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Mar 16, 2011, 1:00 am
Republican Nancy Argenziano knows her way around Tallahassee. She knows which rugs to look under and which closets to open. Of course she does: she served in Florida's Senate and House. More recently, she served on Florida's Public Service Commission: one of only two commissioners who consistently f... Comment - Like
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Mar 12, 2011, 2:03 am
Thursday, as you know, Wisconsin unions members threatened to remove their money from M&I bank, whose execs gave heavy campagin donations to Wisconsin's anti-middle-class governor, Scott Walker (who signed a bill Friday that reduces public employees' right to collectively bargain for decent benefits... Comment - Like
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Mar 11, 2011, 4:11 am
by D. Cupples | These days, fighting for the interests of folks who lack corporate-jet access seems about as fruitful as a jellyfish protesting the ocean that washed it ashore. Yes, my mind is on Wisconsin, where the anti-middle-class governor and his Republican cohorts in the legislature have decla... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2010, 10:36 pm
About an hour ago, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (Orlando, Fl) conceded to his opponent, Daniel Webster. Alan was the one Dem I thought we'd actually get to keep. Before Congress, Alan spent years fighting government-contractor fraud, which has cost (and still costs) us taxpayers billions upon billions of ... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2010, 12:00 am
by D. Cupples | I like Kendrick Meek for U.S. Senate (Florida). Check out the ABC-televised debate involving him and his two opponents, and you'll see that Kendrick is anything but meek. Friday, Congressman Meek spoke at the Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association luncheon in Gainesville. Having bee... Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2010, 12:00 pm
by D. Cupples | The fraudulent billing of us taxpayers for health care costs is so widespread that one might call it a sport. Below are merely a few of the cases that the Justice Department mentioned just over the last week. They're small-timers, but it all adds up. And it all adds to our nation's s... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2010, 1:53 am
by D. Cupples | I've been on a break from feverishly following the (generally gut wrenching) goings on in our nation's capital. Occasionally, I've peeked out of my cave to see if there's solid cause for hope -- as opposed to those empty words that were filling the air like motes of dust a couple yea... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2010, 12:18 am
by Chris | Recently, residents of Gainesville and St. Augustine were victims of investment fraud. While neither of these incidents was of the scale and complexity of the Madoff case, with a little homework and some healthy skepticism, they may have been avoided. How do you protect yourself from inve... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2010, 12:00 am
by D. Cupples | Via Memeorandum, the New York Times tells us: The Tea Party movement scored another victory on Tuesday, helping to propel a dissident Republican, Christine O’Donnell, to an upset win over Representative Michael N. Castle in the race for the United States Senate nomination in Delawa... Comment - Like
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Aug 20, 2010, 12:01 am
by D. Cupples | We pay the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) billions each year. In exchange, the FDA is supposed to protect us consumer-taxpayers from unsafe food, drugs, cosmetics, etc. I didn't dream that up: the duty is stated on the FDA's Website. Despite that clearly articulated duty, th... Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2010, 12:29 am
Deb Cupples | New Yorkers are celebrating (except certain religious leaders) because their governor finnnally signed into law a bill that provides for no-fault divorce. The State Assembly had passed the bill more than a month ago, and Governor David Paterson took his time signing it. According to th... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2010, 6:25 pm
by Deb Cupples | Paying close attention to the news can be downright dispiriting. For me, time to recharge was a must, so I took some weeks off from blogging. Easing back into it, my first stop today was Memeorandum, a site reflecting topics folks find important enough to blog about. At 5:40 pm (EST... Comment - Like
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Jul 22, 2010, 6:42 am
posted by Bill: Philadelphia blogger Will Bunch adds context to Shirley Sherrod's civil rights work. How much more amazing that she struggles for understanding and reconciliation after her father was murdered in a racially-tinged dispute... and no authority even opened a case to redress it. Steve Cl... Comment - Like
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Jul 16, 2010, 3:08 pm
by Bill Kavanagh: As opposed to cutting back on aid to the unemployed or going soft on stimulating the economy, there are ways to begin changing the skew of who pays for the programs the country needs. ... In a Bloomberg News interview with Judy Woodruff, the former deregulator-in-chief said the fol... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2010, 12:01 am
Why should you care about appointments to Florida's Public Service Commission (PSC)? Because who gets appointed will directly affect your wallet for years to come (if you live in Florida, that is). The PSC is charged with protecting consumers from unreasonable prices and bad service from the utility... Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2010, 12:18 am
by Deb Cupples | It make no sense. In my North Florida town, gasoline prices were in the $2.90s in April; now, gas is in the $2.70s. What happened?Back in 2007, gas prices were near or above $4 a gallon nationwide. The public-relations people paid by oil companies habitually blamed it on "supply and... Comment - Like
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Jun 12, 2010, 10:36 am
by Bill Kavanagh: The Republican focus on the federal deficit as a primary issue in this year's Congressional election cycle makes little sense in the context of our real economic problems. Economist Brad DeLong uses a good metaphor in a response to Henry Blodget's questions about long-term federal ... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2010, 7:13 am
posted by Bill: As if we had to ask, here's how bad it is (according to Annie Lowrie's piece in the Washington Independent): The joblessness crisis — in the average duration of unemployment, if not the absolute unemployment rate — is unprecedented in the postwar United States. Of the 15 million ... Comment - Like
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Jun 4, 2010, 4:11 am
posted by Bill: Linda Greenhouse hopes that retired SC Justice David Souter will continue to share his thoughts in public as a guide to his thinking on the bench. His recent Harvard commencement address included the following statement on why the court does more than parse the Constitution for a "fa... Comment - Like
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Apr 30, 2010, 9:11 pm
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has announced that he is leaving the Republican party and running for U.S. Senate as an independent. A New York Times blog-post title says it all: "Crist to GOP: Drop Dead." Many Republicans, including Ex-Gov. Bush, don't seem too happy about it. This should be interes... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2010, 7:31 am
Posted by Bill: Readers interested in how to prevent another meltdown should check out Zephyr Teachout's great piece, "C'Mon— Break it Up!" Teachout makes the case for putting reasonable size limits on the megabanks and limiting the conflicts of interest that accrue to their present status as fina... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2010, 7:36 am
Posted by Bill: This could be a big development. According to ABC News, Senator Dodd has accepted as a part of financial reform Senator Blanche Lincoln's proposed ban on banks owning derivatives operations; this is a provision that would force the big banks to spin off the businesses that led them i... Comment - Like
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Apr 23, 2010, 8:07 am
by Bill Kavanagh: After the President's tough Cooper Union speech on financial reform, we're left with Senator Dodd's legislation— it helps in some ways, but doesn't stop "too big to fail" banks from dominating American finance for their own benefit, just as they did leading up to the meltdown. On... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2010, 12:00 am
Some people think that if you cave in to a toddler every time it shrieks, you'll become a hostage. I don't know whether that's true with respect to children, but I know that it's spot-on in terms of adults. That said, PR Web reports:"Los Angeles actor, D.C. Douglas, says he was dropp... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2010, 12:00 am
by Deb Cupples | Five days ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Goldman Sachs with fraud. The first paragraph of the news release:"The SEC alleges that Goldman Sachs structured and marketed a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that hinged on the performance of s... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2010, 11:02 am
posted by Chris | If you have a home mortgage, now may be a good time for you to consider refinancing. If you are looking for a home, now may be a very good time to purchase a home. My very best guess regarding both housing prices and interest rates comes from my crystal ball. While my timing may no... Comment - Like
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Apr 10, 2010, 11:14 am
posted by Bill: In his NY Review of Books piece on Ill Fares the Land , Tony Judt writes: In the US, the UK, and a handful of other countries, financial transactions have largely displaced the production of goods or services as the source of private fortunes, distorting the value we place upon diffe... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2010, 12:03 am
Via Memeorandum, National Journal's Hotline On Call tells us: "The RNC has fired the director of its young donors program after she approved an expense for a risque L.A. nightclub, multiple sources tell Hotline OnCall. "Allison Meyers, director of the RNC's "Young Eagles" program, was termin... Comment - Like
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Mar 25, 2010, 8:15 pm
posted by Bill: Here's an excerpt from James Fallows at his Atlantic blog the other day— that I thought summed up nicely why, beyond all the caveats about how Health Care Reform, as presently constituted, falls far short of the mark, it matters: ...the significance of the vote is moving the Un... Comment - Like
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Mar 22, 2010, 7:51 am
by Bill Kavanagh: The House of Representatives finally passed the Senate's Christmas Eve version of Healthcare Reform, 219-212. This time, the legislation will go to the President and the Senate will take up a package of changes negotiated between the House and Senate. No doubt after some promis... Comment - Like
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Mar 21, 2010, 5:10 am
by Bill Kavanagh: It's likely that today will finally be the decisive vote on healthcare reform. Over thirty million Americans currently lack health coverage and a good many more are losing insurance along with their jobs. Beyond this, lots of people who pay for health coverage find their insura... Comment - Like
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Mar 19, 2010, 4:30 am
by Bill Kavanagh: Paul Krugman sums up the situation on health care reform nicely in his column today. It's decision-time. A few months back, we almost had an imperfect, but enormously significant reform which had passed both houses of Congress. Now, we might just get almost the same package pas... Comment - Like
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Mar 9, 2010, 12:01 am
We've repeatedly covered some of the apparent corruption surrounding Florida's Public Service Commission (PSC), the entity that regulates utility companies. The PSC is charged with protecting Florida's consumers, not advancing the interests of monopolistic utility companies. A few years ... Comment - Like
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Mar 5, 2010, 1:08 pm
posted by Chris | Recently, there has been an increased level of interest and discussion on the ramifications of the US Federal Deficit. I would ask that you click on the link provided and just absorb the site: http://www.usdebtclock.org/In addition, you might check out the U.S. Treasury's offic... Comment - Like
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