Thursday, Jun. 04, 2009
Missed the News?
We've got you covered with this recap of the week's headlines:
another wacky week
Congratulations taxpayers, you now own your own car manufacturer. Auto giant General Motors entered bankruptcy under a restructuring plan that President Obama said Monday will make the federal government a “reluctant shareholder’’ with a 60 percent stake in the reorganized company and a pledge of $30 million in federal aid. So, let’s see, the government is now in the mortgage, insurance, banking and car businesses. Talk about one-stop shopping.
In other news: the Coastal Carolina University baseball squad was unceremoniously bounced from the NCAA regional in Chapel Hill, N.C., with a 5-1 loss to Kansas; Eminem brewed up some controversy again for storming out of the MTV Movie Awards over a stunt that resulted in Sasha Baron Cohen’s bare ass landing in the rapper’s face; controversial doctor George Tiller, the medical director of a Kansas clinic that provides late-term abortions, was gunned down while serving as an usher during Sunday morning church service.