washingtonpost.com - MississippiMississippiFilibuster Vote Will Be Hard to Predict- May 7, 2005 As few as two or three uncommitted GOP senators have left Democrats and Republicans uncertain who might prevail in an eventual showdown in the battle over judicial filibusters, sources in both parties said yesterday.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21660-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... President Outmaneuvers Senator on Base Closings- May 7, 2005 Bush used his recess-appointment power to thwart an effort by Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to stall the work of a military base-closing commission.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22106-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/m... Bush Takes Risk With Show of Support for DeLay- May 7, 2005 President Bush is doing for Tom DeLay what he refused to do for Trent Lott three years ago: taking a political risk to defend an embattled congressional leader's career, several Republican officials and strategists said.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18665-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Civil Rights Activists Reunite at Memorial- May 7, 2005 Conversations about southern summers, dangerous nights and youthful dreams of changing the world were a clear sign that a reunion was underway. There were playful pats at tummies that have added a few inches, updates about children who've grown into adults and bearhugs meant to make up for those missing years.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1761-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ms Signs of Understanding- May 7, 2005 In the play "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" now showing at Ford's Theatre, the irascible literary hero's float down the Mississippi isn't the only adventure depicted on stage. Nor is the subject of race in the time of slavery the only barrier explored.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16269-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Gambling Interests Funded DeLay Trip- May 7, 2005 Gambling groups covered most of the cost of a $70,000 trip in 2000, two months before DeLay helped kill legislation opposed by the groups.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28252-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Va. Football Players Warm to New Goal- May 7, 2005 The seniors on a Fairfax County high school football team got a glimpse yesterday of their cameo appearance in a soon-to-be-released television film, but their thoughts were not of stardom or the silver screen. These players were dreaming about saving the nation's wetlands.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/m... Histrionics And History- May 7, 2005 Gee-whiz theme-park technology meets serious history at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24713-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... CONTRACTS AWARDED- May 7, 2005 McNeil Technologies Inc. of Springfield won a $3.8 million Energy Department contract to support the department's Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution. The office conducts research and development on transmission and distribution system materials, controls, and technologies.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61610-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Suing for the Uninsured- May 7, 2005 Since last spring, a phalanx of trial lawyers who made millions suing asbestos makers and tobacco companies have been targeting tax-exempt hospitals, accusing them of gouging the poor.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45531-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... |