My Studying With the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations in New York City In Graduate School for 2 Years, Amir (From Hackensack NJ USA) By JIll Starr I worked fervently legally registering the organization in New Jersey as a legally filed non-profit successfully. The Law Projects Center and its activities demanded Darko, his wife and I often stayed the night over each others’ apartments often; many times working days at a time with very little sleep. From winter (1999) until fall...Read Full Story
To hear former New Mexican Governor Bill Richardson tell it, he was invited to Cuba by the Raul Castro government to discuss the Alan Gross matter.
Gross has been sitting in a Cuban jail close to two years, charged and convicted of being a U.S. spy for bringing in illegal communication equipment. Meanwhile Gross insists he was simply a government contractor there working with USAID on a democracy building project.
Richardson who has visited Cuba numerous times and on behalf of other...Read Full Story
Gov. Bill Richardson has officially withdrawn himself from consideration to be commerce secretary in the new Obama administration due to the ongoing investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract in New Mexico.
A federal grand jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Richardson’s political activities won a New Mexico transportation contract worth more than $1 million. Richardson said in a statement issued by the Obama transition...Read Full Story
After what has been notably a smooth transition, the would-be Cabinet put together by President-elect Obama suffered its first hiccup today with Bill Richardson withdrawing his name from becoming the next secretary of Commerce. The withdrawal was sparked by a federal grand jury investigation that is underway in Richardson's home state of New Mexico into whether a financial services company won state contracts after its CEO contributed to a political committee controlled by the governor...Read Full Story
Former democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson has withdrawn as President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for commerce secretary, sources in the transition office tell NPR.
The source confirmed reports from MSNBC that New Mexico’s governor is withdrawing from the confirmation process — and says a full statement will be released shortly.
The reason reportedly involves a pending investigation into a company that has done business with the state of New Mexico. In comments posted on...Read Full Story
Hopefully Tempe's next mayor will take the city where it needs to be and not where it's been. • Retired Mesa master police officer Bill Richardson lives in the East Valley and can be reached at bill.richardson@cox.net.
Former Energy Secretary and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has spent the last few days in Abu Dhabi at the World Future Energy Summit discussing renewable energy and sustainability issues with world leaders and luckily for us, a few bloggers. Our ...
Bill Richardson has long been one of the nation's most powerful champions of clean energy: As governor of New Mexico, he pioneered strong renewable power standards, signed the Kyoto Protocol, and incentivized investment in alternative energy. As a ...
(CBS News, 2011) Social Security and Medicare: As part of an effort to reduce debt, Obama proposed significant reductions ... David Loebsack, Bruce Braley; Govs. Rod Blagojevich, Chet Culver, Bill Richardson.
Former U.N. Ambassador and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson says the grief displayed in the streets of North Korea during funeral ceremonies for recently deceased leader Kim Jong Il is “very choreographed.” Richardson, who has visited the ...
William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15 , 1947 ) is the current Governor of New Mexico and was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for President of ...
Bill Richardson for President ... It is with great pride, understanding and acceptance that I am ending my campaign for President of the United States.
ALAMOGORDO â Governor Bill Richardson today announced DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures and director Michael Bay will return to New Mexico to film major sequences for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The next installment of the box office ...