Advocates for Southern Voting Rights Among Madoff Victims
Most of the big names mentioned as victims of Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion investor swindle are linked to New York and Hollywood.
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Sphere: Related ContentBreak in State Elections Allows for Voting Law Study
Mississippians take a break from statewide elections next year, and the breather will allow lawmakers to take a little more time to study proposals on early voting and perhaps reach a middle ground on voter ID, says one Senate leader.
Without a looming statewide campaign, says Senate Elections Committee chairman Terry Burton, there is no pressure to frantically slap together election reforms and rush them to Washington, D.C., for a Voting Rights Act review.
Municipal offices are on ballots across Mississippi
Sphere: Related ContentBreak in State Elections Allows for Voting Law Study
Mississippians take a break from statewide elections next year, and the breather will allow lawmakers to take a little more time to study proposals on early voting and perhaps reach a middle ground on voter ID, says one Senate leader.
Without a looming statewide campaign, says Senate Elections Committee chairman Terry Burton, there is no pressure to frantically slap together election reforms and rush them to Washington, D.C., for a Voting Rights Act review.
Municipal offices are on ballots across Mississippi
Sphere: Related ContentBlagojevich Names Obama Replacement – Maybe
In defiance of U.S. senators who said they would not seat his pick, Gov. Rod Blagojevich today selected former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to succeed President-elect Barack Obama in the Senate.
Blagojevich praised Burris for his “unquestioned integrity” and “extensive experience,” calling him a senior statesman.
”Please don’t allow the allegations against me to taint this good and honest man,” Blagojevich said.
Burris, who accepted the appointment, said he would next deal with the U.S. Senate’s statement that it would not seat him.
”Faced with these challenges and challenged with these crises, it is incomprehensible that the people of the great state of Illinois will enter the 111th Congress short handed,”
Sphere: Related ContentUN Chief Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire
United Nations – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and urged Mideast and world leaders to do more to help end the Israeli-Hamas conflict and promote political dialogue.
Ban on Monday urged Arab foreign ministers, who are holding an emergency meeting in Cairo on Wednesday “to act swiftly and decisively to bring an early end to this impasse.” The bombings have killed at least 360 people
Sphere: Related ContentFarewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House
The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? A sweeping draft of history – distilled from scores of interviews – offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and other key players.
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Jacqueline McGlade, a British scientist, directs the European Environment Agency (EEA), based in Denmark. The EEA independently studies the state of the environment within the European Union and evaluates the public policies conducted there for the European Commission and Parliament and the Member States.
Sphere: Related ContentMoose Are Roaming Right Out of Existence
In the Upper Midwest, the animals are dying off in startling numbers. Biologists blame global warming.
Chicago – It wasn’t long ago that thousands of moose roamed northwest Minnesota. But in two decades, the number of antlered, bony-kneed beasts from the North Woods has plummeted from 4,000 to fewer than a hundred.
They didn’t move away.
Sphere: Related ContentAuto Workers Told to Take Concessions, Abandon Retirees
President George Bush announced December 19 a $17.4 billion bridge loan for General Motors and Chrysler, a day after it hinted that the companies could be forced into “orderly” bankruptcy.
Auto workers who advocated for short-term aid to the auto industry’s crisis bristled at the conditions attached to the loan. The Bush administration’s requirements mirror demands from anti-union Republicans who torpedoed Congressional action last week.
Sphere: Related ContentWomen Farmers Toil to Expand Africa’s Food Supply
London – Like many African women, Mazoe Gondwe is her family’s main food provider. Lately, she has struggled to farm her plot in Malawi due to unpredictable rains that are making her hard life even tougher.
”Now we can’t just depend on rain-fed agriculture, so we plant two crops – one watered with rain and one that needs irrigating,” she explained. “But irrigation is back-breaking and can take four hours a day.”
Gondwe, flown by development agency ActionAid to U.N.
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