Women In Politics

Their View: As American culture hurtles Into decline
America s tailspin toward the cultural abyss has gained speed with an ad featuring single-mother celebrity Bristol Palin. Bloggers unfriendly to her mother, conservative entrepreneur Sarah Palin, have bashed a charity for paying Bristol $262,500 to warn against teen pregnancy while doling a pitiful $35,000 to social organizations that actually deal with its problems.

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Publishers seek to shorten library shelf life of their digital books
Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don’t tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. And it can never get lost.

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MURRIETA: Local Democrats galvanize their base
Nevermind that Southwest County is often considered aconservative, Republican stronghold —- the area swung in BarackObama’s favor in the 2008 presidential election, and with midtermelections looming, local Democrat volunteers are galvanizinglike-minded people with rallies and get-out-the-vote efforts.

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Press Releases: Remarks with Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar Before Their Meeting
Remarks with Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar Before Their Meeting Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC July 14, 2010 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, it’s a pleasure to welcome back the foreign minister from Slovenia, someone with whom I have already had the privilege of working with over the last 16 months. And I’m very grateful for the close partnership that we …

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Weed out spending: Government offers to compensate Alaska farms for their remoteness
News-Miner editorial The federal government announced last week that it will pay Alaska farmers because they’re in Alaska and that gives them a disadvantage. This is the sort of program tha…

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Hotel workers score a win – The government takes the side of hotel workers in their dispute with the Sheraton, but …
On Thursday, June 3, members of Unite HERE Local 878, the hotel workers’ union, and its supporters, gathered in front of the Anchorage Sheraton to celebrate a complaint by the National Labor Relations Board against the hotel’s operators, Dallas-based Remington Hotels, alleging 13 unfair labor practices. The union had placed a boycott on the hotel last November because of its allegations (the …

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Candidates consider Palin factor in their contest
Associated Press – June 20, 2010 1:25 PM ET EVERETT, Wash. (AP) – Sarah Palin’s decision to endorse an underdog Republican candidate in his race to unseat five-term U.S. Rep.

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Women Flex Their Political Muscle in 2010 Primaries
Carly Fiorina, Nikki Haley, Meg Whitman, and others are making waves this cycle.

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Networks roll out their vacation offerings for summer TV
The summer is here–and with it a rising tide of new and returning summer TV series. Time to kick back and catch a few cathode rays. Like the season that contains it, the TV summer has traditionally been a time of relaxed ambitions, of transitory simple pleasures. If the shows the networks mount in these months lack star power and substantial budgets, they also represent a kind of vacation from …

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Statement by US secretary of labor on US farmworkers and their families [06/16/2010]
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement in response to the report “Weeding out Abuses: Recommendations for a Law-abiding Farm Labor System” co-authored by Farmworker Justice and Oxfam America:

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