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...John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards honor two Americans under age 40 who have made exceptional contributions in the realm of public service...
...received the New Frontier Award in recognition of her efforts to enact legislation reforming the struggling school system of New Orleans...
...Kopp, much of the significance of the Kennedy New Frontier Award comes from the identity of the man whose name it bears...
Voteprotect.org is a website run by a handful of nonprofit organizations including VerifiedVoting.org and the Electronic Frontier Foundation which collected and organized reports of voting irregularities during last Tuesday’s election. A cursory look at their data on problems related to the voting machines themselves reveals some interesting trends. The entire state of Massachusetts, where votes are recorded in large part by older optical scanning equipment, reported a total of 7 such incidents out of nearly 3 million ballots—one for every 500,000 or so votes cast. Palm Beach County had 27 machine related incidents...
...most storied of American railroads, Union Pacific Railroad was launched in Nebraska during the Civil War with a handful of tracklayers, helped open up the frontier West and has since grown into a $12 billion-a-year colossus with 48,000 employees and 33,000 miles of track crisscrossing 23 Western states. Today UP handles some 30% of the nation's rail freight traffic. But during the past year, the legendary railroad has been groaning under the weight of embarrassing logistical breakdowns...