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* Newspaper Circs Drop * Music Bigs Settle With Family For $7K * Big Corps Need Cash * Verizon Doing Well __________ Here are the stories that interest me this morning, along with why I think they may be interesting or useful to nonprofit, philanthropy, or community-based organization leaders: Newspaper circulation continues its slide. Among…

* GOP Culture War * New Political Online Source * Spacey To Play Abramoff __________ These are the stories that interest me this morning, along with my take on why they might be interesting to nonprofits and community-based organizations: Republican culture war brewing. While the Beltway GOP leaders have a “consensus” that it’s time to…

* Web-Only News Site Stumbles * Mystery Donor Mystifies * Times Fdn Suspends Gifts * Youth Volunteering Less __________ Here are the stories that interest me this morning, along with my take on why they might be of interest to nonprofits and community organizations: Rocky Mountain News web-only news site stumbles. INDenver Times, an online-only…

* New Cell Phone Connection To Cops * Fox Producer Punks MSNBC * Step Toward Human Cloning __________ These are the stories that interest me this morning, along with my take on why I think they matter for nonprofits and community organizations: New software allows emergency victims to connect their cell phone directly to police.…

* Kerry To Save Newspapers * MySpace Execs Out * U.S. Capitol Police Bad Behavior __________ Here is my take on the stories that interest me this morning, and why I think they may be interesting to nonprofits, foundations, and community organizations: Kerry to save newspapers. Alarmed that his money losing hometown newspaper, The Boston…

* Foundation Giving To Decline * Obama Signs Natl Service Bill * Health Care Reform Heats Up __________ Here is my take on the stories that interest me this morning, and why I think they may be interesting to nonprofits, foundations, and community organizations: Foundations plan to reduce giving in 2009. In a survey of…

* Kids Addicted To Gaming * Commercial Radio Seeks Donations * Charge: AARP Official Embezzled * URL-shortening Mystery @NYT __________ Here is my take on the stories that interest me this morning: 8.5% of kids are “addicted” to video games. In the first serious study of its kind, researchers adapted a gambling diagnostic survey and…

* CPI Falls * Mall Co. Bust * Obama’s Taxes * Lawmakers Ethics Probes * Octomom ™ __________ These are the stories I am interested in this morning: For the first time since 1955, the Consumer Price Index has fallen for the year. The Labor Department said the CPI fell 0.1 percent for March, after…