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Former Congresswoman | Cynthia McKinney | Atlanta Music Liberty Fest | Exposes Government Corruption
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician and activist. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United St...

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Liberty, BTW plans both now stuck in limbo

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This is one of those awkward and, at least for now, irresolvable situations in which discretion is indeed the better part of valor. The Housing Authority of Columbus exercised that discretion last week in a letter to Mayor Teresa Tomlinson confirming that, as a result of "unexpected opposition," its redevelopment plans for the Booker T. Washington housing complex have been put on indefinite hold.

The plan, as most Columbusites are aware, called for the redevelopment to consist in part of the construction of 100 new apartments in the Liberty District, the Liberty Theater-anchored area recognized as the historic heart of the city's black community. Not only do the location and condition of the BTW apartments make for one of the city's least attractive "gateways," but the complex also occupies a large tract at the intersection of Veterans Parkway and Victory Drive that many see as prime for economic development.

But Liberty District stakeholders, led by, among others, Tax Commissioner Lula Lunsford Huff, object to the plan on the grounds that BTW redevelopment, in the form of mixed-income apartments on three blocks near the Liberty is not the kind of development that is in the best interest of the district, its residents or its property owners.

The mayor, though a vocal and active advocate of the redevelopment plan, invoked the time-honored observation that politics is "the art of the possible," and conceded that "at some point this opportunity just became impossible."

A lot of the debate apparently revolves around questions of timing: What did the various players in this drama know, and when did they know it?

Those opposing the BTW contend it is not in line with the city's 2003 Liberty District master plan. There's a question of whether some members of Columbus Council who supported the redevelopment plan knew what was in the 2003 master plan, or even that it existed. Housing Authority Director Len Williams said the redevelopment project has been in the works, and known to some of its present opponents, for two years. If some of the apartments can't be relocated to the city-owned Liberty District land, then where?

Meanwhile, others involved in this have their own perspectives. Liberty Theatre board chairman Robert Anderson, who supports the BTW redevelopment plan, suggested there's more energy involved in blocking the plan than in the Liberty itself: "Everybody seems to be concerned about the theater, but nobody attends it," Anderson said.

And then, of course, there are the people living in the blighted and deteriorating Booker T. Washington complex who just want to know what, if anything, is going change in their lives, and if so, when.

Tomlinson suggests a Liberty District committee with representation from BTW residents. It would be encouraging if something like that could work, because if there's common ground in this standoff, nobody seems to have found it.

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Liberty Global receives European Commission nod to acquire Virgin Media

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BRUSSELS Europe's biggest cable operator Liberty Global Inc. received the green light Monday for its $22.5 billion acquisition of Virgin Media Inc., the U.K.'s second-largest pay-TV operator, after the European Union said the acquisition raised no competition concerns.

Market analysts said the Virgin Media deal will likely reinforce Douglas County-based Liberty Global's challenge against BSkyB, the U.K.'s top pay-TV provider, owned by Rupert Murdoch. News Corp., which owns The Wall Street Journal, is BSkyB's largest shareholder, with a 39.1 percent stake.

The European Commission, which acts as the EU's antitrust watchdog, said the companies operate cable networks in different EU countries, and that the merged entity would have only a limited market position in the wholesale of TV channels in the U.K. and Ireland.

Liberty Global said the transaction was still subject to majority approval from both shareholders. "The respective shareholder meetings, as well as the closing of the transaction, are expected to occur in the second quarter of 2013," said Marcus Smith, a spokesman for the company.

In its review, the commission said it had looked into the TV content acquisition sector in the U.K., Ireland and the European Economic Area as a whole. It also investigated the vertical link between Liberty Global's activities in the wholesale supply of pay-TV channels, it said.

"It is unlikely that the merged entity would shut out competing TV channel broadcasters from access to the retail Pay-TV market," the commission said in its statement.

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Liberty Coal Energy Continues Investigation Into Misleading Internet Promotion

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CARSON CITY, NV--(Marketwired - Apr 15, 2013) - Liberty Coal Energy (OTCQB: LBTG) (the "Company" "Liberty coal" or Liberty.")

Liberty Coal Energy Corp regrets to announce that the Company has become aware that again, certain third parties unknown to the Company have been spreading misleading, false and erroneous information over the internet, via email andpossibly other mediums, all of which are unauthorized and are being made without the permission or authorization of the Company.

The emails are believed to originate partially from Europe. The notices suggest that the Company is the subject of an unannounced, negotiated buyout by an unknown entity, and that the Coal property Liberty controls is a target for shale oil production, all of which are entirely untrue.

Liberty Coal's Board and Officers have no knowledge of any contacts, concepts or negotiations for a buyout or business combination for the Company or the assets of the Company, and encourages shareholders and all persons to strictly ignore all such statements unless they come directly from the Company in an authorized news release.

Edwin Morrow President Liberty Coal Energy Corp.

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"Religious Liberty and the Culture Wars," with UVA Law Professor Douglas Laycock – Video

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"Religious Liberty and the Culture Wars," with UVA Law Professor Douglas Laycock
Professor Douglas Laycock lectures on religious liberty and the culture wars to mark his appointment as the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at...

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