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October 15th, 2012
Written by Anonymous in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 0 Comments
NEW YORK (AP) — Crime rates are low enough that New York can lay claim to being America's safest big city. The police commissioner is so popular that some have urged him to run for mayor.
And yet, city lawmakers are discussing proposals to rein in the New York Police Department, including the appointment of an independent inspector general to monitor it.
It's too soon to say what laws, if any,...
October 12th, 2012
Written by Donna Gordon Blankenship - Associated Press in Latest News, Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
SEATTLE (AP) — State education officials on Thursday, Sept. 27 released their first report for a new way in looking at how Washington public schools are doing at teaching kids reading and math.
The new school accountability system is designed to help local officials focus on closing the achievement gaps between kids of different ethnic and economic groups. It is Washington's answer to the federal...
October 12th, 2012
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nobody wants a repeat of the bloody ethnic fighting that followed the Soviet exit from Afghanistan in the 1990s — least of all 32-year-old Wahidullah who was crippled by a bullet that pierced his spine during the civil war.
Yet as the Afghan war began its 12th year on Sunday, Oct. 7, fears loom that the country will again fracture along ethnic lines once international...
October 11th, 2012
Written by Bob Johnson - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Council members in an Alabama city voted Tuesday to stop a group's work on a new monument honoring a Confederate general who was an early leader in the Ku Klux Klan.
The Selma City Council voted 4-0 with two members abstaining to stop all work on the monument to Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest until the courts decide whether the city or a Confederate heritage group owns the...
October 11th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) — Mitt Romney barnstormed battleground Ohio and pledged "I'm not going to raise taxes on anyone" in a new commercial on Oct. 10 as Republican running mate Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden looked ahead to their only debate of the 2012 campaign.
President Barack Obama spent a rare campaign day at the White House, leaving it to aides to accuse Romney of dishonesty for...
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