From the daily archives: Thursday, May 17, 2012
On Monday, May 14, workers from the Perry County Highway Department under the direction of Perry County Engineer DeAndre Kimble began work on the roads in Branch Heights. While this isn’t the repaving the residents had been promised over four years ago, it is a significant effort to repair some of the worse potholes and [...]
On May 11, the bingo distribution from Greenetrack ($65,333,34), Greene Charity ($51,226.67); YPAO, operating as Lucky Star Bingo in the Comfort Inn ($30,000) and Frontier Bingo (($28, 156) was given to the various entities entitled to the money according to the rules and regulations established by Sheriff Joe Benison and HB71 Receiving money [...]
Eutaw city workers, all of the street and utility workers, staged a one day work stoppage on Monday, May 14, 2012 to protest inaction by the Mayor and City Council on a raise. The raise had been promised for several months but never officially approved by the City Council. Later that day the [...]
ALABAMA – By the end of the day on Wednesday, Operation “Alabama Black Belt 2012,” operated through the Department of Defense’s Innovative Readiness Training Program, tracked more than 29,000 patient encounters. The Department of Defense estimates that is around 22,000 individuals, a number that quadrupled expectations. From May 1 to 10, residents and [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Apr. 24 (GIN) – Some 86 million acres of fertile farm lands in Africa have been leased or acquired by foreign investors in a growing trend that leaves Africans more food insecure of the land ‘grabbed’ by investors is used to produce inputs for so-called biofuels. [...]
By Akeya Dickson, Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even if the Affordable Care Act survives U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny, a favorable ruling this summer will not serve as a cure-all for insuring African Americans, according to health professionals and a report in the current issue of Health Affairs. Healthcare advocates still have [...]
By Cash Michaels Special to the NNPA News Service from The Wilmington Journal RALEIGH, NC (NNPA) – Seven survivors and the families of three deceased members of the Wilmington Ten – 1970s civil rights activists convicted 40 years ago of conspiracy charges to commit violence – are scheduled to formally petition North Carolina [...]
By Larry Miller Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune Right on the heels of North Carolina becoming the 31st state in the Union to pass a ban on homosexual marriage, President Barack Obama announced his support of matrimony between same sex couples. The president’s public support of same sex marriage [...]
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women are making the most significant gains in employment but still lag behind whites, according to the Labor Department. The most recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the unemployment rate for Black women, 20 and older, dropped from 12.3 percent [...]
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