| Father Foley Cape Cod abuse case settled For $550,000
The Archdiocese of Hartford agreed this week to pay $550,000 to a man who accused the Rev. Stephen Foley of using his position as Hartford County fire chaplain to sodomize him when he was a 14-year-old parishioner in Windsor Locks. Foley, who has been accused of abuse by at least 11 men since 1993 and was removed from public ministry in 2002, is still affiliated with the county fire organization he belonged to when the alleged assault occurred. He now holds the title of "chaplain emeritus" of the group, according to board members... The current president of the group is Windsor Locks Fire Chief Gary Ruggiero. Haber said Ruggiero sent an e-mail to the board of directors Friday criticizing the newspaper for publishing a story last Sunday that exposed Foley's continued use of a police-equipped Crown Victoria with flashing lights, sirens and scanners... abuse took place on a weekend when the boy and his friend accompanied Foley to a home on Cape Cod, which Foley said was owned by his aunt, the brief said.
A slippery slope for health?
Most European countries operate an insurance-based health care scheme. Citizens are obliged to pay into state-operated or state-recognised insurance funds. Hospitals and general practitioners (and specialists who offer primary consultations) claim back all or part of the costs of treatment from the relevant insurance providers. There have long been difficulties in citizens getting costs covered by their state-recognised schemes when they seek treatment in a neighbouring country whose facilities are more convenient to travel to (e.g. the German-Dutch border area around Aachen). Regulation 1408/71 was supposed to deal with this but clearly doesn't. That Regulation, insofar as it covers healthcare, is designed essentially to allow the government of one country to get back from other governments the money spent on treating their citizens.
Buy-to-let investors hold the key to predicting how far house prices ...
She predicts that cuts in interest rates and the sheer number of tenants will help to keep the buy-to-let investor in business. "There will be those investors who want to crystallise gains, but those will be the speculators who are struggling to get tenants," Ms Earley said. "We are in a market where there is great tenant demand because first-time buyers are unable to get on to the housing ladder." .
The Richardson File: The Santa Fe New Mexican follows the governor's ...
Unless the Legislature and Gov. Bill Richardson agree to change state law, New Mexicans may never have a chance to vote in next year’s primary election for some of the Democrats and Republicans running for Congress or statewide offices. That’s because of a law that took effect this year that potentially restricts ballot access for candidates. As it stands now, Democratic and GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House and a state Supreme Court position can earn a place on the June primary ballot only if they receive at least 20 percent of the votes of delegates at their party’s preprimary nominating convention. In the past, candidates who fell short of that 20 percent threshold — as well as those who skipped the preprimary conventions — still could get on the ballot by submitting additional petitions with signatures of registered voters to the secretary of state.
Will an “emotional moment”
The Religious Reich is wringing their hands and freaking out right about now (and I LOVE it). A vote for Mitt—probably the most competent and "Presidential" of the GOP brood—is a vote for gasp! a CULT! (That cracks me UP! Xtians not wanting to vote for Romney because they think Mormonism is a cult…classic "pot, meet kettle" rhetoric. ALL religions are CULTS.) The RR like Huck, 'cuz he's a good ol' boy sworn to uphold the Bible of the United States, but he hasn't been a very good guv. In fact, some of his politics are actually progressive. We certainly can't have that. McCain is too liberal for them, and face it, no one else has a shot. Rudy's dead in the water. Sorry, Gules, but you wore out your only card: Sept. 11th. Yawn. So the conservatives in America are scared.
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