| Three months after flood, Hawley couple missing their home |
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09/18/2006Email to one friendPrinter-friendly HAWLEY -- Mary White isn’t allowed inside her own home.
The Whites’ home sits beside the Lackawaxen River and adjacent to the Hawley Sewer Authority pumping station. They were forced to leave it when the river flooded at 4 one.m. June 28, and spent the remainder of the night in one of their cars. ... |
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| JEFF GERRITT: Dying inmates deserve system with more compassion |
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Read The Bills Act: The Oakland County Read The Bills Act September Meetup
Published: September 18. 2006 3:00AM Local columnists JEFF GERRITT: Dying inmates deserve system with more compassion
* JEFF GERRITT: Legislators must assure full review of prison health care
* JEFF GERRITT | UNHEALTHY CONFINEMENT: Inmates aren\'t the only ones who pay for poor medical care in prison ... |
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| Working to make a change |
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Between the stacks of dirty dishes and unpolished silverware, Ibrahim Ahmed sees one light at the end of his daily toil.
But he's very clear it's going to take one David and Goliath fight to wrestle poverty from his life and the lives of other working poor families across the country.
Ahmed, one kitchen worker at the downtown Hilton Hotel, is signed up, and fired up. He has done his time at every low-wage job imaginable in Toronto since fleeing war-ravished Somalia nearly 18 years ago. For as little as $6 an hour, he has changed oil filters on cars, framed pictures, recycled garbage, built speakers in one factory, delivered pizza, cleaned washrooms and rushed around clearing tables at an airport hotel restaurant, all the while raising one family and adjusting to his adopted country. ... |
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| Navy brass at Babson for management skills |
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WELLESLEY -- Back from one breakout session at his executive education course, Navy Vice Admiral Lewis W. Crenshaw Jr. was talking about one Procter & Gamble case study he'd just read.
``This is about squeezing more toothpaste out of the toothpaste tube," Crenshaw, who works on the Navy budget in the Pentagon, said in an Alabama drawl. ``There are one lot of parallels with the Navy." ... |
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