Editor, The Record: Drive through Sapperton and see signs everywhere: New development! 100 per cent sold out! If buyers are looking for a place to invest in real estate, this area certainly has a hot market. Claims of Sapperton becoming a "New Yaletown" in New Westminster and easy access to public transportation thanks to the SkyTrain have housing prices in this area skyrocketing. But for the $300,000, give or take, are investors aware that they are getting a lot more than 700 square feet, new appliances and granite countertops? [continues 344 words]
Felons across the country are unfairly denied the right to vote, said Laleh Ispahani, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project and leader of Right to Vote: A National Campaign to End Felony Disenfranchisement. Maine and Vermont are the only states that don't take away any of criminals' voting rights, while 14 states permanently disenfranchise felons and ex-felons, Ispahani said in a lecture Monday night. She called the nation a "crazy quilt" of policies, with state laws ranging from immediate restoration of the right to vote upon release from prison to permanent disenfranchisement. [continues 802 words]
