Category Archives: Future

Clinton outlines sweeping agenda for U.N. conference

By doris | Published: September 19, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Clinton also strongly defended the Obama administration’s decision to scrap Bush-era plans for a missile defense shield in Europe, calling it a move that ultimately will leave the United States and its allies better positioned to defend against a potential threat from Iran. “Our agenda is ambitious,” she told an audience [...]

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Commentary: Acts of kindness are the way to mark 9/11

By doris | Published: September 11, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com NEW YORK (CNN) — The upcoming eighth anniversary of the attacks of September 11 raises a compelling question for millions of Americans: How should we best observe this uniquely tragic day in our nation’s history? Surely, it should not be a holiday. This is no time for days off from work [...]

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Analysis: Climate bill may spur energy revolution

By doris | Published: June 28, 2009

Full Story At News.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead. It was late Friday when the House passed legislation that would, for the first time, require limits on pollution blamed for global [...]

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Stimulus yet to reach ‘double-whammied’ Selma

By doris | Published: May 17, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com SELMA, Alabama (CNN) — To cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma is to share a stage with history. And these days, it is to come face-to-face with a bleak present. Storefront after storefront is closed, and many of the buildings in the famous photos from the days of the historic [...]

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House OKs $6.4 billion to make schools greener

By doris | Published: May 15, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com The measure passed 275-155 in a largely party-line vote, and will now move to the Senate for further review. Among other things, the bill allocates substantial funds for improvements along the Gulf Coast, where many school districts are still struggling to repair buildings damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The legislation, [...]

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Obama announces plan to lease federal waters for clean energy

By doris | Published: April 23, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com The president announced the initiative, to be administered by the Interior Department, while reiterating his pledge to push for a comprehensive energy plan that encourages the development of alternative fuel sources, cuts dependence on foreign oil, addresses climate change, and creates new jobs. Wind power can generate 20 percent of the [...]

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GOP Govs Get Dose Of Stimulus Reality

By doris | Published: April 11, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News he list of governors threatening to decline federal stimulus money last month read like a list of Republicans considering running for president in 2012: Governors Mark Sanford, Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin led the anti-stimulus charge. But what began with a bang is ending with something closer to a whimper. [...]

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Obama signs bill protecting wilderness acreage

By doris | Published: March 31, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed legislation Monday setting aside more than 2 million acres as protected wilderness. Obama called the new law among the most important in decades “to protect, preserve and pass down our nation’s most treasured landscapes to future generations.” Also included in the legislation signed by Obama [...]

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GOP says Obama budget threatens future prosperity

By doris | Published: March 28, 2009

Full Story At news.yaho.com WASHINGTON – Attacking President Barack Obama’s grand spending plans, a GOP lawmaker who almost joined the Democrat’s Cabinet said Saturday the U.S. must live within its means or risk its tradition of passing a more prosperous country from one generation to the next. “We believe you create prosperity by having an [...]

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Obama: The “Day Of Reckoning Has Arrived”

By doris | Published: February 25, 2009

Full Story At CBS News CBS) Proclaiming to a joint session of Congress and an recession-scarred American people that the “day of reckoning has arrived,” President Obama said Tuesday night that the country must now act “boldly and wisely” to take charge of its future. In a speech pegged on dire economic rhetoric, but laced [...]

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