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Monday, April 9, 2012

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 06, 2012 Today, at the White House Forum on Women and the Economy, the President will discuss the importance of restoring t...
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A Tale of Two Crows (Guest Voice)

themoderatevoice.com - A Tale of Two Crows by Catherine Tanguis As if the Stand Your Ground law and the current efforts to restrict voter registration hadn’t reminded us that discrimination is alive and well in the 21st ...
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Charter schools deserved to lose

kingfish1935.blogspot.com - I'm going to say it: we deserved to get beat on the charter school bill last week. No sugar-coating or spinning. The other side earned their victory. They did what they had to do, they showed up fo...
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- Wait, What?

jonathanpelto.com - Apr 09 jonpeltoEducation Education Reform Photo courtesy of CTNewsjunkie (Michael Lee-Murphy) Last week, Karissa Niehoff, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Schools participat...
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Obama Camp Mocks Romney's Harvard 'Hypocrisy'

livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - Mitt Romney has accused President Obama of being “out of touch” in recent remarks and press releases, suggesting that his”years of flying around on Air Force One” have left him disconnected from th...
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WEEKEND QUOTABLES

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - In Sanford, Fl  the police chief threatened to stop the game if Robinson did not leave the field Chris Lamb "A specter of Jackie Robinson" haunts the city of 53,000 people to this day. People wa...
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Guzzardi Asks For Recount

nbcchicago.com - advertisement Will Guzzardi isn’t giving up in his quest to unseat the Boss’s Daughter. With all precincts reporting, Guzzardi, a former Huffington Post editor, was trailing state Rep. Toni Berrios...
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Blue Jersey:: Deep Thought: VP Audition Edition

bluejersey.com -  promoted by Rosi Politico says that Chris Christie was a hit on his Israel trip and speculate about the implications of the trip along with its apparent success:But his first international trip ca...
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Polish-Americans set to celebrate Dyngus Day

northjersey.com - BUFFALO, N.Y. — Polish-Americans are marking the day after Easter with annual Dyngus Day celebrations. In Buffalo, that means parades and pussy willows and a giant party inside its closed Central T...
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Easy money without govt. regs for ed start-up companies

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Congress has passed a bill making it easier for ed start-up companies to raise capital while at the same time, easing government regulation. The Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups, or JOBS Act  woul...
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