| Educator Robert Marvin Chatman, 85
ROBERT Marvin Chatman, Philadelphia public-school teacher for 23 years, active church leader and Army veteran of World War II, died Thursday of brain cancer. He was 85 and lived in Wynnefield. He taught at a number of local schools and was a tailoring teacher at Germantown High School before his retirement in 1987. Robert was a man of many skills. At one time or another, he took a course for surgical technicians, studied oil-burner service, real estate and pattern-making. He had a dry-cleaning establishment, was a mortician and had numerous jobs as a handyman - all with the aim of better supporting his family. He was born in Honea Path, S.C., to Howard L. and Marie Lewis Chatman. He got his early education in Honea Path and attended the Colored Normal, Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College, now South Carolina State University at Orangeburg.
In S.C. primary, Clinton strategy foiled
IRMO, S.C. -- Susan Kilburn, a 53-year-old real estate office manager, voted Republican in the last six presidential elections. She voted here at a park Saturday for Barack Obama, helping him run away with the South Carolina primary and fueling his hopes against Hillary Clinton in the 22-state Super Tuesday Feb. 5. "I surprised myself," Kilburn said. "I wasn't pleased with the Republican candidates and I wasn't really pleased with the Democrats, either. "But his ads made him seem the most real. He came across as the person who has the best chance to bring people together. I didn't feel like Hillary could do that." Betsy Petersen, a 40-year-old preschool teacher, voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, but for Republicans ever since. She, too voted for Obama.
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Foxes are guarding the mortgage henhouse
Raymond Finney's proposal to include federal funds, new buses could be equipped and smaller buses will be upgraded. There were similar cries of unenforceable, entrapment, or danger when child restraint seat legislation passed three decades ago. Now it is universally accepted. The time has come to be consistent with our messages to children. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended lap and shoulder restraints in school buses for over a decade, recently reinstating their policy in 2007, asking communities to "Advocate for three-point seat belt systems in all newly manufactured school buses." California requires new school buses to have a lap/shoulder-belt restraint system; the states of Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York and others have passed school bus seat-belt laws.
Following Virginia Tech, doctors ask lawmakers for revisions to ...
RICHMOND, Va. - An AWOL servicemember explained in detail to his emergency room doctor how he planned to climb atop Richmond City Hall and pick off legislators with a .50-caliber rifle as they left the statehouse last January. But Dr. Greg Christiansen's hands were tied. He couldn't prove the man was an "imminent danger" to himself or others, as required under Virginia's tough standards for involuntary commitment. Christiansen and other physicians asked legislators Friday to relax that standard and for more authority when it comes to involuntarily committing mentally ill patients. It was the first of many mental health-related issues to come before legislators as they try to reform a mental health system that has come under increased scrutiny since a student killed 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech in April.
Southwest Florida EverBank Loan Production Office Relocates to ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- EverBank, one of Florida's fastest growing financial services companies, announced the relocation of its Southwest Florida Loan Production Office (LPO) from Bradenton to its new office on Cooper Creek Blvd. in University Park. The loan production office will process loan applications and arrange financing for real estate projects, corporations and small businesses. The University Park office employees include: The Southwest Florida LPO will open its doors on Friday, November 2 at 8450 Cooper Creek Blvd., Suite 101, University Park, FL 34201. EverBank Financial Corp is a private financial services holding company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
Janison: For Dems, GOP, New York a different game
Here come the underdogs.
Eleven days before the New York presidential primary, power brokers of both major parties here share one thing: worrisome challenges to their home-state favorites. But Democrats allied with Hillary Rodham Clinton find themselves with a stronger hand to play against Barack Obama than insider Republicans, committed to Rudy Giuliani, do against John McCain.
Clinton led in a Quinnipiac poll this week with 51 percent to 25 percent for Obama and 11 percent for John Edwards. Even if Obama comes up as big as expected tomorrow in South Carolina, she remains strong in the Empire State.
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