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  • Cruz visit to Bronx high school canceled after students threaten a walkout:

    04/06/2016 8:33:57 PM PDT · by MaxistheBest · 180 replies
    The Daily News ^ | 04/06/2016 | BY CHAUNCEY ALCORN, LEONARD GREENE
    ‘His views are against ours’ Ted Cruz came to New York Wednesday talking about education, but he’s the one who got schooled. The lesson came from a group of Bronx high school students who told the Republican presidential candidate to stay away. Cruz was scheduled to speak at Bronx Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy until students wrote a letter to the principal asking her not to let Cruz come, prompting staffers to cancel the appearance. "We told her if he came here, we would schedule a walkout," said Destiny Domeneck, 16. "Most of us are immigrants or come from immigrant backgrounds....
  • Gas prices spike to an all-time high

    08/31/2005 3:40:25 PM PDT · by jb6 · 20 replies · 736+ views
    Mercury News ^ | Wed, Aug. 31, 2005 | Kevin G. Hall
    OIl traders shrugged off Bush's petroleum reserve announcement. Prices in Washington surged to as much as $3.15 a gallon. By Kevin G. Hall Knight Ridder Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Gasoline prices in many U.S. cities spiked past the all-time highs set in 1981 and no relief for motorists as oil traders largely shrugged off the Bush administration's Wednesday announcement that it was releasing supply from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Just a day earlier, analysts had predicted that prices could climb to record levels by Labor Day weekend in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But it happened by midday Wednesday. Gas...