In the weeks following the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, has been a hotbed for civil and racial unrest.Residents like jazz singer Denise Thimes, 54, are sharing their thoughts with People on how the shooting - and subsequent protests - are affecting their lives and the lives of their family and friends. "I choose to live in Ferguson because, first of all, Ferguson is safe," says Thimes. "Ferguson is a diverse community. It is still a place where people can be and are neighborly." As the U.
- 8/27/2014
- by Jeff Truesdell, @jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
In the weeks following the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, has been a hotbed for civil and racial unrest.Residents like jazz singer Denise Thimes, 54, are sharing their thoughts with People on how the shooting - and subsequent protests - are affecting their lives and the lives of their family and friends. "I choose to live in Ferguson because, first of all, Ferguson is safe," says Thimes. "Ferguson is a diverse community. It is still a place where people can be and are neighborly." As the U.
- 8/27/2014
- by Jeff Truesdell, @jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Michael Moore calls Obamacare both "awful" and "a godsend" in a New York Times op-ed to mark the beginning of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act's new insurance exchanges. He notes that the Affordable Care Act has provided cheaper health insurance for those who needed it, like his friend Donna Smith, who has cancer and was bankrupted by previous health problems. But he says that the "fatal flaw" with the president's system is that it is a pro-insurance industry plan instead of a single-payer extension of Medicare, which Obama knew he should have pushed for,
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- 1/2/2014
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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