| Record five openly gay candidates look to toss hats into Council races
Yet he said that finally realizing the dream will come down to more than sexual orientation. "Being gay is not a reason to get elected, because being gay does not automatically make you a progressive," Sedarbaum said. "My money would be on the progressive candidate, not on the gayest candidate." jlauinger@nydailynews.com .
Money Day in Baghdad
Months ago, they had each completed an application for a microgrant of up to $2,500, funds that were now being distributed. The recipients were interviewed and had their fingerprints and eyes digitally scanned and entered into a database. Then they signed on the line and accepted a packet of bills. In the past, soldiers distributing the money would arrive at the various small butcher shops, vegetable stands, and pharmacies in the local markets. They drew lots of attention—even attracting large groups of children who would follow the soldiers from shop to shop. The next day, invariably, those who had received the money complained that local toughs had robbed them or, worse, threatened them for "collaboration with the army of occupation." Military officials hope that having grant recipients come to the combat outpost will reduce those tensions, though word spread quickly that Monday was payday, and grant recipients were concerned about walking home with a packet of hundred-dollar bills tucked in their tunics.
The 2008 Ford Taurus-The Family Car
Ford touts the 2008 Taurus as the "ideal" family car, and also as America's safest family car. The Taurus is a roomy vehicle that seats five in comfort and provides unexpected luxury. The Taurus ranks the highest in five safety crash tests as indicated by the Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Taurus scored a perfect 5-star rating in frontal impact (driver and passenger) side impact (front and rear seats). Taurus has combined all wheel drive (AWD) with Advanced Trac, resulting in a confident ride and handling in all weather conditions and on all road surfaces. This pairing can send a high level of driving torque to a single wheel, and can also deliver up to 100 percent of the available torque to the rear wheels when front-wheel traction is limited. .
Activists Bare Teeth Over Foreclosures
The commotion was the work of an in-your-face activist group called the East Side Organizing Project, with a paid staff then of just two, mobilized to battle Cleveland's mortgage "loan sharks." Years before the rest of the country was rocked by the fallout from aggressive lending, their neighborhoods were already home to the nation's highest concentration of foreclosures -- and they were fed up.
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Feisty locals dealt British navy first defeat of Revolutionary War 232 ...
Taken into the free harbor of Gloucester, it was stripped of its precious cargo: armaments enough to turn the tide of war in Boston."The capture of the Nancy was the biggest boost to American morale since the Falcon fight," Garland wrote in "The Fish and the Falcon.""As the tackles were sent down Nancy's hatches, and her captors hauled them up, they could scarcely believe their eyes: 2,000 muskets, bayonets, and infantry accoutrements; 100,000 musket flints, 62,000 pounds of musket shot; 7,000 rounds of shot, 12- and 6-pound; 20,000 one-pound shot; bomb carcasses, 4 siege mortars, including a brass giant with a 13-inch bore; 21 6-pound cannon; 8,000 fuses, several barrels of power; a great variety of the implements of war."General George Washington, who had noticed Gloucester's strategic significance even before the victory over the Falcon, had been hoping to take the Nancy.
Q&A on the Ohio Presidential Preference Primaries
Six recent polls have Republican nominee-to-be Sen. John McCain's lead ranging from 51 to 59 percent, with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's share of the vote ranging from 28 to 40 percent. It's a dramatically different story for Democrats. Like in Texas's same-day voting, a loss by Sen. Hillary Clinton could virtually end her chances. But wins in both states could put her back in the running with Sen. Barack Obama for the nomination. Q: What do those polls say about Clinton and Obama? A: Obama apparently is closing a once-wide gap between him and the former first lady. The same six polls peg the Illinois senator's support at between 38 and 44 percent. Pollsters seem to be more confident of Clinton's backing, giving her a range of between 46 and 50 percent.
So far, so good on Highway 40 shutdown
They also said the evening rush built up more quickly, and was over quicker, than the morning commute. "We're happy with how the system has performed," Rahn said. "We still haven't faced a 100 percent normal traffic day yet, but the corrections that have to be made are minor." One change will be prohibit traffic from going north onto I-170 from Eager Road. That traffic will be diverted to Brentwood Boulevard, then north to Galleria Parkway for the next ramp to the Inner Belt. Officials said southbound and northbound I-170 traffic jammed at the Eager intersection. They have changed the signals to allow more time for flow from southbound I-170 onto Eager. .
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