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State budgets in crisis: Happy new year
Economist - Jul. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)
Every state but two, commodity-rich North Dakota and Montana, has faced a deficit this year. One legislator in New ...
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Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar
The Politico - by Mike Allen - Jul. 3, 2009 (Breaking News)
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, ...
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BBC NEWS | Americas | California in 'fiscal emergency'
BBC News - by BBC Media - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Report)
Democrats and the governor, and the Republican lawmakers who take pride in never voting in favour of any budget, ...
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Report: Goldman Sachs on Pace to Pay Out Record Bonuses this Year
Democracy Now, The Guardian - by Nomi Prins, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Jun. 22, 2009 (News Analysis)
(Video - streaming) The Guardian newspaper reports staff at Goldman Sachs can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm’s ...
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This is green energy?
columbusdispatch.com, Columbus Ohio Dispatch - by Spencer Hunt - Jun. 21, 2009 (News Report)
the state has expanded its green vocabulary to include a proposed Meigs County coal-fired power plant and a ...
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Banks Own the US Government
The Guardian - by Dean Baker - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
we are looking at the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. The cumulative lost output over the ...
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Why do we allow the US to act like a failed state on climate change
The Guardian - by George Monbiot - Jun. 26, 2009 (Opinion)
There are mind-boggling concessions to the biofuels industry, including a promise not to investigate its wider ...
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New York's mayor goes to bat for the House that Taxpayers Built
Seattle Times - by David Sirota - May. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
Even amid CEO testimony, Bernie Madoff grimaces and Rick Santelli diatribes, nothing better captures the moment's ...
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The Downfall of the Waxman-Markey Bill: Politics-as-Usual Meets Climate Change
sonecon.com, The Point - by Robert Shapiro - Jun. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
The disappointing fact is, the bill combines the inherent problems of cap-and-trade long noted by economists, with ...
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Who Can We Bank On, Who Who Can We Trust, as Crisis Sharpens?
Common Dreams - by Danny Schechter - Jun. 12, 2009 (Opinion)
Wall Street may be down but by more means out. It is "clawing back" its influence with a new lobbying surge which ...
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Compensation Czar to Oversee Executive Pay
New York Times - by Stephen Labaton - Jun. 10, 2009 (News Report)
The Obama administration on Wednesday appointed a compensation czar who will have broad discretion to set the pay ...
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Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar
The Politico - by Mike Allen - Jul. 3, 2009 (Breaking News)
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, ...
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Third Way's Contoversial Health Care Memo Drafted By Ex-Insurance Industry Advocate
Huffington Post - by Ryan Grim - Jun. 8, 2009 (News Report)
A health care policy statement causing an uproar among progressives was drafted by two policy analysts with ...
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Why Does the Much-Touted Climate Bill Look Like It Was Stolen From the Republican Playbook?
AlterNet - by David Morris - Jun. 7, 2009 (News Analysis)
President Barack Obama has publicly described the bill as his and the Democrats' preferred alternative to ...
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Gutting the Health Care Plan: The Scorpion and the Congress
Huffington Post - by Paul Loeb - Jun. 8, 2009 (Opinion)
The Clintons assumed the insurance companies were too powerful to confront, so the plan had to go along with them. ...
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How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do
Robert Reich's Blog - by Robert Reich - Jun. 5, 2009 (Opinion)
They don't want a public option that would compete with private insurers and use its bargaining power to negotiate ...
