Apparent coup attempted in Guinea-Bissau
Nov 23, 2008 Associated Press Online
...the presidential election, ruling until 2003, when he too was forced from power in a coup. Vieira won the 2005 presidential election and has ruled since then. Yala's party lost seven seats in the 100-seat legislature in last week's election, while the governing party went from 45 seats to 67. Carlos Gomes Jr, a former prime minister who now heads the ruling party, visited Vieira's house and said, "It's unacceptable in the 21st century to resolve our problems with violence."...

Christmas gifting, Fumo-style
Nov 23, 2008 Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Opinion
We can only imagine what their Senate offices must have smelled like. Balya had expressed befuddlement over John McCain receiving more Westmoreland County votes than Barack Obama in the presidential election. Stairs' campaign finance report showed he had a balance of $133,265.

Del. native to work in the White House
Nov 23, 2008 News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware
TERRI SANGINITI Delaware native Dan Pfeiffer, who spent the last two years on the campaign trail with President-elect Barack Obama, was named the next White House deputy communications director on Saturday. Gibbs, 37, began working for Obama in 2004, serving as communications director for his U.S. Senate race and later as Senate communications director. During the presidential campaign, he was among the few who could frankly tell Obama what needed to improve.

Georgia marks 5th anniversary of Rose Revolution
Nov 23, 2008 Associated Press Online
Rose Revolution, used Sunday's anniversary to launch an opposition party. Burdzhanadze is a likely presidential candidate in 2013. In the 2003 Rose Revolution, massive public protests sparked by elections widely seen as fraudulent drove former President Eduard Shevardnadze from power and ushered pro-Western Saakashvili into power. Saakashvili won a second five-year term in January despite opposition efforts to unseat him. --__ Associated Press writer Matt Siegel in...

Obama throws Osama off his game
Nov 23, 2008 Detroit News, Opinion
Many potential recruits there have been too happily joining Americans in celebrating Obama's new house -- the White House!

Obama's team a mix of rivals and old friends
Nov 23, 2008 News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware
Longtime, deeply loyal associates will dominate the White House inner sanctum. John Podesta, Clinton's former White House chief of staff, is heading the transition effort. Robert Gibbs, Obama's spokesman since his 2004 Senate race, was named on Saturday as White House press secretary.

Roundup: Guinea-Bissau restores calm after mutiny
Nov 23, 2008 English News Service
...presidential election in 2000 but was overthrown in a 2003 coup, met with UN special envoy in Guinea- Bissau Shola Omoragie, one day after the election to file a protest against the PAIGC, which claimed to win more than 80 percent of votes before the official results were published.A high turnout of more than 70 percent was reported for the election. Nearly 600,000 of the country's 1.5 million population were registered to chose lawmakers for the country's fourth National Assembly since...

The world was different
Nov 23, 2008 Arkansas Democrat Gazette
He was not planning to leave the house the next day. And now, the day before Election Day, Team Obama was running though fields of tall grass, city to city, in the final day of a kind of electoral mystery tour. A former Chicago Tribune reporter turned political consultant, he worked for various candidates-including the former Illinois senator Paul Simon-before he ran Obama?s 2004 U.S. Senate race.

Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 23
Nov 23, 2008 English News Service
...presidential elections next year." (Palestinians-Abbas-Elections)- - - -DHAKA -- Bangladesh Election Commission on Sunday rescheduled the ninth parliamentary elections on Dec. 29 after hectic negotiations between the commission, the caretaker government and major parties in the past few days.Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda announced the changed date deferring the general elections from Dec. 18 to Dec. 29, while the sub-district elections will be postponed from...

TBR: Inside the List
Nov 23, 2008 New York Times
Back in 1964, Irving Wallace?s novel ?The Man,? about a black senator who ascends to the Oval Office through a series of bizarre events, spent 38 weeks on the hardcover list.

Aubry wins French Socialist Party leadership
Nov 22, 2008 Associated Press Online
Hollande, the party's first secretary for 11 years, had campaigned against Royal. The Socialists are the main opposition to Sarkozy's conservatives. France's presidential and legislative elections await in 2012. Aubry, 58, has said the party should be "anchored on the left" and has rallied party heavyweights around her.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va., Larry Hypes column A warm Friday afternoon brings chilling news and stirs decades of memories
Nov 22, 2008 Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Car radios out in the street and some inside the Court House were on. We found out that Pat Jennings was winning the 9th Congressional Race. "Wally" Barron was leading the governor's race in West Virginia.

Candidate statements show support for mining
Nov 22, 2008 Elko Daily Free Press
Candidate statements show support for mining By DOUG McMURDO - Associate Editor ELKO - The following statements regarding hardrock mining and industry reform were gathered Thursday from the two presidential campaigns. Each campaign was asked to provide a statement this week to ensure outdated information was not released. ?When questions came up in the Senate about reforming the 1872 Mining Law, I opposed the creation of a royalty rate scheme that threatened local jobs.

Businesses brace for change
Nov 23, 2008 News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware
The pharmaceutical industry also faces a potentially adversarial relationship with the new federal government. All businesses are watching to see what the Obama administration will do to stimulate the moribund U.S. economy. Businesses, already beset by rising health-care costs, are watching to see how new federal and state insurance reform policies will affect their bottom line.

Autism bill goes to Gov. Rod Blagojevich It would mandate insurance coverage of $36,000 a year
Nov 21, 2008 Chicago Tribune
...federal guidelines, would be excluded. Others worried the mandate would raise costs for small employers who may cancel coverage. "As an employer, if you purchase health insurance in Illinois, every policy purchased in the state will have this policy mandated in it," said Kim Maisch, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business. "It's going to affect small and medium-sized businesses that buy health insurance in an open market for their employees." Further,...

Despite hard times, retailers expect holiday growth
Nov 21, 2008 McClatchy Washington Bureau
National Federation of Independent Business, which represents small businesses, including retailers and restaurant owners."They're very pessimistic about the real volume of sales they're going to have," said William C. Dunkelberg, the group's chief economist, who surveys members monthly. "We've got the highest percentage of (gloom) we've ever seen in the history of the survey reporting."Price cutting and sales pitches can take retailers only so far, he said."If people are...

Political temperature may be just right for healthcare overhaul
Nov 18, 2008 Los Angeles Times
And businesses see new urgency in addressing the nation's healthcare crisis as they struggle to pay costs for medical benefits while sales plummet and profit margins shrivel. Republican lawmakers are already expressing concerns about proposals that would drive the federal budget deeper into the red. The president-elect and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill have said immediate federal action to prop up the sagging economy will be their top priority.

'Quality counts' for cleaning firm start-up
Nov 17, 2008 The News-Sentinel
...to the National Federation of Independent Business' (NFIB) Education Foundation, more than 3 million new businesses are started annually, with two-thirds of them starting in the owner's home. One survey done by the foundation and Wells Fargo Bank, using U.S. Census Bureau data and household surveys, revealed that about 50 percent of businesses that employ people are still operating five years after the business opening. The NFIB estimates that over the lifetime of a business, 39...