The James Logan Courier

By Sam Chaltain (MCT)

WASHINGTON — This Sunday, America will mark the 55th anniversary of Thurgood Marshall's historic Supreme Court victory in Brown v. Board of Education.

If Marshall were still alive, however, he would urge us to stop celebrating 1954 and start accepting responsibility for our complicity in the creation of a "separate but equal" education apartheid system — with one method of instruction for the poor and another for the privileged.

By Tim Higgins
Detroit Free Press (MCT)

DETROIT — General Motors on Friday announced it would inform about 1,100 dealers — or 18 percent of its 5,969 stores — that the automaker no longer "sees them as part of its dealer network on a long-term basis."

"This process starts today, as GM begins contacting dealers regarding its long-term planning," the company said in a statement.

GM said that, in most cases, existing franchise agreements run through October 2010.
The troubled automaker described the dealers being let go as "underperforming" and having "very small sales."

From wikipedia:
David Edward Hughes (16 May 1831 – 22 January 1900) coinventor of the microphone, and an accomplished Welsh musician and a professor of music as well as chair of natural philosophy at a seminary for women in Bardstown, Kentucky.

Hughes was born in London in 1831 and emigrated to the United States as a young man. He was an experimental physicist, mostly in the areas of electricity and signals. He also invented an improved microphone, which was a modification of Thomas Edison's carbon telephone transmitter. He revived the term "microphone" to describe the transmitter's ability to transmit extremely weak sounds to a Bell telephone receiver. He invented the induction balance (later used in metal detectors) and in 1879 to transmitted and received radio waves. Despite Hughes' facility as an experimenter, he had little mathematical training. He was a friend of William Henry Preece.

Learn more about David Edward Hughes and his inventions, free from Clarkson University.