| Business to accept donations for U.S. troops
ANGLETON � Inspired by the sacrifice of troops fighting overseas, a local business owner is trying to make it as easy as possible for the public to donate items for them.
Friday, Diversified Plant Services will be a one-stop drop-off location for a wide range of items to be sent to troops. The company will set up a tent to make a drive-through location, giving those who wish to donate a step-free avenue for doing so.
L.G. �Butch� Murrell, owner of Diversified Plant Services on Highway 288-B near CR 220 in Angleton, conferred with staff members and decided his company would support U.S. troops this holiday season. Diversified Plant Services finds causes each year, from underprivileged families to church groups, and will direct its energy this year to Military Moms and Wives of Brazoria County.
Immigrants Crucial to NY Success?
One in five college professors and more than 1/3 of the doctors in upstate New York are immigrants. That's according to a study designed to calculate the economic contributions of foreign-born workers. The Fiscal Policy Institute says immigrants contributed $229 billion last year to New York State's gross domestic product, or 22 percent of total output. There are about four million immigrants living in New York State. While almost 75 percent live in New York City, researchers say their contributions are crucial to the economic success of the entire state. The labor-backed think tank says it did the study to add perspective to the immigration issue. ccja Fiscal Policy Institute
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Republican Presidential hopeful, Fred Thompson has unveiled his proposed plans for reform of the US tax code, which would give taxpayers the option of using a simplified flat tax system and significantly reduce corporate tax for US businesses. The former Tennessee Senator, turned television personality, announced at the weekend that his 'seven-point plan' would make it easier for small businesses to invest and grow, encourage large employers keep jobs in the United States, and give taxpayers the flexibility to pay a simplified, flat tax rate. "The solutions to challenges in our economy are found in the homes and small businesses of ordinary Americans, not in the halls of Washington," Thompson stated. "My plan allows Americans to have greater control of their own money." Thompson's tax reform plan contains proposals to permanently extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts due to expire by the end of 2010, to permanently repeal the estate tax, and to reduce the US top corporate tax rate from 35% to no more than 27%, which is the approximate average of the world's leading economies.
2 killed in 4 a.m. fire: Man, woman die in mobile home blaze
LEWISTOWN � Two people died early Sunday morning when a fire consumed a bedroom inside of a mobile home on Business 522 in Mifflin County.
According to initial reports, Granville Township Police were the first to arrive at the home, located at 9650 U.S. Hwy. 522. Officers were able to use fire extinguishers to contain the blaze, but not before the home�s two occupants, identified as Jason M. Specht, 33, of Lewistown, and Sherry Leonard, 43, of 377 Cromwell St., Orbisonia, were killed, reports indicate.
Business 522 was shut down at about 3:20 p.m. Sunday, and remained closed into the night as the fire was investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police Hollidaysburg Fire Marshall.
Granville Township Police Sgt. James Carter said his department had turned over the investigation to the Pennsylvania State Police.
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