| Homeless asked to leave
A group of homeless squatting in an overgrown field along East Second Street were asked to leave the private property after an article on the tent encampment appeared in the Odessa American. The property owner’s son, Manuel Gonzalez, knew drifters cut through the property, but he was unaware that some had set up tents and created a living community hidden from plain sight behind a tin fence on the property. Gonzalez was warned, he said, that he faces city code violations and fines if the men and women remained on the overgrown land, including fire code violations because the homeless living there started fires for warmth. Gonzalez met the homeless with police officers and told them that he understands their situation, and he feels from them, but he can’t afford any-thing happening to them there, Gonzalez said Thursday.
Campaign 2008
There is a very high correlation in voting behavior between the Clinton/Obama race in 2008 and the Gore/Bradley race in 2000 in New Hampshire. Clinton/Gore tended to attract older, downscale, less educated voters. Obama/Bradley tended to attract younger, upscale, more-educated voters. It's as if there were two well-established factions in the Democratic Party, with considerable loyalty by voters. The Republican electorate, in contrast, seems split, at least by this field of candidates, into multiple factions, none of which resembles the issue stands/personal characteristics profile that served George W. Bush so well in the 2000 race for the nomination. more >> .
This Year Is Deadliest For U.S. In Iraq
At the time, he and Gates both said it was too early to tell whether the trend would hold, and whether it could be attributed to action by Iranian authorities. Iran publicly denies that it has sent weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq.Two of the Iranians who will be freed "in the coming days" were among five captured in a January U.S. raid on an Iranian government facility in Irbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region in the north of the country.The Americans said the five were members of Iran's elite Quds Force, an arm of the Revolutionary Guards. Iran said the five were diplomats working in a facility that was undergoing preparations to be a consular office.Smith told reporters the identities of the nine Iranians would be released later and that many of them had been taken prisoner through the course of the war.
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