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The Man Who Realigned Labor John Sweeney, 1934–2021 Charles Dharapak/AP Photo Labor leader John Sweeney, seen here in September 2009, died yesterday at the age of 86. By the time he became president of the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney looked a good deal like the Park Avenue doormen—Irish and portly—who’d joined New York’s Building Service union when Sweeney was growing up in a very working-class neighborhood in the Bronx. In his twenties, Sweeney went to work for those doormen and the janitors who maintained buildings across Manhattan, negotiating contracts for their...

As restaurants around Colorado continue going back to the drawing board in the face of COVID-19 restrictions, the Wild Corgi Pub picked an easy new target: deep-fried nostalgia. Recognizing the many stoned, hungry potential customers in the Capitol Hill neighborhood late at night, the Corgi has been selling "stoner packages" to delivery and takeout customers, pairing carnival, pub and childhood favorites into $20 delivery orders. The packages feature combinations of such items as fried cheese curds, churros, fried Snickers, smoked wings, tater-tot nachos, fried pickles and more, and each orde...

to start still another war. no way that's going to happen. we will bring you up to date on that. all of the latest with romney's apology tour and everything else going on this morning. first we get the latest, today's current news update from lisa ferguson out in los angeles. good monday morning, lisa. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everyone. mitt romney is fundraising at the king david hotel at israel this morning and his campaign is making sure to keep this one under wraps. the team decided saturday to shut off the event to news media. it's the first time they have closed a p...

other enrichment programs at times it from them ourselves. i was sitting with a friend a few years ago when talking about how we really need to do more for kids in the summer. she said that the summer can be so fun. you can go horseback riding and you could go sailing. i just love the summer. and i said well, yes, but for a lot of our students, those are not really the options that they are considering. and i think that's the challenge. if kids aren't in a school-based program, what are they doing this project even the summer? as the secretary pointed out, we see violence in young ki...