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HERCULES -- David Colby celebrated his 19th birthday this month fretting about where he would live. Now Colby and his sister -- both products of the foster care system -- are pushing Contra Costa County to cover housing costs for foster youths ...
May 19, 2012 at 04:51 | Source: San Jose Mercury News
The country's Financial Stability Fund said Wednesday it had approved the funds' release to banks. The (EURO)18 billion will be split between the National Bank of Greece, Eurobank, Alpha Bank and Bank of Piraeus as part of a (EURO)50 billion ($64 billion ...
May 23, 2012 at 17:17 | Source: Contra Costa Times
When news of the Iran-Contra affair in 1986, Harvard professors believed ... surreptitiously selling weapons to Iran and then using that money to fund the Contras, an anti-communist rebel group located in Nicaragua. “I think [the affair ...
May 22, 2012 at 23:52 | Source: Harvard Crimson
The general fund's unrestricted fund balance (combined committed ... due to the national economic downturn and slow pace of recovery. While western Contra Costa County is well-positioned to participate in the Bay Area's broad and diverse ...
May 25, 2012 at 19:24 | Source: Yahoo Finance
While chief counsel at the non-profit Christic Institute, Mr. Sheehan was the first to challenge the Reagan-Bush administration’s illegal covert sale of arms to Iran to fund a criminal, unconstitutional Contra war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
May 21, 2012 at 22:06 | Source: YAHOO!
The Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific Action Fund is pleased to endorse Tomi Van de Brooke for Contra Costa County Supervisor.  She is a strong supporter of family planning services and preventive health care, including abortion, contraception ...
May 20, 2012 at 23:55 | Source: Patch
Social Security's deteriorating financial health was further confirmed by a recent government report that the program's "trust fund" will be exhausted by 2033 -- three years earlier than previously reported. This bad news is typically attributed ...
May 26, 2012 at 22:58 | Source: Contra Costa Times
The laptop didn’t just fall from the sky. The laptop giveaway was organized by Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia, California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) president Sunne Wright McPeak and iFoster founder Reid Cox. CETF granted iFoster ...
May 15, 2012 at 20:26 | Source: San Francisco Gate
In partnership with the California Emerging Technology Fund, led by former Contra Costa Supervisor Sunne Wright McPeak, the organizations this week launched the initiative and the county declared May Foster Care Month. The grant will subsidize ...
May 15, 2012 at 19:36 | Source: San Jose Mercury News
Morton, who was previously head of investments for the flagship £2 billion BlackRock UK Real Estate fund, has joined Henley as a partner ... We expect to utilize current and new client capital to make prudent contra-cyclical investment plays, in order ...
May 23, 2012 at 11:27 | Source: Citywire.co.uk