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Tea Partiers Look To Recreate The Magic In 2010

The Tea Party movement had some big, successful days of nationwide protest in 2009, and they’ll be at it again in 2010 with a redux, putting on four major days of nationwide protest on the same calendar dates when protests were held last year.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |

Hands-free cellphones just as likely to distract drivers

More than five years after the District banned the use of hand-held cellphones while driving, the first definitive evidence emerged Friday that it hasn’t made the streets much safer. Ten days after a national study found that cellphones and t…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |
 

Tot dials 911 when grandma has seizure

A 3-year-old New Jersey boy called 911 when his grandmother had a seizure, something his mother says he learned to do just days before.

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |

Can Barack Obama deliver on jobs? | Thomas Noyes

Barack Obama’s state of the union speech focused on the economy, where he must make progress to regain momentumBarack Obama opened his first state of the union speech by noting that the United States has seen dark days when “victory was very much in doubt” and “the future was anything but certain”. Early on, the [...]

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |
 

Boy, 3, dials 911 after grandmother has seizure

A 3-year-old New Jersey boy was hailed as a hero after he called 911 on Friday after his grandmother had a seizure. Jaden Bolli was at grandmother Patricia Bolli’s home in Maple Shade because his other grandmother, who was scheduled to watch him, was s…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |

Home Depot laying off 1,000 employees: memo

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Home Depot Inc, the world’s largest home improvement chain, is laying off about 1,000 employees, according to an internal memo obtained by Reuters, two days after warehouse club store Sam’s Club said it would cut more than 11,000 j…

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |
 

Global pain goes on as UK leaves recession

Britain has become the sick man of the G7, but there are plenty of other sufferersThe US, France, Germany and Japan had all emerged from recession by the autumn of last year, so the UK underlined its new-found reputation as the sick man of the G7 by barely returning to growth at the end of [...]

[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |

End of an error: Tishman giving up StuyTown

Tishman bought StuyTown for $5.4 billion at the height of the real-estate boom Tishman Speyer’s days as the landlord of the massive Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village apartment complex are coming to an end.

[ More ] January 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |

Column: Route to victory

There will be much harrumphing and punditry in the next few days about the meaning of Scott Brown’s victory and his phenomenal campaign for Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat.

[ More ] January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |

Calif. Democrats revive single-payer health care

A key legislative committee in California revived a bill Thursday to create a government-run health care system in the nation’s most populous state, two days after Massachusetts elected a senator who opposes the president’s national health care plan…

[ More ] January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in USA |
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