Category Archives: Public Service

Poll: Tea Party backers wealthier, educated

By doris | Published: April 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK – Tea party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, tend to be Republican, white, male, and married, and their strong opposition to the Obama administration is more rooted in political ideology than anxiety about their personal economic situation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS [...]

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Hutchison to keep Senate seat in bid for governor, aide says

By doris | Published: November 15, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who had said she would resign her seat to run for governor of Texas, plans to announce Saturday she will remain in the Senate as she seeks the Republican Party’s gubernatorial nomination, a Hutchison aide tells CNN. “She will announce tomorrow at the Texas [...]

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Commentary: Acts of kindness are the way to mark 9/11

By doris | Published: September 11, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com NEW YORK (CNN) — The upcoming eighth anniversary of the attacks of September 11 raises a compelling question for millions of Americans: How should we best observe this uniquely tragic day in our nation’s history? Surely, it should not be a holiday. This is no time for days off from work [...]

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JFK’s sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

By doris | Published: August 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com BARNSTABLE, Mass. – President John F. Kennedy’s sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family’s public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died early Tuesday surrounded by relatives at a Hyannis hospital. She was 88. Shriver had suffered a series of [...]

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