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POPSRosa Parks Rosa Parks, named "The Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement", was an African-American woman born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913. She is most well known for her stand against racial segregation on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Learn more about this extraordinary woman.
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POPSCalifornia's most conservative county sucks up the public assistance by the bucket
Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, chairwoman of a legislative budget conference committee, ordered up a report last winter ranking which of the state's counties send the most tax money per capita to the Capitol, and which ones consume the most in health and other services. It showed that conservative counties - like Modoc, with 49.9 percent Republican registration, the state's highest - generally consumed the most, and liberal counties sent in the most. Marin County was No. 1 in contributions, at $4,793 per person, and San Francisco was No. 3 at $3,578. Modoc was No. 2 in consumption at $2,216 per person, and conservative Tulare was No. 1, with $2,223. "I don't think voters in the conservative counties understand the connection between the service they are receiving and the votes their representatives are making," Evans said…In Modoc, the way it works is that if the cuts being proposed go through, near-catastrophe will reign.
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POPSsanta rosa realtor SoCo Real Estate is the number 1 resource for finding information about Sonoma County real estate and Santa Rosa real estate and helps you to find Santa Rosa homes for sale at the right price.
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POPSCFR Pushes Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) The Obama administration, like the Democratic and Republican administrations preceding it, stretching back the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (and even before), is heavily larded with CFR members in critical positions. Obama’s CFR appointments, so far, include Timothy Geithner, Robert Gates, Michele Flournoy, Lawrence Summers, Thomas Donilon, Rosa Brooks, James Steinberg, Susan Rice, John Holdren, Eric Shinseki, Daniel Tarullo, Mona Sutphen, and Jeh Johnson. His CFR advisers include Anthony Lake, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Madeleine Albright, Sarah Sewall, and William M. Daley. President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary of State Clinton are not formal CFR members, but all three have been closely associated with the organization (speaking at CFR programs and/or writing for the CFR journal, Foreign Affairs), and all three have supported ratifying LOST while serving in the Senate.
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POPSGlacial melting in the Alps getting extreme Italy and Switzerland are negotiating a new border in the Alps to accommodate the world’s newest victor; global warming. In a warming world, it’s a given that skiing at Chamonix, Val d'Isere and Megève might end, but how many have considered the impact of drinking water costing €5.00 ($6.63) per liter?
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POPSLAT’s Rosa Brooks to Advise Pentagon Undersecretary 'Finish the job' in Afghanistan? Where do we begin? Obama faces a complex, perilous situation in which it's no longer clear what the 'job' is, or what it will take to 'finish' it. Rosa Brooks February 5, 2009 Is it finally time to "finish the job" in Afghanistan?