| Major league coaches will wear helmets
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Major league general managers decided Thursday that first- and third-base coaches will wear helmets during games next season, an action taken four months after minor league coach Mike Coolbaugh was killed when he was struck on the head by a line drive. Coolbaugh, a coach for the Rockies' minor league team in Tulsa, died July 22 when he was hit as he stood in the first-base coach's box during a Texas League game at Arkansas. A former major league infielder, Coolbaugh couldn't get out of the way. Some major league coaches started wearing helmets during the rest of the season. .
Jabu: DAP, PKR suppressing NCR land devt
KUCHING: The opposition - Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) - have caused "unforgiveable miseries" to Native Customary Rights (NCR) landowners in the State by opposing NCR land development while trying to claim credit and political mileage. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu who said this yesterday felt that the opposition parties had suppressed and oppressed NCR landowners from participating in State Barisan Nasional (BN) poverty eradication programmes to improve the people's income and standard of living. "DAP and Parti Keadilan had chosen to oppose this very important programme for poverty eradication to improve the rural areas and the livelihood of the rural people. "Therefore, the people throughout Sarawak especially in the rural areas will reject the opposition because they know that Parti Keadilan and DAP have no future for the rural people," he said in his winding-up speech in the State Legislative Assembly.
SPECIAL SESSION: Committee OKs slots referendum
ANNAPOLIS -- A Maryland Senate committee approved big changes to key components of Martin O'Malley's budget deficit plan on Tuesday, eliminating a property tax cut the governor wanted and making a proposed overhaul of the state's tax structure less progressive. The Senate Budget and Taxation Committee also voted to raise an additional $260 million in sales tax revenue, $25 million more in income tax and cut about $485 million from the budget. In another key development, the committee approved the governor's plan to hold a referendum on slot machine gambling in November 2008, agreeing to raise the amount operators will get from 30 percent of the proceeds to 33 percent.
The vote by the committee sends the legislation to the full Senate, which will begin considering some of the legislation on Wednesday.
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