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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 20, 2012

  It’s a somber wake-up call when half of all Florida high school students failed their standardized reading test. And this was after the standards were lowered — the results could have been two-thirds failing. Reported by Yahoo News, Half of Florida high school students fail reading test: Nearly half of Florida high school students [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 18, 2012

  Eighteen years ago in May 1994, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died of cancer at age 64, LA Law and Star Trek: The Next Generation series finales aired, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, and the Toronto NBA franchise unveiled the team name “Raptors” and logo. Also, that was when the last annular solar eclipse occurred [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 15, 2012

  LightSquared, recipient of a shady, fast-track $267 million loan from Team Obama using taxpayer-funded stimulus money, has filed for bankruptcy. This past fall, the White House repeatedly stonewalled on sharing the loan documents with members of Congress, to the point that Sen. Charles Grassley threatened to block Pres. Obama’s FCC nominees until the documents [...]

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