| I-526 foes to talk about alternatives
The Concerned Citizens of the Sea Islands and the Coastal Conservation League, two local groups against the proposed Mark Clark Expressway extension, are hosting open design workshops this week where the public can help develop alternatives to the $420 million project. Traffic projections have shown that some roads in West Ashley and on Johns Island would benefit from the project, but opponents have questioned whether those benefits are substantial enough to warrant paying that much money. Several local roads are in desperate need of repair, they say, arguing that the proposed new beltway wouldn't necessarily solve all traffic problems and that it would put development pressure on rural Johns Island. The State Infrastructure Bank has already awarded Charleston County $99 million toward the project, and the road has received initial approval from Charleston County Council.
'Don't ask, don't tell' to be challenged in LR
I'm too naive to think this way on my own and depend on others to remind me of the kind of dirty tricks the party of Nixon are so good at. We must constantly be on guard, ever vigilant. I'm sure, though, they still slip quite a few by us. .
Piano Wire Puppeteers: The Constitution, Media & Dennis Kucinich
It's been an odd week. For me, a particularly odd week. But that's another story. So, wait a minute. Iran DOESN'T have nuclear weapon capability??? So, who are we gonna bomb? I want to bomb somebody! Didn't Senator Clinton just vote in essence to give President Bush the power to bomb Iran? If he had done it last week, would that have made her right? I mean, if she knew then what she knows now? Or am I getting that backward? Golly, I'm confused. And what about President Bush? This week, Vladimir Putin, the man Mr. Bush said he "Looked into the eyes of and found to be very straightforward and trustworthy." So much so, he was "able to get a sense of his soul." Well that soulful fella has just successfully coalesced the most dangerous power base in Russia since the Cold War amid rumors that include allegations he ordered the assassinations of journalists and imprisonment of noted proponents of freedom (Oops).
Jail inmate dies of liver disease
Della and Namura denied making the threats. Sgt. Rich O'Neill, president of the Seattle Police Officers' Guild, said the group is unlikely to appeal. In the letter released Monday, Barnett said he found Della violated the city's Elections Code when he called the guild on a city phone to discuss the group's endorsement. Barnett plans to ask the commission to administratively dismiss the violation because he does not believe it would serve the public's interest since Della lost the election. Seattle Times staff and news services .
McCain, Romney look to Florida primary to gain front-runner status
The Florida Republican primary is open only to Republican voters. McCain's previous wins in South Carolina and New Hampshire were powered by independents, and his views are sometimes out of step with conservative Republicans. He has, for instance, backed a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and co-sponsored a bill to reduce pollution by power plants and oil refineries that critics said would increase energy costs for families. Florida's contest could provide momentum for Democrats despite its lack of delegates. The Democratic National Committee stripped the state of all its convention delegates for violating party rules by holding its primary earlier than Feb. 5, and the candidates have agreed not to publicly campaign there. But, Clinton, who was routed by Obama in the South Carolina primary last weekend, has sought to draw attention to an event she expected to win.
It’s All About the Money
Turnout was 77 percent of 4,332 eligible voters, and 53.6 percent chose Aref in the runoff, making this his second term in office. Many critics claim that the outcome was somewhat expected, the only odd thing being the relatively low number of votes that the increasingly influential and popular El-Ghazali Harb won. In fact, the scribe (and upstart NDP policies secretariat member) has been so high-profile of late that some of us even expected his next appearance would be in one of the Ramadan mosalsalat! .
war stories
It's a military rite of passage for new recruits to hear from old hands that everything from boot camp to combat was tougher before they arrived. The late '90s coronation of the "Greatest Generation"—which left many Korean War and Vietnam War veterans scratching their heads—is only the most visible cultural example. Generational contrasts are implicit today when casualties in Iraq are referred to as light, either on their own or in comparison to Vietnam. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, for example, last July downplayed the intensity of the Iraq war on this basis, arguing that "it would take over 73 years for U.S. forces to incur the level of combat deaths suffered in the Vietnam war." But a comparative analysis of U.S. casualty statistics from Iraq tells a different story.
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CAN real consumption inequality decline even as income inequality increases? The Economics Focus piece in the current edition of the newspaper argues that it can and has. Paul Krugman's emphatic rejoinder on his New York Times blog fails entirely to join this issue, despite his table-thumping rhetoric. What Mr Krugman does do is to gesture toward nominal consumption inequality numbers that he prefers over those offered by Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri, professors of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota respectively, who he seems to think are guilty of "the misuse of the Consumer Expenditure Survey." But this is, as Mr Krugman recognises, "a narrow technical issue." More importantly, it is mostly beside the point of the piece he is criticising, which is this: But consumption numbers, too, conceal as much as they illuminate.
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