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From pride to disillusionment: a black leader sours on Obama
I can hear 'em now. "He's a good guy"; "He's a family man"; "He'll govern like a moderate"; "It will be so good for the country"; "He's post-partisan." That the election of a mixed-race candidate for president sent positive messages about America around...
Tags: Small Businesses, Elections, George Washington, U.S. Senate, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Obama Debases Trust In Government
The Hartford CourantLast week was amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the answer to the question "Will Barack Obama's scandals...Tags: Environmental Issues, U.S. Congress, Elections, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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The NLRB's school-door stand
WASHINGTON — Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: "Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be...Tags: Judges, Human Rights, U.S. Congress, University of Alabama, Employment
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Court refs intervene in superbrawl
To borrow a football metaphor, a federal appeals court threw the flag last week against the president of the United States for unsportsmanlike conduct. Specifically, a three-judge panel in the Washington, D.C., circuit ruled that President Barack Obama'...Tags: Bill Clinton, Labor Disputes, Elections, Republican Party, U.S. Supreme Court
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Kingsley Guy: County name change makes sense
"What's in a name?" inquired Shakespeare's Juliet. A good question. After all, Broward County by any other name would still be Broward County. Yet, there's a certain logic in changing Broward to Fort Lauderdale County in order to give the area greater...Tags: Port Everglades, New York Yankees, Spring Training, 2010 Census, Cruise Line Ports
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Who moved my Twinkie?
Mary SanchezAmerica lost one of its iconic brands last month when Hostess, maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread and other staples of postwar Middle America, closed up shop. The announcement was an occasion for wags to litter the Internet with jokes about...Tags: Unions, Collective Contract, Strikes, Interior Policy, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Right-to-Work Battle Inches Toward Connecticut
The Hartford CourantConnecticut in some ways resembles Michigan, a high-wage industrial state with about the same proportion of union membership as of 2011 -- 17.7 percent here, 18.3 percent there, compared with 11.8 percent for the nation. A year ago, heck, six weeks ago,...Tags: Detroit Free Press, Unions, Elections, Economic Policy, Republican Party
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The Top 10 Connecticut Business Stories of 2012
The Hartford CourantIn some ways, 2012 was a carryover year from news of 2011, as the governor continued his aggressive economic development spending, United Technologies Corp. consummated a deal it announced in 2011, and the year's nastiest labor strike grew out of a 2011...Tags: Hartford Financial Services Group Incorporated, Music, United Technologies Corporation, Raj Rajaratnam, Justice System
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Databases Analyzed To Detect Ineligible Recipients Of State Health Coverage
The Hartford CourantState officials have been using computer databases to detect whether government employees are improperly keeping ineligible people on their health insurance plans as dependents — including ex-spouses after divorces, or even spouses after legal...Tags: Family, Health Insurance, Public Employees, Employees, Government
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NFL follows corporate America's game plan in referees dispute
The one thing about the National Football League on which almost everyone agrees is that it takes its job of providing first-rate entertainment very seriously. That could be one explanation for the league's effort to supplement the pleasure of watching...
Tags: Verizon Communications, Anti Trust Crime, Justice System, Corporate Crime, Entertainment
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Nervous Obama takes refuge in his base
One of the first rules of politics is to re-energize the base when in trouble. Rarely have we observed such adherence to the rule as in the case of President Barack Obama. Economic growth is anemic. The high expectations (and optimistic predictions) that...
Tags: Judges, Dundalk, Elections, Political Fundraising, Interior Policy
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Bring farmworkers' plight into the sunlight
FRESNO — It was around 2 o'clock, temperatures rising under an arcing sun, when I met two workers on a peach farm near here recently. One had first entered the country illegally nearly 40 years ago but later became a U.S. citizen at a time when the...
Tags: Immigration, Elections, Dianne Feinstein, Republican Party, Medina (Saudi Arabia)
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Dec 14, 2012
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Sep 26, 2012
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Aug 26, 2012
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May 30, 2012
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