| Beginning of a New Era
Pledging to "roll up our sleeves, work cooperatively and get things done," Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney outlined the agenda for her first year of office Tuesday in her first State of the County address. The national economy shows signs of slowing and the proposed state budget could cost county taxpayers, Mahoney said. "However, I believe our underlying strength will allow us to wea- ther a storm and still chart a new course that will enrich the lives of our residents, promote the growth of businesses and begin to fulfill the enormous potential of our community," Mahoney told an audience of more than 350 legislators, political leaders, administration officials and friends at Bellevue Middle School Academy in Syracuse. Mahoney spent about a third of her 50-minute speech talking about the economy.
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Who needs lawyers? Two more Chinese dissidents sue Yahoo
He moved to the US in January, 2006, and a month later learned to the Chinese dissident Li Zhi had been arrested after Yahoo turned over information to the Chinese government. Zheng had also used a Yahoo e-mail account to join the same political party that Li had. The news made him scared to return to China as he feared that he might meet a similar fate, so he remained in the US and lost "the real control of the two factories and his investment and property were under danger of being defrauded by others." Guo Quan was an associate professor at Nanjing Normal University, but he lost his job there after publishing a series of letters calling on Chinese leaders to allow multiparty democracy. His complaint about Yahoo doesn't concern the company's e-mail system at all; instead, Guo asserts that his personal name and the name of his garment company (which features his personal name) have both been blocked by yahoo.com.cn.
Philly Road Warrior: On some routes, flying costs are starting to take ...
Competition from low-cost carriers, the 2000-2001 recession and older airlines' labor-cost cuts have pushed down prices. Service became a bigger issue for most of you. But interest in ticket prices may go up again, considering what two major carriers have done in the last couple of months on the Philadelphia-to-Boston route. As noted in comments on the Road Warrior blog, the round-trip cost to fly nonstop on US Airways or Delta Air Lines between PHL and Boston's Logan Airport is roughly $1,000. Early last fall, the same round-trip flights usually ranged from $200 to $300. One Road Warrior blogger suggested he could hire a cab to drive him to Boston and back for a thousand bucks. (Check out the comments at http://go.philly.com/roadwarrior.) The reason: AirTran Airways left the route in November, and the remaining so-called legacy airlines quickly jacked up the fares.
Hillary wafts in like a blast from the past
Some Clinton critics, even Democrats, have feared she would carry on "politics as usual" in Washington, D.C., describing her as such a consummate politician that she has little credibility when talking about bringing change to our government. Wednesday's rally felt like old South Texas politics, complete with homage to some politicians who haven't held office for years and vintage music. While her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, is immortalized in "YouTube" videos created by current musicians such as Will.i.am (yes, that's his name) of the Black Eyed Peas, Robstown's Clinton audience took a trip down memory lane with a variation of the 1960s "Twist" and Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" from 1980. It was predictable for U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz to introduce Clinton, as congressmen have done in other venues.
Kerry's served with bankruptcy letter over her £1m debts
They warned her insolvency proceedings were going aheadand secured her two properties so they can be sold off to pay creditors. The big spending ex-Atomic Kitten singer and her husband, former drug dealer Mark Croft, have hired a team of insolvency advisors to help sort out their main debts. These comprise 700,000 claimed by the taxmanincluding an immediate 200,000 instalmentand 60,000 in loans and credit card bills. A close friend of the 27-year-old Iceland advert star said: "She was told she needed to pay 200,000 in tax by Christmas. She could lose everything." Yet last month Mark got a new 127,000 Ferraridespite having a Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Porsche 911 and Mercedes in the garage of their 1.2million home in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Now the property, where Kerry lives with Mark and her three daughters, could be sold to meet her debts.
UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup
Einstein, a 6-year-old, Brazilian-bred son of Spend a Buck, ran the 1 3/8 miles on firm turf in 2:12.87 with Jose Lezcano up for trainer Helen Pitts. Einstein has made the Gulfstream Park Turf Stakes a favorite effort, winning in 2006 and finishing third last year in a rough trip. Pitts said she had been pointing to the Melvin Muniz Jr. Memorial at Fair Grounds in New Orleans -- a race Einstein won last year. "But he was doing so well, we decided to go ahead" and run at Gulfstream, she said. "We'll see how he comes out of this before we decide whether to go back to New Orleans in just two weeks. We'll do the right thing for him."
-- Spring House rallied three-wide to the lead at midstretch in Saturday's $150,000 San Luis Obispo at Santa Anita drew off easily to win by 2 1/4 lengths.
Outdoor Briefs
Montana's Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission is seeking public comment at a meeting Tuesday in Polson on several proposals for the 2008 and 2009 hunting seasons. Jim Williams, wildlife manager for Region 1, will be on hand to explain the tentative hunting regulations, answer questions and provide opportunities to comment on the proposals. The meeting begins at 7 at the Polson Middle School Library. For more information, contact Matt Bishop at (406) 883-3279. The commission will adopt final regulations at its February meeting in Helena. .
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