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Hot Times In The City; Big Apple Baked To A Crisp
pix11.comThe heat is still on in the Tri-State area with temperatures well into the 90's, and real-feel temperatures in the triple digits. Forecasters say relief is on the way in the form of a thunderstorm or two Saturday afternoon into Saturday night, when the...Tags: Heart Disease, Brooklyn (Windham, Connecticut), Queens (New York City), Weather Reports, Manhattan (New York City)
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Connecticut saved from the Commies! Victory Declared!
Hallelujah! Connecticut’s been saved from them dirty, rotten Commies. You’ve probably been worried sick over it. I know I have. But no longer, not since the Yankee Institute declared “Victory Over Connecticut Communists…...
Tags: Democratic Party, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Republican Party, Politics, Parties and Movements
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Commuters continue to breathe diesel exhaust at Chicago's Union Station
Thousands of commuters continue to breathe high levels of lung-damaging diesel exhaust at Chicago's Union Station, in part because of nagging maintenance problems at the Old Post Office that straddles the southbound tracks.
Testing by Amtrak has...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Metra, Dick Durbin, Labor Legislation, Amtrak
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Obama begins selling State of the Union message in Iowa
President Obama preached a message of hope to factory workers on Wednesday as he began a sales pitch for his plan to boost U.S. manufacturing through changes to the tax code.
Speaking to employees and owners of a conveyor belt plant in Cedar Rapids,...Tags: Plant Openings, Elections, Intel Corp., Barack Obama, Politics
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'Hog butcher for the world'
The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of...Tags: Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut), Richard J. Daley, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois)
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First bloodied, then muddied
If it's a holiday, it must mean there's a parade.
Chicago celebrated its first official Labor Day on Sept. 3, 1894, with a massive parade of more than 20,000 marchers representing more than 60 unions. The endless line of "wage-earners" trudged more...Tags: Labor Day, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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News briefs for Thursday, May 10
A long, slow contemplation, then a decisive turn, behind Obama's move to endorse gay marriage WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's evolution on gay marriage unfolded at a Darwinian pace, like that of the giant tortoise. For more than a year...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Democratic National Conventions, Family, Politics, Medicare
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The Ghost Bridges Of Mansfield Hollow
The Hartford CourantIt's almost that time of year to gather around the ol' campfire and tell the tale of the ghost bridges of Mansfield Hollow. What? You've never heard about the ghost bridges of Mansfield Hollow? How, on nights of the full moon, you can hear them...Tags: Quinnipiac River, Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Meriden, Manchester
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Best Credit Union
1) Sikorsky Financial Credit Union What started out as a small band of aircraft company employees pooling their savings some 50 years ago, has become one of the largest not-for-profit financial cooperatives in Connecticut with more than 54,000 members....
Tags: Fairfield County, Stratford, Stamford, General Electric Company
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Carrie Underwood "Blown Away" Tour Making Stop in Grand Rapids
FOX 17 ProducerCountry superstar Carrie Underwood has announced tour dates for her fall North American "The Blown Away Tour." Her tour will include Michigan shows at Van Andel Arena on November 15 in Grand Rapids and The Palace of Auburn Hills on November 25 near...Tags: American Airlines Arena, Sunrise (Broward, Florida), United Center, Long Island, American Red Cross
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New exhibit at Union Station Great Hall in Hartford features oil drum art
Man, what on earth to do with all those empty 55-gallon oil drums once we're done with them? If you're a non-profit called Oil Drum Art, you get 40 of 'em into the hands of regional artists, like Corina S. Alvarezdelugo (whose "Paradox of Plenty II" is...
Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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CT Parents Union Urges Teacher Tenure Reform
The Hartford CourantLed by Gwen Samuel of Meriden, the Connecticut Parents Union added its voice Wednesday to the myriad calls to reform education this year. Samuel said the group supports the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents' proposal to reform...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Schools, Lifetime (tv network), Meriden, Public Schools
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