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Today the Star's circulation is approximately 30,000 and is distributed to 48 states. A 2001 survey found each copy of the paper is read six times before being discarded. In its 66-year history, The Omaha Star has never missed an edition. Omaha jazz legend Preston Love worked as an advertising specialist for the Star before his death.
In spring 2006 the paper's building was designated an Omaha Landmark by the City of Omaha. In January 2007, the Omaha City Council awarded a community development grant to the Omaha Star for remodeling purposes. The Star building is located in the North Omaha Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area and the North 24th Street Business District. Marguerita Washington, the owner and publisher, announced a partnership with Metropolitan Community College to create a memorial adjacent to the Star office to honor Washington's aunt and Star founder Mildred Brown. Metro students will begin landscaping on the "Mildred Brown Strolling Park" this spring.
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“I hope I may claim in the present work to have made it probable that the laws of arithmetic are analytic judgments and consequently a priori. Arithmetic thus becomes simply a development of logic, and every proposition of arithmetic a law of logic, albeit a derivative one. To apply arithmetic in the physical sciences is to bring logic to bear on observed facts; calculation becomes deduction.”
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“Death, the most dreaded of all evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.”
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When it comes to a mountain farm
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