Ex-Detroit councilwoman gets 37 months for bribery

2010-03-16T14:33:02Z

<div id="subtitle">Monica Conyers, wife of Detroit congressman and ex-councilwoman, gets 37 months for bribery</div><div><p>A former Detroit city councilwoman was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for bribery after a federal judge refused to set aside her guilty plea during a stormy court hearing dominated by a dispute over evidence of other payof...

The Performance Rights Act ? Strange Fruit in Tough Economic Times

2010-03-10T23:17:16Z

On most mornings, you like many Americans, drive to work listening to one or more radio shows where you hear the latest news, traffic and weather reports, and listen to your favorite music. These radio shows provide comic relief as we endure the drive to our dreaded 9 to 5?s. And not only comic relief, they give us a beat to begin our day with because they know the pulse of the community.<br><br>Commercial radio stations like Houston?s KBXX (97.9 The Box) and KMJQ (Majic 102.1) or...

Musicians Fair Play

2010-03-02T12:00:43Z

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has his tie adjusted by singer Dionne Warwick, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, march 2, 2010, during the musicFIRST 2010 news conference on the importance of fair pay for musicians. (AP Photo/Harry Singer Dionne Warwick says radio stations should pay performers for playing their tunes</div><div><p>Singer Dionne Warwick said Tuesday it's only fair to make radio stations pay royalties to performers — herself included — when they broadcast music.</p><p>Warwick, 69, appeared at a Capitol Hill event to urge Congress to pass le...

Political Football

2010-02-03T12:15:59Z

FILE - In this June 4, 2009 file photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., right, along with NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, left, and the

Cocussions Congress Football

2010-02-01T14:45:48Z

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich, center, along with Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., left, and Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, hold a forum on head injuries in high school, colleg...

Football Cocussions Congress

2010-02-01T14:45:45Z

Member of the House Judiciary Committee Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, holds up a Time magazine during a press conference before a forum on head injuries in high school and college sports Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 in President Barack Obama's first year in office are stepping up their demands that the nation's first black president do more for minority communities hit hardest by the recession.</p><p>Whi...

Black power has arrived _ with some new challenges

2010-02-24T03:52:53Z

<div id="subtitle">Black lawmakers face unexpected challenges now that they have seized unprecedented power</div><div><p>Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions...

Experts: HS football concussions merit more study

2010-02-24T12:12:06Z

<div><p>Some studies suggest that head injuries can set up professional football players for later mental problems. Now congressmen and experts want to know more about injuries to high school players.</p><p>NFL concussions were the focus of a hearing in Washington this week. Some experts estimate as many as 1 in 10 high school football players get a concussion every year, but lit...

Goodell defends NFL to Congress about concussions

2010-02-24T13:08:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Before Congress, NFL's Goodell won't acknowledge link between head injuries, brain diseases</div><div><p>NFL commissioner Roger Goodell would not acknowledge a connection between head injuries on the football field and later brain diseases while defending the league's policies on concus...

League vows to cooperate in review of head injuries

2010-02-24T13:04:39Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Football League and its players association agreed on Wednesday to cooperate in a congressional call for an independent review of the scope and severity of head injuries in their sport.</p><p>NFL Comm...

Goodell and Smith to testify to Congress

2010-02-24T17:57:42Z

<div id="subtitle">NFL's Goodell and union head Smith to testify at Congressional hearing on head injuries</div><div><p>NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith will both testify at a Congressional hearing on head injuries among Reuters) - Top Democratic U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to eliminate a half-century-old antitrust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies amid concerns over rising premiums.</p><p>The bill, introduced by the chairmen of the Senate and Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) (L) sits during a news conference with the Congressional Black Caucus at the U.S. Captiol September 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Conyers, who sponsored the universal healthcare Rep. John Conyers looks on before speaking at NextEnergy in Detroit, Michigan, Wednesday, August 5, 2009. (Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free Press/MCT) Photo via Newscom...

Michigan News - August 05, 2009

2009-08-14T06:56:23Z

Rep. John Conyers looks on before speaking at NextEnergy in Detroit, Wednesday, August 5, 2009. ANDRE J. JACKSON/Detroit Free Press....

Health Care Advocates Hold March Into Capitol Hill Office Building

2009-07-28T10:31:59Z

WASHINGTON - JULY 28: Dr. Patch Adams (L), founder of the Gesundheit Institute, talks with House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) as he eats breakfast before a health care reform discussion on Captiol Hill July 28, 2009 in Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., talks with reporters during a news conference at the Toussaint Louverture airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Friday u...

Congressman's wife resigns from Detroit Council

2010-02-26T15:28:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Monica Conyers, wife of congressman, resigns from Detroit city council following guilty plea</div><div><p>Just months after spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to oust former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the bel...

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