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It's wonderful," [Viola Plummer] told the AmNews. "I am excited by the opportunity to work with one of the most brilliant and dedicated women that I have ever met in my years in the movement." The cofounder of the December 12th Movement and the Black Men's Movement Against Crack added, "I am just very pleased that she would ask me to join her.
"That's my wife!" Barron smiled, chest all puffed up. "See what a brilliant move she just made? [Christine Quinn], eat your heart out. You thought you had Viola down with your illegal maneuvers, but here she goes - rising again! Now she is working in the office of Assemblywoman-elect [Inez Barron]. And by the way, we are going to win in court," the controversial "elected activist" told the AmNews. "This was such a wise choice because Viola has s...
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In the days before Mark J. Grisanti is sworn in as a state senator, he's already learning a lesson in the ways of Albany.
Before he can set up a district office on Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls, he has to wait for a team from Albany to hook up the phone lines and tag the furniture with little stickers.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Sen.-elect Rand Paul doesn't yet have a full Capitol staff and is still seeing patients from his Kentucky medical practice.
But that hasn't stopped the Republican tea party favorite from starting work on a proposal to balance the federal budget that he plans to present in his first month in office.
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LOS ANGELES -- MPG Office Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MPG), a Southern California-focused real estate investment trust, today announced that, at a Special Meet...
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The McLean County clerk's office is an important office but it isn't a high-profile office - at least it shouldn't be.
The duties overseen by the clerk's office, from issuing marriage licenses and maintaining vital records to coordinating elections and handling tax work should be taken care of expediently and almost without notice - like an elevator that goes up and down, with people not giving it much thought, unless it stops working.
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Delegate-elect Eric Nelson said he did a lot of studying before embarking on the campaign trail this year.
Nelson, 49, became the lone Republican to join six Democratic incumbents in claiming the seven seats in Kanawha County's 30th District of the state House of Delegates.
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LOS ANGELES -- MPG Office Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MPG), a Southern California-focused real estate investment trust, today announced that, at its Annual Mee...
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That "the government is denying us our rights and even, that "the government is oppressing us are complaints all too commonly heard among patriots tod...
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She is optimistic about the possibility of broad healthcare reform and wants to insure that it adequately addresses the special needs of persons living with HIV. "If it works for HIV/AIDS, it will work for all of us." But that is not guaranteed. The majority of people living with HIV receive healthcare through Medicare andMedicaid. "Those safety net programs are not really responsive to the needs of people living with catastrophic chronic diseases like HIV," said [Christine Lubinski].
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Bargaining should include public
The hue and cry about collective bargaining needs to be put under the microscope and reduced to its barest definition. Union members' dues on balance are spent to support and elect Democratic candidates for office. At the collective bargaining table sit two entities: the elected officials (supported by union dues); the unions seeking better benefit terms. Not exactly an adversarial arrangement.