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Congress is set to reconvene this week for the final vote of 2008, and it's no surprise, given the state of the economy, that they will be voting on yet another bailout, this time of the Big Three American automakers. It is, perhaps, cold comfort to the more than half of Americans who oppose the move that the funds will not be drawn from new debt but rather from existing dollars appropriated earlier this year in the energy bill. This is the same modernization fund the automakers were banking on to get them from SUV-land to Hybrid-world...
...Although there was overwhelming support from English professors for the proposal in last week’s vote by the department, the former co-chair of the Task Force on General Education said, “I think we’re trying to do too much with too little...
...state divided: the interests of the more rural, conservative voters in the New York State Thruway corridor (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany) are often opposed to those of the urban, liberal voters in the New York City area. Although Obama won the state with 62% of the vote, most upstate counties gave him only 45%-55%, while Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx gave him 80%-90%. "The whole Caroline Kennedy thing is not a tip of the hat to upstate," says Joshua Dyck, an assistant professor of political science at SUNY Buffalo. "Here's a part of the state that...
...According to Nancy G. Walser, who was a member of the committee at the time, the idea went “nowhere so fast that there was no vote, no extended discussion, no hearing.” She said that the majority of the committee did not appear to be interested in pursuing the plan because it was based on a financial, rather than educational, rationale...
...School Committee has not yet decided when to vote on the future plan of action...