Gov. Fallin talks education, economic issues at Press Club
By CHRIS CASTEEL NewsOK.com on Sep 18, 2013, at 2:25 AM Updated on 9/18/13 at 5:00 AM
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Emergency flights began arriving in Acapulco on Tuesday to evacuate some of the thousands of tourists stranded by flooding and landslides that shut down the highway to Mexico City and swamped the international airport.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted of civil rights violations stemming from deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina, concluding the case had been tainted by "grotesque prosecutorial misconduct."
WASHINGTON - "Maybe someday we'll have a woman president," Gov. Mary Fallin told an audience here Tuesday before quickly adding, "Not me, though."
Fallin, who is in Washington this week for a series of meetings on education and economic issues, gave a luncheon address to the National Press Club, where she explained her initiative to better align education with workforce needs and addressed questions about tornado safe rooms, women in the workforce and states competing against each other for jobs.
"It's all fair," she said in answering a question about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's visit to Maryland on Tuesday to tour a gun manufacturer he's trying to lure to Texas.
Perry also has been running advertisements in Maryland pitching Texas as a more business-friendly state.
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Original Print Headline: Fallin talks schools, economics at the National Press Club
US & World
Emergency flights began arriving in Acapulco on Tuesday to evacuate some of the thousands of tourists stranded by flooding and landslides that shut down the highway to Mexico City and swamped the international airport.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted of civil rights violations stemming from deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina, concluding the case had been tainted by "grotesque prosecutorial misconduct."
