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tion of watching Colorado Democrats make incredible mistakes for our economy against the warnings of citizens, consumers, and the business community. Even as Coloradans continue to lose their jobs to the recession, Democrats have chosen government bureaucracy over the health of Colorado’s economy,� said House Minority Leader Mike May, a Republican from Parker.
Greece is sizzling
Some 50,000 Greek workers took to the streets and a few protesters threw rocks and red paint in clashes with police during the widest strike yet against the government’s austerity plan aimed at easing the country’s debt crisis. The unrest flared yesterday amid a looming deadline for demonstrating tough cuts demanded by the European Union and fresh revelations over faulty Greek data reporting that triggered the financial turmoil. Athens is battling to calm the crisis and European fears it could spread to other countries with troubled finances such as Portugal, Spain and Italy. Strikes grounded flights, idled cargo ships and ferries, and left commuters in Athens without most public transportation. State-run schools, tax offices and municipalities all shut down and public hospitals limped by using emergency staff.
Dodd: Join us or get out of the way
President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, holding out little hope for today’s televised bipartisan summit on health care, are prepared to try for a far-reaching bill in the coming weeks without a single Republican vote. With Democrats unwilling to start from scratch, “I think it’s nearly impossible to imagine a scenario under which we could reach an agreement,� said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who will attend the televised six-hour meeting across from the White House. Given such comments, Democratic leaders say they hope to persuade House Democrats to swallow their objections and approve a health bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve. In return, Senate Democrats would have to agree to make various changes to health care laws under budget reconciliation rules, which bar GOP delaying tactics. “Tomorrow we’ll have that meeting ... But far more important after that meeting, you can either join us or get out of the way,� Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., said at a rally yesterday.
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Serial killer whale
A killer whale attacked and killed a trainer in front of a horrified audience at a SeaWorld show yesterday, with witnesses saying the animal -- involved in two previous human deaths -- dragged the trainer under and thrashed her around violently. Distraught audience members were hustled out of the stadium, and the park was immediately closed. Veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, was one of the park’s most experienced. It wasn’t clear if she drowned or died from the thrashing. SeaWorld spokesman Fred Jacobs confirmed the whale was Tilikum, one of three orcas blamed for killing a trainer who lost her balance and fell in the pool with them in 1991 at Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia. Tilikum was also involved in a 1999 death, when the naked body of a man who had sneaked by Orlando SeaWorld security was found draped over him. The man either jumped, fell or was pulled into the frigid water and died of hypothermia, though he was also bruised and scratched by Tilikum.
New England pummeled with snow
A powerful winter storm dumped a foot or more of snow in the Northeast yesterday, knocking out power to thousands and stalling air traffic from Boston to Philadelphia, all ahead of a second system packing strong winds that could blanket the area with another foot of snow. The storm cut a swath from eastern Pennsylvania into northern New England, slamming typically snowy regions that had been spared the paralyzing storms that hit cities farther south earlier this winter. About 150,000 customers lost power Wednesday, hundreds of schools were closed and at least three traffic deaths were blamed on the storm. The system was the first of a 1-2 winter punch. Another storm forecast to hit Thursday is expected to pack winds of up to 50 mph, which could cause more power outages, and dump a foot or more of snow on some areas by Friday. Meteorologists said some areas of New York’s Adirondack and Catskill mountains and Vermont’s Green Mountains could get as much as 2 feet by the weekend
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