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Colorado high court rules tax office raid violated immigrants' rights
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In 2008, investigators raided [ Denver Post report] Amalia's Tax and Translation, which caters to Spanish speakers, and searched through 5,000 files for instances of immigrants using fake Social Security numbers. Comment?
Watchdog urges Postal Service managers to support cost-cutting initiative
A three-year-old program to place injured workers in productive jobs has saved the U.S. Postal Service money, but it has been implemented slowly and without enough support from management, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Comment?
House Democrats propose $50 billion for infrastructure projects in new jobs-boosting plan
Responding to calls among rank-and-file Democrats for more infrastructure spending, House leaders Tuesday unveiled a plan to add almost $50 billion in spending on highways, housing and school repair as part of a year-end plan to create jobs. Comment?
A limit gets raised, a bar gets lowered
Back in more innocent days - 1917, with the passage of a second war bonds act - Congress had the nave notion that a limit on the amount of debt the government could legally incur would impose some sort of discipline on itself. Comment?
Liverpool Central School District: A closer look
Employees, community speak openly about the district Sitting on the corner of Richard Johns' desk is a manila folder. Comment?
Marketing matters, according to Metituk
Jennifer Metituk has recently started a new marketing company to help small businesses implement a marketing strategy themselves. Comment?
Democrats propose $50B for jobs-boosting projects
Responding to calls among rank-and-file Democrats for more infrastructure spending, House leaders Tuesday unveiled a plan to add almost $50 billion in spending on highways, housing and school repair as part of a year-end plan to create jobs. Comment?
Michuki sued over Sh23m property
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An estate developer has sued Environment Minister John Michuki and a company associated with him in a suit challenging purported illegal sale of Sh23 million-property. Also sued is the National Bank of Kenya , Mr David Kariuki trading as Watts Enterprises Auctioneers, Mr Charles Patrick Walker and purchasers of the suit property. Comment?
Reader: Global warming more than a theory To the Editor: Please allow me to comment on the story in the Dec. Comment?
Fed Expected to Leave Rates at Record Low
The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates at a record low this week. Comment?
UK MoD Details $2.4B in Cuts
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Fast jets, surveillance aircraft, naval vessels, and an air base are among the casualties of the U.K. Ministry of Defence's new effort to make room for purchases of equipment for Afghanistan and balance its budget in 2010 and beyond. Comment?
Walnut Creek seeing commercial defaults
Even in this upscale downtown, the foreclosure bug has bitten the local office market, with a prominent office building in default on a nearly $23 million mortgage. Comment?
MoF Gears Up For SCP January 1 Launch
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As The January 1 launch date for the Supplemental Contributory Pension scheme looms nearer, the Ministry of Finance yesterday conducted another briefing, this time, to various diplomatic missions based in Brunei. Comment?
Letter to attorney general Eric Holder
On March 1st on behalf of my clients I have submitted to you a request to file Quo Warranto against Mr. Comment?
Fed's road to neutral is dotted with potholes
Everyone knows the Federal Reserve plans to keep its benchmark interest rate at 'exceptionally low levels' for 'an extended period.' Fed officials reassure us of this every chance they get. Comment?
How Small Business Can Fight Internet Hackers
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Hackers can shut your site down, destroy data, and worse. You can fight back before they hit - but even if you're prepared, your business is at risk Baranovsky lost business when his site was hacked. Comment?
Determine What to Charge as a Consultant
I'm an entrepreneur turned consultant. I am constantly facing the compensation dilemma, particularly regarding pay structure. Comment?
Pittsburgh Mayor's Ultimatum to Universities: Pay City Millions, or See a Tax on Tuition
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A breaking dispatch from the Associated Press sure makes it look like Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is engaging in extortion directed at the institutions of higher education that happen to be within the city's borders. Comment?
NYT's Creativity On the Unemployment Story
The Times deserves a little something extra in its pay envelope for this morning's unemployment package: a story based on a poll of the unemployed, a graphic , and, most affectingly, video interviews with out-of-work workers. Comment?
In the Nov. 19 Sun Messenger , Gloria DiSanto wrote a letter headlined, "Voters in 2010 must rid the country of all that is not American." In the letter she states, "Obama said, 'I will fundamentally change this country' and he meant it." Maybe there are some changes that are necessary, and maybe they are necessary because one all-American former ... Comment?