2008 Woodie Awards
BY DANIEL BLACK Staff Writer Herewith, we have over the past three weeks identified numerous problems guaranteed by the No Child Left Behind Act if it is allowed by this nation's citizens to continue. We have explored how, through the act, the executive branch of the federal government has overstepped the bounds of its power and intruded into state and local authority domains, doing so to exploit Children.
BY DANIEL BLACK Staff Writer Herewith, we have over the past three weeks identified numerous problems guaranteed by the No Child Left Behind Act if it is allowed by this nation's citizens to continue. We have explored how, through the act, the executive branch of the federal government has overstepped the bounds of its power and intruded into state and local authority domains, doing so to exploit Children.
The first openly gay member of Congress, Gerry Studds, died early this month and the state of Massachusetts refuses to pay death benefits to his spouse. In 2004, the state legalized gay marriage and soon after Studds married his partner Dean Hara. Yet, the federal government considers Hara ineligible to receive Studds' estimated $114,377 annual pension.