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Electrical Risks at Iraq Bases Are Worse Than Said - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/world/middleeast/18contractors.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th
Electrical Risks at Iraq Bases Are Worse Than Said

Candidates differ on drilling floridatoday.com FLORIDA TODAY
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080716/NEWS01/807160334/1098/NEWS05
Excerpts from statements from Tuesday night's candidate forum
for state House Districts 29, 30 and 80 and Senate District 24,

VA vote push has new allies - St. Petersburg Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/veterans/article694219.ece
Florida's top elections official and several U.S. senators have joined the mounting criticism over a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs policy that bans voter registration on VA property.

Brevard's schools lauch supply drive floridatoday.com FLORIDA TODAY Save a dictionary for FL TOO day staff
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080717/NEWS01/807170342/1006/news01&referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL
Barbara Holland, an unemployed mother of four, expected that she would have to pinch here and there to buy school supplies for her children

Cleaning up Pollution in Ports to Save Lives
http://www.blogger.com/Cleaning%20up%20Pollution%20in%20Ports%20to%20Save%20Live
Trucks carrying cheap imported goods are polluting the air and poisoning children who live near the ports where those goods enter the country. Addressing that problem, the California Assembly will impose a new fee on containers entering and leaving the ports to fund programs to alleviate that pollution

Space Coast 4 Obama Party Platform MeetingEvent
Location: Charlie & Jake's BBQ Restaurant, 6300 N Wickham Rd, Melbourne
Event Description:
You are invited to join Space Coast 4 Obama for a Party Platform Meeting on Tuesday, July 22, 2008, starting at 7:00 PM. The meeting will take place at Charlie & Jake's BBQ Restaurant, north end of shopping center at 6300 N Wickham Rd in Melbourne, 32937. (They also have a microbrewery on premises.)
For two weeks in July, people across America will hold Platform meetings in their own communities to discuss the issues and share their input. The outcome of these meetings will be reviewed by the Drafting Committee on the national level as it creates the final Party Platform. Come give your input to this unique history-making event.
For more information, or to RSVP, visit MyBarackObama.com/page/event/detail/platformmeeting/4g43x, or e-mail Pamela Castellana at spacecoast4obama@gmail.com, or call her at 536-6919.