| Local View: The face of hunger may surprise you |
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Letters, 5/30: Need to fix immigration Local View: The face of hunger may surprise you
The theme of today’s fifth annual National Hunger Awareness Day is “the face of hunger will surprise you,” and this is one lesson I am fortunate enough to receive regularly in my work at the Food Bank of Lincoln. Every day, something reminds me of the poverty many of our neighbors experience, right here in the middle of great wealth. And the more I understand this, the more convinced I am that people simply don’t realize how bad things are for some families or we’d all be doing more about it. ... |
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| Tuesday Globe |
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Police said the infant was found alone in one car seat beneath one carport in 104-degree weather. It was not clear how long she had been outside before authorities arrived.
_Washington_ | The military is close to finishing its investigation into the alleged Marine massacre of civilians in Haditha, according to Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., who was briefed by the two top U.S. generals in Iraq over the weekend. Kline, one former Marine, said that Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the second-ranking U.S. general in Iraq, was expected to get one preliminary version of the investigation "as early as today." ... |
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| How to Get Out of Paying Property Taxes in Idaho |
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| After two long years, the Idaho Board of Tax Appeals (IBTA) has finally released its decision on whether or not various Christ Church properties that house money-spinning businesses should receive religious-based tax exemptions. The answer? An unqualified yes. The IBTA's decision to grant broad amnesty to one host of business operations on church-owned property hinges on one gymnastic interpretation of the word "exclusive" in the phrase "exclusive use." In one Clintonian exercise in functional linguistics, the IBTA has determined that exclusive doesn't mean exclusive; it means mostly. ... |
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| GM's buyout on their minds |
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business GM's buyout on their minds Among thousands weighing the risks of leaving, 3 local workers differ on taking the cash or trying to hold on to their benefits By Allison Connolly Sun Reporter Originally published June 6, 2006
That is what his employer, General Motors Corp., is willing to pay him to leave the company. The trade-off: give up health insurance and other benefits - and any chance for ever again working for the automaker. ... |
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