Does banning use of food stamps for soda reduce obesity?

New York City’s now-rejected push to ban the use of food stamps to purchase soda was a political pariah from the get-go. The proposal, sent to the Obama administration last fall , had the relatively rare ability to draw the ire of both soft drink lobbyists and advocates for the …

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Fake stamp papers seized

The Patna police had earlier seized non-judicial stamps with a face value of about Rs 1 crore during a raid in Exhibition Road and Jakkanpur areas in April this year. More: continued here

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Multi-crore fake notes, stamps racket busted in Patna

The Patna Police and Special Task Force (STF) personnel on Saturday busted an interstate gang engaged in printing fake currency notes, judicial stamps, non-judicial stamps, National Savings Certificates (NSC) and bank drafts of State Bank of India. More: continued here

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Chambersburg Post Office to close in September

The Chambersburg Post Office will close its doors Sept. 9, 44 years after it opened them. The closing comes on the heels of a U.S. Postal Service announcement that any of 3,700 locations nationwide might close to help the financially struggling… More: continued here

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Rick Perry Slams Food Stamps, Government Subsidies – The State Column

New York Times (blog) Rick Perry Slams Food Stamps, Government SubsidiesThe State ColumnMore recently, Perry criticized the Obama administration's comments on food stamps or the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said “when you talk about the SNAP program or the food …Rick Perry …

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