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HARTFORD: Former Mayor Mike Peters Out Of Intensive Care
Former Mayor Mike Peters has been taken out of Hartford Hospital's intensive care unit after receiving a liver transplant last week, hospital officials said Sunday. Peters, 59, was operated on early Tuesday morning. His liver was failing because of...Tags: Hartford Hospital
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Former Hartford mayor improving after transplant
Officials say former Hartford Mayor Mike Peters has been moved out of intensive care after a liver transplant. The 59-year-old Peters received the new liver Oct. 7 at Hartford Hospital. He remained hospitalized there Tuesday. Peters received the...Tags: Hartford Hospital
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Hendrix announces another run for Detroit mayor
Ex-Detroit mayoral candidate Freman Hendrix says he's running again. The one-time deputy mayor told WWJ-AM Sunday he's entering the Feb. 24 special mayoral primary. Kwame Kilpatrick won re-election in 2005 over Hendrix but resigned last month as part of...Tags: Freedom of the Press, National Basketball Association, Kwame Kilpatrick, Local Elections
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EPA wrapping up $2 million Detroit cleanup
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it's almost completed a $2 million cleanup of a contaminated industrial site in southwest Detroit. The EPA says a Superfund emergency response team began cleaning up the ChemServe Corp. site in April, days...Tags: Emergency Planning, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Emergency Incidents
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To Liberal Female College Students, Palin No Feminist
By ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER |The three dozen students clustered around the TV set in the Women's Center of Connecticut College were fairly subdued as they watched Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joseph Biden face off earlier this month. Until the Alaska governor hit a nerve. "Some of...Tags: Civil Rights, Culture, Trinity College, Connecticut, John McCain, Abortion
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NYC Council Speaker backs mayor in extending terms
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said yesterday she would support Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bid to extend city term limits to allow for continuity of leadership during the financial crisis. "In these difficult times, I believe voters should have...Tags: Mark Green, Referenda, Public Officials, Government, Michael Bloomberg
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Scranton is new hotbed
Call Harrisburg BureauU.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden made a triumphant homecoming to this hard-scrabble coal mining city on Sunday, where they laid blame for the nation's worsening economic woes at the feet of Republican nominee John McCain and exhorted their...Tags: Election Day, Montgomery County (Alabama), Lackawanna County, John McCain, Political Candidates
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We think: Now's not the time for state regulators to wimp out on renewable energy
You can't accuse the state's Public Service Commission of being too ambitious. But you could accuse the regulatory agency of being a bureaucratic wimp. Last year, Gov. Charlie Crist challenged the PSC to set up regulations that would require Florida's...Tags: Progress Energy Incorporated, Nuclear Power, Civil and Public Service, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy
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Orlando gay-pride festivities underscore serious themes
Sentinel Staff WriterOn the 10th anniversary of the murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard and a few weeks before Floridians vote on an amendment to restrict gay rights, Orlando's "Come Out With Pride" event Sunday was as much about self-preservation as...Tags: Minority Groups, Civil Rights, Murder, Fort Lauderdale, Gay Rights
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Bloomberg Shows Reason For Term Limits
Unimpressed by Charles de Gaulle's droll observation that the graveyards are full of indispensable men, Michael Bloomberg, New York City's 108th mayor, has decided that he is indispensable. So the law limiting mayors to two terms must be revised to...Tags: New York Times, Freedom of the Press, Laws, Referenda, National Government
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These days, even 'The View' is getting political
WHEN Sherri Shepherd and her cohorts on ABC's "The View" start screaming at one another about the Weather Underground, a 1960s radical-left group that bombed the Pentagon, it appears as if something strange has leaked into the American water supply.
Once...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Tina Fey, Arsenio Hall, CBS Corp., Television Industry
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Galante companies suing customers
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) _ Companies once owned by convicted trash hauler James Galante have filed at least a dozen lawsuits against their customers, claiming they are not living up to terms put in place when Galante was in charge. The trash companies were...Tags: Venice, Danbury, Marketing, Auction Service, Ridgefield
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