I imagine a 4.8 billion shortfall in the years budget when the country is spending 12 billion a month on the war in Iraq. Family values? **** State's school districts prepare for cuts, layoffs Austerity measures may not be enough, officials say. By Jason Song, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer March 18, 2008 A clearer -- and more ominous -- picture emerged Monday of school districts'
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit sent by Ed Pearl The New York Times - May 22, 2007 http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/opinion/22herbert.html American Cities and the Great Divide By BOB HERBERT A public high school teacher in Brooklyn told me recently about a student who didn't believe that a restaurant tab for four people could come to more than
The Los Angeles Times opinion article, below, was written by Eric Mann and Manuel Criollo of the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union and describes the huge bus fare hikes Los Angeles MTA is threatening and how this fits into a long history of MTA's policies of transit racism. If you are outraged at the injustice of MTA's proposed fare hikes, we need your participation in the following ways
< The International Internet Commission (ICC), having been innundated with complaints about obscene photos posted by one Ed Conrad, has put its foot down and has made his URLs unoperable in the news groups. < "We're fed up with this kind of disgusting trash, therefore have taken this drastic action," said Oscar Shagnasty, board chairman. "These photos have put members of this nation's prestigious
< "We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -- Plato < ================== < On Sept. 6, 1996, Ron Cittesiano wrote to talk.origins and alt.catastrophism: < Beneath the Header: < "ED CONRAD WILL WIN IN THE LONG RUN." < ================================== < MIND-BOGGLING DISCOVERIES BETWEEN