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Stan Musial: 10 Fascinating Facts about “Stan the Man”

Posted on 01/20/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyBack in 1960, a DC-6 airliner took off from an airport in Pittsburgh with the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team aboard, and 30 seconds into the takeoff, one of the plane’s prop engines abruptly failed. As an article in Time magazine recounted the incident, the ballplayers, understandably, became anxious — all except for the team’s best player, the great hitter Stan Musial, then in his 19th year in the majors. “I can see the headline now,” he joked to a …

Obama Inauguration Day Is Day for MLK Jr., Too

Posted on 01/20/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin TodayBy Darlene Superville of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Monday’s inaugural may be President Barack Obama’s big day, but Martin Luther King Jr. will loom large over the festivities. A quirk in the calendar pushed Obama’s public swearing-in onto the national holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader, and inaugural planners have taken pains to acknowledge that fact. Going into his second term, Obama seems to have put King at the front of his mind, too. The president has …

Cliff Averted: Congress Staves Off Tax Hikes

Posted on 01/2/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsBy Alan Fram and David Espo of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Past its own New Year’s deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national “fiscal cliff” of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that strained America’s divided government to the limit. The bill’s passage on a bipartisan 257-167 vote in the House sealed a hard-won political triumph for the president less than two …

Obama Says Fiscal Cliff Deal Close, Not Done

Posted on 12/31/2012 by | General News | Comments

PoliticsBy David Espo and Julie Pace of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Agonizingly close to a New Year’s Eve compromise, the White House and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to block across-the-board tax increases set for midnight, but held up a final deal as they haggled away the final hours of 2012 in a dispute over spending cuts. “It appears that an agreement to prevent this New Year’s tax hike is within sight,” President Barack Obama said in an early-afternoon …

Senate Leaders Offer Dour Take on ‘Cliff’ Talks

Posted on 12/30/2012 by | General News | Comments

PoliticsBy Alan Fram and Andrew Taylor of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Senate negotiators on the effort to prevent the government from going over the “fiscal cliff” offered a pessimistic assessment Sunday, barely 24 hours before a deadline to avert tax hikes on virtually every American worker. But negotiations continued, with Vice President Joe Biden taking on a new role. With the two sides differing on the income threshold for higher tax rates and how to deal …

Over the Fiscal Cliff: What Kind of Landing?

Posted on 12/26/2012 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsBy Connie Cass of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end “fiscal cliff” were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their Christmas break. “God only knows” how a deal can be reached now, House Speaker John Boehner declared. President Barack Obama, on his way out of town himself, insisted a bargain could still be struck before Dec. 31. “Call me a hopeless optimist,” he said. A look at why …

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