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We need a food stamp overhaulKETKAt one of those hoity-toidy fish markets in the Washington DC area there was a sign on top of the jumbo crab legs saying you can buy that seafood delicacy with your food stamp card. Now before you think I am heartless and cruel let …

YNN, Your News Now US Postal Service to close downtown San Marcos officeAustin American-StatesmanDeclining mail volumes and route consolidations have left a number of facilities nationwide underused, according to the Postal Service, which relies on revenue from postage sales, products and services. However, unlike the post offices shuttering …San Marcos …

Newt Gingrich: Denies Lobbying, Calls Obama 'Food Stamp President'CNBC.comIn comparing himself with Obama, he said, “We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food stamp president in the American history in Barack Obama and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.” The former House …

Tuesday night, post office workers and customers expressed their opinions on a proposal to close Albany’s mail processing facility. More: continued here

A woman who was unable to qualify for food stamps staged a standoff in Texas in which she shot her two children, ages 10 and 12. More: continued here

ABC News Mom who shot kids, self was denied food stampsNewsOK.comBy PAUL J. WEBER Leave a comment LAREDO, Texas — A Texas woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office and staged a seven-hour standoff with police that ended …

Is the United States postal service on the way out? Can the post office keep up with a rapidly changing world? Well, that depends on who you talked to. More: continued here

U-S Postal Service Set to Close Post Office that Only Pays $10/Month to RentWJBF-TVVaucluse residents will need a mailbox to get their mail because the little Vaucluse Post Office will close for good at the end of the month. Rick Heise: “They have the option, they can either get street …

UPDATE 9.25am: POLICE are appealing for public help to solve the overnight murder of a Deer Park shop owner. More: continued here

'Something will turn up': Micawber quote on Dickens bicentenary coin is more …Daily MailProduced by the Royal Mint to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dickens, the coin references his literary masterpieces. On the edge of the coin is an inscription of the quotation 'Something Will Turn Up', …