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For now, NY-29 residents wait patiently for a verdict to be handed down by the local district federal court that plans to release its ruling this week -- an unnecessary imperative for the residents who want nothing more than to have their voices heard in Washington and a plight that is only too recognizable in the national polls.

I live in the NYS's 29th Congressional District.We don't have a Congress Critter at the moment, and so far our governor has shown no inclination to call a special election. We won't have representation in the House for an upcoming vote on Obamacare.We aren't the only district without a voice. The late Rep. Murtha's district doesn't have a representative yet, and possibly other districts are without a Critter as well.Hundreds of thousands of people will be left voiceless, without a say in the vote on Obamacare. A vote that will change our nation and our lives.We need help to make...

"Once the tee goes into the ground on the first hole, the president behaves exactly like a member of your regular foursome," Tom Friedman says in introducing his interview with Bill Clinton in the upcoming issue of Golf Digest.Well, maybe that's true--if the guys in your regular foursome are lying, cheating weasels. In a lengthy love session with the New York Times foreign affairs columnist and unabashed Clinton rumpswab, praises the president's skills on the golf course while excusing Bubba's knack for ignoring the rules.Clinton says he is "about a 12 (handicap)" and claims to be "the only president whose ...

Before he gets down to finger food and fund-raising, Bill Clinton will talk shop Monday during his visit to Santa Fe.The president has altered his itinerary to add a public-policy announcement to his money-motivated jaunt into the City Different.Press spokeswoman Victoria Valentine said Clinton will speak at a local community center (location to be announced) shortly after his planned arrival at Santa Fe Municipal Airport around 1p.m. Monday.Clinton will call on Congress to to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, which Clinton signed into law in 1994. The law created new federal criminal provisions intended to improve services to victims ...

Siren going. Nothing follows as yet.