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Last Updated: Jan 15 2009 - Able2Act

Biography for Carl Levin

First Name: Carl

Last Name: Levin

Title: U.S. Senator From Michigan

Organization: U.S Senate

Country: United States

Date of Birth: 28/06/1934

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigian

Education:

Detroit Public Schools
1956 Graduated Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
1959 Graduated Harvard Law School

Politics: Democrat

CV:

1959 Admitted to the Michigan Bar and commenced practice in Detroit.
1964-1967 Assistant attorney general and general counsel for the Michigan civil rights commission
1968-1969 Special assistant attorney general for the State of Michigan and chief appellate defender for the city of Detroit
1969-1973 Member, Detroit city council
1974-1977 President, Detroit city council
1978 Elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate
1984 Re-Elected
1990 Re-Elected
1996 Re-Elected
1997- Committee on Armed Services
2002- Re-Elected until 2009

Quotes: "We cannot overstate the sacrifice our military personnel - all volunteers - are making to ensure the security of their fellow Americans."

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Quotes

"We cannot overstate the sacrifice our military personnel - all volunteers - are making to ensure the security of their fellow Americans."

Biography for Carl Levin [Able2Act - Jan 15 2009]

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 15 Documents

Carl Levin

Gay Dutch Genocidaires : A Warning From the Recent Past

Not much one can say in response to this Joseph Heller-likeexercise in military leadership. In front of a Senate committeelooking into "don't ask, don't tell," former NATO commander Gen.John Sheehan told a baffled Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) that themassacre ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by REASON Online]

Entities: Gay, John Sheehan, Srebrenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Carl Levin

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 3 Documents

Story: Absent no more: School reform attracting once-reluctant foundations

Skillman Foundation President and CEOTHE PLAN FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLSThe goal set by Excellent Schools Detroit is for 90 percent of students to graduate from high school and successfully go to college or other postsecondary education without needing remediation. ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Crains Detroit Business]

Entities: Detroit (Michigan, United States), Education, Detroit Public Schools, Robert Bobb

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 3 Documents

Detroit Medical Center Sale Raises Concerns About Charity Care

Detroit Medical Center, Michigan's largest charity care provider, signed a letter of intent to negotiate the eight-hospital system's sale to private Vanguard Health Systems, Inc., according to a joint media release today.The purchase price will include ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Health Leaders]

Entities: Detroit Medical Center, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville (Michigan, United States)

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 2 Documents

Police in Essex, Ont. investigating after body found in Detroit River

ESSEX, Ont. - Provincial police in southwestern Ontario are investigating after the discovery of a body in the Detroit River. ... [Published 8 hours ago by Squamish Chief]

Entities: Detroit (Michigan, United States)

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 2 Documents

Live from New Detroit's Our Detroit Story event

If you're a fan of seminal work 'Origins of the Urban Crisis,' you'd be a pig in mud here at the Our Detroit Story event this a.m.... Detroit historian Thomas Sugrue is here, and talking about the neighborhood where he grew up, in a west side neighborhood ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Crains Detroit Business]

Entities: Detroit (Michigan, United States), Thomas Sugrue, African-Americans, Coleman Young

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 2 Documents

Man arrested in double slaying in Detroit home

Detroit -- Chester Evans is still sick over the slaying of his 26-year-old daughter earlier this month as his two granddaughters hid nearby.But one new development is giving him some relief: the arrest of his daughter's alleged killer."I'm trying to make ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Detroit News]

Entities: Derrick Smith, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Dispatcher, Carson (California, United States)

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 Documents

Dave Bing

Detroit Medical Center to be sold to for-profit hospital chain

The Detroit Medical Center, the largest hospital system in Michigan and the state’s largest provider of health care to the uninsured, will be sold to for-profit Vanguard Health Systems for $417 million in a deal announced March 19.The sale follows months ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by World Socialist Web Site]

Entities: Detroit Medical Center, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Dave Bing

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated 7 hours ago - 2 Documents

MI: $20 million for Pure Michigan tourism ads OK'd by House

Approval by Senate remains in doubtFREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU CHIEFE-mailLANSING -- The state House approved $20 million on Thursday for the popular Pure Michigan tourism advertising campaign, with $13 million to come from a new tax on car rentals at ... [Published 7 hours ago by Stateline]

Entities: Andy Dillon, Taxes, Lansing (Michigan, United States), Republican Party (US)

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 2 Documents

Detroit land deals spark speculation

A series of high-priced land acquisitions in a forlorn stretch of Detroit's lower Midtown area is fueling speculation a major development project could be in the works.Eighteen parcels, mostly blighted and empty, have been quietly bought or optioned since ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Detroit News]

Entities: Detroit (Michigan, United States), ILITCH Hldgs INC, Eddystone Hotel

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Detroit grapples with plans for school closures

The Detroit public-school system is preparing to close more than 40 schools by the end of this school year in an effort to be - More - ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by SmartBrief]

Entities: Detroit (Michigan, United States)

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Flagship Detroit at GMU this weekend

The recently restored Flagship Detroit, a DC-3 delivered to American Airlines in 1937, will be on display at Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) in South Carolina March 21-22.Owned and operated by a private volunteer foundation, the aircraft has recently ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by General Aviation News]

Entities: Detroit (Michigan, United States), American Airlines

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Story: Have mayor head DPS? Route uncertain

Major questions must be answered before any changes can be made to the governance model of the Detroit Public Schools, including disbanding the current Board of Education and transferring oversight of the district to an executive officer appointed by ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Crains Detroit Business]

Entities: Mike Cox, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Dave Bing, Jennifer Granholm

Blogs

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Carl Levin’s Afghan flip-flop [The Moderate Voice - Oct 03 2009] Goldfarb has the goods. Four-and-a-half months ago, Chairman Carl Levin and eight other Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee signed a letter ...
Steve Clemons: McChrystal's "Confidence Jo... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Jan 16 2010] Senator Carl Levin, just back from a trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan which he took with Senator Al Franken, sees significant gains in America's position ...
McChrystal's Afghanistan "Confidence Tour&... [The Washington Note - Jan 16 2010] Senator Carl Levin, just back from a trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan which he took with Senator Al Franken, sees significant gains in America's position in ...
Levin; it might have been terrorism [This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here - Nov 21 2009] The Washington Post reports that the lights might be coming on in the Capitol Building finally as Democrat Senator Carl Levin admits that the Fort hood massacre ...
Senate floor fireworks: Levin v. McCain [First Read - Oct 01 2009] From NBC's Ken StricklandSenators voted on opposing amendments as to whether Gen. Stanley McChrystal should come and testify before Congress and the situation in ...

Audio/Video

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Carl Levin on the Foot Hoot shootings [CSPAN - YouTube - Nov 20 2009]
Detroit sees green future [Reuters Video: Technology - Nov 03 2009]
Detroit sees green future [Reuters Video: Business - Nov 04 2009]
Levin Praises Passage of Hate Crimes Prevention... [Senator Carl Levin - YouTube Channel - Oct 23 2009]
Levin Responds to the State of the Union Address [Senator Carl Levin - YouTube Channel - Jan 28 2010]