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FARM BILL PROJECT - Day 1, survey: Seven members of the House respond to farm bill surveySep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Editors: Questions, centered on subsidies, were faxed to Illinois' 19 members of U.S. House of Representatives and two U.S. senators. Follow-up calls were made once a we...
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Overwhelming vote of no confidence in top cop EppersonSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Months of escalating tension between Police Chief Chet Epperson and his rank-and-file officers came down to a simple vote Friday, and nearly all members of the city's po...
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Editorial: Unfunny businessSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Christine Hickey, Abington's Board of Health acting chairman, should have known better than to email a video clip to the board's secretary from a television routine that...
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New Steuben County jail wing nearly ready for visitorsSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - The new jail is almost ready for its first inmates. Sections 6 and 7, the new 48-cell cell blocks at the Steuben County jail, have already received occupancy per...
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Late spring frosts and a sweltering summer yield mixed apple results in IllinoisSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Though it's still early in the apple-picking season, Ackerman Farms' supply has been plucked to its core. "For all intents and purposes, we're cleaned out," Ackerm...
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Meanwhile, down on the farm ...Sep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Built for utilitarian purposes on the farm, New England's old barns are today seen as things of beauty and historic value. On Sunday, Sept. 30, don't miss the chance to ...
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Roseland resumes ballroom traditionSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - TAUNTON - People could witness history in the making, again. At the Roseland Ballroom couples and singles, hundreds of them, gathered on Sunday afternoon to remini...
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FARM BILL PROJECT - Day 2 Main, Wilder is King of the FarmSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Some might say the biggest corn farmer in the nation is leaving money on the table. After all, the law allows Maurice Wilder to maximize government subsidies by cr...
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Jerry Moore: Jewell story didn't make the media shineSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Perhaps as much as anyone else, Richard Jewell understood that the news is not always good. And by "news," I'm not referring to the topic of stories published in papers ...
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Dan Hall: How schools can distinguish flowers from gunsSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Here we are, little more than two weeks into the new school year, and already a new example of mindless "zero-tolerance" policies in schools has hit the national media. ...