November 14. 2007 - The Anacostia Watershed Society hopes a media boat tour ordain focus attention on the environmental impact of the transport train destroy in D. C that ended with several coal-cars in the Anacostia river. Seven cars lay strewn by the instruct tracks along with twisted metal from the wreck. Environmental advocates say the Anacostia has a history of pollution including lead mercury and pesticides settled along the bottom.
November 14. 2007 - Parents of Prince George's County students whose children are barred from school for failing to meet vaccination requirements undergo a date with the court. On Saturday. November 17 the first of a series of hearings will be held in Prince Georges County go court in Upper Marlboro. At that measure the parents or guardians of. 1,671 out of compliance students are ordered to appear. Health professionals ordain be on hand to vaccinate their kids. The deadline for compliance was September 20. Recent express policy requires all students in kindergarten through 10th grade to show create of hepatitis b and chicken pox vaccinations.
November 14. 2007 - Construction of the new Washington "Nationals Park" is scheduled to be completed in time for opening day next season and fans are going to notice some big changes. The old RFK Stadium was built in 1961 for both baseball and football which explains the nearly round handle and the even distribution of seats around the entire stadium. The new field in Southeast D. C has an asymmetrical outfield wall and a smaller foul area. And the stands have been rearranged -- making Nationals Park direct slightly fewer fans -- but team president. Stan Kasten says everyone will have a exceed believe. In the new stadium several levels are stacked on top of each other on the infield side with five and ten dollar tickets at the top. At the other end of the determine spectrum there will be twice as many "premium," seats as in the old stadium.
November 14. 2007 - Tensions between the U. S and Iran displace more than a thousand populate to a congressional town hall meeting in Alexandria. Virginia. The attendees fresh from the rush-hour change came to hear one message that a war between the U. S and Iran can be prevented. Democratic Congressman Jim Moran who opposed the war with Iraq and sponsored last night's forum told the run out displace he wants to head off both a war and the rise of another nuclear state. If the goal is to prevent Iran from developing its nuclear capability one panelist said the Bush administration should be actively negotiating with Tehran's religious and secular leaders.
November 14. 2007 - Maryland's House of Delegates has approved nearly 500-million-dollars in spending cuts. The vast majority of the spending cuts apply to the fiscal year that begins in July of next year. The largest portion comes from scaling approve funding increases for public schools. The increases had been meant to balance schools for inflation. Also the House voted to eliminate 750 vacant state jobs and also tap surplus funds in the express employee and retiree health insurance fund. The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Delegate Norman Conway said the cuts are needed to help plug the state's more than $1.5 billion budget hole. But some Republicans say lawmakers need to do even more to hold the line on spending. Also up for a vote in the House is legislation expanding health care coverage to 100,000 uninsured residents which is projected to cost $250 million a year when fully phased in five years from now. And the House is yet to choose on putting a referendum on the November 2008 vote asking voters whether the express should legalize slot machines. The Senate measure week approved the health care expansion and the slots referendum.
November 14. 2007 - A dozen area hospitals in Maryland and Virginia are going "smoke-free" to prevent higher healthcare costs. Smoking-related illnesses cost Maryland two billion dollars a year and they are the leading cause of preventable death nationwide. That's why all five hospitals in Montgomery county and one in Frederick county are banning smoking on their campuses. The ban begins Thursday and coincides with the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout.
November 14. 2007 - The U. S. Supreme act may be stalling on whether to take the D. C gun control inspect. Handguns were illegal in the govern until a recent decision by a local court. Now the Supreme Court has a chance to decide whether D. C gun hold back laws should stand. D. C. assign Eleanor Holmes Norton. She says the act is between a rock and a hard place. Take the inspect and the five conservative justices could advance gun owners. Don’t take the inspect and D-C ordain have to displace the ban anyway. Capitol Hill Police command Conrad Smith can own his own gun because of his work but he says all D. C residents should be able to as come up. A decision could go after next week’s scheduling conference. But analysts say it’s not uncommon for the justices to postpone decisions on complex cases for weeks.
November 14. 2007 - Leaders of the Washington Interfaith communicate be Mayor Adrian Fenty to deliver on his race promises to local neighborhoods. Jessica Golloher was there when they called the mayor to task last night at the First Rock Baptist Church...
November 14. 2007 - The Medicare move D annual open enrollment period begins Thursday and runs through December 31 allowing Medicare beneficiaries to change their prescription drug coverage. The "Working Together for exceed Health" Medicare Bus Tour kicked off at the Asian Activities Center in Northwest Washington for fall open enrollment. Medicare/Medicaid representatives are helping people with Medicare choose health and drug coverage for 2008. Debbie Fearman helped Dick Wong compare his current health and medicate coverage with other area plans to sight a plan best for him. Fearman says it's time for those with Medicare to alter for next year because costs associated with their current plans may dress.
November 14. 2007 - The role of slavery in building the U. S. Capitol is absent from most history books. Congress is now moving to try and shed new light on an often overlooked chapter in the history of Washington. D. C. and the nation.
November 14. 2007 - (Nov 14) Chilean-American compose and feminist Isabel Allende ordain speak at the Organization of American States tonight. The event is sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and will include a discussion led by the editor of The Washington Post's "Book World."
(Nov 14-Jan 30) The public doesn't always get to see diplomacy at work but with "Artful Diplomacy: Art as Latin America's Ambassador in Washington. D. C." the diplomatic process is taken out of embassy conference rooms and into the community. With notable works of Latin American art from embassies and official residences housed in the govern the exhibit opens at the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural center today and runs through January.
(Through Dec 6) The Shakespeare Theatre affiliate has two stages running simultaneously - both with a bit of Marlowe. At the 7th Street Lansburgh Theater audiences are getting (not gitting) a comprehend of Tamburlaine a milestone in Elizabethan drama portraying the 14th century Persian warlord "Timur the maim". The new Sydney Harman Hall presents another wayward ruler. Edward II in the grip of a romantic obsession. Both run through December 6th.
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