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Seize this moment, Detroit. Detroiters of all stripes – city, suburban, black, white, old, young, investors and expatriates – should treat Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s resignation as a gift.
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24in60.com has closed. All the posts are still available and range from December 6, 2010 – December 16, 2011. You can navigate to any particular date by typing it into the URL using the format: www.24in60.com/YYYY-MM-DD. Although this site has shut down, someone has stepped up to continue the mission of bringing unbiased, daily news summaries in the style of 24in60.com. Please visit daytome.com and support this new project.
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Medna Bayrakova remembers the day a middle-aged woman showed up at her door and asked to speak to her 26-year-old daughter. They shut themselves in the bedroom for half an hour, and then her daughter left, saying she was walking the visitor to the bus stop. March 3, 2004
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“The unwelcome messages that have been clogging e-mail inboxes for two decades have made the jump to handsets,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle this morning. The number of spam texts sent within the US rose 45 percent last year, reaching a new high of 4.5 million. Spammers can easily find phone numbers on the Internet. They then use prepaid cell phones to make their actions untraceable, causing a conundrum for both customers and the phone industry. The “CAPTCHA” is supposed to be the visual test that a computer can’t easily solve.
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We continue our interview with ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and ask him if he plans to seek office again. "I will contest the coming elections," Nasheed says, noting that, "if the coup was so popular, we would have seen people coming out, rejoicing with the military." [includes rush transcript]
Here's what they're saying about SourceWatch: "The folks at the Center for Media and Democracy have done incredible work documenting fake grassroots ("astroturf") groups . Here, they're helping protect the rights of all Americans to exercise their right to vote .
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We’re excited to announce the publication of CCIR associate journalist Bruce Livesey’s important new book, ‘Thieves of Bay Street’, a rare exposé of white collar crime in Canada, published by Random House and available on a bookstore shelf near you. The CCIR gave some early material support toward the research of ‘Thieves’ – thanks to the The CCIR’s Alex Roslin reports on the incredible obstacles facing some of Canada’s returning combat troops as the battle addiction and mental illness caused by war. This article appeared in the Montreal Gazette.
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Cross-posted from the SplashCast blog because I thought it would be of interest to readers here as well. One of the promises of the internet is to democratize access to both information and publishing. That democratization, in theory, makes voices outside of the halls of power more capable of changing the world than they would be otherwise. The jury is still out as to how real all of that is. There are lots of people and organizations giving it a try.
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A young and bright Alan Henderson left his north Jackson home after graduating from St. Joseph Catholic School in 2005. He packed his bags and headed to Howard University in Washington,…
Cover Stories | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, Mississippi
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It's a case built on egregious violations of law and our Constitution. Investigative journalist June Maxam, publisher of The North Country Gazette, has written and published over 500 articles relating to the legal, judicial, moral and ethical issues of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo case, the brain damaged Florida woman who was ordered to die by the judicial decree of a Florida probate court judge.Reports | Reports from The Birmingham News - al.com
July 09, 2008, 4:45PM Over the past year, The Birmingham News has explored critical challenges that face metropolitan Birmingham-Hoover -- race and trust, fragmented government, inner-city crime, blight in our industrial core, uneven economic growth, disparities between urban and suburban classrooms. People across the area agree: On each of those fronts, leadership is key to progress. Can someone or some group craft a...journalism
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