November 2012
November 20th, 2012
Written by Jim Kuhnhenn - ... in Latest News with 0 Comments
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — In a historic breakthrough, President Barack Obama on Monday stepped onto the soil of long-shunned Myanmar and into the flag-waving embrace of its once repressed people. "You gave us hope," he declared, the first U.S. president to visit what not long ago had been an international outcast.
Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets to welcome Obama to a place still...
November 19th, 2012
Written by Kathy Matheson ... in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A commission charged with improving higher education in Pennsylvania has recommended that colleges and universities be able to earn additional state funding by meeting certain performance targets.
The proposal by the governor's Advisory Commission on Postsecondary Education is among nearly 20 ideas designed to address the state's need for lifelong learners, better...
November 19th, 2012
Written by Kristi Eaton - ... in Cultural Uniqueness, Latest News with 0 Comments
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the Lakota language says the alcoholism, high suicide rates and rampant drug use plaguing young people on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation stem from a lack of identity and a loss of culture.
Those troubling issues are what inspired Mike Carlow to create Tusweca Tiospaye, which hosts an annual...
November 18th, 2012
Written by Phillip Elliott... in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama won re-election last week because of the "gifts" Obama had provided to blacks, Hispanics and young voters and because of his effort to paint Romney as anti-immigrants.
"The president's campaign, if you will, focused on giving targeted groups a big gift," Romney said in a phone call with top donors...
November 17th, 2012
Written by Nataliya Vasily... in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
MOSCOW (AP) — In czarist times, Geda Zimanenko watched her mother offer the local police officer a shot of vodka on a plate and five rubles every Sunday to overlook the fact that their family lived outside the area where Jews were allowed to live.
Then came the Bolshevik Revolution and Zimanenko became a good Communist, raising her own son to believe in ideals that strove to stamp out...