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If You're Looking For A Link To the Mueller Report, Look No Further
Editor's Note:
We're not downloading the entire Mueller report, but here is the Justice Department URL to read the report at:
Report On the Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Election, Vol I and II; Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf?_ga=2.80421777.744576135.1555603755-461170982.1555603755
Mueller received the following military awards and decorations:
Simply Being a Woman is No Longer a Preexisting Condition: August 1st, 2012, Essential Preventive Health Care Services
Previously some insurance companies did not cover these preventive services for women at all under their health plans, while some women had to pay deductibles or copays for the care they needed to stay healthy. The new rules in the health care law requiring coverage of these services take effect at the next renewal date – on or after Aug. 1, 2012 — for most health insurance plans. more »
In Search of a Job: Criminal Records as Barriers to Employment
Amy L. Solomon relates her testimony: I am writing this letter … out of desperation and to tell you a little about the struggles of re-entering society as a convicted felon." Thus began a letter that made its way to me at the US Department of Justice. "I have had numerous interviews and sent out more than 200 resumes for jobs which I am more than qualified. I have had denial after denial because of my felony." more »
Trazando la Línea/Tracing the Line: Past, Present and Future of Cross-border Communities
"The border region is thought of as a place of violence, poverty, trafficking and pollution — sometimes and in some places it is — but it is also place of everyday life where both sides work together, shop, get married; it's a third nation. the third nation will be here when the walls have fallen, exactly in this place where it already lives." more »
Beginning with Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears To The Book Thief; A Summertime Book List
The NEH Summer Booklist offers suggestions of 238 books recommended for young readers. The list includes newer works such as Coraline, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and The Book Thief. “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” ― C.S. Lewis
Aardema, Verna and Leo & Diane Dillon
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A W… more »