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Ketchikan Recall Effort Continues Against Johansen
Sponsors of a recall campaign against Republican state Rep. Kyle Johansen of Ketchikan say they have
collected enough signatures to move forward on the effort.
One of the sponsors, Dick Coose, says 594 signatures were submitted with a formal...Tags: Republican Party, Alaska
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House votes to repeal health care reform
The Republican-controlled House has voted to repeal the health care law President Barack Obama signed last year. The 245-189 vote marks the fulfillment of a promise many Republicans made in last fall's political campaigns. The measure has little or...Tags: Democratic Party, Judges, Justice System, Republican Party, Health
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Overrule the Supreme Court on campaign finance reform
Democracy has been called a government of laws, not of men; but who makes the laws that govern democracy? Not you, me, or our fellow citizens — at least, not according to the five-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court, who continue to...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Human Interest, Local Government, Politics, Litigation and Regulation
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NCCU Law Center Nixed Amid Donor Concerns
Associated PressAn offer to establish a constitutional law center at North Carolina Central University law school has been withdrawn after some faculty and alumni expressed concern that $600,000 in startup funds would come from a major financial backer of conservative...Tags: Judges, Constitutional Issues, Justice System, Rutgers University, Education
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John M. Wilson, geologist, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterJohn Mackenzie Wilson, who mapped the Eastern Shore for the Maryland Geological Survey, died of a lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, July 3 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Fells Point resident was 57. Born in Salisbury,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Science, Anglicanism, Unions
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Third worker says she was harassed by Cain
Associated PressA third former employee considered filing a workplace complaint against Herman Cain over what she considered aggressive and unwanted behavior when she and Cain, now a Republican presidential candidate, worked together during the late 1990s, the woman told...Tags: Minority Groups, MSNBC (tv network), Republican Party, Herman Cain, Politics
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McManus: Doomsday doubters and the debt ceiling
President Obama says that if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, the consequences will be dire. A long list of economists and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce agree. Even the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate agrees. But there's also...Tags: Democratic Party, Medicare, Government Health Care, Human Interest, Social Security
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Campaign signs lining many roads but many may be placed illegally
Multimedia JournalistOne of the realities of political campaigns in our times is campaign signs. They're everywhere; on poles and in yards; you simply can't miss them. The Virginia Department of Transportation has 8,000 miles of roadways, in our area. Besides mowing and...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Politics, Virginia Department of Transportation, Elections
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Obama's 2012 campaign seeing fewer Chicago bundlers
Prominent Chicago attorney John Schmidt has been a contributor to Barack Obama since he was just a state senator, but despite being a fundraiser for the 2008 presidential campaign, he won't play a similar role bundling cash for the re-election. "It's...Tags: Democratic Party, Justice System, Human Interest, Politics, Charity
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Anti-gambling group urges Quinn to veto casino expansion
Clout StreetGambling opponents today called for Illinois to ban casino interests from making political campaign contributions and for Gov. Pat Quinn to veto a pending casino expansion bill. Common Cause, a government watchdog organization, released a report saying...Tags: Chicago, Human Interest, Rahm Emanuel, Politics, Chicago Mayor
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Was Jon Huntsman campaigning while he was still ambassador?
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersIn Jon Huntsman's final weeks as ambassador to China, he stressed that he would not decide whether to run for president until he returned to the United States -- an important statement, because sitting ambassadors are prohibited from actively taking...Tags: Utah, China, Beijing (China), Republican Party, Politics
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Perdue's 'Fighter Image' Could Help Toward Re-election
Staff WriterGov. Beverly Perdue struggled to find her way politically in her first two years in office when she and fellow Democrats in the Legislature made unpopular decisions to cut spending and raise taxes while saddled with a free-falling economy. It led to...Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Democratic Party, Justice System, Budgets and Budgeting, Republican Party
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