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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 9, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Apr 28, 2013
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Most Wikipedia contributors are men, but that doesn’t justify the fact that females are so poorly represented on the site; much to many priests’ chagrin, the Roman Catholic Church unwittingly bought part of a building that houses Europe’s largest gay sauna; meanwhile, ZIP codes serve as more than just locating devices as they have come to define identities and divide communities. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Feb 16, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 10, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss the war over drones that has erupted during confirmation hearings for John Brennan as CIA director. Should the president be allowed to use unmanned drones to execute a U.S. citizen overseas without due process or judicial review?
Posted on Feb 8, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 8, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Feb 7, 2013
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Struggling under the weight of mandatory future retiree benefit payments, the U.S. Postal Service said it would move to a five-day schedule in August to save $2 billion a year.
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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After losing $41 billion over the last five years, the inspector general of the USPS has warned that America’s postal service will go out of business this year unless Congress acts to save it.
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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Fox News used the words “deceiving” and “dazzling” to describe Paul Ryan’s speech at the GOP convention; British support of possible American military intervention in Syria could signal another blunder as terrible as the Iraq War; meanwhile, Israeli ex-soldiers finally admit to heinous treatment of Palestinian children. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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The money-losing USPS is offering buyouts to 45,000 mail handlers as it moves to slash its payroll and cut the number of processing centers around the country by nearly half.
Posted on May 26, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Feb 26, 2012
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Facing a shortfall of a few billion dollars, the U.S. Postal Service is planning to drop 220,000 full-time jobs and close 3,700 post offices and 300 processing centers by 2015, while scaling back services and cutting retirement benefits. And that’s after laying off 110,000 employees since 2007. (more)
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The United States Postal Service can’t pay its bills, and management is asking Congress for money and concessions, including eliminating 220,000 jobs. This, despite agreeing in May not to lay off workers. (more)
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons, The Denver Post —
Posted on Nov 19, 2010
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After losing about $7 billion this fiscal year, the U.S. Postal Service may shut down as many as 700 local post offices. The postmaster general has also asked Congress to approve cutting deliveries to five days a week.
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