Here ya go, folks: Your news roundup to greet you when you get home from work for the day…
Fed to End Mortgage-Purchase Program — This is an understated, one-column sort of lead. It’s important because the Fed is doing this in the interest of “allowing a nascent economic recovery to stand with less government support.” Meanwhile, Reuters reports that “Stocks rose to a fresh 17-month high on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve held benchmark rates near zero and maintained its pledge to keep them low for an extended period.” So more good news.
Hillary Clinton affirms US support for Israel after row — This follows on the report that the Israeli ambassador to the US was saying our relationship was in crisis. That’s the lede at the BBC, which may have slightly overhyped the “crisis” angle yesterday. Meanwhile the NYT is trying to catch up by itself declaring a crisis, in this story: “Israel Rejects U.S. Demands on Building in East Jerusalem.” (I ALMOST made this the lede, but it fell just a bit short, I thought.)
Google Partners in China Issue Plea to Web Giant — This may be a mere turn of the screw in this developing story, but I’m putting it on the front because this contest between corporation and nation-state is historic, and bears watching at each stage of its development.
Attorney General says courts should look at city election decision — Like Mayor Bob, AG Henry would like to leave it up to the judiciary as to whether the election to replace E.W. Cromartie should take place on April 6.
Tiger Woods Says He Will Return for Masters — I include this not because I find the Tiger Woods story interesting — I don’t — but because other people do, and the Masters is sort of a local story for SC. Watch — some SC papers will lead with it, which should cause them to blush with embarrassment, but it won’t.
SC museum rejects monument marking secession — Well, here’s a little promising news out of SC — an SC body votes, just barely by the hairs of its chinny-chin-chin, NOT to celebrate secession with yet another monument. Next, we’ll hear that Citadel students will be taught not to take pride in Big Red, their relic of the world’s most extreme, most violent college prank — the one that launched the Recent Unpleasantness.
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