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Lawmakers try to save earmarks despite new spending bill

Earlier this year, Congress passed a major spending bill that it promoted as being stripped of all earmarks and a strike against pork-barrel spending. But even as the bill passed, […]
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Contractors' murders blamed on Blackwater manager

The gruesome 2004 massacre of four Blackwater USA security guards is being blamed on their Baghdad site manager, Tom Powell, accoring to documents obtained by The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & […]
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Boy Scouts executives splurge on conference

Tony Saavedra and Teri Sforza of The Orange County Register report on internal travel records showing that executives of the Boy Scouts ran up a tab of over $27,000 at […]
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Taser use on the rise in Utah

The Salt Lake Tribune's Jeremiah Stettler looked at the rise in use of Tasers by Utah's police force and found that they are increasingly becoming the weapon of choice to […]
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Nonprofit subsidizes Schwartenegger's lavish travel

Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Time reports that much of Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger's travel is billed to "an obscure nonprofit group that can qualify its secret donors for full […]
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Equity stripping preys on desperate homeowners

With the housing market on the decline and foreclosures on the rise, a scheme known as equity stripping is taking advantage of vulnerable homeowners, The New York Times' Gretchen Morgenson […]
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Job-creation subsidies go unchecked

Steven Schultze and Joel Dresang of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found that, while the state doles out hundreds of millions in subsidies to Wisconsin businesses for job creation, it fails […]
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Suicide, substance abuse deaths high in Nevada

Analysis of the CDC's mortality data by Marshall Allen and Alex Richards of the Las Vegas Sun shows that residents of Nevada and Clark County "die younger and at higher […]
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Mohamed Atta and 9/11: The Secret FAA Files

Eric Longabardi, reporting for "The Enterprise Report" at ERSNews.com, reports on the "secret FAA airmen files" of Mohamed Atta, the lead pilot in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The files, […]
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Sunshine Laws disregarded by council members

Beth Kormanik of The (Jacksonville, Fla.) Times-Union evaluated the daily calendars of city council members from June 1, 2005, to Dec. 1, 2006 and found dozens of meetings that violated […]
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