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Community news: Poet David Meyerhof recognized, William M. Burke scales Mt. Everest
David Meyerhof of Burbank is a published poet, and now everyone in his hometown knows it. Meyerhof received recognition from the city of Burbank, the State Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday at the Little White Chapel during the...
Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, California State Legislature, Nobel Prize Awards
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Delaney looks to infrastructure funding in first bill
Maryland's newest member of the House of Representatives introduced his first bill on Wednesday, a new infrastructure funding proposal that has won bipartisan support in an otherwise divided Congress. Rep. John Delaney, the Potomac Democrat who has...Tags: Politics, U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Democratic Party, John Delaney
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Progress on immigration
Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...Tags: Ted Cruz, Politics, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Social Security
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Eventful week for Hesburgh
SOUTH BEND -- This is a big week for the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. Hesburgh will celebrate his 96th birthday on Saturday, May 25. But two other occasions will precede that: Hesburgh is honored...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Senate
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Pence, Schumer on right side of press issue
Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.Disclosure last week that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press rocked the journalism community. Commandeering the work and personal phone records of individual...Tags: Politics, Laws, Richard Lugar, Government, Barack Obama
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Rep. Issa tested by the spotlight
WASHINGTON — During the 2010 campaign, Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from Sherman Oaks, joked, "Every time I try to encourage the White House to do more to help us elect Democrats to the House of Representatives, I send them a picture of Darrell...
Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Politics, Democratic Party, Religion and Belief, Brad Sherman
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Immigration reform: Closer to reality or destined for failure?
Oh, how much things have changed in just a few months. Last May, Republicans and Democrats couldn't agree on any aspect of immigration reform. But on Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a far-reaching immigration bill, clearing the way for a...Tags: Ted Cruz, Politics, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Migration, Elections
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Looking into lawmakers' county budget allocations
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE --Gov. Rick Scott took a knife to lawmakers' $74 billion-plus budget this week, blocking some $368 million in hometown projects. But the collective response from legislative leadership was a yawn. “While many will disagree with...Tags: Rick Scott, Regional Authority, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Don Gaetz
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Palatine High senior honored for artwork
Palatine High School senior Alyssa Froehling has won the 8th District title in the Congressional Art Competition, and her artwork will soon hang on Capitol Hill. U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estates announced Froehling's "Symbiosis" photo...
Tags: Judges, Teaching and Learning, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Tammy Duckworth
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Prayers in public offices
Ideally, governmental bodies would refrain from including prayers — even ecumenical, "lowest-common-denominator" ones — in their public proceedings. But if prayers are to be offered, they certainly shouldn't be monopolized by a single...
Tags: Judges, Justice System, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Crime, Law and Justice
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: Politics, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Eric Holder, Washington, DC, National Security
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Alaska governor launches bid to measure oil in Arctic refuge
For decades, war has been waged over the holy grail of America's Arctic frontier, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The wide coastal plain on the edge of the Beaufort Sea contains stunning populations of caribou, grizzly, musk oxen and other wildlife...
Tags: Regional Authority, Politics, U.S. Department of the Interior, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Congressional Budget Office
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