Feb 18
February 13, 2012 2:00 AM LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Maine grand juries returned a dozen indictments last year charging welfare fraud, double the number in 2010, one indication that officials are stepping up efforts to catch and convict people who cheat the system at taxpayers’ expense. Preventing welfare fraud has been a top priority of …
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Feb 16
(Image Credit: Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images) Senate Democrats today introduced legislation for the “Buffett Rule,” as called for in President Obama’s State of the Union address last week. The so-called Buffett Rule, dubbed as such because of the example used by the administration that billionaire investor Warren Buffett pays a rate lower than his own …
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Feb 06
Ashley Cotter Cotter- Cairns looks at the last days of British governance and the independence of Rhodesia. Rhodesia and Nyasaland came into being as the Central African Federation(CAF). For just over ten years, the self-governing Southern Rhodesia joined with the protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. A Governer General oversaw the federation, which was supposed …
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Feb 01
Insiders reported that on Tuesday, January the 17th, they bought and sold stock in over 200 separate transactions in over 105 different companies. these transactions have to be reported within two days of the trade, so the transactions occurred sometime near the end of last week. We culled through these 200 or so insider buys …
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Jan 31
17th January 2012 · 0 Comments By George E. CurryNNPA Columnist The Republican race to become the party’s presidential standard bearer has been increasingly characterized by candidates invoking racist stereotypes. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who came within eight votes of tying front-runner Mitt Romney in Iowa, is among the latest culprits. At a stop …
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Jan 23
Among the treasures I got for Christmas: a camera. It’s lovely. It’s shiny. and it’s small. And when I say it’s small, I mean this: it’s slightly bigger than a credit card, and a whole lot teenier than my phone. This, it appears to me, is what you’d call a trend. Cell phones are shrinking. …
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Jan 20
2011 has been eventful, inspiring, and sometimes depressing. The following critics’ picks try to capture the conflicting emotions of the year. Graffiti: The SCAF versus the will of Egypt Street artist Hosni spray-painted this graffiti on Downtown’s Mugamma building, during the 8 July sit-in. The graffiti was later painted over. Books: ‘Vertigo’ speaks the truth Ahmed Mourad’s “Vertigo” …
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Jan 14
Defensive … Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, pictured with US President Barack Obama. Photo: AFP BEIJING: the President of China, Hu Jintao, has warned China must strengthen its cultural production to defend against the West’s assault on the country’s culture and ideology, according to an essay in a Communist Party policy magazine published this week. …
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Jan 06
Updated December 29, 2011 10:32:13 The State Treasurer has delivered his mid-year financial review, slashing the forecast budget surplus by more than half. Christian Porter says there have been a number of contributing factors, including a weak housing market, downward pressure on royalty revenues and the high Australian dollar. The Government had forecast a budget …
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Jan 05
Wednesday December 28 2011 Wall of Hope: a Wall of Hope initiative continues. The project will involve directing contributions and donations from those in our parish who wish to support others, to those in our parish who may be in need. The requests and contributions which we would encourage could include the payment of a …
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