The Supreme Court overruled a decision by President Obama’s choice for that Court, Sonia Sotomayor. To get a promotion as a firefighter in New Haven Connecticut, you must pass a test. In one round of testing few Hispanics and no African Americans passed. As New Haven was afraid of a Federal lawsuit, they tore up the test results. White applicants sued. Sotomayer ruled against them. The Court...
Tyrone, a black conservative Republican blogger, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's decision yesterday to overturn an affirmative action case : "The ruling yesterday by the Supreme Court in favor of the white New Haven [f]irefighters represents a great day for Civil Rights in America. I can't wrap my mind around how liberals think on the aspects of 'equal justice' in America. What they view as...
I just scanned the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStafano , holding 5-4 for the firefighters. That was the case brought by 11 New Haven Connecticut firefighters who had all achieved top scores on a promotion test. The City threw out the test results because no blacks were among their number. The firefighters argued that this act was unlawful under Title VII and that it was unlawful under the...
Click HERE to download Opening • Our National Anthem, on the fiddle • Sonia Sotomayor: Racism & 'The Wise Latina' • The Fearful GOP • Risking 'alienating' Hispanic voters • Democrats and the politics of personal destruction • Democratic voters • Ted Kennedy's attack of Robert Bork • Limbaugh's version of Kennedy's attack, rewritten for Sonia Sotomayor •...
Hartford, CT - Chabad-Lubavitch centers, synagogues and Jewish community institutions throughout Connecticut took heightened security precautions on Tuesday after receiving an alert from law enforcement and state authorities that the prime suspect in a fatal shooting at Wesleyan University could be specifically targeting the campus and its Jewish community. According to Rabbi Yisrael Deren, the head...
HARTFORD - Connecticut lawmakers voted late yesterday to update the state's marriage laws to conform with last fall's landmark state Supreme Court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry. A spokesman for Governor M. Jodi Rell said she will sign the bill into law.
Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford, CT - Members Of The "Class of 2008" Include Stafford Motor Speedway, Connecticut Economic Resource Center, Alcoa Howmet, Gloria McAdam From Foodshare and Jim Barnes From Oakleaf Waste & Recycling - <?xml:namespace prefix
Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Hold 2009 Induction Ceremony
Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford,...
NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 29 (UPI) -- Jordana Brewster says she is happy with her decision to halt her acting career to obtain a degree at Connecticut's Yale University. Brewster, 28, said earning an English degree from the Ivy League school in New Haven following her success in 2001's The Fast and the Furious primed her for anther Hollywood run, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Sunday. I feel...
HARTFORD, Conn., March 29 (UPI) -- Scientists say they are racing to discover what it is causing a massive die-off of bats in Connecticut before the condition spreads to the U.S. South. As many as 90 percent of Connecticut's bats have died during winter hibernation after being infected by a rare fungus usually only found in Arctic tundra regions, and scientists are working to find a cause before the...
Spotted @ Info’s Those On-Air Idiots kick it with Raekwon from the Wu backstage at the 5th Annual Underground Jam @ Toads Place in New Haven, CT. 3-27-09 The Chef tells the idiots the exclusive news of his new deal… “..but that album, that shit is better than ya momma’s spaghetti.”
SUNDAY'S ONSALE LIST 10 am Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus XL CENTER Hartford, CT The 2009 WBCN Rock N Roll Rumble Semifinals Night 1 Middle East Cambridge, MA Apr 16, 2009 1:00 pm Alpha Blondy The Independent San Francisco, CA Apr 27, [...]
NEW HAVEN, CT.- Jock Reynolds, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale University Art Gallery , today announced the creation of a new curatorial department devoted to Indo-Pacific art, enabled by the generosity of Yale alumnus Thomas Jaffe, Class of `71. Mr. Jaffe has provided not only his extraordinary collection of more than 500
It's been a while, but I updated the Slice Links page today. A lot of retirements lately from the pizza-blogging world. But some nice new additions: Pizza Review Blogs I Dream of Pizza (NYC) Liza & Gary's D.C. Pizza Blog L.A. Pizza New Haven Pizza Project (New Haven, Connecticut) Pizza Rules Worst Pizza (mostly Florida) Pizza Delivery Blogs Deliverage Diary of a Pizza Girl Pizza Delivery Stories...
Last night Senators Claire McCaskill and Chris Dodd arranged a bet on the Missouri-Connecticut basketball game via Twitter. At stake is pizza from New Haven and barbeque from KC’s own Arthur Bryant’s. Dodd: “@clairecmc How about a friendly wager on tomorrow’s Elite Eight game between my Huskies and your Tigers'” Dodd: “@clairecmc I’ll put up some New [...]
Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford, CT - Members Of The "Class of 2008" Include Stafford Motor Speedway, Connecticut Economic Resource Center, Alcoa Howmet, Gloria McAdam From Foodshare and Jim Barnes From Oakleaf Waste & Recycling -
Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Hold 2009 Induction Ceremony
Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford,...
Burke was born as the first of nine children in Hartford, Connecticut to Donna and George Burke, and was raised in Tucson, Arizona. Her mother is Jewish and she considers herself Jewish;[1][2] she also has Irish, French and Portuguese ancestry. She stu...
- Project’s Developers Building and Land Technology & Lubert-Adler Ignore Previous Pleas From State Labor Leaders To Utilize Connecticut Companies & Employees - (Hartford, Connecticut) – Wondering why Connecticut’s largest construction project is proceeding without any commitment to hiring Connecticut companies and employees, the Connecticut Laborers’ District Council today requested that Dannel Malloy,
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Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Hold 2009 Induction Ceremony
Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford,...
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