OXFORD, Miss. — The FBI has identified a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said Curtis was arrested Wednesday afternoon at his apartment in Corinth, near the Tennessee state line about 100 miles east of Memphis. Authorities still waited for [...] [...]
With Mississippi having hosted First Lady Michelle Obama this week, on her continued tour to raise awareness about health and fitness in America, it’s interesting that a new book is out, detailing the problems with the majority of food we are served. “How Fast Food Hooks Us” shows how corporations figure out our ‘bliss spots,’ [...] [...]
Declaring “our journey is not complete,” President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands Monday, urging the nation to set an unwavering course toward prosperity and freedom for all its citizens and protect the social safety net that has sheltered the poor, elderly and [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: October 7,2012
Tags: 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Republican party, role of government, wealth redistribution, White House
The suspense is so intense you can cut it with a knife. The atmosphere as we move through the month of presidential debates is more riveting than the Super Bowl, The World Series and the NBA Championship game combined. At least that is the case if you are an even marginally engaged political junkie. What [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking his case against Republicans to millions of Americans today, faulting the party for refusing to help him turn around the sluggish economy or support some proposed new tax breaks for businesses the party has backed in the past. Facing devastating poll numbers and prospects of big losses, Democrats [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Seeking to give anxious Democrats a boost ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama is pitching a trio of economic initiatives today and voicing unwavering opposition to Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy, an issue on which he’s looking to draw a stark contrast with Republicans. The White House said the package [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 12,2010
Tags: courts, disaster, drilling moratorium, energy, environment, lawsuit, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, White House
HOUSTON — The Texas attorney general sued the Obama administration yesterday over its new deep-water offshore drilling moratorium, claiming it is unjustified and federal officials did not contact the state before issuing the ban. Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the 18-page suit in federal court in Houston against Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says the administration is ready to take over the handling of oil spill damage claims from BP if the British company doesn’t set up an “independent entity” to do it. Speaking from Washington, Gibbs said the oil giant’s claims processing work has been unsatisfactory. He noted that Obama “has [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 5,2010
Tags: Alabama, Anna Aurilio, Barack Obama, BP, british petroleum, Carol Browner, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Environment America, Florida, gulf of mexico, John Hofmeister, Lousiana, Mississippi, Myron Ebell, oil spill, Shell Oil Co., Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Three Mile Island, White House
HOUSTON — America is seeing the usually hidden costs of fossil fuels – an oil spill’s potential for huge environmental and economic damage, and deaths in coal and oil industry accidents. But don’t expect much to change. America and the world crave more oil and coal, no matter the all-too-risky ways needed to extract those [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) has voiced concerns about the White House’s budget proposals for federal education programs that would mean reduced or stable funding for rural and impoverished school districts. The administration’s FY2011 budget request for the U.S. Department of Education was scrutinized at a hearing conducted April 14 by the Senate [...] [...]
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