Better but Still Troubled: Our Take on the State of the Union

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On SOTU Day, a City Makers Summit and Some Next Steps in Civic Life

In his final State of the City speech in 2013, longtime judge and former mayor Patrick Morris pointed out that our working class families, where the average family of four lives on less than $40,000 [versus more than $50,000 nationwide], were being.

MITTERAND MEETS WITH JARUZELSKI

In a meeting with historical overtones and political risk, President Francois Mitterrand received the Polish leader, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, today. The meeting, at General Jaruzelskis request, prompted expressions of shock and outrage from virtually all political circles except the Communist Party. Mr. Mitterrands Prime Minister, Laurent Fabius, told members of the French National Assembly that the meeting had troubled him deeply. The 80-minute meeting was the first in a Western capital between the Polish leader and a Western head of state since Poland cracked down on the Solidarity trade union and declared martial law in December 1981. Opportunity for Questions In an interview in Le Matin, President Mitterrand, who left after the meeting for a three-day visit to the French Antilles, characterized the meeting as an opportunity to raise questions about religious and union freedom in Poland. He said he had decided to take the risk that the meeting might be misinterpreted. There is no other way to govern, and to govern well, he said.

1 of Mark Wahlbergs victims says he shouldnt be pardoned

until an ambulance driver intervened. Wahlberg was 15 at the time. Atwood still bears a scar from getting hit by a rock. No one was seriously injured, but the attack left other invisible ��� and indelible ��� scars. I was really scared. My heart was.

A Little Trouble in Big China - Opinionator - The New York.

There is no record of whether he ever truly thought he could establish himself as emperor of China, but he appears to have planned to take up the rebel cause (at the time, they were the most promising) by organizing a small army of his own. But he. The Neva was captured without incident, but the reports of Wards Confederate sympathies made it back to the United States, where The New York Times, among others, relayed the news that the privateer Ward was a��.

5 things you need to know Tuesday

Its President Obamas sixth State of the Union address, but the first where Congress is completely controlled by the Republican Party. At the same time, the presidents popularity is rising, in part due to an improving economy. Will he be. Heres a.

A Budget Map Reveals a Troubled Future - NYTimes.com

More. Dot Earth - New York Times blog. Search. But all around me I see Americans and citizens in other countries working to overcome real-time travails while also building the capacity for families and communities to thrive over the long haul. I find it. And, as I wrote after President Obamas State of the Union message, there is, to my mind, a way to build a campaign for progress that aims to reclaim the American political discourse from polarizing, paralyzing edges.

Decision Looms for Democrats on 2016 Convention Site

Obama was formally nominated in Denver in 2008 and in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2012, allowing his campaign to use the events to register new voters and recruit volunteers in states crucial to his political map. The three cities in the hunt for.

NBCs Lauer: Isnt Obama Just Trying to Trap GOP With Tax Hike Push?

McDonough tried to insulate Obama from criticism by taking the blame: You know, Matt, weve said that we regret we didnt send somebody more senior than our ambassador. That rests on me,. Theres a report in The New York Times this morning that.

Labor Day: Are Unions Dead? - The New Republic

Their national political influence is more defensive than pro-active, but unions played a big role in strategizing and passing the Affordable Care Act, and recent executive orders indicate that they are still able to win some advances for their members and workers generally,. In key metropolitan areas--New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, Chicago--unions are major political and economic players, and that influence extends to the state level, too.

The Trouble With Twin Births - Room for Debate - The New.

The ���octomom��� may have gotten much of the media attention on multiple births this year, but the more mundane epidemic of twins actually costs the American health care system and affects the lives of families far more... The recent experience with federal funding for embryonic stem cell research still weighs on the minds of many in governors offices, state legislatures and Congress and it will be a long, long time before our solons dip their toes into these waters��.

Aftermath of the Greek Vote - The Lede - The New York Times

The Lede blog has been following the reaction as reported by correspondents from The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune based around the world... The election results, said Tobias Levkovich, chief United States equities strategist of Citigroup, removed an imminent crisis, but Greece still has to form a coalition government to negotiate the debt problem. Spain is also still a worry.. 5:49 A.M. Europe Still in Trouble as Short-Lived Rally Fizzles.

A War Not for Abolition - Opinionator - The New York Times

And yet, if saving the Union took precedence over ending slavery in the national narrative, why did ���thousands of private citizens, young and old, on the sidewalks and in crowded doorways and windows��� in New York join in the celebration. Seemingly always there to stir up more trouble, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner leapt into the headlines with a speech at the Republican State Convention in Worcester on Oct. 1 called ���Emancipation: Our Best Weapon.

The European Union, Nationalism and the Crisis of Europe

This weeks events give me the opportunity to address the question of European nationalism again, this time from the standpoint of the European Union and the European Central Bank, using a term that only an economist could invent: quantitative easing.

The Search for a Slogan

Of course, hed have to distinguish his more nuanced views from those of the America First Committee, which formed in 1940 to keep the United States out of World War II and had 800,000 dues-paying members (including two future presidents, John F.

Iran Report: Change Sweeps a Feudal Land; U.S. Aid and Boom in Oil Stir Revolt of Middle Class Iran Report: Change Sweeps Feudal Land Struggling to Enter 20th Century NEWLY RICH CLASS FIGHTS FOR POWER Economic Surge in Decade Carries the Nation Far but Holds Seeds of Disaster

Iran presents almost a laboratory specimen of a feudal society, improbably persisting into the middle of the twentieth century and suddenly overtaken by the surging birth of a tumultuous middle class.. H E Salisbury series

IN FLOODED AREAS MAJORITY OPPOSES AN EXTRA SESSION; Engineers, Bankers and Scientists Answer The Timess Query on Subject.

Sentiment among representative engineers, bankers and scientists in the principal cities and towns of the flooded Mississippi Valley areas who have replied to a telegraphic inquiry by THE NEW YORK TIMES is generally opposed to calling an extra session of Congress to deal with flood relief and flood prevention.. Opinion on question of calling special session of Cong to enact flood control legislation

Teen-Age Revolt: Is It Deeper Today?; Teen-Age Revolt: Is It Deeper Today Than in Past Generations?

Howie Swerdloff is organizing a revolution against American society in the high schools with the skill of a little Lenin.. Children and Youth: Survey of teen-agers revolt against adult values

STATE OF AFFAIRS AT HARPERS FERRY.; MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY.

I have before me a private letter dated Harpers Ferry, May 8. It is from a soldier pressed into the ranks. He says:

Obama, In Tonights State Of the Union, Will Focus On Middle Class

The president will likely discuss these issues tonight in front of the Republican-majority Congress, but, as The Washington Post notes, Obamas tone and tenor since the Democrats badly lost the midterm elections in November have been anything but.

The Southern Iron Man - Opinionator - The New York Times

Late on the night of Oct. 8, the Webber boys and more than 1,000 other soldiers crossed from the mainland and landed on the island a few miles from the fort undetected by Union patrols, ���all thinking Pickens would soon be ours,��� noted Tom in his journal.. But as they were headed back to the transport, Tom recalled, ���a company of U.S. Regulars from ambush fired on us and my dear noble and gallant brother Watt fell mortally wounded and lived only a few minutes.

John Van Burens Speech at Albany Last Evening.; He Takes President Johnson in His Arms, and Pets Him and Praises Him. He Speaks a Few Words About the Colored Gentlemen. And Talks a Little About the Democrats in the War. He Says a Great Many More Things Touching the Situation. A Few Words by Major-General Slocum. SPEECH OF GEN. SLOCUM. RESOLUTIONS. SPEECH OF MR. JOHN VAN BUREN.

The Democrats of Albany County held a grand ratification meeting this evening, in the Capitol Park. A copious rain dampened the ground and rendered the atmospheric and other surroundings as unpleasant as they could well be. Gen. SLOCUM and Gen. PATRICK arrived by the 5 oclock train and were greeted with enthusiasm.. Dem, Ratification Meeting at Albany--John Van Burens Speech; Speech at the Democratic Ratification Meeting

How Douglass Came Around to Lincoln - NYTimes.com

With the stroke of a pen, Lincoln, acting in his role as commander in chief, had elevated the war effort from a fight to preserve a political nation-state, the Union, into a moral campaign against human bondage.. demanding that he move more aggressively against the South; and Democrats ��� motivated by the sort of anti-black sentiment that flared during New Yorks Draft Riots ��� were complaining that, through the Emancipation Proclamation and similar measures,��.

Do You Really Have to Go to College? - NYTimes.com

Maybe You Can Still Be President.. It has been made clear that if you dont get good grades and attend a four-year college, the rest of your life will be a dismal failure.. Instead of going into debt, they are taking the future into their own hands.. As the New York Times reporter Tamar Lewin wrote, ���No one knows just how these massive courses will evolve, but their appeal to a broad audience is unquestioned: retirees in Indiana see them as a route to lifelong��.

Navigating Troubled Times: Answers for Readers

Hundreds of readers responded to an invitation to submit questions about the effects on their personal finances.

Harlem Hospital Is Symbol Of Troubled Public System

Walk around Harlem and it is hard to find a person who, for better or worse, has not been cared for at Harlem Hospital Center. It is a matter of pride and history. James Baldwin and Tito Puente were born there. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was taken there -- doctors had to crack his sternum with a hammer and chisel -- when a deranged woman plunged a knife into his chest in 1958. This is like a mother figure, said Bruce Wright, the fiery former state judge, who was walking by the hospital the other day and stopped for a moment to remember having his tonsils out there at age 8. He is now 80.. Harlem Hospital Center, long a community fixture, is losing patients faster than any other New York City public hospital as private hospitals woo Medicaid patients they once shunned; loss of patients has forced hospital to cut half its beds over last five years, leading Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani to target hospital for big layoffs; union workers, Democratic politicians and advocates for poor hold layoffs are step in what could become downward spiral in quality and availability of health care for poor; photo (L)

No One Should Go Broke Because They Chose to Go to.

Doug Mills/The New York Times President Obama during his first State of the Union address.. Does this limit my ability to finance my child in college because his education will cost more than 10% ?. I applaud the proposed changes in No Child Left Behind and in the efforts of the Obama administration to take a hold of rising student debt���but lets make sure that we dont forget that just because someone makes it easier for you to go to college doesnt mean that��.

LeBron scores 26, Cavaliers roll to 108-94 win over Bulls

Its taken some time, and theres a long way to go. But the. Back home after salvaging a drama-filled trip out West with two wins in Los Angeles, the Cavs had little trouble with the Central Division-leading Bulls.. This was our best defensive.

THE CONVENTION AT WORK.; HOW THE DEMOCRATIC STANDARD BEARERS WERE NOMINATED. FLOWER GETS THE PRIZE

SARATOGA, Sept. 16. -- Ten oclock was the hour scheduled for calling the convention to order, but there was a trifling delay that gave the delegates an opportunity to do some cheering as the big men took their seats. The rink was so crowded that the journey from the entrance to the platform was a trip of trials for those who had to make it after 10 oclock.. Nomination for Lieutenant Governor; Personal Sketch

A New, Improved State of the Union? - The New York Times

Presidential State of the Union addresses are often mocked for their laundry lists of new initiatives, but most of them are anticipated for some particular reason. President Obamas second speech to a joint session of Congress��.

Quartz Daily Brief���Asia edition���BP cries poor, Amazon goes Hollywood.

BP tries to use low oil prices to its advantage. Lawyers for. their union. President Barack Obamas annual address (at 9pm eastern time) is expected to focus on middle-class households and measures to help them feel theyre participating in the US.

In a Land Without Abundance, Joy in the New Year Has Limits

LEAD: The Soviet nation bid an ambivalent adieu to 1989 in midnight revels, joining President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in expressing regret over the bitterness of the withered economy while hailing the waves of revolutionary renewal that have tattered the Kremlins Eastern European bloc.

TEXAS IN THE WAR.; How Texas was Driven Into the Great Conspiracy. THE PART OF TEXAS IN THE FIELD Interesting Reminiscences of Her Rebel Generals. Texas Since the War---Character of the People and Their Feeling Toward the Union. The Inexhaustible Resources of the State. Peculiar Advantages Offered to Immigrants and Native Settlers. THE GREAT GERMAN MASSACRES. FURTHER FACTS CONCERNING THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE GERMANS. THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED UPON THE UNION MEN OF NORTHERN TEXAS. TEXAS IN THE FIELD. THE ASSASSINATION OF GEN. WHARTON. CONFEDERATE GENERALS KILLED. THE WHEREABOUTS OF PROMINENT EX-CONFEDERATE GENERALS OF TEXAS. Sketch of the History or Texas Before the War-Character of the People --The Soil, Climate and Resources of the State. History of the Lone Star State During the Late Rebellion. Interesting Reminiscences of Her Rebel Generals. Texas Since the War---Character of the People and Their Feeling Toward the Union. The Inexhaustible Resources of the State. Peculiar Advantages Offered to Immigrants and Native Settlers. H

TEXAS IN THE WAR. If the people of the United States generally knew little about the State of Texas before the war they knew less about it during the existence of the war.. History During the Rebellion

Inmates Still Human Beings: Prison Health Care Provider Under Investigation

The company, Corizon Health Inc., is under growing pressure after losing five state prison contracts, downgrades by analysts and increasing scrutiny of its care of inmates held by some of its largest customers, including New York City. Corizon. ���We.

Columbia Rebels Find Disruption Pays; Student Rebels at Columbia Find Disruption Pays, but the Cost to Them Is High 70 ARE SUSPENDED FOR STRIKE ROLES But Protesters Expect Many Changes to Take Place in University Structure

A significant number of students at Columbia University have acquired a new and shocking belief. They believe that disruption pays.. survey of Columbia U student demonstrators

This Morning from CBS News, Jan. 20, 2015

Not long before last years State of the Union address, President Obama announced his intention to work around Congress on the issues where he saw a pressing need for action but little chance for cooperation from Capitol Hill. Heres a. Speaking to.

What Would Kojak Do?

It is an oddity of our times that New York City should be the place where these regressions have come together to display just how tattered our civic life has become. For the city is renown for its multi-culture tolerance and liberality - if not for.

The Civil Wars Environmental Impact - NYTimes.com

Perhaps no battle changed the landscape more than the Battle of the Crater, in which an enormous, explosive-packed mine was detonated underneath Confederate lines and left 278 dead, and a depression that is still visible. Still, the weapons used. In May 1862, Lincoln received a letter from a New York schoolteacher, John W. Doughty, urging that he fill heavy shells with a choking gas of liquid chlorine, to poison the enemy in their trenches. The letter was routed to��.

Why Is the M.T.A. Always in Trouble? - NYTimes.com

For riders, the M.T.A. seems to be in perpetual trouble, with threats of fare increases and service cuts even in good times. A 7.5 percent fare increase is already scheduled for 2011. Strong union contracts and an aging��.

Three Who Made a Revolution

FOR A NEW RUSSIA The Mayor of St. Petersburgs Own Story of the Struggle for Justice and Democracy. By Anatoly Sobchak. Illustrated. 191 pp. New York: The Free Press. $22.95.

Talk to the Newsroom: Police Bureau Chief

Al Baker, police headquarters bureau chief, is answering questions this week.

Slow Connections

After Deadline examines questions of grammar, usage and style encountered by writers and editors of The Times.. After Deadline examines questions of grammar, usage and style encountered by writers and editors of The Times. It is adapted from a weekly newsroom critique overseen by Philip B. Corbett, the deputy news editor who is also in charge of The Timess style manual. The goal is not to chastise, but to point out recurring [.]

TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

-- A little vigorous action, as might have been prophesied, has proved to be vastly more effective at Coney Island than was the large amount of sternly virtuous intention upon which reliance for reforming that resort has hitherto been placed. Already the foul birds of various sorts that have nested on the island have taken to their bedraggled wings, and are flying about with discordant cries.. New York Visited with Large Money; Portrait in World; Death; Will

On the Road: Should New York State Be Split? - NYTimes.com

State Senator Joseph E. Robach has proposed legislation that would allow a referendum asking whether voters support dividing New York into two states.. I would guess Texas would get 8 more (as Texas was promised the right to split into 5 states when it first entered the United States, per the former Vice President of the US as quoted in the NY Times on April 24th, 1921). adam December 31, 2009. But NY State is still one state, and should stay one state. After all��.

Its Turkeys Time - Latitude - The New York Times

The countrys efforts to become a member of the European Union has been dragging on for some 50 years, and while Ankara has not always been free from blame, since 2005 ��� when negotiations began in earnest ��� it has been. My own jaundiced take is that Ankara was more interested in becoming a full candidate for E.U. membership than in becoming a full member of the E.U. Candidacy was an advertisement that Turkey was on a stable course, and it was��.

THE NEW-YORK CONTEST.; State Democracy Refuses to Accept One-fifth Representation. A GOOD TICKET AND A SOUND PLATFORM

SYRACUSE, Sept. 25. -- The only thing left in the hands of the Chairman of the Contested Seats Committee was the New-York contest, and it was with an almost dramatic interest that the crowd listened. Chairman Bell said that the committee recommended the seating of the sitting delegates, in accordance with the terms of a resolution which the committee had adopted.. Ticket; Ballot Emblem; Portraits; New-York Contest

Ch��rif and Sa��d Kouachis Path to Paris Attack at Charlie Hebdo

PARIS ��� In the year after the United States invasion of Iraq, a 22-year-old pizza delivery man here couldnt take it anymore.. After the arrest of Ch��rif in 2005, when he was no more than a fledgling jihadist, he spent 20 months in prison.. But.

HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: A TROUBLED START

LEAD: IN THE HEART OF THE NATIONS CAPITAL, in sight of the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, an extraordinary museum is slowly being built. While the other buildings around the Mall pay tribute to the nations achievements, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will commemorate one of the worlds most terrible tragedies.

Greeces Tourism Industry Unsettled by Talk in Election Campaign

���I like to go somewhere a week or 10 days and not worry about where Im going to get my next meal,��� said Mr. Phillips, 52, a civil servant from South Wales, adding that he wanted ���to have quiet time where I have no worries at all.��� He may soon. More.

TRANSIT SYSTEM IS FACING A TROUBLED FUTURE

On a Friday afternoon in March, a month after he became president of the Transit Authority, David Gunn left his office in Brooklyn for a weekend of hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. To catch a 5 P.M. plane to Boston, he took an IRT No. 7 subway train to Roosevelt Avenue and 69th Street in Queens, where he planned to catch a bus to La Guardia Airport. But as he got up to leave the train, he discovered that no rider is immune to the whims of the subway system. The train shot by his station. He missed his bus. He missed his plane. And the reason - track replacement that prevented his train from making its normal stops - will become ever more familiar to millions of riders throughout the city in coming years.

A Newspaper for Injured Civil War Vets - NYTimes.com

After apprenticing with a New York publisher, the younger Bourne threw himself into educational and labor reform, serving as clerk of the Public School Society and the New York Board of Education. He also. ���I was soon taken to the rear,��� Tuttle wrote, ���cloroform [sic] was administered, and when I awoke I found in the place of my good right arm��� nothing but a ��� stump.��� Private. When the Southern states rose up in rebellion, the arm didnt hesitate to sign up to fight.

SHULTZ WITH TOUGH LINE, IS NOW KEY VOICE IN CRISIS

After more than two months of international crises, beginning with the Soviet downing of a Korean airliner on Sept. 1 and extending to last months bombing of the Marine compound in Beirut and the invasion of Grenada, Secretary of State George P. Shultz has emerged as the paramount voice in the Reagan Administrations foreign policy. According to a wide range of key officials, Mr. Shultz and his top aides have become the strongest advocates in the Administration for using military force as an instrument of diplomacy in the Middle East and the Central American and Caribbean region, often in the face of what officials say have been Pentagon doubts or opposition. At the same time, officials said Mr. Shultzs ascendancy, along with the departure of William P. Clark as national security adviser and White House concern about President Reagans vulnerabilities on foreign affairs in next years election, was producing a steadier and less ideological foreign policy. A Common Thread Underneath everything, most officials interviewed agreed, was the effect of the crises on the President himself. A senior official said, Grenada, Beirut and the K.A.L. airliner all served to confirm in the Presidents mind his own view of the world, that there was a common thread to all these events and it all led back to Moscow.

Sunburn ��� The morning read of whats hot in Florida politics ��� January 20

But with hiring up and unemployment down, the president has been more assertive about the improving state of the economy in the new year and his prime-time address Tuesday will be his most high-profile platform for making that case. Tuesday is the.