Blog Alert for POLITICO - Top 10 - Full Blog, Aug 16, 2013

New Posts to POLITICO - Top 10 - Full Blog on Aug 16, 2013:

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1) Pro Report, presented by POWERJobs: While you were working - RNC all about 2016 ... not so much about Hill - Marching onward 50 years later - More questions on NSA - Will Democrats denounce Obama's fo
http://www.politico.com/proreport/0813/proreport11452.html

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2) Remainders: Scrapped
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/remainders-scrapped-170702.html

Enjoy the weekend.

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3) Flooding at Al Jazeera America headquarters
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/flooding-at-al-jazeera-america-headquarters-170704.html

Uh oh:

Al Jazeera America's New York City headquarters was temporarily evacuated and staffers were blocked from entering this afternoon due to flooding in the building. The incident comes just four days before AJAM is scheduled to launch across the country.
The flooding also began less than an hour after a throng of reporters toured the space to check out AJAM's New York City newsroom and studio. You can read our report from that tour here.

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4) An MSNBC chart
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/an-msnbc-chart-170700.html

Preserving this one for posterity's sake. Via @DorseyShaw.

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5) Kerrey in talks for State Dept. post
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/08/bob-kerrey-in-talks-for-state-department-post-170699.html

Bob Kerrey is in talks to be the latest former senator to get a post at the State Department.
Kerrey, the two-term Nebraska Democrat who lost an attempted comeback bid last year, has since returned to New York, where he'd relocated to after leaving Washington to run the New School and live with his wife, comedy writer Sarah Paley.
But now that Kerrey's close friend and former Senate colleague John Kerry's in charge at Foggy Bottom, he's looking at getting involved, too.
"I've had conversations with them about taking on a project," Kerrey confirmed.
(PHOTOS: Stars at the State Department)
Kerrey wouldn't discuss what the "project" would be, but stressed that the position wouldn't be full-time--"I wouldn't actually use the word 'job,'" he said.
He also said that the discussions are not finalized, though some people have already been contacted as part of a procedural background check [...]

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6) NPR E.P. Teshima Walker dead at 44
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/npr-ep-teshima-walker-dead-at-170698.html

Some very sad news from NPR:

The award-winning executive producer of NPR's Tell Me More, Teshima Walker, died this morning at the age of 44 after a two-year battle with colon cancer. She is survived by her husband, writer Jimi Izrael, her parents, William and Vonceal Walker and her sister, Eureva Walker.
Since 2011, Walker was the executive producer for NPR's midday news program Tell Me More, hosted by Michel Martin. Walker was part of the public radio family for more than a decade. She first joined the afternoon newsmagazine All Things Considered as a journalism fellow in 2000. Later she spent three years as a producer for The Tavis Smiley Show, and then for News and Notes. In 2007, Walker signed on as senior supervising producer of Tell Me More, and served the program in various capacities for the next six years. A Chicago native, Walker first came to NPR by way of WBEZ, where she [...]

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