With one month to go until Election Day, the campaigns of Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have kicked into overdrive, preparing for the final stretch in the crucial swing state of Nevada.
Sandra Hofferth was so concerned about the welfare of over-scheduled, stressed-out kids that she sought to define the damage ambitious parents were doing to their offspring. “I started out with a pretty solid belief that lots and lots of activities are bad for children,” said the director of the University of Maryland’s Population Research Center.
To all those who’ve argued that public school spending can’t possibly sustain further cuts, that the bleeding from the past year’s budget reductions will result in the equivalent of amputations to district operations: The Clark County School Board just blew your bluff.
With the city’s housing market stumbling in 2008, you might expect local home builders to back off on extras such as ecofriendly construction methods and materials.
Don’t tell Victor Rodriguez the slow economy is bad for business.
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Wall Street joined in a worldwide cascade of despair today over the financial crisis, driving the Dow Jones industrials to their biggest loss ever during a trading day. Even a big afternoon rally failed to keep the Dow from its first close below 10,000 since 2004.