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Connecting Obesity and Food StampsWPMI Local 15 News(WPMI) – Officials are highlighting a connection between obesity and the record number of Alabamians in food stamps. Nearly a million people are in the SNAP program in the state. The food stamp program requires no nutritional value or restrictions …and more » More: …

Letters | Food stamps, high heels, the IRSThe Courier-JournalThere is really not much debating the so-called “food stamp issue.” According to a study by Moody's Economy, every dollar the government spends on SNAP (food stamps) generates about $1.70 in local economic activity as the assistance is used. That … More: …

LETTER: Don't Take Food Stamps Off the TableFlathead BeaconThere's nothing better than summer in Montana. Sweet Flathead cherries, fresh bread baked with Montana wheat, huckleberries and bison burgers on the grill. In Montana, we share our bounty. The main reason Montanans lock their doors in the summer? More: continued here

News of the wild: Trapshoots, CPO honors and duck stampsQuincy Herald WhigWindy conditions didn't deter shooters from posting solid scores during the Quincy Gun Club's monthly registered trapshoot. Daryl Lucas won the 16-yard singles in the June event with a score of 98, besting a field of 47 shooters. John …

Lawmaker is wrong about food stamp useABQ JournalTexas lawmaker Louie Gohmert's recent comment that poor people are using food stamps to buy extravagant foods such as king crab legs, and so it's not bad to cut nearly 2 million low-income people off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food … More: continued …

Ten stamps, bearing the face of Audrey Hepburn, were sold at a UN charity auction in Berlin for $606,000. The stamps bearing a photograph of Audrey Hepburn wearing a wide-rimmed hat, with a cigarette holder between her teeth, were sold for 54-times more than their face value. More: continued here

Cantor Weighs Splitting Food Stamps From Farm BillWall Street Journal- IndiaWASHINGTON—House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, trying to find a way to revive the failed farm bill, is giving "serious consideration" to splitting funding for food stamps from core farm programs that need reauthorizing, a senior Republican aide said.Republicans Eye Splitting …

CALGARY – Joe West caught two touchdown passes and Jon Cornish ran for two more as the Calgary Stampeders opened the 2013 CFL season with a 44-32 win over the visiting B.C. Lions on Friday. More: continued here

AmmoLand.com (press release) Put Your Stamp on Conservation , New Federal & Junior Duck Stamps AvailableAmmoLand.com (press release)Washington, DC –(Ammoland.com)- Goldeneyes are taking center stage for hunters, conservationists and stamp collectors as the new Federal Duck Stamp goes on sale today. The 80th Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp …

New York Daily News 'I'm not a homophobe': Alec Baldwin goes on defensive after Twitter rantNew York Daily NewsHilaria took to Twitter to defend herself after her husband's meltdown, deriding Stark's “poor journalism” and retweeting a link to an article that suggested he read Twitter's time stamps wrong. Stark, based …