Jan 23
A replica of 1967 King’s Resurrection City, which highlighted U.S. poverty. A local breakfast honoring Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday emphasized eradicating poverty. The U.S. Department of Agriculture runs the food stamp program that helps 46,000,000 needy Americans. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack gave the keynote address at the annual Rainbow PUSH King celebration in downtown …
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Jan 09
Ref: Syrian tanks and navy ships shelled the main Mediterranean port city of Latakia on Sunday, residents and rights groups said, killing 26 people as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces launched an offensive by land and sea to crush protests against his rule. Since the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan on August 1, Assad’s …
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Jan 07
WEIRTON – Tri State Pharmacy has earned the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board’s stamp of approval. The board gave Tri State its Seal of Accreditation, a system of standards created by some of the leading organizations in the compounding pharmacy profession. Tri State is the first pharmacy in the Tri-State Area to earn the accreditation. Compounding …
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Jan 03
|Letter to the Editor Have conservatives lost their minds? no, but the writer of theletter to the editor bearing that heading needs to grow up, take abath, get a haircut and a job. I believe in conservative values, and I am not a corporate baronor a millionaire. I spent 20 years in the military and …
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Dec 26
Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas now has her own postage stamp. It’s the 34th in the post office’s Black Heritage series. Jordan served three terms in Congress from a Houston district after breaking barriers in Texas politics. As Star-Telegram columnist Bob Ray Sanders wrote: “She had such a long list of firsts that she often …
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Dec 22
By Russell Berman – 12/09/11 06:39 PM ET Even as they girded for a confrontation with Obama over the Keystone provision, House GOP leaders sought to align their proposal with measures that the president or congressional Democrats have endorsed. Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) office circulated a chart claiming that more than 90 percent of …
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Dec 18
The Syrian government ignored Arab powers’ moves to halt its crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising as more opposition supporters and military personnel were killed in unrelenting violence. The Syrian military said 10 personnel, including six pilots, were killed in an attack on an air force base and that the incident proved foreign involvement in the …
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Nov 17
Bahamian Politics last Updated: Nov 11, 2011 – 12:26:07 AM PLP statement, “PLP Responds to FNM Bogus Claims” Nov 8, 2011 – 2:12:47 PM Email this article Printer friendly page Press Statement By the Progressive Liberal Party November 8, 2011 PLP Responds to FNM Bogus Claims In September 2003 the FNM Party welcomed the new BEC rates announcement made …
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