Controversial health-care reform is Constitution Day topic
August 31st, 2010
Constitution Day will be celebrated at California State University, Fresno with a panel discussion of recently enacted national health-care reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The session, titled “Obamacare: Landmark Legislation or Dead on Arrival?”, is scheduled at 10 a.m. Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. at the Satellite Student Union. The panel discussion is free and open to the public.
Panelists are Fresno State political science professors Dr. Yishaiya Abosch, Dr. Jeff Cummins and Dr. Tom Holyoke, and Jeffrey G. Purvis, a professor at the San Joaquin College of Law in Clovis.
The event is co-sponsored by the Fresno State’s College of Social Sciences and Division of Student Affairs, and the law college.
Constitution Day on Sept. 17 is t
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Video interview with Mission Viejo linebacker Tre Madden
August 31st, 2010
Here is an L.A. Times video interview with Mission Viejo linebacker Tre Madden. The Diablos are coming to Seattle to play Bothell in the 2010 Emerald City Kickoff Classic at Qwest Field on Saturday.
Here is the story that goes with the video.
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Suncoast High School traffic snarls still irk neighbors, but relief promised by mid-October
August 30th, 2010
RIVIERA BEACH — Drivers still wait in lines of traffic and obey police to reach the new Suncoast High School in the mornings.
But some residents say the Suncoast traffic is flowing better than it was during the first few hectic days of the school year. And the school district says the traffic jam between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. will be eased in mid-October, when a wider section of West 13th Street is scheduled to open.
Still, some residents remain frustrated by the congested mass of cars winding through their residential streets.
“It’s crazy,” said Erica Gonder, a parent who lives on 13th Street near the Suncoast entrance. “It’s not that we don’t want the school there. T
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Reaching across the state: WSU offers engineering degree in Bremerton
August 26th, 2010
ME 303 Fluid Mechanics is a cooperative course taught via telecom-
munications to WSU, University of Idaho and Olympic College, Bremer-
ton, students. Konstantin Matveev, of the WSU School of Mechanical
and Materials Engineering, is shown teaching the class in the Electri-
cal/Mechanical Engineering Building on the Pullman campus.
(Photo by Tim Marsh, WSU Today)
From the Kitsap Sun newspaper BREMERTON - For the first time ever, 15 students recently sat down at desks at Olympic College to earn bachelor degrees in mechanical engineering from Washington State University. T Read more…
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