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Project Homeless Connect Continues to Break Stigma of Homelessness
Channel 2 NewsThe 11th annual Project Homeless Connect kicked off Tuesday morning at the Egan Center and the mission remains the same: reducing and preventing homelessness in Anchorage. Project Homeless Connect brought various agencies under one roof to give...Tags: Storrs, Homelessness, Family, Social Issues
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Cook Inlet East Side Setnetters Continue to Fight to Open Red Salmon Fishery
Channel 2 NewsThe Kenai River king salmon crisis intensified on Tuesday. More than 200 setnetters, who work the east side of Cook Inlet gathered for another emotional meeting at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association offices on Kalifornski road. The parking lot was...Tags: Fishing, Lifestyle and Leisure, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Aquaculture
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Alaska Senators Begich and Murkowski Split on Farm Bill
Channel 2 NewsAlaska's U.S. senators have split on a vote reauthorizing a federal farm bill. Sen. Mark Begich is in favor of the bill and Sen. Lisa Murkowski against it. Begich, in a statement, says the five-year, half-trillion-dollar bill would provide...Tags: Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich
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Food Stamp Bills Seek to Restrict Junk Food
Los Angeles TimesRonda Storms is a Republican state senator from Florida. She is also a mom who buys the groceries for her family of four. A few months ago, Storms, 46, started noticing that some fellow shoppers were using federal food stamp money to purchase a lot of...Tags: Democratic Party, Los Angeles Times, New York City, Services and Shopping, Politics
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Obama administration needs to change the conversation
By WILLIAM P. HOJNACKI I am very disappointed in the way that the Obama administration is dealing with the Republicans in the ongoing discussions concerning the federal budget. The administration has, once again, allowed the Republicans to set the agenda...Tags: Politics, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Government, Safety of Citizens, Indiana University South Bend
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Editorial: Conservatives should lead on immigration
If President Barack Obama delivers on his promise to sign meaningful immigration legislation in his second term, it could be because he wisely stayed out of the way while Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican with his eye on the White House, did the...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Politics, Immigration, U.S. Senate, George W. Bush
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Putting officer back on job is an injustice
Again, I have to show my disgust to Florida lawmakers and politicians for reinstating Edwin Sanchez as a police officer. Is he above the law? In 1992, he was stripped of certification to be a police officer. How he got back in, I will never understand....Tags: Coconut Creek
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Cancer registry for pets to help people too
Theresa W. Fossum has launched the National Veterinary Cancer Registry, a national database for pets diagnosed with cancer. Its mission is to facilitate and promote medical treatments that lead to advances and eventual cures for cancer in pets and in...Tags: Women, Infants and Children, Nutrition, Langley Air Force Base, Healthy Diet, Family
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Farm Bill cultivated in Congress
While farmers are struggling to get seeds in the ground and ranchers are moving livestock to pasture, Congress is stepping closer to piecing together the 2013 Farm Bill. Issues, some big and some small, still divide lawmakers and the process will take...Tags: Politics, Science and Technology, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Eric Cantor, U.S. Congress
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Deep divide in Congress over domestic food aid in massive farm bill
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The House and Senate Agriculture Committees laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm bills that would shrink food aid and alter the way people qualify for it. The two...Tags: Politics, Peanuts, Parties and Movements, Religion and Belief, Washington, DC
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Is Allentown man charged with killing his mom fit for trial?
Two mental health experts disagreed in court Wednesday over the competency of an Allentown man charged with stabbing his mother to death two days before Mother's Day last year. Public defender Carol Marciano requested the hearing in an attempt to show...
Tags: Mental Health, Murder, Judges, Leukemia, Court Preliminary
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