| Councillors ’shun Shrews talks’
Councillor Armstrong said the offer was made through the council yesterday. He said he was more than happy to meet publicly to discuss any issue the club wanted, adding his offer has been "on the table for a long time", but had "never been taken up" by the club. By John Kirk This entry was made on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 11:45 amand is filed under Edition - Shrews, Shrewsbury, News. .
A chance to take care of us (1/27)
Long years ago, when I was growing up, school choices in Columbus were few and well defined. If you were white you attended an elementary school, one of two junior highs, Joe Cook or Caldwell and Lee High. If you were black, you followed a similar but separate course and ended up at Hunt."Separate but equal" as the courts had said. No, not really; the kids at Hunt used worn-out books and hand-me-down sports equipment.In the early 70s with federally mandated integration, all that began to change. Books have been written trying to explain those times. It's safe to say that local officials were in every way ill-prepared for the turbulence that ensued.Like an iceberg coming apart in warm waters, the schools began to fragment. Private academies, both secular and parochial, sprang up around the state.Visionary or courageous leadership was in short supply.
Avalanche warnings issued as more snow heads for Northwest
Blowing snow and avalanche danger caused new highway closings in Wyoming and Washington, where some schools were closed for a second consecutive day. The stormy weather also dragged bitterly cold air across the northern Plains, with the National Weather Service reporting a midday temperature of 24 below zero at Glasgow, Mont. North Dakota registered wind chills of 54 below zero early Tuesday at Garrison, with an actual low of 24 below at Williston. .
Everywhere you look, there's a war of words
Mamet would come in as a heavy favorite, but insiders praise the canny choice of Blanchett, who was nominated as best actress for playing Queen Elizabeth and best supporting actress for playing a man (Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There"). A panel of martial artists will discuss whether they'd rather meet Viggo Mortensen ("Eastern Promises") in a dark alley or risk a shave from Johnny Depp ("Sweeney Todd"). Other likely topics for the evening include " 'Ratatouille' - How the Hell Do You Pronounce It?" and "Do Writers Matter?" "We're harking back to the glory days of 'Siskel and Ebert,' " said longtime Academy Awards show producer Gil Cates. "We believe the public cares deeply about what people have to say when they argue about movies. In fact, they may care more about that than they do about the movies themselves." The Super Bowl: Super Bowl XLII has "blowout" written all over it.
UC Medical Center to focus on 'centers of excellence'
Cyclones' new spin [Cincinnati] Cleveland Fed names two new Cincinnati board members [Cincinnati] Prominent researcher at Miami part of federal effort to solve protein structures [Cincinnati] Dark side of progress [Cincinnati] UC, University Hospital restore surgical amphitheater [Cincinnati] .
Cassandra's Dream
Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.) feels so fresh, so smart, so different from the standard-issue legal thriller that it isn't until nearly an hour in that you notice how conventional a movie it actually is. The bones of the story are recognizable from courtroom dramas like The Verdict or … And Justice for All: A burned-out attorney finds his conscience when he uncovers a case so rotten that he can't not fight the good fight. But first-time director Gilroy (who scripted the first two Bourne movies and collaborated on the third) has a knack for tunneling deep into cliché and coming out the other side. The title character, elegantly embodied by George Clooney, is something of a spiritual brother to Matt Damon's tormented amnesiac spy. Michael Clayton is a Jason Bourne who, unlucky for him, actually does remember all the terrible things he's done.
MMNA workers may not get pay cut back
NORMAL — Continued financial problems at Normal's Mitsubishi Motors North America plant may mean union workers will not see an expected boost on their paychecks this spring.Mitsubishi management last week asked its union to consider a lump-sum payment instead of a previously agreed-upon $4.03 hourly wage restoration planned for April, according to news posted on United Auto Workers Local 2488's Web site.The notice says the proposal calls for associates to be given a single payment that would be the equivalent of wage restorations earned from April 7 to Aug. 28. For an employee working a 40-hour week, the payment would equal nearly $3,400.UAW Local 2488 members approved wage and benefit cuts in September 2006 in exchange for a promise of no involuntary layoffs though August — when the union contract also expires — and a commitment to redesign the Galant for 2009.Union President Ralph Timan declined comment Thursday.
Nick Robinson's Newslog
Employees should know that data protection is sacred and if they don't there should be systems in place that ensure they alone cannot make serious errors. Instead I hear that after a previous major security lapse, missing data turned up months later in someone's desk marked something like "Nick's disc". Tackling this won't be easy for politicians. What this case shows - as did the scandal about illegal immigrants becoming security guards and the foreign prisoners fiasco - is that making the government machine work is so much harder than passing new laws. Will plans for ID cards be the victim of this scandal? Not necessarily and certainly not forever. This saga is, of course, a huge boost for the opponents of them. Assurances that biometric data cannot be duplicated will not be enough to silence that opposition.
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