See You at the Pole (Wednesday morning, September 24, 2008)
Tomorrow morning…Students (and parents) the WBFJ morning Show will be taking your calls and emails with your ‘poll’ reports. “Speak, for your servant is listening” 1 Samuel 3:10
Lots of details on the main page at www.syatp.com/info/faq/
Update: A shooting at a college in western Finland has claimed the lives of 9 students. The 22-year old suspect turned the gun on himself, but he reportedly did not die of his wounds. www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/23/finland.school.shooting/index.html
ELECTION DAY IS SIX WEEKS FROM TODAY. General Elections will be held November 04th. The first of three scheduled Presidential debates between John McCain and Barack Obama will be this Friday at the University of Mississippi.
To vote in the upcoming November 4th General Election, you need to be register by Friday, October 10. You can register to vote at your local Board of Elections, libraries and DMV offices.
OIL PRICES ARE UP BUT GASOLINE PRICES ARE DOWN. Oil closed about $16-dollars higher yesterday to end the day at about 121-dollars a barrel. The Triple A says the national average price for regular unleaded is $3.72 a gallon.
The 700-billion dollar bank bailout proposal by the Bush Administration comes under scrutiny of the senate Banking Committee today. The rescue measure calls for the federal government to buy up the bad mortgage loans held by many of the nation's financial institutions.
More than two thirds of North Carolina adults support drilling for oil off the state’s coast. According to an Elon University poll released yesterday, 69% of people polled strongly support oil exploration as close as 3 miles off the Carolina coast. The poll also found that most people expect drilling to affect gas prices in the near future. www.journalnow.com/content/2008/sep/23/survey-reports-drilling-support/
Nearly 800-thousand residents are still without power in Texas. Houston and Galveston were the hardest hit areas by Hurricane Ike. The storm also knocked out power in several other states…close to 90-thousand customers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Louisiana are still without electricity.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin will be High Point University’s Commencement speaker in 2009. His 2009 commencement address at High Point University will happen during the 40th-anniversary year of the historic moonwalk. "Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong made historic walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. www.wxii12.com/news/17529536/detail.html
