South Carolina’s Jenny Sanford emerges as the woman in charge
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 12th, 2009 5:35 am by HL
South Carolina’s Jenny Sanford emerges as the woman in charge
In the end, there were differences she could not reconcile.
Child hunger an increasingly complex problem
PHILADELPHIA — Three weeks before he was elected president, Barack Obama set an audacious goal: end hunger among children in the United States by 2015.
Senator’s antiabortion stand leaves him with moral dilemma on health-care reform bill
When he took office in 1991 as Nebraska’s governor, Ben Nelson was one of just two Democratic governors opposed to abortion rights. The other, Robert Casey Sr. of Pennsylvania, soon found that position played no small role in denying him a speaking role at the party’s 1992 national convention.
Lawmakers seek action on carp nearing Great Lakes
Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating a $7 billion fishery.