Government
A discussion about local, state, and federal governments.
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Jun- 2013 -12 June
NSA Snooping Black Hole of Information
The NSA Black Hole: 5 Basic Things We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Snooping by Justin Elliott and Theodoric…
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11 June
Farm Bill Wastes Billions in Subsidies
Senate’s new farm bill will waste billions on subsidies, critics say (via The Christian Science Monitor) Copyright ImageClick to View…
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10 June
China Purchases Largest American Pork Producer
China Purchases Largest Pork Company (via NewsLook) Video News by NewsLook The world’s largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods, will export…
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7 June
US Intelligence Community Accessing Many Records
US secretly mining data from web giants: report (via AFP) US intelligence agencies are accessing the servers of nine Internet…
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6 June
Indiana Awards HP $220 Million Medicaid Contract
Indiana Awards HP $220 Million Medicaid Contract (via MarketWired) SOURCE: HP June 05, 2013 07:45 ET HP to Implement interChange…
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4 June
Federal Preemption Laws Allow Guns at Public Pools
Now, You Can’t Ban Guns at the Public Pool by Lois Beckett, ProPublica If you feel unsafe at a public…
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3 June
Tea Party Should Be Focus of IRS Reviews
Op-ed: Milton Hinton: Tea party groups have reason to sweat IRS reviews (via Cranford Chronicle) It seems that some people…
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May- 2013 -30 May
Pipeline Permit in Northwest Indiana Approved
(photo courtesy of www.savethedunes.org) A permit application submitted by Enbridge Energy for expansion of the company’s crude oil pipeline through…
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28 May
Federal Reserve Experimenting With US Economy
(Illustration by Victor Juhasz) Federal Reserve Couldn’t Wait for Washington to Reach a Consensus Last year I listened to two…
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24 May
Six Facts Lost in IRS Scandal
Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal by Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica In the furious fallout from the…
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