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Although the district was notified of these figures earlier this month, it will not actually receive the money until July...
According to Claire B. Spinner, the chief financial officer for Cambridge Public Schools, the application forms for these grants which the district must fill out to receive the funding have not yet been released. She added that the spending and reporting regulations will be very stringent, and that the money can only be used for specific purposes...
...district has not determined exactly what it plans to do with the stimulus money, although Spinner said the funds, which are expected to be temporary, should not be used to create programs or hire personnel that will need to be sustained for longer than two years...
...discordant as simultaneous accusations of communism and fascism are, both were featured in abundance with placards blaring “D.C.: District of Communism” and “Barack Hussein Obama: The New Face of Hitler.” In addition to denouncing the perceived threats of communism and fascism were warnings against one world government and Islamophobic innuendo reminiscent of the 2008 presidential election...
...another case causing concern within the civil rights world, the Obama Administration has appealed the ruling of Federal District Judge John Bates that three detainees - two Yemenis and a Tunisian - who are being held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan have a legal right to challenge their imprisonment. If successful, the argument by Obama's Justice Department attorneys could create a loophole that would allow Obama to transfer prisoners to war zones for indefinite detention, a situation similar to the legal limbo that Bush established for Guantánamo...