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Small Business Owners Represent Lost Opportunity for Recovery

By | 04.20.10 | 6:00 am

Bloomingdale — a pretty neighborhood in central Washington, D.C., with brightly painted Victorian townhouses and wide tree-lined streets — is gentrifying. Ten years ago, it had problems with gangs, robberies and drug-related violence. Today those issues are greatly reduced, thanks in large part to the efforts of the neighborhood’s tight-knit More…

Steele’s ‘Freedom Tour’ Stops at Howard

By | 09.02.09 | 11:52 am

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Michael Steele might have lost them when he talked about hip-hop. Early into his Sept. 1 event at Howard University, a well-promoted affair that filled a small ballroom, the first black chairman of the Republican National Committee went on a tangent about his seven-month-old musings on how the More…

Michael Steele Deals With a Town Hall Protester

By | 09.02.09 | 6:31 am

During Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s speech/town hall meeting Tuesday at Howard University in Washington, a 23-year old college grad/activist named Amanda Duzak got up to ask Steele an angry question about health care, along the lines of the questions Democrats have been asked at town halls in August. More…