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‘They take the easy way out to please the electorate.’

South Gloucestershire Council’s Waypoint team supports children to move out of residential care or stay with their foster carers or families.

From the blog of David Walk at The Times of Israel

Although larger in-person celebrations and parades have been canceled or postponed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, find ways to celebrate, virtually.

The funnyman recently performed for inmates in the city

In regards to the opinion piece “Pandemic numbers give cloudy picture” (Thinking Aloud, Trudy Klassen, Jan. 7), perhaps at least one other factor ought to be considered:  the potential deaths we could have had, had restrictions not been put in place.   The experience of our neighbors to the south (as one example) is instructive. The U.S. mortality rate for 2020, as compared to 2019, is the largest percentage increase since 1918/1919, and far exceeds the annual increases seen over the p...

705 At the end of August 1993, I had completed my mandatory two-year national service with The Mirror and, therefore, stopped receiving the service allowance. Luckily for me, even though new service persons — Michael MacDonald Tetteh Nyarko Crabbe and Andrews Sylvanus Kwesi Biney had joined The Mirror, I was encouraged to stay on and contribute to the paper as a stringer. I was paid according to the number of stories I filed for the paper. Being a weekly newspaper, it meant that I had to work...

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