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Obamacare a good deal for states
Washington (AP)— A new report says states can receive more than $9 in federal money for every dollar they spend to cover low-income residents under President Barack Obama’s health care law. Expanding...
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Sheriff’s Deputies, Other Law Enforcement Agencies, Volunteer for ‘Shop With...
Making the Holidays Brighter for 75 Children Recently 75 children shopped for holiday gifts with Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., Sheriff’s deputies and officers from area law enforcement agencies for a...
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Our Children Deserve Better
by Benjamin Todd Jealous Every generation believes their children deserve to be better off than they were. This belief inspired the first slave rebellion in 1663, when a new law dictated that children...
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Watch Night Service in the Black Church in America: 150 Years After the...
“Watch Night Service” in the Black Church in America symbolizes the historical fact, that on the night of Dec. 31, 1862 during the Civil War, free and freed blacks living in the Union States gathered...
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Obama Signs Bill to Deliver More Government Contracts to Small Businesses
New provisions will help small businesses compete for more federal contracts by C. Daniel Baker On Tuesday President Obama signed a series of provisions to help small businesses compete for more...
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Pulse of the Community
Question of the Week: “Do you think it should be against the law to own a semi-automatic assault rifle? Why or why not? Photos and question by Yvonne Kemp Raymond Levy: “Absolutely not! They have no...
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No proof of voter fraud, GOP lawmakers admit
The author of a temporarily derailed law requiring voter identification at the polls has admitted he doesn’t not have proof of voter fraud in Wisconsin. Responding to an open records request from a...
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Dozens of new state limits on abortions added in 2012
Map & Data Resources | ByMike Alberti | Reproductive health services Though the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Roe v. Wade affirming a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion remains the...
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#Breaking Black: Why Colorado’s weed laws may backfire for black Americans
Medical marijuana user Ezekiel Muses checks out a jar of medical marijuana, that he uses for back pain, at the CANNA CARE medical marijuana dispensory, in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010....
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A Little-Noticed Supreme Court Case Could Deny Justice For Sandra Bland
Attorney Cannon Lambert, left, along with Sandra Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, center, and sister Sierra Cole hold a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, in Houston. Bland was found dead in a...
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