Category: Politics
20 July, 2008 (10:22) | News, Politics | No comments
New Jersey’s ex-governors still get free lifts to the Shore, Atlantic City, New York and elsewhere despite calls to limit their access to State Police drivers and bodyguards.
Five former governors were chauffeured 153 times, traveling 11,700 miles — all at taxpayer expense – according to data detailing 30 months worth of trips.
“If I did it […]
17 July, 2008 (22:43) | News, Politics, new hampshire | No comments
DOVER, N.H. — Former New Hampshire congressional candidate Gary Dodds will remain in jail, possibly after he is eligible to be released into home confinement.
Strafford County Department of Corrections Superintendent Warren Dowaliby said that Dodds would remain in custody “until such time as I am satisfied that he can be safely (his own safety and […]
15 July, 2008 (15:52) | Politics, new hampshire | No comments
Dear Senator Gregg,
Please override the presidents veto and pass the medicare bill HR-6331. These medications are extremely important to people with disabilities, and my 15 year old autistic son is one of those children. How can us poor people help our children without some help? I am […]
4 July, 2008 (06:45) | News, Politics, new hampshire | No comments
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Gary Dodds is being held at the Rockingham County Jail after being arrested by police in Portsmouth. Dodds was taken into custody around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Police arrested Dodds at his Cutts Mansion property on Maplewood Avenue in Portsmouth. He was charged with simple assault, false imprisonment and breach of bail. Police have […]
25 June, 2008 (14:05) | News, Politics | No comments
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child.
In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
“The death penalty is […]
21 June, 2008 (22:07) | News, Politics | 1 comment
Washington, DC - Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd’s 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill’s managers without debate this week, would require the nation’s payment systems to track, aggregate, and […]
21 June, 2008 (22:03) | News, Politics | No comments
RALEIGH, N.C. - Eastern North Carolina residents unhappy to be living near hog lagoons gave Gov. Mike Easley what’s inside those pits.
Members of environmental groups dropped off what they said was a gallon of hog waste at Easley’s office Thursday. Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Larry Baldwin says they left the jug there after they couldn’t get […]
13 June, 2008 (21:43) | News, Politics | 1 comment
NEW YORK (AP) — A state judge has ordered the governor, Senate and Assembly to raise the pay of all the state’s judges within the next 90 days.
Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Edward H. Lehner said in a decision Wednesday that the defendants had unconstitutionally abused their power by depriving the judges of a […]
12 June, 2008 (10:35) | Politics | 1 comment
A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos.
Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, granted a 48-hour stay in the obscenity trial of a Hollywood adult filmmaker after […]
9 June, 2008 (12:15) | News, Politics | 3 comments
LOWELL (AP) ― Investigators have expanded their probe of longtime state Sen. James Marzilli after more people contacted police following Marzilli’s arrest Tuesday for sexually touching one woman and making lewd comments to another.
Three woman in as many months have accused Marzilli of making sexual advances. Late Wednesday, a spokesman for the Middlesex […]
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