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  • EDITORIAL
    Aug 1, 2010 — The Hartford Courant
    Of the three Republicans running for governor, The Courant recommends Tom Foley, 58, from Greenwich. Foley has been battle-tested in such work. Mr. Griebel is the more innovative and dynamic of Mr.
  • Five myths about the Bush tax cuts
    Aug 1, 2010 — Washington Post
    Should the tax cuts expire, as some Democrats have said? As the CBO notes, most Bush tax cut dollars go to higher-income households, and these top earners don't spend as much of their income as lower earners. In 2007, well after the tax cuts took effect, the budget deficit stood at 1.2 percent of GDP.
  • French workers agree to trade benefits to keep GM plant from moving to Mexico
    Aug 1, 2010 — Washington Post
    General Motors to keep the factory humming in the years ahead.Ruhland's union, the French Labor Federation, which has traditional links to the Socialist Party, also backed signing up for the GM deal, seeing it as the lesser of two evils. As the strongest union at the plant, its support was key in generating the 70 percent favorable vote July 19.The second-strongest union, the General Labor Federation, which has traditional ties to the Communist Party, denounced the GM offer as a...
  • Meek seeks place in history
    Aug 1, 2010 — Tampa Tribune
    Early on, it appeared Meek had a clear path to the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Gov. Carrie Meek -- granddaughter of a slave and Florida's first black Congress member since Reconstruction. It employed his mother as a lobbyist after she left Congress. Meek won a state House seat in 1994, then a state Senate seat in 1998.
  • Republicans compete to take on Debbie Wasserman Schultz
    Aug 1, 2010 — Sun Sentinel
    Anthony Man Aug. 1, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Door to door campaigning in blistering summer heat. Harrington, 46, of Davie, is a restaurant owner.
  • Texas Democratic candidates distance selves from Obama
    Aug 1, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
    Rick Perry on down have made Obama-bashing a political sport. The midday stop in Austin is also expected to include a public event that Obama may use to tout his administration's performance on the economy. As of late July, major polls gave the former Illinois senator an average approval rating of 45.7 percent, compared with a 49.3 percent disapproval rating, according to Real Clear Politics.
  • Voting records tell how Tiahrt, Moran differ
    Aug 1, 2010 — The Kansas City Star
    It passed 267-158. Tiahrt: No Moran: Yes April 20, 2007: HR 1257, a bill requiring most public companies to hold a nonbinding shareholder vote on executive pay. Opponents said it would add to the deficit. It passed 354-58. Tiahrt: Yes Moran: No June 11, 2008: HR 6003, a bill reauthorizing federal spending for Amtrak.
  • AG wrests price cut from Cape Wind
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Boston Globe
    Both Coakley and some opponents demanded that Cape Wind reveal projected construction costs and how much profit the developers anticipate making.
  • Bill White to President Obama
    Jul 31, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
    The money was never paid because Sino Swearingen had trouble getting its financing together and had layoffs. The grant was canceled in August 2007. One of the Sino Swearingen investors was Doug Jaffe, who sold some Horseshoe Bay real estate to Perry in 2001 with state Sen. Perry sold the property in 2007 to another of Jaffe's business partners.
  • Book Review - Cocaine Nation - By Tom Feiling
    Jul 31, 2010 — New York Times
    During cocaine’s postwar renaissance, mafiosi based in Cuba met demand in the United States, the world’s largest cocaine market. Snuffed out in one area, cocaine surges in another. “Americans consume roughly 290 metric tons of cocaine a year,” Feiling writes, a load that “could be carried across the U.S.-Mexican border in just 13 trucks.
  • Candidates diverge on education, taxes
    Jul 31, 2010 — Pioneer Press
    No state has opted out of No Child Left Behind," she said.
  • Dental care for disabled takes step forward
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Accessible Dental works with 48 agencies and 130 families. Problems people with disabilities face in getting dental care are almost endless. Accessible Dental has office locations in Rochester, Green Tree, Murrysville and Uniontown. Yet patients come from as far away as Bradford, DuBois and Warren to receive care. "People will drive two or three hours for dental care.
  • Detroit Free Press Ron Dzwonkowski column
    Jul 31, 2010 — Detroit Free Press
    Ron Dzwonkowski Jul. 31, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Too bad he can't come back every week.
  • Emmer is main target at DFL debate
    Jul 31, 2010 — Star Tribune
    He said the move would resolve most of the estimated $6 billion shortfall in coming years and help boost funding for other prized initiatives, like education.
  • French workers' sobering retreat
    Jul 31, 2010 — Washington Post
    General Motors to keep the factory humming in the years ahead.Ruhland's union, the French Labor Federation, which has traditional links to the Socialist Party, also backed signing up for the GM deal, seeing it as the lesser of two evils. As the strongest union at the plant, its support was key in generating the 70 percent favorable vote July 19.The second-strongest union, the General Labor Federation, which has traditional ties to the Communist Party, denounced the GM offer as a...
  • In Germany, the economic crisis weighs heavily on the poor
    Jul 31, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    For now, he's got fewer colleagues, is assigned more tasks and is earning about the same amount as a few years ago. He hears talk of more belt-tightening.
  • Incoming Collin County district clerk, 5 others indicted on organized crime charges related to campaign
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Dallas Morning News
    All six defendants appeared voluntarily at the Collin County Jail about 12:30 p.m. to be processed, said sheriff's spokesman John Norton.
  • Martha Coakley zaps Cape Wind
    Jul 31, 2010 — Boston Herald
    Cape Wind's 130 offshore turbines will cost about $2 billion to install -- and that Cape Wind's proposed rate deal with National Grid added up to $3 billion over 15 years. The entire project would cost ratepayers about $6 billion if other utilities bought the remaining 50 percent of Cape Wind's power at the rates National Grid negotiated with the developer. Coakley's office was worried that the DPU, whose three commissioners were handpicked by the Patrick administration, would...
  • Missouri Voters to Have Say on Health Care Law
    Jul 31, 2010 — New York Times
    Obama did not take time to denounce Proposition C when he visited Missouri in early June. Nixon declined to reveal how the governor would vote on the referendum. The referendum is supported by the Missouri State Medical Association.
  • Mystery attack ads literally call candidate 'ugly'
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Miami Herald
    Republicans in the race -- Manrique, Trujillo and Whilly Bermudez -- said they don't believe Diaz sent the mailer. Instead, they say it came from the fourth Republican, Francisco Amador. Amador recently made the spurious claims against Manrique and Trujillo at a Miami Herald editorial board interview, before the mailer went out. The e-mail address that Diaz lists in his campaign qualifying documents with the Florida Division of Elections matches the e-mail address Amador lists...
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