The James Logan Courier

By Jamie Maxfield and Krystal Henderson, Courier Staff Writers

A botched teachers' union election last month has pitted former rivals for the presidency of the union against each other once again.

In September, the New Haven Teachers Association (NHTA), the local branch of the California Teachers Association, which represents Logan's teachers, held an election to choose a representative to the state council of the CTA. The current NHTA president, Charmaine Kawaguchi, a Logan computer science teacher, won the state council seat against Teri Hawkins, an Alvarado Middle School teacher who ran against Kawaguchi for the presidency of the local in 2006.

The state council representative election did not go smoothly.

By Delthia Ricks
Newsday (MCT)

NEW YORK — The rising incidence of drug-resistant staph infections has prompted a bipartisan federal measure that would provide $5 million in emergency funding to combat a potentially lethal agent that increasingly is emerging in schools, gyms and even daycare centers.

New York Sen. Charles Schumer on Wednesday called on President George W. Bush to remove his threat of a veto from a bill that provides money for public education campaigns aimed at preventing the spread of MRSA — methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.