The Talladega College marching band will perform in the presidential inauguration parade on Friday, January 20. Talladega College band on inauguration: ‘Forget the politics… We are musicians’ Alex Liddell Jr. sang an Al Green song as he sorted through recently dry-cleaned uniforms — deep crimson with Carolina blue accents — for his marching band’s biggest […]
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What Could a Replacement for Obamacare Look Like
On the floor of the Senate Tuesday afternoon, a senate committee chairman with jurisdiction over Obamacare offered the most detailed plan since the election to repeal and replace the ACA. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who has long advocated for a “simultaneous” approach to scrapping and replacing the Affordable […]
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Designing a Replacement for Obamacare Won’t Be Easy
In his press conference on Tuesday, President Elect Donald Trump didn’t offer any indications of what a new health care plan might look like, but he did seem to confirm what other Republicans are saying, the Republicans won’t eliminate the Affordable Care Act before they have a replacement worked out. “It will be essentially simultaneously,” […]
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Super Tips from a Minority Woman on How to Succeed in 2017
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, African Americans make up less than 5% of the lawyers in the country. That slim statistic didn’t keep one African-American woman, Jamie Wright, from blazing a trail right toward the front of the line and becoming successful. She found what works to help her reach the top, put […]
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Start by Asking Yourself These Questions
What do I want most in my life and career? Let your mind wander. Imagine the life and career you want, not just incremental changes from the life and career you have now. If I gave myself permission to dream really big, what sort of life and career would I envision? Now, I will give […]
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Forget Making Those “Unkept” New Year’s Resolutions
Why does almost everyone have the same experience with New Year’s resolutions? We set resolutions at the start of the New Year, we make an attempt at keeping them but little by little, the New Year’s resolutions fall to the side. By spring, our new year’s resolutions are a distant memory. A new year comes, […]