Source: Diário Catarinense -SC, 15/07/2009

The Military Police of Santa Catarina seized 37.714 crack stones from January to May this year, according to a survey that was released yesterday by the Information and Intelligence Directorate of the State Secretariat for Public Security. Itajaí leads the list, with 6.305 stones from this filthy and lethal drug, followed by Blumenau (5.223) and Florianópolis (4.212). Expressive quantities were also apprehended in Lages, Balneário Camboriú, Tubarão, Joinville, São José, Rio do Sul and Brusque. There is a direct relationship between the expansion of trafficking and crack consumption and the rise in crime statistics for crimes ranging from simple opportunistic thefts to assault with the use of violence and homicides. This has occurred even in cities where, until recently, the rate of crime and violence was insignificant, such as Rio do Sul and Brusque, now included in the regrettable crack list. The police tighten the siege. The repression of trafficking must not abate.

Sign installed at the junction of the general road of Tapera with Rodovia Baldicero Filomeno, in Ribeirão da Ilha, brings Freguezia with “z”. The orthographic reform that changed the spelling to Freguesia occurred in the middle of the last century. It's been a long time, hasn't it?

# There is hope

The degradation of the former residence of Governor Hercílio Luz, located in the Center of the Capital, motivated a recommendation by the Catarinense Association of Conservators and Restorers of Cultural Property to Governor Luiz Henrique da Silveira, via the State Council of Culture, so that he intervenes directly in the attempt to preserve this historic heritage.

# Withholding

What is most surprising, in the data released by the Secretariat of Finance about tax evasion in the case of fuels, is the fact that the collection of the State government, in the sector, dropped from 26%, in 2008, to 18% in 2009. Judging by the congestion, the number of vehicles on the streets across the state has increased. The account, then, does not close.

# Membership

Councilor Aurélio Valente (PP) forwarded a suggestion to the president of the Florianópolis City Council, Gean Loureiro, to put a sticker with the message Crack, Nem Pensar on the entire fleet of vehicles in the Legislative House. They will join.

# Rescue

Deborah Rowe, Michael Jackson's ex-wife, will receive $ 4 million for not claiming custody of the children, according to an agreement reached with the family.

"It's a kind of rescue," said a source close to the Jackson clan.

# Even you “tweet”?

One of the last critics of the new wave has just surrendered to the tsunami of the moment. Since last week it is already possible to follow what he is doing in www.twitter.com/marquinhose. The new “tweeter” is Marquinhos Espíndola, columnist for Back Cover.

# Phrases

"I will still live to see the graduation of two great-grandchildren who are about to be born."

VICE-PRESIDENT JOSÉ ALENCAR, HUMOROUS, DURING SENATOR ALOÍZIO MERCADANTE'S (PT-SP) VISIT TO THE HOSPITAL IN SÃO PAULO.

"I'm dying of shame. People say to switch parties. But there's nowhere to go. It makes you want to go home. ”

SENATOR PEDRO SIMON, PMDB'S HISTORICAL POLICY, WITHOUT HIDING DISPENTANT WITH THE DENUNCIES OF IRREGULARITIES IN THE SENATE.