| Liquor sales create a stir on MacArthur Boulevard
Package liquor sales and outdoor merchandise are the immediate concerns, but C.J. Dart also wonders about long-term prospects in the Springfield neighborhood where she has lived for 60 years. Dart is among residents planning to attend a meeting tonight sponsored by the MacArthur Boulevard Business Association on the proposed $1 million redevelopment of a Mobil Super Pantry at MacArthur and Ash Street. .
For Clinton, Ohio and Texas become key states to win
Let's get a fresh face, a new face, a new agenda to turn around the negative vibes the republican and the experience that came with it, has gotten us into. Not to get off the subject but look at all these kid geniuses in the world who are going to college at the age of 10, getting the PH. D's at the age of 12 and getting jobs. But they too are inexperienced and young, but we are not holding them back because of their age and inexperince. So let's give Obama a chance let's see what he can do and if you don't like what he does, then do vote him back in, in the next four years. .
School Levy Policy: 60% vote requirement to pass levies likely to stay
Voters appeared reluctant to do away with the 60 percent supermajority requirement to pass school levies, according to returns Tuesday. The measure, EHJR 4204, would have amended the state Constitution so that school districts needed only a simple majority of votes to pass property-tax levies to raise money for schools. Supporters of the measure remained hopeful Tuesday night that the outcome would shift as more votes were tallied. Still, "we knew it was going to be an uphill battle," said Jerry Bender, director of the Association of Washington School Principals, who gathered with other supporters at a downtown Seattle party Tuesday. Proponents of the measure, including the Washington Education Association and Gov. Chris Gregoire, had argued the supermajority requirement for school levies is unfair and hurts public education.
CB Top 5: Worst Oscar Winners
Rich Knight: Ridley Scott is the most overrated director in Hollywood. And I think the fact that he lost best director to Steven Soderbergh that year, who was on fa fa fa fire for both Erin Brockovich and Traffic is a testament to how much this proves my theory that he sucks. Gladiator is the kind of pump your fist and yell film that Braveheart popularized and made violence a household name in the Oscars yearly selection. That said, while Braveheart had its moments of brilliance as Mel Gibson waxed philosophical about freedom in an almost poetic manner, Ridley Scotts tribute to togas and sandals winds up feeling like one long, stiff monologue with sporadic intervals of way too fast combat that gets lost in terrible cinematography. If not for a brilliant Joaquin Phoenix, who was rightly nominated, but wrongly snubbed, this film would be as bad and as hokey as Oliver Stones (another hackney director) Alexander.
All change for Ewood derby duel
GARY Megson made five changes to the team that secured a place in the last 16 of the UEFA Cup as Wanderers returned to their Premiership survival battle at Blackburn. Out went Nicky Hunt, Jlloyd Samuel, Stelios, Gavin McCann and Joey O'Brien, who all made big contributions to the scoreless draw at Atletico Madrid. In came Gretar Steinsson, Ricardo Gardner, Ivan Campo, Danny Guthrie and El-Hadji Diouf to make up what is generally regarded as Megson's strongest possible first 11. .
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