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That’s Why the Lady Was on Stamps
By Litsa Dremousis “YOU SAW THE job applications, right?” the social worker asks me and nods in the direction of a bulletin board festooned with red construction paper stars. I imagine the staff meeting where someone asked, “You know what would totally … Continue reading
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Tagged CFIDS, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Snap, social assistance, Social work
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
By Lance Whitney Steve Ballmer will retire from his role as Microsoft CEO within the next 12 months, Microsoft announced Friday. Ballmer will remain as chief executive until the board of directors chooses someone to succeed him. “There is never … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Gates, Busines, Microsoft, Retirement, Steve Ballmer, technology, Windows Phone
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Why Martin Luther King’s ‘Dream’ Speech Is So Hard to Find Online
By Dustin Volz As Washington gears up to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech later this month, one thing might be missing from the celebrations: the speech itself. A full, … Continue reading
The Hunt for the White Trayvon Martin
By Elspeth Reeve The hunt for the white Trayvon Martin has evolved since the case became national news, with a changing cast of victims and perpetrators, but the problem has remained the same: instead of countering the racial narrative of the … Continue reading
New York City Council overrides Mayor Bloomberg’s vetoes, passes bills to rein in aggressive policing
By Erin Durkin The City Council’s election-year confrontation with Mayor Bloomberg over the NYPD reached a climax Thursday with two votes to rein in overly aggressive policing. The Council voted 34-15 for a bill that would give people more options … Continue reading
What I learned from getting shot
By Brian Beutler I haven’t said or written much publicly about the shooting that nearly killed me in 2008. But a recent confluence of events — Trayvon Martin’s death, the Zimmerman trial and the public pronouncements of mostly privileged, mostly … Continue reading
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Tagged gun violence, guns, politics, race, racial profiling, stop & frisk
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Rape Culture At Work: Five Examples Of How Employers Turn Women Into Sex Objects
By Tara Culp-Ressler and Bryce Covert It’s no secret that women face a disproportionate amount of discrimination in the workplace. One-third of women say they have been subject to some type of workplace discrimination at some point in their careers … Continue reading
George Zimmerman Shops For Tactical Shotgun
George Zimmerman was on the hunt today — for a shotgun … TMZ has learned. Zimmerman went to Kel-Tec in Cocoa, Florida … a gun manufacturing company. We’re told he was asking questions about the legality of buying a shotgun — specifically, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cocoa Florida, George Zimmerman, Gun Culture, guns, Kel-Tec, Manufacturing, Shotgun
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