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Minnesota Legislature largely restrained unions
"They own the place," GOP state Rep. Pat Garofalo sarcastically said of labor unions Monday, as pro-union forces loudly celebrated the House's 68-66 vote to authorize state-paid child care providers and personal care attendants to organize a union. The contentious unionization issue was indeed a big-deal, long-sought victory for the state's union movement. It's seen as ...
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Russias spy tale about American sounds fishy
expulsion as a spy of a U.S. Embassy employee in Moscow last week. The Russian Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, said that Ryan C. Fogle was caught red-handed trying to recruit one of its officers, carrying cash, a letter, a compass, a map, sunglasses and two wigs. We don’t know what Fogle was doing, but the story sounds fishy. Back in the 1970s, perhaps, a CIA case officer ...
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The Obama administrations war on whistle-blowers
That pattern was in my head as I watched ';We Steal Secrets,'; the WikiLeaks documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is the admitted source of the biggest leak of official secrets in history, and pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him. He faces 20 years in prison. He knew what he was doing, but like most whistle-blowers, believed ...
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IRS questions political groups
The IRS scandal has caused consternation on Capitol Hill. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, center, talks about the issue Thursday as Rep. Michele Bachmann, left, Sen. Rand Paul, right, and others look on. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has scheduled a hearing for next week. (Alex Wong / Getty Images) The article about the part of the tax code allowing tax-exempt ...
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Where is God when evil strikes Column
In fact, God intervenes and comforts us in our darkest times. God is all good. God is all-powerful. Evil and tragedy happen. Pick two, as the saying goes, but all three of those postulations can't possibly be true.As seems to happen all too often in a troubled world, religious people are left to struggle with these riddles of life and belief following the tornado that devastated Moore, ...
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More students deserve to graduate Column
The significance of thousands of students receiving their diplomas cannot be overstated. Yet the fact remains that many more students in this country need that same ...
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Minnesota Legislature yields mixed results
No trumpets blared or crowds cheered Monday night as the 2013 Legislature’s regular session drew to a close. Weary legislators are expected to troop home today to confront mixed responses to the year’s labors. We share that ambivalence, and concede that it may spring from expectations that were too high. This year’s return to all-DFL control at the Capitol after 22 years of ...
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Catholic nuns put faith before church hierarchy
Recently, opponents of deportations held a rally to commemorate the five-year anniversary of what they call an unjust immigration sweep of 389 people in a kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa. Last July, three people breached security and entered a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., housing highly enriched uranium, where they spilled blood at the site before being arrested. Last ...
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The Starfleet Divide The Star Trek Universe Revisits One Of Its Great Debates
Abrams' hyperactive movie talked fast and walked fast -- when it wasn't at a dead run. Indeed, in its breakneck pace and its camera-flare and whip-pan-loving ...
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At L.A.s UnCabaret 25 Years Of Letting It All Hang Out
Beth Lapides (with music director-producer Mitch Kaplan) is the founder and ringmaster at UnCabaret, a Los Angeles comedy institution that's marking its 25th anniversary this ...
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Sandwich Monday The Saltwich
panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine says limiting salt below a certain amount may not really do us any good. Around here, we take this to mean: Eat as much salt as you can or you'll die. So, we've created The Saltwich, made with the saltiest foods we could find. Salami, bacon, pickles and salt-and-vinegar potato chips, on salty pretzel bread. Salt to ...
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The Little Metronome That Wouldnt
keep doing that. Metronomes not in sync with the table have their motions dampened, then countered, until they do it "the table's way." Eventually all the metronomes come into alignment. That's what you saw in our small, chamber music version. Now we're going symphonic. This time, we'll have a much bigger table with 32 brightly colored metronomes -- a Mormon ...
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Mel Brooks Im An EGOT I Dont Need Any More
Comedian, writer, director, producer and actor Mel Brooks is one of only 11 people to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. Others in the elite EGOT club include Mike Nichols and Whoopi ...
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Auditing the IRS scandal for details
story Sunday in The New York Times by three reporters describes the implosion that occurred when the Cincinnati IRS office was flooded with 60,000 paper applications seeking to qualify for a niche category of political activity and tax avoidance. The goal was 501(c)4 status that does not require registering as a political action committee or disclosing donors. All of the anger and frustration ...
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Consumer-driven health care vs. Obamacare
Froma Harrop not only gets her facts wrong on consumer-driven health care; she also does not understand the limitations of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare ...
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Investigation of the Benghazi attack
The real scandal of Benghazi ," Opinion, May 18]. She claims that Republican Rep. Darrel Issa's tenacity in pursuing and uncovering Benghazi facts is " … dishonoring the memory of Ambassodor Chris Stevens and three other Americans by making a political circus out of their deaths." Never is there even a mention of the Obama administration throwing Susan Rice under the ...
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Tim Eyman in Spokane speaking for the rights of the left
Tim Eyman in Olympia, February 2013Jon Lok / The Seattle Times The state's master of tax limitation by ballot measure is no lefty, and voters of a progressive stripe typically scorn anything with his name on it. But Tim Eyman of Mukilteo says he’s for the people’s right to vote on ballot measures whether right or left. That is an issue in Spokane, where the progressive ...
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Bellevue City Councils ethics challenge
The Bellevue City Council is responsible for the land use and zoning rules spurringthe city’s massivegrowth. Seattle Times business reporter Amy Martinez reports ...
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Editorial First Amendment rumble
However, in order to gather evidence against Kim, FBI Agent Reginald Reyes filed an affidavit in federal court indicating there was evidence that Rosen (who was not mentioned by name in the affidavit) had broken the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator." Nearly four years later, Rosen has not been charged with a crime, but indicating there was a ...
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Chapman Liz Warrens college loan plan a loony idea
In the 21st century, we have U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s "Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act," which would set the interest rate on student loans at the rate at which banks borrow from the Federal Reserve. The justification - if you can call it that - is that if the Federal Reserve lends money to banks at less than 1 percent, the federal government shouldn’t charge ...
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Henry Payne The zero-emission vehicle myth
made it into the black , earning $11 million profit on revenue of $562 million in the first quarter of ...
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Obama — now and then
- White House aide Dan Pfeiffer, responding over the weekend to questions about where the president was when our ambassador in Benghazi was under attack. "What difference, at this point, does it ...
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Samuelson Is health care spending slowdown for real
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."-- Stein's Law , after economist Herbert Stein (1916-1999)We all know that Stein's Law will someday apply to health-care spending, which has risen from 5 percent of the economy (gross domestic product) in 1960 to almost 18 percent now. What we don't know is how and when its share of the economy will stabilize. Will this ...
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Letters The buck stops here
Hearing of the administration's recent scandals, it's refreshing to remember President Truman who kept a placard on his desk which said: "The Buck Stops ...
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My view Why moderates lost the caucus vote
The real truth is conservative dominance has made moderates uneasy both because of public policy and their inability to be elected through the Republican Party process. Because the Republican Party has not voluntarily responded to moderate policies and candidates, they are trying to compel the party system to ...
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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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