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From our morning editorial discussion today… A dozen fires continue to rage in California -- and the state is pouring in resources to battle the blazes. Red-flag warnings persist at nearly every one of these fires -- all of which...

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August 31, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (1)

The Morning Meeting: Obama To Montana Town Hall...Vick's Second Chance...Outrage In Afghanistan?...Person Of The Week

The President wades into the town-hall debate today -- this time to the decidedly red state of Montana. We'll be watching to see whether the President receives anything like the polite reception he found in New Hampshire earlier this week....

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August 14, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (2)

The Morning Meeting: Abortion & Health Care Reform, Cheney On Bush, A Possible Lockerbie Reprieve, & "All You Can Fly"

Mixed bag of news this morning: Once again we're covering the town-hall debates across the country, and offering up another in our "Fact Check" series of stories about health-care reform. Tonight, the allegations about abortion and the pending legislation. The...

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August 13, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (2)

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A lot of news for an August Monday: President Obama at the so-called "Tres Amigos" summit south of the border (where a diverse agenda covers commerce, drug trafficking and the H1N1 swine flu); the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan warns...

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August 10, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (2)

The Morning Meeting: Job Loss...France Loves Obama...Taliban Horror...Madonna Denied...and Person of the Week

Lots of news on this first Friday in April. The hemmorhaging of jobs continues. 663 thousand jobs gone in the month of March. That's 2.1 million jobs lost in the first quarter of 2009. The unemployment rate rose to 8.5...

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April 3, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (3)

The Morning Meeting: G-20 Finale...Blagojevich Indictment?...North Korea Threats...Farewell, "ER" & "Guiding Light"

The G-20 leaders report "good progress" in London -- with an arrangement that would "show the world coming together in an unprecedented way to fight a global recession." That may be -- though it also may be that this global...

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April 2, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (1)

The Morning Meeting: Obama To Russia...Obama To China...Obama To Buckingham Palace...London Protests Get Nasty...Gibson & Geithner...700,000 Jobs Lost?...Ted Stevens Cleared?

Quite a day in London today. A breakthrough in U.S.-Russian relations; plans for President Obama to visit both Russia and China later this year; the Obama Administration continues its push for more stimulus spending by European nations; protestors smash windows...

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April 1, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (3)

The Morning Meeting: Obama's Money Summit...Will GM Survive?...Fargo Whacked Again...Nightmare In The Mediterranean

Half our senior team is in London today, as Barack Obama travels there for the global summit on the financial crisis. And what President Obama may have imagined would be a friendly gathering will probably become -- on the major...

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March 31, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (3)

The Morning Meeting: Mother Nature's Double Whammy...Geithner's Regulation Plan...Obama's Virtual Town Meeting...Mortgage Rates' All-Time Low

There are some daunting numbers out there today -- and for a change they do not involve budgets or deficits or financial rescue packages. Today's numbers: there's 41 -- as in the Red River's flood wall level currently resting at...

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March 26, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (1)

The Morning Meeting: Obama's Budget Troubles...Silver Linings On The Economy...Alzheimer's Summit...and Race Against Time In North Dakota

There's more variety in the news world today than we've had in some time -- in part because the news is not so dominated by the economy this morning. The President finds himself at loggerheads on the budget -- not...

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March 25, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (0)