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• Capitol Bureau Visit Capitol Bureau Page
  The Capitol Pressroom for May 18, 2012
  

  Nyra?  Primary day?  Minimum Wage?  Energy Highway? Campaign Finance Reform?  What’s the latest?   Where are these initiatives now?  We’ll get the scoop from a gaggle of reporters including the AP’s Michael Gormley, the NY Daily News’ Ken Lovett and Newsday’s Yancey Roy. And Agence France-Presse is reporting that multiple sources overheard an audibly angry DSK make the following remark in a seedy ...

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  CIAO! 5/20/12: North Side Memories & Sam Donze–by Joey Nigro
  

          When Sam Donze passed away, many, many comments were posted on the “Italians From The Northside of Syracuse” Facebook group.  Everyone loved Sam and the wonderful sausage he continued to make out of the storefront that his immigrant parents, Mariano and Antonina Donze, opened at 618 North Townsend Street where they lived. I asked my childhood friend Donna Maurillo, who grew ...

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• Ivory Tower Visit The Ivory Tower Page
  5/18 SHOW: THE LAURIE FINE LIBEL SUIT; DUELING MAGAZINE COVERS
  

  On this week’s show the panelists zero in on the key issues that will determine the outcome of Laurie Fine’s promised libel suit against ESPN, particularly her status as either a private or public figure.  Then the panelists look at the eyebrow-raising covers of Time and Newsweek this week and discuss whether it’s just business as usual in the audience-building game for ...

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• Financial Fitness Visit The Financial Fitness Page
  Risky Business
  

  On Thursday’s Financial Fitness, we focus on what real investment risk is, how an investor can determine their own personal investment risk tolerance , and how they can adjust their investment holdings if they find their portfolio is either too risky or too conservative.  We will also talk about IPOs, initial public offerings, especially in light of Facebook’s Friday IPO.  And as always, ...

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• Arts Talk Visit The Arts Talk Page
  Arts Talk: Sacred Sites Open House
  

  This week, Marie Lamb speaks with the Reverend Gerard Beritela and Richard Giaccio of the Church of the Saviour in Syracuse about the “Sacred Sites Open House” weekend, which will be on Saturday and Sunday, May 19th and 20th, at four different sites in Syracuse. This event, which is sponsored by the New York Landmarks Conservancy,  includes the arts of ...

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• Food And WineVisit The Food And Wine Blog
  Diet and Disease
  

  I was shocked to learn that rates of heart disease are 10 times higher in northern Europe than in southern Europe – and that rates of the same types of cancers vary as much as tenfold around the world. As studies on this subject continue to mount, the results point to three variables: the foods we choose, how much physical activity ...

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