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At the beginning of each new year, many people make a list of resolutions to keep in the coming months, such as losing weight or learning a new skill. As you make your list, don't forget to consider wise financial goals for the year ahead. The Oregon Society of CPAs suggests you adopt these smart resolutions.


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(NNPA) - I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the 1960s, and on the gritty streets of Brooklyn, NY, my life truly began to take course even though I had not even reached my 13th birthday yet.


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Although House and Senate versions of the health care reform bill are weaker than they should be, the legislation making its way to President Barack Obama's desk is far better than merely maintaining the status quo.


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(NNPA) - As I watched the events unfolding in Copenhagen, Denmark at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) for those two weeks in December, I could not help but feel frustrated and energized at the same time. Frustrated because once again the world's poor—African, Caribbean, Latin American, Asian and small island nations in particular—have had to justify their necessity to have a quality-filled life.


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(NNPA) - The greatest civil rights leader in history taught each and every one of us invaluable lessons throughout his short time on earth. Absorbing his teachings, readings and speeches, we have been able to peacefully highlight injustice whenever and wherever we see it, and demand equality in a forthright and sustainable way.


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(NNPA) -- Many December holidays – Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa alike – involve the lighting of candles. This symbolizes the spirit of peace, hope, and new beginnings, illuminating the winter days and warming the soul.


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The Tiger Woods' women count is up to 20. That's the number of women who haven't gone to bed with the world's busiest golfer. Until now, I have managed to stay away from this subject. But in many ways, the reaction to Tiger's fall from grace says more about us as a society than Woods' personal problems.


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(NNPA) - Almost every night they go to bed a little hungry. Many, actually don't even possess a bed to sleep in. The blustery winter winds scrape against their barely covered skin as they humbly beg for food, money and shelter. The lucky ones stay with friends or in motels, but many simply call the streets home. Their health is deteriorating, and their chances for survival diminish with each passing cruel day.


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(NNPA) - As one of the first to defend President Obama's selection for the Nobel Peace Prize, I also believe that his speech was much more than an adequate expression of the contradictions in which he found himself by being selected.


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While activists like Felicia Davis, Kari Fulton, Bennett College student Hershelle Gaffney, and others have been in Copenhagen since the COP15 conference began, members of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies' Commission to Engage African Americans in Climate Change arrived in Copenhagen on Sunday, Dec. 13.


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