| Felon services grant looks suspicious
The people trying to defend Tacoma from a $1.1 million grant have gotten a brief reprieve. Juli Wilkerson, director of the state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development, has agreed to wait until Feb. 1 to sign an agreement to pay Citizens for Responsible Justice to house and provide social services for 70 high-risk, high-needs felons coming out of prison. That's good news. The more we learn about Citizens for Responsible Justice – C4RJ, for short – and its grant application, the more questions we have about its commitment to a safe community. And the more we question the state's commitment to correcting a decades-old practice of funneling felons into Pierce County with little regard for how it's affecting our neighborhoods. C4RJ has a history of deafness to Tacomans' concerns.
U.S. Theoretical Physicists Organize To Stem 'Outsourcing'
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Mention "outsourcing" and people tend to think of fields like manufacturing or telemarketing; theoretical physics isn't even on the list. Yet the scientists who develop theoretical predictions for high-energy particle physics experiments say "outsourcing" in their field has allowed the U.S. to lag behind in this area of high-profile, global science. "This is the wrong kind of outsourcing," says Ulrich Baur, Ph.D., professor of physics in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences and a co-founder of the Large Hadron Collider-Theory Initiative (http://www.lhc-ti.org). LHC-TI is a consortium of theoretical physicists whose goal is to train more U.S. graduate students in theoretical high-energy particle physics calculations relevant to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being built near Geneva, Switzerland.
GM tackles glut of dealerships
Even after eliminating hundreds of U.S. dealerships in the last few years, General Motors Corp.'s massive sales network isn't shrinking fast enough. GM CEO Rick Wagoner said the automaker will look to step up dealer consolidations, specifically efforts to combine Pontiac, Buick and GMC shops into one channel in which a single dealership would sell all three brands."This is a frontier where we plan to increase our efforts," Wagoner said during a presentation this week to Wall Street analysts. "It's time to do that and the payoff is significant." GM reduced its dealer network by about 7 percent between 2005 and 2007, to 14,118 from 15,094 franchises. The automaker's consolidation efforts have centered on melding GMC, Pontiac and Buick dealerships into one line of stores.
doesn't stand up to scrutiny
The only way McCain's statement would make sense is if he was also planning to offer these benefits to everyone who didn't cross the border--i.e. the entire population of Mexico. ... Actually, that doesn't seem too far from Dr. Hernandez's philosophy. ... You don't think ...] 2. Hernandez's "Mexico first" comment isn't quite as bad as it initially seems. Here's the full Nightline back and forth: (OC) Has the Mexican-American--and just Mexicans in America, that population--now become successful and wealthy enough to give back here that that becomes a piece of the puzzle? Mr. HERNANDEZ: We are betting on that the Mexican-American population in the United States will become more and more like the Jewish community of the United States, like the Puerto Rican community of the United States, that they will think 'Mexico first,' and they will invest in Mexico.
1984 Republican Party Platform
This year, the American people will choose between two diametrically opposed visions of what America should be. The Republican Party looks at our people and sees a new dawn of the American spirit. The Democratic Party looks at our nation and sees the twilight of the American soul. Republicans affirm that now, as throughout history, the spiritual and intellectual genius of the American people will create a better nation and maintain a just peace. To Republicans, creativity and growth are imperatives for a new era of opportunity for all. The Republican Party's vision of America's future, the heart of our 1984 Platform, begins with a basic premise: From freedom comes opportunity; from opportunity comes growth; from growth comes progress.
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