Nearly 30 fourth- and fifth-grade students from Creekside Elementary's Quest program were able to spend some time with former first lady Barbara Bush via video conferencing from the Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas. Mrs. Bush read a few passages from Tamara Henneman's "The Election Book: The People Pick A President." Students from Canada, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Texas, New Jersey and North Dakota asked pre-screened questions. Creekside's Veronica Evans was selected to represent Virginia. She asked: "Why is it important for students to know the process of electing a president?" Mrs. Bush responded that involving students early prepares them for participation once they reach voting age. Understanding campaign issues and the election process is a citizen respons...
Inside Catholics, world leaders welcome new pope / 3A Pastor calls choice sign of church unity / 7A VATICAN CITY The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church broke Europes long stranglehold on the papacy Wednesday, electing Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as the 266th pope. The choice, on the second day of deliberations by a papal conclave, opened a direct connection to the Southern Hemisphere at a critical juncture when secularism and competing faiths are depleting the churchs ranks around the world and dysfunction is eroding its authority in Rome. The duty of the conclave was to appoint a bishop of Rome, said Bergoglio, who took the name Francis, the first pope in history to do so. And it seems to me that my brother cardinals went to fetch him at the end of the wor...
Nearly 30 fourth- and fifth-grade students from Creekside Elementary's Quest program were able to spend some time with former first lady Barbara Bush via video conferencing from the Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas. Mrs. Bush read a few passages from Tamara Henneman's "The Election Book: The People Pick A President." Students from Canada, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Texas, New Jersey and North Dakota asked pre-screened questions. Creekside's Veronica Evans was selected to represent Virginia. She asked: "Why is it important for students to know the process of electing a president?" Mrs. Bush responded that involving students early prepares them for participation once they reach voting age. Understanding campaign issues and the election process is a citizen respons...
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Did you know that West Virginia pulled in the highest lottery revenues of any state? Did you know that Raleigh, N.C. had the highest rate of population growth in the last decade of any large metropolitan area? (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090226/CENSUSLOGO)
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