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Lawmaker apologizes for Voter ID remark | KXAN.com
Rep. Betty Brown , Republican state representative, to Ramey Ko, discussing the problems posed by voter ID laws for Asian-Americans whose names are often transliterated inconsistently (and who therefore will sometimes find discrepancies between what is printed on state-issued ID documents and on voter rolls): "Well, rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese, as I understand, it's a rather difficult language... Do you think it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?... This is something that would make it a lot easier both for you and poll workers if there was some name you could adopt just for these identification purposes that would be easier for Americans to deal with."
Russian film crew records faith in America | Religion | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
A Russian crew makes a documentary about American religion, focusing on diversity.
Jackson council drops its saggy-pants ordinance | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger
Truly bizarre.
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"I certainly respect the Constitution," Melton said, "but we have some issues that are much bigger than the Constitution."
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He said the ordinance was an attempt to "save all the children we can."
"In these neighborhoods, they're showing their naked behinds," Stokes said. "It's embarrassing." - 1 more annotations...
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