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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 2003
Page
4
The Southern Illinoisan requests reader letters under 250 words signed with author name and hometown, not publishing telephone numbers. It outlines editing rights, disallowed poetry, mass submissions, libel cautions, and contact channels including newsroom and circulation numbers from Carbondale and Williamson County.
The Fed is anticipated to keep the federal funds rate at 1 percent at its meeting, aiming to curb rising long-term rates that threaten the economy. Critics say Greenspan’s signals misled bond markets, risking faster rate increases and a stalled recovery.
Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko from the International Space Station married Ekaterina Dmitriev in a private ceremony at Johnson Space Center Houston via video link. Texas law allows the wedding though one party is absent. The couple plans a Russian Orthodox ceremony next year and enjoy a celestial connection despite 240 miles of space between them.
The Rev. Gene Robinson, first openly gay Episcopalian bishop elect, returns to St. Paul’s Church in Concord New Hampshire to lead a morning service and bless the parish. Crowds fill the pews as Robison discusses blessing ceremonies and acceptance amid divided responses within the congregation.
A Bush administration lawyer compares California and other states push to legalize marijuana for the sick with civil rights defiance. Five federal lawsuits seek to curb medical use while DOJ asks the Supreme Court to affirm federal power over doctor licenses. California Prop 215 paved medical marijuana, but federal law still bans production, sale, or use.
Washington lawmakers criticized President Bush advisers for flawed postwar Iraq assumptions contributing to Iraqi resentment and undermining legitimacy. Senate Foreign Relations chair Dick Lugar warned the war remains unresolved despite Bush’s claims. Lugar and Sam Nunn offered sobering reflections on the war’s trajectory after 100 days since major combat ended.
President Bush tours Summerhaven Arizona to push Senate approval of forest thinning to prevent wildfires. He says thinning protected $2 billion in equipment and camp facilities and two observatories, arguing thinning yields healthier forests with a wider canopy.
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