99 NEWS HEADLINES FOR SATURDAY, 10/31/09

COUNTY CONSERVATIVE CHAIR SAYS HOFFMAN CAMPAIGN MOBILIZES GRASSROOTS POLITICS--Hank Ford of Colton, Chair of the St.Lawrence County Conservative Party, says regardless of what happens in the 23rd Congressional District race, 2010 will bring a sea change on Election Day with mainstream party candidates losing ground. The Conservative movement has brought Douglas Hoffman from the backwoods to the national scene in a few months time.

ALSO RELATED TO THE 23rd...Environmentalists push healthy food as a priority issue for the new representative...Joe Biden in Watertown for Democratic candidate Bill Owens 8:30am Monday at North Side Improvement League, John Rich for Hoffman 6:30pm at Jefferson County Fairgrounds...Pat Buchanan calls race to Hoffman on McLaughlin Group.

CLARKSON PROFESSOR TO PEN BOOK WITH MAJOR FEDERAL GRANT--The National Science Foundation has awarded 277-thousand dollars to Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Sheila Weiss to write a biography of Dr.Otmar VonVershurer, the doctoral mentor of Josef Mengele, the Nazi scientist who did often brutal and/or fatal experiments on concentration camp prisoners during World War II.

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