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Local anti-poverty advocates are concerned about how Hamilton’s most vulnerable citizens will be impacted by the recent changes to cost-sharing agreements between the provincial government and municipalities. A total of $8.8 million has been removed from Hamilton’s 2019 operating budget as a result.... |
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An assault weapons ban was enacted in 1994 during Bill Clinton's presidency. It was among the reasons cited when Democrats lost congressional seats in the 1994 midterm elections. The ban expired in 2004. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry did not make gun control a focus of his.... |
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Almost immediately after the deal was announced, there was uncertainty about the project, with concerns about whether it would happen at all or change substantially. Groundbreaking took place last summer, but construction was halted in the fall. Foxconn later said they stopped construction because.... |
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, who danced the Lindy Hop on Harlem sidewalks as a child, and as a teenager dazzled crowds on international tours in the 1930s and early ′40s doing the same kicks, spins and drops that had made it a Jazz Age jitterbug craze, died on Sunday at her home in Fort Myers, Fla. She was 99. |
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In Avon, volunteers are anticipated to take part in activities including: Planting and hanging flower baskets throughout the city, mulching around the police and fire departments, cleaning up around the Lion's Club Community Center, and sprucing up the area around city hall, the post office and other city buildings. |
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Some of the oldest marriages in Anguilla, dating back to nearly 59 years ago, were celebrated at the Mount Fortune Seventh-day Adventist Church on Saturday, April 27. The couples were each escorted to the pulpit area by a number of children who were drawn from their own families, and who are being taught the values of family life and unity. |
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Churches have routinely faced challenges too. On Sept. 9, for instance, a group of about 100 people halted worship at a church at Beliatta, Hambantota District. These locals damaged a window and two motorcycles parked outside and removed religious symbols hanging on the church’s front door. |
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As a youngster, whenever I'd visit that jewel of Connemara, Clifden, my Galway uncle would proudly point out the historic spot where the pioneer aviators Alcock and Brown landed in 1919. As Uncle Jim was a boy when this occurred, it always remained for him a source of awe and wonder that these men had been the first to fly the Atlantic non-stop. |
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Chief Apostle Caesar Nongqunga in his living room. Photo: Carien DuPlessis The African Transformation Movement has been rocked by claims that former president Jacob Zuma’s faction of the ANC had a hand in its formation, although Chief Apostle Caesar Nongqunga, who is said to have come up with this idea, denies it. |
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The REX Ocean Liner. The life of the REX ocean liner began on 27 April 1930 at the Ansaldo shipyard in Sestri Ponente, in Genoa, Italy, with the ceremony of the first hull sheet. It was built in only fifteen months and was launched on 1 August 1931; an event that was presided by King Vittorio.... |
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Q: There was an interesting dynamic between you and Marvin Zindler. But at the end of the book, you restate opposition to his belief that news is entertainment. A: Marvin always said it was show business, and I kept telling him it was not. “It’s the news business, Marvin.” But I don’t know. |
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