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The rapture party
LA: Private schools may file for grants
WV: Nevada official eyes W.Va. workers' comp transition
VA: Toll road firm made illegal contributions
News summaries
The rapture party
Indeed, while both Bush and McCain are proponents of privatizing social
security and health care, Obama now supports privatizing anti-poverty
efforts by turning them over to clergy, and religious organizations,
thereby secularizing clergy and endowing government with religious
powers. And, sounding more and more like a neo-con every day, on a trip
to Zanesville, Ohio, yesterday, Obama said that the country’s current
challenges “are simply too big for government to solve alone,” and
that, if elected president, he plans to enhance Bush’s faith-based
initiatives by steering taxpayer federal bucks, formerly used on social
service agencies, to religious groups, and renaming the president’s
program the “Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.”
OpEdNews
LA: Private schools may file for grants
The Louisiana Department of Education has announced a one-week
application window for private schools that wish to accept certain New
Orleans public school students who qualify for the recently enacted
tuition grant program.
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
WV: Nevada official eyes W.Va. workers' comp transition
The head of the Nevada company that shepherded that state's workers'
compensation system from a state-run monopoly to a privately owned
company in a competitive market has been keeping an eye on West
Virginia's privatization.
Charleston Daily Mail
VA: Toll road firm made illegal contributions
A company involved in building the express toll lanes on the Capital
Beltway violated federal election law when it contributed $172,000 to
90 campaigns in Virginia over the past three years, company officials
said Wednesday.
The Washington Post
