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Black Health Rx: Finding A Cure For America’s Health Disparities
By Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson For her 40th birthday in October 2011, Khadijah Tribble had one wish: to jump out of an airplane. “I had been planning the event for four months,” Tribble recalled. The jump never happened. But it wasn’t because … Continue reading
Last Week in Poverty: The Unfinished March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
By Greag Kaufmann “[African-Americans] must march from the rat-infested, overcrowded ghettos to decent, wholesome, unrestricted residential areas disbursed throughout our cities…. They must march from the play areas in crowded and unsafe streets to the newly opened areas in the … Continue reading
Deficit Reduction Is Seen by Economists as Impeding Recovery
By Jackie Calmes and Jonathan Weisman The nation’s unemployment rate would probably be nearly a point lower, roughly 6.5 percent, and economic growth almost two points higher this year if Washington had not cut spending and raised taxes as it … Continue reading
Meet the new pot entrepreneurs
By Jose Pagliery Washington State’s budding marijuana industry has drawn entrepreneurs from all careers and backgrounds. The professional investors Entrepreneur: Brendan Kennedy and Michael Blue Background: Finance, bank executive Weed-related job: Private equity To those in Washington, these two are … Continue reading
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Tagged Brendan Kennedy, business, Cannabis, CNNMoney.com, economy, entrepreneurship, Leafly, marijuana, money, Washington, Washington State
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The Weight Those Heels Carry
By Felicia R. Lee Kerry Washington starts with the shoes. To portray Olivia Pope, the tough crisis manager at the center of the hit ABC series “Scandal,” Ms. Washington is always in gravity-defying heels. How else to make that sexed-up … Continue reading
Attempted sexual assault victims 911 call disconnected; dispatcher locates crime scene by “pinging” cell phone
When the line went dead after the victim of an attempted sexual assault called 911 Saturday night, Thurston County sheriffs deputies located her only after an emergency dispatcher “pinged” the cell phone she used to make the call by using … Continue reading
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Tagged 911, cellular, crime, CrimeStoppers, GPS, justice, law, Mobile phone, Sexual assault, technology, Washington
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Winning the Right to Vote for Convicted Felons
This is an interesting legal argument. I have never understood why a persons who have served their debt to society are barred from voting. In addition, why the census counts prisoners where they are jailed and not where they lived before they … Continue reading
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Tagged Farrakhan v. Gregoire, felons, law, NAACP, voting, voting rights, Washington
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Jobless Benefits End, Senate Exits, History Repeats
If you are one of the 2 million Americans who is on unemployment this directly affects you. However, all Americans need to pay attention to what our elected legislators are doing in Washington and make sure they are truly acting … Continue reading
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Tagged congress, jobs, politics, recession, Senate, unemployment, Washington
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Steve King Accuses Obama Of Racism: President ‘Favors The Black Person’
Enough already!! Partisanship in Washington and the election of President Barack Obama has exacerbated so many that racism and prejudice is becoming clear in some Republican lawmakers. Steve King Accuses Obama Of Racism: President ‘Favors The Black Person’.
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Tagged african american, black, Eric Holder, Obama, politics, race, racism, Steve King, Washington
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