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Tax panel tasked with ending feast or famine

Jul. 30, 2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commission on the 21st Century Economy was supposed to unveil its recommendations today to "modernize California's out-of-date revenue laws that contribute to feast-or-famine state budget cycles." Seems the 14-member "bipartisan"...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler