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Imagine a day when the postman no longer cometh. That could happen by year's end if Congress doesn't take immediate steps to deal with the financial crisis of the U.S. Postal Service. Congress provides no money to support the U.S. Postal Service,...Tags: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Illegal Immigrants, File Sharing, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Postal Service
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Time for change: Daylight saving season starts Sunday
PETOSKEY — When passersby stick their heads into Grant Dittmar’s place of business and ask if he knows what time it is, they’re sometimes doing so as a joke.
Stocking about 700 timepieces in his Dittmar’s Chronotech store in...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Energy Saving, Germany
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State House's historic dome reveals secrets during restoration
It's brilliant and blustery atop the tallest building in Annapolis, a bank of white clouds scudding quickly across the sky. John Greenwalt Lee leans against a temporary railing, gazing down with fondness on the town he calls home.
A few blocks to the...Tags: Fine Arts, Maryland Historical Trust, Building Material, Annapolis, Arts
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Looking Back: From our Files: Sept. 18
1911
George T. Thurmon, the electrician, has been awarded the contract for installing electic lights in the Methodist church. The contract calls for quite a lot of work, and the house will be equipped in the most modern manor. Mr. Thurmond is an expert...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Judges, Colleges and Universities, Justice System, College Football
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Catasauqua's revolutionary connection
If you grew up in the Lehigh Valley you probably learned the name George Taylor in history class. Or maybe you've heard mention of him around the Fourth of July.
Taylor, who had homes in Easton and Catasauqua, earned favored-son status in local lore when...Tags: Rentals, John T. Galloway, William Allen, Bucks County, Culture
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Incinerator poses serious health risk
Jay Hancock's recent column ("This waste-to-energy plant could be model for Md.," Sept. 11) leaves a false impression that the Energy Answers (EA) incinerator project planned for Baltimore is a worthy, benign renewable energy project. Children in the...Tags: Renewable Energy, Asthma, Cancer, Alternative Energy, Plant Openings
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Energy Answers incinerator project would put the health of thousands of Baltimore residents at risk
Columnist Jay Hancock's effort to take another journalistic swipe at BGE and Constellation Energy leaves the impression that the Energy Answers incinerator planned for Baltimore City is a benign, renewable energy project worth Marylanders' support ("...Tags: Brain, Asthma, Immune System, Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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PA is overdue for its second president as Santorum surges
How can it be that Pennsylvania, the state with the most precious historical legacy of all, has produced only one president?
This is the land of Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, the Declaration of Independence, George Washington crossing the Delaware,...Tags: James Buchanan, William Henry Harrison, Republican Party, Politics, Elections
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Lockdown lifted at two Franklin County schools
Two Franklin County schools are back in class after going on a lockdown earlier this morning.
This was after a caller reported seeing a man with a gun on his shoulder around 8:45 a.m. on North Main Street in Rocky Mount.
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Time to question candidates' character
Robert Gibbs, Obama’s former Press Secretary, made a statement recently, and I have an issue with the content. Gibbs was responding to a comment made by Sen. Rick Santorum regarding Obama’s “phony theology,” and I quote Gibbs:...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Rick Santorum, George Washington, Glenn Beck
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'Steve Jobs' review: Walter Isaacson's biography mesmerizes
Special to the Los Angeles TimesHe was an abandoned child who grew up with the unshakable belief that he was destined to be a prince. How arrogant and sensible of him. His personal hygiene was bad. He often wore no shoes and liked to stick his feet in the toilet. His food faddery was...Tags: Albert Einstein, Apple iPad, Bob Dylan, Sony Corp., Steve Jobs
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Daylight-Saving Time Ends
pix11.comTime to "Fall Back" to Eastern Standard Time; Daylight-Saving Time is history come 2 a.m. Sunday. That means if your clocks aren't digital, you'll have to turn them back an hour manually, or don't be surprised if you show up fashionably early to church,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War I (1914-1918), Armed Conflicts
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