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Region Five Development Commission's Five Year Report for 2012-2016 was approved by resolution at the 2016 Annual Meeting. "This publication shares the vast breadth and depth of R5DC's body of work over the last five years, however it is the strength of the relationships that were necessary to accomplish shared successes," said Chuck Parins, Board Chair.
Katherine Snedaker says she has had 20 concussions, the first three decades ago from a car accident when she was 16. But it wasn't until her son suffered a series of concussions in the sixth grade, around 2008, that she felt compelled to learn all she could about head injuries to help him recover. During her journey of learning, she has become a nationally known advocate for better research, medical care, and support for girls and women with brain injuries, including concussions.
President-elect Donald Trump said he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. >> President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month.
US President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he intends to dissolve his controversial philanthropic foundation to avoid conflicts of interest, but the move was quickly complicated by an ongoing legal probe. Trump's sprawling portfolio of US and overseas business interests and holdings, as well as his Donald J. Trump Foundation, have come under increased scrutiny in the weeks since his election, and the shuttering of his charity would be his first big step to avoid a brewing storm of potential conflicts of interest.
A loophole in federal law allows Environmental Protection Agency employees and other federal workers get away with deleting millions of official records created using cellphone text messaging, according to government transparency experts. The Federal Records Act and EPA policy allow individual employees who create and receive cell phone text messages to decide whether a particular one constitutes a federal record before deleting or preserving it.
A man who pretended to be a U.S. Navy SEAL who could rescue kidnapped workers for a Chicago aid agency was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, prosecutors said. William Burley, 36, formerly of Yucaipa, Calif., was also ordered to pay full restitution of $32,454 to International Aid Services America, or IAS, a non-profit Christian aid group that provides clean water in Africa, authorities said.
Between Trump's secret tax returns and Pence's own email scandal, open government advocates have a lot of questions. As a single party takes the presidency and both houses of Congress, the normal oversight system of checks and balances becomes endangered.
From left, Katelynn Curry, Trish Hastings, Sara Hastings, and William Hastings, 2, pet Miley, a 4-year-old female mastiff, at the Merry Pitmas Adoption Event at PetSmart on Saturday. Rebel Rescue, a Victoria nonprofit tasked with finding homes for pit bulls, bulldogs, boxers and other "bully breeds," relies on donations to continue operation.
Only four of the original 24 Obamacare health co-ops remain standing after Maryland's co-op announced Dec. 8 it was suspending the sale of individual health insurance policies, the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has found. With the near-collapse of Maryland's co-op - called Evergreen Health - at least 989,000 individuals nationwide have lost their health insurance coverage when the nonprofit co-ops stopped selling insurance to customers, according to TheDCNF's tally.
With the costs of healthcare rising under Obamacare, consumers need to keep a few things in mind when navigating the complexities of the healthcare system. Robin Gelburd, president of FAIR Health , a national, independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance, provides five key things for consumers to keep in mind when considering healthcare plans.
Richard Spencer, the face of a white-nationalist group that gained notoriety and momentum after Donald Trump's election, has been allowed by the federal government to operate his nonprofit organization in financial secrecy for the past three years. Spencer's think tank, the National Policy Institute, has not filed financial returns with the federal government since 2013, according to a database of nonprofit records.
Trump and Kellyanne Conway celebrate the president-elect's victory on Nov. 9. Conway told MSNBC today that Trump was going back on a previous campaign promise and threat toward Hillary Clinton. Trump met with the New York Times reporters and editorial staff on Tuesday, reversing some of his campaign pledges and clarifying statements he made earlier in the day.
The judge wrote that a group suing the IRS "has made a strong showing of a likelihood of success" on its claim that its free speech rights were violated. Judge to IRS: 'Strong showing' on Tea Party bias claim The judge wrote that a group suing the IRS "has made a strong showing of a likelihood of success" on its claim that its free speech rights were violated.
Donald Trump is getting a $10 million advertising boost from a super PAC attacking Hillary Clinton as too scandal-plagued for the White House. With this late ad buy, Future 45 and a companion nonprofit group are now the top big-money helper to the Republican presidential nominee.
This election could be a flashpoint in American history in which nonreligious voters finally eclipse major religious groups in terms of turnout and influence. More than 26 million voters with no religion could turn out on Nov. 8, dwarfing the group's previous electoral participations and, for the first time, providing the power to sway the direction of the country, according to a new analysis of data on religious affiliation and voting by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes the separation of church and state.
The Democratic National Committee moved Monday to discredit Project Veritas Action after the conservative group released a third undercover video alleging that the party engaged in illegal campaign coordination. In a statement, DNC spokesman Adam Hodge advised voters to "consider the source," referring to Project Veritas president James O'Keefe.
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions joins Donald Trump on stage at a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala., on August 21, 2015. A "dark money ally" of Hillary Clinton is calling on the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., alleging Alabama's junior senator violated Senate rules for casting doubt on the legitimacy of the upcoming election, according to a complaint filed by the group on Monday.
Residents of Cleveland's East Side and the city's eastern suburbs packed into Bethany Baptist Church in the Glenville neighborhood Saturday to hear what candidates for Congress, the Ohio House and the local judiciary candidates had to say about issues impacting their neighborhood. The "We the People Candidates Forum" was hosted by Stand Up for Ohio , a non-profit organization that operates statewide and works to "achieve racial, social and economic justice for all Ohioans," according to the group's website.
Eckrich, the makers of naturally hardwood smoked sausage and savory deli meats, teamed up with Safeway and Operation Homefront, a national nonprofit whose mission is to build strong, stable, and secure military families, to honor an Oak Harbor, Wash. military family on Thursday.