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SUPREME COURT PROTECTS POLITICAL FREE SPEECH FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

 

East County News Service

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April 26, 2016 (Washington D.C.) – If you’re a public employee, you can’t be fired or demoted for supporting a political candidate that your boss doesn’t like.  By a 6-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision strengthening free speech protections for 22 million public employees nationwide. 


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ECM WORLD WATCH: GLOBAL AND NATIONAL NEWS

 

March 29, 2012 --  (San Diego’s East County) – ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflecting all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:   
 

    

U.S.
  • Supreme Court weighs all or nothing on healthcare law (Reuters)
  • Jobs bill clears Congress despite warnings (Los Angeles Times)
  • Trayvon Martin: confronting the problem of enduring racism (Forbes)
  • A job at what cost? When employers log in to dig in (NPR)
  • Gingrich scales back his presidential bid (USA Today)
  • Cooking school spreads immigrant skills and ethnic recipes (NPR)
 
WORLD
  • Very high radiation, little water in remaining Japanese reactor (UT San Diego)
  • Japan left with one nuclear reactor after shutdown (BBC)
  • Syrian authorizes are targeting children, says UN rights chief (BBC)
 
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REPRESENTATIVE HUNTER TO HOST JOB FAIR FEB. 24

 
February 15, 2012 (Poway) — Representative Duncan Hunter (R-El cajon)--announced today that he will host another community job fair, in partnership with the East and North County Career Centers, and the San Diego North and Poway Chambers of Commerce. The event will be held February 24, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon in the Poway Community Center auditorium, 13094 Civic Center Drive.  Admission is free.

 


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