Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA
By Kurtis Alexander SANTA CRUZ — Four acres in the Seacliff community was set aside for high-density homes by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, pushing the county past its long-sought state quota for housing. Assuming the Mid-County site and five …
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WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Congress on Wednesday that any requirement for mandatory health insurance in a proposed overhaul of the US healthcare system should allow exemptions for the poor and for small businesses.
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Concentrating hard on the image of Martinez's heart on a donated sonogram machine, Ashley, an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine, nodded his head, furrowed his brow. Martinez, a Mexican immigrant, was getting his heart checked for free at a …
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It's a first lady faux pas — wearing expensive, high-fashion French designer sneakers to a food bank. Michelle Obama wore the sneakers, made by Lanvin, while helping feed the poor at a Washington food bank on Wednesday.
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She was put in touch with Alicia Carvajal, a housing counselor, who in turn found her a pro bono attorney. Carvajal coached her through the legal process and went with her to court dates. The judge gave Soledades a cash award equal to one month's rent …
Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA
By Kurtis Alexander SEACLIFF — A 13-acre site off State Park Drive, long known as the Poor Clares property and now home to a church, is in line to be set aside for affordable housing — the latest such proposal to generate intense opposition from …
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(CNN) — Low-income Latinos in the South have been routinely cheated out of wages, denied basic health protections and are victims of racial profiling, according to a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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"Oh my God, yes," said Sunnyvale resident Barbara Buldo, who has been unemployed for a year and was looking around the Marshalls store on Stevens Creek Boulevard on Wednesday. Once a regular customer at Marshalls, TJ Maxx and Ross stores, the laid-off …
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By Henrique Almeida and Philip Pullella LUANDA, March 20 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, making his first visit to Africa, on Friday urged Angolans, still recovering from nearly three decades of civil war in their oil-rich country, to build peace and …
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NEW YORK (AP) — I try to keep a stiff upper lip about not having an iphone. Just couldn't afford it — not with the $75 a month or so AT&T charges for service on top of the $199 upfront cost for the device. I could, however, afford the $229 ipod Touch …
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