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With swine flu vaccine in short supply, the city on Friday postponed a mass vaccination clinic that had been planned for the general public on Nov. 7 at UAA.

Two years ago, when Art Acevedo became Austin’s police chief, officers and union officials complained that investigators in the department’s internal affairs division were too aggressive in their review of officer conduct.

Congress has earmarked $4 million for New Jersey Highlands preservation in its Interior Department appropriations, effectively quadrupling its previous allotment.

 Polls will be open until 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Election Day.

Never mind why, but I was once the guest of an English family who baked me an authentic Welsh meat pie. It even had my initials on the crust, an honor I had never before received and haven’t since.

Forty years ago, President Nixon used the unfortunate phrase “War on Drugs,” launching a misguided crusade that has encouraged street violence, eaten away at state budgets and packed our prisons with nonviolent offenders. The nation’s punitive approach to drugs has turned us into a penal colony. We lock up more of our citizens per capita than brutal dictators like Robert Mugabe and Fidel Castro.

The few true sports stars to have played in Philadelphia have a difficult time being all things to all the rabid fans.