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Wednesday Morning Coffee: Former Sen. Jane Orie appeals her sentence.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're on the road today and blogging from one of our Commonwealth's finer Green Cup chain coffee establishments. As is so often the case in these instances, we're running late and severely under-caffeinated, so we'... -
Arlen Specter laid to rest, remembered as fighter.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekIn 1980, when Arlen Specter was contemplating a run for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, his son Shanin tried to discourage him. After years of political defeats, the younger Specter worried that his father would be humiliated at the polls....... -
Tuesday Morning Coffee: Senate panel drops statewide board from charters bill.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state Senate tweaked a charter schools reform bill last night, dropping language that would have created a statewide authorizing board for the alternative public schools. The amended bill kicked out of the... -
Wednesday Morning Coffee: Charter schools bill heads to the House.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. A charter school reform bill that keeps local school boards in control of authorizing the alternative public schools is headed for a vote in the state House today as lawmakers try to wrap up their...... -
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, dies, aged 82.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekReuters reports: HARRISBURG _ Former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, a major political figure in Pennsylvania and Washington for more than four decades, died on Sunday of complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma at age 82, his son said. Specter had... -
Monday Morning Coffee: Tributes pour in for the late Arlen Specter.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., who died Sunday at age 82 from complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma is being remembered this morning as a towering figure in Pennsylvania politics. Our Washington colleague... -
Arlen Specter dies at 82; longtime senator was a political maverick
WASHINGTON — Arlen Specter, who in 30 years representing Pennsylvania in the Senate offended Republicans and Democrats in almost equal measure with maverick votes and a frank cockiness that finally ended his career in politics, died Sunday at his...Tags: Primaries, Elections, Feminism, Barack Obama, Teachers
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A Tribute to Senator Arlen Specter
Manager, Progressive Agriculture OrganizationNot only dairy farmers in Pennsylvania, but dairy farmers all across the United States have lost one of their most supportive senators who ever walked the halls of the United States Senate. Although we knew his time was very limited, all of us were...Tags: Scranton, Food Industry, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Horror movies: Halloween's sweet spot
Countdown to Halloween: five days. I don't like wearing costumes, I'm not into haunted houses, candy corn is too sweet, and I prefer pumpkin pie to pumpkin carvings. But I do like horror movies — just not the kind with umpteen sequels. I saw...
Tags: Music, Alfred Hitchcock, Keir Dullea, Russell Means, Maitland
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Former Senator Arlen Specter, 82, Dies Of Cancer
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arlen Specter, a gruff, independent-minded moderate who spent three decades in the U.S. Senate but was spurned by Pennsylvania voters after switching in 2009 from Republican to Democrat, died on Sunday of cancer, his family said. He...Tags: Primaries, Chemotherapy, Elections, Barack Obama, Heart Surgery
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Specter remembered as centrist, 'the ultimate politician'
waynesboro@herald-mail.comFormer U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who died Sunday, could be a polarizing figure, but he spoke to the point and often elicited laughs with his quips. Specter represented Pennsylvania in the Senate for three decades. He lost a re-election bid after switching...Tags: Elections, Local Elections, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, Illegal Immigrants
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Arlen Specter, longtime GOP Senate moderate, dies
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, died Sunday. He was 82. Specter, who announced...
Tags: Barack Obama, Hodgkins Disease, Cancer, U.S. Senate, Heart Surgery
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