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PUKAPUKA VOTERS COULD BE JAILED, SAYS MITCHELL Submitted by admin on Mon, 02/26/2001 - 00:00 By Jason Brown PUKAPUKA, Cook Islands (February 17 2001 – Cook Islands News)---Opposition witnesses, who alleged bribery attempts in the Pukapuka by-election, may have exposed themselves to the risk of jail, says an electoral lawyer. Electoral laws can punish candidates for attempting to bribe voters -- and jail voters who accept the bribes. Proving bribery is difficult however. "The standar...

Priority. sadly sometimes it takes a report like this to be a real wake-up call for politicians. michael mitchell thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. up next bitcoin is going mainstream. didnt you hear? maybe thats how people can afford college. thats next. and questions the same asking. but that only resulted in improvements small. so weve got some ideas new. garbage can create energy. light can talk. countries can run on jet engine technology. when you look at pr...

>> the number one culprit for rising costs, especially at public two and four-year colleges, thats community colleges and your kind of your state public four years is cuts to state funding. theres been a lot of talk as you said to rising administrative costs. thats been largely overstated. if were going to address rising costs and additional debt that students are taking on the first place we need to look is at state investments in higher education. >> so michael, lets play this out to the nth d...

Higher education costs too much and its just not worth it to go. and this has implications not only for those individual students, but that bubbles up to local communities, that bubbles up to local state economies, and that can put a real cap on future economic growth. theres been a lot of research looking ahead to say, well were going to need about two-thirds of our future workforce to be educated at least to the two-year associates degree level. were currently not on track to make that goal. a...

And average tuition at public schools is up by nearly a third since the recession. the biggest increase is in arizona where tuition is up a staggering 80%. as states look to reverse the trend, this new report is a warning to elected officials they are not doing enough. michael mitchell is co-author of the report. michael, you look at some of the states that rank among the worst in higher education cuts like louisiana, kentucky even florida. many have governors or senators hoping to be the next p...

years of conduct and concerns of a reported $150 million in alleged bribes and kickbacks. >> these individuals, through these organizations, engaged in bribery to decide who would televise games where the games would be held and who would run the organization overseeing organized soccer worldwide. one of the most popular sports around the globe. in many instances the defendants and their coconspirators planned aspects of this long-running scam during meetings held here in the united. t...

this policy it depended on how far reaching it would be. nbc bay area news. >> thank you, they are unmedicated and unsupervised. dozens of mentally ill patients are being dropped off. its claimed that nevadas mental hospital put the patients on a bus and sent them out of town. 1/3 of them ended up here. we have more about the city attorney taking action. >> reporter: the city attorney said that some of those patients arrived here in downtown san francisco wheith nowhere to go d no 1 to...

earthquake and the tsunami? >> it is significant, 7.4. you can see on this map, something you can look on the website to see. when there is an earthquake, it is a red dot and it stays red for an hour when you can see anything significant. you can see aftershocks. a tsunami warning, not all the earthquakes produce a tsunami. that warning was cancelled so that is great news. the other part of this that is good news is this is over basically water. over a sparsely populated area, the next...

>> barry manilow has had 35 consecutive top 40 hits and five albums on the charts at the same time. a record rivalled only by frank sinatra and johnny mathis. hes back with his first album of original songs in more than a decade called "15 minutes." hes also a headliner in vegas. what a career. you talk about careers in music. >> thats amazing. just listening to it. im feeling tired. >> and you must have the most die hard fans. >> i do! [ cheers and applause ] >> some of them are here....