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BRIEF: Committee to push Weber library bond
Standard-Examiner, Ogden, UtahThe Weber County Library facilities may have significant improvements in the near future, if several community leaders are able to push through the passage of a bond to ensure that $45 million in renovations will be put to use. A steering committee...Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture
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Secret subpoenas recall Nixon era
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewThe Justice Department's decision to secretly subpoena months of reporters' phone records is drawing comparisons with Nixon-era tactics and raising anew questions about the aggression with which the Obama administration has cracked down on unauthorized...Tags: Freedom of the Press, George W. Bush, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Lawyers, Media Industry
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Common Core Supporters Firing Back
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and initiating coordinated public relations and advertising...Tags: PTA, School Examinations, Rick Snyder, Politics, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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FACTBOX-Benghazi attacks and U.S. politics
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Republicans and Democrats are waging a political battle over attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi in September that killed Washington's ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. Republicans say the attacks...Tags: White House, Michael G. Mullen, Terrorism, Mitt Romney, Politics
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Factbox: Benghazi attacks and U.S. politics
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans and Democrats are waging a political battle over attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi in September that killed Washington's ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. Republicans say the attacks...Tags: White House, Michael G. Mullen, Terrorism, U.S. Embassy, Politics
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U.S. Senate passes flood-protection bill vital to Cedar Rapids
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IowaThis city has been working for the five years since its $7-billion flood disaster to convince Congress to provide help for the city to build a flood protection system. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate, on a vote of 83-14, approved the Water Resources...Tags: Chuck Grassley, U.S. Army, Science and Technology, Rand Paul, Politics
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Obama: Acting IRS commissioner has resigned over scandal
The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism over the agency's targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny. Seeking to regain the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Jack Lew, John Boehner
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WRAPUP 1-U.S. tax chief forced out in IRS scandal
Reuters* Obama says he 'will not tolerate' partisan actions by IRS * Republicans vow to continue probes of agency * Investigations will look for any links to White House By Matt Spetalnick and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Washington's top tax...Tags: White House, John Boehner, Taxation, Charles W. Boustany, Jr., Politics
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Senate Unanimously Strengthens Racial Profiling Law
The Hartford CourantThe state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to expand the state's racial profiling law to include more police departments. The measure comes one year after another bill had strengthened the law in other ways and was passed by large majorities in both...Tags: Waterbury, Joan V Hartley, Lawyers, Politics, Laws
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COLUMN-Property rights hamper CO2 storage in Texas: Kemp
ReutersBy John Kemp LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - Texas may fall behind states such as Louisiana in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, even though it has some of the best geological potential in the United States, unless...Tags: Environmental Issues, Chevron Corportion, Energy Resources, Petroleum Industry, Denbury Resources Incorporated
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U.S. Senate to vote on bill to fund Chickamauga lock repairs
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.A bill that could reignite one of Chattanooga's biggest infrastructure projects may pass the Senate as early as this morning. But, as with nearly everything that may clear the upper chamber these days, the latest Chickamauga lock fix faces delay in the...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, Barbara Boxer, Ohio River, U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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Jim Kolbe to marry partner of 8 years
The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonFormer Tucson Congressman Jim Kolbe plans to marry his partner of eight years on Saturday in Washington, D.C., where same-sex marriage is allowed by law. Same-sex marriage is not legally recognized in Arizona. Kolbe said he met Hector Alfonso, a...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, Marriage, Jim Kolbe
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