| Corzine approval rating dips down to 40 percent
Gov. Jon S. Corzine is receiving poor marks from New Jersey residents who don't particularly like the governor's policies or his style of governing, according to a new Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey poll. Midway through his four-year term, 40 percent of the poll respondents said they approved of Corzine's job performance, while 44 percent disapproved, the highest negative rating found by the poll since Corzine took office in January 2006. State residents gave Corzine an overall C-minus grade on issues ranging from cost-cutting, property taxes, government ethics, cost of living, schools and Corzine's level of effort. Corzine's highest approval rating of 51 percent came in April 2007, shortly after he was critically injured in an auto accident. On the most substantial Corzine policy initiative adopted to date -- a revamping of the way public schools receive state aid -- 45 percent of residents thought it was a bad idea, while 37 percent approved of the measure.
On the Wings of Film
As for researching her role as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes, she watched some of Hepburn's early screwball comedies. “I can't imagine them having sex," she said, reflecting on the real-life romance of Hepburn and Howard Hughes, certainly one of Hollywood's least likely couples, People still come up to her praising her role in Titanic , when it was actually Kate Winslet. Most recent role: Indiana Jones. In it, “I'm a baddie." Introducing Christie, Festival honcho Roger Durling --- blonde for this year's event --- told the Arlington audience, “I'm pretty flabbergasted that we have here the amazing Julie Christie." .
A "Bradley Effect" for Blacks?
The state's Democratic leaders again failed to deliver on the reform promise they made when urging voters to reject a Schwarzenegger-backed anti-gerrymandering ballot measure in 2005. ... The big hang-up was fear that Nancy Pelosi would oppose any measure that ended gerrymandering of Congressional districts as well as state legislative districts. But Schwarzenegger deserves some blame for not knocking heads and getting a gettable deal, according to the LAT's George Skelton. The LAT's George Skelton also deserves some blame--he fell for the Democrats' promises and columnized against the ballot initiative in 2005. The reform he righteously opposed sure looks good now. ... 12:46 A.M. ___________________________ Monday, September 24, 2007 First rule of Today's GQ Man: Be a wuss! Josh Green is an excellent magazine writer, so his piece on Hillary campaign infighting is unlikely to have been killed by GQ magazine because it was bad.
May 2007 Archive
May 13 at the Lima civic center. Tickets are Continue » Kyle and Heidi FitroFor the Record (16 words) ST. RITA'S MEDICAL CENTER A boy was born May 7 to Kyle and Heidi Fitro of Delphos. Church to begin secular outreachLocal News (235 words) DELPHOS — When a church opens its doors as a place for teens to “hang out," the effort often falls on suspicious ears. However, one Continue » Kiwanis announce Fourth of July celebration plansLocal News (276 words) DELPHOS — Stadium Park will be a bevy of activity on the Fourth of July. The Delphos Kiwanis laid out their plans for the annual event Continue » Bowers, Jeffcats hold off Lady Lancers 1-0Sports (637 words) RURAL MIDDLE POINT — Jefferson's Shauna Bowers was almost unhittable Monday night and provided the only RBI as the Lady Jeffcats subdued Lincolnview 1-0 in Continue » Philip W.
They all bank on Britney
An editor's dream is to have a real-life soap opera unraveling in front of you, and Britney provides that every week," said Sarah Ivens, OK!'s U.S. editor. The magazine has a 10-person team in Los Angeles devoted to Spears coverage. Publisher Tom Morrisy said Spears drives newsstand sales and helped the magazine's ad revenue more than double to $51-million in 2007. OK! expects to turn a profit in 2008, three years after breaking into the market. Television Television ratings show that a major Britney Spears incident attracts viewers to each of the main entertainment news TV shows, too. "All of us sustained a major ratings spike" when Spears was taken to the hospital two weeks ago, said Charles Lachman, executive producer of Inside Edition. "It happens every time with her." It's more difficult to assess the economic gain for TV shows because they sell ads weeks in advance, with rates based on average expected ratings.
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