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WASHINGTON D.C. – Marqueece Harris-Dawson, a longtime community leader in South Los Angeles, asked a financially struggling mother what she thought about the suggestion that, unless she pays federal taxes, she doesn’t have “skin in the game.” The mother looked Harris-Dawson squarely in the eyes and told him that her son is serving in Iraq. [...]
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With the Supreme Court decision on health care reform in the rearview mirror, Tennessee is mapping out its path to 2014. Big decisions and hard work related to Medicaid (TennCare) and health insurance exchanges are fast-approaching. Tennessee is in the planning process for Tennessee’s Health Insurance Exchange, a new online marketplace where individuals and small businesses [...]
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FORKS, Wash. – Oscar and Olivia, 10-year-old red-headed twins – his hair cut short, hers long down her back – browse through the shelves at the Forks branch library. They pause to pull out a book that catches their interest and add it to their pile. It’s dusk. The librarians are pushing chairs back under [...]
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PHOENIX (AP) — A lawsuit claiming that Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies carried out racial profiling as part of a policy of discrimination is being heard in federal court. The civil lawsuit involving Arpaio — the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America — has put his anti-immigrant patrols on center stage. A lawyer for plaintiffs who [...]
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DALLAS (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry said Monday that Texas won’t establish an online marketplace for patients to shop for insurance or expand Medicaid, two key elements of the federal health care overhaul. His comments quickly drew fire from organizations across the state representing low income working families. In a letter sent to U.S. Health [...]
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Gov. Brown Appoints Radio Bilingüe’s Hugo Morales to California State University Board
July 10, 2012
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Hugo Morales, co-founder and Executive Director of the Radio Bilingüe national Latino noncommercial radio network, has been appointed by Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. to the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees. With 23 campuses and more than 420,000 students, CSU is the largest university system in the nation and one of the leading [...]
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Growing up in a middle class home, summer vacation was fun. I was fortunate because it also expanded the knowledge I gained in school during the rest of the year. During summer vacations my family travelled to nearly all 50 states and 9 foreign countries. My world expanded and I was able to see firsthand [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the vast majority of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul, including the hotly debated core requirement that virtually all Americans have health insurance. The 5-4 decision means the huge overhaul, still taking effect, will proceed and pick up momentum over the next several years, affecting [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court threw out key provisions of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law on Monday, but said a much-debated portion could go forward – that police must check the status of people stopped for various reasons who might appear to be in the U.S. without documentation. The court upheld the “show me your papers” [...]
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Perhaps it’s fitting that more than 525 Texas school boards have signed a national resolution calling for an end to the over-emphasis on standardized testing. After all, the law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was modeled on what some called the Bush “Texas Miracle” – the mechanism by which former President Bush claimed [...]
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