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Top City Staff Earning Total in Excess of $300,000 a year; Overtime Pays Swells Police Officers’ Income | Post News Group
Mayor Libby Schaff City Administrator Ed Reiskin City Attorney Barbara Parker Concerned over budget shortfalls Oakland officials are looking at major cost-saving measures in response to the city’s current pandemic-fueled financial crisis. But often not mentioned in this discussion are the salaries
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Wanted man captured in St Thomas
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Facebook pulls trigger on news content
Facebook today made good on itsthreatto block Australians from accessing or posting news content. The ban includes blocking links to Australian and overseas news publishers. Facebook said the ban was a direct response to the federal government’s news media code legislation, which is expected to
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Byo gallery ropes in children for visual art classes
BY SHARON SIBINDI THE National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) has begun rolling out a series of short videos, Khula Udweba, through social media platforms targeting children to ensure they enhance their knowledge of visual artwork. NGZ director in Bulawayo Butholezwe Nyathi told NewsDay Life & Style
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Texas blackouts fuel false claims about renewable energy – Dallas Post Tribune
ALI SWENSON and ARIJETA LAJKA With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame. “We should never build another wind turbine in Texas,” read a Tuesday Facebook
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Jessica’s Little Otter Candles - Stabroek News
Little Otter Candles, Jessica Alexander says, has emerged from her love for candles and home fragrances and out of many months of research into candle-making. The article Jessica’s Little Otter Candles appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Trinidad was later in ordering COVID vaccines from India - Stabroek News
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago is among the Caribbean countries late to order COVID-19 vaccines. The article Trinidad was later in ordering COVID vaccines from India appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Are Bitcoins Still Worth Buying in 2021? | PensacolaVoice Magazine 2021
Without a doubt, Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that doesn’t need any introduction. For more than a decade people have been talking about it in many different ways. For example, we can see that there are people who were pretty skeptical about the whole concept. At the same time, some people Read More
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The Evelyn Bundy Band: One of the Most Influential Jazz Ensembles of its Time
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Driver Who Allegedly Hit & Killed Nicki Minaj’s Father Turns Himself In
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Pennsylvania lawmaker Malcolm Kenyatta, 30, announces bid for US Senate - TheGrio
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Ace Magashule and others return to court over R255m asbestos case
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule is alleged to have sought gratifications to the tune of R1.1 million rands from one of the recipients of the lucrative asbestos contract
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Some electricity restored in Texas, but water woes grow - DefenderNetwork.com
Power was restored to more homes and businesses Thursday in states hit by a deadly blast of winter that overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold this week. But the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, where many people still lacked safe dr
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Carlton Brown tailored for success
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Op-Ed: Governor Can and Should Stop Predatory Lending in Illinois with the Stroke of His Pen | The Crusader Newspaper Group
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