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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 3, 2012

  He was only 43. Such a tragedy, such a loss. Former NFL linebacker Junior Seau’s shocking suicide yesterday not only have so many people grieving, but many are asking “why”? Brain injury from repeated head trauma he endured while playing the game he loved so much may prove to have been the catalyst for [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | April 29, 2012

  Perhaps the spendthrift General Services Administration — top GSA administrator Jeff Neely, in particular — needs to have its own special chaperones like Obama’s Secret Service is getting. Hallelujah, more jobs created under Obama’s leadership! From Los Angeles Times, Scandal over GSA junket won’t affect travel spending, experts say: In Washington, another scandal has [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | April 25, 2012

  What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. The excessive spending at a lavish 2010 Las Vegas conference by four General Services Administration officials has been investigated in House Oversight and Government Reform hearings for about a week now. And it’s not looking good for those being investigated. Criminal charges have been recommended. [...]

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