| Nov 29, 8:04 AM EST
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Two televangelists have resigned their posts as regents at Oral Roberts University, as the debt-ridden school tries to regroup following a spending scandal involving its former president. The university on Thursday also settled with one of three professors who filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the school. Benny Hinn and I.V. Hilliard resigned as regents, where they were involved in making major school decisions, university spokesman Jeremy Burton said Thursday. Burton declined to say why the two resigned, but said both wrote the board to express their support for the school's mission. The resignations come a month after the resignations from the board of regents of two other televangelists, Jesse Duplantis and Creflo Dollar. Hinn and Dollar are among six televangelists being investigated by Iowa Sen.
Super-charging your credit score
For Natasha Horne, trying to buy a house all came down to a three-digit number. A 33-year-old home health care worker who lives with her husband and two kids in a rental in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, Horne was hampered by a low credit score of 612. But with the help of Marilyn Bell, a counselor at Neighborhood Housing Services, which has offices in all five boroughs, Horne went to work. She called her creditors; some were willing to negotiate a settlement. The big push, starting last May, wiped $4,000 off her debt load. Bell contacted the credit reporting agencies about Horne's efforts. Within three months, her credit score rose to 679. Now, she's eligible for a mortgage at better rates than those offered to people with very poor credit.
Schwarzenegger's bad-news budget
Besides, rigid formulas are no substitute for the types of line-by-line judgment calls that the governor and legislators are elected to make. Schwarzenegger is right to serve up the fiscal news in unadorned fashion. There aren't any easy answers. A resolution to this mess will require a revival of bipartisan spirit that has helped this governor in the past - but may be very hard to find if interest groups and anti-tax ideologues dig in their heels. .
Nov 29, 8:04 AM EST
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Two televangelists have resigned their posts as regents at Oral Roberts University, as the debt-ridden school tries to regroup following a spending scandal involving its former president. The university on Thursday also settled with one of three professors who filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the school. Benny Hinn and I.V. Hilliard resigned as regents, where they were involved in making major school decisions, university spokesman Jeremy Burton said Thursday. Burton declined to say why the two resigned, but said both wrote the board to express their support for the school's mission. The resignations come a month after the resignations from the board of regents of two other televangelists, Jesse Duplantis and Creflo Dollar. Hinn and Dollar are among six televangelists being investigated by Iowa Sen.
the has-been
Could Bush be deliberately forcing us into the very type of national embarrassment in the Middle East that has prompted merger offers in the past? Like Ricky Bobby in Talledega Nights, who loses his NASCAR crown to a gay Formula One racecar driver from France, could Bush subconsciously be steering us into the wall on purpose as the only way to escape the haunting sense that "if you ain't first, you're last"? Like the cake and the Bible in Iran-Contra, the pieces start to fit together at last. Merger kingpin Henry Paulson's baffling decision to leave one of the largest deal-making firms on earth to come to Washington, where there are no deals in sight. The until-now-unexplained fit Bush threw when reporter David Gregory might have uncovered any merger talks had he been allowed to keep speaking French to Jacques Chirac.
Austin Lawyer Indicted On Forgery Charges
The indictment said that after Garrison got Howard out of jail with a judge's forged signature, he threatened the family of a police officer. Howard is indicted on three counts of obstruction or retaliation. Garrison already faced drug and theft charges before he got in trouble with the law again, after forging judges' signatures on bonds to get his clients out of jail. According to arrest warrants filed Monday morning, Garrison forged the signatures of at least three judges late last year on bonds for his clients. Included in the warrants is a statement from a witness who went to Garrison for help bailing a friend out of jail. The witness said he watched Garrison forge a judge's signature, saying "I have one more ace up my sleeve." Garrison is a well-known criminal defense lawyer in Austin.
Schwarzenegger's bad-news budget
Besides, rigid formulas are no substitute for the types of line-by-line judgment calls that the governor and legislators are elected to make. Schwarzenegger is right to serve up the fiscal news in unadorned fashion. There aren't any easy answers. A resolution to this mess will require a revival of bipartisan spirit that has helped this governor in the past - but may be very hard to find if interest groups and anti-tax ideologues dig in their heels. .
Jim Paxon's wildfire blog
There is blessed stuff of a White Christmas on the ground in Show Low and even fire ravaged California has finally gotten some rains along with the cessation of Santa Anna winds. Wildland Fire Season 07 is virtually over. Even though this was an unusually mild fire season in Arizona, it was another record breaker in the West and Southeast. Nationwide, there were almost 80,000 fires that burned nine million acres at a cost of 1.5 billion dollars. Thousands of homes and many lives were lost. Contrast that with the last mild fire season prior to this extended drought (1995) which only burned 1.84 million acres with approximately 82,000 fires. This years damage is five times the acreage with approximately the same number of fires. What is going on, we ask? Can we blame it all on global warming? Hardly! We know that fires are burning hotter and are much harder to stop than ever before.
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