| Surprising Few, Italy’s Government Collapses
After the government fell briefly in February 2007, it collapsed fatally on Monday, after Mr. Prodi's former justice minister, Clemente Mastella, withdrew the three votes he controlled in the Senate. That left Mr. Prodi without a majority there. But rather than resign immediately, Mr. Prodi, 68, a former economics professor and European Commission president, demanded confidence votes in the two houses of Parliament. Although he won a vote in the lower chamber on Wednesday, it seemed unlikely from the start that he could ultimately survive. So the confidence votes turned into something like a two-day wake, with Mr. Prodi whose sober and high-minded demeanor is often compared to that of a parish priest presiding over his own government's funeral. On Thursday he told senators it was not "stubbornness" that caused him to press the confidence votes, but a desire to underline publicly each lawmaker's responsibility to make reforms that he said were "urgently needed." He strongly defended his government's accomplishments, including a modest increase in economic growth starting from zero and said Italy needed "continuity" to make real change.
Free women's money group to meet Feb. 4
Representatives with Creative Financial Solutions in Ironton will host a free series of money groups for women. The first meeting of 2008 will be at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at the Boyd County Public Library, located at 1740 Central Ave., Ashland. The discussion topics at that meeting include 2007 spending habits, financial resolutions for 2008 and how to establish a household budget, including tools to assist in maintaining the budget. Money groups have received national attention thanks to money guru Jean Chatzky and her numerous appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show, a release from CFS says. Winfrey's endorsement has made the concept of money groups a growing phenomenon that allows women to network concerning financial needs and issues. Pre-registration is recommended.
January 2003
Bob Graham, the man who wants to be the next American president, is hellbent on driving hundreds families from their homes in the Everglades. Henry Lamb tells you why
Sustaining socialism: Sustainable development is nothing but socialism in disguise, says Tom DeWeese, and one of the greatest threats to your liberty
Canada's socialist "third party": The NDP's influence in Canada: It's a popular notion in Canada that the socialist New Democratic Party is irrelevant in Canadian politics. Mark Wegierski says that's hardly the case
The hidden heroes: America's soldiers may soon be off to war and that takes a terrible toll on their families. Joyce Mucci reviews Heroes at Home: Help and Hope for America's Military Families, a book which helps them cope those long absences
Making the case for regime change in Iraq: Carol Devine-Molin believes that there isn't much of an argument for continuing to allow Saddam Hussein to remain in power
Drill in ANWR, don't help terrorists: If leftists are equating the driving of SUVs with terrorism then importing oil from Saudi Arabia can't be that much better.
Old breed of Spanish cattle could help struggling ranchers on rough ...
Researcher Ed Fredrickson works with criollo cattle on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Jornada Experimental Range in southern New Mexico near Las Cruces. Fredrickson is hoping that criollo cattle, first brought to the New World by Spanish explorers more than 400 years ago, will provide ranchers with another avenue for turning a profit. .
Villains aplenty but few heroes in sad tale of debt tragedy
Behind every statistic on debt lies a very personal tragedy. An estimated 45,000 homes will be repossessed next year. In January the Consumer Credit Counselling Service will receive a predicted 34,000 calls from the desperate and the indebted. Such indicators are seized upon by those attempting to read the runes of our increasingly fragile economy. But the patterns they find mask individual stories of homes lost and furtive calls to faceless debt counsellors. The banks are the easy villains of the story, doling out cheap credit to anyone who asked nicely, regardless of their circumstances. But this is a subtler story than a pantomime of riches-to-rags consumers and the big bad bank manager. For every blameless victim ringing the helpline, there are countless more who knew their plastic cards had lost all elasticity and their mortgage was an albatross, but kept on spending.
Bush calls for $145 billion in tax relief
Spend more money we don't have to encourage folks to go shopping more. Now, I'm no economist, but there seems to be something missing from this picture. Seems to me that if you want to dump a lot of money into the economy, a good way would be to put people to work rebuilding our infrastructure. It would put AMERICAN citizens to work on good paying jobs rebuilding OUR infrastructure. WE would be getting something for the dollars spent, jobs, stimulis to AMERICAN business, and a well built strong country - rather than a give away to the corporations... again. Oh, and did I mention that the companies doing the work would have to be AMERICAN OWNED, and on AMERICAN SOIL and hire AMERICAN CITIZENS? What a novel concept! If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain .
James Marsden Enchanted Interview
But sparks fly and she discovers that in modern day Manhattan, life and love are far more complicated (and interesting), although there is no guarantee of a happy ending. This unique twist on the classic Disney them, blends live action with traditional animation, to create a compelling romantic comedy that is full of music, drama, fantasy and real emotion. .
Clinton’s College Plan
Ensure that the U.S. Education Department collects and publishes information about "the outcomes produced by all colleges and universities, including the four-year and six-year graduation rates and the percent of the senior class that is employed upon graduation or enrolled in further education, including information on earnings and field of employment." Require "state and local" colleges and universities to "set multi-year tuition and fee levels for each cohort of students at the beginning of each student’s freshman year, so students and families will have a sense of how much their costs will be in the coming years." Have colleges submit information to the Education Department about the financial aid awarded to a "typical range of low to high income students" in their freshman and sophomore years, so that the federal agency can develop a "cost calculator" to help students and families anticipate their likely out of pocket costs at a particular institution.
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