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Seattle nonprofits join microfinance project to improve health of poor women in Latin America | Seattle/LocalHealthGuide

7 hours ago ago from Seattle Local Health Guide

Women receives a vaccination at Pro Mujer clinic in Nicaragua - Photo: Pro Mujer Two Seattle nonprofit groups are joining with a microfinance organization to develop a low-cost health program for women in Nicaragua. If successful, the program will serve as a model to develop similar programs in other countries in the developing world. The project will be overseen by Global Partnerships , a 15-year-old, Seattle-based, nonprofit ...

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Dunbar May Be Bowing Out of SBOE Race

14 hours ago ago from Texas Freedom Network

Stunning news: Cynthia Dunbar may not be running for re-election to her seat on the Texas State Board of Education . Quorum Report , an online political news site (subscription required) based in Austin, is reporting that State Republican Executive Committee member Brian Russell , an Austin attorney, is seeking Dunbar's seat. According to QR, Russell says Dunbar recruited him to run. TFN has exposed and documented Dunbar's extremism ...

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Senator Makes Preposterous Health Care Claim

6 hours ago ago from Liberty Works

Senator and contributing author of the Senate version of ObamaCare, Max Baucus took to the Senate floor Wednesday and asserted, This bill does not increase government. So far, Liberty Works has identified 55 new commissions, demonstrations, councils, programs and bureaucracies in the latest Senate bill: 1.    Sec. 1321. State flexibility in operation and enforcement of Exchanges and related requirements. 2.    Sec. 1343. ...

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Let the Sunshine In

12 hours ago ago from Brian Griffiths

In one of those rare instances in which the left and right of the Maryland blogosphere can wholeheartedly agree, Adam Pagnucco points out that Del. Saqib Ali is introducing the Legislative Sunshine Act, which will require that the business of committees of the Maryland General Assembly, particularly voting records on both legislation and amendments to the aforementioned legsilation, would be posted online. This is an idea whose time came a ...

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Legislators see governors budget as only a starting point Pure Pierre Politics

10 hours ago ago from Pure Pierre Politics

South Dakota Government Blog by Bob Mercer Pure Pierre Politics Home About Me Elected Officials State Agencies Lt. Gov. Daugaard jumps gun on budget details Legislators see governor's budget as only a starting point It was interesting to listen to the discussion Tuesday afternoon, as the Legislature's Joint Committee on Appropriations met after Gov. Mike Rounds' speech, in which he outlined his ...

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L'Oreal Paris Honors Women of Worth at Special Ceremony in New York City

16 hours ago ago from FanHouse

NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- L'Oreal Paris' fourth annual Women of Worth program honored ten women for their exceptional achievements and tireless volunteerism efforts at the CNN Inspire Summit in New York City. The event was held last night in celebration of the ten 2009 L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth honorees and featured an awards presentation by Karen T. Fondu, President, L'Oreal Paris Division. Special guests speakers included, Mary J. ...

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Obama announcing $600M for health

20 hours ago ago from Good News Now

WASHINGTON -President Barack Obama is spending almost $600 million to build community health centers and to make medical records easier to find. The White House on Wednesday painted the spending part of the $787 billion stimulus bill the president championed during his first days in office as a way to add jobs to a struggling economy. Officials also linked it to the administration's broader push for an overhaul of the nation's health systems ...

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National Briefing | Mid-Atlantic: West Virginia: Wind Project Halted

4 hours ago ago from The New York Times

Work on a West Virginia wind power project was halted by a federal judge who sided with environmentalists' claim that the project would harm the endangered Indiana bat. The judge, Roger Titus, issued the order Tuesday. Two environmental groups said that the 119-turbine Beech Ridge project in Greenbrier County was a danger to the bats and that the developers had not obtained a federal permit that is required when landowners, companies, state ...

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Leslie Goldman: Stupak-Pitts Vs. Bubble Boy

9 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

When little Falcon Heene purportedly disappeared into the sky on October 15, it was splashed across Facebook and on the tips of tongues everywhere. On November 22, Adam Lambert grinded his crotch into a dancer's face, and the hypersexual act wormed its way to Thanksgiving Day discussions across the country. On November 7, members of the U.S. House of Representatives approved a health care reform bill amendment that, if enacted, will ...

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Video Contest With $5,000 CASH Prize!!!

12 hours ago ago from Good News Now

Got a Minute or Less to Talk Health Care? WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Independent Women's Voice (IWV) announces a contest for the best one-minute or less video addressing why Senators and Representatives should vote AGAINST proposed legislation that would radically remake our health care sector, sacrificing what's best about the current system without fixing existing flaws. At IWV, we are concerned that the health care ...

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