Washington is a town where conflict and contradiction generally rule the day, especially during election season. That's why it's so refreshing to know there is one thing Congress, President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates all agree on: greater competition in government contracts. And yet, when it comes to our military's most significant - and costly - project in modern history, the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the president and defense secretary once again have pinned taxpayers in another Washington contradiction by calling on Congress to hand over a 30-year, $100 billion monopoly to a single supplier for the JSF engine program. That's not how we would define "competition.
Mayor David Coss pointed out, at the opening, that the convention center is the "largest public works project in modern Santa Fe history." It is somewhat predictable, then, that the building looks like a pueblo on steroids-a bigger and more muscular, if somewhat grossly so, version of everything around it. But that's an attractive form to many people, according to Keith Toler. The Convention and Visitor's Bureau director said 43 events are confirmed for the coming year, 20 contracts are pending and 40 additional dates are on tentative hold. City Councilor Rebecca Wurzburger followed up by reading actual quotes from past City Council meetings in which other councilors had been skeptical about the projectsort of a publicly amplified "I told you so. Locals Care Director William Underwood ...
ON Saturday, the unions of the AFL-CIO observe Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew the fight for safe workplaces. This year, the Connecticut AFL- CIO will honor these workers at ceremonies in Groton and Hartford. On Monday, there was a 20th anniversary remembrance of the L'Ambiance Plaza disaster. The L'Ambiance Plaza collapse was one of the worst disasters in modern Connecticut history. The collapse site was a 16-story residential project under construction in Bridgeport. Its partially erect frame completely fell on April 23, 1987, killing 28 construction workers. More than three decades ago, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act, promising every worker the right to a safe job. Unions and our allies have fought hard...
After watching decades of suburban offices adopt ever-more- modern styles, John Bumgarner took a step back with a project embracing midtown Tulsa's history. The result, after delays obtaining materials and working through bank branch lawsuits, was Utica Plaza, a group of three Mediterranean-styled structures that changed how Tulsa approached infill development.
With a column due every week, I'm always on the lookout for an interesting story and trying to meet new people. When I saw five teenage girls carrying signs around the grocery store while shopping at the Ralphs store in Chino Hills last week, I just had to ask what they were up to. The young women, all age 16, were at the store working on a class project for Mrs. Landi's fourth period Modern American History Class at Diamond Bar High School. They were filming a mock television newscast on the topic of food rationing during World War II. The smallest girl of the group, Jessica Sudarsono, was there to play the part of the person subject to rationing. Her friend, Viki Huang, was the news director; Tesia Sloan was the interviewer. Amanda Rude and Devin Tenoyo were there as the c...
What started out to be a family history preservation project for Dr. Virginia Sutter wound up being much more. Sutter is a modern Arapaho woman who is an elder activist, an enrolled member of the Northern Arapaho Indian Nation and the CEO/ administrator for the Pit River Tribe in California.
RABAT, Morocco - From the western edge of the Muslim world, the King of Morocco has dared to tackle one of the most inflammatory issues in the Middle East conflict - the Holocaust. At a time when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dismissal of the Holocaust has made the biggest headlines, King Mohammed VI has called the Nazi destruction of the Jews "one of the most tragic chapters of modern history" and has endorsed a Paris-based program called the "Aladdin Project" aimed at spreading the word among fellow Muslims.
GOODFIELD - The Zehr Library has begun a new phase in its 30- year history with the opening of a modern, 2,000-square-foot building. It was definitely a community project," library board President Liz Robinson said. "You can't believe the number of volunteers and the money. The credit goes to the community. When it was drywall time, we had a room full of guys hanging drywall.
Education, the domestic cornerstone of the Bush presidency, has been a constant source of debate. When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House in 2000, he used the phrase No Child Left Behind to describe his education-reform initiative. After that initiative became law, congressional Democrats, teacher's unions and some governors accused the president of failing to sufficiently fund his own proposal. There were other criticisms as well - despite the fact that NCLB was developed to increase student achievement, mandate accountability, offer states more flexibility in spending and grant parents more options for their children. While NCLB was not designed to spend more federal money on schools, the Bush administration has done precisely that, increasing overall funding by 48 percent ...
In 1992 James Danky, Wayne Wiegand, and Carl Kaestle founded the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The study of print culture was then a new field represented by scholars from many disciplines, including American studies, history, library and information studies, and literary studies. Stimulated by initiatives of the American Antiquarian Society and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, most research covered the northeast of the United States in the period before 1876, but Wisconsin's new center aimed to encourage research into more recent time periods, and broader areas, a well as into the print culture of marginalized groups whose gender, race, class, creed, occupation, ethnicity, and sexual orientation have...
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