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...home to, percentage-wise, more native-born residents, folks who don't much like change," Baer wrote on Oct. 21. "And I believe there's a 'cracker factor' - we've never elected a black nonjudicial statewide candidate - and I believe that's why McCain is here." Former Gov. Tom Ridge, a McCain supporter, dismisses talk that the election will turn predominantly on race, saying Rendell and Murtha and others "characterize the state unfairly...
...York City weekly also owned by Manhattan Media. But due to the current financial crisis, Blum said, Manhattan Media decided to suspend publication of 02138. “It’s going to be a very difficult time to re-launch a magazine,” said Tom F. Allon, CEO of Manhattan Media. “Magazines that are well-established are having their challenges.” Allon said that although he has not heard from alumni since the suspension was announced, “We expect they’ll be disappointed.” While...
...everything from the merits of adding density to the neighborhood, to effectiveness of the discussion and feedback process itself. “We’ve lived through these last eight years and looked at these master plans changing like a motion picture,” said Allston resident Tom Lally. “But when I have objections, I don’t even know where to address them.” The University presented revisions to its 50-year Allston development master plan at the previous task force meeting last Wednesday, showing off a plan that will increase...
...required a slight suspension of disbelief to watch NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning as Tom Brokaw opened with, and kept coming back to, McCain's weakness in the polls in his contest against Barack Obama for the White House. "Listen, I don't have the most encouraging news for you today from the NBC News/Mason-Dixon poll," Brokaw began, as he sat with McCain in Waterloo, Iowa. "Here in Iowa, it now shows that Obama has a lead of 11 points, 51% to 40%." McCain's reply - "Those polls have consistently shown me much further behind than we actually...
...been a tempestuous few years for the voters of Texas' 22nd Congressional District, the once solid conservative home of the much loved/much reviled (take your pick) former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay. After years of bringing home the bacon for voters in bow tie-shaped district south of Houston, DeLay, under a cloud of ethics allegations and still-unresolved criminal charges, abandoned his seat mid-election in 2006, leading to a Republican succession battle that resembled a circular firing squad. Out from the smoke came Nick Lampson, a moderate Democrat who had been drawn out of his old neighboring congressional...