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Dumb and dumber
Polls have shown that 83 percent of the American public disapproves of the job that Congress is doing, yet these same people continue, in election after election, to re-elect the incumbents. My faith in the stupidity of the voting public has been...Tags: National Government
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Commissioners likely to end own health benefits
Sentinel Staff WriterEUSTIS City commissioners likely will move today to stop offering free insurance benefits to themselves, mostly as a cost-cutting move. If elected officials in Eustis want to continue receiving health, dental and life insurance -- the same policies the...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Public Officials, Employees
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Let the Big Three go bankrupt to bring about needed changes
Washington Post Writers Group"Nothing," said a General Motors spokesman last week, "has changed relative to the GM board's support for the GM management team during this historically difficult economic period for the U.S. auto industry." Nothing? Not even the evaporation of almost...Tags: Anti Trust Crime, Vehicles, Bankruptcy, Wages and Pensions, General Motors Corp.
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At 10th anniversary, space station's future hangs in balance
Sentinel Staff WritersRight now, as you are reading this, 10 Russian and American men and women orbiting 200 miles above your head are busy installing toilets, refrigerators and new bedrooms aboard the most complicated construction project ever undertaken: the international...Tags: Space Programs, Research, Rocketry, Technology, Ronald Reagan
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Eustis leaders consider cutting their free insurance
Sentinel Staff WriterCity commissioners likely will move today to stop offering free insurance benefits to themselves, mostly as a cost-cutting move. If elected officials in Eustis want to continue receiving health, dental and life insurance -- the same policies the city...Tags: Lady Lake, Tavares, Insurance, Private Health Care, Government Health Care
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Orlando-area food bank begs religious leaders to help feed hungry
Sentinel Staff WritersUnable to keep up with the growing ranks of hungry people, a Central Florida food bank turned to a group of local religious leaders to issue an interfaith plea to the community: Give before the cupboards go bare. As the economy declines, Second Harvest...Tags: Corporate Officers, Poverty, Lake Eola, Judaism, Heads of State
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Officials wage sonic war on poop-splattering cormorants
Sentinel Staff WriterThey call Lake Eola Park the "crown jewel" of Orlando, but a jewel isn't so dazzling when it's covered with bird poop. Migrating cormorants are, um, decorating so many cars, sidewalks and people around the downtown park that city officials have...Tags: Public Employees, Vehicles, Lake Eola, Lake Eola Park, Passenger Cars
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Notebook
4 join senior Obama team President-elect Barack Obama is putting some longtime aides in senior posts at his White House. Obama named four new members of his West Wing staff Wednesday. The positions include a senior adviser job for his chief campaign...Tags: Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, John Lewis, Carolyn C Kilpatrick, The White House
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AL-QAIDA NO. 2 BLASTS OBAMA
The Associated Press-Al-Qaida's No. 2 slurred President-elect Barack Obama with a derogatory racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites in a new Web message Wednesday intended to dent the president-elect's popularity among Arabs and Muslims. Ayman al-...Tags: Terrorism, 2009 U.S. Presidential Transition, National or Ethnic Minorities, Malcolm X, Minority Groups
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Bill Clinton eases path for wife's job
Former President Bill Clinton has offered several concessions to help his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, become secretary of state, people familiar with the presidential transition process said Wednesday. Associates of the former first lady and her...Tags: Bill Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, Imperial and Royal Matters, National Government
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Ex-Sen. Tom Daschle tapped to revamp health-care system
Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to become Health and Human Services secretary and lead the effort to revamp the U.S. health-care system, a Democratic official familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The former South...Tags: Tom Daschle, Parliament, Lower House, John Podesta, Barack Obama
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Auto execs fly private jets to beg for $25B bailout
Chicago TribuneU.S. automakers discovered on Wednesday that in addition to their tremendous trouble with plummeting car sales, they also have an airplane problem. And a tin-ear problem. For two straight days, the chief executives of Detroit's Big Three tried to...Tags: Corporate Officers, Vehicles, Football, Trips and Vacations, General Motors Corp.
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