Romney speech highlights jobs as Eastwood ad libs on stage
Romney frames the economy and job creation promising 12 million new positions while praising his business career and family. Eastwood delivers an unscripted, free flowing endorsement on stage with an empty chair, contrasting Romney's scripted convention presence.
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Bain Capital
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Fla
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Hollywood
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Barack Obama
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Guantanamo Bay
Paul Ryan
Skywalk project faces height, clearance, and cost hurdles
Cedar Rapids library board weighs skywalk plans amid rail clearance concerns with Union Pacific. A pillar may be demolished if the skywalk is not built, and a $65,000 flagman cost is floated for rail safety during construction. The encroachment into the bicycle trail right of way requires city permission.
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Library Board
Susan McDermott
Mark Davis
Union Pacific Rail
Doug Elliott
Iowa schools debate minutes vs days after early heat dismissals
Iowa schools face a problem from heat driven early dismissals as policy makers discuss counting minutes rather than days. The School Instructional Time Task Force cites air conditioning upgrades and flexible schedules while weighing a shift to a minutes based system by 2014 15 and delaying start dates after Labor Day if needed.
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Iowa
Brenneman
Deb
Trimble
Bers
Department of Education
Tammy Humpfer
Toddville
Alburnett
Cormack
State Board of Education
Ill Newspaper Item: Holmes Admission Denied Amid Mixed Evaluations
US released 12 pages of documents on Holmes 2010 graduate school application. He had 3.9 GPA at UC Riverside and was noted as outstanding by a Riverside reference. Illinois offered admission with a $22,660 stipend but Holmes declined.
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Trane
Blumberg
University of California At Riverside
Comry
University of Michigan
University of Kansas, Texas A&m
University of Colorado
University of Illinois
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