Description: Contact Jeanne Souvigney to volunteer to help feed our hungry neighbors.  jsouvigney@onemain.com
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2010-03-26
End Time: 18:00

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The following email was in our inbox and we thought it should be shared:
Last November, Americans went to the polls to end our country’s nightmare of warrantless wiretapping and abuses of civil liberties. We elected President Obama and the Democrats to stick the totalitarian Patriot Act where it belongs - in the [...]

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Here is a good idea forwarded to us by email:
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress.  Many citizens had no idea that Congress members could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn’t pay into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of [...]

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The House of Representatives passed the Local Community Radio Act Wednesday!
It’s been a long time coming. In 10 years of trying, we’ve never come this close to making better local radio a reality. The bill could not have come this far without your letters, phone calls, e-mails and stories.

But the bill is only a bill [...]

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After all the hype, compromise, corruption and political weaseling, “health care reform” is looking like a cardboard cutout of meaningless legislation.  The stocks of the major insurance companies that provide health insurance are soaring.  The outlook for the American public is bleak.  But wait - at the last minute real health care reform is at [...]

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The escalation of the war in Afghanistan will mean more death and destruction in that already hard-hit and long-suffering country.  It will cost our country more of its sons and daughters as well as costing a huge amount of money for a highly uncertain outcome.  If you believe that violence only encourages and increases violence [...]

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Consumer advocacy groups are putting the word out to support HR 4173, which would create a financial watchdog to keep an eye on banks and other financial institutions in the name of consumers.  The bill will be voted on sometime this week.  The following is an appeal from Consumer Reports that includes a link to [...]

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It is possible that any day now President Obama may decide to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Here in the U.S. and no doubt around the world, people will react in pain, anger and sorrow, knowing what tragedy and suffering will follow.

The following is a message received from United for Peace [...]

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The Single Payer Health Care bill HR676 will be debated on the floor of the House of Representatives when the Reps come back from the August recess.  This is the first time the concept of single payer health care has gotten out of committee in either house of Congress.
Henry Waxman (D-California), the chair of the [...]

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TREE ALERT  !!!

Public Works of the City of Livingston plans to cut down 4 mature and very vibrant silver maples on the southeast corner of Geyser & K Streets, on the K Street boulevard.  The four trees are somewhere between 100 and 150 years old.  Roots have broken the concrete sidewalk along K Street.  No [...]

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