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WASHINGTON — The Obama Administration — through the Environmental Protection Agency — awarded more than $6.2 million towards workforce development in 21 minority communities. The investment seeks to provide underprivileged populations the same degree of protection as their wealthy counterparts. Visit the EPA Website In addition to providing marketable skills, part of the grant funding […]

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Macy’s has become the latest in a long list of companies that are backing away from the Christian Values Network after learning anti-gay groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council are using CVN.org to raise money, according to Change.org. Clerk Quits Rather Than Sign Same Sex Licenses Critics of CVN have […]

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Macy’s has become the latest in a long list of companies that are backing away from the Christian Values Network after learning anti-gay groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council are using CVN.org to raise money, according to Change.org. Clerk Quits Rather Than Sign Same Sex Licenses Critics of CVN have […]

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The NBA lockout will see some players make the decision not to return, especially if they’re career has been riddled with injuries and/or it has just been a very long career.  We have already waved a brave goodbye to a huge NBA champion, and now we are getting ready to say the same to another.  The man […]

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The NBA lockout will see some players make the decision not to return, especially if they’re career has been riddled with injuries and/or it has just been a very long career.  We have already waved a brave goodbye to a huge NBA champion, and now we are getting ready to say the same to another.  The man […]

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A collection of retail heavyweights will join first lady Michelle Obama‘s campaign to bring fresh fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods to the USA’s “food deserts” — impoverished areas with little access to healthy foods. National chains, including Wal-Mart, Walgreens and SuperValu, and some regional retailers have agreed to open or expand more than 1,500 […]

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A collection of retail heavyweights will join first lady Michelle Obama‘s campaign to bring fresh fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods to the USA’s “food deserts” — impoverished areas with little access to healthy foods. National chains, including Wal-Mart, Walgreens and SuperValu, and some regional retailers have agreed to open or expand more than 1,500 […]

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Take me out to the ball game? For some dealing with this relentless heat wave, that idea could make you think twice. The heat wave that has taken hold of much of the upper Midwest over the past few days is taking its toll on just about everyone — including those who may be used […]

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Take me out to the ball game? For some dealing with this relentless heat wave, that idea could make you think twice. The heat wave that has taken hold of much of the upper Midwest over the past few days is taking its toll on just about everyone — including those who may be used […]

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A Gary, Indiana man is suing a local blood bank for rejecting his blood sample because they thought he was gay. Pace, who is 22 and insists he’s straight, was rejected from giving blood by Bio-Blood Components Inc. in Gary, Ind. According to federal guidelines, gays are prohibited from donating blood dating back to 1983 […]

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A Gary, Indiana man is suing a local blood bank for rejecting his blood sample because they thought he was gay. Pace, who is 22 and insists he’s straight, was rejected from giving blood by Bio-Blood Components Inc. in Gary, Ind. According to federal guidelines, gays are prohibited from donating blood dating back to 1983 […]

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Another birth control revolution may be on the horizon. Fifty years after the pill was introduced, free contraception for women in the U.S., may be in effect thanks to the new health care law by the Obama administration. According to the LA Times, the Obama administration, is recommending that all U.S.-approved birth control methods — […]