Quotations

The 28th S.F. Jewish Film Festival (San Francisco Chronicle)

20 Jul 2008

The 28th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is the oldest continuous festival of its kind in the world. Under Executive Director Peter Stein, it has grown to 70 films from 19 countries and features 114 screenings in five locations throughout the Bay Area. "...

Quotations of the day (Waxahachie Daily Light)

20 Jul 2008

"At no time in the richest country in the world should hundreds of people be living underneath an interstate." — New Orleans City Council member Arnie Fielkow after a nonprofit group moved 46 men and women from a long-standing homeless encampment into a Salvation Army facility.

Needham Override on the November budget (Boston Globe)

20 Jul 2008

The Board of Selectmen has approved putting a $1.9 million Proposition 2 1/2 override question on the November ballot. The funds would be used to operate the High Rock School, the town's new sixth-grade center designed to help with the overcrowding at Pollard Middle School. If approved, this override would be in addition to a $21 million override voters ...