Voters in Ohio take measured view of race
COLUMBUS, Ohio – It’s been a tumultuous political summer.
The unexpected rises of billionaire Donald Trump and socialist Bernie Sanders. Signs of weakness for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Curiosity about the future of Vice President Joe Biden.
Yet in Ohio, the nation’s most reliable general election bellwether, voters are taking a more measured view of a race they ultimately may decide.
“It’s all just chatter,” said Judith Anderson, 40, a Democrat from Cincinnati. “We’re a ways out.”
New England’s ports seeking a comeback
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The noise and bustle of nearby neighborhoods fade away at New Haven’s sprawling port.
What was a key port for lumber and other goods dating to Colonial times is, like other New England ports, facing a reckoning after a lengthy decline.
As they move to stake out their share of global trade, the challenge is how to stay relevant in an age of ever-larger ships.
New England’s ports saw their national rankings in terms of total trade plummet since the 1970s, a trend that only accelerated with the Great Recession. New Haven, which ranked 33rd in the nation in 1972 with 13.1 million tons, ranked 57th in 2013 with only 8.4 million tons, according to the American Association of Port Authorities.
NYPD eyes hustlers in Times Square
NEW YORK – In the summer of topless, painted women in Times Square, a team of New York Police Department officers fanned out on a recent night in their own getups – shorts, T-shirts and backpacks that allowed them to blend in with the crowd.
By the end of the night, police had arrested one of the topless women on prostitution charges, while in a separate incident, a South Carolina businessman was charged with assaulting another one of the women over a missing wallet – proof, New York Police Department officials say, of the potential for disorder related to Times Square’s legion of hustlers who call themselves street entertainers.
The bustling mix of panhandlers, traffic, tourists and commerce – along with the threat of terrorism – makes Times Square “one of the most complex environments in the world,” Police Commissioner William Bratton told The Associated Press. “The issue is how to keep it a safe and orderly place within the law.”
No more union coal mines in Ky.
HARLAN, Ky. – Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize.
Their workplaces became war zones, and gun battles once punctuated union protests.
But more recently, the United Mine Workers in Kentucky have been in retreat, dwindling like the black seams of coal in the Appalachian mountains.
And now the last union mine in Kentucky has been shut down.
Associated Press
