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ESSAY: One glimpse of your nation, Mr. President
Dear Mr. President: There is a man in Jacksonville, Fla., named Bryan Stone. He is 60 years old and works at a company that helps people find better jobs. He describes himself as "more to the right than the left," though not all that far out from the...Tags: Elections, Religion and Belief, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), National Government, Government
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Despite bullets in Miami, FDR conquered Central Florida in open motorcade
Preparations for the 57th Inauguration on Jan. 21 inspire recollections of storied presidential visits to Central Florida. When Grover Cleveland arrived in 1888, for example, his reception was a bit chilly: The Orlando Ice Works presented him with a...
Tags: Grover Cleveland, Barack Obama, Polio, Orlando, Rollins College
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Letters to the Editor - Jan. 15
Times have changed, so should our mindset To the editor: I have been listening to some of the gun advocates talking about how citizens need to have guns to defend themselves from their government. Then I got something through my Facebook page quoting...Tags: Democratic Party, U.S. Congress, Elections, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party
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Dueling burrito joints fight for space at Annapolis' City Dock
First, it was the silverware. For more than six years, Moe's Southwest Grill has been selling its burritos at Annapolis' historic City Dock, the waterfront store among the few "fast-casual" restaurant chains to successfully set up shop despite the...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, McDonald's, Annapolis, United States Naval Academy
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Guns don't protect freedom; the Constitution does
"Happiness is a warm gun," wrote John Lennon, 12 years before being gunned down in front of his New York apartment building by a madman armed with a .38 special. Lennon, of course, was being ironic, but there's no trace of irony being exhibited by another...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chick-fil-A, Inc., Social Issues, Interior Policy, The Happiest News!
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Car flips over at Mount Vernon's Washington Monument
A car that crashed near the Washington Monument onl Thursday morning overturned, injuring a passenger and damaging a wall at the historic Mount Vernon park. The flipped-over four-door gray sedan blocked traffic on Washington Place just south of the 178-...
Tags: Mount Vernon, Washington Monument, University of Maryland Medical Center, Vernon (Tolland, Connecticut), Mount Vernon Place
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Republicans afraid of the storm? Come to Chicago
With Tropical Storm Isaac threatening to turn into a hurricane and menace the Republican National Convention in Tampa early next week, Republicans must make a decision. They could just get sloshed on rum, margaritas and whiskey and ride out the storm...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Michael Madigan, Hurricane Isaac (2012), Kenwood, Tampa
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Cuban missile crisis myth constrains today's diplomatic standoffs
World NowGlobal Focus: Fifty years after the superpowers were poised to annihilate each other over nuclear missiles sent to Cuba, the myth prevails that President Kennedy forced Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to back down by threatening to unleash nuclear war.... -
Attorneys for Chinese premier's family hit back at report on wealth
World NowBEIJING -- Attorneys for family members of China’s prime minister hit back over the weekend at the New York Times, calling the newspaper’s report about wealth amassed by Wen Jiabao’s family “untrue” and suggesting they may... -
Stephen Colbert, Tom Brokaw on ‘Meet the Press’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelNow for something completely different Sunday morning: Stephen Colbert will bring his comical outlook to NBC's “Meet the Press.” The program starts at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. The star of Comedy Central's “Colbert Report” will get... -
Romney spends big with aides' firms
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSMitt Romney's campaign has directed $134.2 million to political firms with business ties to his senior staff, spotlighting the tightknit nature of his second presidential bid and the staggering sums being spent in this election. Nine firms that are run...Tags: Elections, Sales, Polls, Business, Los Angeles Times
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Group aims to restore 1915 schoolhouse, teach local history inside
When Martha Forth first saw the one-room rural schoolhouse where she would land her first teaching job in 1938, her heart sank. "I thought, I can't do this," recalled Forth, then 23 and a university graduate with a teaching credential from USC. The...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Politics, Lobbying
Jan 19, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Jan 20, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jan 15, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Dec 20, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 27, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Aug 24, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 17, 2012
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Oct 28, 2012
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Oct 12, 2012
| Orlando Sentinel
Oct 27, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 9, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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