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...selling chestnuts. Palin sitting next to Barbara Bush. Two seats from Gov Sebelius. Just made Larry Craig joke. Rough. 8:20 PM Jan 31st from TinyTwitter...
...state officials, the weekend involved a rapid reassessment of just how dire the situation had become. Speaking out the day after some local municipalities decried a lack of federal or state emergency relief, Gov. Steve Beshear described the fallout from last week's ice storm as the state's largest-ever natural disaster. He then activated every last member of Kentucky's National Guard, dispatching all 4,600 Guardsman to assist with the statewide crisis. On Sunday, they were going door to door in some areas, to reach stranded citizens. But by Monday, there were still a quarter-million people...
...Blanton, a spokesman for Gov. Beshear's office said late Saturday night that Kentucky was in the grip of "the biggest natural disaster in the state's history,' and that it was a crisis of not only electricity but of communication. "This is a situation that's awesome in scope. Ninety of 120 counties are declared emergencies, and it's becoming an issue of communication. Communication towers and lines have gone down, whole communication systems have been devastated," which made it difficult to assess conditions and target relief efforts. He also acknowledged that given the breadth of the emergency, some...
...always going to speak his mind, which is why we have such a strong friendship." - Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, after Steele jokingly likened the "R" denoting the Republican Party to a "scarlet letter" (CBS News, July...
Various labor and healthcare groups have rallied to the Cambridge Health Alliance’s side in recent weeks, forming a coalition called “Put Patients First” to urge Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 to steer clear of further cuts to Medicaid. At the same time, city councillors and residents have demanded greater budgetary accountability from the CHA and expressed concerns regarding health service cuts that the alliance had made. At a December council meeting, Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons proposed an order that would have withheld the CHA?...