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Mortgage foreclosure uproar sweeps up Northeast Ohioans

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Teresa Dixon Murray - Oct. 17 (News Report) - Tales like these portray the ugly side of the world of mortgage finance, a world embroiled in controversy amid claims of fraudulently signed foreclosure documents. As a result, many major banks have suspended foreclosures; state and federal officials are launching investigations; and experts everywhere fear this could wallop the limping economy again.

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Banning a Book Near You

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Connie Schultz - Sep. 30 (Opinion) - Hopkins told me she has received thousands of letters from teenagers who say her books helped them turn their lives around. She also said she is seeing an uptick in attempts by individual parents to ban books by her and other authors, and she thinks she knows why.

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FirstEnergy Corp. says it may mix wood chips with coal to reduce emissions

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By John Funk - Mar. 23 (News Report) - Faced with a federal court order to clean up or shut down one of its older coal-fired power plants, FirstEnergy Corp. says it is considering mixing wood chips or grass pellets with coal to reduce emissions.

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Kent officer tickets man for 'Impeach Bush' sign

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:46:39 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By James Ewinger - Aug. 09 (News Report) - A soft-spoken teacher posted the words "Impeach Bush" in a public garden, and Kent police cast him as an outlaw. Today Kevin Egler is fighting that in Kent Municipal Court, and the case is emerging as a free-speech issue of interest well beyond the boundaries of placid Portage County. Police ticketed Egler for unlawfully advertising in a public place because he put up a free-standing sign near the intersection of Haymarket Parkway and Willow and Main streets.

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Kucinich claims war masks the real objective: Iraqi oil

Thu, 24 May 2007 17:44:13 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Stephen Koff - May. 24 (News Report) - It's all about Iraq's oil - rich, abundant, and coveted by multinational companies waiting to line their deep pockets. Or so said Rep. Dennis Kucinich Wednesday in an unusual hourlong address on the House floor. He laid out his contention that the White House and Democratic-led Congress are helping oil companies grab a stake in Iraq's vast oil fields while claiming to be interested merely in winding down the Iraq war.

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Voters face a large and dismal field

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:21:47 -0800

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Kevin O'Brien - Feb. 21 (Opinion) - Election Day 2008 is still almost two years away, and yet we've got all sorts of campaigns announced and under way. And when you look at the field assembled so far, one rather stunning fact asserts itself: There will be a 44th president of the United States. Yes, my fellow Americans, 20 months hence we will elect the 30th president since Southern secession reputedly prompted James Buchanan to lament, "I am the last president of the United States." But Buchanan was wrong. One of the worst presidents in the history of the nation was followed by one of the best, Abraham Lincoln, and the country is still here today.

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2 election workers convicted in '04 tally

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:35:00 -0800

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Jim Nichols - Jan. 25 (News Report) - A jury found two Cuyahoga County elections workers guilty Wednesday of charges that they skirted Board of Elections procedures to thwart a countywide ballot recount after the divisive 2004 presidential election.

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10% of May ballots flawed

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:24:44 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Joan Mazzolini - Aug. 16 (News Report) - Nearly 10 percent of Cuyahoga County's official ballots in the May 2 primary were "destroyed, blank, illegible, missing, taped together or otherwise compromised," according to experts who studied the county's new electronic voting system. That could have made a recount impossible in a close race, says the report, which was released Tuesday.

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Blackwell gets Brunt of Registrant's anger

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:51:04 -0700

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Ted Wendling - Jun. 07 (News Report) - Columbus- Democrats and representatives of voter-registration groups accused Secretary of State Ken Blackwell on Monday of trying to rig this November's election by publishing draconian new rules governing the activities of people who register voters. Testifying at a hearing chaired by Judy Grady, Blackwell's director of elections, lawyers for ACORN, Common Cause, the Ohio Democratic Party and other groups said training documents drafted by Blackwell's office are so vague that they subject registrars to felony penalties for even inadvertent violations.

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