Hillary Clinton Secretary of State Choice is Obama's Genius

On Monday, President-Elect Barack Obama introduced Senator Hillary Clinton as his choice for Secretary of State.  It was a brilliant move for several reasons that I discuss here:  CLICK

Atlanta Slave Grave Site to Landfill Controversy Happened In Baltimore

CNN's Rick Sanchez is thankfully focusing on a story in Atlanta where a slave grave site is planned to be moved to make way for a landfill site for trash.


I'm not kidding.  


And Sanchez is right that this happens more in the South than anywhere else.  For example, I uncovered this story in Baltimore as far back as 1996:

The Sun - Baltimore, Md.
Author:	Sherrie Ruhl
Date:	Feb 11, 1996
Start Page:	2.B
Section:	METRO
Text Word Count:	715
Abstract (Document Summary)
A landfill, with the accompanying rattle of dump trucks, and dust, dirt and debris, would bring the end of the church, Mrs. [Violet Hopkins-Tann] said. "Who is going to want to attend this church or live in this community if there's a landfill here?" The cemetery is adjacent to a 100-foot gravel pit that would be part of the Maryland Reclamation landfill, running west along Gravel Hill from Earlton Road near Havre de Grace. Mrs. Tann said she believes Maryland Reclamation proposed a landfill at the site in part because much of the community is African-American and poor. "They think if they wait long enough, we'll give up. Well, that's not going to happen," she said. Why this happens in the South is anyone's guess.  But it certainly must stop.

Zennie62 Bill Gates Question On Newspapers On CNN TV Today

I asked Microsoft Founder Bill Gates this question which was selected to be used in Wolf Blitzer's inteview with Gates on CNN's The Situation Room  today: The Huffington Post, a website, was valued at $100 million, more than many newspapers. What should newspapers do to survive in the 21st Century?

What do you think? What should newspapers do? 


This is the iReport version: Zennie62 on CNN 

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Amy Goodman’s New Column, “Tutu, Obama and the Middle East”

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Center for Defense Information - What's Wrong with the U.S. Military

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"Mary Beth Maxwell, Labor Secretary?"

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Put Up Or Shut Up - A Call to Conservative Arms

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Entertaining Take on Obama's Preference for No "Girly" Dogs

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Getting a grip on Python: Six ways to learn online

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Ford: CEO will work for $1 to get bailout

Ford Motor Co. will tell Congress that it plans to return to a pretax profit or break even in 2011 when the Detroit Three automakers' CEOs appear before lawmakers this week to request $25 billion in government loans.

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Inside The World Of Nude Modeling

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