More than 500 arrested as battle-hardened protesters march through the streets Montreal Open File ...Surrounded by a small army of riot police, hundreds of protesters sat down on Sherbrooke Street Wednesday night and chanted “let’s stay peaceful.” Within an hour 400 of them were rounded up, handcuffed and stuffed into city buses to be detained until Thursday morning...
Sources: Cuomo tried to keep New York public labor heads off DNC delegate list Politico ...New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had tried to keep the heads of four major New York state public sector unions off the list of Democratic National Committee at-large delegates, finally agreeing to add three of them late last night after a string of negotiations, multiple sources told POLITICO...
Half Of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out As City Shrinks Bloomberg News ...As it is, 40 percent of the 88,000 streetlights are broken and the city, whose finances are to be overseen by an appointed board, can’t afford to fix them...
How Governor Rick Scott Is Preventing Eligible U.S. Citizens From Voting In Florida ThinkProgress ...Scott instructed his former Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, to compile a list of people who were registered in Florida but ineligible to vote. Browning struggled to aquire accurate data and eventually resigned his post in February. Scott moved forward with the effort anyway...
Wisconsin Recall Roundup May 24, 2012 PR Watch ...Governor Scott Walker will be joined by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal at two campaign events in Wisconsin today to aid Walker as he faces Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in a June 5 recall election...
CP Rail strike could hurt terminals North Shore News ,,,NORTH Shore port terminal operators say they're hoping a settlement will be reached soon in the Canadian Pacific Rail strike - before it starts costing them money...
