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Google Computes News Quality

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

InformationWeek - By Thomas Claburn - Nov. 16 (News Report) - A recently filed patent application suggests that Google is taking steps to promote news produced by major media companies on Google News. Whenever a newspaper dies, Google turns up on the list of suspects. The evidence of Google's involvement tends to be sketchy. A close examination of the crime scene typically points to a different villain -- the classified revenue killer known as Craigslist, parasitic news sites that siphon potential visitors, declining subscription and ad revenue, management that can't adapt, or the hyper-competition created by the Internet's ability to collapse distance and divert attention. But Google nonetheless has been forced to defend itself. In May, Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search products and user experience, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet that Google is the hand that feeds media companies, channeling over one billion clicks every month to online publishers through Google Search and Google News. She suggested that Wikipedia, with its constantly updated articles, might offer a better model for journalism in the Internet age than a series of separate articles. And she proposed that online publishers might be failing their readers by presenting them with Web pages that lack engaging social features.

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State Democrats facing revolt by labor

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Andrew Garber - Nov. 14 (News Report) - The Washington State Labor Council, the Service Employees International Union and unions representing teachers and state workers have either stopped or sharply reduced donations to Democratic caucus political-action committees that back candidates for the state House and Senate.

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Washington in race for federal education funds

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Linda Shaw - Nov. 13 (News Report) - Gregoire told U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that, while Washington does not have charter schools, the state does have many schools that are every bit as innovative and successful.

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Pelosi tours Seattle's Swedish after health-care vote

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Kyung M. Song - Nov. 10 (News) - Just two days after shepherding a landmark health-care bill through the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Seattle today to see how one hospital is already delivering care in much the same way as the bill proposes.

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Why Keep Geithner?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Dylan Ratigan - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs paid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they didn't have

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Obama administration seeks to block wiretap suit

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Devlin Barrett - Oct. 31 (News Report) - The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era wiretapping -- the first time the Obama administration has done so under its new policy on such cases. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the decision in a California lawsuit challenging the warrantless wiretapping program begun after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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"Surreal" Vegetarian Spider Found -- A First

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Geographic - By Matt Kaplan - Oct. 12 (News Report) - A tropical jumping spider that eats mostly plant buds has been identified, a new study says--making it the only known vegetarian out of some 40,000 spider species. A tropical jumping spider that eats mostly plant buds has been identified, a new study

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California Christians worship in a big way

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Duke Helfand - Oct. 11 (Special Report) - Thanks to good weather, sprawling suburbs and a number of charismatic pastors, the Golden State has more of these megachurches -- defined as those with at least 2,000 congregants -- than any other state. California is home to 193, slightly more than Texas with 191, according to the most recent survey by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, one of the nation's leading authorities on megachurches.

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California’s Budget Suffers ‘Major Blow’ as Debt Sales Loom

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By William Selway, Michael B. Marois - Oct. 10 (News Report) - “Revenues more than $1 billion under estimates and recent adverse court rulings are dealing a major blow to a budget that is barely 10-weeks old,” Controller John Chiang said in a statement. “While there are encouraging signs that California’s economy is preparing for a comeback, the recession continues to drag state revenues down.”

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Will California become America's first failed state?

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Paul Harris - Oct. 04 (News) - California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike. So what has gone so catastrophically wrong? California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the Golden State: a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather. It symbolises a lifestyle of sunshine, swimming pools and the Hollywood dream factory. But the state that was once held up as the epitome of the boundless opportunities of America has collapsed. From its politics to its economy to its environment and way of life, California is like a patient on life support. At the start of summer the state government was so ...

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Metrobus Strikes Jogger in Northwest

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By James Hohmann - Sep. 03 (News) - House Staffer Critically Injured

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Massachusetts governor backs naming Kennedy successor - washingtonpost.com

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ross Kerber - Aug. 31 (News Report) - Democrats pushed Monday to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy, with the Massachusetts governor throwing his support behind a proposal to name an interim successor and help Democrats retain a critical margin in the chamber.

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Supreme Court Orders New Look at Death Row Case - NYTimes.com

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Adam Liptak - Aug. 18 (News Report) - A federal court in Georgia was ordered to take a fresh look at the case of Troy Davis, who is on death row for the 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer.

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Sidebar - Supreme Court to Hear Case on Executive Pay - Series - NYTimes.com

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Adam Liptak - Aug. 17 (News Report) - Jones v. Harris Associates may to be the court’s first big statement on a culture that contributed to the recession.

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At N.H. forum, Obama hits ‘wild’ criticism of healthcare overhaul

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Lisa Wangsness, Nandini Jayakrishna - Aug. 12 (News Report) - President Obama traveled to a town hall meeting in a high school gymnasium here yesterday to counter what he called “wild misrepresentations’’ about his proposed healthcare overhaul - his most concerted effort yet to regain momentum in a debate recently dominated by critics’ aggressive assault.

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Protests set on Obama N.H. talk

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - Aug. 11 (News Report) - President Obama’s town hall meeting on healthcare at 1 p.m. today before about 1,800 people in Portsmouth, N.H., will almost certainly be less of a free-for-all than the raucous congressional ones, filled with shouting matches, pushing and shoving, and even some arrests.

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Lawsuits are the latest roadblock for California budget

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Evan Halper - Aug. 10 (Special Report) - Lawyers are being drafted in droves to unravel spending plans passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor. The goal of these litigators is to get back money their clients lost in the budget process. They are havingconsiderable success, winning one lawsuit after another, costing the state billions of dollars and throwing California's budget process into further tumult.

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Report: California must adapt to changing climate

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Samantha Young - Aug. 03 (News Report) - Even if the world is successful in cutting carbon emissions in the future, California needs to start preparing for rising sea levels, hotter weather and other effects of climate change, a new state report recommends.

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Can Microsoft's Bing Take a Bite out of Google?

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tom McNichol - Aug. 01 (News Analysis) - The undisputed Sultan of Search, a company whose name has become a verb, Google currently accounts for about 65% of all online searches in the U.S, according to comScore Inc. But Google's comfortable dominance may be in for its most serious challenge in years with the debut of Bing, Microsoft's new search engine.

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California could have $15 billion shortfalls

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Richard Procter - Jul. 31 (News Report) - The plan signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week to balance the state's budget could leave California facing shortfalls in future years of more than $15 billion, according to an analysis released Thursday by a major Wall Street credit rating firm.

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Bruce Rossmeyer, Harley-Davidson empire builder, dies in motorcycle crash in Wyoming -

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Orlando Sentinel - By Ludmilla Lelis Ludmilla Lelis - Jul. 31 (News) - Bruce Rossmeyer staked his claim as the world's largest Harley-Davidson dealer, amassing an empire of 15 dealerships and stores across the nation, including his crown jewel, Destination Daytona off Interstate 95. He made his face and name synonymous with motorcycles on TV commercials and massive highway billboards. Using his blockbuster persona, he promoted Daytona Beach's Bike Week and his favorite charities. On Thursday, Rossmeyer died on a Harley, riding a Wyoming highway with a pack of friends on his annual trip to Sturgis, the biker mecca in South Dakota.

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Daily News investigates faked records and fatal blunders at city-run hospitals

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Daily News - By Tina Moore, Benjamin Lesser, Greg B. Smith - Jul. 26 (Investigative Report) - City-run hospitals faked records and covered up dozens of botched operations, deadly accidents, malpractice and other medical screwups, a Daily News investigation has found.

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Naked girls plow fields for rain | U.S.

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Jul. 23 (News Report) - hPATNA, India (Reuters) - Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday

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Canada forest fire continues to rage

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Jul. 20 (News) - KELOWNA, British Columbia -- Firefighters and air tankers in southern British Columbia continue to battle a forest fire that has forced the evacuation of 11,000 residents.

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Black Philadelphia police sue over message board, say it's racist - CNN.com

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Jason Kessler - Jul. 17 (News Report) - A group of black Philadelphia police officers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against their department, alleging an online forum geared toward city police is "infested with racist, white supremacist and anti-African-American content." The suit alleges white officers post on and moderate the privately operated site, Domelights.com, both on and off the job.

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