| UF promises better deal for students this year
UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne says there will be a better deal for students this year. Speaking to this afternoon’s student rally at Parliament, Mr Dunne said part of UnitedFuture’s confidence and supply agreement with the government related to improved access to student allowances, and that he expected to see that delivered in this year’s Budget. .
Enrollment climbs in Ladysmith-Hawkins District
The official third Friday in September count for revenue cap purposes was 954, compared to 940 in September of 2006 and 941 in January of 2007.
It was pointed out that full-time equivalent enrollment figures used to calculate the revenue cap can differ from the actual number of students attending school.
Ladysmith Elementary school has the biggest enrollment with 389, including 372 resident and 17 nonresident. Ladysmith High School has a count of 327, with 303 resident and 24 nonresident. Ladysmith Middle Schools enrollment is 256, with 243 resident and 13 nonresident.
Resident students numbered 918. There are 54 nonresidents attending Ladysmith-Hawkins schools and 66 Ladysmith-Hawkins residents enrolled outside the district.
Of the 54 students open enrolling into the Ladysmith-Hawkins School District, 28 are from Flambeau, 17 are from Bruce, 5 are from Weyerhaeuser, 2 are from Holcombe and 1 each from Weyerhaeuser and Gilman.
Lisa Feldstein
Lisa Feldstein is a consultant as well as a Ph.D. student at the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. She is formerly the Senior Policy Director with the Public Health Law Program, in which capacity she directed the organization's Land Use and Health Program. The project engage advocates in the land-use decision-making process throughout California, develops tools for training advocates about the relationship between the built environment and public health, and provides technical assistance for creating and implementing land use policies that support healthier communities. Lisa has worked on affordable housing and land use issues, with a focus on low-income communities, for more than 16 years. From 2000-2005, she worked as an independent consultant providing technical assistance to local governments and nonprofits on a broad range of housing, community development, and land use-related issues.
Clinton, Edwards bash Bush's mortgage plan
John Edwards proposed their own plans that would not only freeze mortgage payment rates, but also declare moratoriums on further foreclosures to pressure lenders to reach at-risk homeowners. In a letter to Paulson dated Dec. 3, Clinton had called for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures on subprime, owner-occupied homes. "The moratorium will stop foreclosures until lenders and servicers have an opportunity to implement the freeze on mortgage rates," Clinton wrote. "The moratorium will also give state and city organizations, as well as community groups, the necessary time to provide financial counseling to at-risk homeowners." Under the administration's plan, mortgage companies will offer to freeze the loans at the lower introductory rates as long as the borrowers did not miss any payments at the lower rate.
Glenn Greenwald
They want to ensure that Bush, in Monday's State of the Union address, can accuse Senate Democrats of failing to act on FISA, and thus attack and mock them as being weak on national security and causing the Terrorists to be able to Slaughter Us All. And, rather pitifully, some Democrats are shocked -- so very upset -- that, yet again, their demonstrated willingness to give the Republicans everything they demanded has not prompted a Good, Nice, Courteous Response. "We did everything you told us to do. Why are you being so mean and unfair?" That sad posture is what led even Jay Rockefeller apparently to announce that he will vote against cloture on his own bill. Worse, even if Democrats prevent the Republicans' cloture vote on Monday, that will mean we'll just be right back to where we were before that happened: with a series of votes that will almost certainly end in the Senate with some form of retroactive immunity and vastly expanded warrantless eavesdropping powers.
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