By Courtney Ann Jackson-Talk Radio News Service
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (R) discusses what should be done with health care legislation in the House and how it will affect individual states.
Following a Democratic Leadership Council Ceremony honoring retiring founder Al From, Former Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove (D) said he is hopeful that we will have health care reform within this year. He believes the increased cost of health care must be reduced and more Americans should be given access. He also said that access is particularly important in rural areas. (0:21)
This video documents the playground assembly of a Kaboom! Playground, done by 377 volunteers in Pass Christian, Mississippi (De Lisle). The playground was erected on a center that also includes a swimming pool, which cannot be opened to the public until additional donations are received. For information on donating to the center, contact Ellen Ratner at ellen@talkradionews.com
KaBOOM! is a 501 (c)(3) tax exempt organization. Their website is: http://kaboom.org
Music: Happy Alley – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
By Candyce Torres and Suzia Van Swol, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss) expresses his opinion on President Obama’s speech, reaching consensus within both parties, and comments on promises of cutting the deficit in half. “Well I would have started with not spending the eight hundred billion dollars that we have spent on the stimulus.” said Wicker
From the floor of the Republican National Committee Convention
Tammy Stern from Texas
Jim Herring, President of the delegation from Mississippi
Jeannie Leike from Mississippi
Listen to Audio File (5:42)
Today in a House press conference authors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis of the report “The Measure of America, American Human Development Report 2008-2009” explained their findings. The findings of the research were compiled from government documents that were available for the last two years, including the census and current economic reports. All of the findings were compiled to give the country “a very holistic approach that puts the person at the front and center,” said Burd-Sharps. (more…)
At a Committee on Financial Services subcommittee hearing on implementation of Hurricane Katrina relief funds, Director of the Mississippi State Governor’s Office of Recovery and Renewal Jack Norris asks Congress to “streamline or waive” the “cumbersome” environmental regulations that he says are the “number one impediment” to providing affordable housing for victims. (0:42)
At a Committee on Financial Services subcommittee hearing, Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) responds to Mississippi’s allocation of Hurricane Katrina relief funds by saying that they should not “put the port above the people.” (1:07)
The House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the Committee on Financial Services held a hearing to assess the implementation of Community Development Block Grant funds for post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction among the states impacted along the Gulf Coast.
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An audio documentary based on Cholene Espinoza’s book “Through the Eye of the Storm” from Chelsea Green Publishing
Narrated by Michael Harrison of Talkers Magazine
Original music by Kevin Casey
A production of Talk Radio News Service
Produced by Lovisa Frost, Gregory Gorman, Victoria Jones, Bev Santaniello and Wendy Wang
