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October 16

Soulsville rising in South Memphis
Backers hope $11.5 million project revitalizes neighborhood
By Daniel Connolly
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Drive down Mississippi Boulevard in South Memphis and you'll see overgrown lots with discarded tires. Turn onto a side street and you might see a liquor store with an old sign for Gordon's Gin.
But keep going and you'll pass the neatly groomed campus of LeMoyne-Owen College and the new mixed-income College Park residential community. And you may see a construction site near the college campus that could bring more jobs and commerce to the area.

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Anonymous
October 16

For immediate release: July 22, 2009
Contact: Christopher Falkenhagen
Communications: (410) 260-4511 cfalkenh@mhec.state.md.us
New Post 9-11 G.I. Bill goes into effect August 1
Annapolis, MD) July 22, 2009 – The landmark Post 9/11 G.I. Bill will officially go into effect on August 1. The law is considered to be the most significant piece of higher education legislation for veterans since the original G.I. Bill was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) is the State’s approving agency for this program.

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Anonymous
October 16

PEORIA — Thomas Hofer's all for a proposed measure pending in Congress that would give veterans a hefty tax rebate for any franchise fees - his company already does it.
Hofer, himself a retired Vietnam-era Naval pilot, said his company Spring-Green offers veterans $15,000 to help with fees associated with starting up a new franchise of his lawn-care company.
"We look at this as a reward for military people who would be interested in our franchise," said Spring-Green's CEO. "In the last three years or so, 30 to 40 percent have been military orientated."