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Texas Billboard Of The Day

JMG reader Mike writes us: I have to drive past this now everyday on my way from Midland to Odessa, TX on Highway 191. As I come out to more and more family and friends, I’m finding it more and more difficult to live here due to it being one of the most conservative right-wing cities in America (as is …

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New HUD Study Shows Anti-LGBT Discrimination In Rental Housing Market

From the Department of Housing and Urban Development: This is the first large-scale, paired-testing study to assess housing discrimination against same-sex couples in metropolitan rental markets via advertisements on the Internet. The research is based on 6,833 e-mail correspondence tests conducted in 50 metropolitan markets across the United States from June through October 2011. For each correspondence test, two e-mails …

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Swag Tuesday

Today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to this week’s launch party for Shred Of Hope, the celebrity t-shirt fundraiser for the Ali Forney Center. This Thursday June 20th, Nasty Pig presents a kickoff party for Shred of Hope, an auction of one-of-a-kind celebrity-designed Shredder t-shirts benefitting the Ali Forney Center (AFC). AFC is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive …

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NEW YORK: State Legislature Grants Tax Breaks To Jillionaire Apartment Owners

The New York state legislature has approved a bill sponsored by GOP Sen. Martin Golden that will grant tax breaks to the owners of multimillion dollar apartments at five skyscrapers presently under construction in Manhattan. The millionaires buying apartments in a soaring tower rising on 57th St. will get more than sweeping views of Central Park: They’ll also be eligible …

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