Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Onyango grew up with future president's father.
The aunt of President Barack Obama, Zeituni Onyango, will visit the Newark campus of Essex County College next week. The free program, sponsored by the college’s Humanities Division, will be held in Siegler Hall, from 7 to 9 p.m. on March 6. Onyango’s talk will focus on her personal experiences with domestic abuse, immigration matters, homelessness, racism and race relations, the struggle to empower women, and growing up in the home of the father of President Obama in Kenya. Onyango will also discuss her book, Tears of Abuse. She is referenced as “Auntie Zeituni” in President Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father. “Her message is one of educational empowerment for young people,” said Mikal N. Nash, a history instructor and coordinator of…
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
The first debate between President Barack Obama and Republican Candidate Mitt Romney will be held Oct. 3 at 9 p.m.
TV Channels Broadcasting Live: FOX 5, NBC (11 Alive), CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN. Comic Relief: Name-calling debate on YouTube, New York Times cartoon, Democalypse 2012 from The Daily Show, Obama vs. Romney on SNL Topic: Domestic policy Air Time: 9-10:30 p.m. Easter Standard Time Location: University of Denver in Denver, Colorado (Tickets) Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney Moderator: Jim Lehrer (Host of NewsHour on PBS) The debate will focus on domestic policy and be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on topics to be selected by the moderator and announced several weeks before the debate. The moderator will open each segment with a …
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Search our interactive database to see how much your neighbors in West Orange gave to Obama and Romney.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Patch has created an interactive database so you can see how much your neighbors are donating to the presidential campaign -- and to which candidate they’re writing their checks. We’ve included communities across New Jersey, so if you want to see what the campaign contributions in nearby towns are like, go right ahead. The information in the database was downloaded from the Federal Election Commission’s website. The data is based on quarterly reports, and is current through July. The data will be updated in mid-October.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
It's not likely to come up in the governor's keynote speech, but the two agree more often than not on education issues
Although it is surely not the theme he will sound Tuesday night in his keynote address to the Republican National Convention, Gov. Chris Christie has often agreed with President Obama on one big issue: education. Christie has said that he and the president often see eye to eye on charter schools, teacher evaluation, and tenure reform -- among other topics. Last year, the governor even hosted Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, at Drumthwacket to help promote his school reform agenda. "I have a lot of agreement with the president and Arne Duncan on these education issues, and I've said that publicly many times," Christie said in March at a televised forum on education. He called Duncan an “enormous breath of fresh air in the …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
In a complicated decision, the justices upheld most of the health care reform legislation popularly known as Obamacare.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Do you agree with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday upholding most of President Obama's signature health care reform legislation? By a 5-4 vote, the justices upheld most of the act, although the opinion is a complicated one. The court upheld the requirement that every American purchase health insurance or else pay a penalty, as a tax decision and upheld it on those grounds, in an opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts. "Our precedent demonstrates that Congress has the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000 under the taxing power, and that Section 5000 need not be read to do more than impose a tax," Roberts wrote in one of the key sentences from the opinion. Click here to read the full text of the opinion. Vote in our poll …
Louis Herkalo
9:16 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
WHO ARE YOU CALLING A JERK YOU REPUBLICAN FOOL. IF ROMNEY WINS, HE'S GOING TO TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE UNLESS YOU MAKE A MILLION PLUS!! HE IS GOING TO GIVE A 12% TAX BREAK TO ALL. SOMEONE MAKES 3 MILLION, THEY GET A 12% BREAK. SOMEONE MAKING 75,000 ALSO GETS A 12% BREAK. DO THE MATH IDIOT. WHO WINS IN THE LONG RUN; THE RICH!! ROMNEY IS ONLY LOOKING OUT FOR HIS OWN. AS FOR OBAMACARE, IF YOUR MOTHER, … more ›