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Lehigh Valley company news
Lehigh Gas facilities to offer compressed natural gas fueling Lehigh Gas Partners LP, a leading wholesale distributor of motor fuels, and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., North America's largest provider of natural gas for transportation, announced an agreement...Tags: Agriculture, Energy Resources, Emmaus, Alternative Energy, Allentown
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Multi-million grant awarded for local health programs
A nonprofit announced this week that it won a $6.1 million federal grant to operate Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Glendale, Altadena and Pasadena over the next five years. The competitive grant handed down by the U.S. Department of...Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Family, Behavioral Conditions, Hospitals and Clinics, Mental Health
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Cuts to Alzheimer's research show folly of sequestration
Many Republicans, and Democrats, never thought the automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration would take effect. After all, they might produce dangerous, if unintended, consequences such as potentially bankrupting the U.S. health care...Tags: Parkinson's Disease, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Insurance, Family
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Guest commentary: Apple's tax tactics strengthen case for closing loopholes
The following guest commentary was written by Carl Levin, the senior U.S. Senator from Michigan and chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Recently, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which I chair, held the latest in...Tags: Taxation, Republic of Ireland, Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple iPhone, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Helping teen moms delay repeat pregnancies
Mary Ann Cross was entering freshman year at her Austin neighborhood high school when she had her first child. She was 16 when she had her second child. Now 18, she gave birth to her third two months ago. When people ask her why she's had so many...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Family, Birth Control, Family Planning, Medical Specialization
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Carol E. Johnson
Carol Elizabeth Johnson, age 94, of Faith, South Dakota, passed away on May, 28, 2013 at the Good Samaritan Center in New Underwood, South Dakota. She was born on December 25, 1918, in Kenmare, North Dakota while her mother and brothers were in...
Tags: Human Interest, Dwayne Johnson
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Dent, Cartwright film Business Matters
"Business Matters" host Tony Iannelli joked on Thursday that he was under pressure to live up to Comedy Central pundit Stephen Colbert, who recently interviewed U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright. But even if Iannelli couldn't match Colbert's deadpan comedy, he,...Tags: Entertainment, Northampton County (Pennsylvania), Petroleum Industry, Stephen Colbert, Elections
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$1.65 million approved for Broward nonprofits from estate of late Mary N. Porter
The Broward Center for the Performing Arts is getting $1 million from the estate of a local philanthropist. The late Mary N. Porter recently left $43 million of her estate with the Community Foundation of Broward to help fund nonprofits and meet other...Tags: Festive Events, Students, Entertainment, Movies, Charity
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Benefiting Others
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — The Literacy Council of North Central Indiana recently supplied “Adventures in Science” backpacks to students ages 2 to 5 in the local Head Start preschool program. Each backpack had four books and science-related activities...Tags: Ceremonies, Stevensville, Culture, Foreign Exchange Market, Breast Cancer
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LETTER: Support Early Childhood
When children get the nurturing and support they need from the very start, they thrive and are more likely to succeed in school and in life. This is why Connecticut should create an Office of Early Childhood and Congress should enact President Obama's...Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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We know how to help the poor, in the suburbs and in the city
Thank you for Jamie Smith Hopkins front page story on the growth of poverty in suburbs across Maryland ("Poor people in Balto.'s suburbs outnumber those in city," May 21). The article is must reading for policymakers, civic groups, faith-based leaders and...
Tags: Social Issues, Poverty
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Entitlements' unimpeded growth is a benefit to seniors
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress increasingly unable to resolve budget disputes, federal programs on automatic pilot are consuming ever larger amounts of government resources. The trend helps older Americans, who receive the bulk of Social Security...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Environmental Issues, Budgets and Budgeting, Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Senate
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