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Mexican National Executed Despite White House Appeal
KIAHMembers of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty were at it again protesting the extermination of the latest inmate on death row Humberto Leal. A 38-year-old Mexican national who has lived most of his pathetic life in the United States was...Tags: White House, Punishment, Juvenile Delinquency, Death Penalty, Crimes
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Lawmakers Press for Preservation of U.S. Resource Right In Arctic: Concern Over Interest by China
Channel 2 NewsOn Monday, the 11 Alaska State Lawmakers who travelled to Washington, D.C over the weekend returned to Juneau with a sobering message about protecting America's oil and gas drilling rights in the Arctic Ocean. They said that China -- a nation of 1.3...Tags: Mark Begich, Oceans, Justice System, The Pentagon, Lisa Murkowski
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Somerset County bucks statewide manufacturing trend
Daily American Staff WriterWhile Pennsylvania added manufacturing jobs last year, Somerset County lost them. Preliminary statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Philadelphia show that Pennsylvania added 15,000 manufacturing jobs last year, but Somerset County lost 328....Tags: Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Tax Credits, Sales, Pennsylvania, Building Material
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Mail Call - July 11
“I just saw where the tax rate went up from 6 to 9 percent on beer. It’s just like cigarettes; it could be $9 for a bottle of beer, but people will still keep drinking it. Same thing as cigarettes; $7 a pack, and people are still buying...Tags: George W. Bush, Tea Party Movement, Tax Credits, Jesse Jackson, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Voting against in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants ruins both young people and America
I was disappointed to read "In-state tuition opponents have the signatures for referendum" (July 8). Maryland's new law would have extended in-state tuition rates to young, undocumented residents, but now the law has been blocked, and it will await the...Tags: Immigration, Employees, Education, Crimes, Politics
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Mail Call - July 6
“Hey, Funkstown, I must apologize to you and everybody else. I grew up the first half of my life in Hagerstown, and I am now 75 years old, and I forgot — I guess, due to my old age — that Washington Street and Antietam Street did...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Social Security, Politics, Tourism and Leisure, Wages and Pensions
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U.S. and Mexico reach trucking deal, stave off retaliation
The Obama Administration announced this week a resolution to the long-running dispute over Mexican trucks on American roads that has cost the U.S. agriculture industry more than $2 billion in recent years from retaliatory duties. Transportation...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture, Mexico, Politics, Elections
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NAFTA has failed Maryland and U.S.
When free trade proponents sold the American people on the idea of the North American Free Trade Agreement, they promised that it would be a boon economically. Evidence, however, suggests that it has been anything but. Since NAFTA's implementation,...Tags: Trade Policy, Trade Dispute, Politics, Economic Organization, Trade Agreements
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Satanta
From The Kansas Historical Society:
Satanta was born about 1830 most likely along the Canadian River, a tributary of the Arkansas River, somewhere in present Oklahoma. This was the winter home of his people, the Kiowa. Also called Settainte, his name...Tags: Politics, Native Americans, Minority Groups
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Mail Call - Sept. 29
“I don’t know why everyone is so negative. I like pie. I like pie a lot.” — Hagerstown “My comment is about the people in Mail Call complaining about raising chickens in their backyard. I don’t see what the...Tags: George W. Bush, Tea Party Movement, Pies and Tarts, Animal Attacks, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Mail Call - Oct. 3
“To the person who called in about the lazy people not returning grocery carts, and things like that: Honey, it’s not because they’re lazy. They just don’t care. They have no respect for anybody. I mean, they go to the grocery...Tags: George W. Bush, The Salvation Army, Christianity, Republican Party, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Jerusalem belongs to the Jews
Like most such dialogues, the recent discussions about Israel and Palestine at the U.N. ignore international treaty law ("Bid for statehood may end," Sept. 21). Jews were given legal and political rights to what is now called Palestine in 1920, when...Tags: Civil Unrest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Palestine, World War I (1914-1918), Jerusalem (Israel)
Jul 7, 2011
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Jul 8, 2011
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Jul 13, 2011
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Jul 5, 2011
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Jul 15, 2011
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Sep 24, 2011
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Sep 27, 2011
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Sep 28, 2011
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Oct 3, 2011
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Sep 29, 2011
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