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Barack Obama on David Letterman
The Swamp(AP Photo/CBS, Jeffrey R. Staab) by Frank James If Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama was worried about his declining poll ratings and the Sarah Palin phenomenon, you'd never know it from his appearance on CBS's Late Night with......Tags: Field Museum of Natural History, Family, CBS Corp., Economic Policy, Sarah Palin
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'Top Chef': Jill, we hardly knew you
Reality CheckMaryann here, recapping for you live(ish) from Mary's couch. (And Mary here, in italics.) This week, we had a chance to watch the show together. Not a lot of drama from the cheftestants, but plenty of eye-rolling and scoffing from......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Long Island, Foo Fighters (music group), Sausages, Soups
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President Bush pardons his last bird
The Swampby Mark Silva There's something inherently sad about watching a retiring President George W. Bush pardon his last turkey. The president pardoned 14 others, and commuted the prison sentences of two more, this week with an exercise of constitutional...Tags: Pumpkin, Disasters and Accidents, Thanksgiving, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Fires
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College football to be featured on ESPN again in '09
WatchdogESPN/ABC will be televise college football games again this coming season. Many of them. The schedule can be viewed by clicking below and reading the news release fresh off the presses from Bristol. No mention of Ben Roethlisberger in it.......Tags: Dallas Cowboys, Southwest Airlines Co., Capital One Bowl, Armed Forces, Verizon Communications
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Spirit Airlines strike -- everybody's losing
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsGot some interesting e-mails after writing about the Spirit Airlines strike, and I'll share some excerpts of the various perspectives below. To get some background about Spirit Airlines, check out this New York Times business story from March 2009. And......Tags: Twitter, Inc., JetBlue Airways, Cape May (Cape May, New Jersey), Air Transportation Delays, Career and Workplace
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Looove Connection is looking for more Manti Te'os
For weeks, I've been fiddling with ideas for satirical columns about the little-flown Lehigh Valley International Airport. I had TSA agents killing time by doing jigsaw puzzles and playing "I Spy." I had ticket agents pitching horseshoes and grilling...
Tags: Channing Tatum, Manti Te'o, Allentown, Charter Schools, Ed Pawlowski
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Airline PR weathers the storm
Hurricane Sandy turned out to be one of the most disruptive forces on air travel in recent memory. According to FlightStats (flightstats.com), which tracks airline and airport on-time performance, almost one-fifth of flights on U.S. carriers were...
Tags: Media Industry, Air Transportation, Air Transportation Delays, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Travel
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Man About Town: Ejected from home, we're going to Disneyland
The looping line at the Jungle Cruise is almost Euclidean in its use of space. Hundreds of us shuffle across that cramped boathouse entrance — standing, shuffling, standing. We snake upstairs and down, then back across one another, like...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Restaurants, Dressing and Stuffing, Disneyland Park, Celebrities
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Viewpoint: Swiss visitors keep this writer entertained
While trying to think of something to write about for this week’s column, I stumbled on the first column I ever wrote for this newspaper. It was written the summer of 1991. My cousin Heinz Pfister and his wife, Trudi, were visiting Holtville at...
Tags: Disneyland Park, Swiss Confederation, Australia, Amusement and Theme Parks, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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New airline rules yet to be enforced, even as DOT levies record fines
Back in August, you might recall, the Transportation Department adopted a set of tough new consumer-protection rules to help airline passengers. In January, it added even more.
But while industry observers were trying to figure out how the new...Tags: Fines, Air Transportation Delays, Chris Elliott, Prices, Transportation
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Where's my ticket refund?
American Airlines promises Tracy Wilkinson a bereavement discount in the form of a refund after her grandfather dies. But now it isn't even responding to her inquiries. Why the radio silence?
Q: My grandfather recently passed away and I needed to...Tags: Domestic Travel, Air Transportation Delays, Chris Elliott, Transportation, Air Transportation
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It's going to cost you more to fly home for the holidays
It's going to cost you even more to fly home for Thanksgiving, if you haven't booked your flight yet. Popular travel website Travelocity said the average roundtrip flight will cost almost $400. That is up almost 9 percent from the same period last year....
Tags: Travel, Holiday Vacations, Holidays, Trips and Vacations
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