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  • How they spent their summer vacation
    Sep 4, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
    But the Quaker day school commands that kind of money with a reputation for academic excellence. When Sidwell sends its students away for the summer, it provides them with reading lists. Both study piano; Malia also plays the flute. Next he, his wife and Sasha made an overnight visit to Florida's Gulf Coast.
  • President to bolster Sestak's campaign
    Sep 4, 2010 — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Sestak's back. The Sestak campaign announced Friday that Mr. Obama will headline a fundraising event for Mr. Sestak went on the air for the first time this week.
  • Study ranks Pa. 38th in roads quality
    Sep 4, 2010 — The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Under the study's proposal, $1.35 billion would be taken from roads and bridges and shifted to transit.
  • Virginia's roads suffer slide in annual rankings
    Sep 4, 2010 — The Virginian-Pilot
    In the past few years, two had to be closed because money was not available to fix them.
  • Akerson brings sense of mission to resurgent GM
    Sep 3, 2010 — Detroit Free Press
    As some GM executives have learned, Akerson can be an antagonist at board meetings. On the other hand, he was caring about people."Despite Akerson's softer side, his former associates agree GM is in for a change with Akerson as CEO. By the 18th hole, the bet boiled down to Staubach making a 5-foot putt and Akerson missing a 25-foot putt.
  • Dems have few options on economy
    Sep 3, 2010 — Politico
    If you’re President Barack Obama, you go out and talk about the economy — in Milwaukee on Monday, Cleveland on Wednesday and at a White House news conference Friday. Why should anything proposed so close to the election be treated any differently? Timing is to politics what location is to real estate.
  • Geneva County offers prescription discount card to uninsured
    Sep 3, 2010 — The Dothan Eagle
    The company is also cutting Geneva County in on the deal, giving the county 50 to 75 cents per prescription filled. The company expects that 250 to 500 prescriptions will be filled a month by cardholders in Geneva County.
  • Obama versus the world on jobs
    Sep 3, 2010 — Politico
    They are trying to out-compete us.” “The United States of America does not play for second place. We play for first place.” His repeated calls to beat the world in jobs, clean energy and education might be considered just normal presidential cheerleading. Personally, I don’t think so.” He said that by contrast, German Chancellor Angela Merkel favors a less competitive tack.
  • Senate poll
    Sep 3, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
    LeAlan Jones, the Green Party candidate, had 6 percent and Libertarian Party candidate Mike Labno had 3 percent in the survey. A similar share of conservative voters, 36 percent, have no opinion on whether they like the GOP candidate, and one in five are undecided in the Senate contest. National Republican leaders have pledged to do that for Kirk.
  • The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Eric Heyl column
    Sep 3, 2010 — The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Thinking about sending out the Secret Service to rent a Redbox movie. Besides, I'm more partial to the Coen brothers. (9:26 p.m.) George W. Bush: You oughta rent something by Stallone. Now those (expletives) are funny! (10:03 p.m.) George W. Bush: Premature in my endeavorness?
  • Tribune/WGN-TV poll
    Sep 3, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
    LeAlan Jones, the Green Party candidate, had 6 percent and Libertarian Party candidate Mike Labno had 3 percent in the survey. National Republican leaders have pledged to do that for Kirk. A recent Obama fundraiser added to Giannoulias' coffers, but the Democrat still needs millions to pay for television ads in the expensive Chicago TV market.
  • AFL-CIO's fall strategy: Less TV
    Sep 2, 2010 — Politico
    The union will target up to 30 House, 10 Senate and 20 gubernatorial races. That money needs to be invested in job creation.” The Teamsters are also getting in on the action. The union is targeting California, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.
  • Giannoulias, Kirk running neck and neck in Illinois Senate race, polls shows
    Sep 2, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
    LeAlan Jones, the Green Party candidate, had 6 percent and Libertarian Party candidate Mike Labno had 3 percent in the survey. But there were serious areas of concern for his growth prospects.Giannoulias trailed Kirk, 34 percent to 23 percent, among voters who call themselves independent and not aligned with a political party. National Republican leaders have pledged to do that for Kirk.
  • Judge removes 'birther' elements from Army doc's court martial
    Sep 2, 2010 — CNN
    After failing to deploy with his unit in April, Lakin was charged with missing a movement, disobeying a lawful order and dereliction of duty. Lakin's lawyers argued that all military orders stem from the commander-in-chief. They compose the birther movement, which demands that Obama present a birth certificate signed by the doctor who delivered him in 1961.
  • Playing politics, New York City-style
    Sep 2, 2010 — Newsday
    But tough luck for voters who would like to answer them separately. The questions get lumped together in one vote. Supposedly, this has to do with the way the new voting machines and old election laws work. The same goes for a second ballot question.
  • BRIEF
    Sep 1, 2010 — Contra Costa Times
    The money came from a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's Transportation Fund For Clean Air. Lisa P. White covers Martinez and Pleasant Hill.
  • Dallas County officials vote to propose tax increase rather than cut payroll
    Sep 1, 2010 — The Dallas Morning News
    Her announcement drew loud applause. "This county has been very responsible," she said. "We have done everything we can do. The fiscal year begins Oct. 1. The proposed tax increase would close a remaining $22.5 million budget shortfall in the county's $450 million general fund. The projected 3.5 percent decrease would result in a $9 million hit to the general fund, Brown told commissioners. Commissioners initially voted to propose no change to the tax rate.
  • Dramatic drop for illegal immigration
    Sep 1, 2010 — Politico
    ...touted their border security credentials. Republicans have hammered Democrats, saying they are soft on illegal immigration and have not done enough to shore up the Southwest border. But Chandler said the Department of Homeland Security has cracked down on employers who hire illegal immigrants, deported a large number of criminal aliens  and sent hundreds of millions of dollars in additional resources to the border. “The Border Patrol is better staffed...
  • Economic summit begins by defining individual's role
    Sep 1, 2010 — The Dothan Eagle
    Today we are making the commitment to do something in the next 12 months. An engaged community can accomplish many things," he said. "Everybody is an economic developer in this community.
  • Enbridge is under fire over Michigan oil spill cleanup tactics
    Sep 1, 2010 — Detroit Free Press
    Schauer, a Battle Creek Democrat whose district includes the spill site. Enbridge also was stung Tuesday by a report that a subcontractor on the cleanup may have used illegal immigrants. But the lawmakers' letter raises the stakes. "Enbridge's efforts to take legal advantage of Michigan residents ... are reprehensible," Oberstar and Schauer said in a letter Tuesday to the company's president and CEO. In the wake of July's big oil spill in mid-Michigan, residents were evacuated...
  • Granted, we've got money
    Sep 1, 2010 — The Decatur Daily
    Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, had been particularly influential helping the city win transportation-enhancement grants. It requires $180,000 in matching funds from the city. Transportation Enhancement Grant: Also from ALDOT, this $400,000 grant will help revamp lower Bank Street, part of the streetscape project. It required $8,753 in matching funds from the city. Body Armor Grant: This Justice Department grant, valued at $6,758, purchased bulletproof vests for the Police Department.
  • Livonia may add footpaths, cycling trails
    Sep 1, 2010 — Detroit Free Press
    ...biking and walking paths are as much a part of Livonia's streetscape as are its roads now dominated by cars. Kalinski, a bus driver for the suburban SMART system, wants residents who pedal or walk to get the same consideration as residents who drive. "When they design roads, it's 100% car," he said during a driving tour of the city last week. "It's almost like a linear monument to the car." Tonight, a Livonia City Council committee will consider a proposal from Kalinski,...
  • New health center to relieve pressure on ERs
    Sep 1, 2010 — Montgomery Advertiser
    The city of Montgomery contributed $1.5 million and Montgomery County chipped in $1 million. Once the facility is completed, Health Services will request annual operating grants.
  • New shuttle will serve corporate parks in Bergen starting next summer
    Sep 1, 2010 — The Record (Hackensack, N.J.)
    Coutros Aug. 28, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- RIDGEWOOD -- A free shuttle service from the newly renovated train station will bring employees, seniors and the disabled to office complexes in Montvale, Park Ridge and Woodcliff Lake beginning next summer. The service will be paid for with $3.5 million approved by the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority for eight new projects for the Local Mobility Initiative Program....
  • Obama Slips; U.S. on Wrong Track
    Sep 1, 2010 — Albuquerque Journal
    The interviews were conducted Aug. 23-27 by Research and Polling Inc. of Albuquerque. The margin of error for the full, statewide sample of 403 voters is plus or minus 5 percentage points.
  • The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn., Scott Barker column
    Sep 1, 2010 — The Knoxville News-Sentinel
    Opposite Johnson on Fridays, we've been running a column by Ina Hughs. Her first journalism job was in Athens, Tenn. The letter ended, however, with an anti-Semitic tirade full of bile and devoid of fact. We have received numerous letters objecting to the anti-Semitic missive.
  • U.S. completes power transfer in Iraq
    Sep 1, 2010 — CNN
    The ceremony, held at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, marked the conclusion of the U.S. combat mission dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom and the transfer to the assistant mission, named Operation New Dawn. Biden said Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, but promised that "American engagement with Iraq will continue" with the new stability mission. We have closed or transferred hundreds of bases to the Iraqis.
  • While mighty Earl menaces, coastal folk look out or leave
    Sep 1, 2010 — The News and Observer
    They ordered late Tuesday a mandatory evacuation for all visitors and residents of Ocracoke Island. It was predicted to follow a similar curving path north and west, but pass much farther out to sea.
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