LIVERMORE From a theology student to a grandmother, the participants at a church forum on the proposed "junk" gun ban on Sunday night traded views as varied as firearms at a well-stocked gun shop.The five members of the panel comprised of four ban supporters and one ban opponent fired off a barrage of arguments on Measure H, the gun control law on the city's June 3 ballot. The symposium, the first of its kind since the City Council voted in February to...
A church forum has been held in Szolnok [eastern Hungary]. The participants agreed that religion was not a private affair, but the most personal public affair.This year the state will grant 16.5bn forints [one dollar is about 280 forints] to the churches in Hungary. This sum is twice as high as two years ago....
Dec. Deportations Cause Confusion State Police Chief Frank R. Taylor and local government officials are scheduled to attend a church forum next week to address concerns about the recent deportation of undocumented immigrants from the Santa Fe area. The Tuesday night forum at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church was organized in response to a Dec. 21 roadblock at Agua Fria Street southwest of Santa Fe, where State Police officers arrested drunken drivers and the U.S. Immigration and...
He clashes with Preston Daniels in a campaign exchange at a church forum. By JEFF ECKHOFF Register Staff Writer Des Moines mayoral candidate Tim Urban on Sunday called plans to rebuild Interstate Highway 235 a "boondoggle" that needs to be rethought.He also said local officials should be ready to seek state and county aid if voters again turn down a proposed sales-tax increase for schools.Urban, a real estate developer and former city councilman, made...