Once the district had enough desegregation money to build such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool. But the effort to use upscale facilities and programs to lure in students from the suburbs never worked quite as planned. Covington has ...
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Get us out of those dumb money bleeding wars? Nope. Come down hard on Wall Street? Nope. Come out forcefully for single payer health care right out of the gate - or at all? Nope. Obama had an historic opportunity to make a huge difference with all ...
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Haraz N. Ghanbari/The Associated Press archive District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. was photographed on Capitol Hill during a House task force meeting considering his impeachment. With him on Nov. 18 was Candice Lemons, left, a paralegal with the ...
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Don't get me wrong, three wins is nothing to sneeze at, and teams pay big money for that kind of production, but ... ending surgery -- will only occur if the Twins are once again on the cusp of making the playoffs. If so, his absence could be enough ...
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Matthew Yurchison used his mother to defraud a mortgage company as part of a money-laundering scheme that bilked banks, finance companies ... When properties were foreclosed for failure to make mortgage payments, the second lending institution had no ...
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Jeannette Council is making moves with an eye toward saving money and generating more revenue. On Wednesday night, council voted to suspend the duties of Tim Hoffman, property maintenance officer, and raise the rates of the city's public parking lot ...
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Kyle Bass. the founder of Hayman Capital, made a fortune betting against subprime mortgages, with moves that resembled John Paulson's famous bets. Yesterday morning, we had the privilege of speaking with J. Kyle Bass for an hour in New York. During ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? Kansas City's school superintendent said Thursday the plan to shutter nearly half the district's schools, while "painful," will move forward quickly so that all the closures will be complete by fall. The school board narrowly ...
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... yesterday with a new round of criticism of the decision, with Robert Gibbs stating that the Court's ruling opened "the floodgates for corporations and special interests to pour money into ... being portrayed -- and to making complaints about ...
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Kansas City's school superintendent said Thursday the plan to shutter nearly half the district's schools, while "painful," will move forward quickly so that all the closures will be complete by fall. The school board narrowly approved the plan ...
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