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Elton Richey: Why we should move the Confederate monument and flag
Curiously, the Times, while agreeing we should "move on," seems to take local NAACP leaders to task for focusing attention on the monument rather than engaging in conversations about the presumably more serious issues of race and criminal justice that
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:12A
Free trial offers, investment scams, shady movers: Your weekly ScamWatch
Investors should be wary of the risks of such investments and carefully research the investment product and the professional making the offering, the SEC said. Movers -- Consumers should be careful when selecting a professional mover,
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:12A
Galaxy Poll reveals Queenslanders losing confidence in Anna Bligh's Labor
Conducted exclusively for The Courier-Mail, the Galaxy Poll found the loss of faith in the Bligh Government's ability to manage areas such as health, water and roads would result in a reckoning at the ballot box. The confidence collapse further exposes
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:10A
Profiles: Those who preserve San Diego's historic homes
As evidence, she cites the thousands who attend numerous historic neighborhood home tours. SOHO also draws audiences to lectures, helps homeowners and businesses fix up their properties and leads grass-roots efforts to save and restore other local
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:10A
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, now 10 years in office, has ignored major Staten
When Bloomberg took office, Island traffic was snarled and we had the longest commute in the nation. Nothing has changed. He empanelled a “transportation task force” whose achievements were marginal and did not involve any large-scale traffic
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:08A
Staten Island reshaped by Hispanic wave
STATEN ISLAND, NY -- La nueva imagen, The New Image-- the name of a cheery, Port Richmond salon where owner Brenda Cruz cuts hair to sound of boleros, rancheras and Mexican top 10 on the stereo -- could also double as the name for the neighborhood,
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:08A
Tainted chicken roll made pregnant mum sick, lawsuit claims
AN unborn baby suffered food poisoning after his mother ate a chicken roll on a Virgin flight, court documents allege. Renee Cherry has launched legal action in the Supreme Court on behalf of her son Zayd Fokeera, now aged almost two,
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:06A
Neighbors, county want FLDS to repair road damage
Farmer Road is a short stretch of narrow, unimproved county road that dead ends at the western rim of Red Canyon, at a cabin owned by real estate developer Jim Farmer. Shortly before it arrives at Farmer's driveway, it bisects 140 acres of property
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:04A
Many in France see ex-IMF chief as setup victim
A journalist for the left-leaning newspaper Liberation said the politician himself foresaw dirty tricks in the upcoming presidential campaign and confided in an off-the-record meeting April 28 the three obstacles he faced: "money, women and my
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:03A
NAMES AND FACES for May 22, 2011
Mary Maxon, Dahl Arts Center curator of exhibits, recently participated in a panel discussion at Art Chicago, the International Fair of Contemporary and Modern Art held every year in Chicago. Maxon spoke May 1 on the Trans American Connections panel.
Updated: 05/22/2011 09:02A