Politics, baseball connect at State House
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Politics makes for strange bedfellows, but yesterday&#39;s intersection of politics and sports at Beacon and Park streets produced an amiably awkward pairing, even by Massachusetts standards.
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Lawmakers are gathering at their state capitols this week, with some new faces in the crowd and big decisions looming on taxes, schools, health care and crime &#151; not to mention a minefield of cultural disputes such as gay marriage and the moral beliefs of pharmacists.
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New Jersey's incoming governor is an old hand at the Statehouse who has been in politics for 35 years.
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By Angie Welling Deseret Morning News  With more and more mobile home parks falling victim to expensive real-estate development, a freshman lawmaker is looking for ways to help the displaced residents.  Rep.
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One week before the US Presidential election, political rivals George W. Bush and John Kerry have a new reason to keep an eye on this up-for-grabs state -- baseball's 100th World Series.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds might get a telephone call from baseball commissioner Bud Selig instead of a handshake if the San Francisco Giants slugger breaks Hank Aaron's home run record. Selig wouldn't say Thursday whether he would attend any Giants games if and when Bonds closes in on the mark.
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Barry Bonds might get a telephone call from baseball commissioner Bud Selig instead of a handshake if the San Francisco Giants slugger breaks Hank Aaron's home run record. Selig wouldn't say Thursday whether he would attend any Giants games if and when Bonds closes in on the mark.
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(Muncie) - Jobs remain the top issue in the race for governor, and Democrat Joe Kernan, who has been the target of criticism for his job creation efforts, is fighting back today on two fronts.
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As the state government shutdown entered its second day, lawmakers who have been unable to agree on a budget planned to return to the Statehouse to try to reach a compromise.
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After raising record sums to win high office, the region's politicians are preparing to party -- and again looking for someone to pick up the costs.
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Former basketball star Charles Barkley says he's switched political teams from Republican to Democrat and is again talking about running for governor in his home state, possibly in 2010.
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Lawmakers trying to get elected push last-minute bills to help constituents, from hurricane relief to tobacco buyouts.
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Lawmakers are people, too. They give, and they receive. And amid the marathon partisan (and intraparty) griping over everything from the farm bill to the mammoth $555 billion spending bill, many of them managed to squeeze in some holiday shopping before splitting town for the Christmas recess.
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Chairman Linda W. Cropp adds baseball to the agenda to Tuesday's D.C. Council meeting, clearing the way for a possible reconsideration of the private funding legislation.
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ATLANTA - A day after a surprise electoral takeover of the state House, Republican leaders were working Wednesday to solidify their power.
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Lawmakers look to strengthen their role after the most polarized term in a half century.
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The top House Republican, under fire for his handling of a Capitol Hill sex scandal, gained support on Wednesday but new questions arose about when he was told of a former congressman's troubling behavior toward teenage boys.