http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fink/ en-us Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:05:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272833/posts TOLEDO, Ohio – Residents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways. Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (FINK'-by-ner) says he stands by the citations handed out last week by the Division of Streets, Bridges and Harbor. He says the tickets were issued under a city law against parking on unpaved surfaces, including gravel driveways. AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272833/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969409/posts Thank you for your thoughts. Your message will be conveyed to the Mayor. Attached is the Mayor's Statement to the Media and a statement from Lt. Colonel Piccoli, U.S. Marine Corps on this issue. Statement from Mayor Carty Finkbeiner -Regarding U.S. Marine Corps. February 10, 2008 Frank Szollosi can play politics with anything. It is what he does best. Today, I spoke with Major Jeff Brooks of the United States Marine Corps. I conveyed my sincere regret for the failure to communicate within the administration and any inconvenience that caused the U.S. Marine Corps. I also conveyed, as my staff... E mail reply from Mayor of Toledo..... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969409/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:55:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795793/posts Starting soon. FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795793/posts#comment Tue, 6 Mar 2007 01:19:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777473/posts Half-serious warning: those with heart conditions are advised to have their medications handy when reading this. With Democrats in congressional power, are leftists feeling suddenly empowered to express formerly taboo views? First came a column in the Los Angeles Times arguing we have overreacted to 9-11. Now comes Washington Post columnist William Arkin to express contempt for our troops and question how much we really owe them after all. Excerpts from The Troops Also Need to Support the American People: "I've been mulling over an NBC Nightly News report from Iraq last Friday in which a number of soldiers expressed... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777473/posts#comment Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:25:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1334357/posts The coming economic crisis. Unemployment. Health care for the poor. The almost 1,500 dead soldiers. The almost 100,000 dead Iraqis. Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher. The Christian Conservative takeover of our nation. The missing 9 billion. The missing weapons of mass destruction. The impending invasion of Iran, and Syria. The total failure to protect us on 9-11. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1334357/posts#comment Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:48:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1324996/posts US Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who had hoped to replace George W. Bush as president yesterday, instead sat in the cold and clapped as the Republican began a second four-year term. Iowa Democratic Senator Tom Harkin patted Senator Kerry on the back shortly before the inauguration Senator Kerry had hoped would be his. As Mr Bush delivered his inaugural address, Senator Kerry, about 10m away on the steps of the US Capitol, joined other lawmakers and the crowd in repeated applause. Senator Kerry looked relaxed, at times wistful. He frequently smiled, able to hide any disappointment over what... news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1324996/posts#comment Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:09:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1041083/posts CAIRO, December 15 (IslamOnline.net) – Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsy Clarke expressed readiness Sunday, December 14, to act as defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, with western analysts suspecting the captured leader would be given fair trial. "Certainly, why not. I am ready to act in his defense," Clarke told IslamOnline.net shortly after the U.S. confirmed the detention of Saddam near Tikrit. Clarke, currently in Cairo to attend a two-day international anti-occupation conference, stressed that Saddam – however brutal – should be give a "fair, objective and impartial trial". "Saddam must be domestically prosecuted first and - if... IslamOnline.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1041083/posts#comment Tue, 16 Dec 2003 03:19:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/754127/posts <p>Republican congressional candidates in Wayne and Oakland counties have comfortable leads over Democratic challengers, a new poll shows.</p> <p>U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg, a Bloomfield Township Republican, holds a 52 percent-25 percent lead over Democrat David Fink, a West Bloomfield attorney, in the 9th Congressional District, which cuts across Oakland County from Farmington up to Oakland Township.</p> Detroit Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/754127/posts#comment Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:43:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/751616/posts <p>BOSTON -- Former FBI agent John Connolly, who had been credited with helping to cripple the New England Mafia, was sentenced Monday to more than 10 years in prison for protecting his informants in exchange for information.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro had twice rejected motions from both the prosecution and the defense to deviate from federal guidelines, which called for a sentence of eight years, one month to 10 years, one month.</p> Boston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/751616/posts#comment Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:55:28 GMT