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Wind turbines in lake feasible, but energy cost could double Report finds challenges in tapping stronger winds
Oct 11, 2008 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Lawrence Seaway, Azar said. Another challenge for Lake Michigan-based wind power is ice and its effects on wind towers that would be built on the lake bottom. That included a stipulation that 10% of the power could come from Wisconsin-based renewable energy sources. The PSC will accept public comments on the report until Nov. 10.
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'Check fairy' spread out pain in Omaha scheme
Oct 10, 2008 — Omaha World-Herald
He then said he just found the paychecks on his nightstand when he awoke each morning. Sure, the detective deadpanned.
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Alternative energy outlook clouds up Credit squeeze, falling crude may hamper startups, researcher says
Oct 10, 2008 — Houston Chronicle
Securities in Houston. "But lower oil prices make it harder to justify investment. The urgency must still be there." And the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said Thursday that the cartel will meet Nov. 18 to address falling prices. That was before the financial crisis took hold, bringing oil prices down. Hofmeister noted in his presentation that the notion of free markets doesn't apply to crude.
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Burning for power
Oct 10, 2008 — Telegram & Gazette
RUSSELL— The push for more power from renewable fuels has renewed interest in one of the oldest energy sources: wood. Wood as a power source garnered renewed interest as commodity prices spiked. To encourage growth, power plants get a market-based premium for producing renewable energy, currently about $50 per megawatt hour.
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CAMPAIGN 2008 Senate candidates spar on economy
Oct 10, 2008 — Houston Chronicle
Before going to Washington in 2002, Cornyn, a lawyer, served as Texas attorney general and a justice on the Texas Supreme Court. Schick is an investor who lives in Spicewood. The candidates also clashed on health policy. Noriega said that since Cornyn has been in office, health premium costs have gone up 80 percent. "We're number one in the United States in children that are uninsured.
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Campaign ads going negative Negative ads up sharply as McCain falls back in polls
Oct 10, 2008 — Chicago Tribune
McCain, who for some time has portrayed Obama as "dangerously unprepared" for the presidency, is questioning his very character. A souring economy is credited with boosting Obama's fortunes; more voters voice confidence in him than McCain in handling the economy. McCain's mental stability, temperament and age," said Jamieson, suggesting that both sides have stooped to "dishonorable" tactics. "Republicans are casting Sen.
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Check Point: 2 Endorsements of Nuclear Power, but Sharp Differences on Details
Oct 10, 2008 — New York Times
McCain includes the building of nuclear reactors among his preferred options to obtain more energy, Mr. Obama on energy issues, accused the McCain campaign of misrepresenting Mr. McCain’s energy advisers to elaborate on Mr.
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FPL Group lauded for lowering greenhouse emissions
Oct 10, 2008 — The Miami Herald
FPL Energy, is the nation's leader in wind and solar facilities and in recent years has purchased nuclear generators in New Hampshire, Iowa and Wisconsin. All those sources produce almost zero greenhouse gases, which are thought by scientists to be the cause of global warming. FPL spokesman Mayco Villafana said the nuclear plants were not counted in the EPA achievement because they existed before 2001, the start of FPL's goal measurement. "The majority of FPL Group's emission...
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Indian Tribes See Profit in Harnessing the Wind for Power
Oct 10, 2008 — New York Times
Native American tribes like the Rosebud Sioux now seek to claim that inheritance. Bordeaux, the tribal council president, said he had taken care to make certain that whoever developed the wind farm did not “take advantage of us like the hog farm did.” Mr. Osborn emphasized that the tribe’s royalty share would be taken from revenues, not profits.
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McCain, Obama seek to seed doubts
Oct 10, 2008 — Los Angeles Times
Obama is telling the truth to the American people or not." McCain also launched an Internet ad about Obama and Ayers. For Obama, the back-and-forth over policy was less important than pressing the notion that McCain had moved unpredictably on an economic issue. Barack Obama | John McCain | George W. Bush | More A-Z Kitchen essentials, and items you can pass by Where should your kitchen dough go?
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Measuring the Curtains?
Oct 10, 2008 — Washington Post
Four large states John McCain once seemed well-positioned to win -- Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and Florida -- have in recent weeks shifted toward Obama. McCain's is that events have tilted the field towards Mr. Monegan should do something about it, because Ms.
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Obama zeros in on Ohio Strickland helps nominee court Appalachian vote
Oct 10, 2008 — The Columbus Dispatch
...including Dayton and Cincinnati, by Gov. Ted Strickland. But nowhere does he need Strickland's help more than in Ohio's 29-county Appalachian region, which Strickland won with 70 percent of the vote in 2006 and Obama lost by an average of 44 points per county to Sen. Hillary Clinton in the March primary. Greeted like a hometown hero, Strickland beseeched the crowd "to put aside the angry rhetoric and smear tactics" of the McCain campaign and vote for Obama in their own economic...
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Q&A: Pamela J. Thornburg
Oct 10, 2008 — News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware
Additionally, I believe that implementing medical liability reform would significantly reduce the cost of health care services. The aforementioned programs - Agland and Forestland Preservation – are very effective state initiatives that have helped preserve our open spaces. What specific projects or DelDOT activities should be eliminated to reduce spending?
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Q&A: Rebecca Young
Oct 10, 2008 — News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware
What specific projects or DelDOT activities should be eliminated to reduce spending? They raise money for DelDOT projects while encouraging Delawareans to conserve and drive less which in turn reduces some of the DelDOT costs. First, fire the company that is currently under contract to deliver health care to Delaware’s inmates.
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Restaurant operator in civil contempt for failing to pay back wages
Oct 10, 2008 — The Kansas City Star
...operator in the Kansas City area is in civil contempt of court for failing to pay back wages as ordered in 2003 and 2005. Manuel Jaime, co-owner of El Maguey Mexican Restaurants, was found by the U.S. District Court in Kansas City to owe more than $75,000 in unpaid minimum wage and overtime compensation to workers. El Maguey restaurants operate in Independence, Raymore, Raytown and Lee's Summit. Jaime also was ordered to assist the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and...
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Tutoring companies in Broward and Palm Beach counties will be graded based on student success in FCAT Idea is to help parents choose best company
Oct 10, 2008 — South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The only students who can sign up for free tutors are those who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Priority is given to struggling students. Companies working in Broward County receive up to $1,405 per student for tutoring services. In Palm Beach County, companies receive up to $1,305 per student.
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10 Steps Through Virginia to the White House
Oct 9, 2008 — Washington Post
John W. Warner do on behalf of McCain? The polls that show Obama up in Hampton Roads also have him leading statewide. Those that have him tied in Hampton Roads show a tied race statewide. 10) Do Democratic officials in southwest Virginia get fully behind Obama?
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81% Got Diplomas On Time This Year
Oct 9, 2008 — Washington Post
Although a diploma is among the most tangible measures of student success, states calculate graduation rates in different ways. District public schools estimate a 70 percent graduation rate. Virginia officials said that not all students who fail to get diplomas in four years are dropouts.
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Apollo project aims for energy Coalition seeks funding for 'green' programs to create jobs in Ohio
Oct 9, 2008 — The Columbus Dispatch
Margaret Harding Oct. 9, 2008 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Green's the new blue in Ohio. Gov.
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Bay Area exports boom but are threatened by global slump
Oct 9, 2008 — San Jose Mercury News
Bay Area exports have boomed in recent years, but a feared global economic slowdown next year will dampen the trade that has insulated the Bay Area from the troubled national economy, a regional business group warned Wednesday. The Bay Area's increasing dependence on exports for growth calls for a push for trade agreements stalled by political wrangling in Washington and elsewhere, the Bay Area Council said. The council released a study showing that Bay Area companies exported...
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California Leaders Seek Answers to Credit Crunch
Oct 9, 2008 — New York Times
RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD SACRAMENTO — With the fiscal health of the nation’s most populous state in serious decline, Gov. As in California, lawmakers in many states are struggling to right their finances while avoiding raising taxes. But taxes are virtually “off the table,” Mr.
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Connelly: Obama flying high, Gregoire grounded
Oct 9, 2008 — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill Richardson of New Mexico, an alumnus of Democrats' presidential primaries, flew here to give a thoughtful speech on energy policy, and to rouse support for his embattled colleague. Gregoire and Rossi ran a near dead heat here in the August primary but the Dems' ground game might lift the governor. Democratic meetings in Spokane used to feature party ancients, ancient feuds and beehive hairdos.
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EDITORIAL: Endorsements '08 Say 'No' to all propositions except 11
Oct 9, 2008 — The Sacramento Bee
Lawmakers placed two of them on the ballot. But if it passed, this proposition would take $647 million annually from the general fund that, without a tax increase, would have to come from other services. To finance loans to veterans, California would sell bonds to investors.
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Factory to create 830 LR-area jobs
Oct 9, 2008 — Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Polymarin Composites will be the second wind-blade manufacturer to locate in the Little Rock area in a little over a year. Polymarin’s operations differ from LM Glasfiber’s, he said, because it will make smaller blades and because LM Glasfiber sells mostly to other companies. Wesley Clark, a member of the Emergya’s “supervisory board,” for keeping the Arkansas site on the minds of Polymarin officials.
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For better elections, treat election workers better
Oct 9, 2008 — Philadelphia Daily News
Rendell didn't sign it - yet he makes a big deal about raising the minimum wage. Election board training school is not mandatory, and if you do go, you only get paid $20. Unfortunately, the legislature, City Council and our "reform-minded" mayor have been silent on raising the pay for election board workers, and promoting more intensive training for board officials.
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FPL Group lauded for lowering greenhouse emissions
Oct 9, 2008 — The Miami Herald
FPL is also planning three solar projects. Through all this, the company has remained hugely profitable.
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Letters to the Editor
Oct 9, 2008 — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
All her lawyer mind knows how to do is penalize, tax, and spend, spend, spend. Allan Wenzel Seattle Citizens approved minimum-wage index On the subject of Dino Rossi wanting to reduce the minimum wage if he is elected governor: That would be a huge mistake. Virginia M. Paulsen Seattle PRESIDENTIAL RACE McCain is no friend of his John McCain, don't patronize me by calling me your friend.
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Los Angeles carwash workers file living wage complaint
Oct 9, 2008 — Los Angeles Times
Evelyn Larrubia Times Staff Writer Workers at an Echo Park carwash filed a complaint with the city of Los Angeles today, accusing the facility of violating the living wage ordinance. Alexandro Herrera, manager of Auto Spa, said he pays workers the minimum wage. He was unaware of the complaints or of living wage requirements.
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Madison County panel calls for tax reform
Oct 9, 2008 — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rod Blagojevich has repeatedly said he would veto income tax increases. The report also calls for more cooperation or consolidation of taxing districts to save tax dollars. It calls for changes to assessment procedures that result in inequities, greater financial restraint on the part of taxing bodies and better communication between those bodies and taxpayers.
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McCain plays offense Accusations fly at rally; Brady Quinn calls presidential nominee 'a real hero'
Oct 9, 2008 — Akron Beacon Journal
Stephanie Warsmith Oct. 9, 2008 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- STRONGSVILLE -- Fresh from his second debate, Sen. John McCain went on the offensive Wednesday evening during a packed and rowdy rally in Strongsville. He accused Sen. She thanked the many who raised their hands for their service. Quinn, dressed in a suit and towering over McCain, told the crowd they had "a real hero" among them.
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McCain: Obama link to ex-radical is honesty issue
Oct 9, 2008 — Detroit News
Obama's candor and truthfulness with the American people." Obama has denounced Ayers and his violent actions and views. To press its argument, the McCain campaign also released a 90-second Web ad about Obama and Ayers. "Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. The ad also claimed that one of the nonprofits on which Obama and Ayers worked was a radical education foundation.
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MoveOn Grows Up
Oct 9, 2008 — Washington Post
Along the way, Latimer got an e-mail from Eli Pariser, head of the liberal group MoveOn.org. Pariser knows about e-mail campaigns; he built MoveOn around them. When MoveOn members voted to endorse Obama over Sen.
