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Monday, June 21, 2010

Joe Biden In Chicago: Fundraising For Alexi Giannoulias, Dan Seals

Joe Biden In Chicago: Fundraising For Alexi Giannoulias, Dan Seals

Joe Biden In Chicago: Fundraising For Alexi Giannoulias, Dan Seals

Jen Sabella - 06/21/2010 10:02 AM
Joe Biden will be in Chicago Monday campaigning for Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias and Democrat Dan Seals, running for the open 10th district House seat. Following a morning trip to Michigan, where he will discuss the Recovery Act, he will headline two fundraisers at the Union Leagu...

Colorado Department Of Education Cites Funding Issues As Reason For Failure Alerts For teacher Arrests

The Coloradoan - 06/21/2010 10:33 AM
Colorado education officials have been ignoring a law intended to "flag" the arrests of teachers and then alert all school districts and charter schools across the state, a Coloradoan investigation has found. The 2008 law requires the Colorado Department of Education to issue an alert every time ...

CU-Boulder Diversity Not Growing As Quickly As Peer Institutions

The Colorado Daily - 06/21/2010 09:14 AM
Nationally, economic hardships and demographic changes are leading minorities to seek out higher education at a record pace, according to a new report. But the University of Colorado is not showing comparable minority enrollment growth during the recession years. ...

Juan Manuel Santos Easily Wins Colombia's Presidency

AP - 06/21/2010 09:52 AM
BOGOTA, Colombia — A 58-year-old U.S.-educated economist who dealt withering blows to leftist rebels as defense minister has won Colombia's presidency by the largest margin in modern history. Juan Manuel Santos got 69 percent of the vote in Sunday's runoff in a ringing endorsement of his prom...

States Spend Hundreds Of Millions To Treat A Few Thousand Sex Offenders; NY Tops List With $175,000 Per Sex Offender

AP - 06/21/2010 09:52 AM
MOOSE LAKE, Minn. — Just off the highway leading to this woodsy Minnesota town, more than 400 men live behind tall fences topped with razor wire. They spend their days shuffling between meals, group therapy sessions and activities such as painting state park signs. The men are sex offenders w...

Our Visit to Japan

Michael Kaiser - 06/21/2010 08:40 AM
The Kennedy Center is fortunate to have the support of our International Committee on the Arts, a group of patrons from many countries who help to underwrite our international programming. This programming includes both the presentations of international artists and festivals at the Center and the ...

NY Wants 'Sexting' Ban, In School And Home

wcbstv.com - 06/21/2010 07:48 AM
Schools now want to punish students caught "sexting" -- no matter where they do it. The Department of Education wants to ban both cyber bullying and sexting in New York City's public schools at all times, even outside of school hours. ...

Assisted Suicide in November for the GOP

Andrew Reinbach - 06/21/2010 08:41 AM
The political gods have been good to Democrats lately. Republicans nominated several absolute loons to run for Congress; they painted themselves as protectors and apologists of BP; and in the course of punishing the unemployed, they seriously upset both doctors and governors. These are weapons ...

Are You Trying To Criticize For Success?

Russell Bishop - 06/21/2010 08:17 AM
Do you have the ability to look at a situation and instead see what's wrong with it? Perhaps you have the ability to look at something and see how it could be improved? Same ability, really. If you have the ability to perceive what's wrong or to identify what would make something better, then y...