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The Carson monologue
Dr. Benjamin Carson, the eminent Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon, has received much attention over the years not only for his skills in the operating room but for what he has achieved beyond it. For many Baltimoreans, his story is a familiar one...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Personal Investing, Medical Procedures and Tests, Radio, Entertainment
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Orland Park history, 1989: Village restores church rooted in town's past.
Nestled on a quiet street in the corner of "Old Orland," the Twin Tower Sanctuary of Orland Park United Methodist Church stands firmly as a reminder of the village's past. The sanctuary, built in 1898, represents a period when the community—now...
Tags: Architecture, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture
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San Marino mural is a nod to a piece of iconic history
A historic gift to San Marino several years in the making made its debut on Valentine’s Day, a mural celebrating the city’s red wooden Pacific Electric Railway trolley brought in the 1900s by none other than Henry Huntington himself. The idea...
Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Passenger Cars, Arts, Human Interest, Hybrid Vehicles
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The great deficit debate: looking for money in all the wrong places
Contributing ColumnistFor the last two years we’ve heard the same mantra from the GOP and its mouthpiece, FOX News: “We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.” It’s usually said with solemnity and sometimes a hint of compassion, as if the...Tags: World Bank Group, U.S. Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Norway, Budgets and Budgeting
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Downtown mural changes approved
The Arts Commission on Monday unanimously approved changes from the original proposal for the sculptured mural on the wall of Hobie Sports, taking into account public safety from protruding images and concerns about the quality of the piece. Sculptor...
Tags: Arts, Sculpture, Arts and Culture
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Congress ushering in new members, with old divide
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is ushering in the new and the old — dozens of eager freshmen determined to change Washington and the harsh reality of another stretch of bitterly divided government. The 113th Congress will convene Thursday at the...Tags: John Boehner, New Year's Day, Government, Elections, Barack Obama
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Mountain out of a molehill
 WASHINGTON — The poet Carl Sandburg supposedly was asked by a young playwright to attend a rehearsal. Sandburg did, but fell asleep. The playwright exclaimed, "How could you sleep when you knew I wanted your opinion?" Sandburg replied, "Sleep is an...Tags: Mitt Romney, The Washington Post, Carl Sandburg, Federal Election Commission, Polls
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Our Laguna: 2012 was a year of change
The top 10 stories of 2011 included limitations on skateboarders; an arrest for alleged rapes and sexual assaults; flood recovery; Marine Life Protection Act implementation delay in Laguna; the Heisler Park renovation; the Resource Center pulling out from...Tags: Elan Corporation Plc, Health and Safety at School, Artists, Judges, Arts
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Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...
Tags: Richard Lugar, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, John Boehner, Jim DeMint, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Allan Powell: Politics the old-fashioned way
Ezra Klein is a very gifted young man who is getting deserved recognition in newspapers and on television. His abilities were on display in a Washington Post column (March 19, 2012) describing how the fabulously rich Koch brothers were hard at work in a...Tags: Philosophy, Mitt Romney, Theodore Roosevelt, The Washington Post, Career and Workplace
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Is anybody sad that Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate?
In a profession like politics and in a town like the nation's capital, the phenomenon of a U.S. senator voluntarily surrendering his seat for a think-tank job would have been unthinkable some years ago. The decision of Republican Jim DeMint of South...
Tags: American Enterprise Institute, Primaries, Richard Lugar, John Boehner, Jim DeMint
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Ending filibuster abuse
The announcement last week that South Carolina's Jim DeMint is leaving his Senate seat to run the Heritage Foundation caused some in Washington to wishfully think that perhaps the move might usher in a more congenial, if not cooperative, outlook in the U....
Tags: U.S. Congress, Jim DeMint, Frank Capra Jr., Elections, U.S. Senate
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