Montana GOP faces call to drop anti gay platform planks
In Montana the Republican Party still keeps a policy to keep homosexual acts illegal, a stance criticized by state senators and rights groups as out of step with public opinion and legal reality after Gryczan v Montana and Lawrence v Texas.
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Helena
Mont
Republican Party
Montana
Montana Supreme Court
GOP
John Brueggeman
R-Polson
Republi
Can Party
U.S. Supreme Court
Texas
Washington, D.C
Montana Gop
Bowen Greenwood
State Supreme Court
Gryczan
R-Porson
Greenwood
Supreme Court
University of Montana
Jack Tuholske
Lawrence
Montana Human Rights Network
Kim Abbott
Bahamas reward muddied by multiple claimants in Barefoot Bandit case
FBI contemplates $10,000 reward for Colton Harris-Moore as Bahamas and Pacific Northwest backers push for payment. Kenny Strachan and other claimants face a tangle of eyewitness reports and competing interests while Harris-Moore remains jailed in SeaTac.
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Seattle
Kenny
Bahamas
FBI
Colton Harris-Moore
Royal Bahamas
Kenny Strachan
Barefoot Bandit
Romora Bay
Harbour Island
Harris-Moore
Strachan
SeaTac
Jared Johnson
Eleuthera Island
Frederick
Neely
Johnson
Eleuthera
Abaco
Ronald Billiot
Picasso
Jordan Sackett
Richard Sackett
Pat Young
Romera Bay
Harris- Moore
Pacific Northwest
Camano Chamber of Commerce
Mike Rocha
Everett
Wash
Rocha
Seattle Times
Small nonprofits face loss of tax-exempt status nationwide
The Pension Protection Act threatens about 325,000 small groups earning under 25,000 yearly with losing tax-exempt status if they do not file required returns by 2009, despite many operating with minimal staff and modest aims like education and charitable aid. The IRS urges compliance as nonprofits across the country scramble to meet the deadline.
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Chicago
New Orleans
Bob Chodos
American Red Cross
Chodos
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
United States
Doug Shulman
Aisha Ruther
Academy of Early Scholars
Roseland
Englewood
Ruther’s
Rather
Ellen Clark
Wilmette Public
Psi Chi
Michele Rumpf
A. Michael Gellman
Washington, D.C
Gellman
Katie Roeger
The
Urban Institute
National Center For Charitable Statistics
Roeger
GuideStar
Mary Carter
Carter
Tax credits embolden energy gains and college costs
The Nonbusiness Energy Property Credit offers 30 percent back up to 1500 for 2009 2010 improvements. The American Opportunity Tax Credit covers up to 2500 for higher education costs. Many nonprofits face loss of tax exempt status under new IRS rules and 990 N e post card filings.
Study links APOL1 mutation to kidney disease in African Americans
Harvard University researchers report that a common APOL1 gene mutation may partly explain why African Americans have higher kidney disease risk. The study, using 1000 Genomes data, finds 30 percent of African American chromosomes carry the variant and those with kidney failure more often have two copies. Clinicians note potential for targeted risk detection and early intervention.
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Philadelphia
Harvard University
Martin Pollak
Pollak
Science Magazine
Lawrence Holzman
University of Pennsylvania
Holzman
Penn
Sarah Tishkoff
Harvard
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