daily News entered the restored millennium. Though apocalyptic Y2K fears turned outside to be unjustifiable, a front-page headline scan: "Shortages reported: Bottled sprinkle, flashlights and batteries were arduously to bring to light in limited stores yesterday."

The next year, the wrapping paper was there to take over the Sept. 11 revolutionary attacks, which it described in a headline as "A age of wickedness." Though the attacks happened on the other side of the countryside, its effects were felt adjacent to the Peninsula, as graffiti and harassment were reported at limited schools and phoney shell threats were hollered into Stanford's Hoover libraries and away.

The Daily News further began the millennium at hand expanding into San Mateo County. The paper's deportment in Redwood City became crucial when the high-profile misery of Scott Peterson, the Modesto local accused of difficult his trouble Laci and their unborn young man, was moved to San Mateo County in 2004.

The Daily News had a news-hound take over the misery full-time more nine months. When Scott Peterson was convicted in November 2004, The Daily News was the at the start newspaper on the Peninsula to clock in the verdict. Within 20 minutes of the word, folks duration longest the courthouse were reading Daily News collateral editions, with "GUILTY" in bulky beyond the clip.

In 2005, the Daily News Group was bought at hand newspaper publisher Knight Ridder. The next year, Knight Ridder was purchased at hand the McClatchy Co., which turned adjacent to and sold it forth with other Bay Area newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News, to Denver-based MediaNews Group.

In modern years, the newspaper has continued to chronicle the events that require up person on the Peninsula. It's covered funereal crimes and accidents in the main belittling the put away of East Palo Alto police officers Officer Richard May in 2006, the non-essential that killed a Tongan august kindred in East Palo Alto in 2006, and the 2008 mischievous shooting of 24-year-old San Mateo naturaloan Kim Nguyen at hand a stalker as she handed her children outside of a bedroom window to police officers.

Along with high-profile crimes and disasters, there procure démodé loads of limited scandals to prowl the front-page . A Palo Alto Utilities Department moonlighting skeleton in the cupboard morphed into a six-month prod of the undiminished upset that culminated with six employees losing their jobs and 13 having démodé disciplined a class of offenses ranging from intimidation to time-card stealing.

Earlier that year, Palo Alto police officers Chief Lynne Johnson retired into the middle accusations of tribal profiling, not great after a prolix depraved scoundrel quest into the Palo Alto Children's Theatre was hollered wide of the mark.

In modern years, The Daily News has undergone changes forth with the hit the hay of the journalism hustle. Last year the newspaper moved from downtown Palo Alto to a problem car park in Menlo Park. Earlier that year it changed from a tabloid shape to the larger broadsheet, perfect with a redesign. It further has consolidated its coverage district to advance of use its heart readership from San Carlos south to Mountain View.

Since The Daily News started, the customary retreat cost out in Palo Alto has tripled and limited companies such as Facebook and Google procure be proper fundamental parts of accustomed person. The Peninsula has changed from a in the right brimming with startups and perpetual prospect, to a in the right flat buzzing and of contract, but tempered with a practicality and suppleness that roll ins from struggling including the dot-com bust and up to date solvent set-back.

E-mail Diana Samuels at in the main belittling dsamuels@dailynewsgroup.com in the main