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Minnesota vets unfairly targeted by benefit change
John Kriesel 's young son was hit in the face with a baseball two years ago, the disabled Iraq veteran and former Minnesota legislator brought his boy to the doctor and then in for an MRI scan to rule out a serious brain injury. Thanks to the Pentagon health insurance program for military retirees that Kriesel is currently enrolled in, his out-of-pocket expenses were about $20. But if the ...
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Americans your patriotic duty is to ask for a raise
The downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier. Almost all those I spoke to had already slogged through many years of stagnant or declining hourly wages by the time the recession kicked in. ...
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Do more to get impaired drivers off U.S. roads
It is surprising how few drinks can impair a driver’s judgment. A report from the National Transportation Safety Board estimates that alcohol-impaired driving contributes to thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of serious injuries each year. It is right to urge states to reduce that toll by lowering the allowable blood alcohol concentration for drivers from 0.08 percent to 0.05 ...
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Letter of the Day Child-care union
Don't buy the spin coming from the Star Tribune Editorial Board ("DFL's day care overreach," May 16). Child-care providers across Minnesota want a union and have delivered 874 handwritten letters to their legislators in support of it. The idea that we are merely on a wish list for the union is demeaning to every provider who has fought so hard for this. The editorial writers ...
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As the world spins faster bigger louder
HAVE you ever watched a computer geek whip through assorted levels of code and programming, fixing, adjusting, creating technological miracles at the keyboard? When I see this, I sometimes think, what would these guys be doing if there were no computers? It’s fascinating. Dormant superpowers were buried within their minds, just waiting for opportunities to unfold. Then I look at the ...
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The real scandal of Benghazi
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and some Republican colleagues are dishonoring the memory of those killed in Benghazi by making a political circus out of their deaths, writes Trudy ...
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What Did I Do Last Summer Oh I Discovered How To Make Babies Without Sex. And You
Ah, if only all summers could be like June, July and August 1740 -- when three young guys (and a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old) did a science experiment that startled the world. In those days, you could do biology without a fancy diploma. More people could play. That spring, the hot book -- the one everyone was reading -- was a gorgeously illustrated volume about insects by the French naturalist ...
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Pop Culture Happy Hour Cancellation Blues And Cultural Etiquette
network upfronts week , we talk in this episode about the cancellation of shows, including the ones that came and went that we honestly can hardly remember as well as the ones -- like ABC's delightful, ...
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Herald Poll Attorney general appointed or elected
On Wednesday, legislators discussed whether Utah's attorney general position should be appointed or elected.The issue was brought to members of the Legislature's government operations and interim committee by Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, mostly in response to the current federal investigation of Attorney General John Swallow.Weiler argues that appointment into the position would ...
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Week In Politics IRS Benghazi Emails AP Phone Logs
. They discuss controversial IRS audits, the release of White House emails on Benghazi talking points and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone ...
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Essay Common Core standards better than what Utah has now
Residents discuss Common Core concerns at meeting LEHI -- For all that has been discussed about Common Core standards and assessments in education, Lisa Simons was still scratching her head ...
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Essay Common Core poses real threat of loss of privacy
LEHI -- For all that has been discussed about Common Core standards and assessments in education, Lisa Simons was still scratching her head ...
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What others say Assault on core values
The following editorial appeared recently in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Obama administration is starting to make extraordinary abuses of power look ordinary. Hard on the heels of the revelation of an IRS crackdown on conservative groups comes news that federal prosecutors orchestrated a roundup of journalists' telephone records, leaving yet another set of federal boot prints on the First ...
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UW prof builds sundial in home
Woody Sullivan shows off the sundial on the ceiling of his garage. An artist drew the ceiling lines after Sullivan calculated the angles. To reflect sunlight onto the dial, he mounted a mirror on the windowsill. Sullivan had a hand in creating half of the 26 or so public sundials in this area. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times) At a time when most of the news items express all the negative sides ...
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Could The Presidents Week Get Any Worse
From scandals involving the IRS, to spirited Benghazi hearings, it's been a tough week for the Obama administration. But will this bad week really have further political fallout? Guest host Celeste Headlee checks in with the barbershop ...
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Inmate sentenced to death after murdering guard
Lisa Hamm, center, sister of slain Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl, reacts after a Snohomish County jury decided to recommend the death penalty for Biendl’s killer, Byron Scherf. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times) I was in the Monroe prison when Byron Scherf murdered Jayme Biendl. I was released six months later, having served 30 years ...
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Senator fails to report rape
Senator failed to report sex abuse ," NWThursday, May 9]. Our elected officials are supposed to stand up for what's fair and just in order to protect our community. When does protecting your own kin come before that of thy neighbor? I think Hatfield struggled with a moral dilemma in February when he discovered his son had raped a young girl in their family home. He was voted into ...
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As the ice melts the Arctic Council is very cool
China, Japan, India, Italy, South Korea and Singapore hardly leap to mind when the Arctic is mentioned, but each country hotly pursued permanent observer status on the Arctic Council. The scramble to attach themselves to the council, where the senior leadership meets every two years, is an indication of the dramatic changes and perceived opportunities that climate change is bringing to the top ...
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Biologist creates $325000 burger
While the $325,000 cultured-beef burgers may eventually benefit the environment in terms of water, land and energy use, they will not help feed the 2.5 million children who will die this year because of hunger, nor it will they help revive the hunger-induced stunted development of 200 million kids ["$325,000 burger, all beef, created in lab," News, May 14]. The immediate help could ...
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Punchlines Bad week for the White House
This has been one of the most challenging weeks at the White House for the Obama administration. Could all of this hurt Hillary Clinton in 2016? One comedian has a response. Watch, vote for your favorite ...
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Re-Emerging In Nigeria A People Finds A Faith
found his faith through the Internet. But his is no fly-by-night cult. His adopted community of practicing Jews numbers 30,000, with a fully functioning network of synagogues dotted around Nigeria. They claim an ancient Jewish heritage dating back centuries, when Jews were said to have made their way to the region via Ethiopia and Sudan. That claim, Lieberman shows, can't be definitively ...
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Pieta Suffering Toward ... Redemption
Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk wastes little time establishing that Gang-do (Lee Jeong-jin) won't be pleasant company. We discover the protagonist of Kim's gritty, moody drama Pieta grunting his way through intimate relations with his pillow, falling asleep, then waking up and wandering to a bathroom covered in entrails left over from last night's fish dinner, which he brushes away ...
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Notes On A Scandal Fitz Is The Most Dumpable Man On Television
, you know that there, Fitzgerald Grant is the President of the United States, and that he goes by "Fitz." Now "Fitz," let's face it, is already a pretty punchable name, given that combined with his personality, it makes him sound like somebody with a beanie and a lot of polo shirts grew up, got even richer, had a son, and taught him how to give swirlies to the math ...
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Facing Cancer With A Robot Surgeon By My Side
Many arms, one robot: the business end of the da Vinci system is seen in this media handout image from the manufacturer. Eight days from now, I'll meet my robot surgeon for the first time. His name is da Vinci, and he'll be at work inside my body for about 4.5 hours. I can't wait. On May 6, I was diagnosed with a rare form ...
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A Farewell To The Office The 10 Best Episodes
may or may not feature a cameo from Steve Carell. There have been denials of an appearance from him that could be read as emphatic or tiptoeing, depending on whether you focus on the obvious implications of those denials or the technicalities that might allow for wiggle room. But either way, it's over after tonight. The general trajectory is well known, but to recap: Ricky Gervais and ...
Maine State Feaure
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Historical schooner Bowdoin is a state asset
The Bowdoin recently undertook a short tour of Maine’s coastline, stopping in Portland and Bath so that the public could explore the ship and get a taste of the state’s maritime history, the historical schooner, built in 1921 and operated by the Maine Maritime Academy, is a historical jewel with a rich and fascinating history.
Nowadays ships are built to be big and imposing, the Oasis-class cruise ship Oasis of the Seas, the biggest cruise ship in the world at 47 meters wide, 360 meters long and capable of carrying 6000 passengers and the Mærsk E-class container ship Ebba Mærsk at 397 meters long and 47 meters wide, have set benchmarks in the size of these various kinds of ships. Read more
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