Robin Brown

40 years of feeding the needy

'Delaware's most generous barber' distributes hundreds of holiday food packages By ROBIN BROWN • The News Journal • November 26, 2009 At first, there were just a few brown paper bags of canned goods piled by a barbershop door,...

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Hotels & Chains Use New Strategies for Customer Acquisitions Finds cMarket

NewswireToday (newswire) - Hotels, restaurants and retail stores, are often hit up for donated items for the sake of non-profit fundraising, some receiving hundreds of requests a month for donated items. With the AIRS system,...

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Re-enactment will hark back to the original Delaware Day

When a crowd gathered in a Dover tavern nearly 222 years ago, there was more on guests' minds than brew. The crowd made American history, giving Delaware its bragging rights and sense of place as the First State.

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Vermeulen Loses His Cool Again

MATABELELAND Tuskers' batsman Mark Vermeulen blew his fuse and was involved in a heated exchange with Mid West Rhinos' players after he was dismissed during a Logan Cup match at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo last week.

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Delaware: Newark requests property-tax hike

Average homeowner would pay about $90 more a year By ROBIN BROWN • The News Journal • November 21, 2009 Newark officials are proposing a tax hike four times the size of last year's. The budget reflects plunging property sales,...

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College Students in California Are Outraged by Increases in College Tuition

California Raises Tuition at State Colleges by 32% for Next School Year As the continuing recession and downturn in the economy takes its toll on many Americans, it is now affecting colleges such as the University of...

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Robin Brown: 38 invaluable free web tools for online journalists

This post is reproduced with permission from Robin Brown’s blog. Brown is a freelance writer and new media blogger. The explosion of the web may have caught out newspapers and a lot of journalists, but early adopters have been...

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State's agency for the blind comes a long way in 100 years

By ROBIN BROWN • November 17, 2009 In Delaware's first 121 years, the blind were on their own, at best aided by family and friends. In 1909, a group formed by women of the Sunshine Society and New Century Club of Wilmington...

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Flag from USS Cole may fly again at Delaware museum

Survivor of bombing donates Stars and Stripes that held crew together By ROBIN BROWN • The News Journal • November 16, 2009 With the ship docked for refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden, the aroma of sizzling fajitas filled the...

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Weird News: Artist's bizarre tribute to master counterfeiter

Nov 15 2009 Bruce Walker, Sunday Mail HE masterminded a fake cash business capable of turning out £8million of dud notes every day. Now infamous forger Thomas McAnea - known as Hologram Tam- is the face of a trendy new T-shirt....

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