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Local Voices: Highland Park and Deerfield
Letters to the editor from Highland Park and Deerfield residents. Train safety This is in response to "Boy hit by train back at school; Fellow students cheer 5th-grader who lost left foot" (News, May 15). The article about the boy returning to...Tags: Moody's Corporation, Credit Ratings, Deerfield, Alcoholic Beverages, American Academy of Pediatrics
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Michele Bachmann's record: hot rhetoric, few accomplishments
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Michele Bachmann's brief tenure in Congress gave her a forum for national attention and fame but rarely translated into legislative success for her cause or political success for herself. Instead, the Minnesota Republican who announced...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Federal Election Commission, Taxation, FBI, Internal Revenue Service
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Despite overall wealth, officials say North Shore still needs 'poverty grant' money for schools
North Shore educators in some of the wealthiest school districts in Illinois say they have low-income students and struggling families, and their districts should be able to get so-called "poverty grant" money from the state. "Believe it or not, there...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Social Issues, Winnetka (Cook, Illinois), Students, Personal Income
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Letters: Food stamps fight hunger
Re "The case for food stamps," Opinion, May 24 The proposed reductions to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as food stamps) are more evidence of the inequality between rich and poor in the United States. There are some 50 million...Tags: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Starbucks Corp.
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Martha Policke enjoys making a difference at Montverde's Helen Lehmann Memorial Library
MONTVERDE — Martha Policke walked into the place and owned it. Policke, 49, was visiting a family member in Montverde last year when her computer crashed and she had to find another to use quickly. That somewhere was the Helen Lehmann Memorial...Tags: Mother's Day, Libraries, Arts and Culture, United Way , The Walt Disney Co.
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Looming food stamp cuts split Democrats, anger anti-hunger groups
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Billions of dollars in funding cuts for food stamps, contained in bills moving through Congress, have split Democratic lawmakers and angered advocates for the poor, who criticize the cuts as heartless attempts to reduce the federal budget...Tags: Sherrod Brown, Justice System, Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Kirsten Gillibrand
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Inside a large homeless encampment
San Jose Mercury NewsSAN JOSE, Calif. Even before bulldozers ripped through her fenced compound in Silicon Valley's largest homeless encampment a sunken subdivision from hell known as "The Jungle" Mama Red had been thinking about moving. The departure of her pregnant...Tags: Social Issues, Homelessness, Alcohol Addiction, Gang Activity, Rentals
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Senate votes to move forward on farm bill
WASHINGTON - The Senate has voted to move forward on a wide-ranging, five-year farm bill. In a procedural vote, the chamber voted 75-22 to take a step toward passage of the legislation, which costs almost $100 billion annually and would set policy...
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Food stamps are latest target for cuts
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)WASHINGTON Competing bills in the House and Senate have set the stage for a clash over the future of the food stamp program and the government's role in fighting hunger. Increased enrollment in the food stamp program during the economic recession...Tags: Betty McCollum, Amy Klobuchar, Lobbying, Republican Party, White House
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LETTER: Cuts In Food Programs Hurt Kids
Heated debates over cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding continue on Capitol Hill and extend even to free lunch and breakfast programs in schools. I work in a Hartford school where these programs exist, where kids speak... -
Continuing traffic on the topic of roadside panhandlers
The Road Warrior w/Dan HartzellThe May 3 column on panhandlers drew some interesting responses, including South Whitehall Township resident Everette Carr's observation that, though I dispensed advice from experts on how to deal with homeless people begging at the roadside, one of... -
Marco Rubio's task: selling immigration reform to GOP faithful
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Wearing a 2010 vintage Marco Rubio campaign T-shirt and matching button, Cheryl Griffin spewed frustration that the man she helped win a long-shot conservative bid for Senate is now leading an immigration overhaul. An...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Employees, Voting, Politics, Entertainment
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