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Randy "Duke" Cunningham
The Union-Tribune reveals that Rep. Cunningham was involved in shady dealings with MZM, a Washington, DC-based defense contractor--a bribe that contributed to ending the congressman's career and sending him to prison. Reporters also detail Cunningham's relationship with California military contractor Brent Wilkes, identified as Coconspirator No. 1 in the federal corruption case against Cunningham.
Tags: Randy Cunningham; Duke Cunningham; House of Representatives; Congress; corruption; bribery; conspiracy; Mitchell Wade; Federal Elections Commission; MZM Inc; PAC; ADCS; Brent Wilkes; CAR; Federal Aviation Administration; Lear
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From Welfare to Work
The Detroit News and Free Press four-day series reports that "Two years before Congress passed legislation in 1996 calling for welfare reform, the state of Michigan launched Work First, a program that demands welfare recipients look for a job if they want to continue receiving benefits. Beginning (Sunday,) we look at the human stories behind the issue - at how these reforms have challenged some Michigan residents...."
Tags: Welfare-to-work; foster care; ADC; poverty; homelessness; policy; barriers; transportation; child care
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American Dreams. Why homeless families are on the rise in Columbus
The Columbus Guardian investigates why homeless families are on the rise in Columbus. Many of the families are headed by single mothers who, while working, can only find low-wage, service sector jobs, without benefits, that do not pay enough money for home ownership.
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No title (id: 9576)
Sierra Magazine reports on the Federal Animal Damage Control program, an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and how it killed 2.2 million wild animals in 1992; the majority of those animals were birds, but a large minority of them were coyotes, foxes, mountain lions, and wolves; reveals how ADC hunters often violate federal and state laws by killing endangered animals for sport, such as the Bald Eagle, November/December 1993. # Schueler Sierra Club
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No title (id: 8862)
Buzzworm Magazine reports on the U.S. government's Bureau of Biological Survey and the Animal Damage Control program and their century - old efforts to kill wolves and coyotes and drive them out of the Western United States; finds that the program has had a negative impact on the West, while exacerbating the problems they seek to solve, January/February 1993.