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02/15/13

February marks American Heart Month, a nationwide initiative to raise awareness in the effort to combat heart disease and educate communities on prevention and treatment options. Heart-related illness is still the leading cause of death in the United States, with one in every three deaths resulting...

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Donna Edwards

Gun Safety

02/14/13

Chocolates, flowers, pink cards with massive glitter, and safe communities are on our minds this Valentine's Day. What? Safe communities? This Valentine's Day, as we think of our own loved ones, we can't help but also think of the families who are missing people due to gun violence--and about the...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Gun Safety

02/14/13

On a day usually associated with candy hearts, red roses and romance, America’s moms will call on Congress to “have a heart” and pass common sense gun laws. MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground grassroots organization with more than 1.1 million members, held a special event at the Lutheran...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health Health Care

02/14/13

The Smart on Pesticides Maryland coalition recently commissioned a poll to learn what Maryland voters’ attitudes towards pesticides are. Guess what? It found that a whopping eight out of 10 voters said they are concerned about the risk of pesticides to their families’ health. (I want to meet the two out of 10 who are not concerned!) When informed about the links to chronic illnesses and environmental problems, that number rose to 92 percent.

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Ruth Berlin

Environmental Health Food!

02/14/13

Corporate farms are ratcheting up their efforts to keep their not-so-savory, and frequently illegal, business practices out of sight. Armed with a series of bills that aim to criminalize undercover investigations and whistleblowing, the industry is going state-by-state in an effort to stop animal...

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Amanda Hitt

Family Economic Security

02/14/13

According to IWPR analysis of the January employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), released February 1, 2013, job growth was stronger for women (102,000 jobs) than men (55,000 jobs), for a total of 157,000 jobs added to nonfarm payrolls during the month of January. In...

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Caroline Dobuzinskis

Environmental Health

02/14/13

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. This year why not show your love the Cool Foods way? 1. CHOCOLATES February 14th is the day that gives you license to indulge in high quality chocolate! And with the current renaissance of independent choco latiers specializing in small batches and...

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Diana Donlon

02/13/13

This week is meant to be a celebration of true love all around the world. We sneak flowers into our loved ones’ offices, send sweet notes to our grandmothers, host Valentine parties in school classrooms, and watch movies like The Princess Bride. Growing up, I knew that you “can’t buy love.” Sadly,...

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Andrea Powell

Childcare & Early Education Blog Carnivals

02/13/13

It’s Black History Month, and when it comes to that history in cartoons, the news hasn’t always been good. For decades cartoons, mostly by the Disney corporation, featured lots of white characters and lots of black stereotypes. But as the song says, the times they are a-changin’. In recent years...

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Martha Burk

Health Care

02/13/13

[Cross-posted from the Rio Arriba Community Health Council Blog. ] Recently, after months of silence, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez became one of several Republicans to blur the Right's anti-socialist line in the sand by adopting Medicaid expansion. As New Mexico is surpassed only by Texas in...

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