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The Obama administration has declared that health insurers must cover birth control with no copays, as part of an expansion for women's preventative care. Breast pumps for nursing mothers, well-woman physicals, and counseling on domestic violence also must be covered with no copays. The new requirements will take effect on Jan 1, 2013.The Obama administration has declared that health insurers must cover birth control... more
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The White House has said that the President will not use the 14th Amendment to bypass Congress and raise the debt ceiling.The White House has said that the President will not use the 14th Amendment to bypass... more
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President Obama addressed the nation on the debt ceiling crisis, calling on Congress to produce a compromise.President Obama addressed the nation on the debt ceiling crisis, calling on Congress... more
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The Obama administration has threatened to veto House legislation that would limit the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The Obama administration has threatened to veto House legislation that would limit the... more
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President Obama has thrown his support behind a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans same-sex marriage. The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearings on the new Respect for Marriage Act starting on Wednesday.President Obama has thrown his support behind a bill that would repeal the Defense of... more
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President Obama announced that he will nominate former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in response to the financial crisis of 2008.
Cordray has been chosen over Elizabeth Warren, who has been involved in setting up the bureau, and who has been deemed unlikely to win confirmation. However, Cordray faces confirmation challenges as well, as Senate Republicans have vowed to fight any nominee unless structural changes are made to the agency.President Obama announced that he will nominate former Ohio Attorney General Richard... more
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According to Washington State Superintendent Randy Dorn: "if the proposed budget passes it will be devastating to school districts already struggling to stay afloat financially. They will have to absorb $500 million in cuts to education for the 2010-11 school year on top of the $400 million cuts made during the 2009 Legislative session."
"As many as 5,000 teachers could be laid off. Added to the 1,300 (teachers lost in 2009.)"
"It cuts away at the heart of what we consider basic education. How can we expect our (underpaid) teachers, already stretched thin in their jobs, to teach standards to a class of 30 or 35 students?"
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/fwm/opinion/79075577.html
I encourage you to make your voice heard by contacting local and state representatives regarding important issues like these (http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/).
P.S. Anyone remember 9 months ago when... "President Barack Obama today said he will seek tougher standards in schools, merit pay for teachers and reduced high-school dropout rates in a bid for a more educated and competitive workforce in a contracting economy."According to Washington State Superintendent Randy Dorn: "if the proposed budget... more
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"New figures meanwhile show the US prison population has reached an all-time high. According to the Justice Department, 2.3 million people were behind bars last year. The prison population continues to grow at less than one percent, down from an annual six percent growth during the previous decade."
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/10/headlines
(image taken from the Callifornia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation websites "Prison Overcrowding Photos")"New figures meanwhile show the US prison population has reached an all-time... more
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"In New York, the trial of a young US citizen who has been held in twenty-three-hour solitary confinement for nearly three years has been delayed until next month. Syed Fahad Hashmi is charged with providing material support to al-Qaeda in a case that rests on the testimony and actions of an old acquaintance who turned government informant after his own arrest. Hashmi is being prosecuted for a two-week period when the informant stayed at his home carrying rain gear that was allegedly later delivered to al-Qaeda members in Pakistan. Hashmi’s period in solitary confinement is believed to be one of the longest ever for a prisoner before trial. Hashmi’s family and supporters continue to hold weekly rallies outside the Manhattan federal prison where he’s jailed."
Faisal Hashmi: “And from the court interactions where we see him in court, he looks like a shell of the person that he was before. He looks frail, and he looks jittery. As you can imagine, people cannot stand solitary confinement for a day or two days or three days. He’s been in solitary, straight solitary confinement, ahead of his trial for two-and-a-half years without having a conviction, because the government said so.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/8/headlines
"Of more than 200,000 federal inmates, 42 are held under special administrative measures (SAMs) and of those, 28 are imprisoned on terrorism-related convictions, the Justice Department said."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B851920091209"In New York, the trial of a young US citizen who has been held in... more
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Hollywood superstar Megan Fox has competition from NewsButterfly's Rachel Kibbe !
Time Warner , RCN Cable and ITV New York have decided to take their TV broad casting relation to the next level.
Late this year ITV shall add to their exisisting TV channels, another 24 / 7 News TV channel "called News Butterfly" in New York ,on Time Warner Cable and RCN cable networks.
The "New Butterfly" TV channel created and sponsored by Al Mason has a unique feature :
"News Butterfly shall invite all you people out there ...be it bartenders... waitresses... students ...nurses... teachers... fitness trainers... models ...stand up comedians ...entertainers... executives ...doctors... attorneys...house wives with a passion for Citizen Journalism on Television .... to join the team of anchors known as "News Butterfly" ....and become powerful voices for the people all over the world.
Associate Sponsors of News Butterfly are :
Dr Banad Viswanath
International Television Broadcasting ( ITV )
TV 39 New Brunswick, New Jersey
TV 30 Norfolk VA
TV 44 Dallas TX
TV 45 Jacksonville FL
TV 35 Tallahassee FL
TV 51 Burlington VT
ITV Gold New York.
The NCE-FM stations
Atlanta, GA (Newnan) 89.7 FM
Massapequa, NY (Long Island)
89.5 FM University Park, IL (Greater Chicago)
89.3 FM Mount Prospect, IL (Greater Chicago)
89.3 FM Barker, TX (Greater Houston)
91.3 FM Kemah, TX (Greater Houston)
91.3 FM Hamtramck ( Detroit MI) on 89.
Director of Technology
Aby Watson (http://www.abywatson.com)
http://abywatson.blogspot.comHollywood superstar Megan Fox has competition from NewsButterfly's Rachel Kibbe !... more
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Time Warner , RCN Cable and ITV New York have decided to take their TV broad casting relation to the next level.
Late this year ITV shall add to their exisisting TV channels, another 24 / 7 News TV channel "called News Butterfly" in New York ,on Time Warner Cable and RCN cable networks.
The "New Butterfly" TV channel created and sponsored by Al Mason has a unique feature :
"News Butterfly shall invite all you people out there ...be it bartenders... waitresses... students ...nurses... teachers... fitness trainers... models ...stand up comedians ...entertainers... executives ...doctors... attorneys...house wives with a passion for Citizen Journalism on Television .... to join the team of anchors known as "News Butterfly" ....and become powerful voices for the people all over the world.
Associate Sponsors of News Butterfly are :
Dr Banad Viswanath
International Television Broadcasting ( ITV )
TV 39 New Brunswick, New Jersey
TV 30 Norfolk VA
TV 44 Dallas TX
TV 45 Jacksonville FL
TV 35 Tallahassee FL
TV 51 Burlington VT
ITV Gold New York.
The NCE-FM stations
Atlanta, GA (Newnan) 89.7 FM
Massapequa, NY (Long Island)
89.5 FM University Park, IL (Greater Chicago)
89.3 FM Mount Prospect, IL (Greater Chicago)
89.3 FM Barker, TX (Greater Houston)
91.3 FM Kemah, TX (Greater Houston)
91.3 FM Hamtramck ( Detroit MI) on 89.
Director of Technology
Aby Watson (http://www.abywatson.com)
http://abywatson.blogspot.comTime Warner , RCN Cable and ITV New York have decided to take their TV broad... more
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