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Sandoval, Reid agree on taxes, but economic visions diverge
Green energy and green jobs: Reid is proposing a 15-point plan, including offering financial programs to attract clean-energy businesses, using stimulus funds to create a Nevada Energy Independence Fund, working with neighboring states to create a multibillion dollar business exporting clean energy, pursuing biomass production to use millions of acres of Pinyon-Juniper growth and allowing …
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The Root: Silks, Saddles And Discrimination
The disappearance of black jockeys from the Kentucky Derby and other races was no accident. Richard T. Watkins of The Root details how in the early 1900s white riders came together and forced out their black counterparts through sabotage.
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Donald R. Waldrip administered Cleveland’s controversial desegregation order and pioneered magnet schools: obituary
Donald R. Waldrip, who died May 4, administered the controversial desegregation of Cleveland schools, widely blamed for massive white flight and urban decay. He was 82. Waldrip also helped to pioneer magnet schools in Cleveland and across the country, partly to promote voluntary integration. Colleagues said he opposed forced busing while carrying it out here under federal orders.
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Nestlé claims it has right to sell formula
THE saga over baby formula continues in the Eastern Cape with Nestlé claiming it was well within its rights to sell the milk to churches.
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