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Community Development and Community Engagement in Southwest Detroit
While a new line of development projects in Detroit could mean business opportunities for residents, hese opportunities for participation could just as easily evaporate and the subsequent development in …
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Women May Have to Win Back the Right to Vote Less Than 100 Years After Gaining It
A new voter ID law in Texas that declares the only acceptable ID will be a valid photo ID with your legal name on it makes it harder for …
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Growing Clash Between Immigrant Rights Activists and Washington Power Brokers
Community-based immigrant rights organizations outside of Washington, DC, are seeking ways to stop the federal government's huge wave of deportations.
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Corporate Media’s Hidden Wave of Consolidation
A historic wave of corporate media consolidation is changing the landscape of local TV news.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Many States Don’t Require a Background Check to Buy a Gun, and More
In many states around our nation, you don't need a background check to buy a gun, and more.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Fracking Companies Want to Start Drilling at the Source of Washington’s Water Supply, and More
In today's On the News segment: Fracking companies want to move in to the George Washington National Forest, which supplies water to the DC metro area; at the same …
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Tar Sands Protesters Commandeer Public Meeting, Energy Officials Run for the Door
First Nations and environmental activists interrupt Enbridge's pipeline plans.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obamacare Website Glitches Keeps Hundreds from Enrolling; and More
In today's On the News segment:Â According to Moody's analytical expert Mark Zandi, constant economic brinkmanship is putting our economy at risk; gay marriage is now legal in 14 states …
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Vast Corruption in Information Technology Contracts in Spotlight as CityTime Trial Begins in NYC
Private consultants are accused of siphoning tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks from the scandal-ridden $700 million CityTime payroll project.
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Federal Reserve in Uncharted Territory
Global Economist, Yilmaz Akyuz, on the Crisis of Financial Crisis Management.