Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and John McCain, R-Ariz., its ranking Republican, endorse President Obama's call to establish next year a $200 enrollment fee on TRICARE for Life, the prized supplement to Medicare for 2.1 million military retirees, their spouses and survivors. These influential senators made their views known on TRICARE changes and other defense budget issues in separate letters to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. The so-called "super committee" of 12 lawmakers faces a Nov. 23 deadline to recommend to Congress a plan to trim the nation's massive debt by $1.5 trillion over a decade.
For the First Time Since Tucson Tragedy, Arizona Families and Civic Leaders Endorse Legislative Fix, Join More Than 250,000 Americans to Support Closing Loopholes That Allow Dangerous People Easy Access to Guns % of Arizonans, including 75% of Gun Owners, Support Instant Background Checks for All Gun Purchasers
Change in direction needed I cannot find a candidate for mayor or for council who has the common sense to actually look at the causation factors for why we are where we are, and the guts to plot a course out of the woods by working toward priorities other than public safety. For the past 10 years we have destroyed the infrastructure, physically and culturally, to continue to build public safety to now double what it was by percentage than it was in 1999, with no improvement in response time or crime rate. Time for a change!
Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines, Caucus Chair Bob Huff, Jessica's Law Authors Assemblywoman Sharon Runner and Senator George Runner, Corona Police Chief Richard Gonzales, Hemet Police Chiefs Richard Dana and Peter Hewett (retired), as well as numerous Republican legislators, locally elected city council, school and water board members, and public safety professionals.
Paige a good 'Friend' Politically, it's not often one has reason for even a sliver of gratitude these days - much less an ounce, or a good, healthy teaspoon of it. Our economy is headed toward financial ruin; yet, who among even the candidates running for local office gets it, when it comes to fiscal responsibility? One does.
Officials from eight public school divisions in the Roanoke region gathered Monday morning to endorse a proposal to overhaul the state's kindergarten through 12th grade education system, including moving away from standardized multiple choice tests and toward merit pay for teachers. The news conference at Virginia Western Community College happened hours before Gov. Bob McDonnell proposed his own series of changes to public education.
An organization that advocates for rural people and a Charleston think tank want the West Virginia Broadband Deployment Council to endorse the state's $126 million broadband deployment project. The Central Appalachia Regional Network and the Charleston-based West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy took the position at a press conference Tuesday, on the eve of a Broadband Deployment Council meeting.
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At tonight's 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards, the nation's oldest civil rights organization will team up with some of America's largest corporations to celebrate hip-hop and R&B artists who proudly use the "N" word, refer to women as "bitches" and "whores," glorify violence, misogyny, and drug use. FedEx, Wells Fargo, Chrysler, Southwest Airlines, McDonalds, Walgreens, Bank of America, and AT&T are among a long list of corporations sponsoring this year's NAACP Image Awards. In a gesture that has shocked decency advocates, the awards show has nominated artists such as Kanye West, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Diddy Dirty Money, and B.O.B. whose sexually explicit and offensive lyrics are clearly incompatible with the NAACP's mission and the divers...
AUGUSTA The bipartisan state commission responsible for redrawing Maines congressional district lines voted narrowly Tuesday to recommend to the full Legislature the Democrats latest plan, but lawmakers will see the Republicans preference, too. Neither is likely to get the two-thirds support needed in the Legislature, which means the matter would be decided by the states supreme court, something that has happened each of the last two times the state has undertaken this process.
JOHNSTON - The Iowa tea party movement will not endorse a candidate in the campaign for Iowa's leadoff precinct caucuses, one of the founders of the movement said Friday. Although no formal endorsement will be issued, the group will press candidates on a set of key issues like shrinking government and has the potential for delivering thousands of new caucus-goers, said Ryan Rhodes, who helped found the movement.
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