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Lugar casts final vote, helps avoid 'fiscal cliff'
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's departing U.S. Sen. Richard is leaving the Senate with one last act of compromise in support of Congress' "fiscal cliff" deal. The Republican will leave the Senate on Thursday after having cast 13,067 votes over...
Tags: Joe Donnelly, Politics, Elections, Fiscal Cliff, Richard Mourdock
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Fiscal battle looms for Donnelly, Walorski in Congress
On the occasion of their separate swearing-in ceremonies Thursday, the area's two newest members of Congress both described being humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of Indiana. “It is an incredible honor and extremely humbling to have...
Tags: Politics, Fiscal Cliff, Democratic Party, Joe Donnelly, U.S. Congress
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Brien Poffenberger: Some bright spots are on the horizon for Washington County
Happy New Year from the Chamber of Commerce! As we settle into our routines for 2013, the new year will look pretty much like the old one. Economic recovery continues in Washington County, but it remains incremental and painfully slow. The New Year brings...Tags: Labor Markets, Unemployment, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Barbara A. Mikulski, Arts and Culture
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GOP Expands Majority in Governors' Mansions
CNNRepublicans flipped North Carolina, a state that hasn't elected a GOP governor since the 1980s, expanding their national lead over Democrats at the statehouse level, according to CNN projections. Eleven states held governors' races Tuesday. Democrats...Tags: Jack Markell, Barack Obama, Politics, Justice System, Talk Shows (genre)
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Republicans score key gubernatorial win in North Carolina
CNNRepublicans picked up a key seat in North Carolina, flipping a state that hasn't elected a GOP governor since the 1980s, according to CNN projections. Eleven states are holding gubernatorial races Tuesday, in which Democrats are defending eights seats;...Tags: Barack Obama, Jack Markell, Talk Shows (genre), Politics, Justice System
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Romney flip-flops, and so does Obama; what's wrong with that?
What's that you say? You don't hear much about President Barack Obama's flip-flopping? How about: 1) the Obama reversal regarding child farm-labor regulations; 2) the president's (to quote The New York Times) "revers[ing] his two-year-old order halting...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Walt Whitman, Mitt Romney, Abortion, Hosni Mubarak
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Letters to the Editor - March 20
Those opposed to stadium project should go to polls To the editor: The front page of The Herald-Mail certainly had some interesting news on a recent morning. Contrary to statements by the Suns part-owner, Mr. Dahbura, who said several months ago that...Tags: Politics, Elections, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Voting, Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland)
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Black (liberal) history month
Cal ThomasBlack History Month honors the achievements of African Americans throughout history and that is a good thing. Unfortunately, a reliance on family and faith, which allowed many African Americans to survive the horrors of Reconstruction, racial injustice...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Democratic Party, Ulysses S. Grant
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Senate to give Mark Kirk time to heal
— Ted Kennedy had a brain tumor. Joe Biden had two brain aneurysms. Tim Johnson had a rare brain anomaly that led to strokelike symptoms. Lyndon Baines Johnson had a heart attack.
The lawmakers, all stricken while in public office, were afforded...Tags: Human Body, Justice System, Politics, Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Reel Critics: J. Edgar misses the forest for the trees
Few figures in America ever hold serious political power for half a century. Senators Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd, as well as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, are among the few who did. But no one held as much power as J. Edgar Hoover did as...Tags: Entertainment Events, J. Edgar (movie), Naomi Watts, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Thurgood Marshall
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Mail Call - June 30
“This is in response to the individual from Falling Waters, inquiring asto how a wreck could happen at the corner of West Washington Street and West Antietam Street, when they were a block apart. West Washington Street and West Antietam join, or...Tags: Personal Income, Barack Obama, Politics, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Democratic Party
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Term Limits
Blogging with Bill WhiteI’m a term limits guy. I know the arguments against them: “We have term limits – they’re called elections!” “All that turnover would deprive us of legislative experience.” “With term limits and constant...
Jan 3, 2013
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Jan 2, 2013
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Nov 7, 2012
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Nov 6, 2012
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May 3, 2012
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Mar 19, 2012
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Feb 21, 2012
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Jan 25, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Nov 17, 2011
|Story| Daily Pilot
Jun 29, 2011
|Story| Herald Mail
Sep 22, 2011
| Allentown Morning Call
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