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George Michael: Pretty blue in blue states
A recent article in the real estate section of MSN.com, written by Kurt Badenhausen of Forbes Magazine, was titled “America’s Most Miserable Cities of 2013.” The article ranked American cities based on metrics that included violent...Tags: Queens (New York City), Lawyers, Politics, Montgomery County (Maryland), Crime, Law and Justice
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Bachmann campaign is too awfully good to go on forever
Today a sad realization has cast a gloomy haze over my lonely writer’s garret, as I come to grips with the fact that Michele Bachmann is not going to be with us forever.
Or maybe I should say that her presidential campaign is not going to be with...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Entertainment, Television, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Michele Bachmann
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Mail Call - July 11
“I just saw where the tax rate went up from 6 to 9 percent on beer. It’s just like cigarettes; it could be $9 for a bottle of beer, but people will still keep drinking it. Same thing as cigarettes; $7 a pack, and people are still buying...Tags: Television, Al Sharpton, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Elections
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Mail Call - July 1
“I totally agree with the article that was put in the paper on Friday, June 24, about Greencastle school board phoning in votes to raise taxes. No. 1: I disagree with raising taxes to pay for a football athletic field, and I played sports, and that&...Tags: Television, Republican Party, Politics, Al Sharpton, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia)
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A season for peace and nonviolence
It began 12 years ago as a grass-roots movement. Events were created to help educate the public in nonviolent ways of communicating and connecting. Most of the public had never heard of the practice of nonviolence, but as soon as Gandhi or Martin...Tags: Al Gore, Politics, Washington (U.S. state), United Nations, Dalai Lama
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Lucille Dickess: An Advocate For Pink-Collar Workers At Yale
The Hartford CourantLucille Dickess played a major role in the successful fight to unionize "pink collar" workers at Yale University. The recognition of Local 34, Clerical and Technical Workers Union, brought higher wages and greater stability to the workers, most of them...Tags: United Auto Workers, Work Relations, Yale University, Colleges and Universities, Strikes
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Are you (fill in the blank) enough?
WASHINGTON -- Enough with this "enough" business. Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz -- the conservative Texas senator who happens to be of Hispanic descent. But...
Tags: Minority Groups, Republican Party, Immigration, Ted Cruz, Demographics
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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
Change of SubjectFriday's print column A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the...... -
Former Gov. Mark Sanford wins South Carolina House seat
WASHINGTON — Two years after Mark Sanford left the South Carolina governor’s office tarred by an adultery scandal, he has completed an unlikely political comeback to win a special congressional election. Sanford defeated Democratic neophyte...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Jenny Sanford, Regional Authority, Elections
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'42' in the Windy City
Chicago Tribune reporterWhen Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers brought their historic roadshow to Chicago a few weeks into the 1947 season, a record crowd of 46,572 people crammed into Wrigley Field, and 20,000 more stood outside wishing they could get in. After the game,...Tags: Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Jackie Robinson, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs
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Race and crime in Baltimore
It's unfortunate when an everyday accident happens but it's sad when columnist Dan Rodricks and Michael Hanchard use it to play the race card ("Man sees race, indifference in experience with Baltimore police," April 13). First, if as Michael Hanchard...
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