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        <title>Hall Ambulance -  Emergency Medical Care - Horseshoe&apos;s Blog - Tehachapi News</title>
        <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370</link>
        <description>Help! We need to get organized as rural communities to improve our emergency medical services.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Has anyone ever heard of a county&amp;nbsp;taxing a community to hire&amp;nbsp;a private contractor (HALL) to&amp;nbsp;improve emergency medical services?
On June 12th the County Board of Supervisors will&amp;nbsp;propose a $125 increase in property taxes for Pine Mountain to&amp;nbsp;improve our emergency medical service.&amp;nbsp;
If it happens here to Pine Mountain, it will set the stage for all of Kern Couty rural areas.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</description>
        <itunes:summary>Help! We need to get organized as rural communities to improve our emergency medical services.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Has anyone ever heard of a county&amp;nbsp;taxing a community to hire&amp;nbsp;a private contractor (HALL) to&amp;nbsp;improve emergency medical services?
On June 12th the County Board of Supervisors will&amp;nbsp;propose a $125 increase in property taxes for Pine Mountain to&amp;nbsp;improve our emergency medical service.&amp;nbsp;
If it happens here to Pine Mountain, it will set the stage for all of Kern Couty rural areas.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</itunes:summary>
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                <title>Jun 5,  2007 at 09:06 AM : Funny, I thought these...</title>
                <description>Funny, I thought these were &quot;special&quot; communities to Harvey EGO Hall.  I did not know a private contracter could impose a parcel tax  to provide a private service.  I also thought Harv was in this to be a special person...  My other question is it sounds like Halls is running the company, wouldn&#039;t that be a conflict of interest with his other job as the mayor??</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101219</link>
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                <itunes:summary>Funny, I thought these were &quot;special&quot; communities to Harvey EGO Hall.  I did not know a private contracter could impose a parcel tax  to provide a private service.  I also thought Harv was in this to be a special person...  My other question is it sounds like Halls is running the company, wouldn&#039;t that be a conflict of interest with his other job as the mayor??</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 5,  2007 at 09:06 AM : Hi, To the best of my...</title>
                <description>Hi, To the best of my understanding the conflict of interest situation was checked out when&amp;nbsp;Hall become mayor and it was declared NO problem.&amp;nbsp; However, I have never seen&amp;nbsp;anything in writing -&amp;nbsp;just word of mouth.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;It sure seems to be that Mr. Hall runs the county except for the county fire department.&amp;nbsp;</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101240</link>
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                <itunes:summary>Hi, To the best of my understanding the conflict of interest situation was checked out when&amp;nbsp;Hall become mayor and it was declared NO problem.&amp;nbsp; However, I have never seen&amp;nbsp;anything in writing -&amp;nbsp;just word of mouth.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;It sure seems to be that Mr. Hall runs the county except for the county fire department.&amp;nbsp;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 5,  2007 at 11:06 AM : Horseshoe, could you...</title>
                <description>Horseshoe, could you please explain the basis for your statement &amp;quot;....Mr. Hall runs the county except for the county fire department.&amp;quot; I&#039;m not disagreeing with displeasure in Halls Ambulance Service coverage for Tehachapi, but unsupported general statements which seem to just be pointed nasty remarks at Mr. Hall don&#039;t help the situation. I greatly sympathize with your loss, but emotion may be driving the statement in question. Again, if you can provide support to show &amp;quot;Mr. Hall runs the county....&amp;quot; I&#039;d like to know what it is. I hope the real estate business is going well up in Pine Mountain--a very nice place.</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101330</link>
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                <itunes:summary>Horseshoe, could you please explain the basis for your statement &amp;quot;....Mr. Hall runs the county except for the county fire department.&amp;quot; I&#039;m not disagreeing with displeasure in Halls Ambulance Service coverage for Tehachapi, but unsupported general statements which seem to just be pointed nasty remarks at Mr. Hall don&#039;t help the situation. I greatly sympathize with your loss, but emotion may be driving the statement in question. Again, if you can provide support to show &amp;quot;Mr. Hall runs the county....&amp;quot; I&#039;d like to know what it is. I hope the real estate business is going well up in Pine Mountain--a very nice place.</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 5,  2007 at 02:06 PM : Hi, You&#039;re right...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi, You&#039;re right about unsupported statements.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I get&amp;nbsp;upset&amp;nbsp;with myself when I do it.&amp;nbsp; My statement comes from watching and reading about &amp;nbsp;the interactions of Mr. Hall&amp;nbsp;with the Board of Supervisors,&amp;nbsp; the Department of Emergency Medicine, and even our own Board of&amp;nbsp; Directors here in Pine Mountain.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I have been to many meetings over the last couple of years and Mr. Hall and his PR folks always seem to end up with what they want.&amp;nbsp; Even the issue of conflict of&amp;nbsp;interest seems unresolved in my head.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It will be very interesting next week to see what the Board of Supervisors does with the proposal to increase&amp;nbsp;Pine Mountain&amp;nbsp;property tax to pay for better service from Hall.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Real estate is ok here and it is a beautiful place. Karen&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101445</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Hi, You&#039;re right about unsupported statements.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I get&amp;nbsp;upset&amp;nbsp;with myself when I do it.&amp;nbsp; My statement comes from watching and reading about &amp;nbsp;the interactions of Mr. Hall&amp;nbsp;with the Board of Supervisors,&amp;nbsp; the Department of Emergency Medicine, and even our own Board of&amp;nbsp; Directors here in Pine Mountain.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I have been to many meetings over the last couple of years and Mr. Hall and his PR folks always seem to end up with what they want.&amp;nbsp; Even the issue of conflict of&amp;nbsp;interest seems unresolved in my head.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It will be very interesting next week to see what the Board of Supervisors does with the proposal to increase&amp;nbsp;Pine Mountain&amp;nbsp;property tax to pay for better service from Hall.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Real estate is ok here and it is a beautiful place. Karen&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 5,  2007 at 08:06 PM : I see the hillbillies...</title>
                <description>I see the hillbillies are back in force. It is HALL AMBULANCE not HALLS. Read the side of the ambluance next time you see a Hall Ambulance. That is if you passed third grade and can read.</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101580</link>
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                <itunes:summary>I see the hillbillies are back in force. It is HALL AMBULANCE not HALLS. Read the side of the ambluance next time you see a Hall Ambulance. That is if you passed third grade and can read.</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 5,  2007 at 09:06 PM : Pardon my ignorance,...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Verdana&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Pardon my ignorance, but does this only cover Hall Ambulance, or does it also cover Paramedics, fire, etc?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Verdana&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;On June 12th the County Board of Supervisors will propose a $125 increase in property taxes for Pine Mountain to improve our emergency medical service&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101593</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Verdana&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Pardon my ignorance, but does this only cover Hall Ambulance, or does it also cover Paramedics, fire, etc?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Verdana&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;On June 12th the County Board of Supervisors will propose a $125 increase in property taxes for Pine Mountain to improve our emergency medical service&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 5,  2007 at 09:06 PM : Anonymous:&amp;nbsp;...</title>
                <description>Anonymous:&amp;nbsp; dont be such a coward, log in and post with your user name.&amp;nbsp; We know you work for Hall and that probably will not bother anyone here, most people have issue with the company&#039;s leadership.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101596</link>
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                <itunes:summary>Anonymous:&amp;nbsp; dont be such a coward, log in and post with your user name.&amp;nbsp; We know you work for Hall and that probably will not bother anyone here, most people have issue with the company&#039;s leadership.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 5,  2007 at 10:06 PM : Anonymous-Mr. Hall...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Anonymous-Mr. Hall obviously still manages his ambulance company so I think it is entirely appropriate to refer to his ambulance company as Hall&#039;s. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As far as the tax is concerned, the people in Pine Mt. would be pretty stupid to approve this tax increase just to have it go into Hall&#039;s pocket. It would be much wiser to vote to have the money go to the county fire department to start a firefighter paramedic program that wouldn&#039;t benefit just one person (HALL) but would benefit the whole community. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vote no for Halls and end this stupidity. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101604</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Anonymous-Mr. Hall obviously still manages his ambulance company so I think it is entirely appropriate to refer to his ambulance company as Hall&#039;s. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As far as the tax is concerned, the people in Pine Mt. would be pretty stupid to approve this tax increase just to have it go into Hall&#039;s pocket. It would be much wiser to vote to have the money go to the county fire department to start a firefighter paramedic program that wouldn&#039;t benefit just one person (HALL) but would benefit the whole community. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vote no for Halls and end this stupidity. &lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 5,  2007 at 10:06 PM : Hi Red,  Thanks for...</title>
                <description>&lt;font face=&quot;Verdana&quot;&gt;Hi Red,  Thanks for your interest.  The $125 property tax increase would go directly to Hall Ambulance it has nothing to do with county firefighter/paramedics.  A concern of mine is that if Pine Mountain agrees to the tax increase for better emergency coverage it will set a precedent for the whole county and basically stop any movement towards County Firefighter/ALS Paramedics.   I believe that we need County Firefighter/ALS Firefighters in every rural fire station in the county.  I was at a meeting tonight and Chief Thompson was there and said that we will within the year have at least 3 firefighters in &lt;u&gt;all &lt;/u&gt;Kern County fire stations (we currently only have 2 in Pine Mountain).  He also said that he is working on the paramedic issue.  He said Hall would be used for transportation and that his hardest job is to convince Hall that he won&#039;t be put out of business.&lt;/font&gt;  Karen</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101606</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;font face=&quot;Verdana&quot;&gt;Hi Red,  Thanks for your interest.  The $125 property tax increase would go directly to Hall Ambulance it has nothing to do with county firefighter/paramedics.  A concern of mine is that if Pine Mountain agrees to the tax increase for better emergency coverage it will set a precedent for the whole county and basically stop any movement towards County Firefighter/ALS Paramedics.   I believe that we need County Firefighter/ALS Firefighters in every rural fire station in the county.  I was at a meeting tonight and Chief Thompson was there and said that we will within the year have at least 3 firefighters in &lt;u&gt;all &lt;/u&gt;Kern County fire stations (we currently only have 2 in Pine Mountain).  He also said that he is working on the paramedic issue.  He said Hall would be used for transportation and that his hardest job is to convince Hall that he won&#039;t be put out of business.&lt;/font&gt;  Karen</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 6,  2007 at 07:06 AM : Red, in case you have...</title>
                <description>Red, in case you have not realized this, we are all virtually anonymous, including yourself. Unless you use your real name and a real photo of yourself (like Karen.....and, is that really Karen..... in this particular case it is), Red=coolfire=anonymous=doesnotgetit=etc.&amp;nbsp; The only difference is that you can send an e-mail through a proxy e-mail server as far as I can tell. So throwing the word cowardly around is really a stretch. I could be anyone here, and take some other identity, as many have done on the News site. Anonymous does not = cowardly. It is just another name. Use your imagination. As far as working for Hall Ambulance, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I live in New York most of the year and Idaho other parts, so &amp;quot;this&amp;quot; anonymous is not even in the area (AND, &amp;quot;this&amp;quot; anonymous is not the same as the &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; anonymous who wrote here. Views expressed are views expressed, just that. They are stated and we move on--on a blog, does it matter who stated them? If it does, we are all in trouble.</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101634</link>
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                <itunes:summary>Red, in case you have not realized this, we are all virtually anonymous, including yourself. Unless you use your real name and a real photo of yourself (like Karen.....and, is that really Karen..... in this particular case it is), Red=coolfire=anonymous=doesnotgetit=etc.&amp;nbsp; The only difference is that you can send an e-mail through a proxy e-mail server as far as I can tell. So throwing the word cowardly around is really a stretch. I could be anyone here, and take some other identity, as many have done on the News site. Anonymous does not = cowardly. It is just another name. Use your imagination. As far as working for Hall Ambulance, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I live in New York most of the year and Idaho other parts, so &amp;quot;this&amp;quot; anonymous is not even in the area (AND, &amp;quot;this&amp;quot; anonymous is not the same as the &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; anonymous who wrote here. Views expressed are views expressed, just that. They are stated and we move on--on a blog, does it matter who stated them? If it does, we are all in trouble.</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 6,  2007 at 07:06 AM : It doesn&#039;t matter...</title>
                <description>It doesn&#039;t matter if we call it Hall, Halls or a big scam, it is all the same.&amp;nbsp;The tax payers of this County should not be paying to help a private company to do its job. Mayben gets to vote on this as well as Watson, us in Tehachapi need to call Mayben and let him know how we feel about this tax.&amp;nbsp;His office number is 868-3660 or 823-0154. Please call and ask him to vote NO on this special tax! Please take a look at the Grand Jury report before you call. Here is a link---&amp;gt; http://www.co.kern.ca.us/grandjury/early_releases/PDFs/adhoc_ems.pdf</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101654</link>
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                <itunes:summary>It doesn&#039;t matter if we call it Hall, Halls or a big scam, it is all the same.&amp;nbsp;The tax payers of this County should not be paying to help a private company to do its job. Mayben gets to vote on this as well as Watson, us in Tehachapi need to call Mayben and let him know how we feel about this tax.&amp;nbsp;His office number is 868-3660 or 823-0154. Please call and ask him to vote NO on this special tax! Please take a look at the Grand Jury report before you call. Here is a link---&amp;gt; http://www.co.kern.ca.us/grandjury/early_releases/PDFs/adhoc_ems.pdf</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 6,  2007 at 11:06 AM : Shane is...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Shane is right!&amp;nbsp; Hall/Halls/Hogwash. It doesnt matter what the ambulance is called. As to the conflict of interest. Read this: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emsa.cahwnet.gov/legislation/ch1_conflict.pdf&quot;&gt;www.emsa.cahwnet.gov/legislation/ch1_conflict.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(There is a underscore between the 1 and the c) It is from the Calfornia EMSA website and it is the rules that ALL Ambulances companies in California have to go by called Title 22. Hope that helps. The tax in Pine Mountain I think is being propsed due to the call volume in Pine Mountain does not even cover the cost of putting a ambulance up there part time, let alone full time. I know out in East Kern the Muroc Hospital District buys a ambulance then leases it to Hall Ambulance. All Hall does is staff it and do maintenance on it. The Hospital District also provides the building and Hall pays the utilities and furnishes it. Not a bad trade for a ambulance in far end East Kern County. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_101796</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Shane is right!&amp;nbsp; Hall/Halls/Hogwash. It doesnt matter what the ambulance is called. As to the conflict of interest. Read this: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emsa.cahwnet.gov/legislation/ch1_conflict.pdf&quot;&gt;www.emsa.cahwnet.gov/legislation/ch1_conflict.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(There is a underscore between the 1 and the c) It is from the Calfornia EMSA website and it is the rules that ALL Ambulances companies in California have to go by called Title 22. Hope that helps. The tax in Pine Mountain I think is being propsed due to the call volume in Pine Mountain does not even cover the cost of putting a ambulance up there part time, let alone full time. I know out in East Kern the Muroc Hospital District buys a ambulance then leases it to Hall Ambulance. All Hall does is staff it and do maintenance on it. The Hospital District also provides the building and Hall pays the utilities and furnishes it. Not a bad trade for a ambulance in far end East Kern County. &lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 6,  2007 at 07:06 PM : Hey Red sure glad...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Hey Red sure glad you&#039;re not hiding behind some anonymous name like maybe Red. Everyone knows who Red is right? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;doesnotgetit seems to have missed out on elementary English so I guess I will forgive&amp;nbsp;him/her for that. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Shane its Maben not Mayben.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_102002</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Hey Red sure glad you&#039;re not hiding behind some anonymous name like maybe Red. Everyone knows who Red is right? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;doesnotgetit seems to have missed out on elementary English so I guess I will forgive&amp;nbsp;him/her for that. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Shane its Maben not Mayben.&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 6,  2007 at 08:06 PM : Maben, Mayben- Hall,...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Maben, Mayben- Hall, Halls no one cares that&#039;s not what this blog is about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;trucker1- Did you know that even with all the extras Muroc Hospital District gives Hall he still does not keep that ambulance in Boron? Case in point, just 10 minutes ago the Boron Ambulance responded from Mojave. It was there covering the entire desert. He will do the same in PMC!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_102008</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Maben, Mayben- Hall, Halls no one cares that&#039;s not what this blog is about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;trucker1- Did you know that even with all the extras Muroc Hospital District gives Hall he still does not keep that ambulance in Boron? Case in point, just 10 minutes ago the Boron Ambulance responded from Mojave. It was there covering the entire desert. He will do the same in PMC!&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 6,  2007 at 08:06 PM : I am sorry for posting...</title>
                <description>I am sorry for posting as anonymous&amp;nbsp;. I do it because I have no backbone. Yes I live in New York and part time in Idaho, but I have no life. Thats why I make&amp;nbsp;commits in a town newspaper thats many miles from my home. Please forgive me for correcting everyone&#039;s grammar and spelling, it makes me feel better to make you guys look dumb. I encourage Horseshoe to delete me from this thread. Once again please forgive me, my shrink is trying to get me on the right meds, but has been unsuccessful so far.&amp;nbsp;When I grow up I will post under a real pic and profile.</description>
                <link>http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/Horseshoe/10370/#c_102012</link>
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                <itunes:summary>I am sorry for posting as anonymous&amp;nbsp;. I do it because I have no backbone. Yes I live in New York and part time in Idaho, but I have no life. Thats why I make&amp;nbsp;commits in a town newspaper thats many miles from my home. Please forgive me for correcting everyone&#039;s grammar and spelling, it makes me feel better to make you guys look dumb. I encourage Horseshoe to delete me from this thread. Once again please forgive me, my shrink is trying to get me on the right meds, but has been unsuccessful so far.&amp;nbsp;When I grow up I will post under a real pic and profile.</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 7,  2007 at 01:06 AM : Trucker1 you are...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Trucker1 you are correct as to low call volume in PMC.&amp;nbsp; It is obvious that is why Harvey wants to tax the citizens of PMC&amp;nbsp; in order to pay for the ambulance to be stationed there 24/7.&amp;nbsp; What&#039;s strange is that Hall stations an ambulance in PMC on the weekends and does not ask for any payment.&amp;nbsp; I guess he did this because he&#039;s a caring person?&amp;nbsp;(NOT!)&amp;nbsp; Mr. Hall doesn&#039;t do anything for free.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;He baited the community by placing this ambulance there and now in order to have it stationed 5 more days a week in PMC he wants the community to pay for it by taxing&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; properties (regardless if it&#039;s just a parcel lot or an occupied lot).&amp;nbsp; I believe that if this tax does not go through he&#039;ll pull the weekend rig out of Pine Mountain.&amp;nbsp; Harvey has plenty of cash (4 million plus yearly according to a source downtown) and it is unfortunate that money is more important than a life.&amp;nbsp; I just hope that Mr. Hall or &amp;quot;his family&amp;quot; is never in a situation where he has to wait for Paramedic service because the area has &amp;quot;low call volume&amp;quot; and a rig was not stationed in the area for that reason.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NO ON HALL PROPERTY TAX&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Trucker1 you are correct as to low call volume in PMC.&amp;nbsp; It is obvious that is why Harvey wants to tax the citizens of PMC&amp;nbsp; in order to pay for the ambulance to be stationed there 24/7.&amp;nbsp; What&#039;s strange is that Hall stations an ambulance in PMC on the weekends and does not ask for any payment.&amp;nbsp; I guess he did this because he&#039;s a caring person?&amp;nbsp;(NOT!)&amp;nbsp; Mr. Hall doesn&#039;t do anything for free.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;He baited the community by placing this ambulance there and now in order to have it stationed 5 more days a week in PMC he wants the community to pay for it by taxing&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; properties (regardless if it&#039;s just a parcel lot or an occupied lot).&amp;nbsp; I believe that if this tax does not go through he&#039;ll pull the weekend rig out of Pine Mountain.&amp;nbsp; Harvey has plenty of cash (4 million plus yearly according to a source downtown) and it is unfortunate that money is more important than a life.&amp;nbsp; I just hope that Mr. Hall or &amp;quot;his family&amp;quot; is never in a situation where he has to wait for Paramedic service because the area has &amp;quot;low call volume&amp;quot; and a rig was not stationed in the area for that reason.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NO ON HALL PROPERTY TAX&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 8,  2007 at 12:06 AM : Kudos on your sarcasm...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Kudos on your sarcasm anon, but you&#039;re not adding anything to the thread, you&#039;re just annoying (but I bet that&#039;s your whole point isn&#039;t it? Post ridiculous stuff to try to piss people off). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Who will provide the emergency services to PMC or Tehachapi if Hall Ambulance pulls out of these areas? The citizens are in a no-win position while Harvey Hall really can&#039;t lose. Capitalism at its worst perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Kudos on your sarcasm anon, but you&#039;re not adding anything to the thread, you&#039;re just annoying (but I bet that&#039;s your whole point isn&#039;t it? Post ridiculous stuff to try to piss people off). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Who will provide the emergency services to PMC or Tehachapi if Hall Ambulance pulls out of these areas? The citizens are in a no-win position while Harvey Hall really can&#039;t lose. Capitalism at its worst perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 8,  2007 at 08:06 AM : Hello,&amp;nbsp; Thank...</title>
                <description>Hello,&amp;nbsp; Thank you for the information on the Grand Jury.&amp;nbsp; I don&#039;t know what it means but it sure sounds interesting.&amp;nbsp; Karen</description>
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                <itunes:summary>Hello,&amp;nbsp; Thank you for the information on the Grand Jury.&amp;nbsp; I don&#039;t know what it means but it sure sounds interesting.&amp;nbsp; Karen</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 8,  2007 at 02:06 PM : Hello.&amp;nbsp;...</title>
                <description>Hello.&amp;nbsp; I&#039;m sorry but I have to appologize for my ignorance on all that is occuring.&amp;nbsp; I have never used an ambulance in my 6 years here(PMC).&amp;nbsp; Praise God!!&amp;nbsp; I realize that we live in a rural community and yes we chose to live here.&amp;nbsp; Why don&#039;t we fight for a hospital in our area!!&amp;nbsp; Would this help.&amp;nbsp; Why should I have to be transported to&amp;nbsp;Valencia or Bakersfield for care?&amp;nbsp; I think the same holds true for our friends in Tehachapi, Mojave, and Boron area.&amp;nbsp; There&#039;s LOTS of room for a hospital in Mojave!!&amp;nbsp; From what I hear, the hospital in Tehachapi is basically a clinic (again, I&#039;ve never been there).&amp;nbsp; Put a hospital in Mojave and one at Tejon Ranch (next to IKEA).&amp;nbsp; Fight for what&#039;s right!!!</description>
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                <itunes:summary>Hello.&amp;nbsp; I&#039;m sorry but I have to appologize for my ignorance on all that is occuring.&amp;nbsp; I have never used an ambulance in my 6 years here(PMC).&amp;nbsp; Praise God!!&amp;nbsp; I realize that we live in a rural community and yes we chose to live here.&amp;nbsp; Why don&#039;t we fight for a hospital in our area!!&amp;nbsp; Would this help.&amp;nbsp; Why should I have to be transported to&amp;nbsp;Valencia or Bakersfield for care?&amp;nbsp; I think the same holds true for our friends in Tehachapi, Mojave, and Boron area.&amp;nbsp; There&#039;s LOTS of room for a hospital in Mojave!!&amp;nbsp; From what I hear, the hospital in Tehachapi is basically a clinic (again, I&#039;ve never been there).&amp;nbsp; Put a hospital in Mojave and one at Tejon Ranch (next to IKEA).&amp;nbsp; Fight for what&#039;s right!!!</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 14,  2007 at 09:06 AM : Heard the ambulance...</title>
                <description>Heard the ambulance responding to a call in Stallion Springs yesterday was coming from MOJAVE.&amp;nbsp; Shane is right.&amp;nbsp; Hall dispatch moves those ambulances around so much it&#039;s&amp;nbsp;like a giant game of 3 Card Monty.&amp;nbsp; Pine Mountain&#039;s will be covering from the base of the Grapevine.&amp;nbsp; If that parcel tax is approved in Pine Mountain, I&amp;nbsp; wonder if&amp;nbsp;HallS will try and get a parcel tax passed in Tehachapi to pay for his Golden Hills station????&amp;nbsp; Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....&amp;nbsp; Read the Grand Jury report.&amp;nbsp; I would like to hear what Cox, or Corrum has to say since Harv&#039;s not running the company.&amp;nbsp; Furthermore, if Harv isn&#039;t running the company because it would be a conflict of interest, how come&amp;nbsp;HallS shows up every time there is an award&amp;nbsp;or photoop for something the company is involved in........&amp;nbsp; Ego? $$$. Hmmmm.&amp;nbsp; Read the Grand Jury report.</description>
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                <itunes:summary>Heard the ambulance responding to a call in Stallion Springs yesterday was coming from MOJAVE.&amp;nbsp; Shane is right.&amp;nbsp; Hall dispatch moves those ambulances around so much it&#039;s&amp;nbsp;like a giant game of 3 Card Monty.&amp;nbsp; Pine Mountain&#039;s will be covering from the base of the Grapevine.&amp;nbsp; If that parcel tax is approved in Pine Mountain, I&amp;nbsp; wonder if&amp;nbsp;HallS will try and get a parcel tax passed in Tehachapi to pay for his Golden Hills station????&amp;nbsp; Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....&amp;nbsp; Read the Grand Jury report.&amp;nbsp; I would like to hear what Cox, or Corrum has to say since Harv&#039;s not running the company.&amp;nbsp; Furthermore, if Harv isn&#039;t running the company because it would be a conflict of interest, how come&amp;nbsp;HallS shows up every time there is an award&amp;nbsp;or photoop for something the company is involved in........&amp;nbsp; Ego? $$$. Hmmmm.&amp;nbsp; Read the Grand Jury report.</itunes:summary>     
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