Gregoire: 14,500 State Jobs Created Or Sustained Due To ARRA Funds
OLYMPIA – Gov. Chris Gregoire recently announced that approximately 14,500 jobs were created or sustained in Washington state during the last quarter of 2009 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
“Washington state is proving that the Recovery Act is working,” Gregoire said. “We have been transparent and responsible with our investments to put people to work, keep businesses afloat and improve our communities. I know many Washingtonians are still looking for work, and I am focused on helping our businesses hire more people. But ...
Celeste, a student in the Department of Communication, spoke Jan. 21 to a UW journalism class about the media’s coverage of the 7.0 earthquake that claimed the lives of an estimated 200,000 people in Haiti. She said some of the early coverage framed Haitians as barbarians.
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House Panel: Stop Shackling Pregnant Women Giving Birth
OLYMPIA — Last week, the House Human Services Committee voted unanimously for a proposal by Rep. Jeannie Darneille (D-Tacoma) to outlaw the practice of shackling pregnant women inmates as they are giving birth.
“Shackling pregnant women while they are in labor and giving birth is unnecessary and violates every moral sense,” said Darneille. “These are at-risk pregnancies, and our obligation is to reduce that risk and improve the health outcomes for the women and their children.”
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Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Rum War Threatens Economic Ruin
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - A war is brewing between two of America's island territories in the Caribbean. It is a fight that is developing over rum subsidies. And while the governments of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands aren't trading bullets per se, their barbs and legislative battles threaten to unravel at least one of their fragile economies and the way the rum industry does business.
Advocates on both sides say this is not a ''Brown verses Black issue''. Rather, they describe it as a war for ...
Lee A. Archer, Tuskegee Airman Ace Pilot, Dies At 90
Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company and founder of a venture capital firm, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 90.
Born on Sept. 6, 1919, in Yonkers and raised in New York's Harlem neighborhood, Archer left New York University to enlist in the Army Air Corps in 1941 but was rejected for pilot training because the military didn't allow ...
Fifty Years Later: Sit-in Survivor Challenges Others To Do More
GREENSBORO (NNPA) - Fifty years ago, four North Carolina A&T students took a stand against segregation by sitting down at a F.W. Woolworth’s store counter. This simple act by four freshmen, now known as the “A&T Four,” inspired students in North Carolina—and around the country.
This week, hundreds of people came back to Greensboro to the very place where it all began to honor the A&T Four and to commemorate the opening of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum on Feb. 1.
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Forget The Deficit; People Need Jobs
(NNPA) - The state of America's union is stark. The economic collapse triggered by the bursting of the housing bubble continues to take its toll.
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