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50s rocker bringing jazz quartet to Payson

<div align="center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1aoX38YYb40GNg71MxGEN0to_-A5QfotQcNaqG0BozRGDsJtWmSazInYEe_hFRIB01GpuUq7bzMbLXMBm9iO8OZl3nuVlmcEoYqXk4ae3WiM81bflMTPSVtRiD1AJG7dfSEdir9jtcWCe/s1600/Jazzist+Frank+Smith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1aoX38YYb40GNg71MxGEN0to_-A5QfotQcNaqG0BozRGDsJtWmSazInYEe_hFRIB01GpuUq7bzMbLXMBm9iO8OZl3nuVlmcEoYqXk4ae3WiM81bflMTPSVtRiD1AJG7dfSEdir9jtcWCe/s400/Jazzist+Frank+Smith.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><div align="center"> Frank Smith  </div><div align="center">featured pianist & saxophonist</div><div align="center">with</div><div align="center">Steve Douglas - Upright String Bass</div><div align="center">Gerry Reynolds - Drums</div><div align="center"> and</div><div align="center">a surprise artist</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Frank Smith is planning to bring a"surprise artist"</div><div align="center">which will now make the group a quartet.</div><div align="center" dir="ltr"> Community Presbyterian Church</div><div align="center">800 West Main St., Payson</div><div align="center">3 p.m. Sunday, November 10th</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Frank Smith has for 40 years performed with a wide range</div><div align="center">of professional stars, including Gladys Knight and the Pips, </div><div align="center">The Coasters, Frankie Valle, Little Anthony and the Imperials, </div><div align="center">The Diamonds and The Fifth Dimension. He's also been </div><div align="center">the featured soloist with the Phoenix Symphony and </div><div align="center">the woodwind soloist on an ABC TV series sound track. </div><div align="center">He plays sax, flute, and piano. Frank taught music </div><div align="center">for twelve years, most of it at ASU.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Frank is also an instrument rated commercial pilot, </div><div align="center">as well as a psychotherapist practicing in Neuro Linguistic </div><div align="center">Programming. His area of expertise is in belief change </div><div align="center">work and personal empowerment.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Mark Your Calendar To Attend on Sunday</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Door opens to the community at 3 p.m.</div><div align="center">A $5 per head donation includes refreshments.</div><div align="center">A response to <a href="mailto:gerry-reynolds@hotmail.com" target="_blank">gerry-reynolds@hotmail.com</a> will help</div><div align="center">to assure that good seats are made available.</div>

Frank Smith featured pianist & saxophonist with Steve Douglas - Upright String Bass Gerry Reynolds - Drums and a surprise artist Fran...

Holiday treasures on sale at Library Bookstore

<div style="text-align: justify;">During November the Library Friends of Payson Bookstore will feature an extensive collection of Christmas fiction, music, cook books, craft books, etc. at two for the price of one.  As always, the second item must be of equal or lesser value than the first item.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is a wonderful opportunity to get a head start on selecting unique and inexpensive gifts for friends, neighbors, care givers, co-workers, secret pals, or anyone else on your Christmas list.  Bookstore gift certificates are only $3 and make the perfect gifts for those hard to shop for people.  They are great stocking stuffers as well.  Stop by and discover the Bookstore’s delightful holiday treasures.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">The Bookstore will be offering all paperback books at the amazing value of 6 for $1  throughout November.  This is an extraordinary opportunity to stock up on books by your favorite author in preparation for those cold, winter days to come.  Be sure to come in soon for the best selection.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div>Bookstore stock is constantly changing.  Therefore, the wise patron stops by often.  Bookstore volunteers are always happy to see you.  All Bookstore proceeds directly support the library.</div><div> </div><div>The LFOP Bookstore is located to the right of the circulation desk just inside the Payson Public Library, 328 N. McLane Road.  For more information visit the Library Friends of Payson website at <a href="http://www.libraryfriendsofpayson.org/" target="_blank">www.libraryfriendsofpayson.org</a>   </div>

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During November the Library Friends of Payson Bookstore will feature an extensive collection of Christmas fiction, music, cook books, craft ...

New movie explains where our Middle Class went

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTprXScvuzi1SBLEzUr2Wk0xx1ASjJxPq54XbV1QRewzes_w8oLib2PyXU3r8DzT8vVI0lb5W64fkpvjIkgDOxTElSDiz3pZ1DW8Bmje9wc-rCsJNSuNRAptwYnSBWFI-0ILngi5kUpyEy/s1600/robert_reich_opinion.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTprXScvuzi1SBLEzUr2Wk0xx1ASjJxPq54XbV1QRewzes_w8oLib2PyXU3r8DzT8vVI0lb5W64fkpvjIkgDOxTElSDiz3pZ1DW8Bmje9wc-rCsJNSuNRAptwYnSBWFI-0ILngi5kUpyEy/s1600/robert_reich_opinion.png" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">By <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/search_results/?sf_pubsys_story_byline=the%20Editorial%20Board&link_location=top" style="outline: 0px none;" target="_blank" title="Read more articles by the Editorial Board">the Editorial Board</a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Published: Monday, Oct. 21, 2013</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"> </div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">Our <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/Declaration+of+Independence/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">Declaration of Independence</a> states that “all men are created equal.” Over the years, Americans have removed many barriers to that great aspiration – with the <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/Fourteenth+Amendment/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">Fourteenth Amendment,</a> the vote for women, the civil rights acts, public education and more.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">But since the late 1970s, the United States slowly has become the most unequal of the world’s developed nations in its distribution of income and wealth. Our middle class is shrinking.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">A new film, “Inequality for All,” hopes to bring attention to this. The protagonist is the passionate <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/Robert+Reich/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">Robert Reich,</a> an economics professor at the <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/University+of+California/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">University of California,</a> Berkeley, and a former labor secretary during the <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/Clinton+administration/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">Clinton administration.</a></div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">The timing certainly is right for a clear explanation of what has happened economically to the middle class in the last 30 years, and the impact it is having on our democracy. All to the good if it can begin a spirited conversation to consider remedies.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">The most stark visual in the film is a <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/suspension+bridge/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">suspension bridge,</a> not unlike the <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/Golden+Gate+Bridge/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">Golden Gate Bridge.</a> One tower is 1928; the other is 2007. These are the peak years of <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/income+inequality/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">income inequality</a> in the United States. In both cases, we had economic crashes the year after the peak – and recovery took concerted action. Change did not come alone through <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/market+forces/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">market forces.</a></div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">The most stark fact in the film is that the typical male worker in 2010 earned $33,751; in 1978, he earned $48,302, in inflation-adjusted dollars.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">This stagnation of middle class incomes, Reich points out, has been masked by families becoming two-earner households, working longer hours (300 hours a year more than Europeans), using<a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/credit+cards/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">credit cards</a> and tapping their homes as <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/ATM+machines/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">ATM machines.</a> But with the bursting of the <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/housing+bubble/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">housing bubble,</a> the mask has been lifted: “All of the coping mechanisms of flat wages for 30 years are now exhausted.”</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">And a <a href="http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/publiccosts/fastfoodpovertywages.shtml" style="outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">new report</a> released last Tuesday by the UC Berkeley Labor Center points out more than half of fast-food workers – at places such as McDonald’s, Subway, <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/Burger+King/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">Burger King</a> and Wendy’s – working 40 or more hours per week are enrolled in public assistance programs to cover basic needs of food, rent and <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/health+care/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">health care.</a> That costs all of us.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">Those at the top, however, have fared better. And if you think that’s all to the good, think again.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">Nick Hanauer, a Seattle pillow manufacturer and venture capitalist, points out in the film that the rich can buy only so many pillows and jeans. They invest some in companies creating jobs, but a lot goes to “funds of funds” – financiers financing other financiers instead of real industries.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">That helps to explain why inequality is widening even as the economy is growing.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">So what is the solution? Reich believes we should emulate the United States of the three decades after <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/World+War+II/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">World War II.</a></div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">That was a time when education was a national priority, including higher education. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/Harry+S.+Truman/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">Harry S. Truman</a> championed large-scale investments to assure greater access. And states contributed, too.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">It was a time of investment in infrastructure, such as the interstate <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/highway+system/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">highway system.</a></div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">And, Reich points out, it was a time when more than one-third of workers belonged to labor unions that ensured that workers got a piece of <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/productivity+gains/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">productivity gains.</a> As companies are designed to make profits, we need some countervailing force to look after the American worker.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">All this led to a cycle of economic growth, greater <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/tax+revenues/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">tax revenues,</a> more <a href="http://topics.sacbee.com/government+spending/" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px none;" target="_blank">government spending,</a> a better educated populace – a cycle that fed on itself.</div> <div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">Can this generation summon the political will to advance the aspiration of the Declaration of Independence? We should not stand by as our “land of opportunity” fails to meet that promise.</div> <div class="storybug" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt;">• <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/search_results/?sf_pubsys_story_byline=the%20Editorial%20Board&link_location=bottom" style="outline: 0px none;" target="_blank" title="Read more articles by the Editorial Board">Read more articles by the Editorial Board</a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/search_results/?sf_pubsys_story_byline=the%20Editorial%20Board&link_location=bottom" target="_blank" title="Read more articles by the Editorial Board"> Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/10/21/5833679/editorial-what-has-happened-to.html#storylink=cpy</a></div>

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By the Editorial Board Published: Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 Our Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equal.” Ove...

50s rocker bringing jazz quartet to Payson

Holiday treasures on sale at Library Bookstore

New movie explains where our Middle Class went

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