Man pleads not guilty in Ozaukee hit-and-run case Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Port Washington - Kevin P. Brown, 54, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to two felony charges of causing injury while driving drunk and hit and run causing great bodily harm for allegedly striking an elderly pedestrian with his pickup truck on Dec. 19. | Brown, of Port Washington, drove away from the ...
Favre's brother receives gubernatorial pardon Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Scott Favre, the brother of future Hall of Famer Brett Favre, has been given a by outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. | Scott Favre admitted he was intoxicated when his vehicle was hit by a train, resulting in a friend's death. The incident occurred in 1996. | By The Associated Press | Jan. 11,...
Violence Sweeps Central America CounterPunch | Mexico City | While Mexico grabs the headlines of soaring murder rates and rampaging drug gangs, the really heavy bloodshed is taking place to the south. The much smaller nations of Guatemala and El Salvador are seeing their worst violence since th...
What About the State of Our Planet, Mr. President? CounterPunch | In his state of the union address this week, President Obama talked about the American promise - the promise that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for ret...
Business in brief The Washington Post | courts | U.S. judge dismisses | Rigas tax indictment | Loading... | Comments Weigh In Corrections? | Tweet | A federal judge Thursday dismissed a six-year-old tax indictment of Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and his son Timothy, who are...
State of the Union Wish List The New York Times | Despite what some paranoid people on the Internet seem to think, the New York Times editorial board does not write the president’s speeches (and his speechwriters don’t draft our editorials). But with some regularity we discuss what we wish B...
None Dare Call It Leadership The New York Times | At a coffee shop today in Florida, the next stop on the Republican carnival tour, Rick Santorum was chatting with voters when a woman asked this question about the President of the United States: “He is an avowed Muslim and my question is, why is...
The High Cost of Violating Human Rights The New York Times | It used to be that the United Nations human rights commission denounced violations in some of the nastiest parts of the world – sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, junta-dominated Latin American countries, Communist-occupied Europe. These days, tha...
Don’t Pat On Me The New York Times | Whether or not you agree with them on the issues, it’s nice to find politicians who actually have principles and actually stick to them. Obviously, I’m not talking here about either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney. In fact, I’m not talking about...
Taking Up Taxes on the Campaign Trail The New York Times | Republican politicians talk a great deal about saving small businesses, and routinely play the mom-and-pop card when arguing against raising taxes, or charging a decent minimum wage, or providing everyone with access to health insurance. Last year,...
A Long Bleak Winter The New York Times | The European Central Bank’s cheap lending to euro-area banks may have briefly stabilized the financial markets. But the respite won’t last. The decision by Standard & Poor’s on Friday to downgrade the credit ratings of nine euro-zone countries, including France, Italy and Spain, should remind European leaders that their economic...
Favre's brother receives gubernatorial pardon Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Scott Favre, the brother of future Hall of Famer Brett Favre, has been given a by outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. | Scott Favre admitted he was intoxicated when his vehicle was hit by a train, resulting in a friend's death. The incident occurred in 1996. | By The Associated Press | Jan. 11, 2012 11:50 a.m. | Stevens Point - A central Wisco...
Tony Blair: 12 months in his diary The Daily Telegraph A huge amount of the former Prime Minister's £8m expenses is said to have gone on foreign travel by him and his team; Josie Ensor charts just how extensive his travels have been. | Tony Blair gives a speech in Long Beach, California in May | By Josie Ensor | 10:05PM GMT 14 Jan 2012 | Interactive graphic: Tony Blair's extensive foreign t...
