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County Manager – Baker County

Source: Baker County
(pop. 26,000) Salary: $70,000 - $90,000 DOQ. The Baker County Board of Commissioners seeks qualified applicants for the position of county manager in the chief administrative office with statutory authority. Baker County is a progressive county in Northeast Florida poised for residential and industrial growth from Jacksonville. The county has excellent schools and attractive rural environment. The city has a $33.3-million general fund budget; 100 employees and a five-member energetic board. Send an e-mail to jobs@bakercountyfl.org to request a complete position description, required qualifications, county profile and other information. Required: minimum of bachelor’s degree with six years in senior-level management. Knowledge of budget/finance, human resources, purchasing, intergovernmental relations, planning and general county operations; strong interpersonal skills and commitment to team management and citizen participation/service. Send application letter, résumé and professional references to jobs@bakercountyfl.org or 55 N. Third Street, Macclenny, FL 32063, Attn: Sara Little, no later than July 30, 2010, by 4:00 p.m.

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A Right Does Not Make Right
Source: Scott Paine
Irresponsible freedom

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously observed that “[t]he most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater, and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force.” (Schenck vs. United States – 249 U.S. 47 – 1919) Justice Holmes was not denying the First Amendment (though one certainly can question the application of the principle he articulated to the case he helped decide); he was affirming that even our most fundamental freedoms have their necessary limits.

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