• National union leaders meet with Obama, concerned about his back-pedaling on tax cuts for the wealthy. That bill, meanwhile, is signed, and should be sealed and delivered by New Year’s.
• Procedural votes kill the immigrant-aiding DREAM Act in the Senate, but a big-deal food safety bill, which was nearly undone by improper protocol after it passed weeks ago, passed again.
• New Haven announces latest ranking of public schools. Top tier schools are Betsy Ross, Davis, Edgewood, Nathan Hale, Hooker and (in the high school division) Sound School.
• Judge rules that immigrants whose civil rights were violated in the Fair Haven raids of 2007 can sue the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s national director, denying government motions to dismiss the case.
• Connecticut’s $1 budget for tourism promotion can’t cover the $100,000 membership fee, so the whole state’s purged from the “Discover New England” website.
• Bomb scare in New Haven turns out to be fireworks.
Sensational!
• Captain Beefheart dies. In other dearly departed news, what should they play at Blake Edwards’ funeral —the Peter Gunn theme, The Pink Panther theme, Moon River or Ravel’s Bolero?
• Lee Harvey Oswald’s original coffin (replaced in 1981 due to water damage) auctioned for $87,000.
• Movie awards season begins in earnest, with The Social Network, The King’s Speech and The Fighter leading the Golden Globe nominations, with Clint Eastwood and the Coen Brothers faring poorly for a change.
• Larry King does final episode of his CNN talk show, which ran for 25 years (lasting longer than his first seven marriages put together).
• New head of House education committee, MN Republican John Kline, might challenge Obama administration’s plans for dealing with high loan defaults and recruitment abuses at for-profit colleges.
• As if volcanic ash and bankruptcies didn’t make Europe’s 2010 memorable enough, the continent is enduring catastrophic snowstorms.
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