National
Jon Burge arrested!
October 22, 2008Hope springs that justice will be served CHICAGO -- Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge, 60, was arrested by federal agents at his home near Tampa, Fla., Oct. 21 and charged with two counts of obstruction...
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Hillary Clinton rallies Youngstown, Ohio for Obama, Biden
October 18, 2008A noisy and enthusiastic crowd greeted Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) at an Obama/Biden election rally held at Youngstown State University’s Beeghly Gymnasium today. With just 18 days left until the election, the Youngtown area is going...
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Economic crisis clobbers California
October 18, 2008Less than a month after California’s legislature and governor finalized the state’s budget after an 85-day delay, that budget — patched together with accounting sleight-of-hand and optimistic guesswork — may be headed back to the drawing...
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Its spelled J-O-B-S!
October 18, 2008Barack Obama and John McCain put forward two very different approaches to the economic meltdown last week. Obama told a crowd of 3,000 in Toledo, Ohio: “I’m proposing a number of steps that we should take...
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Nationalize banks, employ unemployed
October 17, 2008Last week the major economies of the world, including the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, China, Russia and Brazil carried out an unprecedented and coordinated reduction of interest rates. The effort itself was not immediately...
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