Ask the Buisness Librarian 4-24
Q: I’ve started thinking about preparing my taxes and am wondering if there are any resources available that address any changes that may have occurred in tax law for 2005?
Do you have an opinion? 4-23
Dear Rina,
I read the article entitled “TNCP Interview with 50 Cent about his new movies and his personal life” in the November 27, 2005 – December 10, 2005 edition. I liked the question and answer format.
TNCP Takes a Look at Giving in Our Community: Exploring Homelessness – KATRINA
African American State Legislators Call for Compassion for Hurricane Survivors; Tens of Thousands of Evacuees Face Being Homeless for the Holidays
Top: Tanisha Speed, with her son, Treyvon Speed. They were separated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Ms. Speed’s was able to make it to Lansing with her toddler, Anthony Mitchell (not shown).
Whitewashing Blackface
The controversial article that was printed in the November 27, 2005 – December 10, 2005 article entitled “Blackface Costumes Spark Dialogue” has spurred interesting dialogue from our readers. We have received more feedback from the story that any other. Special commentary section in “Excuse Me Are You Listening?” on Page 2, in our next edition.
This current article is one individuals response to “whitefacing”.
TNCP Speaks with Jamaican Sensation Sean Paul
Sean Paul hopes to continue global success with the “Dutty World”
Excuse me are you listening? 4-23
Dear Readers,
Thanksgiving is a time of year for sharing with family and going over your family’s house and eating until your heart is content. You may have to make a dish or get the children dressed up some years. Other years, you may go empty handed and bring back a plate or two.
AS THE HOMELESS NUMBERS INCREASE; LOCAL SHELTERS FACE HARD TIMES
A homeless man tries to keep warm by using a rug and cardboard box as a mattress. During the holidays, do not forget the homeless in your town. With limited resources and frigid temperatures the Volunteers of America and other organizations that assist the homeless, need volunteers and donations as they fill during the winter. TNCP Photo.
Movie Review: “Crash”
Studio: Lions Gate
Plot: There is good and bad in all of us.
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Terrence Howard, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Tony Danza, Loretta Devine and Larenz Tate.
Rating: R
Bottom Line:***
BUSH CALLS ON CONGRESS TO RENEW VOTING ACT: Also signs bill to place Rosa Parks statue in the Nation’s Capitol
President George W. Bush is seen Thursday, Dec. 1. 2005 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, as he signs H.R. 4145, to Direct the Joint Committee on the Library to Obtain a Statue of Rosa Parks, which will be placed in the US Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. The President is joined by, from left to right, U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson, Mrs. Laura Bush, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. White House photo by Paul Morse.