The death of a local woman while crossing West Street last winter kickstarted a campaign to redesign a stretch of that roadway to make it safer for pedestrians.
good afternoon and welcome to the national press club, the place where news happens. i am the 2023 president of the national c press club and managg editor in charge of the standards and training. thank you for joining us both here and online for the headline eventen with u.s. marine corps commandant general davidid h berger. we are happy to accept your questions and after the opening remarks i will ask as many as time permits to submit a question online please e-mail headliners@press.org and put marines in the subject line. it is now my pleasure to introduce the distinguished had a table. please stand up in your name is called. starting at my right, tom young commander of the national press club american legion club. kevin retired u.s. navy captain and national press club member who helped organize today s event. we will get to the speaker in a moment. maureen russo, president of the communications andes cochair of culture ofthe headliners team tt organizes this event. and t
equality, a federal appeals court has struck down the defense of marriage act following a lawsuit by the state of massachusetts and others. it is unconstitutional for the federal government to create a system of first and second class marriages and it does harm to massachusetts and families of massachusetts every day. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. a federal appeals court has struck down the defense america act, known as doma, for discriminating against same-sex couples. the unanimous decision down the federal government does not have the authority to deny benefits to same-sex couples in states such as massachusetts, which has approved gay marriage. the ruling is expected to be appealed and ultimately end up before the supreme court. in a statement, the marriage equality group freedom to marry called the decision doma latere more on in the broadcast. the new york times has revealed p
court has struck down the defense of marriage act following a lawsuit by the state of massachusetts and others. it is unconstitutional for the federal government to create a system of first and second class marriages and it does harm to massachusetts and families of massachusetts every day. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. a federal appeals court has struck down the defense america act, known as doma, for discriminating against same-sex couples. the unanimous decision down the federal government does not have the authority to deny benefits to same-sex couples in states such as massachusetts, which has approved gay marriage. the ruling is expected to be appealed and ultimately end up before the supreme court. in a statement, the marriage equality group freedom to marry called the decision doma latere more on in the broadcast. the new york times has revealed president obama has waged a m
a push to purge thousands of voters off florida s voter registration rolls, in time for the election. as in all of these cases, the stated goal of this mass effort to take away thousands of floridian s voting rights is supposedly the prevention of voter fraud. in recent weeks, the state of florida has sent local elections officials a list of more than 2,600 registered voter who is the state says are not u.s. citizens and therefore are not eligible to vote and they have to have their names taken off the rolls. election supervisors, in turn, have been looking at those lists and finding tons of inaccuracies. like, for example, maureen russo, u.s. citizen, born in akron, ohio. the state of florida wants her purged off the voting list. bill anturnacorolla, born in brooke lynn, new york, the state of florida wants him purged off the voter list. author guy, seen here posing with his american passport, as well as his local election supervisor, who is a republican,