Word: springfields
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...students leave after graduation. Patrick is committed to curbing this trend. He has innovative ideas and common sense solutions for making Massachusetts a world leader in technological innovation and socially constructive business, especially in biomedicine, biotechnology, and renewable energy. Examples of his ideas include building a biofuel factory in Springfield, expanding agriculture in Western Massachusetts, and reviving stem cell research in the Boston/Cambridge area. In each case, Patrick is surgically targeting key elements of the stagnant state economy while at the same time hewing to his ethical and environmental values...
...cash infusion for schools, but no sustainable revenue stream. "It's never been clear that he has any real interest or commitment to policy. He's all about winning the next election," said Charles Wheeler, a political columnist and professor of public affairs reporting at the University of Illinois-Springfield...
...This August, McCaskill proved that she'd learned her lesson. After winning the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, she delivered her victory speech to hundreds of cheering volunteers inside Democratic Party headquarters in Springfield, Missouri's third-largest city, which is deep in the heart of Republican territory and former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's hometown. When McCaskill campaigns in Springfield, she's often followed by Republican protesters who call her a liberal Hillary Clinton wannabe and taunt her with signs reading "New York's Third Senator...
...victory party was only the first step in McCaskill's new rural offensive. She ran her first campaign ads on Springfield TV stations. She's visited conservative southwest Missouri 27 times so far, says spokeswoman Adrianne Marsh. By mid-August, McCaskill had campaigned in 47 of the state's 109 rural counties. Of course her opponent, Republican incumbent Jim Talent, is also running hard in rural areas. Which means that one of this year's biggest Senate races will be decided in the smallest places, like Fairdealing, Missouri, population...
...they involve some very complicated human beings. There is a national component to the congressional campaign in Philadelphia's southern and western suburbs, of course, but it is dwarfed by the human drama. Sestak is a local boy made good, a graduate of Cardinal O'Hara High School in Springfield, Pa., who attended Annapolis and then spent 31 years in the Navy, including command of the U.S. naval battle group in the Persian Gulf during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003. His opponent, the Republican incumbent Curt Weldon, is also a local boy made good, a classic Reagan...