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7/30/2010
Austin City Council has voted to reject a settlement agreement of $750,000 after last year's officer-involved shooting of Nathaniel Sanders, Jr. It took well over two hours with council debate, public input and speeches from numerous people in City Council chambers. As the vote for a $750,000 settlement payable to the Sanders family was up for roll call, Councilman Chris Riley made a secondary motion for $500,000. Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell believes from a business perspective, the cost of a jury trial would be far less than the settlement amount negotiated by city staff.
http://www.590klbj.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=1258821
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7/30/2010
With Congress gridlocked on an immigration bill, the Obama administration is considering using a back door to stop deporting many illegal immigrants - what a draft government memo said could be "a non-legislative version of amnesty."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/29/memo-outlines-backdoor-amnesty-plan-for-obama/
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7/30/2010
According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/233793/amnesty-memo-robert-verbruggen
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7/30/2010
In laying out 13 charges of ethical violations committed by Representative Charles B. Rangel, the House ethics committee set the stage for a rare public trial of the Democratic Congressman this fall, a potential embarrassment for the Democratic leadership during the election season.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/nyregion/30rangel.html
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7/30/2010
President Obama waded into the national race debate in an unlikely setting and with an unusual choice of words: telling daytime talk show hosts that African-Americans are “sort of a mongrel people.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/111611-obama-calls-african-americans-a-mongrel-people-
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7/30/2010
The immigration debate is reviving the explosive idea of denying citizenship to children born on U.S. soil if their parents are in the country illegally.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703578104575397561487059370.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_3
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7/29/2010
Jayden Michael Woodward's family nicknamed the 2-year-old "Taz," for Tasmanian Devil.
"He was always running around, never stood still," said the boy's grandfather, Reed Warren, 62. "He always ran everywhere he went, never walked."
Jayden liked to move, Warren said. He started walking at 8 months and never slowed down.
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7/29/2010
President Obama has called the BP oil spill "the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced," and so has just about everyone else. Green groups are sounding alarms about the "Catastrophe Along the Gulf Coast," while CBS, Fox and MSNBC slap "Disaster in the Gulf" chryons on all their spill-related news. Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward, after some early happy talk, admitted the spill was an "environmental catastrophe." The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has been a rare voice arguing that the spill — he calls it "the leak" — is anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the avalanche of end-is-nigh eco-hype.
Well, Rush has a point. The Deepwater explosion was an awful tragedy for the 11 workers who died on the rig, and it's no leak; it's the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It's also inflicting serious economic and psychological damage on coastal communities that depend on tourism, fishing and drilling. But so far — while it's important to acknowledge that the long-term potential danger is simply unknowable for an underwater event that took place just three months ago — it does not seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage. "The impacts have been much, much ...
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7/29/2010
On the day before their scheduled vote, Austin City Council members remained divided Wednesday on whether to support a controversial $750,000 settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by a police officer.
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/council-remains-divided-on-sanders-settlement-829036.html
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7/29/2010
A month ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a dispute involving the right of public universities to enforce anti-bias rules as a requirement for recognition of student organizations. The university's rules were upheld, dealing a blow to Christian student groups who argued that they should be protected by the First Amendment to receive recognition and to bar gay people.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-07-28-IHE-counseling-gays-ruling28_N.htm
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