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Feb 21, 2017
The Washington Times - When word got out in January 1848 that gold had been discovered at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, near Sacramento, it triggered the famous California Gold Rush, which in a few short years brought some 300,000 fortune seekers to the territory, whose population at the time was just 155,000, most of them Native Americans.
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Feb 20, 2017
The Guardian - Living in New York and Washington, Greg Wortham heard all the grand talk about green energy from liberal politicians. Then he returned to the place where he grew up, a small town that embraced wind power so warmly that within a couple of years of the first turbine turning, it had some of the biggest farms on the planet.
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Feb 18, 2017
Big Country - On the twenty-eighth day of Trump's Presidency, he continues to receive support and push back for his ban on immigration. Regardless of political affiliation, a Texas Tech University Professor told KLBK and Everything Lubbock.com that the ban will impact the entire U.S. net economy in a negative way.
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Feb 17, 2017
HealthZette - There’s a great deal of talk now about the negative effects of ongoing stress within our homes — stress due in large part today’s fractious political climate.
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