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Columbus Dispatch Misquote on Angelou stamp will be foreverColumbus DispatchOne problem: The quote on the stamp, “A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song,” though widely attributed to Angelou, is not hers. The Washington Post reported it actually comes from Joan Walsh …

New York Daily News East Harlem bodega ran $2M food stamp scam: prosecutorsNew York Daily NewsAn East Harlem bodega redeemed over $2 million in fraudulent food stamp transactions between April 2013 and March 2015, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The owner of the bodega and their associates allegedly fleeced the government …

Essence.com Missouri Food Stamps Good For Steak And Lobster For The Foreseeable FutureHuffington Post"Maybe it's because there's been so much attention to that surfer dude and other things like that on the Web," Oxford said, referring to Jason Greenslate, a lobster-loving food stamp recipient from San Diego whom Fox News …

Congress Should Separate Food Stamps from Agricultural ProgramsHeritage.orgFor example, in 2013, Senator Thad Cochran (R–MS), then Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, told the North American Agricultural Journalists group that food stamps should continue to be included in the farm bill “purely from a political … More: continued here

Newsweek Psychics React to Kansas Bill Prohibiting Use of Food Stamps on PsychicsNewsweekTarot cards used in a James Bond film and on auction are shown in London in 2012. A new bill in Kansas prohibits people from using food stamps on services such as tattoos, body piercings, massages, spas, tobacco, …

The Stamps post office is holding a public dedication ceremony Wednesday for the Maya Angelou Forever Stamp on Wednesday at Lafayette County High School that was set to feature U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., and other speakers. More: continued here

Los Angeles Times Maya Angelou's new stamp features quote that wasn't hersLos Angeles TimesThe United States Postal Service is set to honor Maya Angelou today in a dedication ceremony for a new postage stamp depicting the legendary author, poet and singer. But there's one problem: The quotation that accompanies Angelou's …

Arrowtown Museum Post manager Marilyn Gourlay shows some of the 3000 personalised postage stamps, commemorative cards and bags ordered for the Arrowtown Post Office's 100th birthday celebrations. read more More: continued here

KSN-TV Roberts: US Senate committee to consider food stamps reformLawrence Journal WorldTopeka — The idea of funding the federal food stamps program through block grants to the states has failed to gain traction in annual budget fights since the 1990s, but it has not gone away and may get a …

WIBW Roberts to have hearings on funding food stamps with grantsHutchinson NewsA federal agriculture official publicly contradicted Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback at a March news conference in Topeka over his support for allowing states to administer their own food stamps program with federal grant money. Roberts said he is neither …