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(NNPA) - Many novice entrepreneurs are led to believe that only prestigious educational degrees are necessary for success. However, it is this fear which surrounds launching a business venture that can be the most difficult barrier to realizing your financial dreams. Although, a formal education is one helpful element to success – the primary ingredients to obtaining wealth starts with determined hard work and intelligent business decisions ...


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Supporters of Rush Limbaugh, including Fox commentator Juan Williams and Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association, have targeted two undocumented quotes attributed to Limbaugh to prove, in Rice's words, the "phony charge of racism" was used to deny Limbaugh's bid to become part owner of the NFL's St. Louis Rams.


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(NNPA) - Last week, United States Attorney General Eric Holder directed the United States Department of Justice to review a Bush Administration policy virtually excluding DNA testing from defendants in federal cases...


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As Multnomah County officials gather tomorrow to announce their appointment for Oregon House District 43, The Skanner News expects that they will choose the most experienced, most knowledgeable and best-connected candidate for the seat representing North and Northeast Portland: Lew Frederick. While we believe all three candidates would make wonderful lawmakers, there's no question that Lew Frederick has earned his stripes ...


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In a rare moment of country before party, Democratic President Barack Obama joined former Republican President George H.W. Bush Sr. on the campus of A&M University in College Station, Texas recently to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Bush's Points of Light non-profit organization. The non-profit was founded when Bush was president to promote the concept of volunteerism as a means of solving many of the problems facing communities across the nation


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Over the summer, we heard about the tragic losses many American families have endured as a result of our broken health care system. There are too many stories of folks who lost a loved one because their insurance didn't cover a life-saving treatment, or lost their homes because they were socked with huge medical bills ...


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How many Black Americans are actually buying into rants against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now? By now most Blacks have heard of ACORN and some are involved in bogus babble defaming an organization that has demonstrated positive intent toward communities where we live. Before Blacks join chattering classes against ACORN, its work on our behalf should be considered...


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I'm deeply disturbed that after a decade of decline, the number of firearm deaths among children and youth has increased for the second year in a row. Our 2009 Protect Children, Not Guns report released in September reveals that almost nine children and teens die from gunfire every day—one child death every two hours and 45 minutes...


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Yes, it is the foreclosure victims that have been left to fend for themselves. They were the ones marked by the mortgage brokers participating with the Hedge Funds. The Hedge Fund operators have disappeared with their take and the banks/mortgage brokers have been bailed out with about $1 trillion in tax funds. The victims are left with bad credit, financial failure and serious marital and societal ailments that will haunt them for a lifetime...

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Republicans on the rebound

With President Barack Obama's election last November, the Republican Party was left rudderless and adrift at sea, unsure which direction to turn or whom to turn for direction. The crushing defeat of Republicans across the board in 2008 was a resounding rejection of the party's policies under former President George W. Bush.


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The Skanner Foundation's 38th Annual MLK Breakfast