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  Simpsons' Stamps Overprinted, but Celebrity Stamps Can be Moneymakers
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  The dwindling strength—and, debatably, importance—of the United States Postal Service (USPS) means that stamps may become more important to collectors than to customers looking to mail letters. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Collector stamps are a way for postal organizations around...

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  USPS and Congress Both Failing to Adjust to Changed Reality
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  I admit I am a romantic when it comes to the postal service. I grew up sending letters home from camp. I established long distance romances through the post as I got older. And every time I see an article about disintegrating service from the USPS I still hear The Marvelettes chirping in my...

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  North Korea's New Leader: Kim Jong Un
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  On Wednesday, December 28, 2011, North Koreans stood in snowy and freezing weather to pay respect to the death of their fallen leader, Kim Jong-il. The funeral procession took place in Pyongyang, North Korea where thousands of citizens stood at the side wailing and crying. Kim Jong-il's son,...

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  FAA Shutdown
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  The Federal Aviation Administration was partially shut down over the weekend of 7/23/11 because Congress was not able to approve new funding legislation before the agency's funding expired. As a result, more than 4,000 airport workers were on a temporary leave of absence. Essential employees,...

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  Why Bother Prohibiting Hemp Production?
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  Many of us would like to dissociate with a family member at one time or another to preserve our own reputations. We have that in common with the industrial hemp crop, which cannot seem to escape the shadow of its notorious “cousin”—recreational marijuana. These varieties of the same species...

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  Marijuana Legalization Plowing Forward, But Its Future Not Guaranteed
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  With recreational use of marijuana legal in Colorado and Washington, and little definitive opposition coming from the White House, marijuana advocates and the media discuss the pro-marijuana policy as moving full steam ahead. Rolling Stone , for example, came out with a list of the next...

• Department of Homeland Security
  Article by Merle E Ackeret

  A description of the transition from separate authorities to a use of federal resources in local affairs.

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  Public-Sector Union Transparency
  Article by Benjamin DeGrow

  Should federal and state laws enforce greater financial transparency from government unions to their members and to t...

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  Frank Marshall Davis: Barack Obama’s “Communist” Uncle Frank
  Article by Lawrence Hogan

  For me, he was someone who in 1977 I needed to interview for my dissertation research. Unbeknownst to me at the time,...

• Should the United States Kill Americans Abroad?
  Topic by Saideh P Jamshidi
• Raleigh, North Carolina Z-4-13 New Hope Road Zoning 101
  Article by Lillian L Thompson
• Neuroscience for Military and Civilian Law Enforcement Applications: The Need for Transparency
  Article by Charles F Barnaby
• "Protecting" Women from the Front Lines Holds Them Back
  Topic by Nora G Hertel