Word: sams
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...will have to make cuts, and they will not want to have the entire impact be on local residential property taxes. Trash collection fees, snow removal, street cleaning, public safety, fire safety, education could all be affected.” Both Galluccio and Kale, as well as city councillor Sam Seidel, discussed the possibility of communities being forced to increase property taxes to ensure that local programs remain solvent. “I have no doubt that we would look at [hiking property taxes], I don’t know if we would...
...meanwhile, has two very funny British imports. Sadly, only one is a comedy. CBS's adapted Britcom Worst Week (Mondays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.) has a much easier premise to sell to Yanks, mainly because it's pretty much lifted from a Ben Stiller movie: hapless Sam (Kyle Bornheimer), just engaged, tries to impress his future in-laws, but every attempt ends up disastrously. (In the first episode, he accidentally convinces his wife's family that her father is dead, a social faux pas in most cultures.) It's game if unambitious, with plenty of misunderstandings and physical comedy that...
...fall's most promising import is also the most potentially susceptible to this problem. The premise of ABC's Life on Mars (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 9) is ludicrous but irresistible: New York City cop Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) gets hit by a car and does a reverse Rip Van Winkle, coming to 35 years ... earlier. Inexplicably trapped in 1973 (he awakens wearing a collar with the wingspan of a 747), he returns to his precinct, tries to get his bearings and eventually finds himself working on a case directly connected to the one he was working...
...come home? And what does it all have to do with the David Bowie title song? We don't know, and the pilot doesn't bother making it plausible, but it does play up the time-travel culture-clash aspects for all they're worth. Even the predictable situations - Sam mentions his cell phone to a cop who answers, "You need to sell what?" - pay off. (A more somber, striking moment: Sam looks up after he comes to and sees the gleaming new Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.) But the real fascination is how the show plays...
...election. Members in tight races don't think a lot about statesmanship; they think about survival. Even if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House minority leader John Boehner wanted to unite their caucuses behind a bill they thought the country needed, they don't have the power of a Sam Rayburn or a Tom DeLay to ramrod their members into line. In fact, with dozens of Republicans facing stiffer-than-normal challenges this year and House Democrats enjoying a $40 million financial advantage, Boehner publicly refused to stiff-arm his backbenchers, and two-thirds of his caucus voted against...