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...Singing alongside Frank Sinatra as one of the lead vocalists for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Connie Haines made her mark with rhythmic, up-tempo songs like "Oh, Look at Me Now" and "Snooty Little Cutie." Haines got her start at the age of 4, performing in theaters in her native Savannah, Ga. She later made radio appearances with Abbott and Costello, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope and television appearances with Milton Berle and Ed Sullivan. She also performed for five U.S. Presidents, a testament to her enduring career. Haines...
...asking for the authority to do things he's been insisting for months were unnecessary. "I cannot ignore that many of the people sounding the alarm are the same ones who recently said things were under control ... that stronger government oversight was unnecessary and counterproductive," Democratic Congressman Mark Udall, now a Senate candidate in Colorado, said after voting...
...grim news: 137 lenders have stopped funding federal student loans and 33 have dropped private programs, according to FinAid.org publisher Mark Kantrowitz. Students at community, technical and for-profit schools have been the hardest hit. Federal Stafford loans were up in the second quarter compared with 2007, but loans made to parents through the PLUS program, which looks at credit history, plummeted--down 29% in dollar volume. Since May, the Education Department has spent some $5 billion buying loans in an effort to reignite private lending...
...Taxpayers' Bill of Rights that Colorado adopted in the 1990s after the measure gutted many public services. Like most other Coloradans, Arapahoe residents spend a lot of time in their cars and trucks. As gas prices skyrocketed, politicians have scrambled to respond. Both Obama and Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall altered their stands on offshore drilling over the summer. And one of the McCain ads in heavy rotation lately embraces the use of "clean coal" and tied the issue to the economy. "For Coloradans, coal means thousands of jobs. Economic growth. More affordable electricity," intones the announcer. "But Obama-Biden...