Year: 2010

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Delta to resume service between JFK and Haiti

March 17, 2010 The Travel Trolley
Special to The Travel Trolley Delta Air Lines will resume service between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, three times weekly beginning April 3, 2010. Service from JFK to Port-au-Prince will expand to five times weekly starting June 10. “As part of a long-standing commitment to the Caribbean basin, Delta looks forward to once again providing multiple travel options that not only connect the tri-state area to Haiti, but will
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Sherman slept here: Spending time in Uncle Billy’s boyhood home

March 14, 2010 Todd DeFeo
LANCASTER, Ohio — It’s hard to imagine a young William Tecumseh Sherman spending time in this room 180 years ago. The room — and the entire house for that matter — is simple and relatively unassuming, but it was here that the famous Civil War general, his brother — John Sherman, a Republican senator remembered for the Sherman Anti-Trust Act — and their nine brothers and sisters spent their formative years. Sherman’s father, Charles, built the four-room, wood-frame house in
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Ga. Senators: Rein in deficit spending

March 12, 2010 Caboose Chronicle
ATLANTA – Georgia’s two senators announced new legislation aimed at reining in deficit spending. As part of the Honest Expenditure Limitation Program (HELP) Act of 2010, all “non-security” discretionary spending would be frozen at 2008 levels. The move, according to senators, would net a $900 billion  savings over the next decade, an estimated $634 billion more than a similar concept that President announced. “Balancing the federal budget is an obligation that those of us in