By The Admin on July 13, 2011
Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday threatened to lower the United States’ credit rating, saying there is a small but rising risk that the government will default on its debt.
The credit rating agency said it will review the federal government’s triple-A bond rating because the White House and Congress are running out of time to raise [...]
Posted in Federal Government
By The Admin on July 13, 2011
Seattle Times
- A black law-enforcement advocacy group is criticizing prosecutors for filing an assault charge against an African-American Seattle police officer involved in an off-duty brawl while not charging two white Seattle officers who stomped on a prone Latino suspect in another incident.
The decision by the City Attorney’s Office to charge Officer Garth Haynes “is [...]
Posted in Washington
By The Admin on July 13, 2011
A recent book by a Northwestern University professor shines a light on post-Civil War Washington, D.C., to tell a larger tale about the struggle over issues of race and equality that still shapes America today.
“An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C.” (University of North Carolina Press) places [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on July 11, 2011
Mississippi authorities are reviewing the case of a black man who was found hanging dead from a tree after relatives claimed the state’s deputy medical examiner can’t be trusted because he falsified information about a British woman’s death while working in Africa in the 1980s.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said it began its investigation [...]
Posted in Mississippi
By The Admin on July 11, 2011
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders on Monday emerged still deeply divided over how to slash the nation’s debt, with reality sinking in that even a middle-ground proposal was not big enough to succeed and would not to get through Congress anyway.
As time runs perilously short for action, Obama challenged top lawmakers to return to [...]
Posted in Congress, White House
