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Clark County tax language removed from bill
Louisville Courier-Journal
Ed Clere, D-New Albany, eliminated language from a bill in the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday that would have allowed a special property-tax increase of about $500000 a year. “I will continue to look for ways to help Clark County,” said Clere ...

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Frederick County makes English its official language
Washington Post (blog)
Frederick already had passed a resolution identifying English as the official language, but it was nonbinding, according to the News-Post. This ordinance making English the official language is on-the-books law — or, as County Attorney John Mathias ...
Frederick County Declares English as Official LanguageMarketWatch (press release)
Frederick Co. makes English official languageBaltimore Sun (blog)
Frederick County Commissioners Adopt English As Official LanguageHuffington Post
WTOP -Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
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Spanish-language Media Help Shape Public Policy
UC Riverside
Spanish-language media in the United States play a critical role in shaping perceptions of public opinion among Latino voters and public officials of every ethnicity across the country. They also play a far greater advocacy role for the communities ...

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Oscar Roundtable: Meet This Year's Best Foreign-Language Feature Nominees
Movieline
Time for another one of Movieline's virtual awards roundtables, this time featuring nominated filmmakers behind this year's contenders for Best Foreign-Language Feature. Meet our distinguished panel: (Asghar Farhadi, director of A Separation [Iran] was ...
Iran, Israel Among Contenders for Best Foreign Language Film OscarVoice of America
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Oscars 2012: Foreign film nomineesBBC News
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The Guardian (blog)

Three Ways Windows 8 Improves Language Support
PCWorld (blog)
By Joseph Fieber, PCWorld Microsoft's desktop OS has let users install additional display languages since Windows 2000. This made Windows computers accessible to billions of people, but installing and switching languages on a PC wasn't easy.
Time to embrace learning languagesThe Guardian (blog)
Windows 8 offers improved language supportUbergizmo
Windows 8 will include British English as display languageTechworld.com
Engadget -CIO -V3.co.uk
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Language school gets go-ahead to grow
NeighborNewspapers.com
By Noreen Lewis Cochran The Tabula Rasa language school at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Sandy Springs can stay until June 30, 2015, the city council decided 6-0 during a controversy-filled meeting Tuesday at City Hall. School owner Besa Tarazhi ...

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Conservative leader: Romney talks 'in the language of the left,' new plan 'not ...
The Hill (blog)
"Romney talks in the language of the left, unfortunately, by talking about fairness, the 1 percent and picking the same arbitrary levels as Obama does," he said. Romney announced out the details of his plan to overhaul the tax code Wednesday afternoon, ...

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Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)

Misleading Language in the Latest Anti-Evolution Bill in Oklahoma
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
The language in the bill claims that evolution is “controversial”, which wrongly implies that there's controversy in the scientific community. There isn't, of course, though some people in Oklahoma don't like the implications of evolution for personal ...
Beacon Hill Roll CallWicked Local

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Indian Country Today Media Network.com

Revitalization Opportunities Abound for the Cherokee Language
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
By ICTMN Staff February 22, 2012 Cherokee elder Wynema Smith reading to students at Cherokee Language Immersion School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She is the narrator and author of the first audio books being put recorded by the Cherokee Nation Foundation ...
AM UPDATE: Cherokee Nation offering language classes in Muskogee CountyMuskogee Daily Phoenix

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Managing Your Online Reputation in Foreign Languages
Search Engine Journal
The good news is that the strategies for managing your reputation work across multiple languages and require only a little extra effort. If you already use a tool such as Google Alerts to monitor comments about your site or product, it's an easy extra ...
Bienvenido a los Estados Unidos ya hablan Inglés…Patheos (blog)
Letters: Making a case for bilingualismHouston Chronicle
My View: Salem school turnaround plan should have bilingual componentThe Salem News

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