To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Joel Spivak of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, +1-202- 296-5469
According to Fred B Kotler, associate director of the Construction Industry Program at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the all-union provision hasn't been that strictly interpreted in practice.\n The only such source was someone connected with Senator Bernard Sanders, but he does not go on record to make statements, and in any case he was out of the office and unavailable. According to the VTrans 2009 annual report on structures, of 2,688 bridges in the state, 464 are "functionally absolete," 494 are "structurally deficient," and 139 have posted restrictions due to structural problems.
Sen. Bernard Sanders has proposed an amendment to the Constitution to remove First Amendment protections from individuals who gather together to form corporations. New advocacy groups, run by influential media and political figures, are springing up to overturn "corporate personhood" so they cannot participate in elections. Occupy Wall Street chants, "Corporations are not people." These efforts have one thing in common: They are aimed, in part, at overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which they claim holds that corporations have the same free- speech rights as individuals and that money equals speech. They argue that until corporations are deprived of free-speech rights, we won't have "democracy" in America. Don't believe it. This effort, if successfu...
Three U.S. senators, alarmed by findings of an Associated Press investigation about aging problems at the nation's nuclear power plants, asked Thursday for a congressional investigation of safety standards and federal oversight at the facilities. The request by Democrats Barbara Boxer of California and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and independent Bernard Sanders of Vermont builds on increased public concern about nuclear safety in recent months - an outcry unlike anything since the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986.
Peter David Freyne was born on November 18, 1949, in the Bronx, New York, and grew up in nearby Hartsdale. He was the only child of Agnes and James Francis "Frank" Freyne, but had two older half-siblings from his father's previous marriage. Peter attended Iona Preparatory in New Rochelle and graduated at age 16. His rather, he said, wanted him to "finish school and get out of the house." Peter did just that, first attending Maryknoll Seminary in Chicago. But he did an about-face on the way to his priestly vocation when he "became an atheist" instead. Peter lost interest in religion, but not in matters of justice. At Chicago's Loyola University, he majored in sociology and met the famous community organizer Saul Alinsky. Peter called Alinsky a "personal hero" and his 1971 book, Rules for...
... political scene - a fellow New Yorker, Bernard Sanders, was soon to become mayor. Peter found his...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Ellen Almond, +1-703-548-0019, for the Council for Quality Respiratory Care
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