Challenges In The News 09/26/08

Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross fended off attacks by challenger City Councilman Jim Lane on Tuesday that she has overseen a secretive government that's leading to distrust among residents.

J.P. Morgan analyst Michael LaMotte noted that the company’s production guidance for the third quarter “echoes the familiar challenges around production declines” and said he expected refining earnings to remain weak.

The Reform Michigan proposal must still survive some legal and technical challenges to make the fall ballot.

In addition, lowering tobacco use will require persuading governments to raise taxes and make antismoking policies a higher priority among many concerns. In China, there’s a deeper challenge, Mr. Bloomberg noted: The biggest tobacco company there, China National Tobacco Corp., is government-owned.
That challenge is reflected in the views of Beth Brotherton, 43, of Taylorville, Ill., an attorney now staying home to care for her four children. She leans Democratic, but is uncomfortable with Sen. Obama. “I don’t want to find out after he’s elected that he’s got some kind of Islamic connection. I don’t think that’s true, but you never know.”

Refocus on Afghanistan. It’s time to encourage the Iraqi government to stand up on its own while we re-focus on the war in Afghanistan and the broad range of national security challenges we face. Barack Obama is profoundly right that the next president must be more than commander in chief for Iraq – he must meet challenges to America’s security around the world.

Hard to digest, tough to watch. Young, offensively challenged NL West clubs struggling to win.

Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno says lethal injection challenges create a “snowball effect” that prolongs death row waits.
That’s his challenge right now, because he’s having trouble hitting the lane.

He probably should have challenged that call.

Stop the challenge.