Federal

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 3 days ago
Your calendar and mine say this is Sunday, July 20. By Congress' calendar that means there is little time left for work in Washington -- five weeks or so. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 4 days ago
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Source: www.latimes.com --- 4 days ago
Overturning a Virginia man's 2005 conviction, a U.S. appeals court says that depictions of dogfighting and other acts are protected by the 1st Amendment. In a setback for the animal rights movement, a U.S. appeals court Friday struck down on free-speech grounds a Federal law that made it a crime to sell videos of dogfighting and other acts of animal cruelty. ...

Source: www.indeed.com --- 4 days ago
Banking 3rd Federal Bank has openings for a Commercial Loan Officer & FT/PT Tellers (Mercer County), Computer Operator & Commercial Credit Analyst (Newtown,PA... (From NJ.com) ...

Source: www.npr.org --- 4 days ago
The Conservation Reserve Program pays farmers who own environmentally important areas to leave them idle. But in recent years, the demand for crops such as corn has prompted calls to put many of these protected wildlands back under the plow. ...

Source: www.baltimoresun.com --- 3 days ago
The Liberty Road Volunteer Fire Department has received a $9,720 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program. The fire company will use the money to replace worn hoses. ...

Source: www.whitehouse.gov --- 4 days ago
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Nebraska and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, straight-line winds, and flooding on June 27, 2008. ...

Source: www.baltimoresun.com --- 3 days ago
Western states facing growth spurts and big-city troubles As outlying sagebrush here was quickly devoured by starter homes and chain stores, Las Vegas began grappling with the kinds of problems that long have vexed California - crowded classrooms, packed freeways, lack of water, immigrants who struggle to learn English and rising poverty. ...

Source: www.pokernews.com --- 4 days ago
Several defense arguments brought forth within motions to dismiss by numerous BETonSports defendants in the Federal US case against the online firm's principals were dismissed on Friday in St. Louis by Mary Ann Medler, the US magistrate... ...

Source: www.charlotte.com --- 3 days ago
The gang legislation N.C. lawmakers passed a few days ago is welcome and vital to dealing effectively with rising gang activity, and to steering young people away from criminal activity in the first place. Both are vital to public safety. Lawmakers are wise to see that. Congress should recognize it too. Last week, the Senate took up reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention act, a 1974 law that provides for programs to help prevent young people from getting into trouble and to safeguard those who while they're in custody. Continued Federal money for prevention, intervention and treatment programs is critical to reducing the incidence of juvenile crime. The updates make key improvements in the law, including restricting the holding of juveniles in adult facilities before their trials. This is an important move for the long-term safety and health of communities as well as an aid in protecting and rehabilitating youth offenders. It is also an acknowledgment that a charge is not a verdict, and innocent juveniles are put at risk unnecessarily in adult detention. Such physical proximity to adult criminals is not in the best interests of the public or the juvenile charged. The updated law requires that juveniles be held in juvenile facility unless a judge specifically orders otherwise after taking into account several factors including mental maturity and the nature of the crime. Good. The legislation also sets s ...

Source: www.lexisnexis.com --- 3 days ago
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma Federal judge on July 2 found that mobile home owners have adequately stated a bad faith claim concerning a consumer contract against Green Tree Servicing L.L.C. and Green Tree Insurance Agency Inc., dismissing the defendants' assertion that the claim should be dismissed because liability for insurance bad faith under state law can be asserted only against an insurance company (Ronald Cole and Joyce Cole v. Green Tree Servicing L.L.C. and Green Tree Insurance Agency Inc., No. CIV-07-1365-M, W.D. Okla.; 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50773). Full story on lexis.com ...

Source: www.washingtontimes.com --- 3 days ago
Bill Gertz, national security reporter for The Washington Times, will appear in Federal court Tuesday in California to answer questions about the need to protect confidential sources in news stories. ...

Source: www.omaha.com --- 4 days ago
Homeowners are out of luck if they are hoping for Federal money to cover damage from the June 27 windstorm that struck Omaha. The Bush administration on Friday declared Douglas, Sarpy, Dodge and Saunders Counties to be major disaster areas because of damage from the rain, hail and hurricane-force winds of that June storm. That means the Federal government will cover the majority of local governments' storm expenses. However, no Federal money will be paid to individuals who suffered losses because of the storm. ...

Source: www.fema.gov --- 3 days ago
Following is a summary of key Federal disaster aid programs that can be made available as needed and warranted under President Bush's major disaster declaration issued for Nebraska. ...

Source: forums.catholic.com --- 2 days ago
Please call your representative and asked him/her to clean up the commissaries. From LifeSiteNews.com........ ---Quote--- “Ten years after Congress banned sales of sexually explicit material on military bases, the Pentagon is under fire for continuing to sell adult fare, such as Penthouse and Playmates In Bed, that it doesn't consider explicit enough to pull from its stores.” Broun’s wording will restrict these publications and those similar to them. This legislation also requires that the DoD meet annually to review materials currently sold on installations to determine if they should be prohibited..... “It was frustrating to walk through the exchange with my family and be subjected to the sexually explicit images displayed at eye level,” she says. ....... ...

Source: www.postindependent.com --- 4 days ago
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Some senior citizens at the Manor Glenwood and Manor Two subsidized senior housing complexes are concerned over a pet deposit and other pet restrictions now being enforced. ...

Source: www.cato.org --- 4 days ago
"Congress and the White House are driving up the deficit, alarming budget hawks as the government responds to the sputtering economy," reports The Hill .  "The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that, for the first nine months of fiscal 2008, the government incurred a $268 billion deficit. That's $148 billion more than a similar period last year -- although about half that increase went toward economic stimulus checks. And much more spending is on the way. 'We're spending like a drunken sailor,' said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who predicted the deficit would double this year." In " Capping Federal Spending ," Chris Edwards, Cato's Director of Tax Policy Studies, writes: "One problem is that current budget procedures stack the deck in favor of program expansion without regard to the burdens imposed on current or future taxpayers... A simple way to structure a cap is to limit annual spending growth to the growth in an economic indicator such as gross domestic product or personal income. Another possible cap is the sum of population growth plus inflation. In that case, if population grew at 1 percent and inflation was 3 percent, then Federal spending could grow at most by 4 percent. Most people would agree with the principle underlying all of these caps -- the government should live within constraints, as average families do, and it should not consume an increasing share of the nation's income or output." ...

Source: www.spokesmanreview.com --- 3 days ago
Here’s a bulletin from the AP: ( Full post ) ...

Source: www.buffalonews.com --- 2 days ago
The Federal government has stopped monitoring Buffalo police to make sure officers are not abusing their powers to use physical force. ...

Source: www.idahostatesman.com --- 4 days ago
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy granted a preliminary injunction late Friday that returns wolves in the Northern Rockies to endangered species protection. | GO... • Idaho officials, wolf advocates react to ruling ...