A representative for the American Association of People with Disabilities visited the Capitol Tuesday to complain that the state’s new voter identification law is unfair to the disabled because it raises hurdles to their casting their ballots in person. “The … Continue reading →
Archive of entries posted on January 2012
Washington Ave Sunoco Robbed
From the APD Press Release:
Albany police are investigating a armed robbery at the Washington Avenue Sunoco Gas Station opposite UAlbany last evening.
A suspect walked into the convenient store at 10:45 p.m. and approached two clerks behind the c…
TN Senate to vote on waiving background checks for handgun carry permit holders
Updated Feb. 1 at 9:15 a.m. Update: The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Steve Southerland, took the bill off the calendar during Wednesday morning’s Senate session. Southerland made the move at the request of the TBI, which he said did not … Continue reading →
Modern-day students and attitudes towards government
Many modern-day college students seem to think that government entitlements should be the source of the things they want.
Will UCLA And a Professor Be Punished For Causing the Death Of a Lab Tech, Or Is UC Above The Law?
By Joan Lichterman UPTE-CWA 9119
UC attorneys and spinmeisters are working overtime to defend the regents, UCLA, and a UCLA chemistry professor in Superior Court against felony charges for willfully violating workplace health and safety standards resul…
Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn Resigns
Matt Strawn has served as the Chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa for just over three years. When he was elected to his first term in 2009, many questioned his ability to turn around the Iowa GOP following the 2006 and 2008 election. Two years later, and after Republicans gained control of the Governor’s [...]
A New Use for Yellow Pages
I have finally found a value in the Yellow Pages and their clones. You remember my disdain for them, right? (See below if you haven’t!) My phone books arrived a few weeks ago and my neighbor felt obligated to move them inside the foyer…where they r…
