By The Admin on January 29, 2009
Gov. Rod Blagojevich was bounced from office Thursday without a single lawmaker rising in his defense, ending a nearly two-month crisis that erupted with his arrest on charges he tried to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat.
Blagojevich becomes the first U.S. governor in more than 20 years to be removed by impeachment.
After a four-day trial, [...]
Posted in Illinois, State & Local News
By The Admin on January 29, 2009
An influential Georgia lawmaker said Wednesday that the state’s funding of historically black public colleges is illegal.
Seth Harp, chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, introduced a resolution Wednesday urging the state Board of Regents to save money by merging black colleges in Savannah and Albany with nearby schools that are predominantly white.
The Regents would [...]
Posted in Education, Featured
By The Admin on January 29, 2009
Just days after the inauguration of America’s first African American president, Barack Obama, and first Catholic vice-president, Joseph Biden, eBay is hosting items offensive to both groups, and most of the nation.
Items for sale include “coon” songs, a piece of piano music entitled “n—–” blues, anti-Catholic post cards and tracts from the Ku Klux Klan, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on January 29, 2009
LAURIE GOODSTEIN, New York Times
- President Obama plans to name Joshua DuBois, a 26-year-old Pentecostal pastor and political strategist who handled religious outreach for the Obama campaign, to direct a revamped office of faith-based initiatives, according to religious leaders who have been informed about the choice.
The office, created by President George W. Bush by executive [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on January 29, 2009
An Arkansas House committee has rejected a resolution congratulating President Barack Obama on his electoral victory after some lawmakers questioned wording that referred to the United States being founded by slave owners.
Six members of the House Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs voted Wednesday to recommend the nonbinding resolution to the House, while 11 [...]
Posted in Arkansas, State & Local News
