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| “In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,” says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, “For the first time in humanity, more than 1 billion people are chronically hungry.” more... |
| I get where President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are coming from. They think that if we change our way of life, the terrorists will have won. | |
| Re: “Is our village asleep on pot issue?” Jeff Ackerman's column, Nov. 3. | |
| Re: “Is our village asleep on pot issue?” Jeff Ackerman's column, Nov. 3. | |
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Anyone hoping to privatize Nevada County's libraries will need to eventually reckon with Madelyn Helling, whose name is etched on the county's main library building. Good luck with that. |
| If the Patriots would look behind all those fluttering flags and heavy signs, they would find the real forces behind the Tea Party organization ... corporate lobbyists representing multi-billionaires such as the Koch, Scaife, Bradley and Olin... | |
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We have many varieties of pound pets in our household, for which I willingly provide comfort, care and crunchies. I accept that. I expect that. |
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| The case has been made that public sector unions (PSUs) are bankrupting governments across the land. Moreover, they are a “bad deal for taxpayers and representative government.” | |
| The Great American Smokeout falls on Thursday, Nov. 19. Any smoker can take part in this event by not smoking for 24 hours. This smokeout may hopefully lead many smokers to eventually become permanent nonsmokers. But as most smokers already know,... | |
| In her informative letter to The Union (Oct. 20), Renee O'Callaghan brought to readers' attention an “elephant in the room”: alcoholism in the senior population, including its connection to falls. | |
| With the economy sort of recovering, and I state that sarcastically, every time we turn around we are facing another store or company hitting us with petty small charges on top of the cost of things. All this does is irritate people and encourage the... | |
| A lot of observers are having trouble figuring out the philosophical underpinnings of Barack Obama's foreign policy. How does the president see America's place in the world? How will he use American power? How much does he care about such... | |
| "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." | |
| Does anyone remember the days when "connecting the dots" was considered vital to national security? | |
| The subject of accessibility comes up again and again, and far too often is swept under the rug for one reason or another. Believe it or not it is not just an issue for those of us in a wheelchair; it is an issue to anyone really. | |
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