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Sideshow: "Glee" creator says Newsweek article is antigay

Published May 14, 2010 at 1:34 a.m.

Despite its happy name, things aren't always gleeful at Glee. Show creator Ryan Murphy has sent out a plea to Americans to boycott Newsweek for "Straight Jacket," a recent article by Ramin Setoodeh about the politics of gay thesps playing straight men and vice versa ...

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Stephen A. Smith: Baseball's job is not politics

Published May 4, 2010 at 12:10 p.m.

If one thing is clear about Arizona's Senate Bill 1070, it is that it invites stereotyping and racial profiling - which explains why critics label it racist. Any sensible person should understand why the law - which makes it a state crime to lack immigration papers and requires police to determine whether people they stop are in this country illegally – would be deemed controversial in 2010 ...

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Pa. politicos hear message in Mass. vote

Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 7:12 a.m.

The populist anger giveth and the populist anger taketh away.After riding voter discontent with the status quo to victory in 2006 and 2008, President Obama and the Democrats find that the politics of disquiet is now trending against them ...

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Hard to top the changes in store for N.J. politics

Published Jan. 3, 2010 at 9:30 a.m.

This promises to be a year of change in New Jersey government and politics.By the end of January, the state will have a new governor, a new Senate president, and a new Assembly speaker - the first time since 2002 that the three most powerful positions in state government all will have changed hands ...

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Harry Gross: Not mixing business with politics

Published Nov. 12, 2009 at 3:01 a.m.

Dear Harry: Your voice has been one of common sense and reasoned opinions. I would love to see you get more involved in the national debates going on in Washington, particularly the one on health care. I have always thought that insurance was an economic ...

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Undecided NJ voters sick of politics-as-usual

Published Oct. 28, 2009 at 5:05 p.m.

Ten undecided New Jersey voters are so frustrated with politics-as-usual that they might not pick either major-party candidate for governor ...

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John Baer: Pay, perks & politics in a state of disarray

Published Sept. 16, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

THE EVEN-for-Harrisburg bizarre state budget stuff continues to defy reason and beg the question of whether leadership in either party has an ounce-and-a-half of sense combined ...

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Assembly race a tangle of politics and friendships

Published Sept. 11, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

Eugene E.T. Lawrence and Bill Collins ran track together in high school, and later teamed up to seek municipal offices in Gloucester Township ...

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John Baer: The heart of the battle: Education spending

Published Aug. 24, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

AT THE HEART of the shameful, politics-driven state budget impasse, now in its 55th day, is spending for public education. The folly in this is that spending for public education is also at the heart of politics, period ...

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Council boycott paralyzes government in Yeadon

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Published Aug. 17, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

Yeadon Borough, like other Delaware County municipalities that hug the Philadelphia border, is no stranger to cutthroat politics or the occasional out-of-control council meeting ...

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