Just don't take them to City Hall. Brian Burza learned that last month when he went to pay his $20 parking ticket with a briefcase pouch full of loose change. "It was mostly pennies," Burza said. "There were a couple nickels and dimes in there, but it was mainly pennies that I had counted out." But the clerk at the payment center wouldn't take them. Neither would the supervisor, Marcus Chapple, who told Burza to get them changed at a bank. When Burza refused to and insisted that the city accept his pennies because they are U.S. currency, Burza says Chapple put the pennies in a bucket and told his co-workers that there would be free pennies for people that day. "When I saw him put everything in the bucket, I just left my ticket there and said that I considered it paid," Burza said. Still the ticket wasn't marked as paid until Assistant City Administrator Julia Scott-Valdez took a call from the Rockford Register Star Wednesday, two weeks after Burza left his pennies at City Hall.

Clinton is 'honored' - so is she history, too?

Name 10 positive influences George W. Bush has had on this country, you probably can't and It's non-idiosyncratic people like you who got him elected in the first place, which was an election he stole(who becomes president with 43 percent of the popular vote), that trust me democrats have not forgotten about, and will add the flurry of liberal support in November. And let's put it this way as a writer, political activist, and intellectual I will have lost all faith in this country if they think a 71 year old chauvenistic war mongering, stroke risk could do a better job, than a young, charistmatic, voice of change. Because let's face it, who did better, John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon. Let's remember out past.

SNP threatens to tax supermarkets in war on booze culture

The 'polluter pays' principle should apply across the board," he said. "More alcohol is now being sold in off-sales than through on sales. And the problems of binge drinking are not restricted to city centres – they're being felt throughout Scotland and in every age group."Somebody has to meet the cost of these consequences. It would be manifestly wrong to impose a 'polluter pays' levy only on pubs in city centres and not on supermarkets and off-licences in other towns and communities, if that's where we're also seeing problems."We have a serious problem in Scotland. People are telling me the problems are not simply from the licensed trade but also from off-licences."Research suggests that 80 per cent of all alcohol sold in Scotland comes from off-licences. The problem of under-age drinking has also been linked by the police and government to irresponsible shopkeepers.The issue was graphically highlighted by the murder of Garry Newlove, who was kicked to death by a gang of drunk teenagers who had been vandalising his wife's car.A recent Home Office study revealed that almost three-quarters of under-age drinkers in deprived areas get their alcohol from supermarkets, corner shops or from their parents.The survey showed that 52 per cent obtain alcohol from supermarkets or corner shops and 22 per cent from parents or family members.Mr MacAskill revealed the new plan during a meeting with alcohol workers in Livingston, which like most towns in Scotland is blighted with the problem of under-age drinkers.

Fight blight on Airways

Has the mayor lost his mind (Feb. 20 article, "Tax double whammy looms in '09 / Memphis, Shelby County sound early alarm of property hike"). Property taxpayers aren't facing a "double whammy"; they're facing a "triple whammy."