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2007
transect points: La Paz Loses Yakima Case
by paleorthid
Locals are outraged that an elected official used La Paz County resources to pursue a solely personal vendetta against Yakima, a biosolids drier, abusing employees and losing over $10M in the process. A recall effort is mounting.
Platforma Obywatelska
by BUses
Platforma Obywatelska - PO Olesnica, Partia Polityczna PO - Mandaty do Rady Miasta Olesnica.
2006
Medical marijuana | Reefer madness | Economist.com
by mikepower & 1 other
IF CANNABIS were unknown, and bioprospectors were suddenly to find it in some remote mountain crevice, its discovery would no doubt be hailed as a medical breakthrough.
Bulgaria - A Police State for Internet Users
by sofianec
As if all problems before the notorious Bulgarian government has been cleared it decided to hurt its own citizens by cracking down on Internet users. Some scary stuff. No wonder the European Union doesn't want Bulgaria as a member. Reminds us of good old Soviet Union communist tactics.
Media Portray Drug Plan as Boondoggle
by jasontromm (via)
But reporters still ignore free market advocates who predicted it.
Media coverage of problems facing the new Medicare prescription drug plan focused on elderly patients left in the lurch by bureaucracy, producing what CBS’s Bill Plante called a “political headache” for the Bush administration. But in the Jan. 16 reports on the “Evening News” and “World News Tonight,” both networks ignored conservative critics who had argued the plan was doomed to fail because it was a typical big government solution that ignored the free market.
2005
'Historic Toilet' to Cost $24,000
by jasontromm
A multi-million dollar restoration project will expend $24,000 to reconstruct a "historic toilet" on the first floor of a 1912 courthouse, authorities said.
New Scientist Breaking News - Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon
researchers to look for "optimal pulse parameters to evoke peak nociceptor activation" - in other words, cause the maximum pain possible.
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