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McCain: Flip-flop count at 61. (Updated: Obama=17)
Spin CycleA week or so ago, with McCain hyperventilating about Obama reversals on matters such as public financing of his campaign, we linked to a site that was tracking McCain's flip-flops. McCain is still hyperventilating. His current claim is that......Tags: Court Administration, Consumer Electronics Industry, NBC (tv network), Energy, Political Candidates
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Senate: Trunzo gets NYSUT nod
Spin CycleGetting the backing of a big teachers' union is a mixed blessing -- it means you get money and troops, but it also means you've kissed the ring of people who won't let you do a thing to help......Tags: Brentwood (Islip, New York), Caesar Trunzo, Mary Lou Rath, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), New York
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Albany: Smith makes another deal
Spin CycleHaving decided to give power to his least loyal members and empower Pedro Espada, a senator who is under almost constant investigation, as majority leader, Malcolm Smith is now trying to grapple with the consequences. As James Madore notes......Tags: William T Stachowski, National Government, Government, Upper House, Wars and Interventions
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Rep. Steve Israel: '...the opportunities that may come'
Spin CycleIs Rep. Steve Israel starting to run for Senator against U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, for whom he was passed up by Gov. David Paterson? Could he be angling now for governor with Paterson looking vulnerable? Is he just trying......Tags: Kirsten Gillibrand, Regional Authority, New York, David Paterson, Manhattan (New York City)
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Obama's Republican Army sec'y: McHugh
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama today nominated a longtime Republican congressman from New York state, Rep. John McHugh, to serve as secretary of the Army. McHugh, 60, is a ninth-term member of the U.S. House from rural upstate New......Tags: New Hampshire, Local Elections, Education, Defense, New York
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Palin vs. Biden: Round two, New York
The Swampby Mark Silva "Can I call you Joe?'' Sarah Palin asked Joe Biden during their vice presidential candidates' debate last year. Biden was calling her "Sarah" this week on the campaign trail in upstate New York, where the Republican former......Tags: Alaska, Regional Authority, New York, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Sarah Palin
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Guns, no butter, on the campaign trail
The Swampby Scott Martelle It's almost like they had Friday planned out as "Second Amendment Day" on the campaign trail. Barack Obama started the day in Watertown, S.D., where he wrangled with John McCain and President Bush over foreign policy and......Tags: Illnesses, Elections, Political Candidates, Firearms, George W. Bush
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Obama to McCain: 'Anywhere, anytime'
The Swampby John McCormick Sen. Barack Obama said today that he is eager to debate likely Republican nominee Sen. John McCain on matters of foreign policy, especially those dealing with the volatile Middle East. "If John McCain wants to meet......Tags: Diplomacy, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Illinois
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Obama fires back on 'appeasement'
The Swampby Naftali Bendavid Barack Obama just fired back hard at President Bush's comments before the Israeli Knesset Thursday in which he attacked those who wanted to negotiate with "terrorist and radicals," comparing them to appeasers who did not recognize........Tags: George W. Bush, Unrest, Conflicts and War, South Dakota, Heads of State, Osama bin Laden
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State Fires Worker Who Showed Lanza's Body To Her Husband At Morgue
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's chief medical examiner has fired a state employee who let her husband view the body of mass killer Adam Lanza in the morgue two days after the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre, The Courant has learned. The employee, Jean Henry, was...Tags: Adam Lanza, John G. Rowland, Regional Authority, Trials, AFSCME
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Washington draws the wrong lessons from Boston
Ordinary people, elected and unelected, behaved heroically last week. Unfortunately, it all happened hundreds of miles from Washington. In Boston, strangers gave clothes and shelter to shivering runners. They comforted injured spectators. They saved...Tags: Dan Coats, Democratic Party, Immigration, U.S. Congress, Chuck Grassley
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IN OUR OPINION: Two-year study can help decide activities changes
The South Dakota High School Activities Association recently has been discussing changes to athletic and fine arts events. Most of the talk has been about consolidation and location. The board gave first reading to a plan that would combine the AA boys&...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Music Industry, High School Sports, Minor League Baseball
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