City council votes down public call for vote on USS George Washington
stripes.com     May 17, 2008          

By Hana Kusumoto, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, May 18, 2008 YOKOSUKA, Japan — A second try at putting citizen acceptance of the USS George Washington to a vote of the people resoundingly failed Friday. The Yokosuka City Council voted down putting the referendum to a vote 33 to 8 —... [read full story]                

Add a comment to the article
Type the code shown

View all news articles about:

- Featured Persons

View other selected articles:

                   

Finding a Moral in One Developer's Story

washingtonpost.com     13 hrs ago          

Saturday, July 26, 2008; Page F04 Many years ago when I was backpacking through Asia, I bought books based on the number of pages per dollar. For a real-estate-oriented read, Witold Rybczynski's "Last Harvest," recently issued...                

comments

                   

Fixing Up a Brownstone on a Drug-Infested Street

nytimes.com     13 hrs ago          

“Homegirl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block” The fixer-upper brownstone in a frontier neighborhood — along with the rent-stabilized pre-war apartment and the classic six bought for a song during the dire 1970s economy...                

comments

                   

(CongressRat) Baldwin (D, WI) Makes a Call for Impeachment Hearings

freerepublic.com     13 hrs ago   41 related          

Declaring that "there is no task more important for this Congress than to seriously consider whether our nation's leaders have violated their oath of office," Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin on Friday morning told the House...                

comments

                   

Jul 25, 2008: French & Indian War Exhibit at Harmony Museum

yahoo.com     14 hrs ago          

George Washington precipitated the first global war with a 1753 military mission to what would become western Pennsylvania. American history would likely have been much different had he been killed in either of two very close...                

comments