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Senate girds for Saturday vote and long battle on health care
The Senate Thursday began what promises to be a bitter, lengthy battle over the future of health care in America, ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Split Over Donohue’s Climate Policy
BACK in the 1990s when Thomas J. Donohue was president of the American Trucking Associations, a subordinate raised ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Vehicle telemetry: Calling all cars
One way or another, a quarter of the world’s new cars will be equipped with some form of remote monitoring and ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Danger lies in threat to Fed independence
H.R. 1207 seems innocuous enough. The overall question it raises sounds fair: After all, why should the Fed be ...Posted by Ben Ross -
Tax credits eyed for solar energy firms amid Obama’s push for ‘green jobs’
Solar energy companies are lobbying for new tax credits for domestic manufacturers that would come on top of ...via The Hill -
Senate to Put Off Climate Bill Until Spring
Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big climate-change bill until spring, in a ...via Fair Spin
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House Proposal Would Allow Feds To Break Up Biggest Banks
A key House Democrat released on Wednesday his much-awaited proposal to end "too big to fail": Let the federal ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Docudrama
(Blog Post) Sometime in August, McKinsey & Company created a PowerPoint document called “Health Care Reform and Implications ...via Jonathan Cohn -
The Dirt on Worms
The earthworm has long been considered the farmer’s friend. Their burrowing has always been thought to aerate the ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s
(Blog Post) Even among the most extreme opponents of President Obama's push for health care reform — those who equate his ...Posted by Michael Todd
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Geithner Says Insurance Policies, Not AIG Derivatives Contracts, Were Systemic Risk
Geithner says credit-default swaps weren't the problem, after all.via Fair Spin -
High noon in Washington, D.C.
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Citizens left out in cold
State Rep. David Wolkins isn't shy about what he likes: golf, basketball and football. As ranking Republican ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
MSNBC Not Shy About Criticizing Obama
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One month of Twitter hell
All November, Ian Martin will be following the BNP, led by Nick Griffin, on Twitter. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA ...Posted by Xenia Pineda -
Palin agonistes
You have to feel a twinge of sympathy for Sarah Palin.Posted by Glenn LaBauve
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A case for branding the environment
Choosing a brand name for a product is important from a promotional perspective because brand names communicate ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Geithner Should Step Down
The problem with Geithner is not that he is by nature a corrupt man.Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
The Ugly Truth about Jobs
companies have found that they can shed workers and rely on technological advances and overseas factories to ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Digital Economy's Coming Subprime Crisis (And What You Can Learn From It)
(Blog Post) Today's media players aren't investing in better ads. They're investing in more — and more toxic — ads. Uh oh: ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
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Google Computes News Quality
A recently filed patent application suggests that Google is taking steps to promote news produced by major media ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Lexington: Farmers v greens
In the Senate, however, every state gets exactly two votes. Sparsely-populated states are thus hugely ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Chamber’s Donohue Keeps Cash Coming After PG&E, Apple Defect
Apple Inc. and three other members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce quit over its opposition to climate-change ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Environmental groups debate new tack in climate-change fight
A curious debate has broken out among American environmental groups, as the Senate balkily starts to focus on the ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Chevron's lobby campaign backfires
Facing the possibility of a $27 billion pollution judgment against it in an Ecuadorean court, Chevron launched an ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Split Over Donohue’s Climate Policy
BACK in the 1990s when Thomas J. Donohue was president of the American Trucking Associations, a subordinate raised ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s
(Blog Post) Even among the most extreme opponents of President Obama's push for health care reform — those who equate his ...Posted by Michael Todd
