On food stamps, GOP takes a principle to extremesWashington PostIf you peruse the news on any given day, the farm bill/food stamp debate produces two general impressions: Republicans are heartless turkey thieves; Democrats are spendthrift welfare caterers. If only neither were a little bit right. As with tabloid … More: continued here
Stamp Out Campaign Cash Corruption in Our LifetimeBillMoyers.comSince he left his job as CEO of the Vermont-based ice cream company in 1996, Cohen has taken his marketing know-how into progressive politics and in 2012 began Stamp Stampede — the manufacture and sale (at cost) of rubber stamps to be used on …and more » More: continued here
The Droid Guy [Deal Alert] eBay Daily Deals Has The 32GB Nexus 5 In White And Black, $394 …Android PolicePut this one in the "deal alert with reservations" basket, but if you're really keen on getting a Nexus 5 at a potentially steep discount (and don't mind waiting for it), you may want to take…
Charities demand to know why they were frozen out of lucrative Royal Mail…This is MoneyIn a strongly-worded letter to Cable, Lascelles wrote: 'Having attended several meetings on the subject, and met the management team of Royal Mail, I asked for £9m of stock in the allocation, which would have been the appropriate holding for our…
PhilPost's 150,000 Bonifacio stamps come in a denomination of P10 for one year and in four designs by Roderick Macutay, Julius Satparam, John Troncales and Marrion Dabalos. More: continued here
Politics Counts: Who Benefits From Farm Subsidies, Food StampsWall Street Journal (blog)That is, it's not just Republican states and areas that benefit from farm subsidies or just big Democratic states that benefit from food stamps— the money for both items is spread pretty widely across the spectrum. If you consider the top 10 states ……
U.S. Postal Service officials will join with veterans groups to co-host a gathering Dec. 6 in Troy where the nation's new Medal of Honor World War II stamps will be sold in commemorative sets. At the same events, people can donate to the World War II memorial that is planned for Royal Oak. More: continued…
City bankers and ministers ‘collaborated in the worst possible way making profit for the few,’ a fund manager representing 14 charities has claimed. More: continued here
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East Pittsburgh post office robbedTribune-ReviewPolice are searching for a man who robbed the U.S. Post Office in East Pittsburgh at gunpoint on Friday afternoon. The suspect in the 4:45 p.m. robbery of the postal branch on Linden Avenue is described as a biracial male between 5-feet 11-inches and 6 … More: continued here