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The fiscal cliff ... of '32
Close your eyes in Washington these days and you can almost hear the echoes of 1932. Eighty years ago, just like today, a fiscal crisis almost totally dominated the nation's capital. Then, as now, fiscal conservatives demanded immediate action to fix...
Tags: Taxation, Democratic Party, William Randolph Hearst, John Nance, Politics
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Mail Call - July 20
“This is a message for Skip, the mayor of Boonsboro, and just the town overall, for having a great show Saturday, the Country Current band, the Navy band. They did a great show, and another great job for Boonsboro. Thanks a lot.” —...Tags: Democratic Party, NASCAR, Politics, Mitt Romney, Annapolis
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Derring-do: More from 101-year-old shipbuilder
Several details from a lengthy interview with Newport News retiree and former shipyard designer Russell Derring didn't make it into a lengthy May 10 profile. Derring, 101, started his shipbuilding career in 1929, and as an apprentice installed pipes on...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, U.S. Navy, Shipbuilding, Calvin Coolidge, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Rocklin Company to Bring Jobs Back to California
FOX40 NewsGutter guard manufacturer Gutterglove, Inc. announced Wednesday that it plans to bring jobs back to California from China. Due to rising production costs, Gutterglove founder Robert Lenney opted to do business with a Chinese production company. Lenney...Tags: U.S. Army, Consumers
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Rolling Road lived up to its name in the early 1900s
100 Years Ago Rolling out the welcome mat In the Times social column: "Mr. Henry J. Bender has returned to his home on Rolling Road after visiting friends in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Davis have returned to their home on Rolling Road after...Tags: Morocco, Lobbying, Casablanca (Morocco), Brooklyn (New York City), Politics
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Tensions grow at Occupy L.A. as deadline nears
Activists and L.A. officials faced difficult choices over the next phase of the Occupy L.A. movement as a 12:01 Monday deadline approached for the departure of nearly 700 protesters from an encampment on City Hall grounds.
On Sunday evening, Mayor...Tags: Politics, Civil Unrest, Occupy Los Angeles, Bill Rosendahl, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Letters to the Editor - Sept. 30
Dreyfuss’ efforts should be applauded To the editor: I applaud the efforts of Richard Dreyfuss to establish The Dreyfuss Initiative to advocate for the return of civics as a core course in public school education. The need to understand our...Tags: Israel, Constitutional Issues, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Politics, Palestine
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Remembering the Hoovervilles of 1932
It was the spring of 1932, and veterans of World War I were camped in a Hooverville (a shanty town built by the homeless and named after President Hoover) near Anacostia in a muddy field. They had constructed tents from any piece of debris they could find...Tags: U.S. Army, Pennsylvania, Politics, Veterans Affairs, Protest
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PASSINGS: Hubert Schlafly, Alice Ward, Emil 'Jack' Kluever, Philip F. Jones
Hubert Schlafly
Inventor of the teleprompter
Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, 91, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter, died April 20 at a hospital in Stamford, Conn., after a brief illness.
Schlafly helped start the TelePrompTer Corp.,...Tags: Republican National Conventions, Colleges and Universities, University of Notre Dame, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics
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Mailbag: Government could learn from Congress of the '90s
I would like to add to Mr. Lightfoot's argument about the Roosevelt administration in prolonging the Great Depression. After President Hoover tried to tax America into being prosperous, FDR decided he would even do bigger tax increases in the name of...Tags: Education, Bill Clinton, Politics, New York, Industrial Production
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Economy: Does Obama know what he's doing?
Spin CycleWe don't claim to be economists here (that's probably obvious), but occasionally wonder how it is that economic collapse suddenly fills the politicians with great confidence that they can and should spend money like drunken sailors. If you have......Tags: Public Finance, Politics, United States, State Budgets, Barack Obama
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