BY BILL STEWART Staff Writer Jeff Taylor just got done putting a clip on a Pro Stock car for a New Brunswick driver. By today, he hopes to have completed a car for reigning TD Bank 250 champ Joey Polewarczyk. “We’re pretty fortunate to keep busy,” said Taylor, who runs Distance Racing Products in Fairfield. […]
August 2012
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GOLF: After delay, semifinals set at Match Play Invitational
Two rounds of the Match Play Invitational were scheduled for Thursday at Natnis Golf Course’s Tomahawk course, but when heavy rain in the morning suspended the quarterfinal round with two of the four matches still competing, officials elected to push the semifinals to this morning at 8 a.m., with the championship round to follow.
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Ryan denied stimulus while quietly seeking it
The Republican vice presidential candidate denied for a second time Thursday that he ever lobbied the government for stimulus money, even though he sent letters —with his signature — to the feds asking for millions of the program’s dollars on behalf of two companies in Wisconsin.
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Big-name no-shows for the GOP, Dem conventions
Palin, Bush, Clinton and Gore will all be absent when the Democrats and Republicans gather in Tampa and Charlotte.
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Today’s editorial cartoon: No taxes
Artist Nick Anderson comments on Mitt Romney’s tax record and Paul Ryan’s tax plan.
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Delaware doctor denies waterboarding allegations
The defense attorney for Dr. Melvin Morse says he is being “dragged through the mud,” and portrayed as “a medical Osama bin Laden.”
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NFL, union discuss full-time refs, more crews
Less than three weeks before the season kicks off, the NFL and the NFL Referees Association are no closer to an agreement to end the lockout of the officials.
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Carbon dioxide emissions in U.S. drop to 20-year low
Conservation efforts and greater use of renewable energy are factors, but the main reason is low-priced natural gas.
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Romney: Paid at least 13% in taxes for past decade
“The fascination with taxes I paid I find to be very small-minded,” he says.
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CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C
Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have the liver-destroying virus.