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Around Town: The end of an era
Carlos Moorhead's death last week marked the end of an era. Amiable and gracious, as a congressman, Moorhead always was concerned with the welfare of his constituents. He was the epitome of across-the-aisle mediation and reconciliation. He looked for...Tags: Memorial Day, Ulysses S. Grant, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ronald Reagan, World War II (1939-1945)
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: The value of spirit
I was sitting in the bleachers at La Caņada High School watching my daughter Sabine cheer for the freshman football team. I was working hard trying to maintain my focus on “The Heart and The Fist,” a book by Eric Greitens, a humanitarian and...Tags: High School Sports
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Around & About
EVENTS Slide Show, “Out of the Station Fire Ashes” — Wednesday, March 2, 6:30 p.m. La Caņada resident and mountain cyclist Mike Caley rides regularly in the burn area, with special permission. A member of the California Native Plant...Tags: Bessie Smith, Real Estate, Comedy (genre), California, African Americans
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Days to remember
A century and a half ago — and a drive of about two and a half hours from Harford County in modern times — Union and Confederate forces were in the midst of positioning themselves to become the masters of Harpers Ferry at the confluence of the...Tags: Memorial Day, Kandahar Massacre (2012), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, Holidays
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Sing it loud, an America like no Other
I, too, sing America. So wrote Langston Hughes, the unofficial poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes, whose 65 years spanned the lynch mobs of the early 20th century and the race riots of the mid-1960s, intended a defiant reminder to a nation...
Tags: Jeremiah Wright, Republican Party, Elections, Langston Hughes, The New York Times
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Reagan blood sample vial for sale, controversy included
It's called Lot 160, a 5-inch glass tube that's unremarkable in every way — except that it purportedly held blood drawn from President Ronald Reagan as he lay struggling for life after an assassination attempt. The vial, partially coated with a...
Tags: Homes, Celebrities, George Washington, U.S. Secret Service, Hospitals and Clinics
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Sing it loud, America
I, too, sing America. So wrote Langston Hughes, the unofficial poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes, whose 65 years spanned the lynch mobs of the early 20th century and the race riots of the mid-1960s, intended a defiant reminder to a...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Republican Party, Entertainment Events, Langston Hughes, The New York Times
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One-room schoolhouse stays old school
Cellphone and laptop use will be banned Tuesday when the Sycamore board of education meets in DeKalb County's last surviving one-room schoolhouse. Forget about video or digital recordings — a stenographer will take notes, and a survey of the...
Tags: Mount Prospect, Yorkville (Kendall, Illinois), Naperville, Willow Springs, Sycamore
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Man pleads guilty to trespassing on Mount Rushmore
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A man caught trying to climb Mount Rushmore National Memorial pleaded guilty to federal charges of trespass and failing to obey a lawful order, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Patrick Marshall, 53, whose last known address is...Tags: Trials, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Sculpture, Human Interest
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Chicago man arrested after trying to climb Mount Rushmore
A man caught trying to climb Mount Rushmore National Memorial pleaded guilty to federal charges of trespass and failing to obey a lawful order, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Patrick Marshall, 53, whose last known address is Chicago, was arrested by park...
Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Sculpture, Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Super PACs: How did the Supreme Court not see this coming?
Maybe what this country needs on the Supreme Court is a real politician or at least a sensible political scientist or two. Perhaps they would help the court's majority understand how it has allowed unlimited big-donor money to contaminate and almost...
Tags: Jeremiah Wright, John Kerry, Mitt Romney, Television Industry, Joe Biden
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Civil rights fight always has critics
One of the first casualties of the Revolutionary War was Crispus Attucks, a half-black, half-Indian merchant seaman and slave, who was killed at the Boston Massacre in 1770. Similarly, one of the first Union soldiers to fall at the outbreak of the Civil...Tags: Lynn University, Tuskegee Airmen, Feminism, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights
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