Albemarle Supervisors to Hold Public Hearing on Redistricting
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors is inviting public comment on its proposed redistricting plan. The Board is required by the Constitution of Virginia to redistrict every 10 years.
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Sideshow: Sheen’s VIP ride in D.C.
As you may have heard, cops in the fine city of Washington kindly gave Charlie Sheen a police escort from Washington’s Dulles International Airport to his show at DAR Constitution Hall last Tuesday. He was running a bit late, y’see.
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Humala Victory Won’t Derail Colombia-Peru Exchanges Merger, Echeverry Says
A victory by Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala is unlikely to threaten Colombian assets or a planned merger of the two nations’ stock exchanges, Colombia’s Finance Minister Juan Carlos Echeverry said.
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Algerian president ‘to amend constitution’
Abdelaziz Bouteflika vows “to reinforce representative democracy”, tackle unemployment, and help the poor. The Algerian president has pledged reforms after weeks of simmering protests.
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Ryan, Geithner at Odds Over Republican Support for Debt Increase
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said Republican leaders have not pledged to raise the nation’s debt limit, even as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner insisted they had.
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Budget deal would free up Texas education money
The federal budget deal negotiated to avoid a government shutdown would remove the strings a Democratic congressman had attached to $ 830 million in funds for public education in Texas.
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Red-light camera protesters plan ‘Ban the Cam’ rallies across Brevard
Today, groups of protestors will criticize red-light traffic cameras as cash-generating, Big Brother-surveillance machines that violate the U.S. Constitution.
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Residents dispose of hazardous materials
Vehicles lined up along Jenkins Avenue from Constitution Street to the southwest side of the Lloyd Noble Center on Saturday filled with hazardous materials that residents brought to dispose….
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Arizona city attempts intimidation through lawsuit
Suburban Glendale is less a community with professional sports facilities than a sports enterprise with a community held hostage to previous improvident decisions. Now Glendale’s government may multiply its follies – unless Arizona’s Constitution saves the city from itself.
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French police arrest burqa ban protesters
Police in Paris arrested dozens of people for trying to hold an unauthorized demonstration to protest a ban on the wearing of Islamic veils such as burqas, they said Sunday.
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