National Budget for 3.12.08
GateHouse News Service National Budget For 3/12/08 editions
Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly.
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NOTES:
SUNSHINE WEEK: The week begins March 16, which is Sunday. If you didn't hear back from the agency you FOIA'd, that's info we'd like to have. National reporter Lauren FitzPatrick is compiling your data, as well as collecting data from her own FOIAs of 50 federal agencies and all 50 states. Our package will be on the news service Thursday, with final updates Friday. I will send out a budget later today.
FAMILY TAB: GateHouse's first Family tab, a 24-page monthly publication, will be available on the news service March 12. "Family" is full of practical tips, insight and advice presented in a digestible format. Look for it Wednesday on the news service. Here's info about the new publication.
http://www.ghnewsroom.com/news.php?newsid=1205151460
Lifestyles (Wednesday is Food)
ST. PAT'S DAY: We have content packaged for St. Patrick's Day, and we'll content to add stories as they come in.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/homepage/x1126212656
ST. PATRICK'S RAIL: Fun facts about St. Patrick's Day and Irishness. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/x1379334005
FOOD PAGE: Soda bread.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/food/x513684586
FOOD VIDEO: This week, create restaurant-style chili parmesan chicken tenders at home.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/food/x1870702733
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Weekly food rail has a review of Edy's "American Idol" ice cream, a cookbook review, Food Quiz and more. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/food/x513685382
SALMONELLA AT EASTER: Watch out for salmonella this Easter season
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/health/x691146276
Opinions
SPITZER SCANDAL OPINIONS: Links to several editorial cartoons, a column about Spitzer and an editorial. Includes a link to a blog out of Utica, N.Y. We'll continue to add and update.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/x1126215906
DEIRDRE REILLY: The Girl Scouts are out to get me! http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/columnists/x688584639
BRITT: Toon on the Obama-Hillary race. Will be posted this afternoon.
EDITORIAL: Bush wrongly leaves door open for torture
President George W. Bush likes to keep his options open. On Saturday, Bush vetoed a bill that would have banned the CIA from using "waterboarding" and other coercive interrogation methods to extract information from suspected terrorists. An editorial from the Galesburg Register-Mail.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/x1126215972
PETER CHIANCA: Ban the Easter Bunny! http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x1775727920
Sports
NASCAR: All of this week's NASCAR content - including the prepared page - are linked to from this story: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/x1438205216
MIKE NADEL: Contenders? Choose another word for Cardinals
JUPITER, Fla. - For most of the last decade, if you said "St. Louis Cardinals," an appropriate word-association response would have been "contenders." Given last season's collapse and the shortcomings that linger into this year, "also-rans" is more fitting. Will be posted this afternoon.
RICE COMEBACK: Former Illinois and NFL star Simeon Rice is preparing for a comeback to the NFL. And a camera crew is following him every step of the way. By John Supinie. Will be posted this evening.
BIG TEN TOURNAMENT: Capsules on all 11 Big Ten teams heading into the Big Ten tournament. By John Supinie.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/sports/x513686159
News
GOD PLATES: 'In God We Trust' plates stir up debate: Atheist Rob Sherman believes that if Illinoisans are able to buy license plates saying "In God We Trust," they also should have the right to purchase "God is Make-Believe" plates. By Meagan Sexton of the State Capitol bureau.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/x1870702835
GHOSTS IN TOWN HALL: Ghosts in town hall, according to paranormal researchers <http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/x633713481> - Sound recordings and images showing orbs taken in the Middleboro Town Hall are presented as proof of ghosts in the historic building. Enterprise, Elwell, 20 inches, on wire now
With photos, sidebars and audio
DOGGIE RENTALS: Doggie rental company irks some lawmakers <http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/x691146490> - The latest in convenience lifestyle services - pet dogs by the hour - is meeting resistance at the Massachusetts state capital. Ledger, Kelly, 9 inches, on wire now