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• Speed Read Feed for August 2, 2007

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:32 am

  Tags: Speed Read Feed, Barack Obama, Bridge Collapse, Bumpshack, Elton John, Fisher Price, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Internet, Iraq, John Edwards, Lead Paint, Michael Vick, Mississippi River, Nasa, O J Simpson, Pakistan, Rape, Ron Goldman, Rudy Giuliani, Sex

  Argentina presidential candidate says she’s no Hillary- Reuters Barack Obama talks about sending troops into Pakistan- Yahoo! News Couple arrested for having sex in front of daycare center- Smoking Gun John Edwards says Rudy Giuliani is Bush on steroids- Rolling Stone Iraq war costs $4,000 dollars every second- Daily Mail Fisher-Price

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• Bridge Collapse in Minnesota Sinks 50 Cars

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:43 am

  Tags: National News, Bridge Collapse, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mississippi River, National News

  A massive bridge on 35W in Minneapolis collapsed on Wednesday sending over 50 cars into the mighty Mississippi river. Initial reports said that seven people were dead. That number has been reduced to four but could grow as more than twenty people are still missing. The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in [...]

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• On Water Bill, House Votes to Override Bush Veto for First Time

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Water, Bill, House, Votes, Override, Bush, Veto, For, First, Time, George W Bush, Mitch Mcconnell, Trent Lott, U S Republican Party, Don Young, John Mica, Mississippi River, Steny Hoyer, The White House, U S Army Corps Of Engineers

  The House voted to override a veto by President Bush for the first time yesterday, acting to save a $23 billion water resources bill stuffed with pet projects sought by lawmakers from both political parties.

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• On Water Bill, House Votes to Override Bush Veto for First Time

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Water, Bill, House, Votes, Override, Bush, Veto, For, First, Time, George W Bush, Mitch Mcconnell, Trent Lott, U S Republican Party, Don Young, John Mica, Mississippi River, Steny Hoyer, The White House, U S Army Corps Of Engineers

  The House voted to override a veto by President Bush for the first time yesterday, acting to save a $23 billion water resources bill stuffed with pet projects sought by lawmakers from both political parties.

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• A Bush Veto Is Overridden for the 1st Time

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Veto, Overridden, For, The, 1st, Time, George H W Bush, The White House, Barbara Boxer, Chesapeake Bay, Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Chesapeake, Gerald Ford, Harry Reid, Harry S Truman, Jim Demint, Minneapolis, Mississippi River, Port Of Baltimore, Steny Hoyer, Ste

  A year after Democrats won control of Capitol Hill, Congress delivered its clearest victory yet over President Bush yesterday, resoundingly overturning his veto of a $23 billion water resources measure -- the first veto override of Bush's presidency.

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• Braley Backs Edwards

  Published: December 4, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Braley, Backs, Edwards, Iowa, Mike Huckabee, Bruce Braley, Patrick Davis, Waterloo, Arkansas, John Solomon, Jim Nussle, John Edwards Politician, Mississippi River, Rudolph Giuliani, Shailagh Murray, Internal Revenue Service, U S Republican Party, U S Senate, United States

  John Edwards picked up a key endorsement yesterday in Waterloo, Iowa, from Rep. Bruce Braley, a freshman Democrat who won an open seat previously held by conservative Republican Jim Nussle.

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• An Asthma Mom in the French Quarter

  Published: April 1, 2008, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Asthma Girl, Bio, Holidays, Off Topic, Andrew Jackson Statue, Asthma Mom Vacation, Beignets, Brad Pitt New Orleans, Cafe Au Lait, Cafe Du Monde, French Quarter, Hurricane Katrina, Jackson Square, Make It Right, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans Photos, Ninth War

  me again. Sunrise over the Mississippi. There are better pictures of the river, but this one shows its location in relation to the city. Taken from the hotel window on Canal St. looking east (obviously). Here’s another advantage of traveling with kids. Not only do you “get” to wake up in time for the sunrise, but you also

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• Feasting On Asphalt: The River Run -- DVD Review

  Published: May 2, 2008, 7:24 pm

  Tags: Alton Brown, Altonbrown, Complete Second Season, Completesecondseason, Feasting On Asphalt, Feastingonasphalt, Food Network, Foodnetwork, Mississippi River, Mississippiriver, Motorcycles, The River Run, Theriverrun

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• Iowa Flooding Rivals 1993 Deluge

  Published: June 14, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Iowa, Flooding, Rivals, 1993, Deluge, Cedar Rapids, Cedar River, Wendy Hatch, Iowa City, Kay Halloran, Denise Hatch, Minnesota, Chet Culver, Des Moines, Kevin Oliver, Boy Scouts Of America, Fema, Mississippi River, The Army National Guard, The Associated Press, The Quaker Oa

  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June 13 -- The sun finally broke through the layers of clouds on Friday, a reassuring presence after a week of rain. But as residents in and around this eastern Iowa city surveyed their waterlogged landscape, they did not like what they saw.

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• Rural Illinois May Offer Clues to Obama's Electability

  Published: June 15, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Rural, Illinois, May, Offer, Clues, Obama S, Electability, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chester, Chris Mooney, Dan Shomon, John Clemons, Alan Keyes, Buddy Maupin, Carbondale, Dan Owens, John Mccain, Kentucky, Ohio, Barb Brown, Mississippi River, American Federation Of State Count

  CHESTER, Ill. -- The rookie state senator from Chicago had driven 340 miles to explore southern Illinois, but Barb Brown could muster only 20 Democrats in this small town on the Mississippi River to have breakfast with him. She asked her niece and sister-in-law, who were helping in the kitchen, to...

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• Rural Illinois May Offer Clues to Obama's Electability

  Published: June 15, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Rural, Illinois, May, Offer, Clues, Obama S, Electability, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chester, Chris Mooney, Dan Shomon, John Clemons, Alan Keyes, Buddy Maupin, Carbondale, Dan Owens, John Mccain, U S Senate, Kentucky, Ohio, Barb Brown, Mississippi River, American Federation Of

  CHESTER, Ill. -- The rookie state senator from Chicago had driven 340 miles to explore southern Illinois, but Barb Brown could muster only 20 Democrats in this small town on the Mississippi River to have breakfast with him. She asked her niece and sister-in-law, who were helping in the kitchen, to...

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• Waiting for Disaster? A Primer on Flooding

  Published: June 18, 2008, 5:38 pm

  Tags: Daily News, Chester, Cora, Floods, Illinois, Levees, Mississippi River, Rockwood

  we are anticipating on the Mississippi River for the next week or more. Trained spotters and those who are familiar with the territory can see the gradual increase, the disappearance of a sand bar in the middle of the river or water lapping higher on a farm levee. Gradual can be better. It gives people time to prepare, except when there is

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• Mississippi Washes Over Illinois Levees

  Published: June 18, 2008, 6:06 pm

  Tags: Floods, Mississippi River

  Nearly 20 levees have given way this week to the swollen river, which was expected to reach record levels in some areas.

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• Call for Change Ignored, Levees Remain Patchy

  Published: June 22, 2008, 1:32 am

  Tags: Floods, Mississippi River, Dams And Dikes, Army Corps Of Engineers

  Few of a presidential panel’s recommendations after the Midwest’s devastating flood in 1993 were implemented.

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