Texas moves to ease chronic food stamp backlogFort Worth Star TelegramThe agency is struggling to reduce a months-long surge in food stamp applications that began with the nation's economic downturn. Advocates for low-income … More: continued here
Guardian Messenger Heritage listed Glenelg post office to moveGuardian Messengerflspicture: Steve Coates HF433538 THE heritage-listed Glenelg Post Office is likely to be sold after Australia Post moves into the new Bayside Village … More: continued here
Republican Whitman, former ebay CEO, courts Latino vote in South El MonteSan Gabriel Valley TribuneThe former CEO of ebay took to the stage at Cielito Lindo Restaurant with a mariachi band animating the crowd and flanked by Latino leaders from around the … More: continued here
The Faster Times Texas is second-worst in hunger risk, US saysDallas Morning NewsOutreach workers who help people sign up for food stamps recently met a man who lost his job when Hewlett-Packard acquired EDS. …Two studies, same finding: Children in America going hungryDigitalJournal.comHunger, a Third World problem, affects a sixth of the USSt. Louis Post-DispatchMore…
Latest tax returns from Meg Whitman's foundation may raise further questions …San Jose Mercury NewsThe main reason: eBay's stock went from $33.78 a share at the start of 2008 to $14.66 a share at the end of 2008. The stock was worth substantially more at …and more » More: continued here
Providence Journal More Rhode Islanders seeking help from food pantries, food stampsProvidence JournalThe same goes for food stamps— the state Department of Human Services says users in October were up 24 percent over the same month in 2008. … More: continued here
AuctionBytes Blog Amazon.com Traffic Surpasses ebay in OctoberAuctionBytes BlogAmazon.com traffic surpassed that of ebay for the month of October and experienced greater growth rates as well, compared to September 2009 and … More: continued here
Washington Post Gillibrand, Tonko Address Post Office ClosuresNorth Country GazetteThe USPS is considering closing three post offices in the Capital Region – the Patroon, Pine, and Delaware Post Offices in Albany and the Scotia Post office…Post office was $3.8 billion in the red last yearThe Associated PressPlan for new East Stroudsburg post office canceledPocono RecordPost…
The Williams Lake Stampeders continued to impress on home ice, keeping their unbeaten home streak intact by dropping the Omineca Ice over the weekend in a two-game set at the Cariboo Memorial Recreation Complex. More: continued here
Stamps hope to tune outnoiseCanada.comThe Stamps, who defeated the Edmonton Eskimos 24-21 on Sunday, head to this Prairie den of madness later this week to take on the Roughriders in the CFL … More: continued here