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3:37pm

Fri December 7, 2012
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Ohio Departments of Aging and Veterans' Services Commemorate Pearl Harbor Day

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The Ohio Departments of Aging and Veterans' Services is commemorating Pearl Harbor Day with a special installment of their War Era Story Project, including 19 stories written by current and former Ohioans about where they were and what they were doing on December 7, 1941.
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The Department of Aging's Story Projects solicited stories of life during the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s from Ohioans who lived through it. More than 300 individuals sent in their recollections and lessons learned so that people of all ages today might get some perspective on our current economic situation.
Read More: http://aging.ohio.gov

11:18am

Wed November 7, 2012
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Does Money Guarantee Victory? A Post Citizens United Senate Snapshot

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NPR's Peter Overby looks at the relationship between campaign ad money and victory in Senate races, or lack thereof. The Brown-Mandel race in Ohio is one of the major examples in which major ad expenditures did not end in victory.
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The battle for the Senate was a proving ground for the new Citizens United politics. Outside groups unleashed heavily funded barrages of attack ads meant to help elect candidates while letting them keep their distance from the nastiness. In Ohio and Virginia, it failed in rather dramatic ways.
Read More: http://www.npr.org

10:23am

Wed November 7, 2012
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Reactions to Obama's Re-Election From Around the World

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We've been looking at the Presidential re-election and how it pertains to Ohio. This piece from NPR's It's All Politics blog takes a look at how the rest of the world is reacting.
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Once the news of President Obama's reelection spread, the congratulations started raining in. NPR's Philip Reeves reports that one of the first messages came from British Prime Minister David Cameron. "Above all congratulations to Barack Obama," Cameron said during a trip to Jordan.
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