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Senate ethics panel admonishes Coburn over Ensign aide
WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee publicly admonished Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) for improperly meeting with a lobbyist and former aide to Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who resigned from the Senate after having an affair with the...
Tags: Democratic Party, Justice System, Jim DeMint, John Ensign, Labor Legislation
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Gary Siplin agrees to $3,000 fine for elections violations
TALLAHASSEE -- Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine to the Florida Elections Commission because of missing information on campaign-finance reports and an excessive contribution from a phosphate-industry group.
The case, which...Tags: Judges, Democratic Party, Justice System, Orlando, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida)
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Breaking through society's boundaries
Tribune NewspapersThere's no questioning the impact of "The Hunger Games." Its success has given birth to an explosion of dystopian young adult literature that invariably unfolds in some environmentally compromised, governmentally bizarre future version of the United...Tags: Religion and Belief, Book, Values
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Faith and Values: Faith is golden. Beliefs are overrated
Faith is golden. Beliefs are overrated, as are works. When one reduces religion to either beliefs or good works, both are overrated. Reductionism (think "nothing but") usually destroys anything it attempts to explain, as in: religion is nothing but...Tags: Human Interest, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York City, Anglicanism, Christianity
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GOP Sen. Tom Coburn reprimanded for role in Ensign affair
WASHINGTON -- Concluding its investigation surrounding the affair of former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) with the wife of a top aide, the Senate Ethics Committee issued a public admonition of GOP Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma for meeting with the aide in...
Tags: Literature, Justice System, John Ensign, Jim DeMint, Arts and Culture
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Upcoming company events in the Lehigh Valley
TODAY WORKSHOPS for small business owners and those interested in launching their own enterprise, Growing Your International Business: Tools for Global Competitiveness, 8:30 a.m. to noon and SBA Office of Advocacy 2–4 p.m., Lehigh Carbon...Tags: Small Businesses, Colleges and Universities, Lehigh Carbon Community College, Lehigh University, Center Valley
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Gul drops in, talks up the Turkish political model
World NowTurkish President Abdullah Gul came to California this week after addressing the NATO summit in Chicago and talked up the Turkish political model.... -
Hefty payouts, but few regrets
Former Sen. Art Berman will draw a state legislative pension of $209,520 this year, highest among his peers and more than three times what he made as a lawmaker.
Former state Rep. Judy Erwin will collect $167,523, a pension spiked by a high-paying...Tags: Democratic Party, Emil Jones, Justice System, Jim Thompson, Interior Policy
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Boynton expense fund is an ethics risk, county says
A Boynton Beach commissioner wants more public scrutiny into the $7,117 taxpayers give him annually, on top of his commissioner's salary, for the expense of doing his job. Commissioner Bill Orlove said the lack of oversight is troubling and, while...Tags: Public Officials, Palm Beach County, Politics, Palm Beach County Commission, Government
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Maryland politicians' crime spree
For the past three years, Maryland has experienced an unprecedented crime wave of political corruption. The only comparable period in memory would be the 1970s, when a governor was jailed and a sitting U.S. vice president (who had served as governor and...
Tags: Ulysses Currie, The Jockey Club Incorporated, Annapolis, Government, Regional Authority
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Special signing
News-Review sports writerHunter Stinger’s grandfather still has his grandson’s first-ever grand slam ball he hit back in Little League. It’s signed by Hunter, and it’s now encased in glass at Joyce and Paul Stingers’s home near Spring Lake. “...Tags: College Baseball, Football, Schools, Pancreas, Pancreatic Cancer
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Lehigh Valley company planner
THURSDAYMAY 24 STARTING YOUR Own Small Business seminar covering selection of a product or service, creating a legal structure, finding suitable investors, building relationships with financial institutions, financial management plus effective...Tags: Small Businesses, Colleges and Universities, Marketing, Lehigh Carbon Community College, Lehigh University
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