| Student loan terms could soon be revised
Congressional leaders are moving briskly ahead on bills that would dramatically cut interest rates on student loans for some borrowers.
Although the measures have yet to become law, one has been approved in the House and a similar proposal has passed a key Senate committee. Experts say this is a sign that lending reforms are likely to be included in higher-education legislation that is expected this year.
That comes as welcome news to many former students, including Delonda Graham, a 37-year-old health-care worker from Knoxville, Tenn. Graham, the ninth of 10 siblings, built up $25,000 in college debt while getting a degree in sociology from the University of Tennessee.
When she didn't get the high-paying job she'd hoped for after graduation, she deferred payment and then signed up for the Department of Education's "income-contingent" repayment plan.
Support Groups
Advocates for the Elderly, 1:30 p.m. Baxter County Library. Lois Torgersen, 425-7810. Friends with Disabilities, 6 p.m. First Baptist Church Fireside Room. Renee, 421-2471, or Mark, 427-2491. Breast Cancer, 6 p.m. Baxter Regional Medical Center Peitz Cancer Support House. 508-CARE (2273). Fibromyalgia, 6:30 p.m. Van Matre Senior Center, Cooper Park. Ask for Diana or Liz. Overeaters Anonymous, 6:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church. 424-3074. Asthma, 7 p.m. Baxter Regional Medical Center Cafeteria Lagerborg Dining Room. Friday, Feb. 9 Men's Cancer Support, 7:30 a.m. Peitz Cancer Support House, BRMC. 508-CARE. For men with any kind of cancer. Spouses welcome. Includes breakfast. Bob Cogburn, facilitator. 508-2273. Better Breathers Support Group, 2 p.m.
Operation Vakarai II: Bringing civilians home
After living under the LTTE yoke off and on for some two decades, the people of Vakarai will soon be given a taste of what it is like to be administered by the central government of Sri Lanka. Some two weeks after the recapture of the key eastern area by government troops, the authorities are moving frantically towards ensuring that some 16,000 people are resettled by the end of February. If ever there was a moment for the government to bring about something meaningful from this liberation of Tamil civilians and show them something different from Tiger governance and justice, this is it, as The Nation found out during a recent visit to the area By Dharisha Bastians and Gihan Indraguptha in Vakarai
Ceylon Electricity Board workers were busy laying electricity transmission posts along the newly captured A15 highway when The Nation team visited Vakarai last Wednesday.
Florida Group Home Employee Arrested for Neglecting Disabled Resident
February 9, 2007 -- TALLAHASSEE - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced the arrest of a Broward County woman on charges that she neglected a disabled resident of a group home where she was formerly employed. Josephine Denise Gordon was arrested this morning by law enforcement officers with the Attorney Generals Medicaid Fraud Control Unit."Individuals employed by group and assisted living homes are entrusted with the care and well being of the citizens who reside within," said McCollum. My office will not tolerate those who forsake this trust. We will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law." .
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