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12 hours ago ago from Romick in Oakley
Last Tuesday night, December 8, the City swore in a new, but experienced Mayor and Vice Mayor. Pat Anderson assumed the role of mayor for the third time. Jim Frazier was appointed Vice Mayor. Oakley, like the majority of cities in California, rotates mayor's on a yearly basis. Outgoing Mayor Rios receives recognition from Supervisor Glover Outgoing Mayor Rios displays proclamation presented by City ...
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18 hours ago ago from Honoring Emancipated Youth (HEY)
[from Chelsea Boilard, Coleman Budget Advocates 12/14/09] Last Thursday, DCYF Director Maria Su gave a presentation at the Citizen's Advisory Council meeting on the state of DCYF's budget. She said that Mayor Newsom had asked departments to submit proposed mid-year cuts of 3.9% (amounting to $1 million for DCYF), and that while they found more than half of that amount in cost-savings that would not impact direct services, an additional ...
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6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Despite the President's job summit last week and the appearance of momentum for a "jobs bill," the prospects for congressional action in the near future are dim. The House will try to pass a scaled-down bill before retiring for the Christmas holiday, but Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is not optimistic : "Our whole interest in life today is what can get through the Senate." With the estate tax, the national debt limit, and financial reform - not ...
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1 hour, 59 minutes ago ago from The New York Times
CHICAGO On a frigid Wednesday night in December 1959, a revolution in comedy began here, almost unobserved. In a partly refurbished Chinese laundry in a bohemian neighborhood, a small improvisational troupe calling itself the Second City took to the stage for the first time to satirize the foibles of the Eisenhower era for an audience of barely 100, with a few bentwood chairs the only props. Courtesy of Second City Back row, ...
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