Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Ohio’s Warren Davidson Wants to End Housing for People with HIV
metroweekly.comdeadline for Congress to pass funding bills to avoid a government shutdown fast approaches, congressional Republicans are pointing to specific programs they would like to see razed to reduce spending significantly.One of those — U.S.
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) — knows exactly what he’d like to cut.Davidson, who represents a conservative suburban district in southwest Ohio just outside of Cincinnati, proposed an amendment to cut $505 million from the Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS Program, which helps people living with HIV to find stable housing.“AIDS is a horrific disease.
And we have lots of horrific diseases in our country, but we don’t have programs for everybody that gets a disease,” Davidson said in a floor speech last week explaining his amendment. “We don’t have programs specifically for people that get cancer, for example.”He continued, “We have programs for AIDS because when AIDS was first spreading, people didn’t understand it.
They thought it was spread, you know, like a contagion, that you could get it just because you lived in the same housing development as someone else.
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