A mudslide closed the street in front of 3035 W. Galer St. yesterday, but no one was injured. Jennifer and Ross Anderson didn't know there was a slide outside until Jennifer tried going to the store around 4 p.m. (January 18, 2005)
In history, January 18…
…1644, Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
… 1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
… 1778, English navigator Capt. James Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the "Sandwich Islands."
… 1788, the first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony, displacing the native Aborigine.
… 1882, born Sylvia Pankhurst English feminist
… 1912, Captain Robert Scott reaches the South Pole in a quest to be the first person to do so. Unfortunately, a month earlier, Roald Amundsen had already achieved that goal.
… 1919, the World War I Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France.
… 1922, Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy the Rotunda in Dublin
...1929 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
… 1933, born David Bellamy English botanist/tv-program maker
...1942, Nazis arrest journalists Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
...1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
… 1943, during World War II, the Soviets announced they'd broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad.
… 1943, a wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the United States -- aimed at reducing bakeries' demand for metal replacement parts -- went into effect.
… 1949, 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
…. 1958, 1st black in the NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
… 1959, Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
… 1960, US & Japan sign joint defense treaty
… 1961, Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat
… 1962, Southern University closed due to demonstrations
… 1962, US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
… 1962, US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
… 1962, born David O'Connor equestrian 3-day (Olympics-silver-96)
… 1964 Plans for the World Trade Center announced (New York City NY)
… 1975, the situation comedy "The Jeffersons," a spin-off from "All in the Family," premiered on CBS TV.
… 1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years
… 1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
… 1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 minutes
… 1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
… 1995, the death toll continued to climb in Kobe, Japan, where a major earthquake had claimed more than 6,000 lives. The Kobe Earthquake happened because the Japanese geologists didn't know it was there.
Missing in Action
1964 METOYER BRYFORD G. OAKDALE LA AC IN SEA-3 RECOVERED N/SUBJ
1964 STRALEY JOHN L. BEAVER FALLS PA AC IN SEA- 3 RECOVERED N/SUBJ
1967 MADSEN MARLOW E. MINNEAPOLIS MN
1968 BOLES WARREN W. MARBLEHEAD NECK MA
1968 HINCKLEY ROBERT B. SPRINGFIELD ME 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 JONES ROBERT C. MADISON NJ 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 ROEHRICH RONALD L. SPRINGDALE AR
1968 SMITH WAYNE O. LOUISVILLE KY 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 SIMONET KENNETH A. CHICAGO IL 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV
1969 COADY ROBERT F. NEW ORLEANS LA
The following is probably more 'Israeli' than most people are comfortable with but I don't Bush/Rise. At all.
Buenos Aires Herald
Solá vetoes budget
Buenos Aires Governor Felipe Solá yesterday issued a full veto of the budget bill passed by the local Legislature last month, taking the provincial branch of the Peronist ruling party to the brink of a division that could endanger governability both at provincial and national level.
The Boston Globe
Three U.S.-based scientists to receive Wolf Prizes
January 18, 2005
TEL AVIV, Israel -- An MIT physicist is among three U.S. scientists who will receive $100,000 Wolf Prizes for physics and mathematics, the Wolf Foundation announced Tuesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/18/three_us_based_scientists_to_receive_wolf_prizes/
Suicide attack in Gaza wounds 6 Israelis
January 18, 2005
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself near a major road used by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, wounding at least six Israelis. A Palestinian bystander also was hurt, according to Palestinian rescue officials.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/01/18/suicide_attack_in_gaza_wounds_6_israelis/
U.N. lifts travel ban on aid workers
By Burt Herman, Associated Press Writer January 18, 2005
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The United Nations on Tuesday lifted a travel ban on aid workers in Indonesia's tsunami-battered Aceh province, the scene of a decades-long conflict between rebels and government forces that has raised concerns about the safety of relief efforts.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/01/18/un_lifts_travel_ban_on_aid_workers/
Fla family sues over student's beating
January 18, 2005
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A 12-year-old boy and his mother sued a school bus company and the school board, saying they should have done more to prevent seven other students from beating the boy last year in an attack caught on videotape.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/01/18/fla_family_sues_over_students_beating/>
Trump could have bought two Mercedes for the cost of one dress. He is nuts? The man owes more than he is worth. I mean "Hello" but like Bush he's great for the economy, right? That is why there is such bonding in the world of the wealthy with Bush. They never are worth much but own a great deal. But, the Middle Class needs to watch their budget. Right.
Melania Knauss picks Dior gown for wedding
By Samantha Critchell, AP Fashion Editor January 18, 2005
NEW YORK -- When Melania Knauss walks down the aisle to marry real estate mogul Donald Trump, she'll be wearing a sumptuous gown by Christian Dior.
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/01/18/melania_knauss_picks_dior_gown_for_wedding/
Haaretz
Eight Israelis hurt in suicide blast at Gush Katif Junction
By Nir Hasson and Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and News Agencies
Eight Israelis were hurt when a suicide bomber struck Tuesday evening at the Gush Katif Junction in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528761.html
Al Aqsa Brigades leader says group will halt attacks on Israel
By Reuters
In a boost to newly elected Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades leader in Jenin, Zachariya Zubeidi, said Tuesday that his militants would stop attacks in Israel.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528920.html
I TOLD YOU SO. What gives Condolessa Rice the authority to 'OVERSEE' anything when it comes to the well being of Israel. Where are the loan guarnatees Condi? She might try 'offering' her serves rather than INSISTING on oversight. This is the woman who 'sat' on the information regarding the attack by Osama bin Laden on the USA. Do I trust her with Israel? NO !! I am confident Prime Minister Sharon will walk softly but carry a very BIG stick "it to her."
Rice: I will personally oversee Israel-Palestinian contacts
By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent, AP and Haaretz Service
Condoleezza Rice, who will likely replace Colin Powell as U.S. Secretary of State said Tuesday she plans to personally manage Israeli Palestinian contacts. Rice was speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing meant to confirm her nomination.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528924.html
Body of sixth Israeli tsunami victim identified
By Jonathan Lis and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents
The body of an Israeli tourist who was killed in the Asian tsunami disaster was identified Tuesday as Aya Shapira, 27, of Ramat Hasharon.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528934.html
An eye for an eye
By Yoel Marcus
The prime minister's decision to give Abu Mazen the cold shoulder until the terror stops is perfectly justified. This is no trick or gimmick to get out of implementing the disengagement plan. Sharon actually prefers to have someone to talk to on the other side when the pullout goes through.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/528435.html
The national poet and the new generation
By Shiri Lev-Ari
Everyone in the copyright and new media department of ACUM, the Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers of Music in Israel, breathed a sigh of relief. The end of 2004 marked 70 years since the death of national poet Haim Nahman Bialik, and his work entered the public domain.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/527933.html
Racist legislation
In the summer of 2003, the Knesset promulgated a disgraceful law. The amendment to the Citizenship Law applied a sweeping prevention of unification of families and marriages between Israeli Arabs and Arabs from the region. Since the law was passed by the votes of 53 MKs - including Shinui - there has been a total halt to any requests by Israeli Arab citizens, including those who were already married and had children, to enable them to live in Israel with their relatives.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/528450.html
Tay-Sachs, the `Jewish disease,' almost eradicated
By Tamara Traubman
The genetic mutation disease Tay-Sachs, a fatal inherited disease of the central nervous system that mostly affects Ashkenazi Jews, has been almost completely eradicated, experts say, who claim that a genetic illness has become extinct for the first time.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/528417.html
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Sex-ed bill takes an approach of all or nothing
By KYLE ARNOLD
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
OLYMPIA -- If schools want to talk about sex at all, a bill introduced yesterday may force them to teach everything, from abstinence to condom use.
The bill proposed by Rep. Shay Schual-Berke, D-Normandy Park, would standardize sex education guidelines in public schools across the state in hopes of giving students more complete knowledge.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/208336_sexed18.html
Ho -- oh ... Time for Santas to get back to their 'other' jobs
By KERY MURAKAMI
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The trees are down, the ornaments carefully stored until next Christmas. With holiday distractions gone, the future for many seems like an endless damp, clammy slog through January, February and then March.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/208331_santa18.html
Look at affirmative action developments
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Significant developments in the nationwide debate over whether race should be considered in university admissions:
- 1978: U.S. Supreme Court strikes down racial quotas in the case of white student Allan Bakke, who sued the University of California after being rejected by the medical school. Court allows use of race as a "plus factor" when selecting students.
- 1995: University of California Board of Regents votes to end the use of race or gender in admissions, approving a resolution drafted by Regent Ward Connerly.
- 1996: California voters pass Proposition 209, a campaign chaired by Connerly, which prohibits considering race or gender in government hiring, contracting or education.
- 1996: The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case involving the University of Texas law school, prohibits race-conscious admissions policies.
- 1997: Texas makes all students in the top 10 percent of their graduating class automatically eligible for admission to public university.
- 1999: UC regents approve a plan to admit top 4 percent of each high school graduating class.
- 1999: Florida eliminates use of race or gender in public hiring, contracting and university admissions and instead guarantees admission to high school graduates in the top 20 percent of their class.
- 2001: UC regents rescind 1995 vote banning race-based admissions - a merely symbolic move because of Proposition 209. UC also adopts "comprehensive review" admissions, which do not consider race but take into account poverty or other hardships.
- 2003: U.S. Supreme Court, in two cases from the University of Michigan's undergraduate program and law school, bans the use of rigid formulas that award points based on race. However, court permits colleges to consider race as part of a "holistic review" of every application.
- 2005: Connerly and others announce they believe they have enough signatures to put a proposed constitutional amendment banning race and gender-based preferences in university admissions and government hiring on the November 2006 ballot in Michigan.
Term is up for affirmative action foe
By MICHELLE LOCKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Ward Connerly - reviled as an Uncle Tom, hailed as a man of principle and unflinching courage - is moving on to another battlefield. Connerly's term as a member of the University of California Board of Regents is drawing to a close after 12 turbulent years in which he led the university, and then the state of California, to drop affirmative action.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=UC%20Affirmative%20Action
Training jet, plane collide over Okla.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FREDERICK, Okla. -- An Air Force training jet and a crop-duster collided Tuesday plane over southwestern Oklahoma, killing the crop duster pilot, authorities said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Aircraft%20Collision
Strong earthquake hits northern Japan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO -- A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Tuesday, shaking computers and desks in offices but causing no injuries or substantial damage.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Japan%20Earthquake
This thing about honoring Chinese dictators that were unkind to the people of China may not be a good idea regardless of the respect intended. China did not make a big fuss over Ziyang. If the Chinese government finds Ziyang offensive to think about maybe we all should and send letters of apology for honoring a dishonorable man. I mean this is a phenomena in the USA that is a bit enabling to disaster. I could never understand how a president like Nixon even got the 'honors' he did except to help the family cope. That's hideous. The family should have coped with the crimes he committed no differently than anyone else in this country. I believe the passing of Ziyang should be an example of what 'dishonor' is and how a society actually distains those that dishonor it. Nixon should have been impeached no different than Bush should be. And if this country isn't interested in leaders that offer dignity to the country than at least honor the countries that do. I apologize to China. The press in the USA didn't stop to realize their tribute would actually be a slap in the face. Sincerely, sorry.
China defends 1989 Zhao Ziyang deposition
By JOE MCDONALD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Chinese paramilitary officers march across Tiananmen Square where security appeared to have been increased in Beijing, China, Monday, Jan. 17, 2005. Zhao Ziyang, former Communist Party leader who helped launch China's economic boom but was ousted after sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, died Monday in a Beijing hospital. Authorities are concerned his death may lead to protest from his sympathizers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
BEIJING -- China on Tuesday defended its 1989 decision to depose former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang for sympathizing with the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, indicating there were no plans to honor him in death.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=China%20Zhao%20Ziyang
U.S. sets penalties against Chinese firms
By TERENCE HUNT
AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Tuesday that the Chinese government heard the United States "loud and clear" after sanctions were imposed against eight Chinese companies for helping Iran with its missile programs.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1151&slug=US%20China%20Sanctions
India: Pakistan fires across Kashmir line
By NEELESH MISRA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW DELHI -- India accused Pakistani soldiers Tuesday of firing mortar shells across the dividing line in Kashmir in the first violation of a 14-month cease-fire between the South Asian nuclear-armed rivals.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Pakistan
HERE COMES more to the Bush Anti-Semitic mantra aimed at 'taming' Israel. This is too tempting to pass up.
You can quote me: "This administration is pathologic."
OUTPOSTS. Gee that word sounds familiar. "Outposts of tyranny." Gosh, Ariel I didn't know you were a tyrant, did you? This is how Bush's Bunch 'starts' their mantras of disaster. They first find 'the vocabulary' and then they follow it up with action. Israel is on Bush's agenda, that is why it's become 'Enemy Number One' everywhere except in Israel and every Jewish table in the USA. No word of a lie. Bush sees 'the holy land' as a Christian domain. Condi is a Neocon. She couldn't care less about Jews. I don't care what kind of words come out of that woman's mouth. It is nothing more than two-faced politics pandering to what is acceptable for aggression in the world.
The reason we are still in Iraq, as I firmly believe we are the problem in Iraq, is to protect not Iraq's interests but that of Bush's aspirations to further invade countries surrounding The Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea has been a priority of this administration from the days of The Cheney Energy Committee.
One has to realize we are all 'waiting' for this administration to 'turn it's act around' but they aren't going to do anything but declare more and more their right to Pre-Emption. A country, perhaps Iran, perhaps Russia along with China needs to bring 'rein in' the USA. There are overatures that need to be recognized here as well as the ones that are being sounded regarding Bush's intent to turn from the Geneva Conventions. Any self respecting citizen who is not a White Christian needs to make plans other than living in the USA when the day comes that domestically Bush is not respecting the Geneva Accords. There is no reason for what is going on that negotiations and peace won't solve. I am not a 'dove' if I thought Iran or North Korea were a real threat if not provoked but Bush's 'Fly Trap of a Mouth' is provoking everyone and now there is espionage in Iran. That in and of itself is an invasion into sovereign lands and it is reason for Iran to seek allies and attack the USA where they stand in Iraq.
The entire International 'Situation' is a mess. It is the complete fault of Bush. When we should all be uniting to help the nations of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Bush is stamping his foot at Iran and attempting to dominate Israel in speeches made by Rice.
I don’t hold much hope for the USA in this situation anymore. The world needs protection from Bush and the sooner the matter is brought before the United Nations the better. In actuality, I expect Musharraf to be one of the first to register disgust and mistrust before anyone else.
Rice names 'Outposts of Tyranny'
By MARJORIE OLSTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
In an echo of President Bush's "axis of evil," Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday named Cuba, Myanmar, Belarus and Zimbabwe as "outposts of tyranny" requiring close U.S. attention.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Outposts%20of%20Tyranny
Sidling up to Democrats for Confirmation. No thank you. No trading domestic assault weapons ban for stupid interrogation orders and attacks against the Geneva Convention. With Condi's focus on Jews if the USA turns off the Geneva Conventions domestically every Hebrew in the country needs to head for the hills. These people are nothing but bigoted white supremists, nothing has changed my mind yet. Their minorities are figure heads that never 'trickle down' to profound civil rights at 'the user friendly' level.
Gonzales backs assault weapons ban
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales told the Senate on Tuesday that he supports extending the expired federal assault weapons ban.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Senate%20Gonzales
Car bomb explodes in Spain's Basque area
By ALBERTO LETONA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
GETXO, Spain -- A car bomb exploded Tuesday near the main Basque city of Bilbao after a warning call purportedly from the armed separatist group ETA, and a policeman was slightly wounded, the Interior Ministry said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Spain%20Bomb
This is no different than one sees with a dictator from time to time to maintain 'The Politics of Fear' and achieve control to his dictatorship.
Hitler relative believed gassed by Nazis
By SUSANNA LOOF
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
VIENNA, Austria -- One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime's program to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said Tuesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Hitler%27s%20Relative
Thousands turn out to bury Mandela's son
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former President, Nelson Mandela, center, and his wife Graca Machel, attend his son, Makgatho Lewanika Mandela's funeral in Qunu, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2005. Makgatho Mandela died of AIDS related complications. (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa)
QUNU, South Africa -- The grandson of Nelson Mandela heeded the former president's call for more openness about the AIDS epidemic on Saturday, revealing that his mother had died from the virus that also killed his father.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=South%20Africa%20Mandela
IAEA has Iran site it'd like to check
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
VIENNA, Austria -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency is pushing for a fresh look at an Iranian military complex linked by the United States to possible atomic arms research just days after being granted limited access, diplomats said Tuesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Nuclear%20Agency%20Iran
Families gather at occupied Mexico prison
By GLORIA PEREZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Relatives protest in front of the entrance of Mexico's troubled, top security prison La Palma just west of Mexico City on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2005. More than 750 troops and police officers took over the nation's top security prison on Friday after officials repeated warnings that two of hemisphere's most notorious alleged drug bosses had joined forces behind bars. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
ALMOLOYA DE JUAREZ, Mexico -- Hundreds of inmates' relatives gathered outside Mexico's top-security prison on Sunday as federal authorities announced plans to occupy the facility for at least another week.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Mexico%20Prison%20Crackdown
Extortion on the rise in Colombia
By KIM HOUSEGO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Believing that Colombia's violence had ebbed, Giovanni Colmenares and his family moved from the United States back to Colombia last year, opened a bar in Bogota and were looking to buy an apartment. But then one day assailants hustled him into a car and put a gun to his head.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Colombia%20Extortion%20Epidemic
Forward
Right Mobilizes Against Gaza Pullout As Bush, Sharon Plan To Meet Abbas
Jewish Leaders Host Critics
By MARC PERELMAN
January 14, 2005
A revisionist study of Palestinian demographics — undermining the arguments for Prime Minister Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan —was given red carpet treatment this week at several American citadels of pro-Israel support, including two conservative think tanks and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2542
Justice Comes to Neshoba County: Revisiting a Time of Hate in Mississippi
By CHARNEY V. BROMBERG
January 14, 2005
There were things that happened to me in Mississippi I never told my parents: the shotgun in my belly as I backed out of the Canton A&W Root Beer Stand, standing between that sorry old man and the black kids who had gone inside after an outing we had organized; the bullets that had zipped over my head only days after I arrived in the state; or the contract the Klan had on me in 1966, according to the FBI agent I went to see in Jackson after a week of shootings and cross burnings in Scott County.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2557
Chicago Tribune
Hundreds lose heat service
By Nancy Ryan
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 18, 2005, 7:38 AM CST
As windchills plunged below zero, more than 800 homes on the city's Southwest Side lost natural gas service this morning after a valve tripped on a gas main, officials said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050118heatout,1,6912270.story?coll=chi-news-hed
RFK Jr. Eyeing Attorney General's Race
By MARC HUMBERT
Associated Press Writer
Published January 18, 2005, 8:14 AM CST
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has talked to top state Democrats about a possible run for New York attorney general in what could turn into a race against his estranged brother-in-law -- Andrew Cuomo, according to people familiar with those conversations.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-kennedy-attorney-general,1,1986183.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The Miami Herald
Broward approves vote on slots
By ERIKA BOLSTAD
ebolstad@herald.com
Broward County voters will decide March 8 whether four parimutuels here will be allowed to add slot machines.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10673041.htm
Governor: Cut taxes, medical help
BY GARY FINEOUT
gfineout@herald.com
TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush, who rode into the Capitol six years ago with a promise to make government smaller and a zeal for cutting taxes, reasserted his conservative side today, proposing a budget that calls for substantial tax cuts while eliminating programs intended to help working Floridians with massive medical bills stay out of poverty.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10673388.htm
Whistleblower trial opens in Hollywood
By JERRY BERRIOS
jberrios@herald.com
Attorneys made their opening pitches this morning in the whistleblower lawsuit filed by former Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt against the city.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10673291.htm
State promises tomato aid
By JIM WYSS
jwyss@herald.com
Facing a dramatic drop in national tomato consumption that makes it cheaper for growers to let crops rot in the field rather than harvest them, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles H. Bronson told South Miami-Dade farmers today he will launch a national campaign to persuade large retailers to drop prices and spur buying.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10673124.htm
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