Daily News Feed 4.2.2010/Vocab: Slake

TLC’s Chilli Gets Help Finding a Man
You have to wonder what’s going on in Hollywood when gorgeous women like Sandy “Pepa” Denton and “Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas can’t find a man. But apparently, as long as female celebrities are willing to go on TV to find one, VH-1 will keep giving them reality shows.

The latest edition of “Celebrity Love Match” comes via Chilli’s new reality series, “What Chilli Wants,” where she enlists the aid of Brooklyn “relationship expert” Tionna Smalls, whose claim to fame is as a blogger who once wrote a book for young women. (Evidently, since the busty Smalls is in a successful relationship herself, that’s enough criteria for her to help Chilli.) (Continue Reading…)

Rev. Jesse Jackson: Health Care Law is a ‘Job Creator’
WASHINGTON, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: What good is a health care overhaul if no one has a job? That’s a flip way to ask a very serious question. Will the health care overhaul hurt the already damaged U.S. job market?

Joining us live is Reverend Jesse Jackson, the founder and president of the Rainbow/Push Coalition. Good evening, Reverend. And what’s your thought about health care and what impact it’s going to have, if any, on the job market?

REV. JESSE JACKSON, RAINBOW/PUSH COALITION: First of all, the health care bill is morally right. There were 46 million Americans without health insurance in 2007. Now it’s 652 (ph), and the number is rising. I went to a hospital in Portland, Oregon, this weekend, and in Chicago, to see people with asthmatic conditions and trying to breathe with the oxygen masks…

VAN SUSTEREN: I don’t think anyone — Reverend?

JACKSON: Yes? (Continue Reading…)

Newark marks its first murder-free month in 44 years For the first time in 44 years, Newark, N.J., has not recorded a single homicide during a full calendar month, The Star-Ledger reports. The last homicide occurred 32 days ago, besting a 1966 record, says Police Director Garry McCarthy, who is now eyeing a 50-year record of 43 murder-free days. (Continue Reading…)

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