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Calif. Standards Tests: Imperial County improving in core subjects
Staff WriterCalifornia's students have improved their performance across the board with a larger proportion than ever scoring proficient or higher on the 2011 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program exams, according to a press release from the California...Tags: California, Science, Science and Technology, Minority Groups, Human Interest
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Connect people to health by increasing access to technology
When we think of the technological advances of the past 20 years, one in particular will probably come to mind for most Americans: wireless technology, which now enables us to access the Internet from anywhere. But when most Americans think of the top...Tags: Medical Services, Science and Technology, Minority Groups, Barack Obama, Elections
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SNERD - August 16, 2011
Staff reporterSNERD By Mortimer Snerd August 16, 2011 The Bears Looking for a "Sod-mother"… The controversy surrounding the slippery sod at Soldier Field isn't on solid footing behind the scenes. As Bears' and Chicago Park District bigwigs bicker about how best to...Tags: National Football League, Minority Groups, Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves
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Kenneth L. Webster, state delegate, dies at 76
Former Del. Kenneth L. Webster, who led the battle for and wrote the historic legislation that made the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a legal state holiday in Maryland, died Friday of kidney failure at the Baltimore Veteran Administration Medical...Tags: Frederick Douglass, Housing and Urban Planning, Minority Groups, Morgan State University, Ronald Reagan
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City gets new prescription for better health
Vowing to improve the health of Chicagoans and cut the government's soaring health care costs, Mayor Rahm Emanuel went to a sweaty fitness room in Humboldt Park on Tuesday to unveil a comprehensive health agenda that includes a citywide "wellness plan."...Tags: Physical Conditions, Death, Medical Services, Teen Health, Minority Groups
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Trying to appreciate 'The Help'
Mother used to tell this story. She was working as a domestic - this was the late '40s or early '50s - for a Memphis doctor when one day his daughter came up and inexplicably began rubbing her skin. It turned out the child had asked her grandmother...Tags: Entertainment, Physical Conditions, The Help (movie), Minority Groups, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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City to hire 111 black firefighters, pay $30M in damages
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Chicago will hire 111 bypassed black firefighters by March and pay at least $30 million in damages to about 6,000 other black candidates, under a settlement expected to be approved Wednesday by a federal judge here.
Last...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Sun-Times, Judges, U.S. Supreme Court, Justice System
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Black population drops 24% in Pasadena
Nearly one-quarter of Pasadena’s African American residents left the city in the last 10 years, replaced mostly by Asians and Pacific Islanders, according to 2010 Census figures. A lack of affordable housing and shifts in the real estate market...Tags: Personal Income, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Minority Groups, Wages and Pensions, Elections
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Mayor Ballard honors "Golden Thirteen" naval officer with park renaming, dedication
Mayor Greg Ballard today was joined by Congressman André Carson, City-County Councillor Maggie Lewis, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Mark D. Harnitchek, and friends and family of Lieutenant Junior Grade Graham Edward Martin to rename in his honor Fall Creek and...Tags: Minority Groups, High School Sports, Anglicanism, Indiana University Alumni Association, Christianity
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Chicago to pay $45 million for discrimination in firefighter hiring
Clout StreetIt will cost the city at least $45 million to compensate thousands of African Americans who lost a shot at becoming a Chicago firefighter because of a discriminatory test, under a federal court order entered today that brings an end to 13 years of...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Disasters and Accidents, Minority Groups, Health, Sports
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SNERD - August 17, 2011
The Bears Looking for a "Sod-mother"... The controversy surrounding the slippery sod at Soldier Field isn't on solid footing behind the scenes. As Bears' and Chicago Park District bigwigs bicker about how best to maintain the field, my football feelers...Tags: Cee Lo Green, U.S. Cellular Field, Wrigley Field, Ric Ocasek, High School Sports
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Norfolk's Discovery concert series to return with Pokey LaFarge, Magic Slim, Cowboy Junkies
Norfolk's Discovery Music Series has been importing high-quality, slightly-under-the-radar acts for years now. It's great to see that the series is still alive and kicking. Staff members announced the fall 2011-winter 2012 shows this week. As has been the...Tags: Blues (genre), Facebook, Media Industry, Apple iTunes, Politics
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