Quick — What do the sidewalk on E. Main St. and the surface of the sun have in common? Easy. You can fry eggs on either one of them.
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Today we’d like to recommend a superior website. It’s the Public Conversations Project. The Beaufort County Board of Education and the Beaufort County Commissioners would be well [...]
Representative G. K. Butterfield gets the Endless Chain Pig Club "Best of the State" Award for July 2006. What a man. 1. Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 — PASSEDThe 1965 law instituted a nationwide prohibition against voting discrimination based on race, eliminated [...]
The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) provides employment-related protections to migrant and seasonal agricultural workers and is administered and enforced by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employment Standards Administration.
Every non-exempt farm labor contractor, agricultural employer, and agricultural association must:
Disclose the terms and conditions of [...]
Barbara Barrett wrote a fascinating article which is featured on the front page of the the News and Observer today. It must be killing Stan Deatherage, known for his flowery, overblown rhetoric, to see his words reduced to such paltry verbage.
A few choice quotes from the article:
But Beaufort also has one of [...]
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Please be assured that your views and concerns will be given seriousconsideration. It is Senator Basnight’s sincere desire to serve thepeople of our great State to the best of his ability, and to do so, hemust be kept informed. You have contributed greatly in that regard andwe do appreciate [...]
Pause midway between your second hot dog and your third soda at your Fourth of July picnic and think about this:
From Second Harvest
* Over 9 million children are estimated to be served by the America’s Second Harvest Network, over 2 million of which are ages 5 and under, representing nearly 13% of all children [...]
“Blown away, my Oklahoma home is blown away…”
mister, as I bent to kiss hershe was picked up by a twister.
Top 5 Myths About the Fourth of July!By HNN Staff
#1 Independence Was Declared on the Fourth of July.
America’s independence was actually declared by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. The night of the second the [...]
“Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-First Century” is a three-part, seven-chapter book that explores the major labor migration flows around the world and how countries are managing them. Particular attention is focused on the extremes of the job ladder, the migration of professionals such as IT specialists as well as unskilled farm workers. All of the programs examined are controversial, suggesting that there is no magic formula for moving workers across borders.
This is where tax dollars should be spent.
The East Coast Migrant Head Start Project.