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NNPA) - The home mortgage crisis and subsequent recession have had a devastating effect on many homeowners. According to a report by First American CoreLogic, twenty three percent of U.S. homeowners owe more on their mortgage than the home is worth. In other words, their home value is under water and they have negative equity in their home...


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(NNPA) - A week or so ago, I had the privilege of participating in a conversation on NPR about college attendance. Sparked by a conversation in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a group of "experts" were opining that too many people are going to college. Too many? Conservative and racially biased Charles Murray (author of The Bell Curve) thinks that too few high school students have the cognition to successfully navigate college attendance. Marty Nemko says it is a cost-benefit thing. Sandy Baum says that everyone should have opportunity and access. Nobody mentions race, but I think it is the elephant in the room. Too many White folks are opining that too many people go to college, but their kids are in college. So do they really mean that too many Black folks go to college? Are their objections really about reinforcing a class system?


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(NNPA) - It was regarded as one of the most historic days in our nation's history. Unprecedented numbers of young people and minorities hit polling stations and cast their ballots in a national election. After an intense, seemingly endless campaign cycle, the populous was engaged and actively participated in our political process in ways previously unheard of. And for the first time a majority – Whites included – attempted to rectify our tumultuous and troubling past by electing the first African- American President of the United States. A little over a year later however, I ask, have things on the ground really changed all that much?


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Sammy Sosa, the man who until now has only had to fight steroid rumors, has a completely new look.
And I am startled by what I see...


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Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, walked with Jesus in at least one respect: his support for progressive taxation. That's the principle that taxes should be based on ability to pay...


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(NNPA) - One of the biggest decisions of the young Administration of President Barack Obama will be made a few days after this is written on the strategy of the war in Afghanistan. A CNN poll has just come out that suggests the decision will be confronted by a public – of which I am one -- that opposes the war by 62 percent and that support for his new strategy to send more troops is split 50-49 percent.


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(NNPA) - Let me start by saying that I am thrilled that Tiger Woods is healthy and was not seriously hurt in that accident outside of his home the other night. I selfishly want to see him continue to lay waste to his peers, because I am a huge Tiger Woods fan.
But that said, there are still some things I've heard and read about this accident that seem to defy common sense, and because of that, the old reporter in me is overriding the fan.


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The tragic beating death of James Chasse at the hands of Portland Police was frightening. The MAX train security video that showed a Portland officer shooting a bean bag gun at point blank range into a 12-year-old girl's leg was disturbing – in part because the shooter was one of the same officers who helped beat Chasse to death.


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(NNPA) - This summer, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski described universal broadband Internet access as this generation's infrastructure challenge. He compared it to building our nation's railroads and highways and electrical grid. The commission has been working since that time to create a National Broadband Plan, as mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.


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The level of gun usage and the epidemic of violence in communities across the country has hit an astronomical level. According to the Violence Policy Center, firearms are the second most frequent cause of death overall for Americans aged 15-24. If we are not fed up and outraged already, the time to stand up and do something is NOW. We cannot sit idly by and watch our innocent children die so senselessly. Nor can we run from the underlying issues that lead some young people to pick up a gun in the first place, and in turn, ruin their own lives.


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