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17 min ago | New Berlin

The wrong people are spending the stimulus

By Mary Lazich July 10, 2009 9:15 a.m. Talk show host columnist, and author Neal Boortz has some intriguing thoughts about how the stimulus should have been handled.

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4 hrs ago | San Francisco Chronicle

Screening plan for illegal workers moves ahead

The Obama administration withdrew the government's long-stalled effort Wednesday to pressure employers to fire suspected illegal immigrants while moving ahead with an equally controversial plan to require federal contractors to check employees' names against records that are supposed to screen out unauthorized workers.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Personal Finance, Criminal Defense Law, Law

8 hrs ago | Daily Post-Athenian

'Worker' stole ID to get a job

A Cleveland woman recently found out she's been "working" at an Athens factory even though she was never really on the payroll.

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13 hrs ago | Times Online

Is hunting for information in the public interest a " or just to interest the public?

Time was when a reporter looking for a private address would go into a library and spend hours poring over an electoral roll.

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

Eye on Oshkosh

Identity Theft a " Phishing Scam

The Oshkosh Police Department and the Wisconsin Department of Justice are urging folks to be on guard against a recent phishing scam that has recently appeared in Wisconsin.

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The Modesto Bee

Senate votes to keep Bush era illegal worker rule

The Senate wants to force the Homeland Security Department to stick with a proposed Bush administration policy requiring employers to fire immigrant workers whose names don't match their Social Security numbers.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Personal Finance, US Politics, David Vitter, US News, US Senate, Republican

Boing Boing

Rupert Murdoch reporters in the UK illegally hacked thousands of peoples' data

British journalists working for Murdoch papers have been on a crime spree, hiring private eyes to illegally hack into the voicemail and data of thousands of people, including " tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills"; Murdoch has paid out over 1M so far to hush it up.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Personal Finance

KIVI

Idaho's U.S. Senators Back Immigration Fencing

TV Today's 6 News Idaho's U.S. Senators Back Immigration Fencing U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo were among Republicans who backed beefing up requirements for fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border and requiring companies doing business with the federal government to verify they aren't employing illegals.

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The Irish Times

Murdoch papers paid over 1m to silence phone-tap victims

RUPERT MURDOCH'S News Group newspapers in Britain have paid out more than 1 million to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Computer Security, Science / Technology, Cell Phones, Electronics, Personal Finance

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Schumer pitches $500 savings account for newborns

In the face of national savings rates that until recently were the lowest in years, U.S. Sen.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Charles Schumer, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Personal Finance

Wed Jul 08, 2009

The Oregonian

Wyden, Merkley vote to get tough on immigration - to a point

Breaking ranks with Demcratic leaders, Oregon senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley voted Wednesday to require the United States to build a fortified, 700-mile-long fence along the Southern border to slow illegal immigration.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, Senator Jeff Merkley, US Senate, Democrat, Illegal Immigration, Personal Finance

WSJV-TV South Bend

New security measures coming for Indiana licenses

Motorists who renew their Indiana driver's licenses or obtain new ones will have to present documents to prove their identities beginning next year.

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Related Topix: Indiana, Indiana Government, Personal Finance

WDAF

Massachusetts, 1st gay marriage state, challenges federal ...

Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Healthcare Law, Law, Tax, Personal Finance

New Scientist

Murder and suicides climb during recessions

In the Great Depression, many a destitute worker contemplated suicide, so what effect is the current recession likely to be having on death rates? To find out, David Stuckler at the University of Oxford and colleagues took mortality data on 26 European Union countries from 1970 to 2007.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Suicide

Palm Beach Post

EDITORIAL: Stop Medicare scammers

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice busted a Medicare fraud ring in Miami, indicting eight suspects who allegedly cheated the government out of $30 million.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US News, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Personal Finance, Opinion

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Federal Way Mirror

Vandalism features racial slurs | Federal Way crime blotter

Following is a sample from the Federal Way police log: a Obscene vandalism: At 2:56 p.m. June 27 in the 31900 block of 30th Avenue Southwest, it was reported that unknown suspects spray-painted racial slurs and images of male genitalia on a vehicle.

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Magic City Morning Star

Check Withholding to Avoid a Tax Surprise, IRS Advises

With 2009 nearly half over, the Internal Revenue Service reminds Rhode Islanders that there is no better time to check their 2009 federal income tax withholding levels to make sure they do not face any surprises when returns are due next spring.

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Related Topix: Tax, Personal Finance

WFAA

Airline safety: 'We are ignoring the obvious'

Texas Rep. Ted Poe of Houston is calling for Congressional hearings on the FAA as a result of News 8's investigation of aircraft mechanics.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Ted Poe, Republican, US House of Representatives, Federal Aviation Administration, Immigration Reform, Personal Finance, Dallas, TX

Clover Herald

There's no simple formula for retirement planning

Workers nearing the end of their careers face complex issues in planning for retirement.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Plano, TX

The Herald

Ex-admiral aims to sink Specter

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter switched sides, becoming a Democrat in the wake of opposition from Republicans in the spring.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Representative Joe Sestak, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Arlen Specter, US Senate, Republican, Personal Finance, George Bush

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