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Sunday, October 02, 2011
Chinese Company Interested In Buying Yahoo
The Daily Times Inside Connection With The Board Of Education Continues
"Parkside High, in conjunction with the family, is holding the celebration of Davis’s legacy in education on Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Parkside High School Auditorium. All school and community members are welcome to attend."
Its kind of like when the Daily Times begs for inside information a day before any one else because it takes them a day to go to press. To me, the important thing is to get the information out there to everybody. The Wicomico Board of Education does not give Salisbury News or any other Blog ANY information. Then again, look at who's attached to the above information and perhaps you/we can better understand.
U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski Makes History
Maryland's Senior Senator Inducted Into National Women's Hall Of Fame
Public Housing, Not Prison Camps
The first is understandable if oversimplified, while the second is more interesting and more disturbing.
The first is this: The old basketball court was linked with crime and drugs, so the Landex Cos. had good reason to tear it out and refuse to let a new one be built.
The second line of reasoning goes like this: These people live in public housing, so they should just shut up.
Superficially, both are about a basketball court in Annapolis Gardens, a community of 150 homes off Admiral Drive. But this is really part of a larger debate about the role and future of public housing.
There are huge problems that haven't been solved for decades: inter-generational poverty, broken families, a cycle of dependence on government.
That doesn't mean people have to be treated like prisoners while they're living there.
Yet many readers of my column and stories in The Capital have suggested residents have no right to complain about Landex's reversal on the court - or about anything, really.
"If you want a basketball court save up your money and move to a community that has one," wrote one reader on HometownAnnapolis.com. "It is not the responsibility of the taxpayers to fund your recreation."
Said another: "If you don't like that, you're free to get a job and find housing using your own money."
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Pioneering Denmark Distinguishes Itself By Starting Fat Tax
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The Government Did Not Pay $16 A Muffin
The earlier report caused a major stir, but it appears that it was a story that was too good to be true.
A spokesperson for the IG's office has now backed down on the $16 muffin cost, but the office remains critical of the amount paid for the food and beverages.
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Maryland To Begin Installing 'Bicycles May Use Full Lane' Signs
The Maryland State Highway Administration is working on designs for a new sign that says bicycles may use full lane.
Why the change?
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Salisbury Woman Arrested After Domestic Altercation
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Latino Students Withdraw From Alabama Schools After Immigration Law Goes Into Effect
Scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from Alabama public schools, according to state education officials, after a court ruling upheld the state’s new anti-immigration law.
The law, which was approved by the state legislature and is widely backed by voters, allows police to check for papers and detain undocumented residents without bail. It also mandates that public schools share with authorities the citizenship status of all newly enrolled students.
The law went into effect Thursday.
Google Buzz: The Search-Engine Giant Is Now Brewing A Beer
Furthering their quest for world domination, Google embarks on its next logical venture: launching a limited-edition beer.
Partnering with craft beer favorite Dogfish Head, the search giant has created URKontinent, a beer named after the original supercontinent, reports the Huffington Post. Dogfish Head founder and President Sam Calagione calls the beer “a valentine to boot-strapping entrepreneurs in all kinds of industries all over the world.”
Ranked: Jobs With the Most (and Fewest) Smokers
Miners, food service workers and construction workers are more likely to smoke than adults in other industries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Thursday.
In an analysis of 2004-10 data from a national health survey, the CDC found that 30% of workers in mining and an equal proportion of workers in hotel and food services reported smoking. An estimated 29.7% of adults working in construction smoked.
The overall adult smoking rate in the U.S. is 19.3%.
5 Weird Things People Are Stealing While The Economy’s In Bad Shape
Cellphone Carriers Keep Personal Data Up to 7 Years, Report Says
NEW YORK – A document obtained by the ACLU shows for the first time how the four largest cellphone companies in the U.S. treat data about their subscribers' calls, text messages, Web surfing and approximate locations.
The one-page document from the Justice Department's cybercrime division shows, for instance, that Verizon Wireless keeps, for a year, information about which cell towers subscriber phones connect to. That data that can be used to figure out where the phone has been, down to the level of a neighborhood. AT&T has kept the same data continuously since July 2008.
Battle of the Sexes: How Men and Women View Money
The old adage, "men are from Mars and women are from Venus," may especially hold true when it comes to their views on finances. The way men and women manage, view and process the information they receive about money, seem to be in two different universes, according to two personal finance experts.
Ramit Sethi, author of I Will Teach You to be Rich recently conducted a survey called "13 Stunning Differences in How Men and Women Think About Money," that surveyed 1,167 of his blog readers on their attitudes toward finance.
Fla. Primary Move: "It Messes Everything Up"
The key battleground state of Florida decided Friday to move up its Republican presidential primary to Jan. 31, snubbing party rules and triggering angry responses from traditional early voting primary states which will now likely move up their primaries to stay ahead.
The move thwarts efforts by both major political parties to delay presidential primaries and caucuses. Their aim has been to avoid a repeat of the 2008 scenario, when states jumped ahead of each other in attempts to increase their influence in the process.