“A crowd of thousands cheered Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson” at a protest of President Bush’s appearance in town yesterday, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Anderson called Bush a “dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights violating president.”
Gov. Schwarzenegger (R-CA) and Democratic leaders agreed yesterday on the “most sweeping controls on carbon dioxide emissions in the nation,” which call for a 25 percent reduction in emissions by 2020, “and could establish controls on the largest industrial sectors, including utilities, oil refineries and cement plants.”
“As many as one in five members of the armed services are being preyed on by loan centers set up near military bases that can charge cash-strapped military families interest of 400% or more, a new Pentagon report has found.”
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) “will probably be fined” and face other penalties for falsely telling the Tennessee Department of Health he had fulfilled all the requirements that doctors with active licenses must maintain in the state.
In a move to satisfy his “most conservative supporters,” President Bush on Wednesday nominated five “extremely divisive” people as appeals court judges, “including one whom Democrats have threatened to block with a filibuster.”
Violent crime is up for the first six months of 2006, according to statistics shared by 170 local officials. “At the summit, city officials shared stories about their challenges in fighting growing crime, particularly among juveniles, amid cuts in community programs for youths as well as an uneven economic recovery.”
28 percent: The drop in the number of white-collar crime prosecutions from five years ago, according to a new analysis of federal data, apparently due to a shift to homeland security cases.
“The amount of nicotine in most cigarettes rose an average of almost 10 percent from 1998 to 2004, with brands most popular with young people and minorities registering the biggest increases and highest nicotine content.”
And finally: Rochester, Minn., City Council member Pat Carr has apologized for posting anonymous messages on the local newspaper’s Web site, such as, “Pat Carr has done nothing but stand up for the silent majority.” Carr said, “I stand by what I said,” but noted that he didn’t write every one of the self-glorifying posts; “one was written by a friend visiting his office.”
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