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Branstad: Immigrants should have to prove status

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on July 15, 2010 at 12:46 AM Comments comments (0)

Branstad: Immigrants should have to prove status

 

CLARINDA, Iowa (AP) -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad says people in Iowa stopped on traffic violations should have to prove their citizenship status.

 

Branstad made the assertion during a visit Wednesday to Clarinda. He said if a per...

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Prevent crimes by the mentally ill with a federal Ed Thomas Act, Bruce Braley says

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on July 14, 2010 at 12:42 AM Comments comments (0)

Prevent crimes by the mentally ill with a federal Ed Thomas Act, Bruce Braley says

 

Federal lawmakers should pass a version of Iowa’s “Ed Thomas Act,” which gives law enforcement officials new ways to ensure they’ll be informed when mental hea...

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Iowa billboard linking Obama, Hitler removed

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on July 13, 2010 at 12:36 AM Comments comments (1)

Iowa billboard linking Obama, Hitler removed

 

An Iowa tea party group on Wednesday replaced a billboard comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, calling the sign a bad decision that reflected poorly on the organization. Workers papered over the sign in downtown Mason City at the request of the North Iowa Tea Party. "We g...

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Workforce Development releases survey on unemployed

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on July 1, 2010 at 12:51 AM Comments comments (0)

Workforce Development Releases Survey on Unemployed

 

by Dar Danielson on July 1, 2010 in Business & Economy, Politics & Government (Radio Iowa)

 

A survey of unemployed Iowans by the state agency in charge of helping them find new jobs finds many have been out of a job for longer then ave...

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Obama Offers Plan for Major Shift for No Child Left Behind

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on March 13, 2010 at 5:24 PM Comments comments (0)

Obama Proposes Overhaul in Education Law 

By Sam Dillon

Published: March 13, 2010, New York Times

 

The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind law, proposing to eliminate divisive provisions, including those that have encouraged instructors to te...

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Three Charged for Hate Crimes Against Gays in San Francisco

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on March 12, 2010 at 8:16 PM Comments comments (0)

SF police probe more hate crime BB-gun shootings

By Terry Collins, Associated Press Writer

Published March 12, 2010

 

SAN FRANCISCO -- Prosecutors who have charged three cousins with a hate crime for shooting a San Francisco man with a BB gun because they thought he was gay said Friday they're considering charging the suspe...

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Education Blog: Boys Falling Behind in Education

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on March 12, 2010 at 8:11 PM Comments comments (0)

Whitmire: New data on how far boys are falling behind

Blog Entry by Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post

Published March 12, 2010

 

By Richard Whitmire, former president of the National Education Writers Association, who writes the Eduation Week blog, "Why Boys Fail."

 

A...

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Cost of Caring for Elderly Parents with Health Problems

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on March 12, 2010 at 8:05 PM Comments comments (0)

Deciding on Care for Elderly Parents in Declining Health

By Lesley Alderman

Published: March 12, 2010, New York Times

 

TWO years ago my father, then 83, became very ill. Until then, he had been living alone in a pleasant one-bedroom apartment on the Hudson River, an hour’s drive from my home in Brooklyn. After a couple of months i...

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Movement Seem within Obama's Loan Modification Program To Combat Foreclosures

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on March 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM Comments comments (0)

Loan Modification Program Starts to Get Some Traction

By David Streitfeld

Published: March 12, 2010, New York Times

 

After a dismal start, the Obama administration’s antiforeclosure efforts are finally gaining some traction. But the results are still paltry when set against the vast sea of homeowners in trouble.

The Treasur...

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Vaccines Not Tied to Autism According to Three Rulings

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on March 12, 2010 at 7:54 PM Comments comments (0)

3 Ruling Find No Link to Vaccines and Autism

By Donald G. McNeils, Jr.

Published: March 12, 2010, New York Times

 

In a further blow to the antivaccine movement, three judges ruled Friday in three separate cases that thimerosal, a mercury preservative, does not cause autism. The three rulings are the second step in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding ...

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