The latest in a long series of mishaps the TRC has experienced as a result of council’s indifference and occasional hostility to its existence
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The latest in a long series of mishaps the TRC has experienced as a result of council’s indifference and occasional hostility to its existence
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Only a Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction could concoct such a ludicrous and obvious inconsistency.
Unfortunately, this committee will not be bipartisan because Republicans dispute the need for it
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