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World No Tobacco Day; is it working?

Researchers believe it doesThe World Health Assembly created this day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and its lethal...
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Debt ceiling deal will have minimal impact in the short-term for NJ

On Monday night, the U.S. House approved the debt ceiling deal. That was followed on Tuesday afternoon by the U.S. Senate approving the same deal....
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Budget Policy Group Criticizes State Spending on TOPS, GO Grants

(Previously published in the Driftwood)The state spends too much on TOPS for students who can afford higher education while not spending enough on...
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Save money strategy for California: Do without

If I counted the ways Californians could save money on stuff, I’d still be counting. A Google search yielded 576 million hits on the keywords...
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Barack 'Humiliation' Obama, Marxist ideologues & the Destruction of a Nation

  • Wisconsin crisis
  • February 19, 2011
COMMENTARYSoon after floating his budget ($9 Trillion in new spending, $2 Trillion in tax hikes), Mr. Obama flew west to drink wine with high tech...
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Gov. Cuomo State of the State Address - spending cuts and salary freeze for a st

Governing New York State is no easy job. Just ask former Gov. David Paterson. Just look at the expected $10 billion deficit that faces the State in...
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Delay in local projects shows that government will restrain spending

The “Great Recession”, leading to the government’s initial attempt to spend the country out of a depression, waned and slowed...
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Kentucky Has Not Yet Reached Her True Potential

The deepening economic recession continues to linger on and refuses to go away. It’s a cancer killing the patient, but no amount of chemo...
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Fee increase passes despite organized opposition

Today the UMass Board of Trustees approved a flat $1500 fee increase across all four undergraduate campuses. Students organized buses. The largest...
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Fee increase mobilizes students

Fee increases have shadily been moving along in the UMass system. A colleague has also just written about this, however I'm going to first touch on...
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