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Senate split: "Bad news on the doorstep...."
Spin CycleIn support of the "We're-working-they're-not" message, the GOP "coalition" leadership has issued its latest "active" list of measures for today's 3 p.m. chamber exercise. Updates as we get them. Click the "continued" bar below for the list they just......Tags: Society, State Budgets, Thurgood Marshall, Personal Income, Sales
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Calif. budget crisis forces schools to slash programs, fire teachers, expand class sizes
Associated Press WriterRICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — California's historic budget crisis threatens to devastate a public education system that was once considered a national model but now ranks near the bottom in school funding and academic achievement. Deep budget cuts are...Tags: Public Schools, State Budgets, Government, Labor Disputes, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Summer school for adults on Long Island
sylvia.king-cohen@newsday.comSummer school suddenly sounds so cool. Taking a class just because you can puts the fun back into fundamentals. Here's a look at some unusual courses offered around Long Island: Fencing: 6:30-8 p.m. July 6-17, Hofstra University, Hempstead, 516-463-7200,...Tags: Long Island, Colleges and Universities, Personal Service, Bay Street Theater, West Islip
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Whose relatives got clouted into U. of I.?
Tribune reportersA relative of Chicago Ald. Frank Olivo's didn't have the required grades for a specialized accounting program at the University of Illinois but got accepted anyway after Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's office intervened. Another applicant -- the...Tags: Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Government, Human Accomplishments, Public Officials
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Lessons from, for first dad
This Father's Day, I have been thinking about President Barack Obama's relationship to black fatherhood. His loving engagement with his daughters is the very embodiment of idealized male parenting. In his role as "good" father, Mr. Obama has been...Tags: Parent and Child, Minority Groups, United States, Government, Gays and Lesbians
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Calendar
Wellness workshops Tai Sophia Institute will hold wellness workshops through the month of June. The institute is a private nonprofit organization at 7750 Montpelier Road in Laurel. Founded in 1975 as a small healing arts clinic, the institute provides...Tags: Family Planning, Medicare, Government Health Care, Death and Dying, University of Maryland Medical Center
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Board approves Baltimore Hebrew merger with Towson
The Maryland Board of Regents agreed unanimously Friday to allow Baltimore Hebrew University to become part of Towson University, closing one chapter in the life of the 90-year-old institution of Jewish learning and opening another. The vote taken at the...Tags: Schools, Government, Colleges and Universities, National Government, Towson University
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A new chapter for Baltimore Hebrew University
The movers are taking Baltimore Hebrew University apart, clearing faculty offices, piling high the boxes and unplugged computers, rolling up the lobby's Oriental carpet and marking leather chairs with stickers identifying their next stop: "TU." That's...Tags: United States, Government, Johns Hopkins University, Religious Texts, Towson
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Senate split: No settlement, but GOP issues a list
Spin CycleOne of the more seasoned lobbyists was pointing out how the mostly-Republican side of the Senate fight put out a list of priorities and the Democrats had not. But the GOP list highlights at the top such items as "Thurgood......Tags: Society, State Budgets, Government, Thurgood Marshall, Property Tax
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Karla Patterson Lynch
After studying horticulture at the University of Kentucky, Lynch went on to complete a masters degree in public horticulture in the Longwood Program at the University of Delaware. She has worked at the Missouri Botanical Garden, Wisley Garden and the...Tags: Kentucky, Delaware, Morton Arboretum, Colleges and Universities, Missouri
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Ben Mahmoud, 1935-2009; artist; taught at Northern Illinois University
Tribune reporterBen Mahmoud, a widely exhibited painter known for idiosyncratic takes on realism, taught art at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb for more than 30 years. Mr. Mahmoud, 73, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, Tuesday,...Tags: United States, Lou Gehrig, Ohio, Florida, West Virginia
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