The courtship of Senator Olympia Snowe started in December with a phone call from Joe Biden. The Vice President-elect made sure Snowe had his home telephone number in Delaware so she would know how to reach him on weekends. In the weeks that followed, the two traded memos back and forth about how an economic […]
Obama’s Battle on Stimulus Shows Threats to His Agenda
WASHINGTON — It is a quick, sweet victory for the new president, and potentially a historic one. The question now is whether the $789 billion economic stimulus plan agreed to by Congressional leaders on Wednesday is the opening act for a more ambitious domestic agenda from President Obama or a harbinger of reduced expectations. Both […]
Open Letter from Mayor Seskin – Abolish the DF Police Dept?
On September 11th , a day of national mourning, the Dobbs Ferry PBA sent a letter telling you that the Mayor and the Board of Trustees are seeking to abolish the Dobbs Ferry Police Department. Nothing is further from the truth. Let’s look at the record. On July 14, 2007 the Dobbs Ferry PBA […]
Watching the Olympics opening
As I said, I didn’t pay much attention to Olympics. So until I started watching it, did some questions come up to me. Now China is before the eyes of the world. This is the chance for China to express herself. How will China express it? For me, I am always looking for individual expression. […]
Peace Deal Dissolves
By Charles Mpagi Mwanguhya in Kampala Northern Uganda leaders returned empty handed last week from South Sudan after waiting in vain for days to meet Joseph Kony, the elusive commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA. Kony’s no-show was the second time in two months that he has snubbed peace negotiators and appears to […]
Belarus: Freedom Day Protest
by Veronica Khokhlova On Tuesday, March 25, police broke up an opposition rally in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, beating protesters with truncheons and detaining dozens of people. According to media reports, thousands of protesters showed up for the annual Freedom Day rally, banned by the government, and attempted to gather at one of Minsk’s […]
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