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Walker wins Somerset mayor nomination
Staff writer, @DA_AmberRFor the first time in 16 years, Somerset Borough will have a new mayor. Scott Walker won the Republican nomination in the primaries, receiving 89 percent of the vote with 100 percent of the precincts reporting. Mayor William Meyer is retiring from...Tags: Politics, Elections
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LETTER: CEA Goes Overboard With Anti-Walker Ad
Connecticut Education Association President Sheila Cohen's near-hysterical rant on the coming visit of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at the invitation of the Connecticut Republican Party would be laughable, were it not so pathetic [May 19, ad, Opinion... -
LETTER: Scott Walker Has Hurt Wisconsin
Regarding The Capitol Watch story, "Union Activists Plan to Protest Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Speech" [May 19, courantblogs.com/capitol-watch]: I am a lifetime resident of Wisconsin. During my 71 years, I have never seen Wisconsin in a bigger mess...Tags: Politics, Government, Executive Branch
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Walker Delivers Pep Talk To State GOP
The Hartford Courant— Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin and hero to conservatives across the nation for his efforts to quash public employee unions, delivered a pep talk to Connecticut Republicans Monday night. Walker reminded the crowd at the state GOP's...Tags: Government, Philosophy, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Regional Authority, U.S. Senate
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Unions, Others to Protest Scott Walker in Stamford May 20
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is coming to Stamford on Monday, May 20 to speak at a fundraiser for Connecticut Republicans. Walker is the guy who reduced wages and benefits for state workers in Wisconsin, causing a national uproar that led to a recall...Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Government, Stamford, The Washington Post
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Unions protest over potential sale of L.A. Times to Koch brothers
About 300 labor union members and other activists staged a demonstration to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the politically conservative Koch brothers. Demonstrators marched outside the downtown L.A. headquarters of Oaktree...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, AFL-CIO, California Public Employees' Retirement System, Pension and Welfare, David Koch
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In Michigan, GOP governor finds a tax to like
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's venture capitalist-turned-governor, Rick Snyder, needed just five months in office to slash his state's business taxes. Elected on the downside of the recession, he was among a crop of new Republican leaders eager to...
Tags: Washington, DC, Government, Passenger Cars, Rick Snyder, Lobbying
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Rosenthal: Perry tries to rustle Illinois business
Selling the grass as greener in his dusty, drought-plagued state, Texas Gov. Rick Perry came to Chicago this week to paint his state as a commercial paradise and Illinois into a corner. Perry is out to poach Illinois businesses and jobs. He says it's...
Tags: Government, Personal Income, Business, Chicago White Sox, Regional Authority
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Letters: The GOP's fresh faces
Re "The GOP's fantasy lineup," Opinion, April 7 It is hard to understand why political pundits talk about the demise of the Republican Party when it has such a strong group of future young leaders, as mentioned in Doyle McManus' column. To wit: Kentucky...Tags: Politics, Bobby Jindal, Paul Ryan, Hillary Clinton, Government
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Fiscal tug-of-war stalls Indiana voucher expansion
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The timing would seem perfect for an expansion of school vouchers in Indiana, where the state's high court recently upheld the nation's broadest voucher law and the initiative enjoys broad support in one of the country's most...Tags: Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Luke Kenley, Regional Authority, Justice System
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Obama advisor David Axelrod to publish Washington memoir
David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, is joining the list of one-time Obama administration officials who will be penning memoirs next year, Penguin Press has announced. Other Obama administration officials with books on the way...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Barack Obama, Chicago Tribune, John F. Kennedy
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McManus: Let's talk GOP and fantasy politics
Almost four years ago, long before the 2012 presidential campaign heated up, CNN took a poll to learn who Republicans might choose as their party's next nominee. There were two clear front-runners: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov....
Tags: Paul Ryan, Government, Hillary Clinton, Primaries, Regional Authority
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Apr 7, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
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