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Census Bureau’s Counting Of Prisoners Benefits Some Rural Voting ... - The Ledger
danny r. young, a 53-year-old backhoe operator for jones county in eastern iowa, was elected to the anamosa city council with a total of two votes — both write-ins, from his wife and a neighbor. while the census bureau says mr. young’s ward has ...
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Arianna Huffington: The Battle Over Ca Prop 5: Special Interests Overwhelming The Public Interest
california's prisons are a budget-busting debacle. there are currently more than 170,000 inmates crammed into prisons designed to hold 100,000 people. around 40,000 of these prisoners are incarcerated for a drug offense. enter prop 5, a ballot initiative that will reduce prison overcrowding, cut costs, and start the state's first drug treatment program for at-risk youth. given all this, passage ...
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Coalition To Discuss prison Alternatives, Youth Fines
when members of justice overcoming borders look at an issue facing the community, they try to make systemic changes rather than putting a bandage on the issue.
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Conditions Still Poor, Unhealthy In Prisons - Kpnews.com
prisons, by design, aren’t supposed to be pleasant places. but they’re also not supposed to be deadly places, as they are all too often in ukraine – a consequence of under-funding, overcrowding, brutality and poor medical care. “those taken ...
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The Battle Over Ca Prop 5: Special Interests Overwhelming The Public ... - Huffingtonpost.com
here is picture that sums up much that is wrong with american politics. five governors of california, democrats and republicans, joining forces to oppose something that is indisputably in the public interest. this is an image that could be repeated ...
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Former Emmis Controller Gets 1 Year For Embezzlement
sylvia york, formerly of st. louis, was sentenced to a year in prison on wire fraud charges for embezzling $70,000 from her ex-employer, emmis communications, first assistant u.s. attorney michael reap said thursday.
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Five Sentenced In $15m Check Cashing Scheme
five south florida men have been sentenced to terms ranging from county jail time to nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty to their involvement in a $15 million check cashing fraud scheme, florida’s attorney general announced on thursday.
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Tom Reid Best Choice For County Attorney - Concord Monitor
the race for merrimack county attorney presents local voters with a difficult choice. the incumbent, dan st. hilaire, is stepping down. the candidates, republican tom reid and democrat katherine rogers, are about as different as can be. and with ...
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Bacchiochi, Avery Agree Economy Should Be Top Priority But Differ On ... - Journal Inquirer
a stafford farmer is hoping to unseat three-term rep. penny bacchiochi, r-somers, in the race for the 52nd house district seat this year. arlene avery, a democrat, hopes her legal education and farming background will give her an edge over bacchiochi ...
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Richard Ingrams’s Week: Feel Confident About Your Money? Don’t Bank On It
do you remember when the chip and pin system was introduced being told that it was 100 per cent fraud-proof? it turns out not to have been true. witness the case of a man jailed this week who made more than £2m from stolen pin numbers and credit cards.
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Canandaigua Bank Opens In Henrietta
one of the few locally owned banks in the rochester area celebrated the opening of its 22nd branch office. the sound of an old school bell can be heard at the newest location of canandaigua national bank in henrietta.
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City Lights: Democrats Ought To Know Better - Billings Gazette
i couldn't resist commenting last week on the campaign to portray republican gubernatorial candidate roy brown as a vegetarian. the attack may have been bizarre, petty, witless and juvenile, but at least it was funny. it even inspired people for the ...
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Stem Cell Proposal A Tossup; Cash Pours In - Detroit News
proposal 2, the ballot initiative that would ease state restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, is too close to call going into the final weekend before tuesday's election, according to a detroit news/wxyz-action news poll. with 46 percent of ...
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School Setting Healthy Standard
spencerport high’s nutrition and fitness program could become the model for the fight against childhood obesity. a new state report shows the obesity crisis now affects more than 1 million young new yorkers.
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Cemetery Gone Wild
one of the scariest and coolest places to be on halloween is a graveyard. it can also be one of the wildest. about 300,000 people are laid to rest at mount hope cemetery.
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Iraqi Demands Imperil Pact - Denver Post
baghdad — iraq wants to eliminate any chance u.s. forces will stay here after 2011 under a proposed security pact and to expand iraqi legal jurisdiction over u.s. troops until then, a close ally of the prime minister said thursday. those demands ...
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Ny Youth Center Staffed At $1.7m Cost, But No Kids - Newsday
syracuse, n.y. - new york , buffeted by the economic meltdown and facing billions in deficits, is spending $1.7 million in taxpayer money to keep open and staff a western new york juvenile detention facility that has no residents. the great valley ...
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Officials Assist Inmates In Voting
among the many demographic groups in play this election season, there is one that politicians aren't courting: jail inmates. under california law, the only citizens disenfranchised because of their rap sheets are those currently serving state prison terms or parole for felony convictions, according to the secretary of state's office. others can register and cast ballots if they are in jail ...
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City Fires Prompt Safety Effort
the morning after rochester firefighters fought three house fires, they were busy again -- trying to prevent fires. thursday evening, fire broke out in a home on garfield street. early friday, two fires broke out within an hour of each other. a vacant house on santee street burned.
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Urban Activist To Speak - Garden City News
patrick finn, school teacher, education expert, and urban activist, will deliver the robert f. & augusta finkelstein memorial lecture, "a new paradigm for education working-class students," on monday, november 17, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the ruth s ...
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