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Flood Victims Can Find Coping, Recovery Information at GeorgiaDisaster.info
Victims of this week’s North Georgia flooding can turn to a disaster mental health Web site for the state, www.georgiadisaster.info, for assistance in dealing with the emotional toll of the tragedies...
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New Push For Accessible Housing Legislation Begins As Doors Close On Georgia’s Easy Living Home Program
Imagine not being able to enter your own bathroom, in your own home, because a wheel chair will not fit through the narrow door. Imagine that this forces people into expensive nursing homes away from family and friends because they can’t go home from the hospital. Imagine the consequences ahead for an increasingly aging generation because builders refused to hear, see and act on what is possible...
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Preparedness Vital Amid H1N1 Threat, Hurricane Season
Ready Georgia is partnering with The Home Depot stores across Georgia for the second consecutive year to bring the message of preparedness to thousands of families during The Home Depot’s monthly Kids Workshop on September 5... 
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Why Speaker Pelosi Should Step Down
Prior to her now infamous press conference last week, Speaker Pelosi insisted that the CIA had not told her in 2002 that waterboarding and other enhanced techniques were being used. In contrast, Leon Panetta, the current CIA director, wrote a memo last Friday to CIA employees in which he stated that "our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of [Al Qaeda terrorist] Abu Zubaydah...
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Isakson Praises Passage of Legislation to Investigate Economic Crisis
Says Isakson, “The only way to get an objective evaluation of where mistakes were made is to create an independent commission of experts to ask what went right, what went wrong and what could we have done to prevent this. We need a forensic audit of the laws of the United States as it relates to the financial markets and our economy"...
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Georgia Pharmacist Travels to Washington to Stand Up for Community Pharmacies and Patients
Tim Short of Sawnee Drug Co. is urging Congress and the Obama Administration to utilize the assistance of community pharmacies in the development of a health care reform plan enhances patient care....
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Obama, Netanyahu lay out Iran, Palestinian divides
US President Barack Obama on Monday held crucial talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which highlighted divisions on confronting Iran and the notion of a Palestinian state. (May 18) - watch this video...
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Obama Speaks on Fuel-Efficiency Standards
Live! From the White House - President Barack Obama Holds News Conference. (May 19)...
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300,000 Petition Signatures Delivered to Notre Dame Board Members
Those opposing the University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Barack Obama at commencement have signed a petition at a site called NotreDameScandal.com, in hopes that the University will withdraw its invitation...
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Is Cap And Trade Just A Big Tax?
Is Cap-N-Trade just another way for the government to get more tax revenue from the American people or is it a real attempt to cleanup our air?
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