Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
Collection of fallen tree leaves from residences is provided through the city's yard waste collection program. For collection, all residents are required to place leaves in bags or cans for curbside collection. Through the month of November, yard waste will be collected every week due to the high demand....more...Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
The Town of Ithaca Public Works Department will have water lines replaced on Hanshaw Road. The portion of Hanshaw Road between Warren and Sapsucker Woods Road will be congested during this work through the end of November....more... Honesty from the Honor Committee (Cavalier Daily Online)
YOU WOULD think that people supposedly dedicated to honor and integrity would be more allergic to chronic deception. Unfortunately, that is all we seem to get these days from many members of the pro-single sanction camp on this year's Honor Committee....more... Seven Warnings and One Mistake in High School Reform (Washington Post)
I receive many reports on how to improve our schools. This is an occupational hazard. Reading them is often confusing, depressing, disorienting and maddening. But there is no help for it. The academic papers, commission recommendations and task force action plans are usually written by some of the smartest experts in the country. They have stuff I need to know, so I plow through them....more... Washington Post blog guidelines (CyberJournalist.net)
"A group led by Outlook Editor John Pomfret and involving editors and reporters from the newsroom and wpni has drafted guidelines for blogging on washingtonpost.com," says an internal memo obtained... ...more... Archives (The Daily Tar Heel)
As the candidates for the local elections have jockeyed for position, one of the major issues that has come to light has been the economic development (or lack thereof) in the area....more... Aldermanic ethics panel inching forward (The Yale Herald)
lderman Jorge Perez?s ethics reform proposal came up for a committee vote last Monday, two years after he first introduced it. In an interview on Wed., Oct. 17, Board of Aldermen President Carl Goldfield suggested that the proposal was finally coming to fruition: ?We?re ready to pass it,? he said....more... Nationalists accused of 'cruel deception' over tax freeze (The Scotsman)
A FREEZE on council taxes will cost the Scottish Government more than £100 million, nearly 50 per cent more than the original estimate, a survey of local authorities has revealed....more... Brown faces clash over terror laws (Scotland on Sunday)
THE Prime Minister faces opposition from his own backbenchers and the House of Lords over plans to extend the time that terror suspects can be held without charge....more... |