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Parent challenges candidate statement
A parent in the Ocean View School District has legally challenged the candidate statement of incumbent Trustee John Briscoe, who accused the district of declining test scores, illegal secret meetings and more in his filing with the Orange County Registrar...Tags: Examinations, Voting, Justice System, Orange County Superior Court, Elections
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Merkel comes under increasing fire on euro crisis
BERLIN — If it seems to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the world is against her, she may be right. Her insistence that debt-ridden European nations cut their way out of financial crises helped cost her conservative political party two state...Tags: International Monetary Fund, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Germany, European Union
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Courts side with voters, not campaign secrecy
Federal courts struck two blows last week for more transparency in election campaigns. Voters should be pleased. A federal appeals panel inWashington, D.C., declined to block a lower court ruling that requires tax-exempt organizations running election-...Tags: Trials, Elections, Federal Election Commission, Politics
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Greens, Libertarians launch new drives after ruling keeps them off Md. ballot
The Green and Libertarian parties are launching new petition drives to get their candidates for president and other offices on Maryland's November ballot after losing a battle before the state's highest court. The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled Monday...Tags: Career and Workplace, Libertarian Party, Voting, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Elections
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State: 53,000 registered voters appear to be dead
– Fifty-three thousand registered Florida voters appear to be dead, state election officials said Wednesday The state is in the process of matching voter rolls against Social Security Administration data for possible deceased matches, said...Tags: Osceola County, Local Elections, Elections, Politics, Social Security
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Greece's political deadlock continues as coalition talks fail
World NowGreece entered a second week without a government as the leader of a hard-line leftist party, which seeks to tear up the country's international bailout agreements and their related austerity measures, pulled out of talks to form a coalition leadership,... -
German state election deals blow to Angela Merkel's party
DUESSELDORF, Germany — Voters in Germany's most populous state dealt a decisive blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union on Sunday, preliminary results show, a potentially ominous preview of things to come for the chancellor...Tags: Government, Arts and Culture, Angela Merkel, Elections, Culture
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Analysis: European elections a warning to Obama
The failure of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in a major state election Sunday is another reminder to Democrats of a fundamental reality of politics — in recessions, voters tend to punish the party in charge. Americans tend to...Tags: Democratic Party, George Bush, Germany, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel
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Socialist Hollande Ousts Sarkozy As French Leader
ReutersPARIS (Reuters) - Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France's presidential election on Sunday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe that could start a pushback against German-led austerity. Hollande beat conservative incumbentNicolas...Tags: Paul Taylor, Credit Ratings, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Polls
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France gets new leader, Europe new direction
PARIS (AP) -- France handed the presidency Sunday to leftist Francois Hollande, a champion of government stimulus programs who says the state should protect the downtrodden -- a victory that could deal a death blow to the drive for austerity that has been...Tags: Paris (France), Government, Elections, World War II (1939-1945), Politics
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SD Democratic voter registrations decline
It probably wasn’t the best sign for a political party or its two candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives when voter registration declined shortly before the party’s primary elections. That’s the tough spot that South Dakota...Tags: Flu, Voting, Government, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health
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Democratic voter registration stagnates in South Dakota
American News CorrespondentPIERRE — It probably wasn’t the best sign for a political party or its two candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, when voter registration declined shortly before the party’s primary elections. That’s the tough spot...Tags: Flu, Voting, Government, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health
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