| The West Lothian Question: Labour MPs want answers
GORDON Brown is facing demands from his Scottish MPs to take action over the so-called "West Lothian Question", with some calling for the resurrection of English regional assemblies as the solution, The Scotsman can reveal. The Prime Minister has resolutely refused to get involved in the debate over Scottish MPs' voting rights, despite a sustained campaign by the Conservative Party, which is starting to mobilise and inflame public opinion in England. .
EntreWiki Launched - a new Web 2.0 Directory of Business Ideas and Opportunities
Zedomax Network, a Web 2.0 Company based out of San Francisco, has just launched a new website for Entrepreneurs called EntreWiki.com. The EntreWiki is a new Web 2.0 Directory of Business Ideas where entrepreneurs and companies can advertise their businesses such as a franchise, business plan, start-up business, or any business that can help someone to start a new business. .
Visual artist gets financially creative
Visual artist Jason Baerg had a development deal for his newest and most ambitious work to date and just needed some short-term bridge financing to tide him over until the pledged funding arrived. So he approached one of the Big Five Banks in January. "They closed the door really quick. They just said, `No'," said Baerg, 36, who has a fine arts degree from Concordia University and has exhibited his work across Canada and sat on national art juries for the Canada Council for the Arts and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. The new project is called Metroscope, and he describes it as "an investigation of the psyche of the city." Among other things, it's about being an artist in an urban centre, tapping into urban subjects to engage an urban audience.
Top Scoops
Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming attack on Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at a recent American University symposium. What follow are his comments from that speech. They have been edited only for space. .
Local Dairy Queen in business almost 10 years
DO YOU KNOW is a small business piece that will run in the business page of the Granite City Press-Record on Wednesdays as an informational tool about local business. If you would like your business in the paper, e-mail Michael Heil at mheil@yourjournal.com.The Dairy Queen at 3260 Nameoki Road has been chosen as the first business entry for Do You Know.The business has been located on Nameoki Road since 1998. The franchise is owned by Bob Steen of Pontoon Beach. Steen's son, 22-year-old Rob Steen, is the general manager who oversees the day-to-day operations. Dairy Queen is famous for its charbroiled hamburgers. .
Quarter-midget racers, crews get serious as Fall Nationals hit high gear
The quarter-midget cars look like sardine cans on steroids. Their young drivers boys and girls ages 5 to 16 whiz around the NCQMA Speedway in Salisbury leaning hard to the left, cutting the ends of the concrete oval close before flying wide through the middle. With their helmets, gloves, race suits and confidence behind the wheel, they provide models in miniature of NASCAR drivers, many of whom are their heroes. "I like it because it's really fun, and the whole family's involved," Dale Miller, 11, said Friday after he had qualified sixth in his Senior Honda class and ninth in the Light 160. His father, Curtis, president of the N.C. Quarter Midget Association, said he hopes he is building with his boys, Dale and 8-year-old Mark, the kind of strong relationship he had with his own father while racing quarter-midgets in Florida.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In the Nov. 21 edition of the Telegram a headline read "Senate OKs tax replacement" sub-titled "Democrats not happy with the bill, which adds a temporary surcharge to Michigan's main business tax." (I am not happy either) My question is: When will these people we sent to Lansing realize that they need to cut-cut-cut not increase-increase-increase taxes?If they would run the government like we business owners run our businesses the state would not have the worst economy in America!!I would like to know how much money is spent each year on medical and retirement benefits to the people we elected who "served us" for less than 10 years. I do not know of a job in Michigan (or the U.S.) where you can work for six years and receive a pension AND medical coverage forever. (Most of our workers are losing benefits after 30 years)Let's have some cutting in THAT area.
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