By:
The Associated Press
01/27/12 11:15 AM
Lincoln Journal Star. Jan. 27, 2012.
Foster kids on psych drugs
Sen. Gwen Howard wants a task force to examine why more than one in five foster children in Nebraska is taking psychiatric medication.
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By:
DONNA CASSATA
01/27/12 2:29 AM
President Barack Obama rallied House Democrats for an election-year fight, urging them to work with Republicans if they show some willingness to put politics aside but telling the rank and file to call them out if they stand in the way.
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By:
JIM KUHNHENN
01/27/12 2:20 AM
President Barack Obama fired a warning at the nation's colleges and universities on Friday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they "jack up tuition" every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value.
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By:
JEFF KAROUB
01/26/12 2:28 PM
A Michigan factory that made luxury yachts before the recession and diversified to add wind energy products when times got tough was touted by President Barack Obama at his State of the Union Address as an example of an industry creating forward-thinking jobs — with a little help from the government.
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By:
DAVID ESPO
01/25/12 3:56 PM
On a day that combined two campaigns into one, President Barack Obama on Wednesday challenged Republicans to raise taxes on the rich as GOP rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich swiped at him on the economy and criticized each other over immigration.
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By:
DEREK KRAVITZ
01/25/12 3:12 PM
President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union speech that he wanted to help struggling homeowners refinance their mortgages. The Republicans who want his job say the government should get out of the way of the housing market.
But as the housing crisis takes center stage in the campaign, a growing number of experts say neither approach is potent enough to cure falling prices, depressed construction and waves of foreclosures.
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KIMBERLY DOZIER
01/25/12 3:49 AM
"Good job tonight," President Barack Obama told his Defense chief as he arrived for his annual State of the Union message.
Unknown to a global television audience watching the speech moments later, a bold hostage rescue operation had played out half a world away with an elite Navy SEAL team's rescue of two hostages in Somalia, one of them an American. It was the same SEAL unit that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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By:
The Associated Press
01/25/12 2:13 AM
Reaction to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address:
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"No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others."— Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.
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By:
The Associated Press
01/25/12 2:11 AM
Highlights of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address:
TAXES
Said the wealthy should pay their fair share in taxes, arguing that anyone who makes more than $1 million should pay a minimum tax rate of at least 30 percent. He also provided more details about the so-called Buffett rule, which sets a goal of a minimum tax rate for those earning $1 million or more a year.
EDUCATION
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By:
CALVIN WOODWARD
01/25/12 1:58 AM
It was a wish list, not a to-do list.
President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren't so tied by political realities. There can be little more than wishful thinking behind his call to end oil industry subsidies — something he could not get through a Democratic Congress, much less today's divided Congress, much less in this election year.
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