If we can open firehouses in Baghdad, then we can keep them open in New York City.

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Already the mayor is planning to shut firehouses and lay off teachers' aides.

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Now, they can do the right thing in Congress and put people back to work right now and reopen firehouses.

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Government agencies ranging from the Department of Defense to local firehouses are interested in mesh networking because it provides a very reliable, self-healing system.

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So we want to prioritize veterans and we want to help states and local communities hire veterans to firehouses and police stations all across the country.

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On Change.org, the only petition specifically related to the midwest drought demands that the city of Champlain, Illinois cease watering the lawns at city firehouses.

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And as a result, more than 170 projects are getting underway -- work on firehouses, and police stations, and roads, and sewer systems, and health clinics, and libraries, and universities.

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The other, filed in October of 2011 by the Bell County Board of Elections, seeks to block the fire department from charging a fee to use its firehouses as polling stations.

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On one designated day, millions of Americans go to their local polling places -- to schools, firehouses, police stations, and municipal buildings throughout the nation -- to cast their vote for president.

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