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Bookings for major trade shows and other meetings at the San Diego Convention Center are on pace to meet targets for this fiscal year, but challenges exist that could cost the facility large events in the future maybe even the home-grown Comic-Con International, tourism officials said Wednesday.
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They told the “Raise Up San Diego” rally of more than a hundred people they would be sending a memo to Mayor Kevin Faulconer and other council members, saying their goal was to place a measure before voters that:
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), the Oversight Committee s top Democrat, sent the analysis to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday. It appears that his actions last week in closing down the hearing had significant negative legal consequences that now bar the House of Representatives from successfully pursuing contempt proceedings, Cummings wrote .
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On This Day: 1918 Women were scheduled to march in the St. Patrick s Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men due to wartime. 1925 A law in Tennessee prohibited the teaching of evolution. 2004 Luciano Pavarotti gave his final opera performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He still had concerts planned up until October 12, 2005.
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