Archive - Oct 2, 2008

Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden squared off in a running mate face off.  At Washington University in St. Louis, Biden, a life long Senator and current Chair of the Senate foreign relations committee, an opinionated and knowledgeable policy wonk, deferred his own beliefs to promote Barack Obama's Palin, current Alaska Governor, former sportscaster and small town mayor appeared more knowledgeable than she had during previous media appearances where she was unable to name a Supreme Court case or a major newspaper or the purpose of the bail out plan. She portrayed herself as a member of the middle class, the common person, a Washington outsider.

• House Takes Its Turn With Bail-out Package
• Congress Works on Bail-out for the Unemployed and the Un-Insured
• New Report Looks at Voter Purges
• ACLU Files Public Information Suit in MD to Uncover Scope of Police Spying
• Maine Development Gets Green Light
• Correction

• Double Suicide Bombing Kills More than 20 Baghdad Shiites Celebrating the End of Ramadan
• Senate Passes US/Nuclear Deal
• Bank of the South Leaders Meet on Financial Crisis
• Fewer Undocumented Immigrants Coming to the US: Pew Researchers
• New Orleans Ranks Among World's Most Murderous Cities

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The Senate easily passed an updated version of the Wall Street bail out last night that includes more than  100  billion dollars of tax cuts. The point of focus once again turns to the House of Representatives where passage is not guaranteed. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.

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Before the urgency of the wall street bail out, Congress was working on a 61 billion dollar economic stimulus package for unemployment and health care. It has since been sidelined. But some in Congress are still trying to resurrect it.  FSRN's Karen Miller report

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With the elections just a few weeks away, many are concerned about the disenfranchisement of millions of voters. According to a new report, dozens of states removed at least 13 million people from the voter registration rolls between 2004 and 2006.  It's a tactic called voter purging. People's names are removed, often for illegitimate reasons, in an effort to update voter rolls.  For example, in 2000 and 2004, Florida wrongly removed thousands of eligible voters in an effort to remove felons from the voting list. The Brennan Center for Justice published the report. Myrna Perez co-authored the study. She gives an example of a purging error.