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Ind. housing, meals take hit under federal budget cuts
VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) — Agencies across Indiana are dropping flood insurance, scaling back on free meals for the elderly and reducing the number of Section 8 housing vouchers they provide as funding shrinks because of automatic federal budget cuts....Tags: Interior Policy, Budget Control Act of 2011, Public Finance, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning
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Gun debate: Elkhart Co. sheriff to appear on Anderson Cooper 360
Elkhart County Sheriff Brad Rogers has been invited to appear on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 tonight to offer his viewpoint on the gun control debate. According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, Rogers will appear with several other...
Tags: Firearms, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Anderson Cooper 360 (tv program), Politics
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Bloomington man dies after being shot in head
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Witnesses to a fatal shooting say they watched the car with the person who fatally shot a Bloomington man drive past slowly several times before hearing shots ring out. Monroe County Coroner Nicole Meyer said it appears 28-...Tags: Shootings
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South Bend Housing Authority chief resigns
SOUTH BEND TRIBUNESOUTH BEND — Marva Leonard-Dent said that she’s resigning today after nearly 10 years as director of the South Bend Housing Authority. It comes as the agency’s board continues to look for answers to a series of allegations about the...Tags: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Interior Policy, Politics, Employment Opportunities, Housing and Urban Planning
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Proposed fees questioned in landlord registry plan
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND -- A proposal to create a mandatory registry for South Bend landlords could mean registra-tion fees of $50 every two years for single-family homes and $100 every two years for duplexes. Landlords could be fined $100 for failing to appear for a...Tags: Rental Service, Services and Shopping, Condos and Houses, Rentals
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Feds: Couple claimed welfare, lived in $1.2M home
SEATTLE (AP) — Prosecutors say a Seattle chiropractor and his wife drove a luxury car and lived in a $1.2 million waterfront home while claiming welfare assistance. The U.S. attorney's office filed a civil lawsuit last Friday accusing David...Tags: Interior Policy, Lawyers, Pension and Welfare, Politics, Justice System
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Glendale officials warn of Section 8 housing scam
In the highly competitive world of Section 8 housing assistance, Glendale officials say there have been reports of people promising people a highly coveted voucher in exchange for money. The suspects, city officials say, have gone so far as opening phony...Tags: Government, Google Inc., Politics, Section 8 (housing), Public Housing
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Galewood Crossings at a crossroad
When its sales office opened in 2006, Enclave at Galewood Crossings was touted as an upscale, gated community of almost 200 single-family and multifamily homes built on the largest undeveloped piece of land left within the city limits. Now Chicago...
Tags: Minority Groups, Laws, Interior Policy, Chicago Mortgages, Politics
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West Hartford Woman Named A 'Healthcare Hero'
The Hartford CourantA local woman has been named a 2013 "Healthcare Hero" by the Connecticut Hospital Association and will be recognized at its annual meeting on June 25. Wendy Martinson, a registered nurse who is a quality assurance specialist at John Dempsey Hospital...Tags: Heart Failure, University of Connecticut Health Center, Hospitals and Clinics, West Hartford, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Strategies to combat truancy
School districts across Illinois and around the U.S. use an array of tools to get kindergarten to eighth-grade students back in school, implementing promising anti-truancy measures without significant additional spending or staff. Experts say the most...
Tags: Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Students, Family, Teaching and Learning
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College Degree The Fruit Of Hard Work — And Much Assistance
The Hartford CourantSuccess is often characterized in a way that celebrates individual achievement, perseverance and personal triumph. Although it is true that it is my name is on my new college diploma, there is simply no way I would have made it to this day without a broad...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Trinity College, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Colleges and Universities
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It's A Gray Area: It's time to take back America's moral high ground
President Obama has recently renewed his plans to try to close our military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, and has also promulgated new guidelines for our government's use of drones to assassinate people in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen....Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Elections, Prisons, Politics, George W. Bush
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