Current Events News
 Economic Troubles Hot Topic In Classroom (KCCI 8 Des Moines) Des Moines High School Teacher is changing lesson plans to keep up with current events.
UPDATED: Dow average falls more than 500 points (Tulsa World) Our nation and world continues to slide deeper into the roaring pits of iniquity because of their greed. As the trying times of distress fall upon up, we must realize that the current events are profound testaments of the past failures and mistakes of our Capitalist society.
Neoliberalism - history sweeps away a failed ideology (Socialist Worker) An intractable economic crisis. A discredited Labour government. A pervasive sense of bitterness, anger and fear across the working class. It’s no wonder that many commentators are comparing current events with those of the late 1970s.
Richfield, Bloomington history to come alive (Edina Sun-Current) You can't change the past, but to keep up with current events, organizers of the almost annual Richfield-Bloomington Old-Timers Get-Together thought they should change its name.
Interest in Torch Club growing (Carroll County Times) If prime rib and intellectual conversation is your thing, here’s some good news: A Torch Club may be coming to Westminster. A Torch Club is a gathering of professionals in various fields who meet over dinner several times a year to take an in-depth look at current events.
Why can't Daley even say `corruption'? (The Virginia Gazette) Mayor Richard Daley gave a 45-minute State of the City address but didn't mention the word "corruption" even once. Naturally, as part of our current events quiz for today, this means that:
This just in: Area student’s work to be read across U.S. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) Jacob, 11, a sixth-grader at West Hurst Elementary, is one of 10 students chosen nationwide to post stories on the Weekly Reader’s Current Events news blog, write debates for its magazines, and interview celebrities and other people about the news.
5Top: Most entertaining celebrity blogs (MSNBC) Want to read Rosie O'Donnell's haikus or try to decipher anything Courtney Love has to say? Check out their celebrity blogs.
Current events (The Brantford Expositor) Like people, oceans have their ups and downs. Tides -- the rising and falling of water levels on the earth -- happen because the [...]
Spammers Favor Obama Over McCain 7 to 1 (Washington Post) While political polls may show Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain locked in a close race for the White House, junk e-mail purveyors have a clear favorite. According to research by Secure Computing, spammers are seven times as likely to invoke Obama's name in a subject line in a bid to trick people into opening the missives. The company found that spam touting either candidate peaked around the ...
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