| Clinton attacks Obama in last day of N.H. campaign
Margaret Chapman, 80, of Dover said she is torn between Clinton and John Edwards, both of whom have ideas on reforming health care. While much of the buzz in the gym was about whether Clinton will be crushed Tuesday by Obama, Chapman said, "she can still become the nominee. There are a lot of states left after New Hampshire." About 150 people couldn't get in to the event, and Clinton shook many of their hands when she finally arrived. .
Mike Carona's risky business
As Mike Carona reconstructed his life for the electorate 10 years ago, much was made of his hardscrabble past, his "fighter's face," the nose he said was broken three times in childhood brawls. He is the only son of a first-generation Italian-American auto mechanic, Nunzio Antonio Carano, and Matilda Gertrude Schultz, a fashion agency employee who needed work on her '54 Plymouth. The family name was "Carano," not "Carona," but a clerk made a typo on Nunzio's military discharge papers, and it was easier to keep the new name than get it corrected. Nunzio and Matilda married in January 1955. Carona was born in Santa Monica in May. Even in Carona's earliest memories, his mother greeted the morning with a drink. She cooked dinner with highball in hand and ironed clothes sipping a Hamm's beer, Carona has said.
Bonus pay spread over party lines in state Legislature
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette uncovered evidence in e-mail messages showing that, in some cases, bonuses in that caucus were based on the amount of campaign work staffers did during the year. State Attorney General Tom Corbett has said he is investigating all four caucuses to learn whether tax dollars were used to subsidize campaigns, but so far he appears focused on House Democrats. .
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