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London student tours Beatles landmarks
London :: KY :: USA | 5 days ago
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A University of Louisville School of Music student from London, Ky., won a four-day trip to England to tour notable Beatles locations. Chris Smallwood told the Sentinel Echo , "We're going to see Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields and Eleanor Rigby's grave,...
Tags: Kentucky Journal of Equine, London, Horse slaughter, The Filson Historical Society, University of Louisville, John Conyers, Kentucky, Louisville metropolitan area, Louisville Kentucky, Social Issues, Education
Politico: Hispanics blame Rahm for immigrant ban
Wilson :: NY :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don’t get insurance through their employers....
Tags: House-Senate, White House, House Democrats, House Judiciary Committee, Republican House, Rahm Emanuel, CHC, illegal immigration, health care, hispanic lawmakers, Wilson, John Conyers, Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Party, Nydia Velￃﾡzquez, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Xavier Becerra, Politics, Social Issues
Strains in Party Threatens Democrats
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 10 days ago
Credibility The Democratic Party's broad ruling coalition is starting to fracture as lawmakers come under increasing pressure from the left to respond to voter anger over joblessness and Wall Street bailouts. Tensions boiled over this week, with an angry party caucus...
Tags: U.S. Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kabul, Congressional Black Caucus, John Conyers, Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, Presidential transition of Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Punahou School alumni, Democratic Party, Politics, Social Issues, Presidency of Barack Obama, Labor, United States presidential election
Black power has arrived _ with some new challenges
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility The civil rights community is used to passing big omnibus legislative acts," he said. "We're not so accustomed to having the power to slice and dice that into 20 pieces and attach that to various other appropriations bills." For generations, civil rights...
Tags: health care, Barack Obama, Jim Clyburn, House Appropriations Committee, White House, Congressional Black Caucus, Mary Frances Berry, Philadelphia, Charles B. Rangel, Barbara Lee, Jim Clyburn, John Conyers, Social Issues, Politics
ACORN Sues Federal Government Over Congress' "Unconstitutional" Move to Defund Group
Center :: CO :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), warned that the measure was wholly unconstitutional. Act," sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), "is in blatant violation of the Constitution's prohibition against Bills of Attainder," said Nadler, the chairman...
Tags: Congressional Research Service, The New York Times, acorn employees, Ohio Republican Party, federal funding, George W. Bush, voter registrations, Jerrold Nadler, House Judiciary Committee, registrations form, Center, Acorn Computers, Acorn, John Conyers, Community organizing, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Hannah Giles, Politics, Law Crime
Detroit corruption figure gets maximum 5-year term
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility A judge ordered the maximum five-year prison sentence Friday for a key figure in a corrupt city sludge-hauling deal and likened the FBI's ongoing investigation to a hero in Greek mythology who clears manure from a king's stables in one day. Rayford Jackson...
Tags: Detroit City Council, Synagro Technologies, Rayford Jackson, Richard Morgan Jr., FBI, U.S, detroit corrupt, Detroit, Avern Cohn, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Monica Conyers, University of the District of Columbia, John Conyers, Law Crime
Health Care Activists Arrested at Aetna Offices
Nineteen health care activists were arrested this morning after conducting a sit-in at the offices of the health insurance company Aetna. The protesters demanded that Aetna officials immediately approve all procedures which were recommended by physicians....
Tags: healthcare reform, healthcare, public option, single-payer, John Conyers
Rolling Anger at Weak Reform: The Mad As Hell Doctors hit Colorado for rally at the Capitol
Single-payer universal health care reform advocates gathered today at the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver today at 12:00 P.M. with a fury for effective reform. President Barack Obama’s redeployed campaign, Organizing...
Tags: Single-Payer, health care, Mad As Hell Doctors, Health Care for All Colorado, Progressive Democrats of Colorado, Denver, Colorado State Capitol building, single-payer hand symbol, single payer movement, care-a-van, Washington DC, President, Barack Obama, John Conyers, HR 676, Colorado HB 1273, Health Care Authority, state universal health care
SLAVE REPARATION BILL, SHOULD YOU PAY?
With the economy still miles away from a recovery, the unemployment rate still climbing towards the 10% mark & small & big businesses strapped for credit, & government deficits reaching trillions of dollars, you would think that...
Tags: Slave Reparations, John Conyers, Alvita King, Martin Luther King, Jr., poverty, Slave trade
Former Bush aide testifies on prosecutor firings
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Former Bush White House official Karl Rove was questioned by House Judiciary Committee lawyers Tuesday on any role he may have played in politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys. Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., confirmed Rove's closed-door...
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