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Oklahoma Senators Bailed Out On Tornado Aid By Bills They Opposed	23.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
WASHINGTON -- Oklahoma's senators can thank sequestration, and perhaps more importantly, funding for Superstorm Sandy cleanup that they opposed, for sparing them from a difficult...
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Moore Residents Search For Lost Pets	23.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
MOORE, Okla. -- Judy Peterson has big plans for restoring her home, which was damaged in the brutal tornado that devastated this community on Monday....
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'That Over There Was My Room'	23.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
MOORE, Okla. -- Around 10 a.m. Wednesday, two days after the tornado, Darius Joseph and his friend Brandon Dick set out for the disaster zone...
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Tornado Victims Astounded At How They Survived	23.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
* Six previously missing now accounted for * Area known as Tornado Alley took warnings seriously * President Obama to visit disaster scene on Sunday...
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Oklahoma Disaster Funding Among The Highest In The U.S.	23.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily reporting and...
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Guest: Grow the economy with immigration reform	23.5.2013	Seattle Times: Opinion
Immigration is vital to providing Washington the workforce necessary to grow our economy, according to guest columnists Don Brunell and Mike Gempler.
Reviving Detroit from the ground up	22.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
When others dismissed Detroit as a falling knife unworthy of investment, David Egner saw something else.
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Many Insurance Payments Won't Cut It After Oklahoma Disaster	22.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
As people in central Oklahoma emerge from the wreckage of the tornado that flattened entire neighborhoods, some will face another bitter realization: Residents of Moore...
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Action needed to stop 'climate deniers' from winning the information war	21.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement in Canada and the United States launched an organized campaign to expose these scientific community charlatans. The mainstream business media, which bows to corporate interests in both countries, is quick to publish interviews and opinion articles by the tiny percentage of scientists who deny that global warming exists. Some say that it has not been proven that human activity damages the environment. Some bizarrely claim that emissions of carbon dioxide are beneficial to the planet. read ...
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Fair Trade USA’s Draft Certification Policy Riles Organic Community	20.5.2013	Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
The Organic Consumer Association's Fair World Project opposes Fair Trade USA's draft policy for multi-ingredient products, which it says panders to big business and represents a step backward even from the group's previously contested standards. Dr Bronner's Magic Soaps is preparing to file a new complaint with the National Advertising Division. Click here to read this article
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Burnsville pawn shop chain challenging business stereotypes	19.5.2013	Twincities.com: News
From humble beginnings -- a tiny storefront in Robbinsdale in 1991 -- Brad Rixmann has grown Pawn America into a national force in the industry.
Payday lenders skirt military law	18.5.2013	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
The Military Lending Act sought to protect service members and their families from predatory loans. But in practice, the law has defined the types of covered loans so narrowly that it’s been all too easy for lenders to circumvent it.
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Subway System Being Prepared For Next Big Storm	17.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
NEW YORK (AP) — Removable panels and inflatable plugs are among the ideas New York City's transit officials are considering to stop the next big...
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The IRS targeted tea party groups. Did liberal groups get better treatment?	17.5.2013	Yahoo: Politics
Today marks the one-week anniversary of the Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it improperly scrutinized certain conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. As an inspector general report on the practice found, groups with phrases like "tea party," "patriots" and "9/12 project" were targeted for the "Be On the Look Out" or "BOLO" list, and often [...]
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Fighting Poverty Through Wall Street Accountability	17.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Greg Kaufmann This year, I’ve been focused on how anti-poverty activists can move from a defensive battle defined by trying to save what needs to be saved during these budget debates, to an offensive one, laying out a vision that inspires ongoing, unified action and builds a vibrant movement that connects with people in their communities.(Photo: Lenina Nadal/flickr) read more
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Do you remember rock 'n' roll radio?	17.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
In this capital city and college town, there is a shrine to a disc jockey.
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All 278 under-the-radar leaders and community connector nominees	16.5.2013	MinnPost
The 3 rd call for nominations of “Under the Radar Leaders” and “Community Connectors” has brought in a record number of submissions—278 to be exact! This awareness initiative brings attention to the amazing visionaries and champions leading our communities day in and day out. We asked for your nominations in two categories: 1) Under the Radar Leaders — people making an impact "under the radar" and whose work/efforts/impact should be shared more broadly with our community, starting with the Pollen network. 2) Community Connectors — people in our community who are getting things done by bringing together ideas, resources, and multiple stakeholders to make things happen. Pollen members submitted 135 Under the Radar Leaders and 143 Community Connectors. Thank you to all nominators and congratulations to all submitted! Here is the full roster of all submissions (apologies in advance for any misspellings, please send any corrections to hello@bepollen.com ): First Name: ...
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Sebelius’s Monkey Business	15.5.2013	American Spectator
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was criticized last week for soliciting private contributions to Enroll America, a non-governmental organization run by former Obama campaign operatives. The real monkey business is what the Secretary is doing with taxpayers’ money. She’s pouring it into community organizations. The pretext is that community organizations will do a better job than government employees in enrolling the uninsured in Obamacare. But the likelihood is that these community organizations will steer the uninsured into the Democratic Party. And beware. The Senate immigration bill tries to repeat this unsavory use of community organizations. It pays community organizations to educate immigrants about American civics and the path to citizenship. Last week’s brouhaha came about because Sebelius raised money for Enroll America after House Republicans refused to approve additional public funding for Obamacare enrollment efforts. So what is Enroll America? Its board ...
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Collateral damage: Spartacus Books fight against Vancouver's incessant gentrification	15.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
It's election day in B.C., an electoral bout that has seemingly come down to, yet again, voting for the perceived lesser evil and trying to get some change a-brewing. In this case, it seems like there is a hard push among the progressively minded to first and foremost get the Liberals out by means of putting the NDP in . As many have noted though, the NDP are not a cure all solution for what ails BC, particularly in the housing crises and ramped gentrification of Vancouver and the DTES area, but it begs the question: So, what is going on in Vancouver? read ...
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An 'Entrepreneurial Seedling' Sprouts In Detroit	14.5.2013	NPR News
Young entrepreneurs are revitalizing parts of the city, starting up businesses in what were once empty warehouses. They're creating buzz and enthusiasm. But in a city where the population is declining and the tax base is crumbling, there are doubts about how much impact their efforts will have.
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