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Marsha Taylor, an injured bicyclist, was released from the hospital Tuesday. A doctor said it was a miracle that she wasn’t paralyzed.

Marsha L Taylor, 37, was released from the hospital Tuesday after being injured in a bicycling accident. “I had a mild concussion, a broken neck, six broken ribs, a broken arm, and a broken pelvis,” said Taylor Thursday morning at home in Minneapolis. She sat on a wheelchair in a living room including her certificate of 2009 Minneapolis Bicycling Achievement Awards. She told me that a car that was driving struck her from behind while she was bicycling on 72^nd St. almost to southland Boulevard. The accident occurred after she finished the United States Cycling Tour about two weeks ago. She said when the car hit; she went flying off her bike. She was wearing a helmet that saved her life that time. The doctors said there were broken bones, and they were serious about the broken neck. One doctor said it was a miracle that she wasn’t paralyzed. Taylor added that she got worse first. After two weeks, she had been sent to rehabilitation facility. The doctor found she had some internal injuries. Her intestine was perforated; her liver and gall bladder were injured. She had to go back for rehabilitation three times a week.

            Taylor said about her cycling experiences, “I had ridden at least 3,500 miles. I started riding in college, and I got involved with a group of cyclists. In spring 2010, I rode in the annual Government Bicycle Tour, which went across the Minnesota State. Last fall I rode in a tour across the United States,” Taylor has lived in Minneapolis since 1995. She was a manager at McDonald’s, and she had worked there for 15 years. However, she added that she still wanted to ride if she could ride again. Bicycling was safe if bicyclist took precautions to ride.

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Jason Romeo Bainne, who had the best driver award of Hennepin City in 2009, died Monday at the age of 53. Bainne drove a school bus with 22 students to Hennepin High School District. Then, he had a heart attack while driving. He stopped the bus on the side of Lyndale Avenue. He died on the bus before an ambulance came. A student, Maria Fondez, who sat next to the driver seat said, “I thought he was asleep when he drove slowly and parked the bus. Then, my friends and I call him, but he did not respond.”  Linda Bainne, his wife, said, “He like his works and never used his vacation for rest. He worked this duty for 5 years and earned his award last year.”

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The County Commissioner voted 5-2 against the sheriff’s request for funding for new vehicles and additional deputies

         On Thursday afternoon, The ABC County sheriff and County Commissioners met at ABC County to discuss equipment and personnel for the 2011 budget, and the sheriff requested for additional money for eight new vehicles to replace older ones and five more deputies . The Commission President Anne Chenn and four commissioners disagreed, but two commissioners agreed with the sheriff.
         As the heated discussion continued, Commissioners, Anita Shenuski and Raymond Laybourne said the country should spend more money on law enforcement rather than the programs for migrant workers. Shenuski believed migrant workers take jobs from “decent” people by work the next to nothing. However, other commissioners disagreed that workers were kind and hard-working; who work jobs that the local residents would not want to work. By adding migrant workers, opposing commissioners felt the economy would be increased.
         DiCesari said, "I can't buy anything. this is the first time in my 27 years as sheriff that the county hasn't allocated money to the sheriff's department to buy equipment." He also said letting the deputies drive the cars home decreased crime. Chenn suggested that deputies should not drive cars home to make cars more available and preserve mileage. Despite, Dicesari’s argument to request for new equipment was denied.