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Local News
Upcoming Events Club meetings are regularly held at 6:30 pm on the fourth Wednesday of each month at the Twinsburg Public Library- 10050 Ravenna Rd. |
Meeting News--change of location and time! The Club has changed its meeting place to the Twinsburg Public Library, and to accomodate its earlier closing time, moved the start time up to 6:30. May's meeting will be in meeting room 5. Hope to see you there.
Township Returns to Old Hall Twinsburg Township returned to their old town hall at 9833 Ravenna Rd. after the Summit County Port Authority terminated their lease in April. The move has cost them $13,363 so far. For more on this story, go to www.sunnews.com. Attorney General Marc Dann Resigns Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann resigned May 14th after just 17 months on the job, about one month after a sexual-harassment scandal within the AG's office surfaced. While the scandal initially appeared to involve only the actions of those serving under Dann, his own admission of an extramarital affair with a 28-year-old staff member hastened calls for his departure. Army Failed to Test Body Armor
An April 1st NBC News report by Lisa Myers and Adam Ciralsky cited the
Pentagon's Inspector General's report detailing repeated failures by the
U.S. Army to require that body armor for our troops be tested for
defects. As a result, the Department of Defense "has no assurance"
that 13 of 28 Army body-armor contracts worth about $3 billion "met the
required standards." The contracts were given out between January
2004 and December 2006. For the full article, please see
http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/ Troop Deaths Top 4,000 in Iraq The number of U.S. soldier deaths has surged in recent weeks, as the cease-fire recently extended by Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army may be unraveling. As for the dollar cost, a March 9th AP report says that the war is now costing $12 billion a month, with long-term costs as high as $2.7 trillion. John McCain-- Confused or Lying? Republican Presidential nominee John McCain has begun repeatedly saying that Iran is helping al-Qaida train in Iran to fight Americans in Iraq. As a presidential candidate running on foreign policy experience, he should know Iran is a predominantly Shiite Muslim country, and would never cooperate with the Sunni extremist group al-Qaida. So he is either confused, or engaging in a very familiar Bush administration tactic of attempting to link a country to al-Qaida in order to justify attacking it. Four more years, anyone? Bush Vetoes Waterboarding Bill President Bush vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other harsh methods on suspected terrorists. The bill basically asked the CIA to abide by the Army Field Manual, which limits adherents to 19 approved techniques. This is the same bill that Senator John McCain recently surprised torture opponents by voting against the ban. For more on this, please see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/washington/09policy.html?th&emc=th.
Iraq War Death Toll of U.S. Soldiers:
4,077 (http://www.antiwar.com/casualties,
5/15/08)
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DNC Chairman Howard Dean takes time to pose with John Denker at the May 5th gathering for the Neighborhood Leader Program
Gov. Ted Strickland bear hugs Steve and Sharon Shucard at July 7 picnic at the Governor's Residence in Columbus Picture by Terry Carson
Ken Riley and former Vice President Al Gore discuss global warming at a training session with The Climate Project. Ken spoke at the March 28, 2007 meeting of the Twinsburg Democratic Club. |
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