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STATE/COUNTY/LOCAL CANDIDATES
Here's a goodie about Smart Meters
Oakland Neighborhood Resisting Smart Meters
Neighborhood Declares it a "Smart Meter Free Zone"
and more SMART stuff in Oakland
Oakland Police Search Without Warrants
"...the group of cops and city officials were operating under a little-known Oakland city program, called
"SMART" — Specialized Multi-Agency Response Team — that some legal experts say may be unconstitutional. That's because
they enter people's homes without consent or a warrant.
July 17, 2010
News 5 Investigates: Testing The Water
(Watch the Video to the right)
JULY 17, 2010
Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement
Asphalt Is Replaced By Cheaper Gravel; 'Back to Stone Age'
July 16, 2010
BP buys up Gulf scientists for legal defense, roiling academic community
July 16, 2010
Construction workers stiffed: County contractor resists push to hire locally.
July 16, 2010
Palm Beach County, Treasure Coast jobless rate rose in June
July 16, 2010
World sizzles to record for the year
"Marc Morano, a global-warming skeptic who edits the Climate Depot website, says the government "is playing the climate fear card by hyping predictions and cherry-picking data."
Joe D'Aleo, a meteorologist who co-founded The Weather Channel, disagrees, too. He says oceans are entering a cooling cycle that will lower temperatures.
He says too many of the weather stations NOAA uses are in warmer urban areas.
"The only reliable data set right now is satellite," D'Aleo says.
He says NASA satellite data shows the average temperature in June was 0.43 degrees higher than normal. NOAA says it was 1.22 degrees higher."
July 15, 2010
Palm Beach County ethics commission launches its fight against corruption
July 14, 2010
U.S Government Spent $181,406 to Study
How Cocaine Enhances Sex Drive of Japanese Quail
July 13, 2010
Taylor calls for broadening Palm Beach County Commission's power
July 13, 2010
Visit StopTheSpraying.org
July 11, 2010
South Florida's mega earners:
The top-earning business execs in the area
"You're head of a
regulated monopoly, and you don't have to
go out and compete for your customers," Kelly said. "Yes, they have a tough job running a public utility, but they're not like a Publix or Wal-Mart or Home Depot or Lowe's that's competing for customers."
July 10, 2010
Oil unleashed temporarily in attempt to contain it
July 9, 2010
Toxicologists: Corexit “Ruptures Red Blood Cells, Causes Internal Bleeding”,
"Allows Crude Oil To Penetrate “Into The Cells” and “Every Organ System"
July 9, 2010
Labor Dept. Estimates $7.1 Billion in Overpayments to Unemployed
Overpayment Figure Increases From $4.2 Billion the Previous Year
July 7, 2010
President bypasses Senate for new Medicare chief
Donald Berwick on Redistributing Wealth
"An excerpt from a 2008 speech by Donald Berwick, President's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaking to a British audience about why he favors government-run health care.
JULY 6, 2010
U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies
"Some industry and government officials familiar with the program see Perfect Citizen as an intrusion by the NSA into domestic affairs, while others say it is an important program to combat an emerging security threat that only the NSA is equipped to provide."
"The overall purpose of the [program] is our Government...feel[s] that they need to insure the Public Sector is doing all they can to secure Infrastructure critical to our National Security," said one internal Raytheon email, the text of which was seen by The Wall Street Journal.
"Perfect Citizen is Big Brother."
CNCI (Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative)
More: June 22, 2010
Government devotes more brainpower and money to cybersecurity
"Cybersecurity, fast becoming Washington's growth industry of choice, appears to be in line for a
multibillion-dollar injection of federal research dollars, according to a senior intelligence official."
The secret code in U.S. Cyber Command's logo
July 6, 2010
The Government Pay Bonus
Private employees toil 13½ months to earn what federal workers do in 12.
July 6, 2010
Post office plans to announce new rate increase
July 5, 2010
THE GATHERING PUBLIC-SECTOR PENSION STORM IN
HOLLYWOOD COULD DROWN TAXPAYERS IN DEBT
(June 24, 2010)
South Florida cities begin slashing pension costs
(June 24, 2010)
Some pension reforms in South Florida
July 04, 2010
BP and Military on Panama City Beach July 4 2010
July 3, 2010
TSA to Block "Controversial Opinion" on the Web
July 02, 2010
First Amendment Has been Suspended
July 2, 2010
White House releases staff salary data
July 1, 2010
Florida ends 'double dipping' by teachers, other government workers on July 1
(June 15, 2010
Airport director Pelly rehired, after leaving to collect retirement payout and
Commission alters county 'retire, return' rule; says exec job openings must be posted, not reserved)
July 1, 2010
Feds wasted millions in utilities program for poor
June 28, 2010
Hundreds of new Florida laws go into effect Thursday
June 28, 2010
Equal Justice Works Awarded 2.9 Million in Grants
"The remaining forty Fellows will serve with nonprofit organizations around the country, on projects that include domestic violence,
immigrants’ rights, indigent defense and Native American rights."
Florida Participants
June 25, 2010
Delray, other S. Fla. cities begin trimming pension costs
June 24, 2010
Lawyers: Could Supreme Court ruling Spring former
Palm Beach County Commissioners from Prison?
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the definition of what constitutes honest services fraud, opening the possibility that three Palm Beach County commissioners may be able to
reverse their
public corruption convictions."
June 18, 2010
Eleven days prior to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon blowout, Halliburton Co., the contractor in charge of cementing the rig's well, agreed to purchase a little-known company.
June 18, 2010
Palm Beach County's past biotech debts add to growing budget woes
June 17, 2010
Cracks Show BP Was Battling Gulf Well as Early as February
June 17, 2010
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges
Stopped by Coast Guard
Who Is In Charge?
June 16, 2010
Spain May Cut Income 30% for Operating Solar Plants (Update1)
"Subsidized rates earned by new, ground-based photovoltaic generators will be reduced by 45 percent, Diaz said. Panels mounted on large roofs will see a 25 percent reduction, while those on small roofs will be cut by 5 percent, he said."
Italian Budget Cuts Threaten Wind, Solar Power Loans (Update1)
“With the removal of the incentives, companies risk being left in a position where they can’t repay debts contracted with the banks,” Rosa said today in a telephone interview from Milan."
June 15, 2010
Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election
"That was very strange," Arthur Furano, 80, said after voting.
"I'm not sure I liked it. All my life, I've heard, `one man, one vote.'"
June 15, 2010
Florida ends 'double dipping' by teachers, other government workers on July 1
June 12, 2010
Gulf oil spill: 'Kevin Costner solution' has green light, but no green
June 10, 2010
The Conversation: Press Hassled on Gulf Coast?
June 5, 2010
BP Chief Tony Hayward Sold Shares Weeks Before Oil Spill
"The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse"
June 4, 2010
Geithner's Economic Outlook
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner shares his outlook for the economy
and
global financial reform with CNBC's Steve Liesman.
June 3, 2010
Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of BP stock before spill
June 3, 2010
Director James Cameron says BP Turned Down Help Offer
"The government really needs to have its own independent ability to go down there and image the site, survey the site and do its own investigation," he said. Because if you're not monitoring it independently, you're
asking the perpetrator to give you the
video of the crime scene," Cameron added."
June 2, 2010
U.S. debt officially tops $13 trillion, first time in history
"The U.S. maintains a national debt of $13,033,645,753,564, which equals to about $42,124 per citizen and $118,215 per taxpayer, according to Debt Clock. The
total interest on the debt stands at 1.9 trillion, which equals to approximately more than
$6,000 per citizen.
However, if you add the debt from household, business, federal, state and local governments and financial institutions then the nation’s debt total would tally up at more than $55.7 trillion. The U.S. also has
$108 trillion worth of unfunded liabilities and expenditures, which also adds up to
$352,129 per citizen."
June 2, 2010
Oil could hit Florida Panhandle by Wednesday
FYI:
Follow The Money
May 31, 2010
Soaring Costs Force Canada to Reassess Health Model
May 28, 2010
La. scientist locates another vast oil plume in the gulf (#3?)
May 26, 2010
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Matt Simmons: "Theres another leak, much bigger, 5 to 6 miles away" (#2?)
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WKRG.com live oil spill cam
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Transocean says it will make a $270 million profit on the insurance policy for the rig.
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Report finds that drilling officials at Interior accepted gifts from oil industry, watched porn on government computers
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The Corporate Stranglehold: How BP Will Make out Like Bandits from Its Massive, Still Gushing Oil Disaster
May 25, 2010
BP Oilpocalypse Creates Underwater Nightmare
"Most Horrible Thing I've Ever Seen"
May 25, 2010
Private pay shrinks to historic lows as gov't payouts rise
"The result is a major shift in the source of personal income
from private wages
to government programs.
The trend is not sustainable..."
May 24, 2010
Rear-end collisions jump at red-light camera intersections in West Palm Beach
(RE) "Collisions more than doubled and accidents increased overall in
the first 70 days of red-light cameras in West Palm Beach compared to the same period of 2009"
"In the name of boosting safety, not revenues, West Palm Beach issued 2,675 camera
fines worth a third of a million dollars in March alone."
May 20, 2010
Congress Gives Calderon Standing Ovation for Bashing AZ
So wrong on so many levels
May 19, 2010
House votes to expand national DNA arrest database
"It's wrong to treat someone as guilty before they're convicted," says Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute. "It inverts the concept of
innocent until proven guilty."
May 05, 2010
Gulf Oil Spill
CW Roberts employees demonstrating the use of hay to assist in a defense against the oil spill in the Gulf.
(August 25, 1999
Minerals Management Service Presents BP Amoco
with Conservation Award for Respecting the Environment)
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