read what the News Tribune has to say about the mandatory garbage can situation and those who canot afford to pay by clicking here.

Now I will paste an email I received from Ray Walker:

Rosa,
In your story: Resident: Indigent trash program 'arbitrary, capricious' Published: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 1:30 AM CST
I noted the following inaccurate quotes:

First
" believes there are more than 40 persons" Perhaps I did say this but I immediately, deliberately and distinctly corrected any references from "persons" to "households"

"presented city staff with data from the U.S. Census Bureau" The data is NOT from the U.S. Census Bureau but is from Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce brochure attached and is repeated at this link (click here).

This link corroborates the Chamber's data:

(Perhaps it may be found interesting that the Chamber's data was prepared at some expense to the Chamber by Decision Data Resources and exactly matches that obtained by me from City Data at no cost)

Secondly:
The quote attributed to Ms. Fast "the census data defines households differently" is incorrect in that she distinctly said "the government defines households differently" with NO reference to "census" and this data is NOT from the U.S. Census bureau.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Ray Walker