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Furloughed workers weigh options as 20% pay cuts loom

Last updated Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 5:07pm

WASHINGTON — Pete Randazzo already has dipped into his savings to pay his daughter’s medical bills. Now another setback looms: a 20 percent reduction in pay for his job at a Navy school under federal budget cuts.

Randazzo, 51, an information technology specialist at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., is bracing for furlough days that now may begin in May.

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President Barack Obama listens as his Interior Secretary nominee, REI Chief Executive Officer Sally Jewell speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Business, environmental groups praise Interior nominee

Jim Snyder Bloomberg News

Last updated Friday, February 8, 2013 - 10:07am

WASHINGTON — Sally Jewell, nominated to be Interior secretary, won praise from environmentalists as a conservation champion and from business groups that said she understands the importance of energy development on public land.

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FILE - In this Friday, May 4, 2012, file photo Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in Pittsburgh, Pa. Romney and his allies are pouring money into Pennsylvania even though his party’s nominees have lost it five straight times. Some independent analysts say the same result is likely this year. But few expect President Barack Obama to repeat his double-digit victory of four years ago. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Romney bashes Solyndra loan as solar company he backed fails

Jim Snyder Bloomberg News

Last updated Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 9:29am

WASHINGTON - Republican Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama last week for backing failed Solyndra, just days before a solar-power company Romney supported when he was governor of Massachusetts went out of business.

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