Do you Twitter? The number of Americans using Twitter hit 13.9 million people back in March…up from just a half a million users a year ago. http://www.pluggedinonline.com/
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General Motors moves closer to bankruptcy. The nation's largest automaker will be forced to file for bankruptcy court protection within the next five days, Government could take 70% ownership of GM as a bankruptcy filing is all but certain for the automaker. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/27/likely-taking-majority-ownership-gm/
North Korea test firing another round of missiles overnight. North Korea is threatening a military strike on South Korea after reportedly restarting its weapons-grade nuclear plant.
A Terror attack in Pakistan has claimed nearly two dozen lives this morning. Nearly 300 other people were wounded in today's attack on a police station in the city of Lahore.
The Triad is on the radar screen for yet another low-fare airline. JetAmerica is looking at PTI and possibly Smith Reynolds Airport as a stop. The startup airline, based in Clearwater, Florida, begins selling tickets today…with service expected to begin in mid-July. BTW: JetAmerica is offering $9 tickets on at least nine seats on each flight.
http://www.journalnow.com/content/2009/may/27/airline-has-triad-on-list/business/
Several teachers at Oak Ridge Elementary school chose to teach their students outside yesterday. The reason: continued concern about air quality and mold inside the school. Something is making teachers and students sick. School officials said that recently over a half a million dollars has been spent to address the ‘mold’ issue. http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-oak-ridge-mold-090526,0,2623377.story
A proposal to cut the number of school days across the state was dropped in the State House. The proposed plan would have reduced the school calendar from 180 days to 175 next year and to 170 days in 2010-11 in an attempt to save over $300 million dollars. Instead of reducing the school calendar, lawmakers opted to raise annual tuition by $258 dollars for every student in the University of North Carolina system.
http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-story-house-drops-school-canedar,0,2058409.story
The 4-year-old daughter of former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson has died after she was strangled by a cord connected to a treadmill. Exodus Tyson was unconscious when her 7-year-old brother discovered her at their Phoenix home on Monday. The Tyson family is thanking everyone for their support and prayers. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/26/arizona.tyson.daughter/index.html
The driving force behind the latest smoking ban in North Carolina, House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman from Davidson County, is recovering from surgery…. having the lower lobe of his right lung removed. Holliman, a former smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1999.
North Korea test firing another round of missiles overnight. North Korea is threatening a military strike on South Korea after reportedly restarting its weapons-grade nuclear plant.
A Terror attack in Pakistan has claimed nearly two dozen lives this morning. Nearly 300 other people were wounded in today's attack on a police station in the city of Lahore.
The Triad is on the radar screen for yet another low-fare airline. JetAmerica is looking at PTI and possibly Smith Reynolds Airport as a stop. The startup airline, based in Clearwater, Florida, begins selling tickets today…with service expected to begin in mid-July. BTW: JetAmerica is offering $9 tickets on at least nine seats on each flight.
http://www.journalnow.com/content/2009/may/27/airline-has-triad-on-list/business/
Several teachers at Oak Ridge Elementary school chose to teach their students outside yesterday. The reason: continued concern about air quality and mold inside the school. Something is making teachers and students sick. School officials said that recently over a half a million dollars has been spent to address the ‘mold’ issue. http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-oak-ridge-mold-090526,0,2623377.story
A proposal to cut the number of school days across the state was dropped in the State House. The proposed plan would have reduced the school calendar from 180 days to 175 next year and to 170 days in 2010-11 in an attempt to save over $300 million dollars. Instead of reducing the school calendar, lawmakers opted to raise annual tuition by $258 dollars for every student in the University of North Carolina system.
http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-story-house-drops-school-canedar,0,2058409.story
The 4-year-old daughter of former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson has died after she was strangled by a cord connected to a treadmill. Exodus Tyson was unconscious when her 7-year-old brother discovered her at their Phoenix home on Monday. The Tyson family is thanking everyone for their support and prayers. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/26/arizona.tyson.daughter/index.html
The driving force behind the latest smoking ban in North Carolina, House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman from Davidson County, is recovering from surgery…. having the lower lobe of his right lung removed. Holliman, a former smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1999.
http://www.wxii12.com/news/19570295/detail.html
According to a new report from the American Cancer Society…the number of cancer deaths in the US has declined over the last 15 years. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the US right behind heart disease.
http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-holliman-surgery-090526,0,6832819.story
Mayor Allen Joines will run for a third term as Winston-Salem's mayor. www.journalnow.com/content/2009/may/27/270140/joines-says-hell-run-for-3rd-term-as-mayor/news/
Conservative groups are voicing concern about President Obama’s new Supreme Court nominee. The president has named federal court judge Sonia Sotomayor to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
www.christianpost.com/article/20090526/pro-lifers-conservatives-voice-concerns-over-new-high-court-pick/index.html
Who is Sotomayor? http://www.aclj.org/TrialNotebook/Read.aspx?id=782
Traditional marriage upheld: California’s high court upholds limiting marriage to between a man and a woman but affirms existing same-sex marriages. http://www.worldmag.com/webextra/15461
(SPORTS) N-H-L Eastern Conference Finals: Game 4: Penguins over the Canes…4 - 1. Pittsburg advances to the Stanley Cup Finals. Oh, well...there's next year?
