From the daily archives: Thursday, March 15, 2012
By James Queally/The Star-Ledger NEWARK — Hundreds of dignitaries, students and police officers stood in silence on the steps of Essex County’s historic courthouse Monday as the body of U.S. Rep. Donald Payne was carried inside, beginning three days of events that will serve as a final goodbye for Newark’s elder statesman. [...]
By David McKenzie, CNN Koro, Uganda (CNN) — One of the abducted boys featured in the viral video demanding the capture of infamous warlord Joseph Kony is now a man and says the time for justice has arrived. Jacob Acaye, now 21, revisited the village where he was abducted by Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army to [...]
Huffington Post: The battle over voter I.D. laws — which critics say disenfranchise the poor, elderly and citizens of color — has been fought in state houses, court rooms and op-ed columns. And now that fight is headed for the pews. Leaders of several prominent Black churches have stated an ambitious goal: to [...]
By Bill Mears, CNN Washington (CNN) — A controversial new Texas law requiring voters to present personal identification before going to the polls has been blocked by the Obama administration. In a letter Monday to state officials, the Justice Department said the legislation could have a discriminatory effect on Hispanics and other minorities Texas is [...]
By Kim Severson, The New York Times March 12: Fueled by antagonism toward President Obama, resentment toward changing racial demographics and the economic rift between rich and poor, the number of so-called hate groups and antigovernment organizations in the nation has continued to grow, according to a report released Wednesday by the [...]
By: Corey Siemaszko, New York Daily News March 12: Voters in Alabama and Mississippi may still be split on which Republican they want in the White House, but they agree on this much — in their minds, President Obama is a Muslim. A stunning 52% of Mississippi respondents to a survey done ahead of Tuesday’s [...]
Despite a lengthy agenda, the Greene County Commission finished their regular monthly meeting Monday night in approximately 30 minutes. The item that seemed to draw the most interest was the change in the county’s policy toward the hauling of dirt. The five commissioners agreed unanimously that residents would be provided one load of dirt per [...]
Over 5,000 people gathered in front of the Alabama State Capitol on Friday, March 9, 2012, for a rally at the end of the week-long Selma- to – Montgomery March. The march was held to protest voter suppression in Alabama and throughout the nation which threatens to disenfranchise as many as 5 million older, [...]
On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Earlean Isaac made history, winning a fifth term as Greene County Probate Judge. She defeated challenger John Kennard by a total of 2,040 to 845. Isaac, a native of Greene County, graduated from the Greene County Training School and took probate judge’s law courses at the [...]
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