Officials in some Gulf Coast states spent the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Friday gearing up for what could be the biggest threat to the region since Katrina hit in 2005.
Hurricane Katrina victims still living in temporary housing along Mississippi's coastline should begin evacuating this weekend as Gustav approaches the Gulf Coast
Election 2007 is in the record books. But can this election, overshadowed by the early start to next year's presidential contest, tell us anything about the 2008 contests?
The GOP has held on to the governorship in Mississippi but failed to keep one in Kentucky and reportedly has lost control of the Virginia state Senate for the first time in 12 years.
It's Election Day 2007, but the earlier-than-ever starts of the presidential and congressional campaigns have overshadowed this year's races. Still, some contests are worth watching.
MARKETS AND NOTES: Okay the end is nigh. (Has to be right?) Here's the AP headline after Friday's close: "Dow, S&P 500 Hit Record Highs Again." (Sort of like "God Bless America Again." Remember that?) S&P is now up nearly 10% YTD, that's more than the NAZ. Well, like they kept telling you: Big stocks have lagged. Markets down a bit this morning -- not surprising.... Other notes: Did you see that Irwin Jacobs (isn't that Irv the Liquidator) sued Julie Roehm? Man that is a story.... Wonder if other bidders besides Murdoch will emerge for Dow Jones? The market thinks so, DJ climbed to $61 and change on Friday, over Murdoch's bid price. I think it will be tough to beat Murdoch here. Obviously he has all kinds of ammo, and no one wants this asset more than he does.... Mark Hurd came by for a visit the other day. He seemed upbeat, yet - as is his demeanor - was hardly in bragging mode about HP's newfound strength. I like that. Try to bust out as hard as you can, and if you succeed have a little humility...
Officials in some Gulf Coast states spent the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Friday gearing up for what could be the biggest threat to the region since Katrina hit in 2005.
Hurricane Katrina victims still living in temporary housing along Mississippi's coastline should begin evacuating this weekend as Gustav approaches the Gulf Coast
Election 2007 is in the record books. But can this election, overshadowed by the early start to next year's presidential contest, tell us anything about the 2008 contests?
The GOP has held on to the governorship in Mississippi but failed to keep one in Kentucky and reportedly has lost control of the Virginia state Senate for the first time in 12 years.
It's Election Day 2007, but the earlier-than-ever starts of the presidential and congressional campaigns have overshadowed this year's races. Still, some contests are worth watching.
MARKETS AND NOTES: Okay the end is nigh. (Has to be right?) Here's the AP headline after Friday's close: "Dow, S&P 500 Hit Record Highs Again." (Sort of like "God Bless America Again." Remember that?) S&P is now up nearly 10% YTD, that's more than the NAZ. Well, like they kept telling you: Big stocks have lagged. Markets down a bit this morning -- not surprising.... Other notes: Did you see that Irwin Jacobs (isn't that Irv the Liquidator) sued Julie Roehm? Man that is a story.... Wonder if other bidders besides Murdoch will emerge for Dow Jones? The market thinks so, DJ climbed to $61 and change on Friday, over Murdoch's bid price. I think it will be tough to beat Murdoch here. Obviously he has all kinds of ammo, and no one wants this asset more than he does.... Mark Hurd came by for a visit the other day. He seemed upbeat, yet - as is his demeanor - was hardly in bragging mode about HP's newfound strength. I like that. Try to bust out as hard as you can, and if you succeed have a little humility...
Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will spend $1.3 billion to build a new sport/ utility vehicle plant in Mississippi, creating roughly 2,000 jobs and making it its fifth assembly plant in the U.S.
In another sign of the gaming industry's anxiety about its future in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, CEOs of the top casino companies are expected to discuss the matter next week during the industry's annual G2E trade show in Las Vegas.
As the floodwaters rose in New Orleans last week, a group called Columbia Christians for Life announced that it had discerned God's purpose in the storm: the destruction of the five abortion clinics in the city.
New Orleans faced two crises Wednesday that Louisiana's governor called nightmares: stopping rising floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and evacuating survivors of the deadly storm.
Hurricane Katrina has inflicted more damage to Mississippi's beach towns than Hurricane Camille did, and its death toll is likely to be higher, the state's governor said Tuesday.
Hurricane Katrina's strike on Mississippi killed at least 54 people Monday, 50 of them in one county, state officials said, and caused what Gov. Haley Barbour called "catastrophic damage" along the coast.
"The only Grover they know in Indiana is the fuzzy creature on Sesame Street," cracked Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels after anti-tax activist Grover Norquist attacked his proposed tax increase.
The Thursday before Tuesday's presidential election, I gave a noontime speech to a group that politically, one of its members told me privately, was somewhere to the right of Romania's late, unlamented boss, Nicolae Ceausescu.
On the eve of the Republican National Convention, one of the party's foremost leaders from the South was asked about George W. Bush's chances in November. He replied, in a moment of rare candor: "If this campaign is about Kerry, Bush will win the election. If this campaign is about Bush, he will win my state." That is, the GOP must make sure the focus is on Sen. John Kerry to avoid being reduced to the solid Republican South -- and a lost election.
Lobbying is supposed to be a subtle art, and even the highest-priced influence peddlers in Washington can fail if they ignore that fact and engage in artless tactics. A classic case was in 1990 whe...
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