Governor puts spotlight on career technical education (San Diego Union-Tribune) Strumming on Cinco Associated Press Mariachi musician Enrique Gonzalez plays his bass guitar while waiting to go to work on Cinco de Mayo Saturday at Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles....more...Governor puts spotlight on career technical education (San Diego Union-Tribune) Students protest Iraq war SCOTT LINNETT / Union-Tribune Jayme Zimmerman writes on the taped mouth of Olivia Delgado-Pelton at a peace demonstration outside Mt. Carmel High. A group of students concerned about the war in Iraq took a page from Vietnam War-era activism and held a peace demonstration Friday....more... 2007 South & West Outstanding Young Citizens (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) This year, parents, school administrators and friends nominated 254 students representing 20 schools....more... College seeks to update its main campus in Quincy (Boston Globe) Historic Coddington Hall has long been the keystone of the Quincy College campus, ever since the school was created for post-World War II veterans in need of a college education and the GI bill to pay for it....more... Last-gasp bid for floating voters before historic poll (The Scotsman) ALEX Salmond took to the skies. Jack McConnell stood in the shadow of a deceased colleague with a bunch of balloons. Annabel Goldie fell from a great height. Nicol Stephen ate ice- cream in the sunshine....more... Every School Every Thursday -- Des Moines West (The Des Moines Register) Cowles...more... Bill could help Goodyear (Akron Beacon Journal) A provision in the $52 billion two-year state budget passed Tuesday by the Ohio House could provide a financial incentive to help keep Goodyear in Akron. ...more... 'I haven't contemplated defeat but, yes, SNP may win' (The Scotsman) A DEFIANT Jack McConnell yesterday insisted he was determined to continue in office and secure his legacy as First Minister, despite mounting evidence that Labour is trailing the SNP by a considerable margin with just three days until polling day....more... Income tax takes top billing as SNP accused of blunder (The Scotsman) THE SNP yesterday refused to rule out tax rises in an independent Scotland, prompting political rivals to claim it had scored an economics "own goal"....more... |