SS United States Faces Scrapping According to the SS United States Conservancy awareness campaign, the America’s national flagship, the SS United States, is in imminent danger of being bought by scrappers. This great vessel, which still holds the trans-Atlantic speed record, may soon be destroyed. Bids for purchase of the ship by scrappers are being...
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2009 will be remembered for a lot of things but mostly for the overt racism that exploded across the nation with the inauguration of the US's first Black president. Along with the racism came a resurgence in anti-intellectualism. "Tea Baggers" and "Birthers" don't seem to understand the difference between political philosophies...
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The founder of a Fishkill historical preservation group is scheduled to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on National Parks today in favor of Sen. Charles Schumer’s, D-NY, plan to expand the American Battlefield Protection Program. The program provides federal funding for local communities to purchase and preserve historic locations. However, it currently only applies to Civil...
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The company hired by the county to run the Putnam National Golf Course, RDC Golf Group, has been unable to secure a liquor license from the State and hence income is way down, so down that they've failed to pay the county money owed us. It's a real mess. Another favored contract, another...
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