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Post-Sandy Hook, South Dakota and Georgia move to protect schools with guns

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Mar. 10 (News Report) - As the gun control debate continues, Georgia, South Dakota, Colorado, and New York have emerged as bellwethers on how the nation is beginning to stand up to gun violence. ...

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North Carolina Approves Benefit Cuts for Unemployed

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Robbie Brown - Feb. 14 - In a debt-reducing effort, the Republican-controlled legislature voted to cut maximum weekly benefits to $350 from $535, a 35 percent drop.

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Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Steven Levy - Oct. 17 - Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center

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'Back At Square One': As States Repurpose Welfare Funds, More Families Fall Through Safety Net

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Peter S. Goodman - Jun. 19 (Special Report) - Brianna Butler would prefer never again to see the inside of the DeKalb County welfare office. She is eager to work.... Without childcare, however, she cannot satisfy Georgia's requirements that she first attend four weeks of classes designed to teach her how to look for a job, how to write a resume, how to handle an interview. So, instead of a job or welfare, Butler has only a bitter sense of resignation that she must do whatever it takes to secure cash.

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The Execution of Troy Davis Provides Another ‘Haunting Reminder of Once Prevalent Southern Lynchings’

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By John Nichols - Sep. 23 (News Analysis) - The American Civil Liberties Union notes that "systemic racial bias in the application of the death penalty exists at both the state and federal level," and it notes historic patterns of discrimination in particular states such as Georgia—highlighting the classic work of University of Iowa law professor David Baldus, who found that during the 1980s prosecutors in Georgia sought the death penalty for 70 percent of African-American defendants with white victims, but for only 15 percent of white defendants with black victims. (Troy Davis' case traces back to an incident in 1989.) The patterns of discrimination, noted Justice Stevens, “provides a haunting reminder of once prevalent Southern lynchings.”

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Tornadoes carve path of death, destruction across South, with nearly 300 dead

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Joel Achenbach, Michael E. Ruane - Apr. 29 (News) - A series of deadly tornadoes that visited destruction on six Southern states left stunned residents literally picking up the pieces Friday, as they sought to salvage what they could in shattered homes from Mississippi to Virginia.

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A Year After Georgian War, Refugees Still Coping With Losses

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Sarah Marcus - Aug. 11 (Special Report) - TSEROVANI, Georgia -- Just off the highway between the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, and the city of Gori, epicenter of last year’s war with Russia, lies this settlement of single-story, boxlike houses stretching toward the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains.

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Poll: Chambliss Leads 50% to 46%

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

3BlueDudes - Nov. 19 (Poll) - A new Rasmussen Poll shows GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss gaining 2% while DEM. Jim Martin gains 3%.

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Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By C. J. Chivers, Ellen Barry - Nov. 07 (News Report) - Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.

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Georgians rally against president

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 07 (Breaking News) - Thousands of opposition activists have demonstrated in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi - their first major protest since the conflict with Russia. Critics have accused President Mikhail Saakashvili of starting a war with Russia that Georgia could not win.

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President-elect's Queries to Briefers

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - He asked what I would tell President-elect Barack Obama if I were Mike Morell, the chief CIA analyst assigned to brief Obama daily. What fun, I thought. On more sober reflection, it seemed more useful to prepare questions of the kind President-elect Obama might wish to ask Morell, since the briefings are supposed to be a two-way street. Obama is no shrinking violet. Just the same, it may be useful to warn him not to succumb to the particular brand of “shock and awe” that can be induced by ostensibly sexy intelligence to color reactions of briefees, including presidents. I have seen it happen.

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Strained relations between Russians, EU monitors in Georgia

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

euobserver.com - By Valentina Pop - Oct. 24 (News Report) - Russia is not informing the EU mission of their deployment of troops, nor is it allowing observers to enter Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Hansjorg Haber, the head of EU's civilian monitoring mission to Georgia (EUMM) has said.

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War of words ends Russia-Georgia talks

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

neurope.eu - Oct. 19 (News Report) - The first round in Geneva broke down, but the EU’s Special Representative for Georgia, Pierre Morel, told journalists that discussions would resume on November 18. Russia and Georgia accused each other of walking out of the UNbrokered talks. “De facto the discussion was broken off by Georgia, which refused to participate in the plenary session,” Interfax quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, who headed the Russian delegation to the Geneva talks, as saying.

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Georgia says Russia not respecting ceasefire agreement

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

eubusiness.com - Oct. 10 (News Report) - Under an EU-brokered peace plan, Russian forces had until October 10 to pull back from buffer zones around Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to positions held before the August war. On Wednesday, the Georgian Interior Ministry confirmed that Russian forces had already withdrawn from the buffer zones. But Russian forces were still controlling access to the Akhalgori district, which lies in South Ossetia as determined by the region's Soviet-era borders. The district, home to both ethnic Georgians and Ossetians, was controlled by Tbilisi prior to the August war, but it is now mostly held by Russia's separatist allies. Moscow has recognised South Ossetia as an independent state and plans to keep 3,800 soldiers there.

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