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Jan 06 2014
News
Reid tries quick strike on welfare plan
If Harry Reid wants to put the hammer to House Republicans over resuming federal aid to those whose state unemployment insurance has expired, he will first have to mend some fences on the Senate side. The Senate majority leader, who shattered the remaining shards of goodwill in the upper chamber with his procedural gambit to fast-track the president’s nominees, didn’t sound ready to deal on
Fox News (Online News)Mar 17 2023
News
Former Mississippi nonprofit director pleads guilty in welfare scandal involving Brett Favre
The former director of a Mississippi nonprofit organization pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to stealing government funds intended to help needy families in one of the poorest states in the U.S., court documents show. Christi Webb, who stepped down this week as director of the north Mississippi-based Family Resource Center, appeared before U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves in Jackson
AL.comJul 15 2012
News
GOP governors differ on Obama change to welfare
Republican governors differed Sunday on the Obama administrations announcement to allow states more flexibility on the work requirement for welfare.
Fox News (Online News)Jul 13 2012
News
Romney slams Obama welfare waiver move
The Romney campaign is chastising the Obama administration for announcing that it may allow states to waive a federal requirement that welfare recipients engage in “work activities.
Washington TimesApr 16 2024
News
Mayor, school superintendent wife charged with after viciously beating teen daughter
Atlantic City Mayor in New Jersey, Marty Small, Sr., and his wife, La’Quetta Small, a school superintendent, have been charged with child abuse involving their teenage daughter. The couple was charged on Monday with allegations of physical and emotional abuse that reportedly occurred over several months. Marty Small, Sr., a 50-year-old Democrat, faces charges of second-degree Endangering the
WNDJan 15 2013
Opinion
EFEPA Eliminates Corporate Welfare and Corporate Dependence
The energy sector has been pronounced as a big winner of the “fiscal cliff legislation signed into law by President Obama. Lumped into the fiscal cliff bill are extensions of energy handouts that were originally scheduled to retire, as well as retroactively rewarded tax breaks for renewable energy that expired at the end of 2011.
The Heritage FoundationDec 06 2022
News
Elon Musk's Neuralink under federal investigation for animal-welfare violations: report
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corporation is under federal investigation for possible animal welfare violations, according to a Tuesday report from Reuters.
Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that is developing implantable computer interfaces in brains, is being looked into by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General after members of the company’s staff complained that Neuralink
MarketWatchMay 12 2023
News
Supreme Court delivers blow to pork producers in dispute over California animal welfare law
The Supreme Court handed California a legal victory Thursday in a dispute over its animal welfare law, a ruling that could have huge nationwide implications for consumer prices across a broad set of markets.
The Biden administration and the state of California, normally steadfast allies on a range of environmental issues, were at odds in the case over whether California has the right to
Fox BusinessApr 15 2024
News
Cedar Rapids officers involved in shooting identified
Officials have released the names of three Cedar Rapids police officers who shot and killed a man who police say was armed and making threats on April 6. Sergeant Alex Haas, Officer Emily Habeck and Officer Skylar Mullins all responded to a 911 call from David Vanderhamm on April 6 at 6:37 p.m. He asked police to respond to his residence on 31st Street NE. A second man also called 911, asking
Cedar Rapids Gazette