Jim RandelJim Randel is the Chairman and Founder of The Skinny On™, a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law and a successful entrepreneur and author.
Posted April 30, 2009 | 05:31 PM (EST)
The Ten Sneakiest Credit Card Tricks
In my review of the credit card industry, I have come up with what I consider their [...]

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The Huffington Post
APRIL 29, 2009
Robert L. BorosageCo-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future
Posted April 28, 2009 | 08:55 PM (EST)
Obama’s Grade at 100? What About Our Grade?
Grading a president after 100 days always strikes me as presumptuous. The only real grade is an incomplete. And as good teachers will tell you, letter grades - as [...]

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Helena Hot Flash!
Brought to you by Montana Women Vote

Today, on very last day of the MT session, Legislators are expected to pass a compromise budget that includes full funding for the Healthy Montana Kids Program, overwhelming approved by voters last fall. The budget also [...]

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Location: Northern Pacific Beanery, 108 W Park, Livingston Mt
Montana Women for will present a panel discussion on “Poverty and Women in Prison” on Thursday, May 14th at 7 PM at the Northern Pacific Beanery in Livingston.
Elizabeth Griffing and Niki Zupanic from ACLU Montana will present their work on the connection between economic conditions and the [...]

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THURSDAY 23 APRIL 2009

Opinion

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Arm the COP on the Bank Beat
Tuesday 21 April 2009
by: Robert Borosage  |  Visit article original @ Campaign for America’s [...]

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The Bigots’ Last Hurrah
By FRANK RICH
Published: April 18, 2009, New York Times
WHAT would happen if you crossed that creepy 1960s horror classic “The Village of the Damned” with the Broadway staple “A Chorus Line”? You don’t need to use your imagination. It’s there waiting for you on YouTube under the title “Gathering Storm”: a 60-second [...]

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Note: Elsie Fox will be receiving  Montana Women For ’s first annual Woman of Courage award in Livingston on May 21 at the Livingston Public Library, 228 West Callender,  at 6:30 pm.  She will be signing her biography, written by Karen Stevenson, who will give a reading, and she will also briefly answer a few [...]

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By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted April 16, 2009.

Crop failure may have pushed farmers over the edge, but American companies have been leading them to the cliff for years.

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The headline has been hard to [...]

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Hi, Folks,
Just a reminder that we are scheduled to cook and serve dinner at Loaves and Fishes next Friday, April 24.  I’ll be sending a note on what we’re serving and whether there is any advance work that could be done later.  If you can help that day, please let me know.
I received a call [...]

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The Creativity Stimulus
by JEFF CHANG
This article appeared in the May 4, 2009 edition of The Nation.
April 15, 2009
On inauguration day, Tom Brokaw was moved to compare Barack Obama’s election to Czechoslovakia’s 1989 Velvet Revolution. At the eye of each storm, of course, was an icon who merged the political and the aesthetic–Václav Havel, the rock-star [...]

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