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Having eliminated half of the best qualified Democratic vice presidential candidates by prematurely pledging to limit his choices to women, Joe Biden finds himself in something of a dilemma.
It was a story taxpayers, especially those laid off or furloughed by the pandemic, must have found quite interesting, not to mention the loan-burdened UConn students and their parents.
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oe Biden came awfully close to being remembered as the candidate who won the presidential nomination and was never heard from again until the advantages of the incumbency proved to be too much for Donald Trump to handle.
As our days of confinement extend into weeks, I’ve been remembering when those of us of a certain age, (i.e., old,) were confined to home and bed for what seemed like an eternity as we recovered from measles, chicken pox, whooping cough and other childhood diseases.
When the Dow Jones Industrial Average went up more than 2100 points, the most ever, on March 24, it was widely reported that the 11.4% increase was the biggest in 87 years — since 1933 in the depths of the Great Depression.
Nearly 50 years before a Brooklyn boy named Bernie Sanders became the Socialist mayor of Burlington, Vt., the larger city of Bridgeport, Conn., elected native son Jasper McLevy as New England’s first Socialist mayor.
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