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Choice was there
Recently the federal Department of Human Services issued proposed rules that would protect the conscience rights of health-care workers in facilities that receive federal funding. Simply put, it means that a hospital or other facility that receives a...Tags: Abortion, Family Planning
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Spirit pilots file lawsuit, claim airline violating contract
South Florida Sun-SentinelThe Air Line Pilots Association, representing the more than 500 Spirit Airlines pilots, filed suit Wednesday alleging the Miramar-based air carrier is violating its 2003 labor contract. The pilots' complaint was filed in the federal court in eastern...Tags: Trials, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Collective Contract, Unemployment, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Southeast braces for Tropical Storm Hanna
The Associated PressSome Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine. Meanwhile, disaster...Tags: Cape Canaveral, Hurricane Hanna, Outer Banks, Tropical Storms, Disasters
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Florida Legislature to re-examine property tax relief again
Tallahassee BureauFlorida's property tax wars now return to the state Legislature, a place where gridlock and battling interest groups make it difficult to achieve the deep relief that politicians promise. In the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling removing a major tax...Tags: Ellyn Bogdanoff, Property, Elections, Local Authority, Public Finance
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Detroit police chief announces her retirement
Associated Press WriterChief Ella M. Bully-Cummings, who joined the police department at age 19 and five years ago made Detroit the largest U.S. city with a female police chief, is retiring as the mayor who appointed her prepares to resign. The department announced Bully-...Tags: Law Enforcement, Trials, Police, Retirement, Justice System
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John McCain Accepts GOP Nomination, Vows Change
Associated Press WriterJohn McCain, a POW turned political rebel, vowed Thursday night to vanquish the "constant partisan rancor" that grips Washington as he launched his fall campaign for the White House. "Change is coming," he promised the roaring Republican National...Tags: Democratic National Conventions, Sarah Palin, Defense, Demonstration, Government
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35-hour workweek may not die easily
PARIS—It's being called the coup de grace for France's decade-long experiment with a 35-hour workweek. But a new law that lets companies negotiate more hours from employees is meeting resistance, even from the employers it was meant to benefit,...Tags: Employers, Nicolas Sarkozy
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McCain from 2 angles
Positions that help him with conservatives: •Backing for Iraq War •Opposition to abortion •Support for Bush tax cuts (a shift from his earlier position) •Defense of gun-ownership rights •Support for free trade &#...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Migration, Elections, Iraq War, Demographics
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France goes back to work
It's being called the coup de grace for France's decade-long experiment with a 35-hour work week — a policy that inspired both envy and ridicule in Europe and the U.S., and even some copycats. But the short work week proved difficult to implement...Tags: Employers, Nicolas Sarkozy
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Proposal: Outlaw sex between officials, employees
Maryland state elected officials who have sexual relationships with employees under their supervision would be violating state ethics law, if a county commissioner gets his way. The ethics law would not apply, however, if the official and the worker were...Tags: Values, Frederick County (Maryland), John Thompson, Elections, Ethics
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Pipe at Keystone Cement falls, injuring worker
A huge metal pipe fell on a worker's leg Wednesday afternoon at Keystone Cement Co. in East Allen. The worker is an employee of CCC Inc., a Texas company working as a general contractor on a construction project at the plant. The worker was airlifted...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Medical Staff, Health and Safety at Work, Employees, Texas
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Editorial: Fix New York State law so public can affect budgets
A parent booster group in Wantagh has raised $550,000 to keep the public school district's sports and student clubs running this year, with another $130,000 to go. The summer fundraising has been a tremendous show of community spirit by Wantagh parents,...Tags: Political Candidates, Elections, Voting, Economic Policy, New York
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