Thursday, October 24, 2013
Alabama reviewing mass exodus of students from Bryant-Denny Stadium, could nix block seating | AL.com - Melissa Brown - Angry Alabama football fans took to Twitter Saturday night as they watched the student section in Bryant-Denny Stadium empty out for another game, and it seems fans aren't the only people taking notice. According to a report in The Crimson White, SGA President Jimmy Taylor emailed leaders of student organizations with block seating before the game, warning them to stay in their seats or else. - “Administrators will review photos and film of the student section from the games,” the email stated, according to The Crimson White. “Seating will be taken away from those organizations who abandon reserved seating.
Braves can't keep making big-money errors | Mark Bradley | www.ajc.com - The Braves got away with paying Derek Lowe to leave, and they’ve largely gotten away with Uggla’s three seasons of diminishing returns. Despite general manager Frank Wren’s inefficiency with big salaries, his team has still won more games than any other National League team the past four seasons. But ultimately that dead money – Uggla didn’t make the postseason roster, and Upton was essentially the 25th man – had an impact. Because of the Uggla/Upton failures, the Braves tried to play a Division Series with three outfielders manning spots that didn’t maximize defense, and their starting second baseman was the Kansas City castoff Elliot Johnson.
The Republicans' War on Food Stamps | Politics News | Rolling Stone - Elizabeth Drew - he way the program to provide the poor with the bare minimum of daily nutrition has been handled is a metaphor for how the far right in the House is systematically trying to take down the federal government. The Tea Party radicals and those who either fear or cultivate them are now subjecting the food-stamp program to the same kind of assault they have unleashed on other settled policies and understandings that have been in place for decades. Breaking all manner of precedents on a series of highly partisan votes, with the Republicans barely prevailing, the House in September slashed the food-stamp program by a whopping $39 billion and imposed harsh new requirements for getting on, or staying on, the program. The point was to deny the benefit to millions.
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