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WMFE
April 24, 2018
An entity called the Children's Trust wants to expand to Orange County. It would do so by asking voters in November to create a special district that would raise property taxes to pay for children's programs. A study out of University of Central Florida shows funding is not keeping pace with local children'sÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
April 24, 2018
American firms are seeing a window of opportunity to invest in Uttar Pradesh, the head of a top US business advocacy group said today, underlining that a change in India's most populous state would mean a change in the entire country. Mukesh Aghi, the president of the US India Strategic and PartnershipÃâà...
The Hill
April 24, 2018
Voters' concerns over rising deficits and the national debt grew in April as the GOP tax law and $1.3 trillion spending bill went into effect, according to a monthly poll from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which advocates for lowering the debt. According to the survey, obtained by The Hill ahead of itsÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 24, 2018
Trump's Threats Set Stage for Military Conflict With Iran - Advocacy Group. Ãâé Sputnik / Grigoriy Sysoev. Middle East. 02:10 25.04.2018 Get short URL. 0 0 0. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump's threats against Iran and his repeated criticism of the nuclear deal could easily lead to a military confrontation,Ãâà...
Streetsblog California (blog)
April 23, 2018
Advocacy Group Fights to Put the Transit Customer First ... Streetsblog sat down with Griffiths and Kock to talk about why, what they hope to do about it, and why they decided to start the Bay Area's newest advocacy group. ***. Streetsblog: .... IG: We don't want this to be just another advocacy organization.
STAT
April 23, 2018
wo months ago, a Senate report suggested that Insys Therapeutics (INSY 1) provided $2.5 million to a patient advocacy group in order to influence usage and providing of its Subsys opioid painkiller. The link, however, was not fully explored, but a new essay 2 in a bioethics blog takes us a step closer toÃâà...
KOMU-TV
April 22, 2018
COLUMBIA - A local organization sought to raise awareness about renewable energy by having people exert some. Renew Missouri, a policy advocacy group based in Columbia, is hosting an "Earth Day 5-K" race to bring attention to the lack of energy efficiency in Missouri. The race took place in Flat Branch Park andÃâà...
WUFT
April 14, 2018
The Southwest Advocacy Group will offer a free employability conference from Monday through Friday at the SWAG Family Resource Center to help any Gainesville residents who is unemployed or underemployed find jobs in the southwest area. Then, on May 1, SWAG will host a free job and resource fairÃâà...
The Daily Advance
April 13, 2018
GREENVILLE — A local advocacy group that supports the growth and expansion of opportunities for the Latino community is taking some of that expansion for themselves, announcing two new centers across the state. The Association of Mexicans in North Carolina, or AMEXCAN, a Pitt County-basedÃâà...
Teslarati
April 13, 2018
Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports, recently called on Tesla to publicly release detailed Autopilot data behind the company's safety claims. In a statement published on Thursday, the advocacy group stated that Tesla must improve Autopilot's safety systems, considering thatÃâà...
National Mortgage Professional Magazine
April 12, 2018
A trio of left-leaning advocacy groups have unveiled the Web site ConsumersUnderAttack.org, which they promoted as offering evidence of how Mick ... The website is being presented as a “one-stop educational resource for consumers, media, advocacy organizations, and decision makers about theÃâà...
HuffPost
April 12, 2018
Pharmaceutical companies gave at least $116 million to patient advocacy groups in a single year, reveals a new database logging 12,000 donations from ... patients often learn about illnesses and treatments,” said Rick Claypool, a research director for Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group that says itÃâà...
Hastings Tribune
April 12, 2018
A Nebraska nonprofit bicycle advocacy organization brought its road show to Hastings to gather information on the local biking scene and offer tips on how to make the city an even more inviting place to ride. Julie Harris, executive director of Nebraska Bicycling Alliance (NeBA), met with about a dozen localÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 7, 2018
The Bloomfield Garfield Corp. has asked the city for details of the demolition last year of a home on Broad Street in Garfield after four neighboring houses were condemned because of a landslide Feb. 20. “It's fairly clear the landslide started on the vacant lot” where the house once stood, said Rick Swartz,Ãâà...
KRTV Great Falls News
March 7, 2018
(BOZEMAN) Three people were arrested after chaining themselves to a bison chute in Stephen's Creek at Yellowstone National Park. According to the Facebook page of a group called Wild Buffalo Defense, the three people arrested were a part of their group. The group says that their mission is to seeÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 7, 2018
The idea sprouted when the chairman of the Turtle Creek Evening Rotary Satellite Club, Mike Lowell, heard about the Eastern Suburbs Citizen Advocacy group's mission. “Their story excited our club members at a meeting. They're incredible. So we thought, lets come up with something fun,” Lowell said.
Cape Cod Times
March 7, 2018
HYANNIS — State Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, has been targeted with a critical direct-mail piece from the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance for the second time in less than three months. Households in nine Cape towns from Mashpee to Orleans received the mailing, which suggests the freshman lawmaker'sÃâà...
Coastal Review Online
March 7, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Advocacy organization Oceana says the Trump administration's offshore drilling plan threatens more than 2.6 million jobs and nearly $180 billion in gross domestic product for only two years' worth of oil and just over one year's worth of gas at current consumption rates. The groupÃâà...
kfor.com
March 7, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY - An advocacy group is calling for six bills on criminal justice reform to be passed in their original language. On Monday, the office of Governor Mary Fallin announced an agreement has been made on changes to six bills which failed to advance last year: House Bill (HB) 2281, whichÃâà...
HealthNewsReview.org
March 7, 2018
This came just two weeks after a U.S. Senate report revealed that five major opioid producers gave over $10 million to third-party advocacy groups — and affiliated physicians — between 2012-2017. The report — sponsored by Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill — describes payments made by PurdueÃâà...
NY1
December 31, 1999
Advocacy groups want NYPD to disclose turnstile jump arrests. By Dean Meminger | April 20, 2018 @11:08 AM. SHARE. The NYPD says arrests for jumping subway turnstiles are way down. But some advocacy groups complain the police are withholding information that would show whether blacks and Hispanics are beingÃâà...
TechCrunch
December 31, 1999
A coalition of over 20 child advocacy, consumer and privacy groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission asking it to investigate and sanction YouTube for violation of federal children's privacy laws. Specifically, the groups say YouTube is violating COPPA, the Children's Online PrivacyÃâà...
NPR
December 31, 1999
When William Roundtree got out of prison earlier this year, it took him just a few days to find a job that put his experience to work. National. Can Criminal Justice Reform Happen This Year? Can Criminal Justice Reform Happen This Year? ListenÃâ÷ 46:52 46:52. Queue. Toggle more options. Download
