Churches guide poor to work through mentoring push
Churches across the country are replacing passive aid with mentoring helping welfare recipients gain housing, jobs, and stability. Volunteers support individuals like Tammy Spencer in Austin and Sandra Padron in Holland, Michigan, guiding budgeting, schooling, and car repair while linking to housing and childcare.
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Tammy Spencer
Sandra Padron
Spencer
America
Hhuve
Ronald Moore
Faith and Families
Mississippi
Austin
Rolls
Michigan
Padron
Holland
Mich
Texas
Maryland
Virginia
Indiana
Preserving Marginalia in the Digital Archives Era
Historians fear future research will lose the marginal notes and internal edits embedded in government records as agencies shift from paper to computerized files. Experts urge capturing who wrote and revised, not just final memos, amid debates over disposal rules and archival mandates. Public Citizens and others sued over a 1995 directive allowing agency deletion of computerized records after copies.
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Washington
Joan Hoff
Richard Nixon
National Archives
Halal Pauert
Nixon
Hoff
Republic
David Bearman
En Electronica
Bearman
Pittsburgh
Archives and Museum Informatics
John Carling
Kansas
Public Citizens
Hundreds of travelers stranded on grounded planes at Milwaukee airport
Milwaukee faced a Christmas Eve logjam as heavy Chicago snow stranded hundreds of travelers. United Flight 952 from Los Angeles and Flight 1536 from Orange County sat on planes for over five hours before cancellations. Passengers reported water loss and toilets failing. only two agents aided travelers overnight.
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Milwaukee
Chicago
United Airlines
Los Angeles
United
O’hare International
Tony Molinaro
Orange County
Calif
Mitchell International
O’ Hare
Molinaro
Vranich
Irvine
Croft Long
Little Rock
Ark
Laurel and Hardy
Long
Costa Mesa
Monique Bond
Archives brace for computer data avalanche
The National Archives received 5 720 computerized files between 1971 and 1988 and now holds 100 000 files, bracing for an influx of up to 8 million more as the Clinton administration ends. Negotiations with the State Department seek electronic transfers of 1.5 million diplomatic messages from 1973 to 1975, amid rapid tech obsolescence and format changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Archives
Clinton
Kenneth Thibodeau
State Department
Census Bureau
Maine
Jim Henderson
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Jim Wallis
Sojourners
Amy Sherman
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Charlottesville
Odessa
Municipal Plaza
4Th and Lee Street
Bossy Joe Smith
THE
ZEN Buzzards
Presidential Museum
6Th and Lee Street
Lone Star Brass
Tina Duckett
Betty Pinkerton
Margaret Duval
Renee Witherspoon
City of Odessa
Energas
Southwestern Bell
Heritage
Newsncenter
Kedm97
Sale & Clearanc
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