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KCCI Police Fund: Yaktrax To Match Donations (KCCI 8 Des Moines) Help KCCI buy ice and snow traction footgear for Des Moines police. Learn more about how to help with the KCCI Police Fund at KCCI.com. us.rd.yahoo.com
New Year's Eve Moon Pie-raising inspires poetry at Mobile City Council meeting (Mobile Press-Register) Even though it's no longer aloft in Mobile's sky, The Moon Pie is still sparking the imagination of at least one guy. During Tuesday's Mobile City Council meeting, Councilman Clinton Johnson wrote and recited a poem inspired by Councilman Fred... us.rd.yahoo.com
Weaver floats $700,000 referendum idea (The Globe Gazette) MASON CITY — City Councilman Max Weaver said Tuesday Mason City voters could ultimately decide whether $700,000 in city money will go toward the public library renovation. us.rd.yahoo.com
Regional News: Cell phone free train car coming (The Mercury) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Commuters who ride the rails in the Philadelphia area will soon get a break from passengers who insist on yakking on their cell phones. us.rd.yahoo.com
Nigeria: PDP And Challenges of 2009 (AllAfrica.com) Abuja — For the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vincent Ogbulafor, and the other 42 members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, the past 10 months must have been not only eventful but more challenging than they had imagined. us.rd.yahoo.com
Polly Toynbee: It might sound appealing, but this is populist poison (Guardian Unlimited) The ideological gap just yawned yet wider as David Cameron sprang into the New Year with tigerish ferocity. The longer Labour is in power, he said, the worse it gets - for the economy, national debt, crime, education, welfare dependency, the health service and family breakdown; all worse, worse, worse. Broken Britain needs an election now when "change is going to come". But president-elect ... us.rd.yahoo.com
BUDDY THOMAS: First-ever BBA Invitational wasn't perfect, but Burgo looking to build (The Standard-Times) It wasn't a huge financial success, but from a public relations standpoint, Sunday's Burgo's Basketball Association Holiday Invitational was a "giant plus." us.rd.yahoo.com
Pandora: Murray finds outlet for memoirs, despite m'learned friends (Independent) Our former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray is on the verge of celebrating a famous victory in the name of free speech. us.rd.yahoo.com
Nigeria: Why 7-Point Agenda, Vision 20-2020 Would Be a Mirage - Prof Adeyemi, VC, Bellstech (AllAfrica.com) Hunger and the malnourishment that accompanies it diminishes ability of people to learn, work, and care for themselves and their family members which could threaten the realisation of Vision 20-2020 and President Umaru Yar'Adua's seven-point agenda. us.rd.yahoo.com
One man's quest to help the world learn (rediff.com) Eight hundred million people are illiterate. John Wood aims to change that. us.rd.yahoo.com
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