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.
U.S....
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...
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Debt crisis could 'do serious damage' to economy: Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama has asked Democrat and Republican lawmakers to put politics aside to reach a compromise on the nation's debt crisis, warning that failure to do so "could cost us jobs and do serious damage to our economy."
In a televised address to the nation Monday night, Obama told the American people that the bickering between lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum has left the country "with a stalemate." The president said the impasse could prevent him from moving forward with efforts to...
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Durbin: GOP 'irresponsible' on debt ceiling debate
The No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Illinois’ Dick Durbin, today called Republicans "irresponsible" and "hypocritical" for their role in the impasse over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.
Durbin's comments came at a Chicago news conference to announce federal funding for CTA improvements. He said he hoped a plan being floated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, could appease House Republicans and pass before an Aug. 2 deadline that carries potentially severe economic risks. He repeatedly warned that...
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Six Possible Paths in the Debt-Ceiling Debate
According to President Obama, Congress has become mired in negotiations to raise the debt ceiling and trim federal deficits. The way ahead is unclear — every path has hurdles, if not roadblocks, obstructing the way. As Congress rapidly approaches the Aug. 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a government default on its credit obligations, there are six possible paths forward:
1. The House bill passes: House Speaker John Boehner declared on Monday that there is “no stalemate in Congress.” His way forward...
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Facebook Hacks Put California Stalker In Jail For 4 Years
A man in California who was caught not only hacking into women’s Facebook accounts, but storing and sharing folders with nude or semi-nude images of the women was sentenced to four years in jail on Friday by a state judge.
George Bronk was able to use clues on Facebook to guess the security questions to user’s profiles. Once he got into an account he would search for nude pictures or videos women sent their husbands or boyfriends, and then distribute the images to all those women’s friends.
(Warning: It doesn’t matter...
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Murdoch Papers Could Lose Special Access to 2012 Athletes
Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers could lose exclusive access to the country’s athletes as they prepare for next year’s Summer Games in London because of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closing of the tabloid The News of the World and testimony before Parliament by Murdoch and his son James.
“The shuttering of The News of the World means that the terms of the contract could no longer be fulfilled,” said Andrew Owen, a spokesman for Team 2012, which raises money for British Olympians.
He said that the...
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