On this date in 1825, our most unusual presidential election was held, with the winner receiving just 13 votes to the runner-up’s seven, and four to the third-place finisher. The election held in November 1824 saw only 353,000 votes cast, out of a population of about 10 million residents. Andrew Jackson won a plurality of 43 percent in the four-way race, handily beating John Quincy Adams’s 30 percent. But Jackson received only 99 of the 131 electoral votes needed to win. So the matter went to the House of Representatives, as called for in the Constitution. Voting was done by the 24 state delegations, and with sufficient pressure, Adams won the 13 state votes he needed. In the 2012 election, nearly 133 million Americans cast their ballots, with a much more definitive outcome. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at <www.census.gov>.
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Henderson’s radio shack is among the Third Tranche Stores to be closing on March 31, 2015.
This will give the staff and parents of Vance Charter more places to park pushing business customers further away from the few remaining stores at the old mall.
The Charter School teachers and staff are supposed to park far out from the closer to mall spaces, they don’t and the mall management should insist the pickups and dropoffs should be at the back of the mall. . The charter school isn’t a good neighbor in my opinion.
Traffic is very congested at dismissal .
The parents of Charter students should be made to pick up at the back of the mall. Teachers are supposed to park further out in the front lot but they do not. The traffic is impossible when pickup and dropoffs are going on, not to mention the Henderson Y bus right in front of the main entrance.
I cannot believe the negative attitude regarding the Charter School parking and drop off/pick up. I have never lacked for adequate parking during school hours and rarely find congested traffic when parents are picking up their kids. I’m sure Radio Shack isn’t closing because of the school. It isn’t like there’s only one way in and out of the parking lot. I’m more inconvenienced by the lack of a left turn lane into McDonalds and how that truly causes traffic to back up.
that charter school is where white parents send their kids so they wont have to go to school with blacks but we dont care i hope they clog up the traffic for you we get the best education because we have a great black superintendant who is devoted to the advancement of education
Jack, you are kidding…right?
yes we that charter school is where white parents send their kids so they wont have to go to school with blacks but we dont care i hope they clog up the traffic for you we get the best education because we have a great black superintendant who is devoted to the advancement of education
Yeah JJ, if you attend the charter school you don’t get a free breakfest and a free lunch at taxpayer expense.
to Dazed and Confused, “it would be cooler if you did”
black people matter the racial injustice in henderson and missouri will not go without consequences the death of minority muslims in chapel hill by the racist white man is a hate crime and hopefully the white man will be hung from a tree
you only have 2 days left to sign up for obamacare do so now
Jack, you don’t know jack. You are every bit as hateful as that anger filled white man who took the lives of those three earnest young people daring to live in our hate mined land of the ‘free’. As for Obamacare, it has done no one much good and done lots of damage to those who were previously able to afford a doctor. Mock away, Jack. Your day of reconing will come by your own hand.
JJ….what did yo’ fellow & now former football coach @ NVHS do to get fired? Your local paper has a few details on the Front Page but didn’t mention why he had been suspended since Dec. of last year. Is this another example of why VCS is a joke? I’m sure students in Vance Co. deserve more but when you have a spineless & incompetent BofE I guess this is another notch on the VCS belt of ignorance!!
And you have people question why the influx of Charter Schools? Look no further than the recent individual schools letter grades! An “F” doesn’t represent “Fantastic”!! Its well beyond time to get the staleness off the BofE & get some new ideas in there!!!
we will stay in power our great president will use his executive authority to put this country back in the hands of the minorities our newmexican citizens can now vote and hilllary will continue another 8 years of our great presidents transformations and you will be nothing obviuosly zep you dont know zep and decepticon is just a white racist
and we will stay in power our great president will use his executive authority to put this country back in the hands of the minorities our newmexican citizens can now vote and hilllary will continue another 8 years of our great presidents transformations and you will be nothing obviuosly zep you dont know zep and decepticon is just a white racist
JJ…or geraldine……u my dear are the racist…did they call it “community activists” where you are from? Glad the internet cafes are back open so you can use the computers!! Rest well honey b/c former Mayor of NY told Barry Obama that he “didnt love America”!! Sounds like a great president!!! SMH @ ignorance of some folks!!
yes and we will stay in power our great president will use his executive authority to put this country back in the hands of the minorities our newmexican citizens can now vote and hilllary will continue another 8 years of our great presidents transformations and you will be nothing obviuosly zep you dont know zep and decepticon is just a white racist