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Dr. Bruce Corrie examines existing Minnesota statutes relative to commonly suggested policies for supporting small and minority businesses. Bruce Corrie is also behind ethnictrends.info. That and his Ethnic Trends blog are great reads on minority affairs in Minnesota. The former is more data driven, the latter is more commentary. Share this Post:
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According to MinnPost, she “breezed through her confirmation hearing.” The Senate Judiciary Committee approved her nomination to be U.S. marshal for the District of Minnesota by voice vote, suggesting her nomination won’t face strident opposition when it goes to the Senate floor. UPDATE 12/28/09: Confirmed! Share this Post:
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House Passes Health Reform Bill with Key LGBT Provisions The version of the health care reform bill that passed in the House of Representatives last weekend contains the following provisions that would benefit LGBT Americans: Health Disparities – the bill specifically designates LGBT people as a health disparities population, opening up health data collection and grant...
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Family Equality Council: FEC applauds inclusion of LGBT families in the Housing and Urban Development programs The U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced a series of proposals to ensure that HUD programs are open to all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity as well as the first-ever nationwide survey of...
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Gay Couples Law Blog: Florida Decision on Gay Hospital Visitation Rights Affects Straight Couples Too he United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida dismissed a lawsuit brought by a woman who wasn’t allowed to visit her dying same sex partner in a hospital. The woman had all the proper documents, but the...
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Arizona Daily Star: State drops domestic-partner benefits Domestic partners are being eliminated from state employee benefits just a year after they were added to the benefits plan. A bill signed by Gov. Jan Brewer redefined a “dependent,” canceling the rule change made by Gov. Janet Napolitano that allowed domestic partners to receive benefits. Also eliminated are children...
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Gay Couples Law Blog: DOMA Prevents Government From Incentivizing Good Behavior in Same Sex Relationships Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act is not just about equality–it’s also about encouraging socially beneficial behavior in gay relationships. That statement by itself is an important one to remember. The government does this all the time. Like the fact that...
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Advocate.com: Minorities Make Up Half of DADT Firings While racial minorities account for approximately 29% of active service members, according to the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, about 45% of the 640 men and women discharged under “don’t ask, don’t tell” in fiscal year 2008 were nonwhite…. Women, who make up 15% of all armed forces,...
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Advocate.com: DOMA Repeal Bill Coming Next Week …Democratic representatives Jerrold Nadler of New York, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, and Jared Polis of Colorado will be introducing legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act next Tuesday. Nadler told the Bay Area Reporter in July that the bill would amount to a full repeal of DOMA, including...
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MnIndy runs a report on how Wells Fargo hates poor, brown, and poor brown people but loves their money. former loan officer for Wells Fargo testified in one affidavit that employees regularly referred to minority borrowers as “mud people” and called subprime mortgages “ghetto loans.” In the latest development, a Superior Court Judge in Los...
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