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In Connecticut, the federal government has awarded renewals for the two nuclear reactors at Millstone to operate until 2035 and 2045. In New York, the two plants at Indian Point — built in the mid 1970s, are up for renewal — but both Governor Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
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Bob Hennelly
When CenturyTel, a Louisiana-based phone service provider, merged with Embarq last year, the state Rate Counsel hammered out an agreement with CenturyTel that required the company to invest heavily in capital improvements over the four years following the deal.
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Darryl R Isherwood
Professional football has a big, big problem on its hands, and I'm not talking about the lockout that is jeopardizing the 2011 season. Dave Duerson was once a world-class athlete, a perfect physical specimen whose pro football career included Super Bowl championships with the Chicago Bears and New
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Bob Herbert

How Last Minute, Just-In-Time Scheduling Practices Are Bad for Workers, Families and Business

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Nancy K. Cauthen
Creative ideas regarding energy, education, jobs and so forth have trouble even getting a hearing. The United States is not racked with the turmoil that is shaking the Arab world, or the tragic devastation that has hit Japan. We are not in a state of emergency. We’re in a moment when it is possible
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Bob Herbert
Just a Prelude to the Real Fight, Robert Hiltonsmith writes at The American Prospect. What Republicans really want to cut is Social Security and Medicare, he writes.
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Elspeth Reeve
As Michael Lipsky explained today, "One would think it hard to find a politician who opposes reducing preventable dangers to children. [ Pompeo] has stepped up to this challenge."
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Steve Benen
There is an April 6th hearing on the Democrat’s appeal of the Indiana Recount decision that allowed White to proceed as Secretary of State. The next question, apart from the allegations in the indictment, is whether White was eligible to be on the ballot at all. You’ll find the Indiana Democratic
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NEW YORK – As budget debates continue to play out at the state level, it is apparent that Americans everywhere are still suffering from the long-tail of the recession and need jobs, not austerity measures that will likely reverse emergent economic gains. A new report by the policy center Demos
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Today there are almost 29 million people in the United States for whom the economy has failed to perform its most important function: providing enough jobs to go around. This reality is dimming the lights on the American Dream. It threatens to steal from an entire generation the dignity that comes
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