New Orleans Suspends Housing Group

NOLA
New Orleans home rehab operation suspended
by Gordon Russell and Michelle Krupa, The Times-Picayune
Friday August 01, 2008, 9:34 PM

As a scandal centering on ties between the woman who ran a city-financed home-remediation program and the contractors who received money from it intensified this week, the agency’s board announced [...]

Nancy Pelosi speaks out says no new oil

 

NY TImes rails against deportation of Illegals

NY TIMES
Immigrants Deported, by U.S. Hospitals
 
By DEBORAH SONTAG
Published: August 3, 2008
JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the [...]