Apr 14 2010
LA Activists Demand Housing Be a Human Right
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The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently probing the city’s Housing Department for possibly putting taxpayer funds at risk. The federal agency is looking into why twenty-six million dollars was allocated to a development company to construct a housing project for homeless and disabled seniors despite one of its financial partners …
The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently probing the city’s Housing Department for possibly putting taxpayer funds at risk. The federal agency is looking into why twenty-six million dollars was allocated to a development company to construct a housing project for homeless and disabled seniors despite one of its financial partners …
In Thailand over the weekend, 21 people were killed, and at least 800 injured in anti-government protests. The protests by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), or Red Shirts as they are often called, are aimed at forcing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve parliament and announce fresh elections. Although some Red Shirts want the ousted …
President Obama issued a video-taped message this week urging Americans to participate in actions around the upcoming Earth Day and post stories about their experiences on the White House website. This year is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, prompted in large part by a campaign to clean up the polluted Cuyahoga river in Cleveland. Each year on …
Conservatives focused their sights on the upcoming midterm elections at this weekend’s Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Held in New Orleans, the three day gathering featured many prominent speakers from the ranks of the GOP who rallied against the policies of the Obama Administration while preaching the need for unity. Newt Gingrich appeared at the conference to assail the President …
In the last few months of the Bush administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development claimed that chronic homelessness plummeted 30% between the years 2005 to 2007. Credit was in part due to Philip Mangano, the executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, or the Homeless Czar, under President Bush. Mangano’s “Housing First” policy put less …
On Friday, Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement from the United States Supreme Court. In a letter written just days before his 90th birthday, Stevens addressed President Barack Obama saying, “Having concluded that it would be in the best interests of the Court to have my successor appointed and confirmed well in advance of the commencement of …
On Tuesday, Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services issued a fraud alert related to the passage of the health insurance reform bill. Since President Barack Obama signed off on the bill last month, scam artists have increasingly tried to capitalize on public confusion over the changes in order to sign people up for …
