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Virginia desperately needs transportation dollars and won't raise them in government's usual way - by levying sufficient taxes to cover costs. That limits options to beg, borrow or steal. Except that borrowing is out; Gov. Bob McDonnell ran up some $3billion in debt last year. So, setting begging aside for the time being, this year the Republican proposes stealing: raiding the general fund, which pays for the state's already diminished core services - schools, public safety and other such trifles - to pay for roads.
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The U.S. Supreme Court would be wise to accept the Commonwealth of Virginia's petition for an immediate review of its constitutional challenge to ObamaCare. State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is concerned that conflicting federal court rulings -- split 2-2 to date -- have created enough uncertainty about implementation -- Should it be? Can it legally be? -- to warrant the high court's expedited consideration.
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We do have a new state history museum in the works. We do have a revamped (and largely green) convention center brewing. The Railyard project is going to happen. In spite of the fact that Santa Fe's most visible strategy as a community has been to wander around in the dark, we've bumped into the lump of world-class city. It really is a bit of a miracle. Imagine, though, if we took all of our arts and culture assets, all of the natural beauty, all of the extraordinary history that is packed into Santa Fe's high desert pores and combined it, finally, with the vision and leadership that a city like Santa Fe deserves. I'm not just begging all of us to get out and vote for mayor next month, I'm begging us to demand from the candidates that they do more than shuffle their feet, hem and haw ab...
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Manhattan will be a dangerous place this week for President Obama, where the terminally envious of the world are waiting at the United Nations with envy, arrogance and outstretched begging bowls. The diplomats representing the envious countries, some of them little more than tribes with flags and an embassy in a rooming house on a side street in Washington, have cooked up an interesting week to blunt the skepticism of a growing number of scientists who are finding the courage to say what they believed all along, even as Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, and others insist that time is running out to make the sun change its spots, the tides recede and the weather behave itself.
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As fire roared through a Raleigh apartment early Saturday morning, Sherly Facison watched her neighbor freeze, unable to toss her babies out of a second-story window where their father waited below. He was begging her," Facison said, tearfully recounting the early morning tragedy.
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Encores annoy me. Let me clarify that.I normally enjoy the music artists perform during their encores; it's the ridiculous ritual preceding them that makes my eyes roll. As anybody who has attended more than a handful of concerts knows, encores are a scripted part of the show. The musicians take the stage to great applause, run through their regular set, thank the crowd for attending, wave (perhaps take a bow) and dash off. There's more applause and at least a partial standing ovation.
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LONG BEACH - People looking for a handout soon won't be able to put their hand out in certain parts of Long Beach. The council voted unanimously Tuesday to have the city attorney draft new laws against aggressive panhandling and prohibiting solicitation altogether in some locations.
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When the Niagara Experience Center was named a key project by the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, supporters were thrilled that the once-stalled interactive museum suddenly had new life. Absolutely delighted," said Eddie Friel, a Niagara University tourism professor who heads the Experience Center's nonprofit board of directors. "That presented the right mechanism, the right opportunity for us to raise the issue of the Niagara Experience Center as a critical part of economic development for Niagara Falls and Western New York.
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To most people, panhandlers are a pain; an imposition. They're also a reminder that there, but for the grace of God, go we; thus a certain sense of guilt that goes with refusal to give them money -- a sense some of 'em can play like a violin. But begging is a constitutional right, conditioned on the very little government can do to stop it. So Santa Fe's city councilors for several months have been crawling through a legal bramble bush in their attempts at a law more effective than the longstanding, unenforced and probably unenforceable one on the books.
