Today the president will announce new steps aimed at helping the nation’s one million unemployed veterans get back to work. In a speech at the Washington Navy Yard, the president will challenge the private sector to hire 100,000 veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013 and will propose extending tax credits for wounded warriors and service members returning from combat.
“The president feels that our veterans who have served the country, put their lives on the line and are coming into a difficult labor market,...
Friday, 5 August 2011
Gambling corruption trial: Jury could get case today
Following a colorful and emotional day of closing arguments Thursday, the judge presiding over a federal corruption case expects to conclude arguments this morning and allow the jury to begin deliberating by 1 p.m.
Attorneys for eight of the nine defendants have concluded their closing arguments, with Susan James set to deliver her arguments on behalf of Country Crossing spokesman Jay Walker at 8 a.m. She will have an hour.
Following James, prosecutors will have almost two hours to conclude their closing arguments.
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Thursday, 4 August 2011
Ripples from Central Falls bankruptcy could harm whole state, experts say
In the city once known as “Chocolateville” because it attracted one of America’s first chocolate factories, the nonprofit Confectioners Mill Preservation Society and the family behind Mars chocolate bars considered investing millions of dollars in Central Falls.
They wanted to build a replica of the original chocolate mill and create a museum. But those plans are now on the back burner because of fiscal woes at the city, state and national levels.
And now that Central Falls has filed for bankruptcy, some economic-development...
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Inclusion in Iowa GOP debate will be finalized Aug. 9
Fox News officials have rejected Iowa GOP officials’ recommendation to include all nine presidential candidates on the straw poll ballot in the lineup for the Aug. 11 Iowa debate.
The final rules say the participants must have an official presidential campaign or exploratory committee, meet all constitutional requirements, and an average of at least one percent in five national polls.
That means several candidates – Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and...
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Tuesday's letters: Political corruption holds us back
Our problem is larger than the debt ceiling. The problem is a political system that allows politicians to be paid off by special-interest groups that promote single-item issues. Does anybody look at the big picture?
We are rapidly falling behind other developed countries in health care, technology, education, etc., and this fall will not cease until we change the rampant corruption within the political system.
Is it the politicians to blame or is it us, the American people, who have become obsessed by our own individual...
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