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...just bankers and racers who are feeling the effects of the trickle down recession. After extensive research, Julie and Joe Dalli moved from central Florida to Charlotte about a year ago with plans to open a pizza restaurant that would appeal to 21st century carpetbaggers as well as the "halfbacks," northerners who are moving halfway back after giving up on Florida. "It was Charlotte. We never considered anywhere else," she says. "There were too many positives...
...September 2007, the jury voted in favor of the officers and awarded them $6.5 million. Though he vowed to appeal the verdict, Kilpatrick eventually brokered a secret deal that awarded the officers $8.4 million in public money in exchange for their silence about the extramarital affair. Four months later, local media outlets used Michigan's Freedom of Information Act to obtain all relevant trial documents and, in January, the Detroit Free Press published excerpts from the more than 14,000 intimate text messages sent between Beatty and Kilpatrick via city-issued pagers. In March, the local county prosecutor charged Kilpatrick...
...because the currrent agreement between Massachusetts and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the next five years does not include a provision for the Alliance. Keefe said that he would meet with State Secretary of Health and Human Services JudyAnn Bigby tomorrow to try to appeal the state cuts. CHA is a public hospital system that has several locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area. Many of its services are aimed at low income patients, including 150 beds to serve psychiatric inpatients and substance abuse recovery services, according to Keefe. The Alliance had already been facing financial...
...important force in local elections, particularly in Fort Bend County, the heart of the district where the sugar fields are giving way to suburban growth. Asian political participation has grown tenfold since 2006, and some 30,000 cast ballots in this year's Democratic primary, evidence of the appeal Barack Obama has among the district's ethnic minorities. Asians make up about 5% of the voting age population in the district, Hispanics 18% and African-Americans 10%. "The district has moved from tossup to leaning Democratic in my casino," Murray said...
...Senate and is well-regarded by the district's Indian-American voters. Olson's pitch to voters emphasizes "a new generation of conservative leadership" for the district and his platform includes conservative stands on family and faith issues, low taxes and and cuts in government spending that have some appeal to small businessowners. However, one longtime commentator and analyst of Texas politics, Harvey Kronberg, editor of the Quorum Report, an Austin-based political newsletter, said he has never seen Democrats in the Houston area as organized as they are this year. "Olson is an attractive candidate but it is still...