Towns Push To Restrict Sex Offenders
- May
- 15
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A pane of glass, a chain-link fence and a few yards of grass were all that stood between the Level 3 sex offender and the playground.
Now Rockland parents are breathing a sigh of relief after learning that a convicted child rapist will no longer be living next to a pair of nursery schools and across [...]
Nebraska Retains the Death Penalty
- April
- 6
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, a Republican who had been expected to veto the bill if it passed, applauded the vote and said the focus now should be on deciding a legal method of execution for the state.Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha introduced the bill to repeal the death penalty, as he has every year for [...]
Mortgage application fees may rise on appraisal reform
- March
- 18
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It’s going to cost some borrowers even more to get a mortgage beginning in 2009.
In a recent agreement with New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE, Fortune 500) pledged that they will only buy mortgages from lenders that use independent appraisers. Since these two [...]
Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Silda Wall Spitzer Biographies in brief
- March
- 11
BACKGROUND: Grew up: Riverdale, in the Bronx. Attended Horace Mann School.
EDUCATION: Princeton University, 1981; Harvard Law School, 1984.
EXPERIENCE: Law clerk for U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet, 1984-85; private law practice, 1985-86; assistant district attorney in Manhattan, 1986-92; chief of labor racketeering unit of Manhattan district attorney’s office, 1991-92;
private law practice, 1992-1998; attorney general, 1999-2006; [...]
CUSTOMER SERVICE BREAKDOWNGas Billing Issue Snowballs in Connecticut
- February
- 29
Low Bill, No Bill
This week, I learned that CNG sometimes has trouble sending out bills, and its computer systems, which are supposed to automatically detect unusually high or low bills, somehow failed to alert officials for two months.
Marc Ulan of Berlin, Conn., a Cigna executive, wrote to me about his experience with CNG. He received [...]
Revamped school funding new taxes among many new laws
- January
- 16
TRENTON, N.J. - Revamped school funding, new taxes and
several anti-crime measures were among new laws signed Sunday by
Gov. Jon S. Corzine.
The measures, approved last week as the legislative session
ended, will:
_ Redo how the state allocates money to public schools.
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Simple choice on tuition bill
- January
- 16
Young Coloradans who are legal residents of this country should be able to get in-state tuition at the state’s colleges and universities.
It should be that simple, but of course, it’s not.
A bill to be introduced in the legislature this week by state Sen. Paula Sandoval, D-Denver, would attempt to make that clear. It [...]
Calif’s sex offender law fails to clarify lifetime monitoring
- December
- 24
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(12-20) 18:51 PST SACRAMENTO, (AP) —
An advisory panel created by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger considered Thursday how to fix the sex-offender law passed last year because it fails to say who is responsible for tracking their whereabouts once they complete parole.
That means hundreds of offenders in California are not being monitored by [...]
