Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley tried their best to win the Northern Trust Open Sunday. Both players had to make spectacular birdies on the tough closing hole at Riviera Country Club to tie Bill Haas after 72 holes.
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PACIFIC PALISADES – Where was Tiger Woods over the weekend?There were no confirmed Tiger sightings in Orange County, where Woods was born and grew up, where he still owns residential property and has honorary memberships at Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach and Shady Canyon Golf Club in…
PACIFIC PALISADES – Where was Tiger Woods over the weekend?There were no confirmed Tiger sightings in Orange County, where Woods was born and grew up, where he still owns residential property and has honorary memberships at Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach and Shady Canyon Golf Club in…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Too often it is after the fact that teachers discover their students are worrying less about math and reading and more about where the next meal comes from.
So Doug White, principal of Garfield Elementary School in inner-city Kansas City, was relieved when his school, like many across the country, began offering dinner to students enrolled in after-school child-care or tutoring programs.
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Los
Angeles traffic is perhaps the most congested of any PGA Tour
venue but that has not stopped a quality field from flowing into
the Riviera Country Club for this week’s Northern Trust Open.
Inside the course: Riviera Country Club
Woods shot a 2-under 68 at Monterey Peninsula Country Club, putting him at 6-under for the tournament entering Saturday's round at Pebble Beach Golf Links.
Last week’s news reports included the jarring juxtaposition of two very remarkable stories. The first was Mitt Romney’s amazing confession that he didn’t lose any sleep over poor people in America. Or to quote the candidate: “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.” He went on to say that he was also “not concerned about the very rich. They’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of America — the 90-95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling.”
The second story that contrasts sharply with Mitt’s mistake was reported in a New York Times series about the 40,000 homeless people now living in New York City. The story points out that most of New York’s homeless are working families with kids and parents commuting long distances from shelter to school and work. Today, there are more homeless New Yorkers than at any time since we started collecting data on homelessness. There are many causes of homelessness just as there are many causes of poverty.
Poverty must be seen as a relative rather than absolute status. Poverty in America is not the extreme poverty that my Earth Institute colleagues are working on in Africa. Most poor people in America are not in daily danger of starvation. In Africa, the issue is often sheer survival. But even when there is sufficient food and shelter to scrape by, poverty’s impact, especially on children, can be devastating. You don’t need to be in imminent peril to feel poor. To hear a Presidential candidate dismiss the issue, even as he dials his comments back and tries to retract them, is still unbelievable. Then there is his assertion that 90-95% of the country is “struggling.” For a guy with a reputation for being a sharp analyst, those numbers are pretty far off. I very much doubt that 95% of the country is now struggling. The official poverty rate is about 15%, and some analysts believe the actual rate is closer to 25%. Many working families are staying in the middle class by working multiple jobs and long hours. Lots of people are in rough shape, but if the number was 95%, there’d have been riots in the streets this past weekend instead of Superbowl parties. Is this really the same guy who ran a (very) profitable business, managed a successful Olympics and did a decent job of governing Massachusetts? Perhaps it really is true that running for President can damage ones intellectual capacities.
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This is where the urgency and solidarity and audacious determination of national organizations — and residents across the country — are desperately needed, on a par with the tar sands movement. If we can stop the proposed Keystone pipeline, we can stop mountaintop removal.
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Resort briefs: Turtle Dunes Country Club, a Tripp Davis design, has opened on the grounds of the Fairmont Acapulco Princess and the Fairmont Pierre Marques.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s newspapers are warning of an alarming increase in swine flu for the first time since a pandemic shut down much of the country three years ago, while the government insists there’s no need for another international scare.
Federal and state health officials agree there is an increase, but they say the number of cases is within the range of a normal flu season.
Resort briefs: Turtle Dunes Country Club, a Tripp Davis design, has opened on the grounds of the Fairmont Acapulco Princess and the Fairmont Pierre Marques.
Arianna and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi addressed the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Jan 18, challenging the nation’s local leaders to become a voice for the people they represent.
In her speech, Arianna called on American mayors to become active members of their communities and address the growing gaps between the nation’s rich and poor. She hit at the heart of what many consider to be an astounding trend in the US: the increasing downward-mobility of the American middle-class.
With an emphasis on Aol’s Patch network of hyper-local sites, Arianna also told the conference of the growing need to address and cover the nation’s often neglected poorest citizens.
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COMMENTARY: "Lefty" creates a perfect storm. PACIFIC PALISADES – Phil Mickelson stared down his 27-foot putt at Riviera Country Club on Sunday with thousands of fans packed elbow to elbow and knee to knee around the 18th green.