| Letter From a Young American
We can educate all our children to the same standard regardless of whether they live in ghettos or suburbs. We can reform our prison and a legal system that seeks to warehouse the underprivileged in conditions unsuited to animals. Yes we can, yes we can. We will win if we think we can. Put an Obama sticker on your car, a sign in your yard. Speak loudly and often in public. Don't let the politics of fear silence our freedom to speak. We shall now have hope. We need you. We need the millions like you. With hope, we can and will turn this anger that's trapping us into a power that can change this county and the world. We will prevail not by the use of the tactics of force, fear and redemptive violence that has imprisoned us for five thousand years under the domination systems of empire, but with the love and compassion that is hardwired into the very soul of every person on the planet.
Caltrans scuttles bike lane on Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
Transportation planners unveiled a $55 million plan Wednesday to create bicycle and pedestrian access on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, but there's a problem: those who operate the bridge want no part of it. The California Department of Transportation says it's too dangerous. A committee for the Bay Area Toll Authority - which funds day-to-day operations of Bay Area bridges - heard plans Wednesday morning in Oakland to create a bicycle and pedestrian path by installing a movable barrier on the upper deck of the span. During nonpeak commute hours, the barrier would be moved into place to create an 8-foot-wide lane for bicyclists and pedestrians. Presently there are three lanes on the span, but only two are used for traffic. The third is an auxiliary lane. The plan was the result of the third study on the access issue; the first was done 10 years ago.
Euclid Corridor project helps drive $4 billion in Cleveland ...
Amid all the bad news about Cleveland's economy, one big, positive number is sure to impress all but the most hardened cynics: $4.3 billion. That's how much fresh investment -- conservatively speaking -- is being poured into the four-mile-long strip of land flanking Euclid Avenue, the city's Main Street, between Public Square and University Circle. The spending, which encompasses everything from museums and hospitals to housing and educational institutions, includes projects completed since 2000, those now under way and those scheduled for completion within five or six years. Private developers with proven records as doers, not speculators, are gearing up to start projects worth more than $1 billion along the corridor in the next five years or so. They include Douglas Price III, Nathan Zaremba, Ari and Richard Maron, and Gordon Priemer.
1/1 PSD protects commander, views change
The Marines of PSD have driven more than 9,800 miles, averaging around 104 miles a day while moving at about 15 miles per hour. On several occasions the Marines have visited every single firm operations base in the battalion's region in one day. The Marines have traveled nearly every road there is in the Habbaniyah and Fallujah area. Because of PSD's constant exposure and view of the area of operations, Hubbard said it has given him the opportunity to see the progress made by 1st Bn., 1st Marines, also known as the "ready to fight" battalion. .
Following Terror's Forgotten Trail
It would take America's proud Armenian community back to people and events many would prefer to forget--to bombings and coldblooded murders--and to still-heated charges of genocide that date back 85 years. A man called Moose. Elliott's first task was finding who paid for the locker all those years. He grabbed the paperwork and found three renters going back to 1980, all paying in cash, all named Louise: Louise Sardella, Louise Fischel, Louise Seyranian. Everything about the records appeared false. One address was for an Open Pantry convenience store; a phone number led to a local sports club. A storage employee vaguely recalled a woman who paid the rent, and she agreed to help an ATF artist on a composite drawing. Elliott, meanwhile, ordered traces for the 13 aging weapons.
Are you sick of winter? Tell us how you daydream of spring
So daydream about spring, which arrives officially on March 20. Does it mean buying a spring purse? Putting fresh tires on your bicycle? Getting the garden ready for planting? Send us your photos, drawings, poems, stories, songs and anything else that puts you in a springtime frame of mind. We will publish your spring dreams in the newspaper or online as the countdown continues to March 20. Maybe it will even help hurry spring along. Send us your photos, drawings, stories and other items to onlinenews@rrstar.com. .
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