Sotomayor Tells Senators She is ‘Humbled’
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee she is “very humbled” to be President Barack Obama’s choice for a seat on the nation’s top court. In a seven-minute statement, the jurist summed up her judicial philosophy, saying, “The task of a judge is not to make the law; it is [...]
Shuttle Launch Scrubbed for Fifth Time
Bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center was the cause for today’s decision to hold the Space Shuttle Endeavour on the ground for a bit longer. This is the fifth time that this mission has been put on hold, initially it was due to technical problems back in June. But in the last few days [...]
Mayor Peyton Pitches Budget Proposal to City Council
Major John Peyton presented his $994 million budget to the Jacksonville City Council this morning. The following is the full text of the mayor’s address to the City Council… Mr. President, members of the City Council, honored guests, fellow employees and Citizens of Jacksonville: Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here with you [...]
McCollum, Bronson Reach Deal with Morgan Stanley
The state has reached a $2.27 million settlement with Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. over price gouging accusations that occurred last year in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Attorney General Bill McCollum and Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charlie Bronson launched a joint investigation last fall when gas prices around the state skyrocketed and residents [...]
Old Names and New Faces Lead State Senate Fundraising in Second Quarter
Senate hopeful Joe Negron blew other candidates out of the water as he raised more than $303,000 in less than three months in his quest to replace Sen. Ken Pruitt for the District 28 Senate seat. Facing a special election Aug. 4, Negron led all candidates in fundraising activity for the quarter ending June 30, [...]
Many Turning Toward a ‘Simpler Life’
Shrinking paychecks and rising environmental concerns are prompting Americans to pare back their lifestyles. “Perhaps the silver lining (of the recession) is that people are coming to realize they can live with less and their lives are richer for it,” says Michael Maniates, professor of political and environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. [...]
Doctors Express Wants To Be Where You Are
At his Doctors Express center in Towson, Md., Dr. Scott Burger has spent the last three years tending to the community’s night-time fevers and weekend hurts. Now, the former emergency room physician wants to take the center’s model nationwide, doing for urgent health care what, say, Papa John’s did for pizza – making sure the [...]
Fifth Time’s The Charm for Shuttle?
NASA on Monday will try for a fifth time to launch shuttle Endeavour, after thunderstorms rolled near Kennedy Space Center at just the wrong time Sunday. “We got the vehicle ready, and the weather unfortunately did not cooperate with us today,” launch director Pete Nickolenko radioed to Endeavour commander Mark Polansky about 10 minutes before [...]
Rural Mexico Shares Recession Pain
Not long ago, this remote Mexican mountain town was in the middle of a construction boom – as families proudly built their American-style dream homes, using cash sent home by relatives working in the USA. Work on those houses has stopped, leaving shiny steel rebar jutting awkwardly out of concrete walls all over this town [...]
Summer’s Gone Cold for Networks
Summer has cast a gray cloud on the major TV networks. Most are suffering double-digit drops from last year as top cable networks score with original dramas. The three weeks ending July 5 were the major broadcast networks’ lowest-rated in history. The combined four-network average was 20.2 million viewers for the week ending July 5. [...]
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