NEW YORK - A closely watched housing index shows U.S. home prices dropped at the sharpest rate in two decades during the first quarter. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller said Tuesday its U.S. National Home Price index fell 14.1 percent in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, the lowest since its inception in 1988. Its narrower indices also set record declines. The 20-city index tumbled 14.4 percent during the quarter, the lowest since that index was started in 2001. The 10-city index plunged 15.3 percent, a record in its 20-year history. "There are very few silver linings that one can see in the data. Most of the nation appears to remain on a downward path," said David Blitzer, chairman of S&P's index committee.
WASHINGTON - Stunning? Only if you haven't been paying attention in recent weeks.
Sickening? Yes, if you are a Republican.
That about sums up Tuesday night in Mississippi's First Congressional district.
In a special election, Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis in a district which had long been a GOP stronghold and where only three years ago, George W. Bush had won 62 percent of the vote.
Republicans ran ads linking Childers to Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Obama gloated a bit on the campaign trail in Michigan Wednesday. "Look, they (the Republicans) just lost yesterday in the heart of Mississippi:. this is a hardcore Republican seat. And they lost it by eight points."
The Republicans, he said, "did everything they could, you know they ran ads with my face on it, and they said, 'look at this former liberal,' his former pastor said offensive things, I mean they were trying to do every trick in the book to try to scare folks in Mississippi. And it didn't work."
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Average U.S. retail gasoline prices rose 3 cents to just under $3.76 a gallon in the last day, according to the Daily Fuel Gauge Report from AAA. A month ago, gasoline averaged $3.37 a gallon nationally and a year ago, the price stood at $3.09 a gallon.
In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday...The results came despite national Republican efforts aimed at winning the seat. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, former Senator Trent Lott and Governor Haley Barbour campaigned hard for Davis. On Monday, perhaps as an unfortunate measure of how Republican the district really is, Vice President Dick Cheney held a rally for Davis...The loss has already shaken establishment Republicans in Washington. After losing special elections in Illinois and Louisiana, the House GOP conference already expects a bad year for their party.
We've reached a tipping point on wrongful convictions in Texas,' Senator Ellis says
(Austin, TX; April 29, 2008) State Senator Rodney Ellis today announced that a day-long Summit on Wrongful Convictions will be held May 8 at the State Capitol in Austin to determine the causes of wrongful convictions in Texas and identify reforms that can prevent them.
Today's release of James Lee Woodard in Dallas - based on DNA tests showing that he did not commit a murder 27 years ago for which he was wrongfully convicted - comes just one week after Thomas McGowan was freed based on DNA results showing he did not commit the Dallas County rape and burglary for which he spent 23 years in prison. Woodard is represented by the Innocence Project of Texas; McGowan is represented by the Innocence Project. Eighteen people have now been freed based on post-conviction DNA testing in Dallas, and more than 30 people in Texas have been fully exonerated based on DNA results.
As a result of the unprecedented number of exonerations in Texas, key leaders from across the state will gather in Austin on May 8 for a landmark Summit on Wrongful Convictions. Judges, lawmakers, defense attorneys, prosecutors, exonerees, professors and many others will come together for the Summit. The Summit will mark the first time any state's criminal justice leaders have initiated a high-level meeting themselves to address wrongful convictions. Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis is spearheading the Summit, and Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck will attend. The Summit will be open to the public.
"We've reached a tipping point on wrongful convictions in Texas. Nobody can seriously doubt that there's a problem, and next week leaders from across our criminal justice system will come together to start solving it," Senator Ellis said today. "We will bring a wide range of leaders, experts and exonerees together for a full day to develop concrete, common-sense remedies to make our system of justice more fair and accurate. We won't solve these serious problems in one day, but we will make historic strides toward restoring confidence in our criminal justice system."
id: Given your expertise, and given that you state with authority: "Something else happened, and we don't know what, because the CSP didn't take the trouble to arrest him on the weapons charge and have the BAC test administered by a DOT qualified person at the hospital, which was nearby and available...", can you cite the applicable Colorado law that would have authorized a police officer to forcibly take a blood sample from Wall given that he refused, as is his and everyone else's legal right, to voluntarily supply a breath or blood test?
Nice try id. You also said: "The thing is, if Wall was really DUI, they don't have the evidence to prove it other than opinions by CSP cops who, last time I heard, didn't have the ability to determine a driver's BAC by smelling a passenger's breath."
You're nothing more than a bitter, cop-hater who thinks everybody did you wrong. As to the rest of your last post--not worth abswering as it is again nothing more than a demonstration that you know nothing of what you speak. I suspect most readers here alrady know that.
id: Just by a roll of the dice someday you may actually get something right you post here. But as always to date, you're wrong. You write: "...they have to take you to town for a blood test (Blood Alcohol Content) to make a legal case for DUI, DWAI, etc. There are procedures to be followed, and the CSP didn't do it that night, and that's what has puzzled me this whole time."
You're 100% wrong.
In CO, as in most states, you can be convicted of drunk driving (DUI) based solely on the observations of a police officer. That is the situation and charge Wall is facing. id, you should stick to your personal conspiracy stories that you never give enough information for anyone to verify. Cause every time you venture into your other blather that can be checked, you're consistently wrong. That would be fine in most cases, but giving out incorrect legal opinions on this site may result in someone getting in serious trouble following your nonsense.
The finances of many states have deteriorated so badly that they appear to be in a recession, regardless of whether that's true for the nation as a whole, a survey of all 50 state fiscal directors concludes. The situation looks even worse for the fiscal year that begins July 1 in most states.
"Whether or not the national economy is in recession-a subject of ongoing debate-is almost beside the point for some states," said the report to be released Friday by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The weakening economy is hitting tax revenue in a number of ways: People's discretionary income is being gobbled up by higher food and fuel costs, while the tanking housing market means people are spending less on furniture and appliances associated with buying a house.
US home prices drop at sharpest rate in 20 years
NEW YORK - A closely watched housing index shows U.S. home prices dropped at the sharpest rate in two decades during the first quarter.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller said Tuesday its U.S. National Home Price index fell 14.1 percent in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, the lowest since its inception in 1988.
Its narrower indices also set record declines. The 20-city index tumbled 14.4 percent during the quarter, the lowest since that index was started in 2001. The 10-city index plunged 15.3 percent, a record in its 20-year history.
"There are very few silver linings that one can see in the data. Most of the nation appears to remain on a downward path," said David Blitzer, chairman of S&P's index committee.
May 27, 2008 at 7:16 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Murray Tucker: Audacity of hope
Why GOP's Mississippi House loss resonates
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24613179/
WASHINGTON - Stunning? Only if you haven't been paying attention in recent weeks.
Sickening? Yes, if you are a Republican.
That about sums up Tuesday night in Mississippi's First Congressional district.
In a special election, Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis in a district which had long been a GOP stronghold and where only three years ago, George W. Bush had won 62 percent of the vote.
Republicans ran ads linking Childers to Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Obama gloated a bit on the campaign trail in Michigan Wednesday. "Look, they (the Republicans) just lost yesterday in the heart of Mississippi:. this is a hardcore Republican seat. And they lost it by eight points."
The Republicans, he said, "did everything they could, you know they ran ads with my face on it, and they said, 'look at this former liberal,' his former pastor said offensive things, I mean they were trying to do every trick in the book to try to scare folks in Mississippi. And it didn't work."
May 14, 2008 at 2:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Losing Triple Crown risky
U.S. gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon in some markets
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Average U.S. retail gasoline prices rose 3 cents to just under $3.76 a gallon in the last day, according to the Daily Fuel Gauge Report from AAA. A month ago, gasoline averaged $3.37 a gallon nationally and a year ago, the price stood at $3.09 a gallon.
May 14, 2008 at 2:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Murray Tucker: Audacity of hope
GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/arti...
In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday...The results came despite national Republican efforts aimed at winning the seat. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, former Senator Trent Lott and Governor Haley Barbour campaigned hard for Davis. On Monday, perhaps as an unfortunate measure of how Republican the district really is, Vice President Dick Cheney held a rally for Davis...The loss has already shaken establishment Republicans in Washington. After losing special elections in Illinois and Louisiana, the House GOP conference already expects a bad year for their party.
May 14, 2008 at 1:52 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Rob Douglas: Horrific crime rekindles debate
As 18th Person is Freed Based on DNA in Dallas, Summit on Wrongful Convictions in Texas Is Set for May 8
http://www.innocenceproject.org/Conte...
We've reached a tipping point on wrongful convictions in Texas,' Senator Ellis says
(Austin, TX; April 29, 2008) State Senator Rodney Ellis today announced that a day-long Summit on Wrongful Convictions will be held May 8 at the State Capitol in Austin to determine the causes of wrongful convictions in Texas and identify reforms that can prevent them.
Today's release of James Lee Woodard in Dallas - based on DNA tests showing that he did not commit a murder 27 years ago for which he was wrongfully convicted - comes just one week after Thomas McGowan was freed based on DNA results showing he did not commit the Dallas County rape and burglary for which he spent 23 years in prison. Woodard is represented by the Innocence Project of Texas; McGowan is represented by the Innocence Project. Eighteen people have now been freed based on post-conviction DNA testing in Dallas, and more than 30 people in Texas have been fully exonerated based on DNA results.
As a result of the unprecedented number of exonerations in Texas, key leaders from across the state will gather in Austin on May 8 for a landmark Summit on Wrongful Convictions. Judges, lawmakers, defense attorneys, prosecutors, exonerees, professors and many others will come together for the Summit. The Summit will mark the first time any state's criminal justice leaders have initiated a high-level meeting themselves to address wrongful convictions. Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis is spearheading the Summit, and Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck will attend. The Summit will be open to the public.
"We've reached a tipping point on wrongful convictions in Texas. Nobody can seriously doubt that there's a problem, and next week leaders from across our criminal justice system will come together to start solving it," Senator Ellis said today. "We will bring a wide range of leaders, experts and exonerees together for a full day to develop concrete, common-sense remedies to make our system of justice more fair and accurate. We won't solve these serious problems in one day, but we will make historic strides toward restoring confidence in our criminal justice system."
May 9, 2008 at 4:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Wall to face DUI charges
id:
Given your expertise, and given that you state with authority:
"Something else happened, and we don't know what, because the CSP didn't take the trouble to arrest him on the weapons charge and have the BAC test administered by a DOT qualified person at the hospital, which was nearby and available...", can you cite the applicable Colorado law that would have authorized a police officer to forcibly take a blood sample from Wall given that he refused, as is his and everyone else's legal right, to voluntarily supply a breath or blood test?
May 4, 2008 at 4:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Wall to face DUI charges
Nice try id.
You also said:
"The thing is, if Wall was really DUI, they don't have the evidence to prove it other than opinions by CSP cops who, last time I heard, didn't have the ability to determine a driver's BAC by smelling a passenger's breath."
You're nothing more than a bitter, cop-hater who thinks everybody did you wrong.
As to the rest of your last post--not worth abswering as it is again nothing more than a demonstration that you know nothing of what you speak.
I suspect most readers here alrady know that.
May 3, 2008 at 3:06 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Wall to face DUI charges
id:
Just by a roll of the dice someday you may actually get something right you post here. But as always to date, you're wrong.
You write: "...they have to take you to town for a blood test (Blood Alcohol Content) to make a legal case for DUI, DWAI, etc. There are procedures to be followed, and the CSP didn't do it that night, and that's what has puzzled me this whole time."
You're 100% wrong.
In CO, as in most states, you can be convicted of drunk driving (DUI) based solely on the observations of a police officer. That is the situation and charge Wall is facing.
id, you should stick to your personal conspiracy stories that you never give enough information for anyone to verify. Cause every time you venture into your other blather that can be checked, you're consistently wrong. That would be fine in most cases, but giving out incorrect legal opinions on this site may result in someone getting in serious trouble following your nonsense.
May 3, 2008 at 12:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Many states appear to be in recession as deficits grow
The finances of many states have deteriorated so badly that they appear to be in a recession, regardless of whether that's true for the nation as a whole, a survey of all 50 state fiscal directors concludes.
The situation looks even worse for the fiscal year that begins July 1 in most states.
"Whether or not the national economy is in recession-a subject of ongoing debate-is almost beside the point for some states," said the report to be released Friday by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The weakening economy is hitting tax revenue in a number of ways: People's discretionary income is being gobbled up by higher food and fuel costs, while the tanking housing market means people are spending less on furniture and appliances associated with buying a house.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?...
April 26, 2008 at 6:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Peter Van De Carr: To the City Council
424now:
;-)
April 24, 2008 at 3:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )