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Super Bowl advertising fails to reflect diversity of audience, study shows
Business & Pleasure of Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsSuper Bowl television commercials, and the advertising agencies producing them, remain out of step with the diversity of the audience for the nation???s most popular sporting event, according to a study released Wednesday at the University of Central...Tags: Faith Hill, Education, Super Bowl, Groupon, Inc., Danica Patrick
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Redistricting coming to Gloucester in 2011
Who's on Team Gloucester?Redistricting is coming to Gloucester next year and there's already a difference of opinion on how it should go and the responsibilities of county supervisors. Supervisor Michelle Ressler, who is up for re-election, thinks it is the supervisors'...Tags: Elections, Local Elections
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Deciphering the proposed constitutional amendments
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsAfter picking candidates, voters in Tuesday???s election will be confronted with proposed amendments to the state Constitution. They???re on critical issues: reforming the way legislative districts are drawn, changing the system governing land use plans,...Tags: Bill Clinton, Florida, Land Resources, Politics, Natural Resources
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Obama at NAACP: 'Next 100 years'
The Swampby Mark Silva One hundred years ago, black boys and girls attended school separately from white boys and girls, by law, in many parts of the United States, home of the free. One hundred years ago, black men and women......Tags: Schools, Academic Progress, Private Health Care, Politics, Labor Legislation
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Obama, racial politics and taking sides
The Swampby Peter Wallsten By inserting himself Wednesday night into the case of an arrested Harvard University professor, President Obama made the most overt step of his tenure into the nation's racial politics. The measured and cautious Obama that Americans...Tags: Police Arrests, Racism, Louisiana, Politics, Prosecution
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Supreme Court: Chicago firefighters up
The Swampby David G. Savage The Supreme Court plunged back today into the legal fight over firefighters, test scores and accusations of racial discrimination, this time to decide when the disappointed candidates must file a lawsuit. At issue is whether the......Tags: Politics, Labor Legislation, Sonia Sotomayor, Government, Disasters and Accidents
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Health-care league: Public (not) optional
The Swampby Noam N. Levey The left may be livid at Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Senate Democratic leaders who caved to his demand to remove any public option from the healthcare bill that Democrats are pushing to pass next week.......Tags: Heads of State, Harry Reid, Democratic Party, Football, Politics
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USDA controversy overshadows financial reform
The Swampby Mike Memoli President Obama signed into law today what he called the "strongest consumer financial protections in history." The passage of financial reform is considered by the White House to be one of its signature achievements, one that will......Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Politics, White House
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White House apologizes to Shirley Sherrod
The Swampby Mike Memoli The White House has apologized to a former USDA employee it now says was fired before the situation involving controversial videotaped comments was fully reviewed. "A disservice was done for which we apologize," White House press secretary....Tags: Georgia, Politics, White House
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Tea party group accuses NAACP of 'racial terror'
The Swampby Kathleen Hennessey A group of black political activists on Wednesday defended the tea party movement against accusations of racism and claimed its critics were using race to shore up support for President Obama and his policies. The news conference.......Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Racism, Republican Party, Illinois, Democratic Party
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Obama at NAACP calls for responsibility
The Swampby John McCormick and Rick Pearson When it comes to African American audiences, some have called Sen. Barack Obama's presidential bid a "dual track" candidacy, one that seeks to prove he is in tune with the needs of the black......Tags: Jesse Jackson, Father's Day, Barack Obama
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McCain asks for "goodwill and counsel"
The Swampby Jill Zuckman Speaking to the NAACP convention today in Cincinnati, Sen. John McCain will describe himself as "an admirer" who hopes to win the votes of members of the venerable civil rights organization. "But whether or not I win......Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama
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