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Bob Hope Airport reopens as Hollywood film location
Bob Hope Airport in Burbank has reopened its gates to Hollywood for the first time in more than a decade, after prohibiting film shoots there since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The tragedy put the nation's entire air transportation system...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Bob Hope
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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: Michael Madigan, Pension and Welfare, Metropolitan Planning Council, Politics, Interior Policy
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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, Washington, DC, 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: Police Investigations, Afghanistan, John Allen, Politics, Washington, DC
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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: Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan, Armed Forces, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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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: Armed Forces, Western Africa, Al-Qaeda, Washington, DC, 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: Barack Obama, Credit and Debt, Fiscal Cliff, Tax Credits, Taxation
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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... -
Semi-pro tryouts
The Tri-State Buffalos semi-professional football team will hold open tryouts, starting with registration at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Sanford Power Field House in Sioux Falls located at 2215 West Pentagon Place. The Buffaloes from Minnesota, Iowa... -
Our dysfunction quagmire
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is set to begin his second term at a moment when the question is not what great things our nation can achieve but whether our government, in Obama's words, can "stop lurching from crisis to crisis to crisis." The jury is...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Washington, DC, Republican Party, National Government
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Pentagon ends ban on women in combat
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is ending the ban on women serving in combat in the U.S. military, potentially opening up more than 200,000 positions on the front lines and possibly also jobs with elite commando units. Pentagon...Tags: Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, Chuck Hagel, U.S. Army
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A new strategy for the Republicans
— It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Barack Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is not true, however, that the Republican split is philosophical and...
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Philosophy, Politics, Republican Party
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