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Cabinet: Richardson to Commerce
Spin CycleBill Richardson gets the nod for the Commerce Department -- not, with all due respect to the census and copyright laws and trade missions, the sexiest cabinet job in Washington for a guy who took abuse and was accused......Tags: Trade Policy, Government, State Budgets, Bill Richardson, National Government
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Farming the Chesapeake
As watermen have done for decades, Ronny Jetmore guides his small boat into a creek off the Patuxent River to tong oysters from the bottom.
Oysters, once so bountiful in the Chesapeake Bay that their shells were used to pave roads, have become scarce...Tags: University of Maryland, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, Morgan State University
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Carmakers pledge cuts in new appeal for bailout
Tribune Washington BureauIn their quest for a financial lifeline from Washington, U.S. automakers filed detailed plans yesterday for reinventing themselves for a leaner, greener future, but what might do more to win over a skeptical Congress was another round of disastrous news...Tags: Detroit, Carl Levin, California, Financially Distressed Companies, Vehicles
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Tax activist's ad challenges Obama's eligibility for office
Chicago Tribune reportersAn anti-tax activist from upstate New York who is questioning whether President-elect Barack Obama is a "natural born citizen" eligible for the nation's top job said Tuesday that his non-profit group spent "tens of thousands of dollars" to get his message...Tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Government, State Budgets, Barack Obama, Pennsylvania
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Who's counting?
A census is such a huge undertaking that the federal government, with all its resources, only does it once a decade — and only with much agonizing and contention over the results. Yet every locality in Virginia is required to do a census every...Tags: Sales, Virginia, University of Virginia, Schools, Population and Census
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Quintessentially Connecticut Numbers
The Hartford CourantCTStats: How did we calculate which town is "quintessentially Connecticut"? This very unscientific ranking of Connecticut towns was arrived at by taking eight factors into account -- total population, population density, average income, town debt per...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Connecticut, Academic Progress
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Michelle Obama geneaology off-limits
The SwampA surviving shack along road once known as Slave Street on a South Carolina plantation. Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather, who was born around 1850, lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on the sprawling rice plantation. (Tribune......Tags: Justice and Rights, Polls, Government, Michelle Obama, University of South Florida
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The town that crime forgot
Of The Morning CallThere was a time when Marie Trigiani could answer her door without peeking through the window first to see who'd come knocking. Those were the years when Rose's Main Street Café was left unlocked after it closed for the day and Elena Ruggiero couldn't...Tags: Police Investigations, Roseto, Stockertown, Police, Walnutport
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Hundreds killed in Nigerian riots
Associated PressMobs burned homes, churches and mosques yesterday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years. Sheikh Khalid Abubakar, the imam at the city's main mosque,...Tags: Government, Employees, Christianity, Death and Dying, Landforms
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Nigerian death toll rises
The Associated PressMobs burned homes, churches and mosques Saturday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years. Sheikh Khalid Abubakar, the imam at the city's main mosque, said...Tags: Local Elections, Government, Christianity, Landforms, Death and Dying
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Driven to excellence
247-4637People watch him. Friends, teammates, opponents, even casual observers. Andrew Williams knows that every time he steps on a wrestling mat, he is a story. When Williams wins, he moves one step closer to history. If he loses, he can make someone else's day...Tags: Harry Potter, University of Virginia, Schools, Colleges and Universities, Demographics
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Villani sets new record
The Virginia GazetteThe 7th annual Governor’s Land 5K Run for the Brain lived up to its reputation last Saturday as the “Fastest 5K Course on the Peninsula,” as a Virginia state 50-54 age-group record was set by Leisa Villani, 50, the women’s...Tags: Students, Government, Teaching and Learning, 5K Run, Marathon
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