Water Wars - Perdue Says “Say It Ain’t So”
You just have to love one governor writing to another governor, “Say it ain’t so.”
Riley and Perdue get snippy over water wars - Sweet Home Potomac - al.com
Entries for September 25th, 2007
Answer: Ummmm…they’re having more unprotected sex?
If health officials are baffled about why teen pregnancy is going up…I’d worry about their credentials as healthcare professionals…
Officials are looking at factors that might be contributing to the rise, including whether more teens are choosing to have sex and whether fewer of them are using contraception.
Gee, you think?
Health officials want to know why teen births in Alabama on rise - NewsFlash - al.com
Corts new coordinator of Bush International Education Initiative
President Bush (or whoever did it for him) made a good selection to head up his new International Education Initiative. Now, I just hope he is left alone to do this job.
Through the U.S. Agency for International Development, Corts will help coordinate the nearly $1 billion spent annually on global education programs, including basic skills, health and nutrition.
“We are discovering the link between health and education and literacy and quality of life, so I hope we can make a real difference,” Corts said in a phone interview as he was leaving New York. “It has a lot of consequences … for global peace and prosperity. Bringing more educational light in the world I think is a very justifiable role for us to play.”
Veterans Standing Alone
When legislators ignore constituencies, they can pay a price. And I would call what happened yesterday to veterans organizations ignoring them.
Six veterans organizations had representatives there. The state employees who oversee veterans affairs were there. The only ones missing at the legislative briefing Monday were the state legislators.
Three of the nine senators on the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee who were no-shows had other appointments.
Sen. Jim Holley, D-Elba, had a doctor’s appointment. Sen. Zeb Little, D-Cullman, is a lawyer and had a court docket. And Sen. Ben Brooks, R-Mobile, is working on an insurance reform bill and opted to attend a regional meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners instead.
“If there was any way I could be both places,” Brooks said, “I would be.”
The other six senators — Republicans Larry Dixon and Henry Erwin and Democrats W.H. Lindsey, Hinton Mitchem, Quinton Ross Jr. and Wendell Mitchell — did not return telephone calls seeking comment.
Senators Dixon, Ross and Mitchell are all local, so their explanations will be particularly interesting to me.
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