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Adapting Social Connection Opportunities for Lasting Engagement
Adapting Social Connection Opportunities for Lasting Engagement Staying socially connected during the COVID-19 pandemic can be challenging, especially for older Texans who must adapt their social a...
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The key to ensuring a faster U.S. economic recovery is wearing masks and slowing the spread of the coronavirus, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said on Friday
Wearing masks is primary tool for economic growth: Fed's Kaplan https://t.co/Hk9JOgE9tV — The Gilmer Mirror (@TheGilmerMirror) July 10, 2020
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In the absence of reasonably good information, uncertainty remains the order of the day for parents trying to calculate the risks of sending their children back to school soon
. @rossramsey : In the absence of reasonably good information, uncertainty remains the order of the day for parents trying to calculate the risks of sending their children back to school soon. #txe...
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Safe Online Shopping
 Safe Online Shopping Due to social distancing and shortages of various essential items, many people have shifted to shopping online for the first time or have increased their online shopping habit...
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JIM "PAPPY" MOORE: Fight Fear – Fight for God
When there are demonstrations, riots, looters in the streets of big cities hit hard by the virus, not a word of condemnation by major media.  The opposite:  gratuitous, lavish praise of the social ...
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Supreme Court Decision: Faithless Electors Chiafalo et. al. v. Washington
Supreme Court Decision: Faithless Electors Chiafalo et. al. v. Washington  MEMORANDUM  TO:  Interested Parties FROM:  Patrick Rosenstiel, Senior Counselor, National Popular Vote DATE:  July 2020 RE...
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The Police Union’s Impact on Public Policy
by CURRIE MYERS
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Recently, an arbitrator ruled that Sgt. Brian Miller of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office should be reinstated, receive full back pay of nearly $275,000, and regain seniority status despite being...
Why America Needs a Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Reconciliation
by JENNIFER TOMKINS
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Coming to the U.S. in the mid-1980’s I was shocked to find how much it appeared to me to resemble South Africa I had left in the late ‘70s at the height of apartheid.     U.S. activists, mobilizing...
CBO Report Commissioned by Sanders Finds Wealthy Tax Cheats the Prime Beneficiaries of IRS Budget Cuts
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CBO Report Commissioned by Sanders Finds Wealthy Tax Cheats the Prime Beneficiaries of IRS Budget Cuts WASHINGTON, July 8—Today, at the request of Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sand...
Endurance
by STEVE ELLISON
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Endurance Pastor Steve Ellison   Currently, there are many things for a person to be legitimately concerned about. You will note that I am walking a fine line there.  Concerned okay, but afraid?  W...
City of Houston sued over cancellation of Texas Republican Convention
by JASPER SCHERER
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Steve Hotze, @TexasGOP secretary Josh Flynn, former RPT chair Cathie Adams & others, repped by Jared Woodfill, just sued @SylvesterTurner for ordering the cancellation of next week's in-person stat...
What about armed protests?
by ROBERT C. KOEHLER
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Change. Now. I get that, and understand the symbolism of packed heat. A gun says: We mean business. But that symbolism stops as soon as the trigger is pulled. What the armed protesters could wind u...
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