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Farm bill would help fruit growers
The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich.Both pending versions of the 2013 Farm Bill would make crop insurance available to cherry farmers, northern Michigan's federal legislators said. The Senate version of the farm bill emerged from the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture on Tuesday. Sen....Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Michigan State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pies and Tarts, U.S. Senate
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Coal-burning Badger ferry can pollute Lake Michigan until 2015
After winning exemptions from environmental laws for more than a decade, owners of the last coal-powered steamship on the Great Lakes agreed Friday to a court-enforced deadline to stop dumping toxic pollution into Lake Michigan. But the proposed legal...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Lobbying, Dick Durbin, Coal
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Michigan braces for sequestration cuts
Staff WriterBroad automatic cuts to federal funding are set to become law today, Friday, unless Congress can come to a compromise on how to curb its deficit spending. Sequestration would slash $85 billion immediately from 2013 federal budget spending and would cut...Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Consumer Confidence, Public Finance, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Senate
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Rep. Benishek: Hopeful for deal to avoid sequestration funding cuts but skeptical
Staff WriterPETOSKEY, Mich. — Congress is gearing up for another down-to-the-wire budget crisis this week with mandatory $1.2 trillion cuts to governmental spending set to take effect March 1. But, despite being discouraged, second-term Congressman Dan...Tags: Medicare, Agriculture, Elections, Debbie Stabenow, Budgets and Budgeting
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Plans to cancel Saturday letter delivery getting mixed response
Getting a Saturday morning letter will be a thing of the past starting in August. The United States Postal Service announced Wednesday it will be halting Saturday delivery on first class letters, catalogs and publications later this year in an attempt...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, Unemployment, U.S. Postal Service, The Washington Post, Jay Carney
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Talk of GOP primaries follows 'fiscal cliff' vote
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in Congress who took the politically risky step of voting to raise taxes now find themselves trying to fend off potential primary challenges next year from angry conservatives. These lawmakers wasted little time...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, Steve Womack
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Taxes to rise for most Americans with Fiscal Cliff deal
WASHINGTON — While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013. That's because the legislation did nothing to...
Tags: Charlie Brown (fictional character), Employees, New Year's Day, Fiscal Cliff, Healthcare Laws
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MI01: Benishek declared winner in narrow U.S. House contest; McDowell says race too close to call
Republican Congressman Dan Benishek declared victory just after 4 a.m. Wednesday on a lank unofficial win over Democratic challenger Gary McDowell for a second term. With poll reporting continuing up until dawn, the Associated Press officially called...
Tags: Democratic Party, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, Libertarian Party, Environmental Issues
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McDowell concedes in U.S. House race, ending recount speculation
Staff WriterDemocratic candidate Gary McDowell conceded a narrow defeat Friday night in Michigan's 1st Congressional district, ending speculation a recount could be possible. McDowell called incumbent Congressman Dan Benishek, R-Crystal Falls, to congratulate him on...Tags: Elections, Politics
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Michigan voters leery of big changes in direction
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan showed little appetite for drastic change in Tuesday's election, whether at the White House or the statehouse. For all the concern about the struggling economy and the widespread cynicism about politicians, voters gave...
Tags: Labor Legislation, George W. Bush, Television Networks, Elections, Television Industry
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3 races key to Mich. Congress delegation control
DETROIT (AP) — Republicans are heading into Election Day with a two-seat majority in Michigan's congressional delegation and high hopes of maintaining the edge, but three surprisingly close races have Democrats eyeing a previously unexpected...
Tags: Vernon J Ehlers, Judges, Tim Walberg, Candice Miller, Voting
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Benishek, McDowell face off in debate
A standing-room-only crowd and overflow into the lobby showed just what the 1st U.S. House race means to Northern Michigan during the only Lower Peninsula debate, Monday night at the North Central Michigan College library. The seat representing the...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, Nursing Homes, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement
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