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  • 'This is an administrative job'
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
    I've been tested under fire." Hannemann, 56, is the choice of many of the state's top business and union executives. He said Hannemann mistakenly made rail personal -- "Mufi's train" -- and put the project on a political timetable. Abercrombie -- who beat Hannemann in a special election to fill out the remainder of Cec Heftel's term in Congress on the same day -- denied the charge.
  • 'Transformers 3' director halts filming; injured movie extra in induced coma
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Times
    Family members are keeping police apprised on her condition. The towing cable snapped, slicing through the windshield and striking Cedillo's head. Witnesses said Cedillo's car rolled a mile, grinding along a concrete median before coming to a stop. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulates workplace safety and health. Neither Bay nor his agent at William Morris Agency have released a public statement on the accident.
  • A (real) virtual education
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Boston Globe
    By definition, virtual schools are not limited by geographical boundaries. The board imposed restrictive terms that limit the statewide expansion of any district-sponsored virtual school. High school dropouts who want to complete their education but not in a school with teenagers can do so online.
  • Afghanistan's female candidates imperiled
    Sep 8, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    But in villages where the Taliban is active, campaign workers are often too frightened to put them up.Female candidates and their supporters receive a stream of threatening phone calls. Large campaign rallies are almost unheard of, because voters and office-seekers alike fear suicide bombings. On Aug. 26, armed men kidnapped a group of 10 campaign workers, all friends and relatives of candidate Fawzia Galani, as they were traveling in Herat province, in the west of Afghanistan.
  • Asian Migrant Workers See Exploitation in Sweden
    Sep 8, 2010 — New York Times
    Their pigments can be used for coloring cosmetics, pharmaceutical syrups and nutritional supplements.In Sweden and Finland, over 30,000 tons are gathered each season, according to Polarica, the largest producer there. In Finland, migrant Ukrainians have found themselves in a similarly precarious situation in recent years.Officially, there are about 4,000 Asian workers in Sweden with permits this year. Kommunal has deals with about 15 or 20 major companies, but Mr.
  • Budish
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Columbus Dispatch
    They are in the 19th District (Westerville, eastern strip of the county), Democratic Rep. Marian Harris versus Republican Anne Gonzales; the 20th (Bexley, Whitehall, Gahanna), Democratic Rep. Jay Goyal, D-Mansfield. Budish said Democrats are talking about reducing government and investing in job-creation initiatives such as tax credits and the Third Frontier program.
  • CMU professor reflects on time at National Science Foundation
    Sep 8, 2010 — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    She's just back from three years as assistant director of the National Science Foundation, presiding over Computer and Information Science and Engineering. During your time there, you guided federal funding for computer science research. We are inventing prosthetic devices for disabled veterans and so on that can be controlled by their neural activity.
  • Djou and Hanabusa clash on additional federal aid to states
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
    The Education Department estimated it could save 160,000 jobs. Another $16 billion would extend, for six months, increased Medicaid payments to the states. That would free up money for states to meet other budget priorities, including keeping more than 150,000 police officers and other public workers on the payroll. State Sen.
  • EDITORIAL
    Sep 8, 2010 — Akron Beacon Journal
    That information offers a crucial basis, the evidence necessary for targeted reforms. With success in the middle school, the district adopted the scheduling in the junior high school. School administrators shouldn't have to worry about making time to implement critical reforms.
  • Error on New Jersey's Race to Top forms found too late, panel is told
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Philadelphia Inquirer
    Christie unexpectedly ordered the application altered days before it was due, according to testimony. In the latest application, the altered data resulted in a grade of less than a half-point. Schundler countered that he had given Christie and key governor's office staff correct information that Christie did not use.
  • Examining the Gallup generic ballot question
    Sep 8, 2010 — Washington Post
    Compare Gallup's tie among registered voters on the generic ballot to the registered voters findings of the latest Washington Post/ABC News and NBC/Wall Street Journal polls and there is considerable consistency. The Post/ABC survey showed Republicans with a 47 percent to 45 percent generic ballot lead among registered voters while NBC/WSJ showed the two parties tied at 43 percent. Then Gallup asks respondents whether they consider themselves Republicans, Democrats or Independents.
  • Feds OK tough cleanup of Santa Susana Field Lab
    Sep 8, 2010 — Daily News (Los Angeles, Calif.)
    Reports of radiation-associated cancers over the decades cannot be ignored." Sen.
  • Florida governor's race
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Florida Times-Union
    ...election is likely to be whether Scott can tie Sink to President Barack Obama, whose popularity in Florida has faded as the economy continues to lag. The Republican Party of Florida and the Republican Governors Association released an ad Friday tying "Liberal Alex Sink" to Obama and highlighting a comment from the president urging supporters to do "whatever it takes to make sure that Alex Sink is the next governor of Florida." The ad prompted a five-page response from the Sink campaign...
  • Grijalva
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Arizona Daily Star
    Party has selective amnesia. It's going to be our fault. They share no responsibility." McClung said compromises the Democrats made with moderates in the party reflect, somewhat, on the public's opinion of recent federal legislation. "I think it would have been worse because the American people were against it and that's why a lot of Democrats were fighting back to get it more moderate," she said of the public option in health-care reform. Grijalva hailed the president's...
  • Hanabusa raises more than Djou
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
    Colleen Hanabusa raised $330,000 in the last two months as she tries to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Djou won with 39 percent of the vote.
  • Immigration Crackdown Steps Into the Kitchen
    Sep 8, 2010 — New York Times
    Malecot then started paying those employees in cash, before Mr. Malecot said. “I came here with nothing. Malecot said, he has lost at least $500,000 in catering jobs.
  • Judge denies new election in Missouri's 40th House District, but re-count begins
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Kansas City Star
    Royster also asked for a re-count, which the Missouri secretary of state later ordered. Before ruling from the bench Tuesday, Nixon heard more than three hours of testimony.
  • Kaine: Don't count out 'underdog'
    Sep 8, 2010 — Politico
    ..."That's incredible." It's a message the Democrats will need to push hard. Despite polls suggesting monumental GOP House pickups and even an outside chance Democrats could lose their Senate majority, Kaine and Rendell expressed confidence that the party could make a turnaround by November. "This election isn't over by a long shot," Rendell said. "Polls are polls, but polls 60 days out don't mean a whole lot." Kaine...
  • Lack of black teachers called challenge for students
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Still, many districts believe they've made progress by adding minority teachers. Most of the district's other teachers, though not all, are black. The intermediate unit manages daily operations for the district, which in 2007 closed its high school. Districtwide, 362 of 424 students enrolled in Duquesne schools are black.
  • Lack of serious primary gives Barrett a cash edge over GOP rivals
    Sep 8, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    Walker and Neumann are spending cash to try to win next week, while Barrett can focus on the Nov. 2 general election. Barrett campaign spokesman Phil Walzak noted Barrett has had a steady presence on the airwaves. Much of the spending went toward advertising. Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa), were evenly matched.
  • Latino Republican walking a tightrope in Nevada race
    Sep 8, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    Several states, including Nevada, Colorado and Arizona, have grown more competitive in presidential elections as the Latino population swelled. A majority of Latinos initially supported the initiative. Latinos are about 12 percent of the electorate.Sandoval has taken to the Spanish-language airwaves to trumpet the historic nature of his candidacy.
  • Lazio, Paladino optimistic as GOP primary nears
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Buffalo News
    ...of the Niagara Blower Co. plant on Ontario Street. "I'm very confident about where we are right now." Just hours later, Paladino said the race is closer than his opponent thinks. "My pollster, Tony Fabrizio, says I will pass Lazio in the polls this weekend," the Buffalo businessman said in an e-mail to supporters. "The momentum is with our campaign as more and more Republican Party officials jump off Lazio's sinking ship and climb on board." Paladino also used that prediction to...
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