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/PRNewswire/ -- MagnaCare and the International Association of Fire Fighters Health & Wellness Trust have expanded their relationship to make high-value...

Why Does Fire Fighters’ ‘Fill the Boot’ Charity Fill the Union’s Coffers? Thousands of “panhandlers” in oversized suspenders camp outside of town squares and churches and major intersections every Labor Day. Instead of fast food cups, they plead with passersby to donate what they can into large rubber galoshes, exhorting them to “Fill the boot!” Perhaps that is why they are so well-received by busy motorists. It also helps that these men are standing in front of fire engines. Th...

‘Fill the Boot’ drives by firefighters have raised $20M a year for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, but who’s getting the money? Updated Mar 02, 2021; Posted Mar 02, 2021 Forest Grove Fire & Rescue employees and volunteers hold out their boots for donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association on Aug. 22, 2014. (Dillon Pilorget/Forest Grove Leader) LC- Dillon Pilorget/Forest Grove LeaderLC- Dillon Pilorget/Forest Grove Facebook Share By Bill McMorris | RealClearWire Thousands of “...

By Greg Markley Four years after I attended Jimmy Carter’s inauguration, things were changing. I graduated from college with a bachelor’s in political science (which in that economy could get you a good job with a lot of luck and abundant prayer.) After working as a security guard for nine months, I said what-the-heck why don’t I save money for two months and go to Reagan’s inauguration? On the Amtrak train heading to the nation’s capital, I talked with fellow passenger...

By Greg Markley A character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest says: “What’s past is prologue.” What is happening today follows onto what we were doing then, in preparing for good or evil. So the past is not gone in that it brought us forward to the opportunities and pitfalls of this place and time. The recently revised U.S. Citizenship Test (or Naturalization Exam) has features of the previous one,  from 2008, in questions and themes. But the version of December 2020 has been widely panned ...