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Boehner:
Feds Should Back Off of Unconstitutional Birth Control Order
By The Associated Press
Thursday, February 2, 2012 6:07 PM
The Obama administration scrambled Thursday to contain
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House Speaker John Boehner, a Catholic, denounced the requirement
unconstitutional, while White House spokesman Jay Carney said
it is part of a reasoned policy to promote women's health
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POLITICS
Should
GOP even have an agenda?
By MANU RAJU
Friday, February 3, 2012
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Barack Obama has made no secret about his plan to
run against Republicans in Congress. But Republicans
in the Senate are still trying to figure out the
best way to run against him. With no nominee yet
to spell out the party’s agenda, Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is locked in a behind-the-scenes
debate with other Republicans over their strategy
for winning back power................more-
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BUSINESS
Nervous
markets eye U.S. jobs report, Greece
By
John Stonestreet
Friday, February 3, 2012
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Caution ahead of U.S. jobs numbers kept a lid on gains
for stock markets on Friday after an optimistic start
to the year that has added more than 7 percent to global
company values. Sentiment was underpinned by data that
hinted the euro zone may yet avoid recession, boosting
European shares, and that China has room to ease monetary
policy.............more
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Concerns
grow over volcanic eruptions
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Scientists have known for decades that
hidden under those impressive vistas at sites such as Death
Valley and Yellowstone National Park are magma pools that under
the right conditions can trigger explosive eruptions. Now, new
research is changing scientists' understanding of the timing
of those eruptions, and prompting them to call for greater monitoring
of sites to help save lives when the next big volcano explodes.......................more
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big bank money-laundering evidence
Whistleblower details pattern of HSBC's alleged
multi-billion-dollar scheme
By Jerome R. Corsi
Thursday, February 2, 2012
NEW YORK – Among the 1,000 pages
of HSBC internal records that a former employee provided WND
were customer account ledgers for dozens of companies through
which the global banking giant apparently was laundering money
each month. “I found many accounts through which hundreds
of thousands of dollars were being flowed as a conduit on
a monthly basis,” whistleblower John Cruz, an account
relationship manager who worked in the HSBC southern New York
region. told WND............................more
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Facebook
IPO has California dreaming
By MICHELLE QUINN
Thursday, February
2, 2012 11:18 PM
SAN FRANCISCO — Happy days may be here again
for California lawmakers: They see Facebook’s
IPO as possibly bringing some relief to the Golden
State after years of budget woes. State revenue
forecasters are busily revising their tax estimates
for this fiscal year and next to account for the
“Facebook effect” on California’s
balance sheet in light of the company’s filing
for a $5 billion initial public offering on Wednesday.Meanwhile,
the partisan squabbles over unknown riches are already
underway. Democratic leaders said any extra revenue
from an IPO should offset the deepest cuts to social
services, but Republicans counter that it should
be used to pay down the state’s debt...........more
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High-speed
rail tapped state funds for unusual lobbying contract
By
Mike
Rosenberg
Thursday,
February 2, 2012 18:28 PM
In an extremely unusual use of taxpayer money, the
leaders behind California's $99 billion high-speed
train quietly hired a lobbyist to sway the Legislature
-- the same politicians who appointed them to build
the project in the first place. Documents filed
this week show the California High-Speed Rail Authority
last year paid $161,103 to one of the country's
biggest public relations firms to lobby the state's
politicians as they consider spending $2.7 billion
to launch the polarizing bullet train project.Rail
officials paid the lobbyists by issuing debt that
will total about $300,000 with interest.......................more
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Lawsuit
filed over plastic bag ban in San Luis Obispo County
By Bob Cuddy
Friday,
February 3, 2012
A lawsuit has been filed against the county’s
waste management board, asking the court to set
aside the board’s Jan. 11 adoption of an ordinance
that would ban plastic shopping bags at most stores
in San Luis Obispo County. The suit was filed Thursday
by attorney Stephen L. Joseph on behalf of the Save
the Plastic Bag Coalition. It will be heard March
22 in San Luis Obispo Superior Court.Joseph argues
that the Integrated Waste Management Authority,
which enacted the ordinance on an 8-5 vote, did
not complete an environmental impact report, as
the coalition says is required............................................more
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Santa
Barbara Officials Say Traffic Cameras at City Intersections
Are Not ‘Big Brother’
By Lara Cooper, Noozhawk Staff Writer
Wednesday,
February 1, 2012
The traffic cameras hovering above Santa Barbara intersections
may conjure up fears of Big Brother surveillance,
but the city’s traffic engineers say the cameras
are only to help with traffic flow. Cameras have been
installed at many of the city’s busier intersections
during the past several years, according to traffic
engineer Derrick Bailey.He said many intersections
have timed lights, but busier intersections have the
traffic cameras installed to detect motion and maximize
the green time at the light...................................more
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