Youth Today: Eitel Withdraws Nomination to Head National Service Agency

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Tuesday May 26, 2009 · 2:02 PM PDT

2009/05/26 · 14:02

Maria Eitel, president of the Nike Foundation, has withdrawn her name from consideration as CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), White House officials confirmed today.

An e-mail sent by the acting CEO of the corporation, Nicola Goren, said Eitel has a "previously unknown health condition." The nature of the condition was not disclosed.

Youth Today has the full article, but more is after the fold.

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Wednesday February 04, 2009 · 7:56 PM PST

2009/02/04 · 19:56

This entire hearing didn't get enough attention.

This is a short diary -- don't have time to fill one out.

This man is a true "hero" on the order of "Sully," the guy who saved the people by landing on the Hudson River. Although Markopolos tried for 8.5 years, he could not save the financial system. His ideas for revamping the entire financial regulatory system are positively thorough and completely do-able.

Please watch and recommend.

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WaPO and Sidwell Friends: A Regular Hoot! w/ poll

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Friday December 12, 2008 · 1:59 PM PST

2008/12/12 · 13:59

Imagine my glee this morning, after bailing out my morning Post from beneath a pile of wet leaves, to find on page A02 of The Washington Post yet another in what seems to be a series of helpful updates on the goings on at Sidwell Friends School, the soon-to-be-educational home of the Obama girls.

I’d nearly have a meltdown if I didn’t get these reports about the tribulations of the "regular parents" — like Patti Solis Doyle, former Clintonite, and David "stretch" Gregory, new host of "Meet The Press" — who pay some $30,000 in tuition to secure their kids a spot at the elite private school in upper Northwest D.C.

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Sen. Obama: Alaska on Friday, The Frontier Awaits ...

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 5:49 PM PDT

2008/09/02 · 17:49

On Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, Sen. Obama should arrive in Alaska to give a speech and launch the fall campaign. Here’s why this idea, crazy as it might seem at first, works on so many levels. Before we go west, follow me down south.

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 9:34 AM PDT

2008/08/28 · 09:34

In today’s Washington Post On Faith section — a prominent feature of WaPo’s website — you’ll be heartened to know that the mainstream media is helping to educate us all about the roots of our next President’s name. To wit:

Barack Obama shares with past American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Benjamin Harrison, the distinction of a notable biblical namesake.

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Sunday June 29, 2008 · 9:23 AM PDT

2008/06/29 · 09:23

Not content to let the House have all the action, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Friday launched a probe of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP) alleged political grantmaking, Youth Today reported Friday.

The D.C.-based newspaper’s ongoing coverage of the story, in which OJJDP Administrator J. Robert Flores has had to answer for several suspicious moves in awarding precious juvenile justice funds — including that he helped politically connected money seekers over more qualified applicants and even allowed proposal submissions to arrive after the deadline — prompted the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to call Flores before its panel 10 days ago.

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Kos: Let's Not Lose Again OK?

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Monday June 23, 2008 · 7:50 PM PDT

2008/06/23 · 19:50

I like this website. The vast majority of posts and comments are fine; many are insightful. And Markos's editorial guidance seems sound. I perk up when I see his polling analyses or his pundit roundups or other fine musings about politics. But tonight on Keith Olbermann, after hearing Markos's comments on Obama and FISA, I realized that Democrats can lose this thing once again -- to someone who I believe would be far worse than Bush -- because we cannot get off our "Naderesque" high horses and win.

Day after day, week after week, month after month, one diarist to the next, this site has been the location for unrivaled support for Obama. Nary a criticism ... ever. He's perfect, doing the 50-state thing, beating Clinton, surviving Rev. Wright and bittergate, winning primary after primary, etc. He had the courage to call the Republicans "weak" on terrorism. He's given up public financing because, even though it's risky, not doing so would be more of a risk. One would think that Kos -- and the diarists who might follow his lead -- could be a little more forgiving if the man has to think about realpolitik once in a while. He is, by the way, a black man named Barack Obama trying to win what is, perhaps, the most important election of our lives.

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Wednesday June 18, 2008 · 4:59 PM PDT

2008/06/18 · 16:59

Youth Today, the publication that scooped ABC News and broke the story in December about sketchy grant-making at the Department of Justice's Juvenile Justice office, reports on an advanced copy of J. Robert Flores’ congressional testimony tomorrow in which he attributes criticism to those "biased against the wealthy" and against the Bush administration in general.

Youth Today, a D.C.-based national trade publication for the youth work field, received advanced copy of Flores’ testimony, to be delivered June 19 at 9:30 a.m. before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).

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