New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presents the Fiscal Year 2013 preliminary budget in New York February 2, 2012. | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in New York and Boston will see a far more modest spot.
Rep Steve Cohen: The Peace Index shows what many people already take for granted: violence substantially undermines the economies of states and cities where it occurs. Last year, the estimated cost of violence to Nevada's economy was close to $5.3bn, while the cost to South Carolina's economy was close to $9bn - and the cost to Florida's economy exceeded $37bn.
KUCHING: Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said today he would not intervene in the leadership issues involving two state Barisan Nasional component parties — Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP). | Taib, who is state BN chairman, said he had given his views and advice to the leaderships of both parties but the problems remained.
I almost never disagree with Chris Selley. Indeed, I am almost willing to make it a rule not to disagree with Chris Selley. But his analysis yesterday of Brad Trost's groping for more backbencher power in Parliament is uncharacteristically superficial. Selley celebrates Trost's public ruminating over his inability to spurn the party whip on polarizing issues...
Ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) said today that the various attacks on MDP members by opposition protesters was a conspiracy to hinder the party's efforts to attain justice for the judicial system in the country. | A press release by the party condemned the attacks and intimidation tactics, labeling them as cheap and cowardly acts.
Roma rights activist and Hungary’s former MEP Viktoria Mohacsi has left the country to settle in Canada, daily Nepszabadsag reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources close to the politician.
Allies of state Sen. Pam Galloway’s campaign are using postcards to ask people whose signatures appear on recall petitions to confirm they signed.According to one of the postcards obtained by the Wausau Daily Herald on Friday, the items were sent to a portion of 29th Senate District residents whose signatures appear on a recall petition.
You can now see Indystar.com in a format specifically designed for your tablet. Experience the best local news, video, and photos in a beautiful finger-friendly interface. | You will only see this screen once. You can always browse directly to Tablet.Indystar.com or Indystar.com depending on which version you want to see. | You will be redirected to the page you want to view in seconds.
I recently met a "quiet Democrat." He's a local businessman, who though he supports Democratic values and candidates, feels he must hide his political affiliation to do business in Southern Utah. He is not the first person who has whispered this confession to me. I believe this is unfortunate and pledge to continue working to make it OK to be a Democrat here! | Another gentleman emailed me this week lamenting that he didn'
Saturday, February 4 FORT GARLAND - The 2nd Annual Fort Garland Snow-Ball potluck supper will be February 4 at 6 p.m. at the Blanca-Fort Garland Community Center. Admission is a box or can of non-perishable food to be donated to area food banks. Two local bands, Los Relampagos del Fuerte and Hot Phlash will provide the music.
Former Icelandic government minister Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson (1987-95) says that the battle for Iceland's natural resources is not against the European Union and that is a purely domestic fight, he told a conference. | He made his comments as a keynote speaker at the Social Democratic Party's European Movement conference, alongside Styrmir Gunnarsson, former editor of Morgunblaðið.
Follow the mail on Twitter. | CALLS were renewed yesterday for a repeal of the north€™s antiquated homesexuality laws after two prisoners appeared in court charged with carrying out €œunnatural sex acts€ in their prison cell. | Local activists€™ calls for homosexuality charges against the two men to be dropped were yeseterday backed by the European Parliament€™s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Intergroup.
Gov. Scott Walker said Friday evening that he will be "voluntarily meeting" with the prosecutor leading the secret John Doe investigation that has already brought charges against some of his top aides. | He did not say when the meeting with Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm would take place.
Gov. Scott Walker said Friday evening that he will be "voluntarily meeting" with the prosecutor leading the secret John Doe investigation that already has brought charges against some of his top aides. | He did not say when the meeting with Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm would take place.
Americans aren't well served by the current process of presidential selection. | It really is his turn. Mitt Romney, who ran second to the guy who won the Republican nomination and lost the election four years ago, is going to be the Republican candidate for president. Republicans have now tried on a variety of fancy fur coats and shiny new ski parkas, but they are buying a familiar, Republican cloth coat.
Much of the American media have been overtaken by a cancerous rhetoric in recent days: It has been suggested that the Susan B. Komen Foundation, the breast-cancer charity, should be no more. In the eyes of many, such as National Organization for Women president, Terry O'Neill, Komen has gone from being a women's health charity to becoming "anti-woman." O'Neill predicted to MSNBC host Ed Schulz that, within five years or so, Komen will cease...
Democratic Party lawmaker Ramadhan Pohan says he stands by his statement accusing a mining company at the center of dispute in Bima of being Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie's cash machine. “I never withdrew my statement or apologized to Ical,” he...
We'll put our two cents in: Wausau is the place. Our central location, already well-developed medical infrastructure and diverse economy would make this a good place for a new medical school. | The Medical College announcement comes just months after we learned that the Wisconsin College of Osteopathic Medicine is considering Wausau as the site of its new medical school.
The U.S. unemployment rate fell 0.2 percent to 8.3 percent and employment rose by 243,000 jobs during the month of January, the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
Marion County Treasurer Shirley Ply has announced she will seek the Democratic Party's nomination for re-election to that office in the May 22 Preferential Primary Election. | "I would like to announce that I am seeking re-election as Marion County Treasurer on the Democrat Ballot," Ply wrote in her announcement. | "I have tried, to my best ability, to be a good steward of all of Marion County."
A race for one of the Wayne County commissioner seats started off with a bang at a candidates' forum Thursday, but it fizzled out on Friday. | Another accusation was Wiggam also weakened the county by not preventing layoffs in the Sheriff's Office. | "We might be going in a new direction tonight," Wiggam said after Wright's remarks.
United Wisconsin, the coalition that spearheaded the recall effort along with the Democratic Party , turned in 1 million signatures last month, almost twice as many as are needed to force a recall election. The signatures still are being vetted by state...
Certainly, this is not the best of time for the dozen senators whose fates are yet to be decided by the relevant election tribunal in the land. Already a few of the Senators had crashed out at the Appeal court, while the fates of many are still hanging in the balance at both the State election tribunals and Appeal Courts respectively. | There are fears that more Senators may soon join the fast growing casualty list.
Piszczor (pronounced PIZE-er) is running for office in Illinois€™ March 20 primary, hoping to unseat one of the state€™s most influential politicians, House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago). | The dent in her 2005 Honda Accord €“ and four slashed tires since November that cost her about $100 each €“ amounted to political payback for challenging Madigan for his 22nd District seat, she said.
In an uncharacteristically lively election campaign in this nation of five million people, Finns head for the polls in a second round of voting Sunday to elect a new president.
GateHouse Media, Inc.: Jesse Jackson is right. | In response to the face-off in Arizona between President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last week, Jackson said, "Even George Wallace did not put his finger in Dr. King's face." And it's true; he didn't. Similarly, not even Josef Stalin wrote two autobiographies the way Obama has. And even Genghis Khan didn't have a Swiss bank account the way Mitt Romney did.
Today's Buzz: Would Jesus back Obama on taxes? Vote in Today's Buzz. | To match Insight USA-CAMPAIGN/DEFICIT (JASON REED, REUTERS / February 2, 2012) | Of course not! Jesus would want Mitt Romney to earn $20 million per year and pay 15% tax. Jesus is also against illegal immigration, gun control, and he thought that greed was good. Jesus would have been for the war in Iraq.
Forecasts say the temperature in Moscow will be about minus 16 degrees Celsius Saturday when tens of thousands of people will take to the streets, both in support of and in opposition to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's run for the presidency.
The ruling coalition is having a hard time securing majority of 126 MPs in the Serbian parliament, daily Veèernje novosti writes. | According to the daily, it is uncertain whether parliament will hold sessions until the next parliament convocation. | The daily has learnt that four Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) MPs will not support the ruling coalition any longer due to their conflict with the Democratic Party (DS).
A Muncie man filed for a seat on Delaware County Council on Thursday. | Jim Lutton, 611 N. McKenzie St., filed for the Democratic Party nomination for an at-large seat on county council. | Lutton sought the position of Democratic Party chairman in 2010, losing to Mike Quirk. | In Delaware County, filing declarations of candidacy for office continues through noon Feb.
Head of the Russian Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov called on election observers from the CIS states to give a fair assessment on the media coverage of the upcoming March 4 presidential elections. | "I demand that an unbiased assessment of the media contribution to the election campaign be carried out," Churov said.
Japan is "not immune from the impact" of the eurozone crisis, Shinohara told reporters, adding, "I hope the Japanese government is giving serious thought to what could be done." | Citing an estimate by the IMF, an international lender based in Washington, he said there would be a $1 trillion global financing gap over the coming years that will result from shortages in resources at the IMF as well as at a bailout fund in the euro area.
The opportunity of Fauzi Bowo to be nominated by Democratic Party as governor in the 2012 Jakarta Regional Head Election (Pemilukada) is quite big. Besides his popularity in the surveys done by several independent research institutes is a head of other...
Gov. Terry Branstad appointed Jason Glass as the director of the Iowa Department of Education in December 2010. He holds a bachelor's degree, two master's degrees and a doctorate in education.
Democratic Party lawmaker Angelina Sondakh was named a suspect in the Southeast Asian Games graft scandal by the Corruption Eradication Commission on Friday, just hours after being slapped with an international travel ban by that same agency.
State Rep. Joe Hackney, a 32-year veteran lawmaker and former speaker, said Thursday he would not seek another term, becoming the latest in a string of top Democrats to announce retirements in the past week.
Democratic Party politician Angelina and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politican Wayan were both allegedly involved in a bribery case centering on a rigged bid for the construction project of the SEA Games' athletes' village...
Campaign representatives will appear on behalf of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in televised Russian presidential election debates starting on Monday. | Vedomosti daily said filmmaker Stanislav Govorukhin, head of Putin's election headquarters, and political analysts Sergei Markov and Dmitry Orlov will be among the stand-ins, who will be formally registered on Monday.
For the first time in many years Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo will have an opponent running against her from the Republican party in Senator Frank Blas Jr. Bordoallo might also have an opponent from within her own party as well. Democratic party Executive Director Carlo Branch says that there is a high likelihood that former Governor Carl Gutierrez will run against Madeleine in the primary.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard and South Dakota legislative leaders, in three separate news conferences Thursday, celebrated Bel Brands USA’s decision to build a new $100 million cheese manufacturing plant in Brookings that could ultimately employ 400 people. | Current South Dakota law gives partial refunds of sales taxes and contractor’s excise taxes to large construction projects, but that law expires Dec. 31.
Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) lawmaker Wayan Koster has denied allegations that he was involved in bribery over government projects. "I've never been involved in what [defendant Muhammad] Nazaruddin accuses me of doing.
On Thursday a press-conference of the initiative group on boycott of the elections to the “chamber of representatives” was held in Minsk. | As for information, I am sure that there would be enough resources for that too, as boycott would be joined by those activists who had been working during the election campaign in campaign headquarters of different candidates.
The whereabouts of Angelina Sondakh remain unknown on Friday, the same day a government-ordered travel ban on the Democratic Party lawmaker went into...
But the former Democratic Party treasurer denied it was out of allegiance to the blue flag of the party that expelled him. "Do not connect party things with personal matters," he added. KPK prosecutors put former Youth and Sports Ministry secretary...
The Cochise County Democratic Party will hold its annual High Desert Dinner on Feb. 27 at the Roka Restaurant, 35 Main Street, in Bisbee. The special guest and speaker will be David Fitzsimmons, cartoonist and columnist for the Arizona Daily Star.
Celeste Bush, chairwoman of the St. Lucie County Democratic Party , is also bullish. "Allen West is beatable. The Treasure Coast [which constitutes a large chunk of CD 18] is laid back. We don't cotton well to his right-wing extremist rhetoric," Bush...
Opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) chairman Victor Ponta declared that IMF and EC representatives had confirmed the fact that budget deficit for 2012 will not be 1.9% of GDP as announced, but 2.1% that is 280 million euro to be granted to PNDI...
Democratic Party (DS) deputy leader Dragan Šutanovac rejected Wednesday the possibility of an election coalition with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). | “The DS will seek partners among the parties with similar programs,” he said.
International observers are about to begin monitoring the presidential campaign in Russia, the country's Central Election Commission chief Vladimir Churov said. Sixty-nine long-term observers from the OSCEs Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the CIS were accredited to monitor the March 4 presidential elections.
ANAMBRA State Governor Peter Obi stormed the tribunal with all his officers apparently to buoy support for Akunyili in the stuffy courtroom. | While the governor was inside the tribunal for more than five hours, all the engines of the four Jeeps in his convoy kept running. | Akunyili declined comments on her testimony and presentation at the tribunal, which lasted for only a few minutes. | Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
DTP won three of the five seats allocated in quota to the minority Turkmen in the semi-autonomous region in the 2010 parliamentary elections. Two other smaller Turkmen parties one one seat each. | Yet it was Erbil Turkmen List (ETL) which received the only ministerial portfolio given to the Turkmen in the power-sharing government. The DTp therefore feel they were wronged.
Restore Our Future, a super PAC supporting Mitt Romney, raised $30.1 million last year and has played a major role in his success in the race for the Republican nomination.
The head of the Liberal Democratic party has promised to turn Russia into a parliamentary republic ruled by Czars, and has blasted ongoing political protests as attempts to launch an “Orange revolution”. In an article published in the popular daily...
Cayuga County Democratic Party Chairwoman Kate Lacey blasted the county Wednesday for its handling of conflict of interest questions involving legislators Joseph Bennett and Paul Pinckney, accusing County Attorney Fred Westphal of playing politics. | Bennett, a Democrat, was elected last November and has been dogged by questions about his day job as a maintenance worker at Cayuga Community College, which answers to the county Legislature.
Webmedia: The Russian Party in Estonia (RPE) has issued a statement saying that its leaders, Stanislav Tsherepanov and Gennadi Afanasjev, had not denied the fact of the Soviet occupation and had not given an assessment of it.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, shown here giving his State of the State address Jan. 25, has earned 77 percent of his campaign contribution from grassroots donations. | As recall elections approach, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign team has raised more than $4.5 million in its most recent reporting period, and $12 million overall.
The viability of a BC oil refinery that has operated since the 1930s is at risk due to intense competition from so-called super refineries in Asia, a New Democratic Party MP has warned. But refinery closures will be off-set by higher tax and royalty...
Keywords: News24|South Africa|Politics| .A spoof advert showing puppets of President Jacob Zuma and DA leader Helen Zille in a passionate clinch is the latest take on the DA's youth poster campaign.
I have no taste for political ideology but feel uncomfortable when hearing election-wise stories about welfare and distribution. And recent issues like free-three set and half-tuition are part of such a hodgepodge, which never discriminates and attracts both the conservative and the liberal.
The poster on comedy show ZANews's Facebook page shows the two staring lovingly into each other's eyes with Zille's hand stroking Zuma's neck. | It carries the slogan, €œIn our future, you wouldn't give a shit". | The mock ad comes after the launch of a campaign by the DA youth showing a black woman and a white man in an intimate embrace. | That poster's slogan read: €œIn our future you wouldn't look twice€."
Gary Lawrence: It wasn't always this way. Fifteen years ago Ontario was in the throes of its first major neoliberal attack. The Conservative government of Premier Mike Harris smashed social services, privatized public assets and laid-off public workers.
The state Democratic party is eager to rebuild after a poor showing in last fall's election and party Chairman Buddy Leach brought his "Getting Back to Basics Tour" to Opelousas Tuesday night. | Leach is on a 35-city tour across the state, and while turnout has been good in some areas, the Opelousas stop was poorly attended. | Leach's message was simple — the party needs to get back to basics and that starts at the local level.
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn has been named by the party€™s parliamentary leader, Lindiwe Mazibuko, as the new shadow minister of communications, replacing Natasha Michael, who takes on the public enterprises portfolio. | Junita Kloppers-Lourens has been appointed shadow minister for science and technology as part of a broad shake-up of responsibilities in opposition benches.
By Barbara LaBoe / The Dialy News The Daily News Online | Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:47 pm | Loading... | "He was a person who at one time wore many, many hats," said Jim Zdilar, the county's human resources director who got his start at the county when Carty hired him to work in the public works department in 1988. "He turned out to be a good boss and a good friend to me."
The Democratic Party's communication and information division head Ruhut Sitompul has broken the ice by calling on party chief Anas Urbaningrum to step down and focus on a criminal investigation allegedly involving him. “I'm willing to take a risk...
It's hard to think of with three living figures in American politics who generate more passion than the ones named in the title of Obama, Clinton, Palin: Making History in Election 2008, a collection of essays edited by Liette Gidlow and published by the University of Illinois Press. The word "passion" here subsumes both ardor and loathing. I doubt it is intentional, but the photographs on the book's cover are arrayed such that they seem...
SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic. | Gregor Gysi, parliamentary group leader of the Left Party. He is on a list of 27 members of parliament for the Left Party who are under observation by the domestic intelligence agency. | Klaus Ernst of Germany's Left Party came face to face with his own insignificance last week.
This morning Chairman of the Kazakh Majilis, First Deputy Chairman of Nur Otan People's Democratic Party Nurlan Nigmatulin has arrived in East Kazakhstan for a working visit. | The working trip began with a visit to Semey city, where will be held a sitting of the body of active functionaries on explanation of the President's State-of-the-Nation Address. Then N.Nigmatulin will meet with medical workers of a cancer center of Semey.
Of recent, the name Ibrahim Kaulaha Aliyu has been making the rounds as the possible candidate to the substantive post of national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He needs no introduction, given his current position as a member of the party's Board of Trustees (BOT)
In a statement General secretary PDP, Mohd Dilawar Mir said that manner in which hurdles are deliberately being created to avoid effective RTI implementation apparently points to only conclusion that this Govt and its administration are hell bent on avoiding answers as it fears that "Genie may come out from the bottle." He said that this govt has even found innovative ways and ideas to circumvent...
Barzani's comment came on the sidelines of a meeting with the leader of the Kurdistan Socialist Party on Tuesday - part of a series of meetings the KDP man has started recently in an attempt to bring together as many of the opposition parties as possible into his new cabinet. | Barzani is preparing to head the KRG soon as part of a political deal between the KDP and its ally the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
"The manner in which hurdles are deliberately being created to avoid effective RTI implementation apparently points to only conclusion that the government and its administration are hell bent on avoiding answers as it fears that 'Genie' may come out of the bottle," PDP General Secretary Mohammad Dilawar Mir said in a statement here.
Of course, unions tend to support liberal and progressive candidates who often belong to the Democratic Party . Better not to talk about that. The US Constitution is not a document to be trifled with. Those swept up in the enthusiasm of the moment...
The DUP was launched last December through the merger of three major liberal entities ? the former main opposition Democratic Party , the Citizens Unity Party, a party consisting of the late Roh's aides, and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions...
Head of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) central board Maruarar Sirait says his party will always prefer someone who has the characteristic of problem solver and true pluralist to lead the country's capital as governor.
MADISON — The state Assembly's assistant minority leader and two former legislators said Tuesday they'll challenge three Republican state senators should recall elections materialize this year. | The announcements from Donna Seidel, Kristin Dexter and John Lehman draw the battle lines as Democrats try to use the recalls to retake the majority in the Wisconsin Senate.
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9, 1918, Scalfaro won a seat with the Christian Democratic party in 1946 in the Constituent Assembly that established the Italian Republic, and two years later he was elected to the lower house in the country's first general election.
Hayes' departure from the candidate field leaves a hole in Democrats' 2012 bids, although Lee Democratic Party Chairman Ty Stumpf did not comment on any potential party members gearing up for a campaign this year. Local Democrats suffered stinging...
Patrick Kane (Staff Writer): The campaign office for President Barack Obama will open at 612 S. Sycamore Street in Petersburg on Saturday. | PETERSBURG - President Barack Obama pulled one of his highest margins of victory in the entire country here in 2008, and his campaign is taking no chances this year. His re-election campaign, Organizing for America, plans to open a regional campaign headquarters in Petersburg on Saturday.
MARTIN DINGAKE: Keywords: €¦the main opposition party, the Botswana National Front, lost their chance to take over power when they unwisely boycotted the 1994 general election€¦Even with their bumbling and fumbling efforts, the BNF managed to win 13 constituencies, the largest share of seats for the opposition in the history of the country.
AT the close of the titanic event on Monday January 23, 2012, following the outcome of the governorship primaries of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State commonly referred to as The People€™s Paradise, the ambition of Ambassador Soni Abang to dislodge Senator Liyel Imoke from the Diamond Hill Government House, Calabar turned into a nightmare.
News item: A recent poll found 40 per cent of Canadians can't name a single candidate for the leadership of the federal New Democratic Party . For the record, here are the eight NDP hopefuls: Thomas Mulcair, Brian Topp, DB Cooper, Jimmy Hoffa...
GateHouse Media, Inc.: The convention will be held on Saturday, June 2, at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield where Democrats from across Massachusetts will select candidates to compete for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. | "This is going to be an exciting year as we build on our recent successes and prepare for the elections in 2012," Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman John Walsh said in a press release.
Revelations that the Defense Ministry's Okinawa Defense Bureau allegedly attempted to influence its employees and their relatives over the upcoming Ginowan mayoral election have once again thrown the controversial relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the city into chaos.
In a similar vein, Maruarar Sirait from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said that as long as the central bank could keep up its good work in safeguarding the country's macro-economy,then it would be fine to grant them to raise...
Sesupo Rantsimako: FRANCISTOWN: The city Mayor Shadreck Nyeku got a breather last week during the full council session when the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) councillors withdrew a motion that was calling for him to step down. However, as the mover of the motion noted, this is just a momentary retreat. | Led by Ford Moiteela, the motion was tabled last year towards the end of the year but was dismissed due to the fact that it was tabled at a wrong session.
The presidential primaries can be an event that befuddles voters, especially those who consider themselves Independents, according to Vickie Koelman, the administrator of elections at the Montgomery County Election Commission. | Koelman said she thinks the reason voters are confused is because the school systems have made civics classes an elective as opposed to a required class.
KENOSHA — A minor earthquake rumbled through southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. | Seismologists with the U.S. Geological Survey say the 2.4-magnitude quake happened just before 10 p.m. Monday and was centered about 30 miles from Kenosha, just east of McHenry, Ill. | WTMJ (620 AM) reported several police departments in the area got calls from people who felt the quake. But no one reported any damage or injuries.