Short Takes For August 16 2009
Alabama: The Strange Vote
The following from the Birmingham News
Sweet Home Alabama.
Where you can’t make this stuff up.
Walker County’s Rep. Ken Guin last week cast a crucial “yes” vote in the Alabama House of Representatives, giving Jefferson County’s controversial occupational tax the legs it needed to pass.
What is wrong with this picture?
Guin opposed the bill and he was not anywhere near the the state capital (Montgomery) at the time of the vote but sick in his home about 150 miles away.
Sweet Home Alabama. Where they’re gonna do what they’re gonna do.
Deported Felons Just Sneak Back In
The The Arizona Republic reports the government has successfully deported hundreds of thousands of foreign-born criminals in recent years. But a significant number have come back again, illegally, to the United States, often to commit more crimes, according to government data and interviews with law-enforcement authorities, federal prosecutors and criminal-defense lawyers.
Denver Teacher Placement Can Add To Disparities
Nearly three-quarters of unassigned veteran Denver Public Schools teachers who have not found jobs are forcibly placed into schools with the poorest students says The Denver Post
Stimulus Generating Clean Energy
When Dave Twining considered the future of his Nantuckets Restaurant in Fenwick Island, he didn’t limit his imagination to bouillabaisse, sesame-seared ahi tuna or even the eatery’s trademark quahog-and-scallop “chowdah.”
The News Journal in Wilmington writes Twining also saw an array of 48 rooftop solar panels and a windmill in the parking lot that would quietly and efficiently generate nearly a third of the electricity he needs
Woman Said Cabbie Tried To Kiss Her
According to the Athens Banner Herald a female UGA student told Athens-Clarke police that a cab driver attempted to kiss her outside her Southview Drive home early Saturday morning, according to a police report.
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