Ronald Reagan

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• Flight delays pile up amid FAA budget cuts

  FlightAware. Last Monday, just 6 percent of LaGuardia's flights were delayed.The situation was similar at Washington's Reagan National Airport, in Newark, N.J., and in Philadelphia, with roughly 20 percent of flights delayed.At airports, Monday is typically   Read more »

• Bromund: Margaret Thatcher's lesson: To triumph, do your homework

  Union , the civil service tried to brief her. She demanded a seminar with the West's best historians of Russia instead. Ronald Reagan also read a lot. But he didn't brag about it. He thought he'd get more done if people believed he was a slacker. His public   Read more »

• Reagan, Thatcher forged a close, lasting bond

  -- Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan , two self-assured and firm-speaking conservatives, joined forces in the early 1980s and drastically changed the economic and political landscapes in both of their countries.Their calls for more-austere government and   Read more »

• Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, dead at 87

  away Monday morning.During 11 bruising years as prime minister, Thatcher found a fellow believer in former U.S. President Ronald Reagan , transformed her country by a ruthless dedication to free markets and infuriated European allies.Thatcher retired from   Read more »

• Northrop Grumman to move 1,000 jobs off Long Island

  of the region's economy, has steadily lost jobs since the 1980s, when it employed as many as 80,000 people here during the Reagan administration's defense buildup. That number was down to 31,000 in 2006.Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association,   Read more »

Around the web

• Wisconsin’s Scott Walker hits most of pre-caucus checklist

  president, he is most likely to appeal to the fiscally focused conservatives that also tend to support Branstad. Second, mention Ronald Reagan. Check. Check. Check. Walker mentioned the former president three times in the first 15 minutes of his speech. 12:06 AM from Des Moines Register Read more »

• Steve King: Ronald Reagan's Amnesty Act Decision 'Brought About Barack Obama's Election'

  to connect some dots on Thursday, tracing that movement to the last two presidential elections. "[T]hey have to admit that Ronald Reagan's signature on the '86 amnesty act brought about Barack Obama's election," King said on the House floor, according to The 5/23/13 from The Huffington Post Read more »

• Utah ranks No. 1 for economic outlook for sixth year in a row

  of the “Rich States, Poor States” report include economist Arthur Laffer, who served as an economic adviser for former President Ronald Reagan. The economic outlook ranking is based on factors such as tax rates and size of the government workforce. The report 5/23/13 from Deseret News Read more »

• Campaign Alleges Retaliation Against Strikers in Federal Building, But Says Protest Made Bosses Back Down

  by supporters. The four establishments – Subway, Bassett’s Original Turkey, Quick Pita, and Kabuki Sushi – are located in the Ronald Reagan federal building, one of several Washington, DC, workplaces where employees with taxpayer-supported jobs went on strike 5/23/13 from The Nation Read more »

• Statehouse memorial honors late Indiana Gov. Bowen

  in his northern Indiana hometown of Bremen defined him in many ways, even before he became governor and a member of Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet. “Doc Bowen will always be Doc Bowen. Regardless of his service in the House, as governor, as secretary of Health and 5/23/13 from Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune Read more »