Disasters wipe out jobs along with lives

This is an area, as you will see from the article, that is already struggling with unemployment and poverty - this will only make things much worse. We need to see extensions for the unemployment funding and new jobs and possibilities as part of the relief efforts! Please pray for these areas. The plant where

Obama marks Memorial Day with country

Happy Memorial Day - honoring those who have been willing to sacrifice for others today. Arlington, Virginia (CNN) -- President Barack Obama led the nation's Memorial Day observances Monday, laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknowns and declaring that Americans owe "a debt to our fallen heroes that we can never

‘Lock ’em up’ not always best solution

Finally some are waking up to the very obvious fact that our system is not creating rehabilitation-scenarios for non-violent offenders, but is instead creating hard criminals out of them! "No Mercy" stances not only aren't right, but don't work. We couldn't cheer enough for this, from the article, "A famously tough-on-crime state, Texas is proving

Senate rejects Ryan budget; vote puts GOP on the spot

CDOA Response: "So glad the Senate forced this vote, so that each and every one who voted for this disgraceful budget plan can now be held accountable to their districts. This is going to make a difference in 2012!" Senate Democrats forced a vote Wednesday on the controversial fiscal plan drafted by House Budget chief Paul Ryan,

Local election with national consequences?

Republicans are beginning to pay the price for trying to kill Medicare and other programs... By: CNN's Deirdre Walsh, Kate Bolduan and Paul Steinhauser (CNN) - It's election day in a once little-talked-about contest to fill a vacant congressional seat in upstate New York, that is now firmly in the national political spotlight. And over the past