| Funds for Great Lakes make smart investment
Advocates for the world's greatest freshwater resource are gathering Thursday in Washington, D.C., for Great Lakes Day. As we do, the citizens of Michigan and of all the states in the Great Lakes region should take time to recognize the importance of these priceless bodies of water and what we need to do collectively to protect and preserve them. .
Viewing all entries for: January 2008
LAST night after her uncontested "victory" in Florida, Hillary Clinton was introduced by... Alcee Hastings, removed from by the Senate in 1998 after impeachment from* in the House, under a heavy cloud of suspicion of bribery when he was a federal judge. (A bit of the colourful background here.) Bill Clinton pardoned Mr Hastings' alleged co-conspirator on his last day in office. Doesn't Ms Clinton have any slightly less dodgy-looking Floridian backers? Or if slightly suspect they must be, ones whose former associates had not been pardoned from federal prison by her husband? *[Correction: Mr Metcalph is correct. The text has been changed accordingly.] Permalink .
Child neglect a common scene in St. Lucie?
In one home in Fort Pierce, police officers could hear crunching sounds as they walked through the house the sounds of cockroaches crunching under their shoes. It's become a familiar scene for some law enforcement officials a home teeming with roaches, piles of trash or excrement. Law enforcement officials on the Treasure Coast have seen at least eight cases of filthy homes with children living in them in less than six months, most recently on Feb. 2 in Port St. Lucie after two parents were arrested when police said they found their home in "complete disarray." Seven of those cases were in St. Lucie County. The rash of child neglect arrests since October have been mostly because of families living in filthy homes, but filthy homes are just one type of child mistreatment investigated on the Treasure Coast, according to officials.
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