Month: August 2013

Features

Make Your Home Safer for Your Family

August 31, 2013 Family Features Editorial Syndicate

Tips to keep your children safe from a hidden danger (Family Features) Filled with mesmerizing trinkets and gadgets – your home is a new and exciting world for your small child to explore. But this new world can introduce serious and sometimes surprising safety issues that many parents do not realize are risks. Hidden concerns in common household devices As your children happily toddle around your home, they may come in contact with unknown safety

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Georgia Commemorates 50th anniversary of ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

August 29, 2013 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — Senator Emanuel Jones, D-Decatur, chairman of the Martin Luther King Jr. Advisory Council, this week  joined State and local leaders on the top of Stone Mountain to mark the anniversary of the historic March on Washington, and to Let Freedom Ring from Stone Mountain, as mentioned in Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech 50 years ago. “It was an honor to take part in such a special celebration of Dr. King’s legacy

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Chambliss: Time ‘to act in a serious way’ on Syria

August 29, 2013 Express Telegraph

The vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee this week said it is time for the United States “to act in a serious way” on Syria. “Based on available intelligence, there can be no doubt the Assad regime is responsible for using chemical weapons on the Syrian people,” U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said in a statement. “It is time for the United States to act in a serious way, and send a clear

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Are You Passing Down the Wrong Family Traditions?

August 29, 2013 Special to Express Telegraph

High blood pressure ran in Dee Louis-Scott’s family, along with a talent for preparing delicious, beautiful meals that kept everyone at the table for hours. “I hear many families with a history of medical problems who say they can’t do anything about it because it’s ‘genetics,’ ” says Louis-Scott, author of “Believe in the Magic,” www.mattiefisher.com, an inspirational biography of her late mother, Mattie Fisher. “But for families like ours it wasn’t just ‘genetics.’ It

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Feds won’t challenge pot laws in Colorado, Washington

August 29, 2013 Express Telegraph

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it will not stand in the way of voter-approved initiatives in Colorado and Washington to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Last November, voters in both states passed initiatives to allow the recreational use of marijuana; Oregon voters turned back a similar initiative. Regardless of the vote, marijuana remains “an illegal drug under the Controlled Substances Act and that federal prosecutors will continue to aggressively

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Alexander: ‘Train wreck is coming with’ Obamacare

August 29, 2013 Express Telegraph

The senior Republican on the U.S. Senate health committee this week said Americans should be concerned about the continual delays in implementing Obamacare. “I’ve been warning that a train wreck is coming with this law, but the truth is that no train wreck has ever had this many warning signs,” U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said in a statement. “The avalanche of last-minute delays should make every American anxious about the quality of the health

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Feds: All legal same-sex marriages recognized for federal tax purposes

August 29, 2013 Express Telegraph

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today ruled that same-sex couples, legally married in jurisdictions that recognize their marriages, will be treated as married for federal tax purposes. The ruling applies regardless of whether the couple lives in a jurisdiction that recognizes same-sex marriage or a jurisdiction that does not recognize same-sex marriage. The ruling implements federal tax aspects of the June 26th Supreme Court decision invalidating