The new rules for Town Board meetings were posted on our site Thursday Jan. 3rd. These rules were placed on the Town website at 3:55 pm today. They will be voted on at tonight’s meeting. The public had three hours to read these rules if they were waiting for the Town to bring them up to speed. Many individuals thanked this editor for allowing a heads up of several days for the rules to be read and ‘digested’. Satish must do a better job of keeping his Board members and the public informed.
Archive for January 7th, 2008
LITTLE TIME FRAME FOR OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF RULES CHANGES
Monday, January 7th, 2008VOTER ID LAWS ARE SET TO FACE A CRUCIAL TEST
Monday, January 7th, 2008
We are all too well aware of the fact that every vote counts and in a presidential election year that looms large on the horizon. Voters in Indiana have the strictest voter identification law on the books. A 61-year old woman is at the heart of a case that will be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. A decision should be handed down by late June, in time to affect the November elections.
“In April 2006, a federal judge upheld Indiana’s law on voter identification, the strictest in the nation, saying there was no evidence that it would prevent any voter from having his ballot counted.”
“But on Election Day last November, Valerie Williams became that evidence, according to lawyers in a case that will be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. After Ms. Williams grabbed her cane that day and walked into the polling station in the lobby of her retirement home to vote, as she has done in at least the last two elections, she was barred from doing so.”
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RETRACING STEPS, McCAIN IS FEELING REJUVENATED
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Back in 2000 John McCain who won the New Hampshire primary. Today he is in many ways a different candidate running a very different campaign.
“Mr. McCain, a Republican, is methodically returning in these last days before the New Hampshire primary to the same venues he visited in that campaign, in which he defeated George W. Bush by 18 percentage points.”
“Yet there are crucial differences between this campaign and the one of 2000, and they reflect how Mr. McCain is in many ways a different candidate running a very different campaign in a very different time.”
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AS ELECTRONICS SHOW GROWS, SOME SCALE BACK
Monday, January 7th, 2008
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, at least that’s how some companies view what happens at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The show has never been bigger, but it has become a challenging and sometimes ineffectual place to introduce new products.
“Roughly 140,000 attendees will trudge through 1.85 million square feet of exhibition space.”
“But despite its size, or perhaps because of it, the annual conference has become a challenging and sometimes ineffectual place to introduce new products.”
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