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Transportation nominee gets warm reception from senators, steers clear of controversy
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's nominee for transportation secretary — Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx — received a friendly reception from senators of both parties Wednesday laced with warnings that the nation needs to make a...Tags: Republican Party, Washington, DC, Highway Transportation, John Thune, Transportation
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Los Angeles mayor-elect vows to put recession in rear-view mirror
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Councilman Eric Garcetti declared victory Wednesday in his bid to become the next mayor and vowed to put the city's economic slump "in the rear-view mirror," capping a race shaped by dire fiscal forecasts and...Tags: Government, Mike Feuer, Alternative Energy, Religion and Belief, Elections
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Big questions await Charlotte's next mayor
The Charlotte ObserverWhen voters elect a new Charlotte mayor this fall, they will be handing him or her a long list of tough questions to confront. How do you build consensus in an increasingly diverse community that tends to segregate by race and income? How do you...Tags: Government, Transportation, Population and Census, Travel, Elections
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Figaro Project gives admirable premiere of 'Camelot Requiem'
Since "Nixon in China," the 1987 masterwork by John Adams that launched what some wag described as a new genre labeled "CNN Opera," contemporary events have been fairer game than ever for composers and librettists. The list of newsy operas, which...
Tags: John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Entertainment, Harvey Milk, Human Interest, Music
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Greuel cites high-profile role as an executive at DreamWorks SKG
Wendy Greuel's resume is dotted with the political accomplishments of a politician on the rise. But there was an unconventional detour: her stint as an executive at DreamWorks SKG, working alongside Hollywood titans Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Washington, DC, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Elections, Warner Theatre
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Editorial: Obama and overreach
•Multiple White House claims about Washington's handling of the murderous raid in Benghazi stand exposed as false. •Internal Revenue Service officials admit a worse-by-the-day scandal that appalls fair-minded Americans. •The U.S....
Tags: Government, National Government, Elections, Internal Revenue Service, Judges
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Isaiah 'Ike' Dixon, state delegate from Baltimore
Isaiah Dixon Jr., a jazz fan, world traveler and four-term state delegate from Baltimore City whose accomplishments included introducing a bill that made cross burnings a felony in Maryland, died of heart failure April 26 at Stella Maris Hospice in...
Tags: Government, Trials, U.S. Army, Elections, Executive Branch
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Mike Gray dies at 77; co-wrote 'China Syndrome' screenplay
Mike Gray, an author, activist and documentarian who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "The China Syndrome," the provocative 1979 film about a cover-up at a nuclear power plant, died Tuesday of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, his...
Tags: Movies, Heart Failure, Chicago Tribune, Heavy Engineering, Science and Technology
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Editorial: Make uncovering Benghazi truth a bipartisan mission
"A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al-Qaida is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead." —President Barack Obama to the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 6, 2012. Five nights after that speech, scores of attackers...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Univision (tv network), Mitt Romney
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Speed Street will test city's safety planning
The Charlotte ObserverCharlotte-Mecklenburg police have "strengthened and tweaked" their security surrounding Food Lion Speed Street, the NASCAR-themed festival, following bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three and left dozens injured. An estimated 300,000...Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Sports, Churchill Downs, NASCAR, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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No quit in community betterment for 'Miss Albany'
St. Joseph News-Press, Mo.In the basement of the local Carnegie Public Library, Avis Parman walks toward shelves and randomly pulls out a thick scrapbook of newspaper clippings of events in Albany, Mo., during 1984.She casually leafs through the plastic-covered articles from the...Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Hospitals and Clinics
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Reelected Democratic Party leader was asked to leave '12 convention
A Democrat elected Sunday to a leadership post in the California Democratic Party was asked last summer to leave the Democratic National Convention, where he was a delegate, after falsely claiming that he was a member of Congress and being threatened with...Tags: Government, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, U.S. Congress, Politics, Charlotte
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