Stamp of the Past: Indian Heritage in PhilatelyPress Information Bureau (press release)As a significant component of the year-long celebrations, an exhibition titled “Stamp of the past: Indian Heritage in Philately” in collaboration with Department of Posts besides contribution from some philatelists will be mounted and inaugurated on … More: continued here
Appetite 4 Life expands to accept food stampsPensacola Business JournalThe Pensacola nonprofit Appetite 4 Life is now providing meals to local residents who receive food stamps. Appetite 4 Life, formed in 1997 to serve people in the late stages of HIV/AIDS, now cooks and delivers meals to people suffering from terminal …and more » More: continued…
Proactive Investors UK Stanley Gibbons – The rare stamps of the Playboy KingProactive Investors UKAnd of course, there was King Carol's prized stamp collection. It was one of the world's most valuable at the time. A death squad of Iron Guard Legionnaires (partly financed by the Nazis) fired fiercely on the Royal Train near the…
Food Stamp Use Picks Up Again, In Los Angeles CountyBusiness InsiderAfter a winter lull, food stamp participation in Los Angeles County picked up again in March, to rise to a new all time high of 1036078 persons. Other economic data points to weakness in the nation's largest state economy, as well. More: continued here
Youth Today Healthy starts hereThe Free Lance-StarIN 2010, the US Department of Agriculture distributed $65 billion worth of food-stamp aid to 46 million needy Americans. Now wouldn't it be nice if more of that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program money was used for buying fruits and vegetables, …Don't Let America's Hungry People Starve – Tell Congress…
New York Daily News Gov to end food stamp fingerprintsNew York Daily NewsCuomo is putting a stop to the city's practice of fingerprinting food stamp recipients .Following through on a pledge made in his State of the State address this year, Cuomo is set to issue a regulation as early as Thursday to ban the…
Hotel del Coronado on a StampNBC Los Angeles (blog)By Alysia Gray Painter The new Billy Wilder stamp shows the Hotel del Coronado (and Marilyn Monroe, natch). The USPS stamp will debut on Wednesday, May 23 as part of the Great Directors Stamp series. INN-SIDE A STAMP: A lot of people who oversee hotels … More:…
Food Stamps started 73 years ago in RochesterWROC-TVRochester, NY – Wednesday marks the 73rd anniversary of the government food stamp program. The program has a very important local tie, it began right here in Rochester at Joe Multolo's store back in 1939. Since then its grown into an enormous program … More: continued here
Alvin Villa regained his winning form to rule two separate events over the weekend. More: continued here
OregonLive.com Chef takes on food stamp budgetMonterey County HeraldThe chef, his wife and their two teenage sons are eating for a week on the equivalent of a food stamp budget to protest potential congressional cuts to the program used by more than 46million Americans. That's $31 per person for the week, …Mario Batali, a hungry…