Michelle Obama speaks about importance of education to black community in commencement address
Source: Star Tribune
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 22:09:12 -0700 | political-news
Michelle Obama is using an address to college students in Maryland to stress the importance of education to the African-American community. The first lady notes that Bowie State University was founded in 1865 to train black teachers and mentions the...
Outside View: Failure of presidential leadership
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 21:59:27 -0700 | political-news
News the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for intense scrutiny is just one in a series of revelations pointing to a culture of expediency and intolerance in the Obama White House that corrupts this administration.
Lawmakers see plenty of other places where IRS can find tax scofflaws
Source: The Washington Times
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 21:48:06 -0700 | political-news
From pro athletes who waste money at their charitable foundations to federal employees who don't pay their taxes, legislators have a few suggestions for whom the IRS should have been scrutinizing instead of going after partisan organizations. The tax agency...
Outside View: Forgiving student debt won't help students
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 21:20:20 -0700 | political-news
College is too expensive, graduates can't find decent jobs and pay off loans and students, parents and educators all share in the blame...President Barack Obama proposes to forgive more student debt and that will make a bad situation worse.
Wichita-area students advance to National History Day competition
Source: Kansas.com
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 08:51:42 -0700 | political-news
Competing against nearly 300 students from 51 middle and high schools across Kansas, several Wichita-area students qualified to advance to the National History Day competition in June. The Kansas History Day State Contest was held last month in Topeka.
Muslim development plans meet resistance in rural Maryland
Source: The Washington Times
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-05 20:25:34 -0700 | political-news
A Muslim group's effort to move its campus from College Park to Maryland's rural Howard County is being met with opposition from local residents, who say dense construction plans for the site would spoil the quiet character of the area....
Are bike lanes a safe place to ride?
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-03 17:58:33 -0700 | political-news
The east Orange County homemaker spends much of her time on the paved Little Econlockhatchee trail that is closed to cars and trucks. She sometimes rides on roads, although she much prefers staying in bike lanes on the far right...
Synthetic marijuana among top three substances abused by high schoolers
Source: Baltimore Sun
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 16:29:58 -0700 | political-news
herbs treated with chemicals designed to mimic the effects of marijuana -- ranked third next to alcohol and marijuana, which 57 percent and 39 percent of students in grades nine through 12 reported using, respectively. About 12 percent of students...
Outside View: Trade pacts with Europe, Japan will boost unemployment
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 21:53:54 -0700 | political-news
Recently, he agreed to open talks for mega trade deals with the European Union and Japan in hopes of jump-starting growth in both places and boosting U.S. exports and jobs. However, far from an elixir, free trade has been a...
Outside View: Tougher gun laws won't much stem violence
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-04-10 21:59:50 -0700 | political-news
Tougher gun laws won't much stem violence President Barack Obama encourages Congress passing national gun control laws during a speech at the Denver Police Academy on April 3, 2013 in Denver. Some Denver police officers are concerned about being used...
Don't be a victim of home burglary
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-04-06 13:20:10 -0700 | political-news
Orange County law-enforcement agencies reported more than 14,500 burglaries in 2011 to Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which collects the state's crime statistics. Statewide, more than 170,000 burglaries were reported that year. Last month, eight men were arrested and charged...
Outside View: Growing more U.S. jobs
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-04-05 06:20:39 -0700 | political-news
Labor Department announced the U.S. economy only created 88,000 jobs in March as many more adults quit looking for work than found jobs -- for many Americans, good job remain tough to find. The headline unemployment rate is 7.6 percent...
Cops: Orlando burglary arrests may have link to theft ring
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-03-21 12:30:38 -0700 | political-news
Officers watched as Prince circled the block with his teen passengers before returning to the Dellwood Drive home, his arrest report said...The teenagers were arrested after a short foot chase but a fourth, unidentified person related to the incident got...
Outside View: GOP actions belie conservative principles
Source: United Press International
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-03-20 21:16:11 -0700 | political-news
GOP actions belie conservative principles Mitt Romney, 2012 Republican Presidential nominee, delivers remarks during the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, on March 15, 2013 in National Harbor, Maryland. Md., March 21 (UPI) -- Conservatives believe promoting economic growth and...
New priorities for 2013 and beyond
Posted by: msarzo
College Park :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-03-07 20:00:47 -0800 | political-news
When President Barack Obama defeated former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney Nov. 6 in a bitterly contested election, that alone sent a signal to pundits everywhere. With the Senate swinging more forcefully to the left and the House remaining in Republican...
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