The Seattle Times |
One teen’s transformation from gang member to role model
The Seattle Times Fund For The Needy: Youth Eastside Services was there when Placido Aguirre, troubled by alcohol, drugs, gangs and personal tragedy, needed to find a way out. Though he had to do the work himself, people who cared stood with him as he rebuilt his life. |
Fresno Bee |
Election 2016: For that campaign, 2015 is year of the all-important stealth …
Fresno Bee It’s a time when endless election-related ads are absent from television, mailboxes are blissfully free of candidate mail pieces, and door-knocking hopefuls are nowhere to be found. That reality, however, is only on the surface. … When local … |
Staunton News Leader |
Bush resigns from boards with eye on presidential run
Staunton News Leader Best, a Texas entrepreneur and major political donor, said his firm has increased professors’ access to online students and helped schools attract additional revenue, while Bush aides say the former governor does not have business interests related to … |
NPR (blog) |
Rural Doctor Launches Startup To Ease Pain Of Dying Patients
NPR (blog) So far, Fratkin has been cultivating private donors and is looking for foundation grants. He’s arranged an independent contract to sell his services back to the hospital he recently left. And he’s launched a crowdfunding campaign to back the training … |
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Governors’ inaugural celebration plans, by state
SFGate Ben Davis, a spokesman for the inauguration committee, said a list of donors who gave $100 or more, and how much they gave, will be released at some point in the future. ___ … Rick Scott has scaled back his inauguration-related activities this year … |
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Governors’ Inaugural Celebration Plans, by State
New York Times Ben Davis, a spokesman for the inauguration committee, said a list of donors who gave $100 or more, and how much they gave, will be released at some point in the future. ___ … Rick Scott has scaled back his inauguration-related activities this year … |
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Several new state laws were ushered in with 2015
Lodi News-Sentinel Among them is a $300 million tax break for Brown’s Hollywood friends and donors, a restriction imposed on schools that bars expelling students who “willfully deny” teachers or administrators at any grade level and prohibits suspending students for … |
Albuquerque JournalLike Big Tobacco, climate change critics sow doubtAlbuquerque JournalBy the mid-1990s, states began suing tobacco companies to recover the billions of dollars they were spending to care for smoking-related illnesses. By November 1998…
10 Colleges Where The Most Alumni DonateHuffington PostBelow is a list of the 10 colleges and universities with the highest two-year average percentage of alumni donors. Unranked schools, which did not meet certain criteria required by U.S. News to be …
Zonta Club offering scholarships for women to continue educationSuburban Life PublicationsThe Jane Klausman Women in Business Scholarship is for any woman pursuing an undergraduate degree in a business-related field. This $500 award is based on outstan…