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After an ACLU Complaint, Springfield Changes Policy for Police Protection Fees During Parades
Reporter, PhotographerThe city of Springfield is changing its policy on who pays for police fees during a parade. A warning from the American Civil Liberties Union sparked the change. Members of the ACLU told city leaders they must either charge everyone or no one for police...Tags: NAACP, Economy, Business and Finance, Holidays, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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The triumph of progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968
Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. Some of you are choosing careers in public service or joining nonprofits or volunteering in your communities. But many of you are cynical about politics. You see...Tags: Bodies of Water, Abortion, Graduation, Education, Philosophy
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Zoning board vote soon on Gage House
John O'Brien is a patient man. For months, O'Brien and his architect have met with Winnetka preservationists and others in the north suburb who want to see at least part of the historic lakefront Gage House spared from the wrecking ball. O'Brien bought...Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Interior Policy, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning
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Author urges families to take steps for environment
Mary Pipher became one of America's best-known psychologists with books that addressed complex family issues. "Reviving Ophelia" was a groundbreaking call to arms about the societal pressures facing American adolescent girls. It spent three years on The...
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Chez Panisse rebuilds after fire, to reopen on summer solstice
Chez Panisse in Berkeley is set to reopen June 21, more than three months after a fire destroyed much of the electrical systems and plumbing of the 42-year-old restaurant. It isn’t the first time the famous Berkeley restaurant has burned. Thirty...
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Rebuild South Bend from the inside out
The approach to revitalization of the city of South Bend neighborhoods that the mayor and his committee purposed is nothing more than a piecemeal approach. They have not even addressed the inner city's aged, deteriorated infrastructure. The city needs...Tags: AIDS, USA Today
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Committee seeks names for Annapolis marker honoring March on Washington
A committee building a new memorial in Annapolis has extended the deadline for names of those who took part in the August 1963 March on Washington, where the Rev. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. The committee had initially...
Tags: Human Interest, Annapolis, James Baldwin, Anne Arundel Community College
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Obama tells Morehouse grads to think of more than careers
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionPresident Barack Obama roused the new graduates of Morehouse College on Sunday with a commencement address that spoke directly to racial issues in a way the first African-American president does only sparingly. Through a steady downpour, Obama -- at the...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, University of Georgia, Political Fundraising, Graduation, Fort Valley State University
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Obama tells black college graduates he could have gone wrong 'but for the grace of God'
Associated PressATLANTA (AP) — President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college...Tags: Morehouse College, Annapolis, Graduation, Education, Elections
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The State (Columbia, S.C.) Ron Morris column
The StateFIFTY-THREE YEARS WILL scramble the memory of almost any baseball player. Bloop singles of long ago become line drives to the gap today. Members of the Allen University baseball team long since have forgotten most of the details from the 1960 season,...Tags: Sports, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Allen University, Baseball
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Book review: Atheist calls for abolishing religion
The News & ObserverIf I pressed a claim for the urgent need to eradicate Judaism, Islam, Christianity or Hinduism from the face of the Earth, I would be rightfully denounced as a barbarian, madman -- or worse. Yet if I were to assert that the future of the human race...Tags: Book, Raleigh, Nazi Party, Philosophy, Religion and Belief
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