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A long weekend commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Siege of Vicksburg during the Civil War kicked off Thursday with the release two postage stamps. One depicting the Battle of Gettysburg and the other the Siege of Vicksburg. More: continued here

State House News — Senate stamps $34 billion budget after two-day debateWicked Local- ScituateThe Senate approved a $34 billion annual state budget late Thursday that makes investments in early education, elder care, local aid and other areas in part by drawing from the state's reserves and relying on revenues from …

Sen. Chris Murphy Finishes Five Days On Food StampsCBS LocalHARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) – Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is coming off a tough week, existing on food stamp benefits in protest of House efforts to cut those benefits by $20 billion. For five days, Murphy existed on a meager daily …

Matt Murphy, State House News Service The Senate approved a $34 billion annual state budget late Thursday that makes investments in early education, elder care, local aid and other areas in part by drawing from the state’s reserves and relying on revenues from a developing package of tax increases linked …

The Denver Channel Senate rejects bid to let states run food stampsThe Denver ChannelKnown as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the food stamp program is administered by the Agriculture Department and federal dollars are unlimited as long as recipients qualify. The program cost $78 billion last year, more …

Philly.com Postal Service issues Gettysburg and Vicksburg stampsPhilly.comA second newly issued stamp, marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Vicksburg, is a reproduction of an 1863 lithograph by Currier & Ives titled Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th, 1863.Stamps to mark …

Down the long line, the smoke of muskets and artillery boiled from the landscape, marking the collision point of Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg. More: continued here

U.S. Catholic magazine The case for food stampsLos Angeles TimesTo hear Republicans — and some Democrats — in Congress talk, you'd think food-stamp dollars just disappear into a black hole. The prevailing debate in the Senate and House versions of the farm bill, which contains funding for food stamps (the …

The last time we saw Jon Cornish he was spinning past defenders in the Grey Cup. More: continued here

Shocking as it may seem, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) still isn’t happy with Google’s efforts to stamp out piracy. On its official blog this week, the RIAA once again bemoaned Google’s supposed lack of enthusiasm for removing links to alleged pirated content from its search results. In particular, …