By The Admin on February 26, 2009
The right to a vote in Congress denied the District of Columbia when it became the nation’s capital two centuries ago would be granted under legislation the Senate passed Thursday.
Congress is “moving to right a centuries-old wrong,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shortly before the 61-37 vote.
The House is expected to pass the measure [...]
Posted in Congress, State & Local News
By The Admin on February 26, 2009
While previous research shows that nearly three-quarters of all new U.S. firms inject capital in their second or third year of existence, detailed information from a recently-released Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) is the first to outline dramatic differences in the capital injections of black-owned firms compared to white-owned firms in the early, formative years after [...]
Posted in Money & Finance
By The Admin on February 26, 2009
Paul Courson, CNN
- The honors were late but still well-received Wednesday for members of the first all-African-American, all-female unit to serve overseas in World War II.
During the war, nearly 1,000 women from the “Six-Triple Eight” Central Postal Battalion moved mountains of mail for millions of American service members and civilians that clogged warehouses in England [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on February 26, 2009
President Barack Obama unveiled a multi-trillion-dollar spending plan Thursday that would boost taxes on the wealthy, curtail Medicare, lay the groundwork for universal health care and leave a string of deficits dwarfing any in the nation’s history.
In addition to sending Congress his $3.55 trillion budget plan for 2010, Obama proposed more immediate changes that would [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, White House
By The Admin on February 26, 2009
The son of embattled Sen. Roland Burris landed a job with the Illinois Housing Development Authority five months ago under the administration of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports in Thursday’s editions the hiring of Roland Burris II as senior counsel came six weeks after the Internal Revenue Service slapped him with a $34,163 [...]
Posted in Illinois, State & Local News
