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Archive for October 3rd, 2005
Monday, October 3, 2005 Could Be Weeks More Before New Orleans Has Drinkable Water System By Dave Berns "Yet New Orleans' neighbors in rapidly repopulating Jefferson Parish have been drinking clean water for the past three weeks, and using it to cook dinner, make ice for cocktails, bathe the kids and wash away Katrina's filth from their homes and businesses," reports today's Times-Picayune.
"It's a tale of two water systems and the very different [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2005 Mississippi's New Reality: Church vs. Casinos By Dave Berns "In the churches that minister in the shadows of Biloxi's tattered casinos, religious opposition to gambling is colliding with the region's economic reality," reports The Associated Press.
"Mississippi is considering allowing its coastal casinos to rebuild on land, a move that would help repair the state's $2.7 billion gambling industry following Hurricane Katrina. But while pastors [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2005 Higher Fuel Prices Spark Worldwide Anger By Dave Berns "Rising fuel prices are stoking popular anger around the world, throwing politicians on the defensive and forcing governments to resort to price freezes, tax cuts and other measures to soothe voter resentment," reports today's Washington Post.
"The latest example came this weekend in Nigeria, where President Olusegun Obasanjo promised in a nationally televised Independence Day speech [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2005 Bush Chooses White House Counsel for Supreme Court; Harriet Miers Has No Judicial Experience By Dave Berns "President Bush has chosen White House Counsel Harriet Miers as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court," reports this morning's Washington Post.
"Miers, who was Bush's personal attorney in Texas, was the first woman elected president of the Texas Bar Association and was a parner at the Texas law firm of Locke Liddell & Sapp before [...]
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