Posted on October 14th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve been following the developments on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding issues in the wake of the high oil prices and today there were a couple of stories on that, that should be noted… First is a story in the Boston Globe that reports that the “Bush administration has endorsed a [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Economy, In The News, Politics, Republicans
Posted on October 14th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
Senator John Kerry issued the following statement on the passing of Vivian Malone Jones: “Today we live in an America where we can take it for granted when millions of African Americans register for college classes without facing death threats. It’s too easy for some to forget a very different time in America when two [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 14th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
Could there be another criminal investigation in the works for the Bush administration? It does appear so. AP News is reporting that “Investigators at the Education Department have contacted the U.S. attorney’s office regarding the Bush administration’s hiring of commentator Armstrong Williams to promote its agenda.”
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Filed under: Democrats, In The News
Posted on October 14th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
The WaPo’s Washington Briefing has a full round up of the videoconference debacle yesterday. From TV, to Radio to Print, Dan Froomkin covers the consensus on the staged event that the MSM gave full disclosure on… The ultimate irony was that after all that rehearsing — and maybe because of that rehearsing — the event [...]
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Filed under: In The News, Republicans
Posted on October 14th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry led a bipartisan group of Senators today in “urging the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to redirect $720 million of the $62 billion already appropriated by Congress for the hurricane recovery effort. The funding would be designated specifically for small business relief.” Since Hurricane Katrina hit, the Small Business Administration [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, In The News, Senate
Posted on October 14th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
Sure talking about poverty isn’t as sexy as talking about corruption, cronyism and scandals, but guess what — many of those issues of corruption, cronyism and scandals revolve in one way or another around the economy — either directly or indirectly. We all know people affected by poverty. We all think it stinks. Let’s not drop the ball and forget that liberals are the champions of the little people.
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Filed under: Democrats, Economy, In The News, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans
Posted on October 14th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
Yesterday, I reported on an event here in Los Angeles with John Kerry. He was here to lend his voice and support against Proposition 75. The following is a statement from John Kerry on his opposition to Prop. 75: Washington, DC – John Kerry stood with California’s firefighters, teachers and nurses today to announce his [...]
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Filed under: Elections, In The News, John Kerry
Posted on October 14th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
Global Warming be damned… take a few deep breaths while you can (unless you live in a big city), because if the Bush administration has their way, soon more pollutants will be spewing into the air in effort to help fatten the profits for Bush’s energy industry pals. The Bush administration proposed new regulations Thursday [...]
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Filed under: Environment, In The News
