| Complex GI Bill makes for a rocky road from combat to college
STARKVILLE, Miss. - By the time he completed his four-year stint in the military three summers ago, Frank Wills had gotten used to taking orders, carrying a rifle and taking pictures of the dead as a combat photographer.
He knew how to be a Marine. He hadn't a clue how a Marine becomes a college student.
Neither, it seemed, did anyone else on campus. Advisers at one school Wills attended gave him incorrect information. Officials at a second offered no help at all. Often, he says, he felt like "the new kid who didn't fit in."
G.I. EDUCATION: Veterans' plans aren't easy to gauge
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the GI Bill, helped turn a college education into a right of middle-class America. It covered the cost for millions of World War II veterans as compensation for having disrupted their lives to serve.
Stelmach says environmental toll from oil sands is a ‘myth'
And with your name I'd expect you would know that France now primarily depends on nukes for power...
So one rusting Russian plant -Chernobyl - means nothing. If it did, we would also not drive because one old car crashed once.
And the rock of the Canadian Shield is an ideal place to store nuclear 'waste' until we learn how to process it further.
How many windmills = one nuclear reactor? Posted 16/01/08 at 8:08 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Prepared text of Ritter’s State of the State Address
To all Coloradans outside this chamber, good morning.
To Lieutenant Governor OBrien, President Groff, Speaker Romanoff, Mayor Hickenlooper, Executive Directors, Board of Education members, Supreme Court justices, Treasurer Kennedy, Attorney General Suthers, Secretary of State Coffman, Honorable Representatives and Senators, thank you for being here today.
We are blessed with several other special guests as well: Representative Perlmutter, local government leaders, and Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Ernest House Sr. Thank you all for everything you do for Colorado.
Colorados first lady, Jeannie, two of our children, Tally and Sam, and my mother, Ethel, are here as well. Jeannie: Thank you for everything you do for the people of our state, particularly your focus on mental-health issues.
Rocky Mountain News
Every day it seems there's more bad news for Beauprez. The Rocky editorial page ripped the Beauprez campaign for distorting a Ritter quote that had run - yes - on the Rocky editorial page. The Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald had a story about Beauprez criticizing the management style of Bill Owens, who is his most important supporter. Ritter, meanwhile, pounds him on Ref C, on which Beauprez picked the losing side. And Beauprez responds by criticizing Ritter for plea-bargaining with illegal immigrants. Yes, Ritter was the Denver DA. Yes, he plea-bargained, even with illegal immigrants. Did he plea bargain with more than 70 percent of the cases? Maybe. But as far as we know, he hasn't had to apologize for any of them. So who would you guess that puts in the lead? You do the math.
Giuliani's work for drug maker probed
In western Virginia, far from the limelight, United States Attorney John L. Brownlee found himself on the telephone last year with a political and legal superstar, Rudolph W. Giuliani. For years, Mr. Brownlee and his small team had been building a case that the maker of the painkiller OxyContin had misled the public when it claimed the drug was less prone to abuse than competing narcotics. The drug was believed to be a factor in hundreds of deaths involving its abuse. .
Heritage destruction could be stumbling block for Turkey
Disagreement over the agenda for such talks has delayed their start. Turkish Cypriots want discussion of only day-to-day "practical" issues - such as health, environment, crime prevention and illegal immigration. Greek Cypriots fear limiting the scope of technical level talks to such issues only, would tend to cement the present division and merely improve "good neighbourly" relations, instead of leading to reunification. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and President Papadopoulos expressed the hope at their Paris meeting on February 28 that such discussions would help restore trust between the two communities as well as pave the way for the earliest full resumption of the stalled negotiating process. On the basis of the Paris agreement the Greek Cypriots want such discussions to cover disengagement of forces, demilitarisation, economic integration and the issue of Famagusta.
Endorsing Ron Paul, and Why Progressive Dems Should Support Ron Paul
Like Petey Greene the old Wasington D.C. disc jockey would say, "Hey people wake up God-dammit!". I think what's throwing people off is the title header of your op-piece. Sometimes people will only read the header, then read the rest of the story with a certain frame of mind. .
|
