Florida's first sextuplets were born Saturday night in
Bayfront Medical Center.
Karoline Byler, 29, of Wesley Chapel,
gave birth to five boys and one girl between 9 and 9:03
p.m. 'We saw them all and it's quite an experience,'
said grandfather Jack Kiewra of The Villages. 'I'm very
pleased everything went well. We have six new healthy
grandbabies and my daughter is fine.
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Officials cut on one end, hurt on the
other
By C.T. BOWEN, Editor of Editorials St. Pete Times
Wednesday morning, former social worker Ann
Hildebrand will gather with community movers and shakers
for breakfast at a private lodge in Land O'Lakes to kick
off a $1.6-million fundraising campaign for United Way
charities.
After lunch, she'll return to her current job and sit
atop an elevated dais with four other people and
consider cutting public funding for those same social
agencies. These are the conflicts commissioners must
confront as they continue to whittle $15.8-million from
the proposed 2008 county budget to meet the
state-mandated 3 percent reduction in the property tax
rate.
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Budget Ax Puts Libraries In Bind
By JULIA FERRANTE The Tampa Tribune
Filling out tax forms,
applying for unemployment benefits,
picking up a DVD for entertainment:
Today's library patrons are doing much
more than borrowing books and stopping
in for story hour. At the same time,
state-mandated tax cuts and dwindling
funds are putting those services at
risk, Pasco County officials say. Perks
residents take for granted soon may come
at a cost - or disappear - and the
"free" library system is no exception.
As county officials look to reduce
spending and comply with a 3 percent
property tax revenue cut, they also are
facing reductions in state funding for
libraries, said Dan Johnson, assistant
county administrator for public
services. Officials are considering
whether it would make sense to forgo
state funding in lieu of a fee-based
system, which would charge those who use
libraries, much like a business. "It's
just coming to that. If you're using it,
you're going to have to pay for it,"
county Libraries Director Linda Allen
said. "Your free public library is not
going to be so free."
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