In a brief unpublished opinion, the California court system handed an obscure and now-defunct security company called Securacom one of its few court wins. The date was memorable -- September 12, 2001.

 

Securacom, as readers may recall, was the previous name of a security contractor renamed Stratesec. Its board of directors throughout the 1990s included Marvin Bush, youngest brother of George W. Bush. It was headed by Wirt D. Walker, who also headed two other now-disbanded companies, Aviation General (formerly Commander Aircraft) and the Kuwait-American Company (KuwAm). It was capitalized largely with funding from Kuwaiti royals; a member ...   more »

A short list of problems already visible, from firsthand observation, in one Maryland county:

 

1. Today I received a form letter addressed to my child, a college senior in another city, who had applied for an absentee ballot. The form letter, from my county Board of Elections, said that the application could not be processed because my child had not registered to vote. We thought that had been done.
2. Today I also received a form mailing for the general election, repeating the date from the Maryland primary election, September 12, as the date for the general election.
3. Today I also ...   more »

Grades publicly released for Bush at Yale (1964-1968) apparently differ from grade records for Bush stored in his residential hall on campus. The published grades are better than the grades stored in earlier records.   more »