Petition organizer John Rinaldi said naming the treatment plant is, “the highest honor available to us.” Republican Party spokesperson Leo Lacayo said it is another attention-getting ploy from the “hate Bush crowd.” The petition needs 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot and put to a vote a name change of the treatment plant to [...]

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Last year’s 52-day budget stalemate in the California Legislature aroused Senate Pro Tem Don Perata, a Democrat, to recall state Senator Jeff Denham, a Republican. After gathering thousands of signatures, raising millions of dollars and recently purchasing $1.4 million in television ads, Perata’s hoping everyone can be friends now. He has called off the recall [...]

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New Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi does not want to waste anytime having his administration hit the ground running. Berlusconi picked a cabinet in record-breaking time for Italy. He filled the top spots with supporters, bypassing his junior partner coalition allies. Then to top it off, he added four women as ministers, all beautiful and [...]

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An obviously campaign weary Barack Obama needs a vacation or a geography lesson. At an Oregon campaign stop, Obama said, “I’ve now been in 57 states, I think–one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go to…my staff could not justify it.”Apparently, Obama meant to say 47. A campaign aide said [...]

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At first, the House passed a bill celebrating Mother’s Day 412-0. Then Rep. Todd Tiahrt rose to reconsider the vote. In all 177 Republicans voted with Tiahrt against Mother’s Day. Why? The Republicans have been making procedural moves against the Democratic majority all week. Procedural moves or not, voting against mom can make for some difficulty [...]

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Ted Kennedy does not think it is likely that an Obama-Clinton ticket will happen. He also gave advice to Barack Obama on who he should pick for vice-president: someone who “is in tune with his (Obama’s) appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people.” Is that a hint that Hillary’s aspirations are less than [...]

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A debate over legislator pay raises broke into name-calling between opposing sides of the issue. Some legislators referred to their colleagues as “filthy rich” or from “Richville.” Senator Rickey Hendon asked Senator Susan Garrett to turn over her daily expense check to him since “she doesn’t need it.” Another legislator said she had “married very [...]

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The news that deceased military personnel are being cremated in a facility that also cremates animals has embarrassed military officials and led to a new policy. There is “absolutely no evidence whatsoever at this point that any human remains were at all ever mistreated,” said Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell. Defense Secretary Robert Gates apologized [...]

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In Time’s 100 most influential people of the world, Pope Benedict XVI is nowhere to be found. The Dalai Lama is there and even the Patriarch of Constantinople made it. Entertainers and sports figures, such as Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus, George Clooney, Andre Agassi, and Mariah Carey are on the list. A Vatican representative said, [...]

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Nobel Peace Prize winner and former South African President Nelson Mandela is on the United States’ terrorist watch list and must receive special permission to enter the country. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it “embarrassing.” Other members of Congress vowed to fix the problem. In the 1970 and 80, the African National Congress was [...]

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