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JONESBORO, Maine - When John Cox heard about plans to turn 87 miles of inactive rail bed in Washington and Hancock counties into public trails, he hoped someone would start a petition against it.

The Muslim Student Association at CU finds itself in a progressive state with a woman as president. Kelly Brewer, MSA's president, stands out not only in her leadership role, but also as a convert to Islam. Raised in a Catholic-Christian household, Brewer began learning about Islam as a 9th grader. The Sept. 11 media coverage at the time portrayed Muslims in Islam's "malpracticed" state, and Brewer became interested in Islam's "true form." While delving into Islamic culture, Brewer was "impressed by the conduct of Muslims" in their kindness. Brewer, who converted after Sept. 11, said that "now a lot of...

In letter to state chair, family values group says Dem officials at odds with their own base --- LANSING -- A co-author of Michigan's Marriage Protection Amendment -- overwhelmingly approved by voters two years ago as Proposal 2 -- Monday urged state Democratic Party officials to rescind a newly-adopted party platform provision expressly calling for repeal of the amendment. Delegates to last month's Michigan Democratic Party convention approved a platform which stated: "We call for the repeal of 2004 Proposal 2 which adds discrimination to our State Constitution." http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=20122 Gary Glenn, Midland, president of the American Family Association of Michigan,...

The disciplinary arm of the N.C. State Bar dropped charges of felonious misconduct against two former Union County prosecutors Friday because of a 1999 clerical error at the state Supreme Court. The State Bar had charged Kenneth Honeycutt and Scott Brewer with lying, cheating and withholding evidence in a 1996 death penalty case. The ruling Friday marks the second time that Honeycutt and Brewer won on procedural grounds before the bar's Disciplinary Hearing Commission, which sits as judge and jury in disciplinary cases. . . . Prosecutors around the state are concerned that the case is damaging their reputation and...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- In an unusual move by the N.C. State Bar, the regulatory group has charged a former district attorney and his assistant with prosecutorial misconduct in a 1996 murder case that ended in a death sentence. (snip) Last week, the bar filed the charges of prosecutorial misconduct against Kenneth Honeycutt, the former district attorney of Union County, and his assistant, Scott Brewer. The bar charged that Honeycutt and Brewer each committed 23 violations of the rules that govern lawyers. In the past decade, the bar has only disciplined four prosecutors for misconduct. Honeycutt and Brewer lied to the...

Arizona's number one and number two politicians are arguing about who's in charge of the state when the governor is out of the country. Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano plans to visit Russia and Europe on business and vacation next month, and a political flap has erupted over who has the legal right to govern while she's gone. Jeanine L'Ecuyer, Napolitano's Communications Director, told KNST Talk Radio, "Our read of the constitution is she is effectively the governor no matter where she is." Jan Brewer says no, she's not. Arizona's Secretary of State, Brewer says when the governor's out of state...

An increasingly bitter feud among Arizona's top elected officials has thrown Proposition 200's voting provision into chaos, potentially jeopardizing the state's 2006 primary and general elections.

Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer on Friday said she would not rule out running against Gov. Janet Napolitano in the 2006 election. The feisty Republican, however, said for now she just wants to "be the best secretary of state" she can be and let someone else take on Napolitano, a Democrat and former state attorney general. "I would never say never," said Brewer after a morning speaking engagement in Yuma at the Rio Colorado Republican Women's Club. Brewer said there has been some talk in GOP circles of her running against Napolitano, but she said she has no plans...

MI Brewer Redistricting, 1st Ld-Writethru 5/6/2005, 9:58 p.m. ET By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — State Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer would like to turn the once-every-decade effort to redraw Michigan's legislative and congressional districts over to someone less partisan than state lawmakers. That's not just because Democrats lost legislative and congressional seats when the current maps were drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2001. After all, Democrats were quick to design districts that protected their own incumbents or made seats more Democrat-leaning when they controlled the Statehouse after the 1970 census, he said. But in...

Dear Mr. Brewer, In your letter to me dated February 1, 2005, following a list of questions, you wrote: "If we do not receive a response, we will assume you do not agree with the positions expressed by the Michigan Democratic Party." As I am sure you are aware, I am the Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party (see numerous articles). As I am also sure you are aware, the Democrat and Republican parties have long been rival political parties (see U.S. history books; also read a newspaper), holding to separate ideologies and espousing oftentimes divergent platforms on a myriad...

The Aviator on National Review Online E-mail Author Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version February 25, 2005, 3:14 p.m. Howard Hughes's Last HurrahWhat The Aviator misses. by John Meroney Fifty-three years ago this week, Howard Hughes found himself locked in a battle against powerful political forces he believed were bent on undermining the free-market system. The billionaire industrialist, airplane manufacturer, and filmmaker became so passionate about the fight that he summoned all his emotional and physical strength to overcome a crippling fear of the public so he could make his case for what he saw as...

State party spat continues at national meeting The Associated Press 6/23/2003, 8:28 a.m. ET DETROIT (AP) — The lingering spat atop the Michigan Democratic Party erupted at a national party meeting when Mark Brewer, executive chairman of the state party, was elected president of the Association of State Democratic Chairs. Michigan state chairman Melvin "Butch" Hollowell voted for Washington state chairman Paul Berendt. Hollowell told The Detroit News that his vote over the weekend was "a reflection of the fact that we have a governor that has a different view on the direction of the party." U.S. Rep. John Dingell,...

HE LET HIS BEERS DO THE TALKING The best brewers in America are more accomplished than they are famous. Gordon Knight was one of those. Knight, 52, died on Tuesday after his helicopter crashed while he was fighting a fire near Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. He was trying to drop water on hot spots in a 4,400-acre blaze. Knight, flying a 32-year-old French helicopter, radioed in about 6:30 p.m. and calmly reported, "I'm going down," a Forest Service spokeswoman, Ellen Hodges, said. Unless you drank beer along Colorado's Front Range in the 1990s you probably never tasted one...

Righteous Anger: The only antidote for Conservative America By Joel Brewer joelbrewer@politicalusa.com 4/29/2002 Get Updates My friends, I am but a foot-soldier in the conservative army of America, still smarting from my first boot camp buzz-cut. At the age of 24, I have no political record, no campaign experience and certainly no vested interest in the political swamp of Washington. I’m a political rookie, pure and simple. Despite these shortcomings, I believe I have the cure for what ails the conservative movement in this country. It’s not popular. It’s not fashionable. It’s not an attractive option, either. But it is...