Saturday, May 19, 2012
Alabama Governor Approves Immigration Law Change He Opposed - Bloomberg - Republican Governor Robert Bentley approved changes to Alabama’s immigration law a day after he said the measure was unacceptable because it requires the state to post online the names of illegal immigrants who are arrested. The legislation, signed by Bentley today, keeps in place most of a crackdown approved last year that the Obama administration is challenging in court as unconstitutional. Bentley threatened to reject the measure in a news conference yesterday. He also told reporters he wanted lawmakers to remove a provision of the original law requiring schools to check the citizenship status of students, and to get rid of the new provision about posting names online. Keeping those provisions would damage the state’s image, he said. Bentley had called a special session of the Legislature, starting yesterday, to revise the legislation. No lawmaker introduced the changes he was seeking.
Alabama Gets Strict Immigration Law as Governor Relents - NYTimes.com - Campbell Robertson - Only a day after calling a special session and urging the Alabama Legislature to make more changes to the state’s immigration enforcement law than the modest ones they had passed, Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday signed the bill into law anyway.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Mark Zuckerberg -- The $20 Billion Smile | TMZ.com (Video) - So this what it looks like to make $20 BILLION in one day. 28-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg surfaced moments ago outside his home in Palo Alto, CA -- just hours after his Facebook IPO earned him an extra $20 billion -- and he looked happier (and richer) than ever.
SEC, Big 12 team up on bowl | ajc.com - Tim Tucker - The deal calls for the SEC and Big 12 champions to meet in an undetermined bowl starting with the 2014 season, unless one or both play in the four-team playoff that also is expected to begin that season. In the likely event that the SEC and/or Big 12 champs are picked for the playoff, the bowl would feature other teams from those conferences.
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