Speaker Cretul Revamps House Committee Assignments
House Speaker Larry Cretul on Monday unveiled revamped committee assignments that cut the number of panels and concentrate fiscal control into fewer hands. “My guiding principles have been threefold: to improve efficiency, to maintain stability, and to build continuity with the future,” Cretul said in a memo to members. Toward that end, Cretul is peeling [...]
Spy Planes Being Shifted to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – The U.S. military has sent more spy planes to Afghanistan and moved others there from Iraq, reflecting President Obama’s emphasis on Afghanistan and the difficult fight there. In July 2008, 75% of spy planes, including drones such as Predators and Reapers, were devoted to Iraq and 25% to Afghanistan, according to Pentagon figures. [...]
Fewer Delays As Air Travel Declines
A marked decrease in airline travel has made this summer the smoothest in years for fliers accustomed to lengthy delays and snarled traffic. The aviation system is suffering significantly fewer delays than the past two years, according to government data and aviation experts. The lengthiest delays – which cause people to miss connecting flights and [...]
Privacy Concerns Grow Over Student Data
Privacy concerns have touched off a debate this summer about whether schools should change the practice of sharing student contact information with outside sources. School districts and colleges nationwide are allowed to sell or share student lists that contain information such as the names, ages, phone numbers and home addresses of students. The federal Family [...]
Swine Flu: Schools Brace for Worst
It didn’t take long for swine flu to show up at Vista del Lago High School in California’s Sacramento County: About 10 a.m. on Aug. 10, two hours into the first school day, administrators got a call with news that a freshman who had stayed home that morning had a confirmed case. “I was hoping [...]
Back to School: Parents Should Keep Dress Codes in Mind
Today is the first day of school for students in Duval County. While the weather has cooled slightly from the peaks of June and July, it’s still quite warm outside and it can sometimes be hard to know exactly how to adapt those skimpier Summer styles into appropriate for school wear. School administrators determine apparel [...]
A Closed Primary
The primary is set for the State Senate District 8 special election, and Democrats are not going to have much of a say in the process. Democrats couldn’t, or didn’t, find a candidate to run, and only Republicans and write-ins have qualified for the race. There are two schools of thought on this. Democrats I’ve [...]
Cube Aims at Young Buyers
Move over, Aztek. You’ve lost the ugly crown to the Cube. Nissan says its Cube, a compact crossover, looks like a “bulldog in sunglasses.” Maybe–after misplacing your eyeglasses. A young woman paid the ultimate compliment: She smiled and gave it a big thumbs up, after putting down her doll as she surveyed Cube out the [...]
Cool Yet Satisfying
Sometimes summer can leave you feeling too hot to want to do any kind of cooking — not even grilling, or a quick, easy stir-fry like the recipe I shared with you in my last column. That’s the moment to start cooking without doing any kind of real cooking at all. Those words might at [...]
Allgeations of Afghan Voter Fraud Grow
KABUL – Afghan presidential candidate Ramazan Bashardost jumped out of his chair Sunday when he saw the news photographers and started yelling at election officials who were tallying votes in a warehouse. “Some documents have no serial numbers,” he shouted, pointing at a stack of papers. Soon representatives of another candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, and of [...]
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