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Appeals court judges heard oral argument Tuesday in North Port's attempt to reverse a circuit court order that the commission revisit de-annexation.

The John Meisel Lecture Series in Contemporary Political Controversies Inaugural Lecture Controversies in the Making: Trump, Race, and Time Debra Thompson Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon Thursday, November 23, 2017

In 1877, John Watson, a Queen's philosophy professor, gave a series of courses in "political economy". These courses proved popular enough that in 1889, Adam Shortt, another professor of philosophy, convinced the university to create a Department of Political and Economic Science and to appoint him as the first full-time professor of politics and economics. He held the Sir John A. Macdonald Chair of Political and Economic Science from 1899 until 1908, when he was appointed the first chair of the Canadian Civil Service Commission, a body created to reform the federal public se...

A change to state annexation laws that some residents feared would derail their effort to contract North Port city limits was shelved indefinitely on March 11.

The CBC's plans to launch a second national TV channel were scuttled by the CRTC back in 1981.