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The War on Poverty After 50 Years

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Click here: The War on Poverty After 50 Years
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U.S. tax burden on business one of the worst in the industrialized world

We’re Number 32!

A new global index highlights the harm from the U.S. tax code.
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Obituaries this week

Karl Heinrich Benninghoven, 84, Burlington died Sunday, September 14, 2014

Frances Evelyn Turner, 88, Scottsdale, AZ, formerly Burlington died Thursday, September 11, 2014

Darline I. Wagler, 88, Burlington died Thursday, September 18, 2014

Jean M. Miller, 77, Burlington died Thursday, September 18, 2014

Donald LeRoy Loose, 86, Burlington died Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Gertrude Edith (Johnson) Dunham, 87, Burlington died Monday, August 25, 2014

 William Jackson “Jack” Smith, 58, Farmington, died Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Verlea Lantz, 76, Burlington, died Thursday, September 18, 2014

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Is Evil Rational?

Is evil rational? If it is, then how can we depend on reason alone to make a better world?

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Hiking the Minimum Wage Won’t Help the Poor

Click here: The ground has been shifting in the battle over the minimum wage. With President Obama’s proposal to hike the national minimum from $7.25 to $9 an hour stalled in Congress, local labor activists have been aiming even higher, getting behind a vastly higher minimum wage of $15 an hour. 
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Ohio ‘False’ Speech Law

Click here: In its unanimous June 2014 ruling in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List had every right to mount a First Amendment challenge to an Ohio law which criminalizes “false” political speech.
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Feminism 2.0

We hear it all the time: “America is patriarchal!”, “American women are oppressed!”. Well, a lifelong feminist and former National Organization for Women member, Tammy Bruce, is tired of hearing it–and she has a solution laid out in our newest video: Feminism 2.0.

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5-million gmail accounts hacked

Click here: Millions of Gmail accounts hacked, was yours one of them?

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Supermoon rises over Great River Bridge

Photo by Dan Hockett This September full moon, known as a Harvest Moon, rises above the Great River Bridge over the Mississippi River in Burlington, Iowa on Monday. September’s full moon is the third and final supermoon of 2014. A supermoon occurs when the moon make its closest approach to earth due to an elliptical orbit.
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A September full moon, known as a Harvest Moon, rises above the Great River Bridge over the Mississippi River in Burlington, Iowa on Monday. September’s full moon is the third and final supermoon of 2014. A supermoon occurs when the moon make its closest approach to earth due to an elliptical orbit.
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Obituaries this week

Rosemary Lorraine Ehret, 93, Burlington, died Monday, September 8, 2014

Howard Everett Taeger, 78, rural West Burlington died Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Joseph “Joey” Timothy Miller, 31, Burlington died Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Monique Therese Mundt , 86, formerly Burlington, died Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

Scott Alan Miller, 36, Burlington, died Thursday, September 11, 2014

Ronald Wayne Willson, 68, Burlington, died Saturday, September 13, 2014