The James Logan Courier

ACTIVITIES
Interested in Track & Field? See Coach Webb after school on the track. Believe to Achieve!

Interested in joining the swim team? Come and meet the swim coaches and find out about us at our informational meeting Thursday after school in Room 75. Swim!

Boys Volleyball informational meeting – Wednesday, December 16th, after school in the Staff Lounge. See you there!


Seniors, Financial Aid packets are now available for pick-up in the Career Center.

By Jim Puzzanghera
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT)

WASHINGTON — President Obama met Monday with executives from some of the nation's biggest banks at the White House to talk about the economic recovery, lending to small businesses, helping struggling homeowners and the administration's push to overhaul financial regulations.

The meeting comes after Citigroup announced it had reached a deal with the Treasury Department to repay $20 billion in bailout money. The move will still leave the government with equity in the bank but will release it from strict executive compensation rules aimed at the largest recipients of money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

By Zola Boyd, Courier Staff Writer

California's Prop. 8, which banned gay marriage, pales in comparison to a bill before Uganda's parliament. The bill goes beyond taking away gay rights, but proposes punishing some homosexuals with the death penalty just for being homosexual.

Under the proposed bill, life imprisonment is the minimum punishment for anyone convicted of having gay sex. Having gay sex with disabled people and those under the 18 could bring the death penalty, as is the case if the accused is HIV positive or a repeated "offender."

From wikipedia:
Margaret Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. Presidency at a major party's convention (1964 Republican Convention, won by Barry Goldwater). She was a moderate Republican, included with those known as Rockefeller Republicans. When she left office, Smith had the record as the longest-serving female senator in United States history, ranking 11th in seniority among the members of the Senate, a distinction that has not been surpassed.

Listen to Margaret Chase Smith's speech, A Declaration of Conscience, free from AmericanRhetoric.com.