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...choice voting record, Durbin's office did not sit idle. It compiled a scorecard ranking 24 Catholic Senators by their votes on issues of concern to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Abortion made the list, but so did the minimum wage, the death penalty and media ownership, all weighted equally. Democrats did better than Republicans, and the test's high scorer was John Kerry. An incensed (and low scoring) Senator Rick Santorum fumed that abortion and "how many television stations somebody owns ... are not equivalent moral issues." True, but Durbin did express a prevalent Democratic curiosity: Does the church...
Gross this year has delegated many of his routine student life duties to Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, who has assumed ownership of many of Lewis’ former responsibilities...
...What I really meant by that was the fact that I wanted to spread ownership in the organization and I wanted to get more people involved...and I think that is something that we’ve succeeded at but in subtle ways,” he says...
...some cases, the children of immigrants, thanks to education and experience, are leaving hard labor behind for good. Mexican workers in California's wine country have been preparing for generations to face their unique challenge: trading grape-stained work gloves for ownership papers. Since the 1940s, millions of Mexicans have traveled across the border to work the California vineyards. Those economics haven't changed in what is now the $33 billion U.S. wine capital. During harvest, Napa County is home to up to 2,700 migrant workers, most from Mexico. For as much as $15 an hour, the workers endure...
Apartment fundamentals should improve next year. As mortgage rates have fallen to four-decade lows, more folks have told the landlord to shove it and bought a house. Home ownership is at a record 69%. That trend, along with a weak economy that forced others to double up or move back home with Mom, drove the apartment vacancy rate to 7.1% last quarter, a 16-year high, reports REIS Inc., a real estate research firm. In many markets, rents have been declining...