Majority oppose B.C. carbon tax

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA scant few months ago when a Carbon Tax was announced by the British Columbia Government, much Back slapping, Banners and Party Favours were passed out to a Liberal...

Va. Tech Shooting Victim Families Agree to $11M Settlement

The VA Tech victims' families look ready to accept a settlement deal with the school."Most families of the Virginia Tech massacre victims have agreed in principle to accept an $11 million settlement in exchange for...

Va., Md., DC Primaries Today

People in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC are voting in primaries for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations. The Associated Press is working with NowPublic to help get coverage from people...

Politisite Political Projections : Potomac Primary DC, MD, & VA

Hello all you politicos, politistes, Pollsters, Pundits, and casual political watchers. The Potomac Primaries are here.  We us a trend modality for our projections.  An explaination can be found in...

2010 Olympic mascots unveiled

Well the moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived...the official 2010 mascots have been revealed! Not surprisingly, they draw inspiration from First Nations creatures and they've arrived in the modified...

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Ameristar Mortgage, your local Wisconsin and Illinois mortgage broker, offers first time home buyer, 80/20, cash out refinance, jumbo, construction, lot loans, no money down, refinance, 100% financing, interest only, investment, my community mortgage, FHA, VA and rural...

Illinois Mortgage Refinance Wisconsin Mortgage Refinance

Ameristar Mortgage, your local Wisconsin and Illinois mortgage broker, offers first time home buyer, 80/20, cash out refinance, jumbo, construction, lot loans, no money down, refinance, 100% financing, interest only, investment, my community mortgage, FHA, VA and rural...

6 Arrested In Brutal Attack On Black Woman, Authorities Say Black Woman Was S...

It seems that the brutal sexual and battery assauly was not enough, They needed to call her a racial epithet each time they stabbed her.  To say that White America has dealt with its issues concerning race is...

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Va. middle school bans touching

Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, Virginia has a "no physical contact" rule. Like many schools, officials at Kilmer created the rule to try to give kids personal space and limit the effects of what they see as the...

Jilted Former Deputy Frames Teen in Bomb Plot

This would make a great Veronica Mars episode:a teen is accused of planning a vicious attack on his high school. He protests his innocence, but his classmates turn against him. Turns out that a former sheriff's...

Va. Tech panel fights to get gunman's records

The panel studying last month's massacre at Virginia Tech will go to court if necessary to get gunman Seung-Hui Cho's medical and mental health records, the group's chairman said. Former State Police Superintendent...

Loyal V.A. Employee Earns Termination

Life in the United States waxes increasingly strange,as Matthew B. Stannard reports today on the story of Chris Fredking, a technician at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center who has, by all accounts,...

More Gun Laws or Fewer Idiots? How the Va Tech Administration Failed Its Campus

"How did Virginia Tech not know what this young man was thinking? He was in a creative writing class, churning out pages and pages of this sort of thing - the faculty should have been keeping tabs on him and following up on his counseling. Now the university excuses itself by...

Another Scare Rattles Va. Tech Campus

"BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in U.S. history got another scare Wednesday morning as police in SWAT gear with weapons drawn swarmed Burruss Hall, which...

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