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Curtis Report: The IRS as a weapon
By Barry Curtis, NDG Contributing Writer The President on Monday called the alleged targeting of the Tea Party and other conservatives groups by the IRS as “outrageous”. Really Mr. President, It’s your IRS? The IRS admitted Friday that it applied additional “scrutiny” on groups such as the Tea Party, groups and organization focused on government [...]
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Stanford study looks at if speed daters can really make a love connection after only four minutes
BY: Brooke Donald Can you “click” with someone after only four minutes? That’s the question at the heart of new research by Stanford scholars Dan McFarland and Dan Jurafsky that looks at how meaningful bonds are formed. McFarland, a sociologist at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, and Jurafsky, a computational linguist, analyzed the conversations of [...]
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Garden revival
By: Melinda Myers Spring floods, summer droughts and temperature extremes take their toll on gardens and the gardeners who tend them. Help your gardens recover from the crazy temperature and moisture extremes that seem to occur each year. Start by assessing the current condition of your landscape. Remove dead plants as soon as possible. They [...]
Deadline to apply college scholarships offered by Jay Z is May 31
(BlackNews.com) — The Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund (SCSF) provides individual grants ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 to every student who qualifies and reapplies yearly, from admission to graduation. The grant can be used to cover tuition expenses and related supplemental educational expenses such as books, lab fees, travel and select costs of living. All Shawn [...]
Robert L Johnson announces a campaign to end payday lending and lower interest rates
BETHESDA, MD// MAY 9, 2013// Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies announced plans for an education awareness campaign designed to convince minority organizations, elected officials, and public interest groups to support his proposal to end payday lending as we know it today and to encourage lending institutions to create lower interest [...]
Hopeful signs on a long road to a better health system
By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. If you’ve ever thought that your experience with the health care system–good or bad–is very different from someone else’s, you’re not alone. A new set of reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) show that the goal of safe, high-quality care is not within reach for all [...]
Dallas ISD announces Rosa Davison as the 2013 Teacher Assistant of the Year
DALLAS–Rose Davison was named Dallas ISD 2013 Teacher Assistant of the Year during a reception and dinner sponsored by Central Market. A graduate of Dallas ISD’s Sunset High School, Davidson is a teacher assistant at Dallas Environmental Science Academy where she has served the school and community for the past year. Davidson, who is bilingual, [...]
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