“Going to the market already requires courage -- after repeated bombings there -- and now, life's most basic needs are becoming drastically more expensive,” reports Damien Cave for the Times. “The inflation rate has reached 70 percent a year, up from 32 percent last year.”The Raw Story | NYT: US more prepared for emergency, but still 'not ready':
The Department of Homeland Security, FEMA's parent agency, rated only 27 percent of the states and 10 percent of the cities evaluated as adequately prepared “to cope with a catastrophic event.” Dallas, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City and Philadelphia were among the low scorers.PageOneQ | Election of Alabama lesbian overturned by committee:
The Democratic primary victory of Alabama lesbian Patricia Todd for a seat in the statehouse was overturned by a party committee tonight. The committee vote was 5-0. Had the committee not reversed the election, which Todd won by 59 votes, she would have become the first openly gay elected official in the state's history. No Republican has entered the race in the overwhelmingly Democratic district. Todd's race was to determine who would represent District 54 in Birmingham in the statehouse.
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