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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 21, 2012

  From our US prisons, an estimated 700,000 prison inmates are being released into society each year. Query: If law-abiding citizens and college graduates without criminal records are having horrific problems finding jobs in this dismal economy, how can ex-cons find legitimate, non-criminal work? With rising prison costs decimating state budgets, more early releases of [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 20, 2012

  In North Carolina, a high school social studies teacher at North Rowan High went ballistic against students who weren’t in lockstep with her ideology or didn’t genuflect at the wonder of Pres. Obama. She shouts at one boy that he could be arrested for speaking ill of the president. That’s true — if we [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 19, 2012

  Let the chaos begin… More than 3,100 Chicago police officers, many in battle gear, are out on the streets of the Windy City today through the weekend. They will be protecting citizens and delegates at the NATO summit that is slotted to begin there today. Security monitoring is no small feat to keep violence [...]

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