WELCOME TO OPEN FORUM FRIDAYS
This is a new segment we are experimenting with, which will allow you to “sound-off” on the current events of the day that matter to YOU. Everything from politics, entertainment, sports, or whatever you’d like to discuss is allowed. Talk about the BP oil spill. Talk about the Summer Heat Wave pounding the northeastern U.S. Talk about whatever YOU like.
This is YOUR forum — and it’s OPEN!
So get ready to SOUND-OFF:
It’s… OPEN FORUM FRIDAY!
A few stories that caught my eye this week: 1. “Charlie Rangel's tainted legacy”Rep. Charles Rangel hoped a public policy center bearing his name would be his final legacy — and now, in disastrous fashion, it almost certainly will be. Rangel’s obsessive drive to win public and private funding for the institution at the City College of New York is at the center of a 13-count allegation that he broke House ethics rules and federal statutes governing behavior by public officials. The 41-page document offers a sweeping indictment of Rangel, painting the portrait of a legislator who abused his office to burnish his name, repeatedly failed to accurately account for his own income and assets and did not abide by the very tax laws he oversaw as the top Democrat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. […]Read more: <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40439.htmlhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40439.h… />Two words come to mind whenever I read about… Read more »