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Voice of the People, Jun. 09
Pension debt Isn't it amazing and disturbing that the Illinois General Assembly could pass medical marijuana, concealed carry and a whole bunch of other bills, all while leaving unresolved the nearly $100-billion-dollar pension deficit? Pension reform...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Public Officials, Travel, Skokie, Pension and Welfare
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Pentagon: Israel approved document that revealed details of missile base
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON U.S. officials deny that they inadvertently revealed secret details about a proposed Israeli missile base when they put the $25 million project up for bid. Department of Defense officials said Israeli officials had reviewed in advance and...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Government, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry
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McCain says Assad is winning in Syria, urges U.S. aid to moderates
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON President Bashar Assad is winning the civil war in Syria, Sen. John McCain said Thursday, saying the United States must rethink its policy there and in the rest of the Middle East if it wants to avoid a regional war that would weaken many of...Tags: Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), National Government, Egypt, Government, Barack Obama
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Judge giveth and judge taketh away in military insurance case on autism
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON A federal judge has now frustrated military families that earlier won insurance coverage for a certain kind of autism therapy. In a rare reversal, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton second-guessed his own previous order that the military's...Tags: Justice System, Washington, DC, Trials, Judges, U.S. Department of Justice
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AP sources: Panetta opens combat roles to women
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a...
Tags: Washington, DC, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Newly cleared, Gen. Allen to command NATO
WASHINGTON — The White House will go ahead with nominating Marine Gen. John Allen to be top U.S. commander in Europe, following an investigation by the Pentagon inspector general that found his emails with a Florida woman were not improper....
Tags: FBI, Leon Panetta, Jay Carney, Afghanistan, Elections
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Defense Worries A Microcosm Of CT Economy
The Hartford CourantThere's good news and bad news for Connecticut in the Pentagon's spending strategy for the next several years, and that reflects what's happening in the state's economy overall. The bad news is that defense spending in the state will decline by about 10...Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , Consumer Confidence, Human Interest, Connecticut Technology Council, Connecticut Economic Development
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Fred Kaplan's 'The Insurgents' takes on Petraeus and policy
-------------------- The Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan Simon & Schuster: 400 pp, $28 -------------------- Everyone knows — or thinks they know — about the influence exerted by the...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment Events, Afghanistan, U.S. Army, Hamid Karzai
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Pentagon planning to ferry more French troops, gear to Mali
WASHINGTON -- After a weeklong delay while the Obama administration debated whether to assist French forces fighting in Mali, the Pentagon is planning to begin ferrying additional French troops and equipment to the West African nation in coming days...
Tags: Western Africa, Washington, DC, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Air Force, Mali
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Details of Senate bill averting 'fiscal cliff'
Highlights of a bill Congress passed Tuesday aimed at averting wide tax increases and budget cuts scheduled to take effect with the new year. The measure would raise taxes by about $600 billion over 10 years compared with tax policies that were due to...Tags: Personal Income, Barack Obama, Taxation, Fiscal Cliff, Tax Credits
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John Boehner takes Republican Party over cliff
Bill PressWell, what do you know? We didn't go over the fiscal cliff, after all. In the end, the country was spared. Only the Republican Party was destroyed. Or, at least, severely damaged. Thanks to John Boehner. Commentators quickly ran out of words to...Tags: Parties and Movements, John Boehner, Republican Party, Public Finance, Democratic Party
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Sisseton to play doubleheader
The Sisseton basketball teams will play in the Sanford Pentagon Classic on Feb. 2 in Brandon. Here is the schedule: Centerville boys vs. Ellsworth (Minn.) at 1:30 p.m.; Sisseton girls vs. Southwest Christian (Minn.) at 3 p.m.; Sisseton boys vs. SWC...
Jun 9, 2013
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Jan 4, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
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Jan 2, 2013
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Jan 3, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Jan 14, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
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