Friday, November 9, 2007

Nov. 9: Regionals in Today's News

STILL MORE WATER: Congress on Thursday successfully overrode President Bush's veto of a the Water Resources Development Act. Lots of states are getting water pork and are very, very happy. Herb Jackson in the Bergen Record; Raju Chebium in the Courier (N.J.) Post; Lesley Clark in the Miami Herald; Maureen Groppe in the Indianapolis Star; Bruce Alpert in the Times-Picayune; Noelle Straub in the Helena Independent Record; Larry Lipman in the Palm Beach Post; and Malia Rulon in the Cincinati Enquirer.

RETIREMENTS: Another Republican - Jim Saxon of New Jersey - announces a retirement, Raju Chebium reports in the Vineland (N.J.) Daily Journal.

VITTER: This story just keeps getting better. Gerard Shields reports in the Baton Rouge Advocate reports that a prostitute who claims Sen. Vitter was a regular client is appearing in Hustler. She says his chief rule was: no perfumes, no body lotions.

BILLS, HEARINGS AND MARK-UPS: The House on Thursday approved a plan to create a federal disaster program, Larry Lipman reports in the Palm Beach Post.

MUSEUM THEFT: Thousands of mementos are missing from the Reagan Presidential Library. Or maybe not. Lisa Friedman in the Los Angeles Daily News.

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