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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: Mexico, Agriculture, Elections, Politics, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Out-of-date treaties keep fugitives beyond reach
A major impediment to hunting fugitives who flee across U.S. borders is America's patchwork of more than 100 extradition treaties with foreign governments.
Many of those agreements are arcane, out-of-date and omit serious felonies. And the U.S. still...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Laws, Mexico, Chicago Tribune, Northlake
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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: Wages and Pensions, Minority Groups, Elections, Politics, Washington (U.S. state)
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Weather offers hot challenges
We’ve been asking for it and we finally got some heat. And once again, it was the humidity that got to us. With cool, wet weather this spring, last week was a real test. Air conditioning was a necessity for those fortunate enough to work inside. ...Tags: Russia, Politics, Food Industry, Disasters and Accidents, Zucchini
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Do out-of-date travel books have any use for more modern journeys?
It's time for the travel two-step: First, deciding where in the world you'd like to go for your summer vacation. Second, finding the perfect travel guide to accompany you. I've been known to stand in a bookstore aisle for long agonizing stretches, reading...Tags: Arts and Culture, Athens (Greece), Sushi and Sashimi, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Tourism and Leisure
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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: Minority Groups, Politics, Native Americans
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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: Tea Party Movement, FEMA, Business, Politics, Elections
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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: The Salvation Army, Republican Party, Dining and Drinking, Politics, Restaurants
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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: Jerusalem (Israel), World War I (1914-1918), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts, Politics
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A U.S. veto of Palestinian statehood would uphold international law
I disagree with Ariel Ilan Roth's op-ed "U.S. is Wrong on Palestine" (Sept. 21). I will make a purely legal argument why the U.S. should veto Palestine's unilateral attempt for statehood in the United Nations. The following information is from the...Tags: Justice and Rights, Laws, Politics, Civil Rights, International Relations
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Duwamish tribe donated land for Seattle to be built, tribe now seeks recognition
Q13 FOX News reporterIt was quite a gift: More than 150 years ago, Chief Seattle, head of the Duwamish Tribe, signed over land that is present day Seattle. Current leaders of the Duwamish tribe argue they were never given what was promised — recognition by the federal...Tags: Interior Policy, Indigenous People, Politics
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Ernesto Zedillo, Former Mexican President, is Accused of Crimes Against Humanity
Ernesto Zedillo is facing a lawsuit in Hartford federal court for a massacre that occurred in a remote village while he was in office. Zedillo, who is now a Yale professor and director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, says he had nothing to...Tags: Rebellions, Yale University, Lawyers, Mexico, Politics
Jul 15, 2011
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Nov 1, 2011
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Jul 5, 2011
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Jul 21, 2011
|Column| Aberdeen News
Jul 15, 2011
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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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Oct 4, 2011
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Oct 4, 2011
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Oct 4, 2011
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