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Longtime Habitat volunteer dies in fall at Seymour
A construction company owner has died after being injured in a fall while working as a volunteer at a Habitat for Humanity project. Greater Fox Cities Area Habitat for Humanity announced Friday that longtime volunteer Mel Hechel of Appleton died at a...Tags: Injuries
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Sizing up wrongful execution risk
In the last of its four public hearings, the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment explored yesterday the risk of innocent people being executed - calling upon of one its members to tell the story of his own wrongful conviction.
Former Maryland death...Tags: Baltimore County, Death Penalty, Biotechnology Industry, North Carolina, Punishment
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Ranking the veeps
Today's question: Give us your list of best and worst vice presidents in recent history. Previously, Lichtman and Edwards debated the proper role of the vice president, discussed how history might treat Dick Cheney and digested the current candidates'...Tags: William F. Buckley, Spiro Agnew, Elections, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bill Clinton
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Carter: McCain "milking" POW experience
Spin CycleThere is, as we have pointed out here occasionally, a danger to McCain if he overuses his POW experience -- which seems to be coming up again and again. So far, it's a third rail. Wesley Clark went after......Tags: Wesley Clark, Prisoners and Detainees, Wars and Interventions, Lake Forest, John McCain
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How will Cheney go down in history?
Today's question: The office of vice president has been regarded as mostly ceremonial. How much (for better or worse) has Dick Cheney changed that? Previously, Edwards and Lichtman digested the candidates' vice president picks.
Cheney: a cautionary...Tags: William F. Buckley, Elections, Philosophy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bill Clinton
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Viewpoint: Obama and Big Government
There are no disciples of small government in the Democratic Party, and Sen. Barack Obama fits right in. His economic program is based on the assumption that the economy is to the president what a marionette is to a puppeteer, requiring his direction...Tags: Health Treatments, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Elections, Trade Agreements, Bill Clinton
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Broder: Give Palin a chance with the public
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Tom Donilon, the Washington lawyer who did the delegate-counting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, has a bit of practical wisdom that he has offered over the years to many other Democratic presidential hopefuls. ''There is no learning curve...Tags: Minnesota, Alaska, Sarah Palin, Elections, Washington Post Company
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Obama capitalizes on Biden's, Clinton's experience
craig.gordon@newsday.comDENVER - Barack Obama's presidential campaign is all about the change that a fresh face can bring to Washington. But for tonight at least, the face of the Democratic Party will have some wrinkles. Obama is turning the podium tonight over to two of his...Tags: Elections, Joe Biden, Democratic Party, Usher, Bill Clinton
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Oldsters think feds should do more to help
saulfriedman @comcast.netOne could almost hear the sad sigh in the words of Herbert Ris, of Farmingdale, when he replied to my request of a few weeks back that readers tell me how they're making out in these troubled days and what they see in the near future: "I tell my kids I'...Tags: Health Treatments, Energy Saving, Unemployment, Contracts, George Bush
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Analysis: Clinton does her part for Obama, party
elizabeth.moore@newsday.comHillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Mile High City last week viewed by many as the bitter also-ran, a lurking threat to steal Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's limelight and spoil his big week. She left as The Good Sport, a supremely...Tags: Massachusetts, Alaska, Sarah Palin, Elections, Manhattan (New York City)
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The talk of the Party
SPEECHES The power of words 2004 Then-Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia blasts fellow Democrat John Kerry's rejection of the defense spending bill after the start of the Iraq war. Keynoting the GOP convention, Miller accuses him of aiming to arm the military...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Texas, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Miami Beach
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Credit conservation
I am glad to see that former President Jimmy Carter has been proven right about conservation being a good way to bring down gas prices. He said it when he was president. Conservatives have been working overtime to demonize Carter, but it does seem like...Tags: Government, National Government, James City County
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