1.. Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending
2. Ordered a review of all federal operations to identify and cut wasteful spending and practices
3. Instituted enforcement for equal pay for wo ...
Posted Thursday, April 29th 2010 at 11:02AM
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Ray Nagin leaves office as Mayor of New Orleans, and Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu, who takes office May 3, inherits a $25 million budget deficit. To listen to the full interview, you may log on to www.WWL-TV.com.
Mayor Ray Nagin
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Posted Wednesday, April 28th 2010 at 2:23PM
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NEW YORK -- When laid-off toy company executive Paul Nawrocki hit the streets of Manhattan wearing a sandwich board and handing out his resume, he became the face of the recession.
At the end of 2008, with the giants of Wall Street collapsing and ...
Posted Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 2:31PM
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PALM BEACH--For more and more women in Palm Beach County, the road to economic recovery is paved with garter belts, g-strings and 4-inch plexiglass heels.
Take, Stephanie White, for example. She recently registered to dance at Sugar Daddy's in Wes ...
Posted Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 2:27PM
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PHILADELPHIA — The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as “a black girl from Richmond, Virginia,” would have excluded her in years past.
The one-time white boys-only instituti ...
Posted Monday, April 26th 2010 at 1:21PM
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Rush Limbaugh has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled "Liberals and the Violence Card."
The crux of the op-ed is that conservative protests like the tea-party are not driven by hate but "by a love of what America stands for." In ma ...
Posted Monday, April 26th 2010 at 1:10PM
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YAZOO CITY, Miss. — Tornadoes ripped through four states in the South on Saturday, leaving broken crosses in front of a flattened church, splintering houses and overturning vehicles as they killed 10 people, including three children.
One of the ha ...
Posted Sunday, April 25th 2010 at 5:06PM
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From FinalCall.com
April 25, 2010
As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You):
Allah (God) has ordained opposition for His Prophets, Messengers and Servants in the establishment of Divine Revelation. Although Allah (God) has allowed His Prophets to ...
Posted Sunday, April 25th 2010 at 4:32PM
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A mentally ill convenience store operator took a revolver with him to look for the doctor he believed implanted a tracking device in his body during an appendectomy in 2001. Told the doctor wasn't at the hospital, he went to a nea ...
Posted Saturday, April 24th 2010 at 5:00PM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ¯ Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday he supported a proposed state law that would prevent teacher layoffs based on seniority, a stance that quickly drew the ire of teachers unions while being lauded by civil rights activists.
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Posted Saturday, April 24th 2010 at 4:55PM
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A white guy, disguised as a a black guy, managed to rip off four banks and a CVS in Ohio before he was caught. No, we're not kidding.
Maybe Conrad Zdzierak was inspired by "Soul Man (1986)," or even Robert Downey Jr.'s performance in "Tropic Thund ...
Posted Friday, April 23rd 2010 at 1:56PM
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QUIT SMOKING ... FOR YOUR OWN SAKE!
If you do not smoke, then congratulations, keep up the good work.
However, You should share this info with a friend of yours who smokes.
We all know how harmful effects do cigarettes have on our health. So ...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st 2010 at 2:45PM
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A 73-year-old woman admitted today to pimping in New Jersey today after being squealed on her own son.
Tecora Brown, pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution between April 2000 and December 2004 in Jersey City Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon. ...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st 2010 at 2:17PM
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SALT LAKE CITY – Twelve-year-old Audrey Conner owed about $7 in fines to the Salt Lake City public library system, but the voracious reader was a little short.
It didn't matter. Her nearby library branch had an alternative: Kids who can't pay the ...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st 2010 at 1:57PM
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LOS ANGELES -- The phone rang around 2 a.m., waking Teeida Townsend. "My homie got killed," the caller said.
Townsend knew how the cycle plays out here in the gang heartland of south Los Angeles: a killing, a revenge shooting, and then another. He ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 12:18PM
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The tape recorder started rolling as two police investigators sat in their car in a hospital parking lot with Deborah Madden on Feb. 26. "You're causing a huge nightmare for the city," said one officer.
Now the 60-year-old te ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 12:15PM
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Veteran R&B diva Patti LaBelle is getting an honorary degree from Temple University in her hometown of Philadelphia.
The university will present LaBelle with the doctorate in humane letters at its May 13 commencement ceremony.
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Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 12:11PM
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From InsideOut.ChicagoPublicRadio.org
April 18, 2010
There are many more black and brown young people in our jails and prisons than you’d predict, if you just look at their percentages in the population at large.
The numbers are simply out of ...
Posted Monday, April 19th 2010 at 12:54PM
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Dear Reverend Sharpton:
Congratulations to you and the National Action Network for another year of fighting for the rights of those who have no voice, and lifting up causes that would otherwise go unnoticed. I regret that I am unable to join you a ...
Posted Saturday, April 17th 2010 at 7:05PM
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