| What's up in The Albemarle 01/19
ECSU alumni to meet. The Elizabeth City State University National Alumni Association will hold a general membership meeting in the theater of the Ridley Student Center today at 10 a.m. Riders of the Light to meet. The Christian Motorcyclists Association's "Riders of the Light" will meet at Rachel's Place today at 8 a.m. Smith to visit Camden, Currituck. State Sen. Fred Smith, a Republican candidate for governor, will appear at campaign barbecue events at Camden County High School at Currituck County High School today from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. NCCU alumni to meet. The Albemarle Area Chapter of North Carolina Central University Alumni Association will meet at St. Stephen Baptist Church in Elizabeth City today at 11 a.m. For more info, call 338-0058.
UPA govt dividing people: Rajnath Singh
We demand that farmers should be provided with cheaper loans and they should get farm income insurance cover instead of crop insurance, said Mr Rajnath adding that his party would raise issues pertaining to Indo-US deal, snooping in sensitive areas in the Parliament. It is for the first time in the history that a government is trying to re-introduce a Bill (Office of Profit Bill), which, has been returned by the President, without effecting any changes in it. It is amazing. Coming to Punjab, Mr Rajnath Singh announced that the SAD-BJP combine would contest Assembly elections under the leadership of Mr Parkash Singh Badal. He also projected Mr Badal as , Future CM, and said the people were suffering under Mr Amarinder Singh-led state government. He lauded role of the Hind Samachar Group of Newspapers in countrys fight against terrorism and said sacrifices of groups family members and 62 employees of the group failed to deflect Vijay Kumar Chopra, Managing Editor of Hind Samachar, or affect his determination against terrorism.
Loan Scandal Escalates
When Andrew M. Cuomo started asking questions about the relationships between lenders and colleges, many in higher education scoffed (off the record) that this was a case of an ambitious politician looking for headlines and that there wasn’t much for his inquiry to find. There’s no doubt that Cuomo, New York State’s new attorney general, is an ambitious politician looking for headlines, but he’s finding more and more to investigate. And some experts on aid are increasingly worried that the scandal is going to scare some students and families away from borrowing or from getting advice from financial aid offices. .
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I never saw him do anything that would give me any indication that he was doing something wrong," said Mr. Sarpalius, who said he thinks Mr. Siljander might have got involved in something he did not fully understand.
The indictment from the U.S. District Court for the Western Division of Missouri charges Mr. Siljander with conspiracy, money laundering and lying to the FBI about lobbying for the Islamic American Relief Agency, which raised about $130,000 that went to Osama bin Laden associate Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Debbie Schlussel, a Detroit-based conservative commentator, worked as an intern and junior legislative aide at Mr. Siljander's congressional office in the mid-1980s and said she was shocked at news of the indictment.
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